Kelvinsgadgets.co.uk understands that your privacy is important to you and that you care about how your Personal Data is used and shared online. We respect and value the privacy of everyone who visits this website, https://www.kelvinsgadgets.co.uk/ (“Our Site”) and will only collect and use Personal Data in ways that are described here, and in a manner that is consistent with Our obligations and your rights under the law. Please read this Privacy & Cookies Policy carefully and ensure that you understand it. It explains how We handle your Personal Data. 1. Definitions and InterpretationIn this Policy the following terms shall have the following meanings: “Cookie”means a small text file placed on your computer or device by Our Site when you visit certain parts of Our Site and/or when you use certain features of Our Site. Details of the Cookies used by Our Site are set out in section 13, below;“Cookie Law”means the relevant parts of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003;“Data Protection Legislation” means all applicable legislation in force from time to time in the United Kingdom applicable to data protection and privacy including, but not limited to, the UK GDPR; the Data Protection Act 2018 (and regulations made thereunder); and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 as amended; “Personal Data”means any and all data that relates to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified from that data. In this case, it means Personal Data that you give to Us via Our Site. This definition shall, where applicable, incorporate the definitions provided in the Data Protection Legislation; and“We/Us/Our”means Kelvin Curtis T/A Kelvinsgadgets.co.uk of 33 Bilbie Close, Cullompton, EX15 1LG. 2. Information About UsOur Site https://www.kelvinsgadgets.co.uk/ is owned and/or operated by Us. We do however run Our Site via means of Google Sites. This means that they may place cookies on Our Site details are which, if applicable, can be found at Clause 13. 3. What Does This Policy Cover?This Privacy Policy applies only to your use of Our Site. Our Site may contain links to other websites. Please note that We have no control over how your data is collected, stored, or used by other websites and We advise you to check the privacy policies of any such websites before providing any data to them.4. Your Rightsa. As a data subject, you have the following rights under the Data Protection Legislation, which this Policy and Our use of Personal Data have been designed to uphold: i. The right to be informed about Our collection and use of Personal Data; ii. The right of access to the Personal Data We hold about you (see section 12); iii. The right to rectification if any Personal Data We hold about you is inaccurate or incomplete (please contact Us using the details in section 14); iv. The right to be forgotten – i.e., the right to ask Us to delete any Personal Data We hold about you (We only hold your Personal Data for a limited time, as explained in section 6 but if you would like Us to delete it sooner, please contact Us using the details in section 14); v. The right to restrict (i.e., prevent) the processing of your Personal Data; vi. The right to data portability (obtaining a copy of your Personal Data to re-use with another service or organisation); vii. The right to object to Us using your Personal Data for particular purposes; and viii. Rights with respect to automated decision making and profiling.b. If you have any cause for complaint about Our use of your Personal Data, please contact Us using the details provided in section 14 and We will do Our best to solve the problem for you. If We are unable to help, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with the UK’s supervisory authority, the Information Commissioner’s Office.c. For further information about your rights, please contact the Information Commissioner’s Office or your local Citizens Advice Bureau.5. What Data Do We Collect?Depending upon your use of Our Site, We may collect some or all of the following personal and non-Personal Data (please also see section 13 on Our use of Cookies and similar technologies):a. name;b. contact information such as address, email addresses and telephone numbers are provided to Us via the relevant platform in which a sale took place. This includes, but is not limited to Amazon and eBay. We will abide by their privacy policy and will only ever use your phone number to contact you in the event of an issue with your order. With the exception of postal and courier services, used to fulfil your order, We will not supply your details to third parties.c. We take payment by means of Paypal and therefore information will be supplied to Us, in order to fulfil your order. Such information includes transaction ID numbers, email address and postal addresses.d. Information on your purchase namely the platform used to buy any products;e. Your method of payment (although please not this is generic information merely detailing the means of payment. No credit or debit card numbers are passed to us).6. How Do We Use Your Data?a. All Personal Data is processed and stored securely, for no longer than is necessary in light of the reason(s) for which it was first collected. We will comply with Our obligations and safeguard your rights under the Data Protection Legislation at all times. For more details on security see section 7, below.b. Our use of your Personal Data will always have a lawful basis, either because it is necessary for Our performance of a contract with you, because you have consented to Our use of your Personal Data, or because it is in Our legitimate interests. Specifically, We may use your data for the following purposes: i. Providing and managing your access to Our Site; ii. Supplying Our products to you (please note that We require your Personal Data in order to enter into a contract with you); iii. Replying to emails from you; iv. Supplying information to a third party supplier such as postal and courier services; andc. You have the right to withdraw your consent to Us using your Personal Data at any time, and to request that We delete it.d. We do not keep your Personal Data for any longer than is necessary in light of the reason(s) for which it was first collected. Data will therefore be retained for the following periods (or its retention will be determined on the following bases): i. We will retain your contact details for as long as we contract with you and for 24 months thereafter. Save where any commission is due from you we retain your data for 72 months; ii. We will retain your contact details for 24 months if you have enquired about our services thereafter, they will be deleted; iii. We will retain your financial information for as long as we contract with you and, thereafter, for the permitted period of time required by law.7. How and Where Do We Store Your Data?a. We only keep your Personal Data for as long as We need to in order to use it as described above in section 6, and/or for as long as We have your permission to keep it.b. We will store some of your Personal Data in the UK. This means that it will be fully protected under the UK’s Data Protection Legislation.c. We will store some of your Personal Data within the European Economic Area (the “EEA”). The EEA consists of all EU member states, plus Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein. This means that your Personal Data will be fully protected under the EU GDPR and/or to equivalent standards by law. Transfers of Personal Data to the EEA from the UK are permitted without additional safeguards.d. We may store some or all of your Personal Data in countries outside of the UK and EEA. These are known as “third countries”. We will take additional steps in order to ensure that your Personal Data is treated just as safely and securely as it would be within the UK and under the Data Protection Legislation Data security is very important to Us, and to protect your data We have taken suitable measures to safeguard and secure data collected through Our Site.e. We use the following third-party software and some of your data may be stored on their servers: i. Gmail email and cloud storage servers; ii. Google sheets and Google drive.f. Steps We take to secure and protect your data include: i. All devices and computers that we store your data on are password protected; ii. All devices and computers that we store your data have anti-virus software and are constantly updated to the most recent operating system; and iii. We only store your data on computers and devices owned by Us. We also use Contractors and third party suppliers such as Evri and Royal Mail as well as third party selling platforms such as Amazon and eBay who may store Our data on their computers, servers and any such cloud storage they may access. We will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your data will be handled safely, securely, and in accordance with your rights, Our obligations, and the obligations of the third party under the law.8. Do We Share Your Data?a. We may sometimes contract with third parties to supply products and services to you on Our behalf. This includes the delivery of goods. In some cases, the third parties may require access to some or all of your data. Where any of your data is required for such a purpose, We will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your data will be handled safely, securely, and in accordance with your rights, Our obligations, and the obligations of the third party under the law.b. We may compile statistics about the use of Our Site including data on traffic, usage patterns, user numbers, sales, and other information. All such data will be anonymised and will not include any personally identifying data, or any anonymised data that can be combined with other data and used to identify you.c. We may sometimes use third party data processors that are located outside of the United Kingdom and European Economic Area (“the EEA”) (The EEA consists of all EU member states, plus Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein). Where We transfer any Personal Data outside the EEA, We will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your data is treated as safely and securely as it would be within the UK under the Data Protection Legislation including: i. Using Standard Contractual Clauses “SCCs” as a mechanism to safely process data outside of the UK and EEA to third countries which have not been granted adequacy; or ii. Is a Country that has been granted adequacy which confirms its data protection legislation is adequate to safeguard data processing.d. In certain circumstances, We may be legally required to share certain data held by Us, which may include your Personal Data, for example, where We are involved in legal proceedings, where We are complying with legal requirements, a court order, or a governmental authority.e. Some parts of Our Site allow customers to leave a review. If you do leave a comment and disclose your personal data within that comment, please be aware that any other visitors are able to see that information. You therefore do this at your own risk and we have no control of the personal data in that instance.9. What Happens If Our Business Changes Hands?a. We may, from time to time, expand or reduce Our business and this may involve the sale and/or the transfer of control of all or part of Our business. Any Personal Data that you have provided will, where it is relevant to any part of Our business that is being transferred, be transferred along with that part and the new owner or newly controlling party will, under the terms of this Privacy & Cookies Policy, be permitted to use that data only for the same purposes for which it was originally collected by Us.b. In the event that any of your data is to be transferred in such a manner, you will not be contacted in advance and informed of the changes.10. How Can You Control Your Data?In addition to your rights under the Data Protection Legislation, set out in section 4, when you submit Personal Data via Our Site, you may be given options to restrict Our use of your data. If this is case We will ensure that We handle your data in accordance with the legislation.11. Your Right to Withhold Informationa. You may access Our Site without providing any data at all.b. You may restrict Our use of Cookies. For more information, see section 13.12. How Can You Access Your Data?You have the right to ask for a copy of any of your Personal Data held by Us (where such data is held). Under the Data Protection Legislation, no fee is payable and We will provide any and all information in response to your reasonable request free of charge. Please contact Us for more details at kelvinsgadgets@gmail.com, or using the contact details below in section 14.Our Site does not currently use any Cookies or analytics. Furthermore, we have no immediate nor long-term plans to use any. However, this might change if we develop Our Site in the future. In which case, we will add terms and conditions to our Cookies Policy accordingly. You should therefore check this policy at regular intervals when visiting Our Site to see if we have activated any Cookies on Our Site.
14. Contacting Us
If you have any questions about Our Site or this Privacy Policy, please contact Us by email at kelvinsgadgets@gmail.com or by post at Kelvin
Curtis T/A Kelvinsgadgets.co.uk of 33 Bilbie Close, Cullompton, EX15 1LG. Please ensure that your query is clear, particularly if it is a request for information about the data We hold about you (as under section 12, above).
15. Changes to Our Privacy Policy
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time (for example, if the law changes). Any changes will be immediately posted on Our Site. This
policy was last updated on 16th April 2023.