Privacy Policy
Protecting Your Privacy
The EU General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) require all companies to treat personal information collected or handled securely and maintain accurate records as to how this information is stored and used. This privacy notice provides you with details of how we collect and process your personal data through your use of our site jamiesamazingdogwalks.co.uk including any information you may provide through our site when you purchase a product or service.
Effective from 10th February 2022
Jamie Cahill T/A Jamie’s Amazing Dog Walks is the data controller and is responsible for your personal data.
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Who are we?
Jamie’s Amazing Dog Walks
Folkestone, Kent, CT19
07436779686
jamiesamazingdogwalks.co.uk
Consent
In specific situations, we can collect and process your data with your consent.
When collecting your personal data, we’ll always make clear to you which data is necessary in connection with a particular service.
Contractual obligations
In certain circumstances, we need your personal data to comply with our contractual obligations to provide a service.
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Legitimate interest
In specific situations, we require your data to pursue our legitimate interests in a way which might reasonably be expected as part of running our business and which does not materially impact your rights, freedom or interests.
What Data Do We Collect About You
Personal data (P.I.I) means any information capable of identifying an individual. It does not include 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 Invoicing information (including company name and invoice address) which you provide to us when you choose to purchase our paid dog walking services.
• Transaction Data may include details about payments between us and other details of purchases made by you.
• 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 any Sensitive Data about you. 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. 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 you at the time.
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 our contact form (or otherwise) or by communicating with us by post, phone, email, SMS, Whatsapp. Facebook, Messenger or otherwise, including when you: request any of our services.
• Dog Walking
• Pet pop in and feed;
• 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 for further details.
• analytics providers such as Google based outside the EU;
• advertising networks such as Amazon
• search information providers such as Google By filling in our mailchimp opt-in form
Email links
If you email us directly, or via an email mailto hyperlink, the email is transmitted to us via the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). Depending on your email provider, the email contents may or may not be encrypted from the point at which it leaves your computer until it reaches your email provider or in some cases, until it reaches us. We have no control over this, but most popular email providers like Gmail do provide end-to-end encryption.
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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.
• To collect payments and send invoices and statements
• To supply products and services
• To notify you of changes to our legal terms or compliance requirements etc
• To contact our customers relating to past, present and future sales
• To inform you off any changes to our dog walking / pet pop-in services due to holidays or adverse weather conditions.
• 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.
• Generally, we do not rely on consent as a legal ground for processing your personal data, other than in relation to sending marketing communications to you via email or text message. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by emailing us at jamiesamazingdogwalks@outlook.com
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How your data is stored?
We know how much data security matters to all our customers. With this in mind we will treat your data with the utmost care and take all appropriate steps to protect it.
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Access to your personal data is password protected when held in cloud-based software or secured in a locked cabinet.
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The systems used for processing and storing your data are password protected.
Any keys used to access properties are labelled in a coded manner without any personal information and held securely.
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Purposes for processing your personal 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 have also explained what our legitimate interests are where relevant.
We may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground, depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please email us at jamiesamazingdogwalks@outlook.com if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your personal data where more than one ground has been set out in the description below.
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Purpose/Activity
To register you as a new customer
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Type of Data
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
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Lawful basis for processing
Performance of a contract with you
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Purpose/Activity
To process and deliver your order including:
(a) Manage payments, fees and charges
(b) Collect and recover money owed to us
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Type of Data
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Financial
(d) Transaction
(e) Marketing and Communications
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Lawful basis for processing
(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests to recover debts owed to us
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Purpose/Activity
To manage our relationship with you which will include:
(a) Notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy
(b) Asking you to leave a review or take a survey
Type of Data
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Profile
(d) Marketing and Communications
Lawful basis for processing
(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
(c) Necessary for our legitimate interests to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products/services
Purpose/Activity
To enable you to partake in a prize draw, competition or complete a survey
Type of Data
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Profile
(d) Usage
(e) Marketing and Communications
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Lawful basis for processing
(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them and grow our business
Purpose/Activity
To administer and protect our business and our site (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data)
Type of Data
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Technical
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Lawful basis for processing
(a) Necessary for our legitimate interests for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganisation or group restructuring exercise
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
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Purpose/Activity
To deliver relevant content and advertisements to you and measure and understand the effectiveness of our advertising
Type of Data
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Profile
(d) Usage
(e) Marketing and Communications
(f) Technical
Lawful basis for processing
Necessary for our legitimate interests to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy
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Purpose/Activity
To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences
Type of Data
(a) Technical
(b) Usage
Lawful basis for processing
Necessary for our legitimate interests to define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our site updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy
Purpose/Activity
To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you
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Type of Data
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Technical
(d) Usage
(e) Profile
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Lawful basis for processing
Necessary for our legitimate interests to develop our products/services and grow our business
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Disclosure of sensitive 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:
• Service providers who provide IT and system administration services.
• Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance and accounting services.
• HM Revenue & Customs, regulators and other authorities based in the United Kingdom and other relevant jurisdictions who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.
• 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.
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 such data. 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.
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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 tax 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 case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
All unwanted information will be shredded.
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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 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.
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You can see more about these rights at:
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If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please email us at jamiesamazingdogwalks@outlook.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 for 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 than a month 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.
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.
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Review of this Policy
We keep this Policy under regular review. This Policy was last updated 10th February 2022, but we may change this Policy from time to time so please check this page occasionally to ensure that you’re happy with any changes. By using our website, you’re agreeing to be bound by this Policy.
Any questions regarding this Policy and our privacy practices should be sent by email to jamiesamazingdogwalks@outlook.com