Privacy policy
This Privacy Policy was last updated on 29 August 2024. Our Privacy Policy is a legal statement that explains how we may collect information from you, how we may share your information, and how you can limit our sharing of your information.
1. Your privacy
Emily's Kitchen (or "we") are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy, following all legal requirements to do so. We recognise user privacy and data protection as human rights and we have a duty of care to those whose data we handle. We understand that data should only be collected and processed when absolutely necessary. We will never sell, rent or otherwise distribute or make public your personal data.
2. Relevant legislation
Along with our internal computer systems, this website is designed to comply with the following national and international legislation with regards to data protection and user privacy:
- UK Data Protection Act 1988 (DPA)
- EU Data Protection Directive 1995 (DPD)
- EU General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR)
This site’s compliance with the above legislation, all of which are stringent in nature, means that this site is likely compliant with the data protection and user privacy legislation set out by many other countries and territories as well. If you are unsure about whether this site is compliant with your own country of residences’ specific data protection and user privacy legislation you should contact our data protection officer for clarification.
3. Personal information we collect and why we collect it
This website collects and uses personal information for the following reasons:
Site visitation tracking
Like most websites, this site uses Google Analytics (GA) to track user interaction. We use this data to determine the number of people using our site, to better understand how they find and use our web pages and to see their journey through the website. Although GA records data such as your geographical location, device, internet browser and operating system, none of this information personally identifies you to us. GA does also record your computer’s IP address – which could be used to personally identify you – but Google do not grant us access to this. We consider Google to be a third party data processor (see below). GA makes use of cookies, details of which can be found on Google’s developer guides. Disabling cookies on your internet browser will stop GA from tracking any part of your visit to pages within this website.
Email links
Should you choose to contact us using an email link or contact form, the data you provide:
- will only be used for the purposes of responding to your message;
- will never be shared with any third parties;
- will be deleted upon your request if you wish it to be removed.
4. How we store your personal information
If you fill in a contact form on this website, the data you provide will be stored within the database of this website. As detailed above, the data you provide:
- will only be used for the purposes of responding to your message;
- will never be shared with any third parties;
- will be deleted upon your request if you wish it to be removed.
5. About this website’s server
This website is hosted by Shopify. All traffic (transferral of files) between this website and your browser is encrypted and delivered over HTTPS.
6. Our third party data processors
As detailed in section 3.0 the only third party that processes data on our behalf is Google. They comply with the legislation set out in section 2.0. They are based in the USA and are EU-U.S Privacy Shield compliant. You can read Google's privacy policy here.
7. Data breaches
We would report any unlawful data breach of this website’s database or the database(s) of any of our third party data processors to any and all relevant persons and authorities within 72 hours of the breach if it is apparent that personal data stored in an identifiable manner has been stolen.
8. Data controller
The data controller of this website is Emily's Kitchen. The data controller's registered office is 7 & 8 Church Street, Wimborne, Dorset, United Kingdom, BH21 1JH.
9. Data Protection Officer
Trish Winterbottom
Tel: +44 (0) 1932 821400
Email: trish@emilys-kitchen.co.uk