Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
Here at Founders Antiques we are committed to protecting your privacy. This privacy statement sets out our current privacy practices with regard to the information we collect when you interact with our website. By accessing www.foundersantiques.co.uk, you acknowledge and understand our privacy policy and consent to the information collection and usage practices described.
The "General Data Protection Regulation" (GDPR) legislation is the basis for our data handling procedures and how we process your personal data.
Information We Collect and How We Use It
When you provide personal information such as your name and email address via our website forms, you agree to us contacting you regarding your enquiry.
When you purchase from Founders Antiques we will collect the information we need to be able to process your payment securely via SSL encryption, fulfil your order and to communicate with you regarding your order. Personal information gathered when a purchase is made on our website will be held indefinitely unless otherwise requested. This allows us to verify your purchase in the future and therefore provide ongoing long-term support. You may request for your data to be deleted at any time by emailing us at hello@foundersantiques.co.uk
Website usage statistics are collected that allow us to monitor website trends. We use Google Analytics to help us monitor and understand how our website is being used. Data collected in this way is held for 26 months in order to allow us to analyse website usage trends over time.
If you sign up via a website form or place an order we will occasionally send you communications via email that might be of interest to you. You can unsubscribe from this list at any time.
How We Protect Your Information
Your data is stored securely at all times.
When you make a purchase online, we use a secure server. Our SSL encryption means that all information sent to us is encrypted.
Our Lawful Basis for Processing Your Data
Consent - If you consent to us collecting your personal data.
Legitimate Interest - If you provide us with personal data requesting us to contact you regarding your enquiry.
Contractual Necessity - If you make a purchase via our website and provide us with the relevant personal data required to fulfil your order.
Transfer of Personal Data
We will share your personal information with other organisations only where it is necessary to complete a transaction, fulfil an order or provide support as requested. It goes without saying that we will never sell your information.
Such third parties are authorised to use your personal information only as necessary to allow us to process transactions, fulfil orders and manage delivery. These third parties are prohibited from using your personal information for any other purposes, including (of course) promotional purposes.
How We Use Google Analytics
Google Analytics monitors the way in which our website is being used so we can make improvements. Using Google Analytics means we pass just your IP address to Google. We are in turn able to access various usage reports from Google.
For more information on how Google uses this information click on either of the following links:
Google's privacy policy
How Google uses this information
Use of Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a Web Server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. For example, if you personalise a web page, or navigate within a site, a cookie helps the site to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. Hence, this simplifies the process of delivering relevant content and eases site navigation by providing and saving your preferences and login information as well as providing personalised functionality.
Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies. If you reject cookies by changing your browser settings then be aware that this may disable some of the functionality on our website. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer.
Questions or Complaints
If you wish to view, amend or delete your personal information that we hold simply send us an email at hello@foundersantiques.co.uk
If you have any questions or complaints we hope you will contact us directly in the first instance. Our contact details are displayed prominently on our website via our Contact page, but you can get in touch at hello@foundersantiques.co.uk
If you wish to contact the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) you can find more information on how to so here: https://ico.org.uk/concerns/
The Founder
A second generation antiques dealer, Steve has been lucky enough to have been around the trade his whole life. Growing up in his father’s auction house and antique shop in the West Midlands, attending most of the big international fairs, he’s been buying and selling since he was a young lad.
A chance graduate scheme after university led on to a role as Commercial Director of a 150 person strong company, while gaining some rather handy ecommerce expertise along the way. Capitalising on this experience Steve saw an opportunity to get back into the antiques game serving an emerging new generation of online furniture buyers.
Personally handpicking every piece, with his eye for quality developed over a lifetime collecting, trading and watching fads come and go, Steve sources pieces from right across the UK, most often with his trusty little white doggo Arthur in tow.
Steve is more buoyant than ever about the future of the industry, with more people than ever discovering the joy of living with fine antique furniture while being able to access it via ever more convenient and efficient channels.
Trad is Back
But it never really went away.
We deal in a mix of styles and periods, from the 17th century to the mid 20th century, but the main reason people come to us and keep coming back is our vast collection of traditional English period furniture. It’s our biggest passion, our first love and it's been our most constant focus over the years.
True quality in this trade is most abundantly and easily found in good traditional pieces. Beautiful, immensely practical classics. Pieces which have often lasted many lifetimes and will last many more to come.
We keep items as original as possible, but wherever needed our furniture is restored professionally and sympathetically back to its original former glory using only traditional methods.
We maintain an inventory of around 250 pieces of furniture online, so whether it's furnishing an entire period property or just adding splashes of period character to a more eclectic interior, “we got you” so to speak.
Buying Antique Furniture Online
Founders was built from the ground up as an online business. We sell a good deal to interior designers, prop buyers and the trade, but our biggest customer base by far and therefore our biggest focus is private individual clients buying for their own home.
We work hard to ensure pieces are “ready for the home”, that the purchasing experience is easy and the delivery hassle-free. Simple goals but not always givens in this industry.
We’re able to offer great value by not having to cover the overheads of swanky showrooms and we include delivery to the majority of the UK in all prices so you know that the amount you see is the total you’ll pay.
Operating solely online, we price our pieces as keenly as possible from the outset rather than building in room for reductions. We offer one price for all, with no separate trade prices or special discounts. All stock is our own, stored in our own two warehouses and is ready to be dispatched once ordered.
Some buyers take pleasure in browsing antique shops and fairs for months on end looking for the specific thing they’re after, and nothing against that of course, it can be a lot of fun! But a growing number of people want the ease and convenience of typing in what they’re after online, purchasing from a reputable dealer and then having the thing turn up at their door.
For many years now customers have been putting their trust in us to deliver pieces which match their expectations and our 200+ 5 star reviews are testament to this.
Why?
The environments we create for ourselves to live in have a meaningful impact on our lives. We have the power to shape our world by surrounding ourselves with inspiring, beautiful, well made things. Things from a bygone era when quality, design and aesthetics mattered and meant something.
Nowadays most people surround themselves with poorly made, mass produced furniture made from subpar materials, when often for a similar price they could enjoy beautifully crafted, expertly designed antique furniture made from natural and durable materials. Pieces which will age gracefully and probably last for hundreds of years to come, all while maintaining value.
New furniture is now largely viewed as disposable, which is a terrible idea and was never the case in the past. So we like to remember that every piece of antique and vintage furniture we sell means less demand for the natural resources needed to produce new crappy furniture destined for the tip after a few years of use. That’s got to be a good thing right?
Classics
There’s always people creating and consuming “new” stuff. But whether it’s books, music, films or furniture, we generally prefer classics.
Classics have stood the test of time. They’re already verified and proven. They’re still here, they haven’t been forgotten about and that's most often for very good reason.
Rather than trying to produce something new and adding to all the problems associated with doing so, we like to focus on what already exists, what is still here and what will be here for generations to come, the classics.
Talk to Us
If you want to discuss a piece you’re interested in, if you need any help with an existing order or if you’d like to pop along to view a specific item, just pick up the phone or drop us an email anytime.
New stock is added to the website periodically so keep checking back and enjoy perusing our ever evolving collection.
“Highfalutin’ traditional antique furniture without the fuss.”