PRIVACY POLICY
This policy describes how Meat Smoke Fire may collect, use and disclose your personal data when you use this Application and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT AND WHY?
We collect and use information when you interact with us, when you use our products and services, and when you visit our websites. This information is used to:
- deliver and provide products or services;
- establish and maintain customer accounts;
- contact you about our products and services and direct offers or promotions to you; and
- monitor website statistics.
Information may also be aggregated or anonymised by us for business and marketing uses. Meat Smoke Fire may use your information for direct marketing purposes, including providing updates, newsletters, events or other communications that we think may interest you.
You may actively give us Information about yourself when you purchase products from our online shop, enter a competition, or email us. The information that you provide may include your name, date of birth, email address, telephone number, delivery address, billing address and password.
WHAT CHOICES DO I HAVE?
You have a choice to remove your personal information by accessing your account and deleting your information.
You have full control over how we communicate with you and can change your preferences through Mailchimp via the link at the bottom of your emails.
We’ve also made it super simple to select the marketing you receive by accessing your marketing preferences with a link to a personalised preference centre at the bottom of every email.
HOW CAN I ACCESS AND CONTROL MY PERSONAL INFORMATION?
We respect your right to access, correct, object, data portability, request deletion or request restriction of our usage of your personal information as required by applicable UK law. We also take steps to ensure that the personal information we collect is accurate and up to date. If a Meat Smoke Fire ‘Shop’ account has been set up, this can be deleted at any time by emailing nic@meatsmokefire.co.uk.
HOW WILL YOU SHARE MY PERSONAL INFORMATION?
We may share your information with the third parties described in our privacy policy. We may also share your information with third parties when it is necessary to involve a third party service provider to facilitate or offer our services such as participating in a trading platform, delivering your orders, booking tickets for events.
We will never share your personal information with a third party that is not directly related to us delivering on our obligation to you or to let you know about cool Meat Smoke Fire things!
HOW LONG WILL YOU HOLD MY PERSONAL INFORMATION?
We will not hold onto your personal data longer than necessary to fulfil our commitment to you as a customer. Personal data processed for any purpose will not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose.
After it is no longer necessary for us to retain your personal information, we will dispose of it in a secure manner according to our data retention and deletion policies.
WHAT ARE THE LEGAL REASONS FOR COLLECTING THE DATA?
- Consent: We are permitted to collect your Persaonl Data, such as when you tick a box that confirms you are willing to receive email newsletters from us. or ‘opt in’ to a service.
- Contractual Obligation: We require certain information from you to fulfil our contractual obligations and provide you with the promised service.
- Legal Obligation: By law, we are required to collect and process certain types of data, such as fraudulent activity or other illegal actions.
- Legitimate Interest: We may need to collect certain information from you to be able to meet our legitimate interests that can be reasonably expected as part of running our business. For example, your address so that we know where to deliver your order, or your name so we can maintain contact.
QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS POLICY
If you have a question, concern or complaint about this Policy or our handling of your information, you can contact us via nic@meatsmokefire.co.uk
FULL PRIVACY POLICY
DATA CONTROLLER AND OWNER
MEAT SMOKE FIRE
26 Water Lane, Histon, Cambridge, CB24 9LR
TYPES OF DATA COLLECTED
Among the types of Personal Data that this Application collects, by itself or through third parties, these are:
- Profile/identity Data: name, date of birth
- Contact Data: email address, phone number, addresses
- Marketing and Communication Data: your preferernces for receiving marketing inforamtion and other information from us
- Transactional Data: details and records of all payments you have made for our services or products.
Other Personal Data collected may be described in other sections of this privacy policy or by dedicated explanation text contextually with the Data collection.
The Personal Data may be freely provided by the User, or collected automatically when using this Application.
Any use of Cookies – or of other tracking tools – by this Application or by the owners of third party services used by this Application, unless stated otherwise, serves to identify Users and remember their preferences, for the sole purpose of providing the service required by the User. Failure to provide certain Personal Data may make it impossible for this Application to provide its services.
This Application 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. Meat Smoke Fire does not control these third party websites and are not responsibile for their privacy statements. We encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.
MODE AND PLACE OF PROCESSING THE DATA
METHODS OF PROCESSING
The Data Controller processes the Data of Users in a proper manner and shall take appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, or unauthorized destruction of the Data.
The data processing is carried out using computers and/or IT enabled tools, following organisational procedures and modes strictly related to the purposes indicated. In addition to the Data Controller, in some cases, the Data may be accessible to certain types of persons in charge, involved with the operation of the site (administration, sales, marketing, legal, system administration) or external parties (such as third party technical service providers, mail providers, hosting providers, IT companies, communications agencies) appointed, if necessary, as Data Processors by the Owner. The updated list of these parties may be requested from the Data Controller at any time.
PLACE
The Data is processed at the Data Controller’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved with the processing are located. For further information, please contact the Data Controller.
RETENTION TIME
The Data is kept for the time necessary to provide the service requested by the User, or stated by the purposes outlined in this document, and the User can always request that the Data Controller suspend or remove the data.
THE USE OF THE COLLECTED DATA
The Data concerning the User is collected to allow the Owner to provide its services, as well as for the following purposes: managing contacts and sending messages, analytics and contacting the user.
THE PERSONAL DATA USED FOR EACH PURPOSE IS OUTLINED IN THE SPECIFIC SECTIONS OF THIS DOCUMENT.
DETAILED INFORMATION ON THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA
Personal Data is collected for the following purposes and using the following services:
ANALYTICS
The services contained in this section enable the Owner to monitor and analyse web traffic and can be used to keep track of User behaviour.
GOOGLE ANALYTICS (GOOGLE INC.)
Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of this Application, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services. Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy – Opt Out
MANAGING CONTACTS AND SENDING MESSAGES
This type of service makes it possible to manage a database of email contacts, phone contacts or any other contact information to communicate with the User.
These services may also collect data concerning the date and time when the message was viewed by the User, as well as when the User interacted with it, such as by clicking on links included in the message.
MailChimp (The Rocket Science Group, LLC.)
MailChimp is an email address management and message sending service provided by The Rocket Science Group, LLC.
Personal Data collected: email address.
Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy
Contacting the User
CONTACT FORM (THIS APPLICATION)
By filling in the contact form with their Data, the User authorizes this Application to use these details to reply to requests for information, quotes or any other kind of request as indicated by the form’s header.
Personal Data collected: email address, name and phone number.
Additional information about Data collection and processing.
LEGAL ACTION
The User’s Personal Data may be used for legal purposes by the Data Controller, in Court or in the stages leading to possible legal action arising from improper use of this Application or the related services.
The User declares to be aware that the Data Controller may be required to reveal personal data upon request of public authorities.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT USER’S PERSONAL DATA
In addition to the information contained in this privacy policy, this Application may provide the User with additional and contextual information concerning particular services or the collection and processing of Personal Data upon request.
SYSTEM LOGS AND MAINTENANCE
For operation and maintenance purposes, this Application and any third party services may collect files that record interaction with this Application (System logs) or use for this purpose other Personal Data (such as IP Address).
INFORMATION NOT CONTAINED IN THIS POLICY
More details concerning the collection or processing of Personal Data may be requested from the Data Controller at any time. Please see the contact information at the beginning of this document.
THE RIGHTS OF USERS
Users have the right, at any time, to know whether their Personal Data has been stored and can consult the Data Controller to learn about their contents and origin, to verify their accuracy or to ask for them to be supplemented, cancelled, updated or corrected, or for their transformation into anonymous format or to block any data held in violation of the law, as well as to oppose their treatment for any and all legitimate reasons. Requests should be sent to the Data Controller at the contact information set out above.
This Application does not support “Do Not Track” requests.
To determine whether any of the third party services it uses honour the “Do Not Track” requests, please read their privacy policies.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
The Data Controller reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time by giving notice to its Users on this page. It is strongly recommended to check this page often, referring to the date of the last modification listed at the bottom. If a User objects to any of the changes to the Policy, the User must cease using this Application and can request that the Data Controller remove the Personal Data. Unless stated otherwise, the then-current privacy policy applies to all Personal Data the Data Controller has about Users.
DEFINITIONS AND LEGAL REFERENCES
PERSONAL DATA (OR DATA)
Any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
USAGE DATA
Information collected automatically from this Application (or third party services employed in this Application), which can include: the IP addresses or domain names of the computers utilized by the Users who use this Application, the URI addresses (Uniform Resource Identifier), the time of the request, the method utilized to submit the request to the server, the size of the file received in response, the numerical code indicating the status of the server’s answer (successful outcome, error, etc.), the country of origin, the features of the browser and the operating system utilized by the User, the various time details per visit (e.g., the time spent on each page within the Application) and the details about the path followed within the Application with special reference to the sequence of pages visited, and other parameters about the device operating system and/or the User’s IT environment.
USER
The individual using this Application, which must coincide with or be authorized by the Data Subject, to whom the Personal Data refers.
DATA SUBJECT
The legal or natural person to whom the Personal Data refers.
DATA PROCESSOR (OR DATA SUPERVISOR)
The natural person, legal person, public administration or any other body, association or organization authorized by the Data Controller to process the Personal Data in compliance with this privacy policy.
DATA CONTROLLER (OR OWNER)
The natural person, legal person, public administration or any other body, association or organization with the right, also jointly with another Data Controller, to make decisions regarding the purposes, and the methods of processing of Personal Data and the means used, including the security measures concerning the operation and use of this Application. The Data Controller, unless otherwise specified, is the Owner of this Application.
THIS APPLICATION
The hardware or software tool by which the Personal Data of the User is collected.
COOKIES
Small piece of data stored in the User’s device.
LEGAL INFORMATION
Notice to European Users: this privacy statement has been prepared in fulfilment of the obligations under the General Data Protections Regulation (GDPR), and under the provisions of Directive 2002/58/EC, as revised by Directive 2009/136/EC, on the subject of Cookies.
This privacy policy relates solely to this Application
Last modified: 19th March 2024