We are THEMIXPOT LTD, a company incorporated and registered in England and Wales with company registration number 11163139 and registered office at 12 Darfield Road, Guildford, GU4 7YY (the “Company” or “we” or “us”).

The Company and personal information: We are committed to lawful, fair and transparent processing of all personal information about our employees, customers, suppliers and other third parties during the course of our business activities. We will always comply with any applicable data protection legislation and we will ensure that collection and use of personal information is carried out in accordance with applicable data protection laws. The main law governing data protection is the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016) known as the “GDPR”.

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What this policy is: This policy (and any other documents referred to in it, together with any privacy notice displayed on our website) sets out the basis on which we will process any personal information about you or individuals generally - whether it’s information we collect from those individuals or that is provided to us from other sources. This policy sets out rules on data protection and the legal conditions that must be satisfied when we obtain, handle, process, transfer or store personal information.

Controlling and processing information: We are the controller of all personal information used in our business for our own commercial purposes. Sometimes though, we will process personal information on behalf of another data controller – and when this is the case, we will do so only in accordance with the instructions of that data controller and otherwise in accordance with the GDPR.

Why you should read this policy: It is important that you read this policy, together with any other documents referred to in it, so that you are aware of how any personal information relating to you will be dealt with by us.

 

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DATA PROTECTION PRINCIPLES

 

We are accountable for demonstrating compliance with the GDPR’s six principles of processing personal information. These provide that personal information we deal with must be:

(a) processed fairly, lawfully and in a transparent manner; 
(b) collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes; 
(c) adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary; 
(d) accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date; 
(e) not kept for longer than necessary; and 
(f) processed securely, maintaining integrity and confidentiality.

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SOME BASIC DEFINITIONS WE USE IN THIS POLICY

 

Personal information: In this policy, when we use the term “personal information” we mean any information relating to an identified or identifiable human being. (An “identifiable natural person” is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, for example, by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, biometric, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that person).

Sensitive personal information: In this policy, when we use the term “sensitive personal information” we mean special categories of information which are personal information revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, and the processing of genetic data, biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying someone, data concerning health or data concerning someone’s sex life or sexual orientation.

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THE KIND OF PERSONAL INFORMATION WE HOLD ABOUT YOU

 

We may collect, record, organise, structure, store, adapt, alter, retrieve, consult, use, disclose by transmission, disseminate or otherwise make available, align or combine, restrict, erase or destroy the following types of personal information about you: 

• Personal contact details such as name, title, e-mail addresses, physical address, telephone numbers and personal and/or professional email addresses 
• Demographic information such as your postcode 
• Details of your visits to our website including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own administrative purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access. 
We do not collect, store or use sensitive personal information.

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HOW IS YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTED?

 

In the course of our business, we may collect personal information directly from an individual:

• when you register on our site and place an order; 
• when you submit an enquiry about our products; 
• when you sign up to our mailing list; and 
• when you provide personal information directly to members of our team, for example by sharing your personal information with one of our representatives at markets or shops, and other events.

We will only collect personal information to the extent that it is required for the specific purpose notified to individuals about whom we are collecting it - and we will keep it only as long as is necessary.

 

 

HOW WE WILL USE PERSONAL INFORMATION 

We will only use personal information when the law allows us to do so and relying on a relevant basis for lawful processing in each instance. We will use your personal information in the following circumstances, relying on the basis of processing indicated:

Basis of processing: Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation. 
• To retain basic transaction details for the purpose of tax reporting (contact details and transaction history). 
Basis of processing: Where you have consented to the processing. 
• To use non-essential cookies on our website (see “Cookies” section below for further information) (online identifiers, location data and other technical information). You have the right to withdraw consent to such use at any time by contacting us. 
• To send you direct marketing communications via email (contact details). You have the right to withdraw consent to any such use at any time by contacting us.

 

 

DIRECT MARKETING

 

As indicated above, we may use your personal information to provide you with information about products that may be of interest to you and we may contact you about these by email. This is known as direct marketing.

Examples of direct marketing may include:

• sending promotional emails about new products, special offers, customer events or other information which we think you may find useful or interesting using the email address which you have provided; 
• contacting you for market research purposes (by email).

We will only process personal information for the above purposes as permitted by law, which usually means with your specific consent. You have the right to withdraw this consent at any time. Information about how to withdraw your consent is set out below.

 

 

CONSENT

 

In this policy, where we have referred to needing your consent for any processing, we will make sure that the consent: 
• is specific consent for one or more specified purposes; and
• is given by a clear affirmative act establishing a freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of your agreement to the relevant processing of personal information.

 

 

DATA SECURITY

 

We will always take appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect personal information against accidental or unlawful destruction or accidental loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure or access, in particular where the processing involves the transmission of data over a network, and against all other unlawful forms of processing (including taking reasonable steps to ensure the reliability of employees who have access to personal information). Our employees may only process personal information in accordance with this privacy policy, and any employee who breaches this privacy policy may be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including dismissal.

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

 

 

DATA RETENTION

 

We will not keep personal information in a form which permits identification of individuals for longer than is necessary for the purpose or purposes for which they were collected. We will take all reasonable steps to destroy, or erase from our systems, all data which is no longer required. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of personal information, the purposes for which we process information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

We will only keep personal information for as long as is necessary for the purpose or purposes for which that personal information is processed; and we will let anyone about whom we process data know how long that is or the criteria that go into deciding how long that is.

 

 

YOUR RIGHTS

 

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

You have the right to: 
1. Request access to your personal information (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.

2. Request correction of the personal information 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.

3. Request erasure of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal information 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 information 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 information to comply with local law. 
4. Object to processing of your personal information where we are relying on a legitimate interest 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 information for direct marketing purposes.

5. Request restriction of processing of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal information 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.

6. Request the transfer of your personal information to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal information 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.

7. Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal information. 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.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us at hello@themixpot.com. We aim to respond to all legitimate requests within one month (and if we are only processing the data in question on behalf of another party, the response may actually come from that other party as the relevant data controller). 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.

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal information (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.

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

 

 

COOKIES

 

Our website currently does not use cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website or for any other non-essential purpose. We do use Google Analytics to help us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website, and also to allow us to improve our website.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer or device if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer or device. Examples of such cookies include the following: 
• Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of the website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of a website. 
• Analytical/performance cookies. They recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around a website when they are using it. This helps a company to improve the way their website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. We currently use this type of cookie for the Google Analytics service. 
• Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise a visitor when he or she returns to the website. This enables a company to personalise its content for the visitor and remember the visitor’s preferences (for example, the visitor’s choice of language or region). 
• Targeting cookies. These cookies record the visitor’s visit to the website, the pages the visitor has visited and the links the visitor has followed. A company will use this information to make its website and any advertising displayed on it more relevant to the visitor’s interests. A company may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you block cookies you may not be able to access all or parts of our website, where applicable.

 

 

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

 

We reserve the right to change this policy at any time. Where appropriate, we will notify individuals of those changes via email. Each time you enter or use our website, you agree that the privacy policy current at that time shall apply to all information we hold about you.

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

 

 

CONTACT

 

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to hello@themixpot.com.

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