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PRIVACY POLICY

1. Introduction 

We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors; this policy sets out how we will treat your personal data when you visit our website at www.britishhamper.com ("our website"), regardless of where you visit it from, and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you. This privacy policy also applies to any personal data collected or received through means other than our website – for example via email, telephone, post or face-to-face contact.

We will ask you to consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our website. By using our website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.

2. Purpose of this privacy policy

 This privacy policy aims to give you information on how The British Hamper Company collects and processes your personal data, including any data you may provide when (if applicable) you sign up to one or more newsletters or mailing lists, purchase a product or service, take part in a competition or survey or otherwise engage with us. 

Our website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children. If you are below 16 you must stop using our websites unless you have our express written consent to use it.

It is important that you read this privacy policy together with any other privacy notice or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy policy supplements any such notices and is not intended to override them. 

3. Privacy policy amendments

This version was last updated on 23 May 2018 and previous versions can be obtained by contacting us.

We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.

You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.

It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.

4. Our details

Data Controller

This website is owned and operated by Purely Hampers Ltd t/a The British Hamper Company.

We are registered in England and Wales under registration number 8577038, and our registered office is at 15 Newland, Lincoln, LN1 1XG

Our principal place of business is at Fen House, North Carlton, Lincoln, LN1 2RT

You can contact us by writing to the business address given above, by using our website contact form, by email to sales@britishhamper.com or by telephone on +44(0)1522 581 581.

Data Protection registration

We are registered as a data controller with the UK Information Commissioner's Office.
 
Our data protection registration number is ZA055330.

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the opportunity to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.

5. Third party websites

Our websites may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our websites, we encourage you to read the privacy policy/notice of every website you visit.

6. Types of personal information collected

 Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together follows:

  • Identity Data includes first name, maiden name, last name, username or similar identifier, marital status, title, date of birth, gender, job title and employer.

  • Contact Data includes billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers.

  • Financial Data includes bank account and payment card details.

  • Transaction Data includes details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from us.

  • Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access our websites.

  • Profile Data includes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses.

  • Usage Data includes information about how you use our websites, products and services.

  • Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences.

  • Any other personal information you choose to send us.

Aggregated Data

We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this privacy policy.

We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data) or any information about criminal convictions and offences unless it were to form part of a Third Party Vetting process.

If you fail to provide personal data

Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you with goods or services). In this case, we may have to cancel a product or service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.

Personal data of third parties

Before you disclose to us the personal information of another person (for example a gift hamper recipient), you must obtain that person's consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with the terms of this policy.

 

7. How we collect your personal information

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

Direct interactions.

You may give us your Identity, Contact and Financial Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise, including face-to-face contact. This includes personal data you provide when you:

  • obtain our products or services;
  • create an account on our websites;
  • subscribe to our service or publications; 
  • request marketing to be sent to you;
  • enter a promotion or survey; or
  • Third Party Vetting or Due Diligence Processes 
  • Provide us with feedback.

Automated technologies or interactions.

As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies. We may also receive Technical Data about you if you visit other websites using our cookies. Please view our Cookie Policy for further details.

Third parties or publicly available sources.

We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources as set out below:

Technical Data from the following parties:
1. Analytics providers such as Google, some of whom are based outside the EEA;
2. Advertising networks, some of whom are based outside the EEA; and
3. Search information providers, some of whom are based outside the EEA.

Contact, Financial and Transaction Data from providers of technical, payment and delivery services, some of whom are based outside the EEA.

Identity and Contact Data from data brokers or aggregators, some of whom are based outside the EEA.

Identity and Contact Data from publicly available sources such as Companies House and the Electoral Register based inside the EEA.

Identity, Contact and Transaction Data from third party goods & services providers engaged by you and with whom we interact as part of our own contractual scope of work.

Social Media and Networking Apps or Sites.

8. Using your personal information

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

  • Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
  • Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
  • Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

Generally we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data other than in relation to sending direct marketing communications to you via email. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us.

Purposes for which we will use your personal data

 

We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we may use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.

We may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please contact us if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your personal data where more than one ground has been set out in the table below. 

 

Purpose/Activity

Type of data

Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest

To register you as a new customer

(a) Identity 
(b) Contact

Performance of a contract with you

 

To process and deliver your order including:
(a) Manage payments, fees and charges
(b) Collect and recover money owed to us

(a) Identity 
(b) Contact 
(c) Financial 
(d) Transaction 
(e) Marketing and Communications

(a) Performance of a contract with you 
(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (including to recover debts due to us)

To manage our relationship with you which will include:
(a) Notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy
(b) Asking you to leave a review or take a survey
(c) Contacting you regarding re-order of goods and services on subsequent anniversaries or gifting occasions after we have supplied goods or services to you.  

(a) Identity 
(b) Contact 
(c) Profile 
(d) Marketing and Communications

(a) Performance of a contract with you 
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
(c) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products/services)

To enable you to take part in a prize draw, competition or complete a survey

(a) Identity 
(b) Contact 
(c) Profile 
(d) Usage 
(e) Marketing and Communication

(a) Performance of a contract with you 
(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them and grow our business)

To administer and protect our business and our websites (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data)

(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Technical

(a) Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganisation or group restructuring exercise)
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation

To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you

(a) Identity 
(b) Contact 
(c) Profile 
(d) Usage 
(e) Marketing and Communications 
(f) Technical

Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy) 

To use data analytics to improve our websites, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences

(a) Identity 
(b) Contact 

(c) Technical 
(d) Usage

Necessary for our legitimate interests (to define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our websites updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy) 

To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you

(a) Identity 
(b) Contact 
(c) Technical 
(d) Usage 
(e) Profile 

Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our products/services and grow our business)

 

Financial transaction data

All financial transactions placed on our website are handled through our payment services provider, Sage Pay. You can review the provider's privacy policy at http://www.sagepay.co.uk/policies.We will share information with our payment services provider only to the extent necessary for the purposes of processing payments you make via our website, refunding such payments and dealing with complaints and queries relating to such payments and refunds.

Marketing 

We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising. It is entirely your choice whether you consent to us providing you with direct electronic marketing – we will only do so where you have given us your consent to do so. 

Third-party marketing 

We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any third party for marketing purposes. 

Promotional offers from us 

We may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage and Profile Data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which products, services and offers may be relevant for you (we call this marketing). 

You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us or purchased goods or services from us or if you provided us with your details when you entered a competition or registered for a promotion and, in each case, you have opted in to receiving that marketing.

Opting out

You can ask us to stop (and to ask third parties to whom we have provided your personal data to stop) sending you marketing messages by contacting us at any time. 

Cookies

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of our websites may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about the cookies we use, please see our Cookie Policy.

Change of purpose 

We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us.

If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.

Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.

9. Disclosing personal information

We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, insurers, professional advisers, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries) insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information:

(a)      to the extent that we are required to do so by law;

(b)      in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;

(c)      in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);

(d)      to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling; and

(e)      to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.

10. International data transfers

 Many of our external third parties are based outside the European Economic Area (EEA) so their processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data outside the EEA.

Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented: 

  • We may transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the European Commission.

  • Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe. 

  • Where we use providers based in the US, we may transfer data to them if they are part of the Privacy Shield which requires them to provide similar protection to personal data shared between the Europe and the US. 

  • To the extent reasonably necessary, where you instruct us to provide goods or services to or in relation to a site outside the EEA.  

  • To the extent reasonably necessary, where you instruct is to provide goods and services in collaboration with (including where such collaboration is limited to coordinating timescales or equivalent interaction) with your other providers of goods and services based (in whole or in part) outside the EEA. 

Please contact us if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data out of the EEA.

Personal information that you publish on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.

11. Retaining personal information

This section sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations, accounting or reporting requirements in relation to the retention and deletion of personal information.

Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure If your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

Notwithstanding the other provisions of this section we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:

  • to the extent that we are required to do so by law;

  • if we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; and

  • in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk). 

In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data. Please see the Glossary definition for ‘Request Erasure' below for further information.

In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you. 

12. Security of your personal data

We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.

All electronic financial transactions entered into through our website will be protected by encryption technology.

You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.

You are responsible for keeping the password you use for accessing our website confidential; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

13. Your legal rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data.

If you wish to exercise any of those rights (as further detailed in the Glossary), please contact us.

No fee usually required

You will not usually have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

What we may need from you

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

Time limit to respond

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

14. Glossary

LAWFUL BASIS

Legitimate Interest means the interest of our business in conducting and managing our business to enable us to give you the best service/product and the best and most secure experience. We make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you (both positive and negative) and your rights before we process your personal data for our legitimate interests. We do not use your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law). You can obtain further information about how we assess our legitimate interests against any potential impact on you in respect of specific activities by contacting us.

Performance of Contract means processing your data where it is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request before entering into such a contract.

Comply with a legal or regulatory obligation means processing your personal data where it is necessary for compliance with a legal or regulatory obligation that we are subject to.

THIRD PARTIES

External Third Parties

  • Service providers based both within and outside the EEA who provide IT and system administration services.
  • Suppliers of goods and services comprising part of our provision to you, based both within and outside the EEA.
  • Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers based both within and outside the EEA who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance and accounting services.
  • HM Revenue & Customs, regulators and other authorities based in the EEA.
  • Customs and Excise Authorities and other government departments based both within and outside EEA.
  • Companies House
  • Recruitment Agencies
  • Accrediting bodies such as Cyber Essentials 
  • Professional consultants including IT providers, website developers, marketing based both within and outside the EEA.

 

YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS

You have the right to:

Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a "data subject access request"). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.

Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.

Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request. 

Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.

Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios: (a) if you want us to establish the data's accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c) where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it. 

Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you. 

Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.

COOKIE POLICY

About cookies

A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed. More specifically, we use cookies and other tracking technologies for the following purposes:

  • Assisting you in navigation;
  • Analysing your use of our products, services or applications;
  • Assisting with our promotional and marketing efforts (including behavioural advertising)

Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

Cookies can be used by web servers to identity and track users as they navigate different pages on a website and identify users returning to a website.

How to control and delete cookies

 

You can choose to enable or disable Cookies or delete stored cookies in your web browser. By default, your browser will accept Cookies, however this can be altered. If you want to restrict or block the cookies we set, you can do this through your browser settings. The ‘help' function within your browser should tell you how. Disabling Cookies may prevent you from using the full range of Services available on the website and you may lose any information that enables you to access the website more quickly.

Blocking all cookies may have a negative impact upon the usability of our website as you will not be able to use all the features on our website.

 

Necessary Cookies

 

These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms.

You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work.

 

Name of cookie

Provider

Duration of storage

Purpose

cfuid

ispectlet.com

1 year

Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic

cfuid

reviews.co.uk

1 year

Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic

cfuid

zopim.com

1 year

Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic

JSESSIONID

nr-data.net

Session

Preserves users states across page requests

PHPSESSID

britishhamper.com

Session

Preserves user session state across page requests

 

Marketing and targeting cookies

 

They do not store directly personal information but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.

Name of cookie

Provider

Duration of storage

Purpose

_insp_norec_sess

britishhamper.com

1 year

Used to make live streaming of video content more efficient

_zlcmid

britishhamper.com

1 year

Preserves users states across page requests

ads/ga-audiences

google.com

Session

Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitors online behaviour across websites

collect

google.com

Session

Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitors device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels

fr

facebook.com

3 months

Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers

PREF

youtube.com

8 months

Registers a unique ID that is used by Google to keep statistics of how the visitor used YouTube videos across different websites

tr

facebook.com

Session

Unclassified (pixel)

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

youtube.com

8 months

Tries to esitmate the users bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos

YSC

youtube.com

Session

Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen

zte#

britishhamper.com

Session

Saves a Zopim Live Chat ID that recognises a device between visits during a chat session

 

Performance cookies

 

These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources, so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site.

All information these cookies collect is anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site and will not be able to monitor its performance.

Name of cookie

Provider

Duration of storage

Purpose

_insp_sid

 

inspectlet.com

Session

Used to keep track of session information.

_insp_ref

 

inspectlet.com

Session

Used to keep track of session information.

_insp_scpt

 

inspectlet.com

Session

Used to keep track of session information.

_insp_identity

 

inspectlet.com

Session

Used to keep track of session information.

_insp_wid

inspectlet.com

Session

Used to keep track of session information.

_insp_nv

inspectlet.com

Session

Used to keep track of session information.

_insp_slim

inspectlet.com

Session

Used to keep track of session information.

_insp_uid

inspectlet.com

Long term

Contains random ID assigned to visitor

_dc_gtm_UA-#

britishhamper.com

Session

Used by Google Tag Manager to control the loading of a Google Analytics script tag

_ga

britishhamper.com

2 years

Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website

_gid

britishhamper.com

Session

Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor users the website

p.gif

typekit.net

Session

Unclassified (pixel)