Privacy Statement

Chef Charlie Hammond

Chef Charlie Hammond is committed to ensure that your privacy is always protected.

This Privacy Statement informs you about the type of personal data that is collected and received through the website www.chefcharliehammond.co.uk and about how Chef Charlie Hammond use, share, retain and protect such personal data. Chef Charlie Hammond will keep all your personal information confidential, and Chef Charlie Hammond reserve the right to disclose this information in the circumstances as set out within the policy.

This policy may change from time to time, so Chef Charlie Hammond recommends you check this page frequently to ensure that you are happy with any changes/updates. When using the website, you agree to be bound by the policy set out below.

Should you have any questions relating to the policy, please email charliehammond@live.co.uk.

How Chef Charlie Hammond obtains personal data

Personal data means that any information collected or logged in a format that allows you to be either directly (name) or indirectly (telephone number) identified personally. Chef Charlie Hammond collect and receive personal data that you choose to voluntarily provide to us for your use of the website.

Cookies – Additionally, Chef Charlie Hammond collect specific personal data by using cookies, including similar technologies such as local storage when you visit the website. Cookies are bits of text that are placed on your computer’s hard drive or mobile device when you visit certain websites. Cookies hold information that may be accessible by the party that places the cookie, which is either the website itself (first-party cookie) or a third party (third party cookies).

On the website, Chef Charlie Hammond uses cookies for the following purposes:

1. To gather website statistical data to analyse how our users use the website, such as which pages are visited, how long pages were visited, and the paths taken by visitors to the website as they move from page to page.

2. To provide authentication (i.e., to keep you logged in between sessions). The information collected using local storage is stored on your browser and persists after your browser is closed.

3. Chef Charlie Hammond use Google Analytics which is a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc., that uses cookies to help identify website tracking. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (such as your IP address, the URL visited, the date and time the page was viewed) will be transmitted and stored by Google on servers in the United States or any other country in which Google maintains facilities. Google will use this information to monitor your use of the website and to compile reports on website activity for us. Based on our agreement with Google, Google is not allowed to use this information for their purposes and may only transfer this information to third parties where required by law, or where such third parties process information on Google’s behalf.

What are the types of personal data Chef Charlie Hammond may collect

Chef Charlie Hammond may collect and receive the following personal data from you:

1. Name and contact details (such as name, address, email, username, fax and phone numbers).

2. Personal data included in comments posted by you on the website, such as blog content.

3. Personal data of individuals you wish to share your uploaded content with (such as name and email address).

4. Personal data that included preferences and interests

5. Traffic data (such as your Internet usage).

6. Any other information that you have provided us (such as your profile picture, the comments you leave and whether you would like to receive our newsletter).

Chef Charlie Hammond may collect other types of personal data if required under applicable law or if necessary, for the purposes listed below. Chef Charlie Hammond will then inform you and ensure that there is a valid legal basis for doing so.

How Chef Charlie Hammond might use personal data

Chef Charlie Hammond may use the personal data Chef Charlie Hammond collect and receive for the following purposes:

1. To analyse how the website is used, such as which pages are visited, how long pages were visited, and the paths taken by visitors to the website as they move from page to page.

2. To verify compliance with applicable legal requirements and our policies.

3. To contact you, such as by sending personalised emails about our products and services in our newsletter.

Chef Charlie Hammond process personal data because this is necessary for the performance of the contract between you and us, for our compliance with our legal obligations and for the purpose of our legitimate interests. Our legitimate interests are our commercial company interest (e.g., to improve our products and services), our interest to make use of direct marketing, our interest to prevent fraud and our interest from reporting possible criminal acts or threats to competent authorities.

How Chef Charlie Hammond may share personal data

Chef Charlie Hammond may share the personal data Chef Charlie Hammond collect and receive on a need-to-know basis with the following third parties

1. Service providers.

2. Competent public authorities or other third parties, if required by law or reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property and safety of ourselves or others.

Chef Charlie Hammond may also transfer your personal data if Chef Charlie Hammond sell or transfer all or a portion of our business or assets on a need-to-know basis. Should such a sale or transfer occur, Chef Charlie Hammond will use reasonable efforts to direct the transferee to use personal data you have provided to us in a manner that is consistent with applicable law and this Privacy Statement.

Chef Charlie Hammond will not sell, rent, or trade your personal data.

How Chef Charlie Hammond protects personal data

Chef Charlie Hammond maintain appropriate technical and organisational security safeguards designed to protect your personal data against accidental, unlawful or unauthorised destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure or use. However, due to the inherent open nature of the Internet, Chef Charlie Hammond cannot guarantee that communications between you and us or the personal information stored are absolutely secure. Chef Charlie Hammond will notify you of any data breach that is likely to have unfavourable consequences for your privacy in accordance with applicable law.

How long Chef Charlie Hammond retains personal data

Chef Charlie Hammond retain personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which Chef Charlie Hammond collect or receive the personal data, except if required otherwise by applicable law. Typically, Chef Charlie Hammond will retain most of the personal data for the duration of your use of the website.

What are your rights

You have the following rights in relation to your personal data:

1. The right to obtain, at reasonable intervals and free of charge, information on whether or not your personal data are being processed and to receive the personal data that is being processed in an intelligible form.

2. The right to request rectification or erasure of personal data or restriction of or objection to the processing of your personal data.