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Privacy & Cookie Policy

At Vegan Market Co we’re committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy and Cookie Policy (“Privacy Policy”) governs your access to and use of this Website, veganmarkets.co.uk (the “Website”), and associated content and software (collectively, the “Service”).

This Privacy Policy explains when and why we collect personal information about people who visit our Website or use our Services and how we use the personal information, the conditions under which we may disclose your personal information to others, and how we keep personal information secure. This Privacy Policy also explains how we use cookies and similar technology on our Website and in connection with our Services.

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time so please check this page occasionally to ensure that you are happy with any changes. By using our Website or our Services, you are agreeing to be bound by this Privacy Policy.

 

What Information Do We Collect?

 

We collect the e-mail addresses of those who communicate with us via e-mail; aggregate information concerning what pages users access or visit; information volunteered by the user (such as survey information and/or site registrations) and information related to your use of the Website and/or the mobile application, including IP address, geographic location, and date and time of your request.

How Do We Use the Information?

 

We collect the above information for the following purposes:

  • To provide and operate the Services;

  • To provide our Users with ongoing customer assistance and technical support;

  • To be able to contact our Visitors and Users with general or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages;

  • To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred Non-personal Information, which we or our business partners may use to provide and improve our respective services; 

  • To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.

 

 

 

How Do We Share Your Information?

 

We do not share or sell your personal data to other organizations for commercial purposes, except to provide products or services you’ve requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:

It is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Terms of Service, or as otherwise required by law.


We transfer information about you if Vegan Market Co is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, Vegan Market Co will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.


We provide such information to trusted businesses or persons for the sole purpose of processing personally identifying information on our behalf. When this is done, it is subject to agreements that oblige those parties to process such information only on our instructions and in compliance with this Privacy Policy and appropriate confidentiality and security measures.


We provide such information to third parties who have entered into non-disclosure agreements with us.


We provide such information to a company controlled by, or under common control with,Vegan Market Co for any purpose permitted by this Privacy Policy.


We may aggregate, anonymize, and publish data for statistical and research purposes only. For example, we may compile and share information related to the popularity of certain products tracked by users. In any such instance, the information will not be able to be traced back to any individual.

Our company is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.

All direct payment gateways offered by Wix.com and used by our company adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.

Cookies

A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier, which is sent to your browser from a Website’s computers and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies are required to use some Vegan Market Co's services. Vegan Market Co and its ad management partners (“Ad Partners”) use cookies to record current session information.

Our Ad Partners may also from time to time use web beacons (also known as Internet tags, pixel tags, and clear GIFs). These web beacons are provided by our Ad Partners and allow Ad Partners to obtain information such as the IP address of the computer that downloaded the page on which the beacon appears, the URL of the page on which the beacon appears, the time the page containing the beacon was viewed, the type of browser used to view the page, and the information in cookies set by the Ad Partners. Web beacons enable our Ad Partners to recognize a unique cookie on your web browser, which in turn enables us to learn which advertisements bring users to our Website.

With both cookies and web beacon technology, the information that we collect and share is anonymous and not personally identifiable. It does not contain your name, address, geographic location, telephone number, or e-mail address.

You can opt-out of Google Analytics data collection with the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

You may also wish to refer to this website for additional information about disabling cookies from your browser: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/.

Data Storage

 

We use third-party vendors and hosting partners to provide the necessary hardware, software, networking, storage, and related technology required to run Vegan Market Co and the related Website and mobile application. Vegan Market Co owns the code, databases, and all rights to the Vegan Market Co Website and mobile application and Services.

Security

 

We take precautions to ensure the security of your personal information. However, we cannot guarantee that hackers or unauthorized personnel may gain access to your personal information despite our efforts. You should note that in using our service, your information will travel over the Internet and through third-party infrastructures and mobile networks, which are not under our control.

Retention of Your Personal Information

We retain information as long as it is necessary to provide the Services requested by you and others, subject to any legal obligations to further retain such information. Information associated with your account will generally be kept until it is no longer necessary to provide the Services or until you ask us to delete it or your account is deleted, whichever comes first. Additionally, we may retain information from deleted accounts to comply with the law, prevent fraud, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with investigations, enforce the Terms of Use, and take other actions permitted by law. The information we retain will be handled in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Information about you that is no longer necessary and relevant to provide our Services may be de-identified and aggregated with other non-personal data to provide insights which are commercially valuable to Vegan Market Co, such as statistics related to the use of our Website and application.

EU and EEA Users’ Rights

If you are habitually located in the European Union or European Economic Area, you generally have the right to access, rectify, download or erase your information, as well as the right to restrict and object to certain processing of your information. While some of these rights apply generally, certain rights apply only in certain limited circumstances. We briefly describe these rights below:

You have the right to access your personal data and, if necessary, have it amended, deleted or restricted. In certain instances, you may have the right to the portability of your data. You can also ask us to not send marketing communications and not to use your personal data when we carry out profiling for direct marketing purposes. You can opt out of receiving e-mail newsletters and other marketing communications by following the opt-out instructions provided to you in those e-mails. Transactional account messages will be unaffected even if you opt out from marketing communications.

Communications

 

We may contact you to notify you regarding your account, to troubleshoot problems with your account, to resolve a dispute, to collect fees or monies owed, to poll your opinions through surveys or questionnaires, to send updates about our company, or as otherwise necessary to contact you to enforce our User Agreement, applicable national laws, and any agreement we may have with you. For these purposes we may contact you via email, telephone, text messages, and postal mail.

Consent

 

If you don’t want us to process your data anymore, please contact us here.

Updates

 

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 on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.

Questions

If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, you are invited to contact us here.

Last updated: 08/10/2021

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