What are your rights?
At any point while we are in possession of or processing your personal data, you, as the data subject, have the following rights:

• - Right of access – you have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you.
• - Right of rectification – you have a right to correct data that we hold about you that is inaccurate or incomplete.
• - Right to be forgotten – in certain circumstances you can ask for the data we hold about you to be erased from our records.
• - Right to restriction of processing – where certain conditions apply, you have a right to restrict the processing.
• - Right of portability – you have the right to have the data we received from you transferred to another organisation.
• - Right to object – you have the right to object to certain types of processing such as direct marketing.
• - Right to object to automated processing, including profiling – if the processing is solely automated and leads to a decision which affects your legal rights.
• Right to judicial review - You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority about our collection and use of your personal data. For more information, please contact the Information Commissioner using the contact details below. .

 
If at any time you have questions about our practices or any of your rights described above, you may reach our Data Protection Officer (“DPO”) and our dedicated team that supports this office by contacting us at dpo@youralcove.com.
 
What information we collect during purchases - Information you provide about yourself like your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, and payment information.
 
How we use it – To allow us to complete a transaction, screen orders for fraud and risk, fulfil orders, and contact you with new products or offers.
However, we also collect additional information when delivering our Services to you to ensure necessary and optimal performance.  These methods of collection may not be as obvious to you, so we wanted to highlight and explain below a bit more about what these might be (as they vary from time to time) and how they work:
 

• - Account related information is collected in association with your use of our Services, such as account number, purchases, when products renew or expire, information requests, and customer service requests and notes or details explaining what you asked for and how we responded.
• - Cookies and similar technologies on our websites and our mobile applications allow us to track your browsing behaviour, links clicked, items purchased, your device type, and to collect various data, including analytics, about how you use and interact with our Services. This allows us to provide you with more relevant product offerings, a better experience on our sites and mobile applications, and to collect, analyse and improve the performance of our Services. We may also collect your location (IP address) so that we can personalise our Services. For additional information, and to learn how to manage the technologies we utilise, please visit our Cookie Policy.   
• - Data about Usage of Services is automatically collected when you use and interact with our Services, including metadata, log files, cookie/device IDs and location information. This information includes specific data about your interactions with the features, content and links (including those of third-parties, such as video and voice media plugins) contained within the Services, Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type and settings, the date and time the Services were used, information about browser configuration and plugins, language preferences and cookie data, information about devices accessing the Services, including type of device, what operating system is used, device settings, application IDs, unique device identifiers and error data, and some of this data collected might be capable of and be used to approximate your location. 
• - Supplemented Data may be received about you from other sources, including publicly available databases. in which case we may combine this data with information we already have about you so that we can update, expand and analyse the accuracy of our records, identify new customers, and provide products and services that may be of interest to you.  If you provide us personal information about others, or if others give us your information, we will only use that information for the specific reason for which it was provided to us.

 
How we utilise information - We strongly believe in both minimising the data we collect and limiting its use and purpose to only that (1) for which we have been given permission, (2) as necessary to deliver the Services you purchase or interact with, or (3) as we might be required or permitted for legal compliance or other lawful purposes. These uses include: Delivering, improving, updating and enhancing the Services we provide to you. We collect various information relating to your purchase, use and/or interactions with our Services. We utilise this information to:

• - Improve and optimise the operation and performance of our Services (again, including our websites and mobile applications)
• - Diagnose problems with and identify any security risks, errors, or needed enhancements to the Services
• - Detect and prevent fraud and abuse of our Services and systems
• - Collecting aggregate statistics about use of the Services
• - Understand and analyse how you use our Services and what products, and services are most relevant to you.

 
Often, much of the data collected is aggregated or statistical data about how individuals use our Services, and is not linked to any personal data, but to the extent it is itself personal data, or is linked or linkable to personal data, we treat it accordingly. 
 
Sharing with trusted third parties - We may share your personal data with affiliated companies, with third parties with which we have partnered to allow you to integrate their services into our own Services, and with trusted third-party service providers as necessary for them to perform services on our behalf, such as:

• - Processing credit card payments
• - Conducting contests or surveys
• - Communicating with you, such as by way email or survey delivery
• - Customer relationship management.

 
We only share your personal data as necessary for any third party to provide the services as requested or as needed on our behalf. These third parties (and any subcontractors) are subject to strict data processing terms and conditions and are prohibited from utilising, sharing or retaining your personal data for any purpose other than as they have been specifically contracted for (or without your consent).
 
We may also share your personal data with a potential buyer (and its agents and advisers) in connection with any proposed purchase, merger or acquisition of any part of our business, provided that we inform the buyer it must use your personal data only for the purposes disclosed in this Privacy Notice.
Communicating with you - We may contact you directly or through a third-party service provider regarding products or services you have signed up or purchased from us, such as necessary to deliver transactional or service-related communications. We may also contact you with offers for additional services we think you will find valuable if you give us consent or were allowed based upon legitimate interests. You do not need to provide consent as a condition to purchase our goods or services. These contacts may include:
 

• - Email
• - Text (SMS) messages
• - Telephone calls
• - Automated phone calls or text messages.

 
If we collect information from you in connection with a co-branded offer, it will be clear at the point of collection who is collecting the information and whose privacy policy applies. In addition, it will describe any choice options you have regarding the use and/or sharing of your personal data with a co-branded partner, as well as how to exercise those options.
If you believe that anyone has provided us with your personal information and you would like to request that it be removed from our database, please contact us at dpo@youralcove.com
 
Transfer of personal data abroad - If you utilise our Services from a country other than the country where our servers are located (EU), your communications with us may result in transferring your personal data across international borders. Also, when you call us or initiate a chat, we may provide you with support from a location outside your country of origin. In these cases, your personal data is handled according to this Privacy Notice.
 
Compliance with legal, regulatory and law enforcement requests - We cooperate with government and law enforcement officials to enforce and comply with the law. We will disclose any information about you to government or law enforcement officials, in our sole discretion, we believe necessary or appropriate to respond to claims and legal process, to protect our property and rights or the property and rights of a third party, to protect the safety of the public or any person, or to prevent or stop activity we consider to be illegal or unethical.
To the extent we are legally permitted to do so, we will take reasonable steps to notify you if we are required to provide your personal information to third parties as part of legal process. 
 
How we secure, store and retain your data - We follow generally accepted standards to store and protect the personal data we collect, both during transmission and once received and stored, including utilisation of encryption where appropriate.
We retain personal data only for as long as necessary to provide the Services you have requested and thereafter for a variety of legitimate legal or business purposes. These might include retention periods:

• - mandated by law, contract or similar obligations applicable to our business operations.
• - for preserving, resolving, defending or enforcing our legal/contractual rights; or
• - needed to maintain adequate and accurate business and financial records.

 
If you have any questions about the security or retention of your personal data, you can contact us at dpo@youralcove.com
 
Age restrictions - Our Services are available for purchase only for those over the age of 18.  Our Services are not targeted to, intended to be consumed by or designed to entice individuals under the age of 18. If you know of or have reason to believe anyone under the age of 18 has provided us with any personal data, please contact us.
 
Links to other websites - Where we provide links to websites of other organisations, this Privacy Notice does not cover how that organisation processes personal data. We encourage you to read the privacy notices on the other websites you visit.
 
Changes in our Privacy Notice - We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Notice at any time. If we decide to change our Privacy Notice, we will post those changes to this Privacy Notice and any other places we deem appropriate, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. 
If you’re dissatisfied with how we’re using your personal data, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner.  We’d encourage you to contact us first, so we can deal with your concerns.
 
The Information Commissioner`s office can be contacted by:

• Visiting their website ico.org.uk
• Phone on 0303 123 1113
• Writing to Information Commissioner`s Office Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF

 
 
Contact us - If you have any questions, concerns or complaints about our Privacy Policy, our practices or our Services, you may contact our Office of the DPO by email at dpo@youralcove.com.
 
 In the alternative, you may contact us in writing using the following address:

• - Unit 2 Mayfly Way, Ardleigh, Colchester, CO7 7WX

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