Customer Privacy Notice
This privacy notice tells you what to expect us to do with your personal information.
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Contact details
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What information we collect, use, and why
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Lawful bases and data protection rights
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Where we get personal information from
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How long we keep information
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How to complain
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Contact details
Telephone 07562376192
Email contact@alchemicalromance.co.uk
What information we collect and use
Alchemical Romance is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.
All direct payment gateways offered by Wix.com and used by our company adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.
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How do we collect information?
When you conduct a transaction on our website, as part of the process, we collect personal information you give us such as your name, address and email address. Your personal information will be used for the specific reasons stated above only.
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Why do we collect such personal information?
We collect such Non-personal and Personal Information for the following purposes:
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To provide and operate the Services;
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To provide our Users with ongoing customer assistance and technical support;
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To be able to contact our Visitors and Users with general or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages;
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To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred Non-personal Information, which we or our business partners may use to provide and improve our respective services;
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To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.
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Lawful bases and data protection rights
Under UK data protection law, we must have a “lawful basis” for collecting and using your personal information. There is a list of possible lawful bases in the UK GDPR. You can find out more about lawful bases on the ICO’s website.
Which lawful basis we rely on may affect your data protection rights which are in brief set out below. You can find out more about your data protection rights and the exemptions which may apply on the ICO’s website:
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Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information. You can request other information such as details about where we get personal information from and who we share personal information with. There are some exemptions which means you may not receive all the information you ask for. You can read more about this right here.
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Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to correct or delete personal information you think is inaccurate or incomplete. You can read more about this right here.
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Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to delete your personal information. You can read more about this right here.
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Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to limit how we can use your personal information. You can read more about this right here.
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Your right to object to processing - You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data. You can read more about this right here.
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Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you. You can read more about this right here.
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Your right to withdraw consent – When we use consent as our lawful basis you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. You can read more about this right here.
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If you make a request, we must respond to you without undue delay and in any event within one month.
To make a data protection rights request, please contact us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.
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Our lawful bases for the collection and use of your data
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Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information to provide services and goods are:
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Consent - we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
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Contract – we have to collect or use the information so we can enter into or carry out a contract with you. All of your data protection rights may apply except the right to object.
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Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for the operation of customer accounts and guarantees are:
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Consent - we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
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Contract – we have to collect or use the information so we can enter into or carry out a contract with you. All of your data protection rights may apply except the right to object.
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Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for service updates or marketing purposes are:
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Consent - we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
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Contract – we have to collect or use the information so we can enter into or carry out a contract with you. All of your data protection rights may apply except the right to object.
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Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for dealing with queries, complaints or claims are:
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Consent - we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
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Contract – we have to collect or use the information so we can enter into or carry out a contract with you. All of your data protection rights may apply except the right to object.
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Where we get personal information from
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Directly from you
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How long we keep information
All personal identifiable information is kept on secure servers behind a firewall via Wix.com’s data storage, databases, and general applications. Any personal information that is then retained in a physical hardcopy (i.e. names, addresses, transaction and order history) is kept in accordance with GDPR and is only done so that we may deliver a full and functional service.
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Our data retention schedule is reviewed annually. This review period may change if deemed necessary, and this policy shall be amended accordingly.
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How to complain
If you have any concerns about our use of your personal data, you can make a complaint to us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.
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If you remain unhappy with how we’ve used your data after raising a complaint with us, you can also complain to the ICO.
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The ICO’s address:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
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Helpline number: 0303 123 1113
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Website: https://www.ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint
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Last updated 31 August 2024