Ginsters respects your privacy and will treat your personal information carefully. This policy sets out important information about how we use your personal information so please read it carefully.
Introduction
The website www.ginsters.co.uk is operated by Ginsters, a Division of Samworth Brothers Ltd (“we” or “us”) and we are what is known as a “controller” of personal information with gather and use. When we say ‘we’ or ‘us’ in this policy, we mean Ginsters which is a company with the Samworth Brothers Limited Group (our “Group”). A list of our Group companies can be found Here. www.samworthbrothers.co.uk/our-businesses
This privacy policy relates to your use of our website (the “Site”).
We take your privacy very seriously and we ask that you read this policy carefully as it contains important information on:
- The personal information we collect about you;
- What we do with your information; and
- Who your information might be shared with.
What Personal Information we Collect and How We Use It
We may ask you to provide certain personal information when you enter a competition or use our website (the “Site). We use your personal information to:
- Customise our website and its content to your particular preferences;
- Process returns and address complaints and queries;
- Update our records;
- For legal purposes (such as regulatory and enforcing our rights);
- To remember you and view activity on our Site – please see ‘Cookies and Tracking’ below
- Facilitate management of a competition
We only use your personal information where that is permitted by laws that protect your privacy rights. When you use our Site we will only use your personal information where:
- We have your consent (if consent is needed);
- We need to use the information to comply with our legal obligations;
- We need to use the information to perform a contract with you;
- It is fair to use the personal information either in our interests or someone else’s interests, where is there no disadvantage to you (what is known as ‘legitimate interests’) – this can include where it is in our interests to market additional products or services to you.
Marketing
We will not use any personal details you provide in the course of using the website (www.ginsters.co.uk) to contact you for marketing purposes.
Information Which We Collect:
We may collect personal information about you when you contact us or when you submit a response to an online questionnaire on our website.
We may collect the following personal information:
- full name;
- postal address;
- email address;
- telephone numbers
How Long We Will Keep Your Personal Information
We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for which we process your personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements. We will not retain personal information for longer than 5 years.
Our Approach to Information Security
To protect your information, Ginsters has policies and procedures in place to make sure that only authorized personnel can access the information, that information is handled and stored in a secure and sensible manner and all systems that can access the information have the necessary security measures in place. To accomplish this, all employees, contractors and sub-contractors have roles and responsibilities defined in those policies and procedures.
To make sure all employees, contractors and subcontractors understand these responsibilities they are provided with the necessary training and resources they need.
In addition to these operational measures, we also use a range of technologies and security systems to reinforce the policies.
To make sure that these measures are suitable, vulnerability tests are run regularly. Audits to identify areas of weakness and non-compliance are routinely scheduled. Additionally, all areas of the organisation are constantly monitored and measured to identify problems and issues before they arise.
Your Rights
In order to process any of the requests listed below, we may need to verify your identity for your security. In such cases your response will be necessary for you to exercise this right.
The right to access information we hold about you
At any point you can contact us to request that the information we hold about you as well as why we have that information, who has access to the information and where we got the information. Once we have received your request we will respond within 30 days.
The right to correct and update the information we hold about you
If the personal information we hold about you is out of date, incomplete or incorrect, you can inform us and we will ensure that it is updated.
The right to have your information erased
If you feel that we should no longer be using your personal information or that we are illegally using your personal information, you can request that we erase the personal data we hold. When we receive your request, we will confirm whether the personal information has been deleted or tell you the reason why it cannot be deleted.
The right to object to processing of your personal information
You have the right to request that Ginsters stops processing your personal information. Upon receiving the request, we will contact you to tell you if we are able to comply or if we have legitimate grounds to continue. If personal data is no longer processed, we may continue to hold your personal information to comply with your other rights.
The right to ask us to stop contacting you with direct marketing
You have the right to request that we stop contacting you with direct marketing. In order to process your request, we may need to verify your identity for your security.
The right to data portability
You have the right to request that we transfer your personal information to another controller. Once we have received your request, we will comply where it is feasible to do so.
Consent
In those cases where we need your consent to hold your information, we will ask you to check a box on any form requiring consent. By checking these boxes, you are stating that you have been informed as to why Ginsters is collecting the information, how it will be used, for how long it will be kept, who else will have access to it and what your rights are as a data subject.
Sharing your information
[In order to make the Site available, we may share your personal information with other members of our Group of companies.]
We may [also] share your personal information with the following categories of third parties:
- Our service providers where necessary to make the products and services available to you such as suppliers of IT services;
- With partner marketing agencies to facilitate management of a competition you have entered
- Where Ginsters or our Group or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, personal information held by us will be one of the transferred assets and your personal information will be transferred to the new owner, to be used for the purposes set out in this privacy policy; and
- Where necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of our group of companies, our customers, or others we may share personal information with law enforcement agencies.
Cookings and Tracking
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size, and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another. Cookies do not give access to your personally-identifiable information. The vast majority of websites now use cookies and some are essential for a website to function.
How do I change my cookie settings?
You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the ‘Manage consent’ icon. You can then adjust the available sliders to ‘On’ or ‘Off’, then clicking ‘Save & Accept’. You may need to refresh your page for your settings to take effect.
The cookies used on our website are grouped into the following categories.
The below list details the cookies used in our website.
| Cookie | Description |
|---|---|
| Necessary | |
| _cf_bm | Used to filter Vimeo requests from bots |
| viewed_cookie_policy | The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Necessary”. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-non-necessary | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Non Necessary”. |
| viewed_cookie_policy | The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Necessary”. |
| Analytics | |
| _ga | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, camapign data and keep track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assigns a randoly generated number to identify unique visitors. |
| _gid | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the wbsite is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages viisted in an anonymous form. |
| _gat | This cookies is installed by Google Universal Analytics to throttle the request rate to limit the colllection of data on high traffic sites. |
| Functional | |
| __atuvc | This cookie is set by Addthis to make sure you see the updated count if you share a page and return to it before our share count cache is updated. |
| Advertisement | |
| uid | This cookie is used to measure the number and behavior of the visitors to the website anonymously. The data includes the number of visits, average duration of the visit on the website, pages visited, etc. for the purpose of better understanding user preferences for targeted advertisments. |
| IDE | Used by Google DoubleClick and stores information about how the user uses the website and any other advertisement before visiting the website. This is used to present users with ads that are relevant to them according to the user profile. |
Alternatively, most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:
To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer’s website.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit:
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Enquiries
When contacted with an enquiry, Ginsters will hold the entity name and contact details only for the purposes of handling the enquiry.
Contact Details
If you have any queries about this policy, need further information or wish to lodge a complaint you can use the details below to contact the relevant party: dpo@samworthbrothers.co.uk
Modern Slavery Policy
To view our modern slavery policy follow this link: Modern Slavery Statement 2023
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may change this policy from time to time. You should check this policy occasionally to ensure that you are aware of the most recent version that will apply each time you access the Site.