Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy explains the information we collect about you on our website and the steps we take to ensure your information is kept secure and confidential.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. If you use our site, you will be regarded as having read and accepted this Privacy Policy. If you don’t wish to be bound by what you read below, you should not use our site.
If you have any queries relating to our use of your personal information or any other related data protection questions, please contact us on info@thinbluepaw.org.uk
The information we collect
We only collect personal data on our website if it is provided to us by you the user (e.g. your e-mail address and name) and therefore has been provided with your explicit consent. You will only ask for your details when you sign up to receive our newsletter or when you order items from the web shop.
Why we process your personal information
We will only collect and use your personal information in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018. Our reasons for processing personal information are as follows:
• Consent – we will only collect and process your personal information with your consent, for example, we will only send you our newsletter emails or process orders from our online store if we have your received your consent.
• Contractual – we may use your data to meet the requirements of any contract we have with you.
• Legitimate Interests – we may use and process some of your personal information where we have sensible and legitimate business grounds for doing so. Under European privacy laws there is a concept of “legitimate interests” as a justification for processing your personal information.
You have a right to object to our use of your personal information for these legitimate interests. If you raise an objection, we will stop using any personal information unless exceptional circumstances apply, in which case we will let you know why we are continuing to process your personal information.
Please email us at info@thinbluepaw.org.uk if you wish to exercise this right.
Who we share your personal information with
We will never sell your data to any third party. We will only disclose your personal information to a third party in the following circumstances:
• If required or permitted to do so by law
• If required to do so by any court, the Financial Conduct Authority or any other applicable regulatory, compliance, governmental or law enforcement agency
• If necessary in connection with legal proceedings or potential legal proceedings
• If ownership of all or part of our site is transferred, in which case any purchaser would only be entitled to use that information in a way consistent with this Privacy Policy
• To fulfill orders placed via our online shop.
How you can amend your preferences
Any emails we send you will include a link to this privacy policy. If you have given us consent to use your data for a particular purpose you can revoke or vary that consent at any time. If you do not want us to use your data or want to vary the consent that you have provided you can email us at info@thinbluepaw.org.uk
How long we keep your personal information
Unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law, we will only retain your personal information while you continue to subscribe to our mailing list or for the purposes of managing orders from our web shop (in line with the conditions and purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy) or until you request it is deleted.
Your personal data rights
You have certain rights under data protection legislation, which are:
1. Right to access: the right to request copies of your personal information from us (see the below section called ‘Subject Access Requests’)
2. Right to correct: the right to have your personal information rectified if it is inaccurate or incomplete
3. Right to erase: the right to request that we delete or remove your personal information from our systems
4. Right to restrict our use of your information: the right to ‘block’ us from using your personal information or limit the way in which we can use it
5. Right to data portability: the right to request that we move, copy or transfer your personal information
6. Right to object: the right to object to our use of your personal information including those circumstances when we use it for our legitimate interests.
To make enquiries, exercise any of your rights set out in this Privacy Policy or make a complaint please email info@thinbluepaw.org.uk
If you are not satisfied with the way any complaint you make in relation to your personal information is handled by us, then you may be able to refer your complaint to the relevant data protection regulator which in the UK is the Information Commissioner’s Office.
This Privacy Policy shall be governed and construed in all respects in accordance with the laws of England and Wales.
Subject Access Requests
Under data protection legislation you have the right to request a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. We will make all reasonable efforts to supply, correct or delete personal information about you on our files.
We will provide the information you have requested without delay and at the latest within one month of receipt of your enquiry.
Please address requests and questions about this to us at info@thinbluepaw.org.uk
Cookies
A cookie is a very small text file placed on your computer or device. Cookies help us to understand browsing habits on our website and enable us to authenticate customers who make purchases from our online shop. Cookies can be used for advertising purposes, for the essential running of the site, analytics and social media.
Our site is built using Squarespace and the use of cookies by Squarespace is explained here.
If you want to block the use of cookies on your browser, you can find out how to do that here. This may affect the way in which you can use our site.
Links on our website
From time to time our site may contain links to third party websites that are not subject to this Privacy Policy. We recommend you read the privacy policy of any secondary websites you visit.
The security of your data and where is it held
Keeping your information secure is very important to us and we will only store and process your personal information in accordance with the appropriate standards required under data protection legislation.
We will not transfer your personal information outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) to locations that may not provide the same level of protection as the UK. Should any circumstances arise to challenge this presumption we will ensure appropriate technical safeguards and protections as stated under UK law are in place, for example, using a data-transfer agreement incorporating standard model protection clauses. This does not prevent the appropriate, secure storage of data with trusted third parties affiliated with our web hosting platform.
We have resilient processes in place to keep your information secure, however, we can’t absolutely guarantee total security. By using our site, you accept the inherent risks of providing information online and will not hold us responsible for any breach of security or consequent liabilities.
Updates to this policy
We reserve the right to amend or modify this Privacy Policy at any time and any changes will be published on our website. The date of the most recent revision will appear on this page. If we make significant changes to this policy, we may also notify you by other means such as sending you an email.
Where required by law we will obtain your consent to make these changes. If you do not agree with any changes, please do not continue to use our website.
Effective from May 2020.