Privacy Policy
We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data.
This privacy policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website, social media and search engine accounts, or our online communities (regardless of where you visit them from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
When we refer to ‘website’ in this policy the term will be deemed to include all our websites (selfishlyhappyyou.com) their landing pages, social media accounts and online communities from time to time.
It contains important information on who we are and how and why we collect, store, use and share your personal information. It also explains your rights in relation to your personal information and how to contact us or supervisory authorities in the event you have a complaint.We collect, use and are responsible for certain personal information about you.
When we do so we are subject to data protection laws which apply across the European Union and the United Kingdom, and we are responsible as ‘controller’ of that personal information for the purposes of those laws. The ‘processor’ of the data is TekMatix and you can read about their Privacy Policy here: https://blog.tekmatix.com/blog/b/gdpr-compliance-and-data-privacy. The podcasting platform, Hello Audio's, privacy policy is here: https://helloaudio.fm/privacy/.
By providing us with your data, you warrant to us that you are over 16 years of age.
1. Important information and who we are
Purpose of this Privacy Policy
This privacy policy aims to give you information on how we collect and process your personal data through your use of our website, including any data you may provide through this website when you fill in our contact form, sign up to receive information from us, purchase a product or service or take part in a competition or challenge.
This website is not intended for children, and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children. You must read this privacy policy together with any other privacy policy or notice or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy policy supplements the other policies and notices and is not intended to override them.
Controller
Anne Bland is the controller and responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as "we", "us" or "our" in this privacy policy). If you have any questions about this privacy policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact us using the details set out below.
Contact details
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact us.
Our full details are:
Name: Anne Bland
Email address: annebland @ selfishlyhappyyou.com
Telephone number: +44 7380 408 074
You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). However, we care deeply about your data protection rights and we would appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us using the details above in the first instance.
Your duty to inform us of changes
The personal data we hold about you must be accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.
Third-party links
This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy or notice of every website you visit.
2. The data we collect about you
Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:
Identity Data
- includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier, title, date of birth and gender.
Contact Data
- includes billing address, delivery or postal address, email address and telephone numbers.
Financial Data
- includes bank account and payment card details.·
Transaction Data
- includes details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from us.
Technical Data
- includes internet protocol (IP) address, your log-in data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
Profile Data
- includes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses.
Usage Data
- includes information about how you use our website, products and services.
Marketing and Communications Data
- includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature.
Sensitive data
Sensitive data refers to data that includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data, and criminal convictions and offences.
We need to collect the following sensitive data about you to deliver our services or products: information about your health and mental health, your sex life and sexual orientation.
We require your explicit consent for processing sensitive data, so when you submit your details, we will ask you to confirm your explicit consent to this processing.
3. How is your personal data collected?
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
Direct interactions:
You may give us your Identity, Contact and Financial Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you (where applicable):
- apply for our products or services;
- create an account on our website;
- subscribe to our service or publications;
- request marketing to be sent to you;
- enter a competition, challenge, promotion or survey; or
- give us some feedback or contact us.
Automated technologies or interactions:
As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies and other similar technologies. Please see our cookie policy here for more details.
Analytics
We may receive technical personal data about you from analytics providers such as Google.
We may receive Contact, Financial and Transaction Data from providers of technical, payment and delivery services such as Stripe or Paypal.
4. How we use your personal data
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
- Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
- Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
- Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
To keep you updated about our products and services where you have consented to this. We shall send this information to you by email, text social media messaging service. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us: annebland @ selfishlyhappyyou.com and by clicking on the ‘unsubscribe’ button in our emails.
Purposes for which we will use your personal data
We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.
Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data.
Marketing
We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising.
Our lawful ground for processing your personal data to send you marketing communications is either your consent or our legitimate interests (namely to grow our business).
Under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, we may send you marketing communications from us if (i) you made a purchase or asked for information from us about our goods or services or (ii) you agreed to receive marketing communications and in each case, you have not opted out of receiving such communications since. Under these regulations, if you are a limited company, we may send you marketing emails without your consent.
However, you can still opt out of receiving marketing emails from us at any time.
Promotional offers from us
We may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage and Profile Data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which products, services and offers may be relevant for you (we call this marketing).
You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us or purchased goods or services from us and, in each case, you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.
Third-party marketing
We do not share your personal data with any third parties.
Opting out
You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by contacting us annebland @ selfishlyhappyyou.com at any time.
Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of a product/service purchase, warranty registration, product/service experience or other transactions.
Cookies
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about the cookies we use, please see our cookie policy.
Change of purpose
We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose.
Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.
5. Disclosures of your personal data
We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table in paragraph 4 above:
- External Third Parties such as service providers, professional advisers, tax authorities and regulators; and
- Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy policy. We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
6. International transfers
To deliver services to you, it is sometimes necessary for us to share your personal information outside the European Economic Area (EEA) and/or the UK, eg:
- with our service providers located outside the EEA and/or the UK;
- if you are based outside the EEA and/or the UK;
- where there is an international dimension to the services we are providing to you;
- If our offices are based outside the EEA and/or UK.
These transfers are subject to special rules under European and UK data protection laws.
Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:
- We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the European Commission, recognised by the UK government.
- Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe, as recognised by the UK government.
If you would like further information please contact us using the contact details in clause 1 above.
7. Data security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
8. Data retention
How long will you use my personal data for?
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
By law, we have to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for six years after they cease being customers for tax purposes.
If you are not a customer, we shall retain your data for 2 years following your last engagement with us.
In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see ‘Request erasure’ below for further information.
In some circumstances, we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
9. Your legal rights
Under certain circumstances, you have the following rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data:
- Request access to your personal data.
- Request correction of your personal data.
- Request erasure of your personal data.
- Object to processing of your personal data.
- Request restriction of processing your personal data.
- Request transfer of your personal data.
- Right to withdraw consent.
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us at annebland @ selfishlyhappyyou.com.
No fee usually required
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (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.
Changes to this privacy policy
We may change this privacy policy from time to time – when we do we shall inform you via our website.
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