1. INTRODUCTION

This privacy notice provides you with details of how we collect and process your personal data through your use of our site sandwickbaycandles.com including any information you may provide through our site when you purchase a product or service, sign up to any newsletter or take part in a prize draw or competition.

Megan Macdonald (sandwickbaycandles.com) is the data controller and is responsible for your personal data (referred to as ‘we’, ‘us’ or ‘our’ in this privacy notice)

Contact Details

Our full details are:

Full name of legal entity: Sandwick Bay candles Limited.

Email Adress: info@sandwickbaycandles.com

Postal address: 20 South Beach, Stornoway, HS1 2BJ, United Kingdom.

If you are not happy with any aspect of how we collect and use your data, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We should be grateful if you would contact us first if you do have a complaint so that we can try to resolve it for you.

It is very important that the information we hold about you is accurate and up to date. Please let us know if at any time your personal information changes by emailing us at info@sandwickbaycandles.com

2. WHAT DATA DO WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU?

Personal data means any information capable of identifying an individual. It does not include any anonymised data. We may process certain types of personal data about you as follows:

Identity Data may include your first name, maiden name, last name, username, marital status, title, date of birth and gender.

Contact Data may include your billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers.

Financial Data may include your bank account and payment card details.

Transaction Data may include details about payments made between us and other details of purchases made by you.

Technical Data may include your log in data, internet protocol addresses, browser type and version, browser plug in types and versions, time zone setting and location, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this site.

Profile Data may include your username and password, purchases or orders, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses.

Usage Data may include information about how you use our website, products and services.

Marketing and Communications Data may include your preferences in receiving marketing communications from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

We may also process Aggregated Data from your personal data but this data does not reveal your identity and as such in itself is not personal data. An example of this is where we review your Usage Data to work out the percentage of website users using a specific feature of our site. If we link the Aggregated Data with your personal data so that you can be identified from it, then it is treated as personal data.

Sensitive Data

We do not collect and Sensitive Data about you. Sensitive Data refers to data that includes details about your race and ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data. We do not collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.

Where we are required to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of the contract between us and you do not provide us with that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract (for example to deliver goods or services to you). If you don’t provide us with the requested data, we may have to cancel a product or service you have ordered but if we do, we will notify at the time.

3. HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

We collect data about you through a variety of different methods including:

Direct interactions: You may provide data by filling in forms on our site or by communicating with us by post, phone, email or otherwise, including when you:

 • Order our products.

 • Create an account.

 • Subscribe to our service.

 • Enter a competition, prize draw, promotion or survey or

 • Give us feedback.

Automated technologies or interactions: As you use our site, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and usage patterns. We collect this data by using cookies, server logs and similar technologies. We may also receive Technical Data about you if you visit other websites that use our cookies. Please see our cookie policy below for further details.

Third parties or publicly available sources: We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources as set out below:

 • Analytics providers such as Google based outside the EU.
• Advertising networks such as Facebook based inside OR outside the EU.
• Contact, Financial or Transaction Data form providers of technical, payment and delivery. services such as PayPal based inside OR outside the EU.

4. HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

We will only use your personal data when legally permitted. The most common uses of your personal data are:

 • Where we need to perform the contract between us.
• 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 statutory obligation.

Generally we do not rely on consent as a legal ground for processing your personal data, other than in relation to sending any marketing communications to you via email. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by emailing us at info@sandwickbaycandles.com

Purposes for processing your data

Set out below is a description of the ways we intend to use your personal data and the legal grounds on which we will process such data. 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 communications

You may receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us or purchased products from us or if you have provided us with your details for us to send you marketing communications.

You can ask us to stop sending you any marketing messages at any time by following the the opt out links on any marketing message sent to you OR by emailing us at info@sandwickbaycandles.com at any time. Where you opt out of receiving our marketing communications, 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.

The performance of the contract between us

When you have ordered goods or services from us, we will need to process your personal data in order to perform the contract that has arisen between us. This includes the use of your postal address and/or email address and telephone number for the resolution of any order enquiries and the delivery of customer service standards.

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. If we need to use your personal data for a purpose unrelated to the purpose for which we collected the data, we will notify you and we will explain the legal ground for processing. We may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent where this is required by the law.

5. DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below for purposes such as:

 • Service providers who provide IT and system administration and services.
• Professional advisors including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance and accountancy services.
• HM Revenue & Customs, regulators and other authorities based in the UK and other relevant jurisdictions who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.
• Third parties to whom we sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets.

We require all third parties to whom we transfer your data to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We only allow such third parties to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

6. INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS

Countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA) do not always offer the same levels of protection to your personal data, so European law has prohibited transfers of personal data outside of the EEA unless the transfer meets certain criteria.

Many of our third parties service providers are based outside of the EEA so their processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data outside of the EEA.

Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we do our best to ensure a similar degree of security of data by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:

 • We will only transfer your data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the European Commission.
• Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts or codes of conduct or certification mechanisms approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection that it has in Europe.
• Where we use providers based in the United States, we may transfer data to them if they are part of the EU-US Privacy Shield which requires them to provide similar protection to personal data shared between Europe and the US.

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 may limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know such data. They will only process your personal data under 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 applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally obliged to do so.

8. DATA RETENTION

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.

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 taxation purposes.

In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data, see 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 we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

9. YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. These include the right to:

 • Request access to your 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 email us at info@sandwickbaycandles.com. 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.

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

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer 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.

 

10. 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 notice of every website you visit.

11. 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 below.

COOKIE POLICY

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a piece of information that is stored on your computer’s hard drive and which records how you move your way around a website so that when you revisit that website, it can present tailored options based on the information stored about your last visit. Cookies can also be used to analyse traffic and for advertising and marketing purposes. Cookies are used by nearly all websites and do not harm your system.

If you want to check or change what types of cookies you accept, this can usually be altered within your browser settings. You can block cookies at any time by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

How do we use cookies?

We use cookies to track your use of our website. This enables us to understand how you use the site and track any patterns with regards to how you are using our website. This helps us to develop and improve our website as well as products and/or services in response to what you might need or want. Certain features of our website may use local stored objects (Flash Cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from and to our website. These data files may be created on your computer when you visit our website. Flash cookies are most often used to personalise ads (i.e on social media) or to enhance your experience on our website (i.e to personalise the content you see on our website). Flash cookies will not access or remember your e-mail address or other personal information unless you willingly provide such information.

Our website may also contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags and single-pixel gifs) that permit us to, for example, to count users who have visited particular web pages, or and can be used for other related website statistics, such as verifying our system and server integrity.

Cookies are either:

Session cookies these are only stored on your computer during your web session and are automatically deleted when you close your browser – they usually store an anonymous session ID allowing you to browse a website without having to log in to each page but they do not collect any personal data from your computer, or

Persistent cookies persistent cookies are stored as a file on your computer and it remains there when you close your web browser. The cookie can be read by the website that created it when you visit that website again.

Cookies can also be categorised as follows:

1. Strictly necessary cookies.

These cookies are essential for you to be able to use the website effectively, such as when buying a product and therefore cannot be turned off. Without these cookies, the services available to you on our website cannot be provided. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you have been on the internet.

2. Performance cookies

These cookies enable us to monitor and improve the performance of our website. For example they allow us to count visits, identify traffic sources and see which parts of the site are most popular.

3. Functionality cookies

These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced features. For instance, we may be able to provide you with news or updates relevant to the services you use. They may also be used to provide services you have requested such as viewing a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect is usually anonymised.

4. Marketing cookies

These cookies allow us to send personalised Facebook and Instagram ads to users who have recently visited our site by way of tracking pixels which collect browser data.