PRIVACY POLICY – The Confident Eater Ltd
What is this Policy for?
This Privacy Policy is for this website https://www.theconfidenteater.com and the business of The Confident Eater Ltd. It governs the privacy of those who choose to use it.
The policy sets out the different areas where user privacy is concerned, and outlines the obligations and requirements of the users, the website and website owners. Furthermore, the way this website processes, stores and protects user data and information will also be detailed within this policy.
We Collect
The type of information we may collect includes:
1. Your full name
2. Your address and postcode
3. Your contact information (such as your email address)
4. Your payment details
5. General information about yourself (such as your interests, your experience
of our services and products or other services and products and your contact
preferences)
6. Information relating to your use of our Services
How We Use Your Information
1. To provide products and services that you have requested.
2. To send communications and administrative emails about the Services, our
products, and updates to your account.
3. To analyse, benchmark and conduct research on user data and user
interactions with the Services and our products and services.
4. For our internal record keeping.
5. To contact you to answer any queries you may have.
6. Marketing
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The Website
This website and its owners take a proactive approach to user privacy and
ensure the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its users
throughout their visiting experience. This website complies to all NZ national laws
and requirements for user privacy.
Use of Cookies
This website uses cookies to better the users experience while visiting the
website. Where applicable this website uses a cookie control system allowing the
user, on their first visit to the website, to allow or disallow the use of cookies on
their computer / device. This complies with legislation requirements for websites
to obtain explicit consent from users before leaving behind or reading files such
as cookies on a user’s computer / device.
Cookies are small files saved to the user’s computers hard drive that track, save
and store information about the user’s interactions and usage of the website. This
allows the website, through its server, to provide the users with a tailored
experience within this website.
Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from
this website on to their computers hard drive they should take necessary steps
within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website
and its external serving vendors.
This website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand
how they use it. This software is provided by Google Analytics which uses
cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computer’s
hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the
website, but will not store, save or collect personal information. You can read
Google’s privacy policy here for further information
http://www.google.com/privacy.html .
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Other cookies may be stored to your computer’s hard drive by external vendors
when this website uses referral programs, sponsored links or adverts. Such
cookies are used for conversion and referral tracking and typically expire after 30
days, though some may take longer. No personal information is stored, saved or
collected.
Contact & Communication
Users contacting this website and/or its owners do so at their own discretion and
provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal
information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required
or has no use, as detailed in the Data Protection Act 1998 and the GDPR
regulations. Every effort has been made to ensure a safe and secure form to
email submission process but advise users using such form to email processes
that they do so at their own risk.
This website and its owners use any information submitted to provide you with
further information about the products / services they offer or to assist you in
answering any questions or queries you may have submitted. This includes using
your details to subscribe you to any email newsletter programme the website
operates but only if this was made clear to you and your express permission was
granted when submitting any form to email process, or whereby you, the
consumer, have previously purchased from, or enquired about purchasing from
the company, a product or service that the email newsletter relates to. This is by
no means an entire list of your user rights in regard to receiving email marketing
material. Your details are not passed on to any third parties.
Collecting, controlling and processing data
This website requires the visitor to opt-in to receive future information from us
● We will specify the method of communication to the user via the opt in
process
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● We do not pass information on to third party companies
● A record is held regarding how consent is acquired
● The processing of data for marketing purposes is compliant to the GDPR/PECR regulations
● We delete any irrelevant or excessive personal data that is surplus to
requirements for marketing purposes
● All ‘prospect’ data we hold, is only used for marketing purposes
● We have simple procedures in place to deal with inaccuracies and
complaints should they arise
● When using data to market by email and post, the information provided
includes our contact details
● For a fee, we can provide information on where or how we obtained an
Individual’s piece of data
Email Newsletter
This website operates an email newsletter programme, used to inform
subscribers about products and services supplied by this website. Users can
subscribe through an online automated process should they wish to do so but do
so at their own discretion. Some subscriptions may be manually processed
through prior written agreement with the user.
Subscriptions are taken in compliance with Spam Laws and GDPR regulations.
All personal details relating to subscriptions are held securely and in accordance
with the Data Protection Act 1998 and the subsequent EU GDPR regulations
introduced in May 2018. No personal details are passed on to third parties nor
shared with companies / people outside of the company that operates this
website. Under the Data Protection Act 1998/GDPR you may request a copy of
personal information held about you by this website’s email newsletter
programme. A fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held
on you please write to the business address at the bottom of this policy.
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Email marketing campaigns published by this website or its owners may contain
tracking facilities within the actual email. Subscriber activity is tracked and stored
in a database for future analysis and evaluation. Such tracked activity may
include; the opening of emails, forwarding of emails, the clicking of links within
the email content, times, dates and frequency of activity.
This information is used to refine future email campaigns and supply the user
with more relevant content based around their activity.
In compliance with Spam Laws and latest GDPR regulations, subscribers are
given the opportunity to unsubscribe at any time through an automated system.
This process is detailed at the footer of each email campaign. If an automated
unsubscription system is unavailable clear instructions on how to unsubscribe will
be detailed instead.
External Links
Although this website only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external
links, users are advised to adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external
web links mentioned throughout this website. (External links are clickable text /
banner / image links to other websites.)
The owners of this website cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any
externally linked website despite their best efforts. Users should therefore note
they click on external links at their own risk and this website and its owners
cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any
external links mentioned.
Adverts and Sponsored Links
This website may in the future contain sponsored links and adverts. These will typically be
served through advertising partners, who may have detailed privacy policies relating directly to the
adverts they serve.
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Clicking on any such adverts will send you to the advertisers’website through a
referral programme which may use cookies and will track the number of referrals
sent from this website. This may include the use of cookies which may in turn be
saved on your computer’s hard drive. Users should therefore note they click on
sponsored external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot
be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external
links mentioned.
Social Media Platforms
Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media
platforms that this website and its owners participate on are custom to the terms
and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media
platform respectively.
Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate /
engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and
personal details. This website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or
sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users
wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary
communication channels such as by telephone or email.
This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content
directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are
advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own
discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your
request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform
account.
Shortened Links
This website and its owners through their social media platform accounts may
share web links to relevant web pages.
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By default some social media platforms shorten lengthy urls [web addresses].
Users are advised to take caution and good judgement before clicking any
shortened urls published on social media platforms by this website and its
owners. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine urls are published many
social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore this website
and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by
visiting any shortened links.
GDPR Specific Information
For the purposes of GDPR regulations:
– The Data Controller is Judith Yeabsley
– Our Lawful Basis is “Consent” for all databases and “Contract for purposes
of the processing of payments of products or services”.
How to Contact Us
If you have any questions regarding our Privacy Policy or how we collect, use
and share your data you may contact us as follows:
Judith@theconfidenteater.com
The Confident Eater
18 Ngarimu Grove,
Ngaio,
New Zealand
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