privacy Notice

The Briderie Ltd (“The Briderie”, “we”, “our” or “us”) is committed to protecting and respecting your

privacy and personal data. This Privacy Notice explains how we use your personal data when you visit our

website and shop.

This Privacy Notice should be read alongside, and in addition to, our Terms and Conditions, which can be

found at: https://www.thebriderie.com/tcs and our Cookie Notice, which can be found at: https://www.thebriderie.com/cookie-policy

Controller of your personal data

The Briderie is a company registered in England and Wales under 15448042 whose registered office is at 35

Church Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN1 1JT with email address hello@thebriderie.com. For the

purposes of the UK General Data Protection Regulation (“UK GDPR”) and the Data Protection Act 2018,

the Briderie is the controller of your personal data we process, unless indicated otherwise.

The information that we collect from you

We collect a range of personal data from our customers that you enter onto our website or provide to us

directly. This may include:

  • Your personal details including your name, postal address, email address, phone number and any

    other information collected on registration or the ordering process through our website or shop.

  • Your financial details such as your credit/debit card numbers.

  • Your transaction details such as the items that you purchase and delivery information.

  • Your customer service details relating to your appointment. For example, referral details.

How we use your information

We may use your personal data to:

  • Provide and manage your order(s).

  • Communicate with you. This may include responding to emails or calls from you or inviting you

    to appointments.

  • Process your payment transactions and, if necessary, to provide a refund.

  • Supply you with marketing information by email that you have opted-in to receive (you may

    unsubscribe or opt-out at any time by emailing hello@thebriderie.com).

Our legal basis for processing your information

We will collect your personal data from you only when one of the following legal bases applies:

  • Consent: this means that we will process your personal data where you have given your consent to

    do so (e.g., sending you marketing communications where consent is required).

  • Legal obligation: this means that we will process your personal data where we have a legal

    obligation to collect personal data from you such as where it is necessary to use your transaction

    history to complete our financial and tax obligations under the law.

  • Performance of a contract: this means that we will process your personal data where the personal

    data is necessary to perform a contract with you (e.g., manage your appointment or order or

    process payments).

Your rights

You have a number of rights under the UK GDPR in relation to the way we process your personal data.

These rights include:

  • Right of access: you have the right to request access to personal data that we hold about you and

    information on how we process it.

  • Right to rectification: you have the right to request that any incorrect or inaccurate personal data

    relating to you is corrected and/or amended. You also have the right to ask us to complete

    information you think is incomplete.

  • Right to erasure: you are entitled to request for your personal data to be deleted and we must

    comply under certain circumstances.

  • Right to restriction of processing: you have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your

    information under certain circumstances.

  • Right to data portability: you have the right to request to receive your personal data in a structured,

    commonly used and machine-readable format and, where requested and technically feasible,

    transmit your personal data to another organisation.

  • Right to object: you have the right to object to processing of your personal data.

You can also withdraw your consent at any time where we are relying on your consent to process your

personal data. Please note that your withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out

before you withdrew your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain

services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.

We do not make any decisions about you based solely on automated decision-making. If we do ever plan to

use automated decision-making that could have a significant impact on you, we will let you know in

advance and give you an opportunity to object.

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights described

above). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive, or

excessive.

We may need to request further information from you to help us confirm your identity. This is a security

measure to ensure that your personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. In an

effort to speed up our response, we may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to

your request.

You can contact us at hello@thebriderie.com to exercise any of these rights. We will respond to any requests

received from you promptly and in compliance with our obligations under the UK GDPR.

Disclosure of your information

We will only disclose your personal data outside of our business in limited circumstances. We may share

your personal data with:

  • Our service providers who provide IT and system administration services.

  • Our payment and delivery providers (e.g., courier services). Please note that our payments are

    provided through a trusted third-party payment service provider Stripe. Stripe acts as a

    controller of your personal data for the purposes of payments for products.

  • Professional advisers including solicitors, auditors and insurers.

  • Third parties to whom we may sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or assets.

  • We require all third parties to whom we transfer your data to respect the security of your personal data. We

    only allow such third parties to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with

    our instructions.

We will not share your personal data with any third parties for the purposes of direct marketing without

first obtaining your consent.

Transfers of your information

We do not transfer your personal data outside of the UK and/or Europe. If we do so in the future, we will

let you know and take appropriate measures to protect your personal data.

All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers which are located within the UK.

Keeping your information secure

We have put in place appropriate administrative, technical, and organisational measures designed to protect

your personal data from the risk of disclosure, destruction, loss or accidental, unlawful and unauthorised

alteration, access, disclosure and use. If you suspect any misuse of your personal data please contact us at

hello@thebriderie.com.

Retention of your information

We will only retain your personal data for as long as is necessary to carry out the purpose for which it was

collected.

In all other circumstances, to determine the appropriate retention period for your personal data, we

consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from

unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data

and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

Cookies

Our website uses cookies to help provide you with the best possible user experience.

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used

in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of

the site.

Squarespace, our website provider, may use cookies to understand how you interact with the content on

our website, these are called third party cookies and can recognise your device when it visits our website and

when it visits other websites. For more information, you can read about our website providers cookie policy

here: https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001264507-The-cookies-Squarespace-

uses?platform=v6&websiteId=65c7fbc161a882262b49f5dd and our Cookie Policy here: https://www.thebriderie.com/cookie-policy

Links to other websites

Our website may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partners and affiliates

which are outside our control and not covered by this Privacy Notice.

We do not accept any responsibility or liability for other sites’ privacy notices. If you access other websites

using the links provided, please check their policies before submitting any personal data.

Changes to this Privacy Notice

We reserve the right to change this Privacy Notice as we may deem necessary from time to time in order to

reflect any changes to the way in which we process your personal data or changing legal requirements. Any

changes will be notified to you by posting an updated version on this website.

We recommend you regularly check for changes and review this Privacy Notice when you visit our website.

This Privacy Notice was first published on 5th September 2024 and last updated on 5th September 2024.

Complaints

We encourage you to contact us first if you have any queries, comments or concerns about the way we

handle your personal data. However, if you are not satisfied with our handling of any request by you in

relation to your rights or concerns, you also have the right to make a complaint to the UK’s Information

Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk).

You can find out how to report a concern on their website (https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/).

Contact information

For further information from us on data protection or any other requests, including to exercise any of your

rights in relation to your personal data, please write to us at hello@thebriderie.com or The Briderie, 35 Church Road,

Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN1 1JT.