PRIVACY POLICY & DATA PROTECTION

At Choice Meats we respect the privacy of our customers & website visitors, and we take our duty to process your personal data very seriously. This policy explains how we collect, manage and use your personal data, what we do with it and what controls you have in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) from the 25th May 2018.

Choice Meats used below will be used to mean the company Choice Meats Catering Limited.

We will never sell your data to third party organisations.

Topics:

What data do we collect?
How do we collect your data?
How will we use your data?
How do we store your data?
Marketing
What are your data protection rights?
What are cookies?
How do we use cookies?
What types of cookies do we use?
How to manage your cookies
Privacy policies of other websites
Changes to our privacy policy
How to contact us
How to contact the appropriate authorities

What data do we collect?

Choice Meats will be known as the controller of the personal data you provide to us. We will only collect the following basic personal data about you which does not include and special type of information:

Your name
Your address
Your telephone number
Your email address
Your order history
Technical information about how you access and use our website, including your IP address, browser type, referring URL and operating system.
Cookies (see below for more information).

How do we collect your data?

You directly provide Choice Meats with most of the data we collect. We collect data and process data when you:

Register online & create a customer account.
Place an order for any of our products.
Contact us through the contact us section of the web site
Enter any competition, promotion or prize draw on the site or through our social media.
Use or view our website via your browser’s cookies.

Choice Meats may also receive your data indirectly from the following sources:

Through our social media platforms

How will we use your data?

Choice Meats collects your data so that we can:

Process your order and manage your account.
Email you with special offers on other products and services we think you might like.
Improve our website, we use personal information to help analyse and understand how customers buy our products and use feedback to improve & develop new and different products in the future.

When Our Company processes your order, it may send your data to, and also use the resulting information from, credit reference agencies to prevent fraudulent purchases.

How do we store your data?

Our website is secured by https technology

We do not store any card details, these are all held and processed by our third party providers Wix Payments.

Choice Meats will keep your customer & order information on our system until you ask us to remove it, Certain personal information will be kept for the minimum period required to comply with HMRC VAT law (6 years), and as you purchase food from us order information will be kept for a period of no longer than 3 years after your last order from us, this is to ensure we can comply with all the food safety laws.

Marketing

Choice Meats would like to send you information about products of ours that we think you might like. This will be by email or via our social media platforms.

If you have agreed to receive marketing, you may always opt out at a later date.

You have the right at any time to stop Choice Meats from contacting you for marketing purposes.

If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, please email office@choicemeats.co.uk

What are your data protection rights?

Choice Meats would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights under the GDPR introduced in May 2018. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You have the right to request Choice Meats for copies of your personal data. This will be provided to you within one month, and in most cases will be free of charge.

The right to rectification – You have the right to request that Choice Meats correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request Choice Meats to complete the information you believe is incomplete.

The right to erasure – You have the right to request that Choice Meats erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that Choice Meats restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to Choice Meats processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to data portability – You have the right to request that Choice Meats transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our email: office@choicemeats.co.uk

Call us on: 01253 353277

Or write to us: 218-224 Dickson Road, Blackpool, Lancashire. FY1 2JS

Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behaviour information. When you visit our websites, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology

For further information, visit www.allaboutcookies.org

How do we use cookies?

Our Company uses cookies in a range of ways to improve your experience on our website, including:

Keeping you signed in
Understanding how you use our website
Analysis of users to our website

What types of cookies do we use?

There are a number of different types of cookies, however, our website uses:

Functionality – Our Company uses these cookies so that we recognize you on our website and remember your previously selected preferences. These could include what language you prefer and location you are in. A mix of first-party and third-party cookies are used.
Advertising – Our Company uses these cookies to collect information about your visit to our website, the content you viewed, the links you followed and information about your browser, device, and your IP address. Our Company sometimes shares some limited aspects of this data with third parties for advertising purposes. We may also share online data collected through cookies with our advertising partners. This means that when you visit another website, you may be shown advertising based on your browsing patterns on our website.

How to manage cookies

You can set your browser not to accept cookies, and the above website tells you how to remove cookies from your browser. However, in a few cases, some of our website features may not function as a result.

Privacy policies of other websites

The Choice Meats website contains links to other websites. Our privacy policy applies only to our website, so if you click on a link to another website, you should read their privacy policy.

Changes to our privacy policy

Our Company keeps its privacy policy under regular review and places any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on 01 September 2020.

How to contact us

If you have any questions about Choice Meats privacy policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Email us at: office@choicemeats.co.uk

Call us: 01253 353277

Or write to us at: 218-224 Dickson Road, Blackpool, Lancashire. FY1 2JS

How to contact the appropriate authority

Should you wish to report a complaint or if you feel that Our Company has not addressed your concern in a satisfactory manner, you may contact the Information Commissioner’s Office.

Tel: 0303 123 1113

Web: www.ico.org.uk