Bryn Belted Galloway Privacy Policy

What is it?

As business owners, there is certain personal information that we will need to collect from our customers when they purchase an item from us, contact us, or otherwise use our services.

This information will include your name, address, telephone number and email, as well as transactional data, such as purchase information and technical data, such as information about cookies. Buyers’ personal information is used for fulfilling orders, providing customer service, and sending marketing messages (ONLY where we have explicitly obtained the buyer’s express consent in advance).

The European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other local data protection laws guard how this kind of personal information is collected and used, and protect the privacy rights of buyers. Under these laws, buyers are entitled to certain information, including when, why, how, by whom, and for what purpose personal information is collected, used, and shared.

The following Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that we do not own or control.

Who are we?

This is the website of Bryn Belted Galloway, based in the Brecon Beacons, Wales, UK. Our website address is: https://brynbeltedgalloway.com. You can contact us using the form on our Contact Us page or telephone us on 01874 638385.

Personal information we collect

We collect information such as names, emails, postal addresses, telephone numbers and any other relevant additional information supplied by the customer to assist with order and delivery of products. Supplying this data constitutes as an agreement for us to process it for the purpose intended. This website also uses cookies to collect data about visitors – please see paragraph below ‘ADDITIONAL DATA COLLECTED: WEBSITE VISITORS.’

The legal bases we rely on to collect, use and share personal information

We rely on a number of legal bases to collect, use, and share your information, including:

As needed to provide our services, such as when we use your information to fulfil your order, to settle disputes, or to provide customer support;

When you have provided your affirmative consent, which you may revoke at any time, such as by signing up for a mailing list;

If necessary to comply with a legal obligation such as retaining information about your purchases if required by tax law;

If necessary to comply with court order or in connection with a legal claim

As necessary for the purpose of our legitimate interests, if those legitimate interests are not overridden by your rights or interests. For instance, such as: Providing and improving our services. We use your information to provide the services you requested and in my legitimate interest to improve my services.

The third parties with whom we share personal information

• Service providers. I engage certain trusted third parties to perform functions and provide services including delivery companies, payment processors, storage providers such as Sync, my web-hosting company JustHostMe and also Google Analytics. We may share/store your personal information with these third parties, but only to the extent necessary to perform services required.
• Business transfers. If we sell or merge our business, we may disclose your information as part of that transaction, only to the extent permitted by law.
• Compliance with laws. We may collect, use, retain, and share your information if we have a good faith belief that it is reasonably necessary to: (a) respond to legal process or to government requests; (b) enforce our agreements, terms and policies; (c) prevent, investigate, and address fraud and other illegal activity, security, or technical issues; or (d) protect the rights, property, and safety of our customers, or others.

The length of time we keep personal information

Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes. You can request for this data to be deleted at any time, by contacting us using the form on our Contact page.

Your rights

If you reside in certain territories, including the EU, you have a number of rights in relation to your personal information. While some of these rights apply generally, certain rights apply only in certain limited cases. We describe these rights below:

Access. You may have the right to access and receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you by contacting us using the form on our Contact page.

Change, restrict, delete. You may also have rights to change, restrict our use of, or delete your personal information. Absent exceptional circumstances (like where we are required to store data for legal reasons) we will generally delete your personal information upon request.

Object. You can object to (i) our processing of some of your information based on our legitimate interests and (ii) receiving marketing messages from us after providing your express consent to receive them. In such cases, we will delete your personal information unless we have compelling and legitimate grounds to continue using that information or if it is needed for legal reasons.

Complain. If you reside in the EU and wish to raise a concern about our use of your information (and without prejudice to any other rights you may have), you have the right to do so with your local data protection authority.

Additional data collected: website statistics

This website uses WordPress and Google Analytics (a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc). These put cookies on your computer and can be used to improve your browsing experience. Some cookies are necessary for the website to function fully. Some cookies are used for analytics and performance. They help to build up a picture of visitors to our website; their geographical location, frequency of visits, duration of visits etc. Please read more about Google Analytics’ Privacy Policy here.

Because of the new EU GDPR regulations, visitors to this site need to be warned and need to consent. Upon first visiting our website, a message is displayed to do enable this. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with the use of cookies to collect some of your data. To change your cookie settings, visit your browser documentation and preferences.

How do I withdraw consent?

You may withdraw your consent for us to contact you, or to collect, use or disclose your information to our third party providers at any time by contacting us using the form on our Contact page.

Questions and access

If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you or have any other questions regarding the data we collect, please contact us using the form on our Contact page.

Amendments

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting.

John and Patsy Price