Complaints Policy
1. Definitions
In this Complaints Policy the following expressions have the following meanings:
“Business Day” means, any day (other than Saturday or Sunday) on which ordinary banks are open for their full range of normal business in the UK;
“Complaint” means a complaint about goods sold by Made Small Studio, about our customer service, or about our employees;
“Complaint Handler” means an employee of Made Small Studio who will handle Complaints;
“Complaints Policy” means this document;
“Complaints Procedure” means the internal complaints handling procedure of Made Small Studio which is followed when handling a Complaint;
“Complaint Reference” means a unique code assigned to your Complaint that will be used to track your Complaint.
2. Purpose of this Complaints Policy
1. Made Small Studio welcomes and encourages feedback of all kinds from our customers. If you have a Complaint about our goods, our customer service, or about our employees, not only do we want to resolve it to your satisfaction but we also want to learn from it in order to improve our business and customer experience in the future.
2. It is our policy to resolve Complaints quickly and fairly, where possible without recourse to formal investigations or external bodies. In particular, the aims of this Complaints Policy are:
1. To provide a clear and fair procedure for any customers who wish to make a Complaint about Made Small Studio, our goods, our customer service, or about our employees;
2. To ensure that everyone working for or with Made Small Studio knows how to handle Complaints made by our customers;
3. To ensure that all Complaints are handled equally and in a fair and timely fashion;
4. To ensure that important information is gathered from Complaints and used in the future to avoid such a situation arising again.
3. What this Complaints Policy Covers
1. This Complaints Policy applies to the sale of goods by Made Small Studios, to our customer service and to our employees.
2. For the purposes of this Complaints Policy, any reference to Made Small Studio also includes our employees.
3. Complaints may relate to any of our activities and may include (but not be limited to):
1. The quality of customer service you have received from Made Small Studio;
2. The behaviour and/or professional competence of our employees;
3. Delays, defects or other problems associated with the sale of goods by Made Small Studio.
4. The following are not considered to be Complaints and should therefore be directed to the appropriate department:
1. General questions about our goods;
2. Returns of damaged, faulty, incorrect or unwanted goods for exchange or refund in accordance with our <<insert document e.g. Sale of Goods Terms and Conditions>> where there is no further complaint;
3. Matters concerning contractual or other legal disputes;
4. Formal requests for the disclosure of information, for example, under applicable legislation.
4. Making a Complaint
1. All Complaints, whether they concern our goods, our customer service, or our employees, should be made in one of the following ways:
1. In writing, addressed to Made Small Studio, 5 Westbourne Terrace, BS16 1NA;
2. By email, at hello@madesmallstudio.co.uk.
2. When making a Complaint, you will be required to provide the following information in as much detail as is reasonably possible:
1. Your name, address, telephone number and email address (We will contact you using your preferred contact method as your Complaint is handled);
2. If you are making a Complaint on behalf of someone else, that person’s name and contact details as well as your own;
3. If you are making a Complaint about a particular transaction, the order number;
4. If you are making a Complaint about a particular employee of ours, the name and, where appropriate, position of that employee;
5. Further details of your Complaint including, as appropriate, all times, dates, events, and people involved;
6. Details of any documents or other evidence you wish to rely on in support of your Complaint;
7. Details of what you would like Made Small Studio to do to resolve your Complaint and to put things right. (Please note that whilst we will make every reasonable effort to accommodate such requests, we are not bound to take any action beyond that which we may be contractually or otherwise legally obliged to take.)
5. How We Handle Your Complaint
1. Upon receipt of your Complaint, we will log the Complaint in our complaints log and will acknowledge receipt of it in writing within 7 calendar days, giving you a Complaint Reference.
2. When we acknowledge receipt of your Complaint we will also provide details of your Complaint Handler.
3. If your Complaint relates to a specific employee, that person will be informed of your Complaint and given a fair and reasonable opportunity to respond. Any communication between you and the employee in question should take place only via the Complaint Handler and we respectfully ask that you do not contact the employee in question directly concerning the Complaint while we are working to resolve it.
4. If we require any further information or evidence from you, the Complaint Handler will contact you as quickly as is reasonably possible to ask for it. We ask that you use reasonable efforts to supply any such information or evidence quickly in order to avoid delaying the complaints handling process. If you are for any reason unable to provide such information or evidence we will use all reasonable efforts to proceed without it, however please be aware that we will not ask for further information or evidence unless we consider it important to the successful resolution of your Complaint.
5. We aim to resolve Complaints within 14 calendar days, however in some cases, particularly if your Complaint is of a complex nature, this may not be possible. If this is not possible for any reason you will be informed of the delay, the likely length of the delay and the reasons for it.
6. At the conclusion of the complaints procedure, regardless of the outcome, we will provide you with full details of our investigation, our conclusions from that investigation, and any action taken as a result.
6. Confidentiality and Data Protection
1. All Complaints and information relating thereto are treated with the utmost confidence. Such information will only be shared with those employees of Made Small Studio who need to know in order to handle your Complaint.
2. We may ask for your permission to use details of your Complaint (with your personal details removed) for internal training and quality improvement purposes. If you have given such permission, you may revoke it at any time by contacting us, our details are provided above in Section 4.1.
3. All personal information that we may collect (including, but not limited to, your name and address) will be collected, used and held in accordance with the provisions of UK data protection law (including but not limited to the UK GDPR, the Data Protection Act 2018, and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003) and your rights thereunder, as set out in our <<insert document name, e.g. Privacy Notice>> available from <<insert location(s)>>.
7. Questions and Further Information
If you have any questions or require further information about any aspect of this Complaints Policy or about our Complaints Procedure, please contact us by post at 5 Westbourne Terrace, BS16 1NA, or by email at hello@madesmallstudio.co.uk.
8. Policy Responsibility and Review
Overall responsibility for this Complaints Policy within Made Small Studio and the implementation thereof lies with Chloe Willis.
This Complaints Policy is regularly reviewed and updated as required.
This Complaints Policy was adopted on 20/09/24.
This Complaints Policy was last reviewed on 20/09/24.