Privacy Statement

Who we are

At North & Nether we are committed to the maintaining the trust and privacy of our customers. In the following Privacy Policy we’ve provided information on when and why we might collect your personal information, how we use it, the limited conditions under which we may disclose it to others and how we keep it secure. We’ll never sell, trade or rent email lists with other companies and businesses for marketing purposes.

We do update this Notice from time to time so please do review this Notice regularly.

What personal data do we collect and when?

We collect the following information about you:

• Title
• Name and Surname
• Email address
• Date of Birth
• Gender
• Contact phone number(s)
• Purchase information
• Interactions with us e.g. contacting our Customer Services Team (we may record your calls), or visits to our website
• Personal information you put on social media
• Information you provide in your reviews of us, or survey responses
• Delivery address(s)
• Billing address
• Attendance at events (and travel preferences)
• IP address
• Information from cookies, including information on the devices you may use to make a purchase
• Reasons for cancelling or returning your order

 We collect the information in the following circumstances:

• When you register to or use our website
• When you allow social media sites to provide your data to us
• When you contact us by telephone or email
• When you enter any event, prize draws or competitions run by us
• When completing any of our surveys or leaving us a review
• When completing any forms
• When you buy products or gift cards/vouchers
• When you've given a third party permission to share with us the information they hold about you
• When you choose to cancel or return an order

 How do we use your personal data?

We use your personal data in the following ways:

• To enable us to personalise your shopping experience on our sites including to serve you personalised online ads and personalised online promotions, including product price promotions.
• To allow us to handle your orders, deliver products and process your payments and refunds (including to ensure secure payment and prevent fraud).
• To respond to your queries, refund requests and complaints.
• To keep a record of when and why you contact us and to keep your contact details up-to-date.
• For statistical, analytical or survey purposes - so we can improve our websites and the services we offer you.
• To enable third parties to carry out technical, logistical or other business functions on our behalf such as advertising on social media sites you might use and visit (our ability to do this will depend on the privacy settings you have on your social media accounts).
• Where you are an existing customer (or you have otherwise given us your data) and have not opted out, or where you have consented, we use your data to send you information about our business and products we think you might like and to notify you of products or special offers that may be of interest to you.
• To process your application when you enter a competition promotion or prize draw. (If there are other purposes specific to that competition promotion or prize draw, these will be explained in the applicable Competition Terms & Conditions).

In order to help us manage our customer relationships, we use third party platforms. These platforms assist us to do lots of things, including: conduct email marketing campaigns, advertise online, undertake customer analytics, plan and put on events, book appointments, fulfil orders, make deliveries, returns and refunds etc. We therefore pass on your personal data to these third parties, on the condition that they agree to handle your information in line with this notice.

Why are we allowed to handle and store your personal data?

There are number of legal bases which allow us to use your personal data. The following sets out more detailed explanations of the bases we rely on to collect and process your personal data

Consent

If you visit our site and are not an existing customer we might ask for your consent to process your data, so that we can send you our special offers and news.

Contractual obligations

Our primary use of this basis is when you purchase our products. In this situation it is necessary for us to process your personal data in order to fulfil your order and send your goods to you.

Legal compliance

In some circumstances, we may be legally required to collect and process your data e.g. to pass it on to the police if criminal activity is suspected.

Legitimate Interest

It may be necessary to use your data to help us run our business. For example, to action any changes to your account that you request, or to personalise the services we provide - with the aim of improving your customer experience. We will only use your data in these instances, where doing so does not materially impact your rights, freedom or interests.

How do we protect your personal data?

It is our duty to protect all personal data gathered and in order to do this our teams follow our internal data management policies and handle the data with the greatest level of care and expertise available to us. They do this by using various security technologies and internal procedures to ensure that it is kept safe and secure.

How long do we keep your personal data for?

We only keep your personal data for as long as is necessary for the purpose for which it was collected (subject to any legal requirements). Once it is no longer necessary, we will either delete the data, or anonymise it. The use of anonymised data helps us to optimise our customer service.

Who else sees your personal data?

Sometimes we will share your personal data with trusted third parties. We will do this in the following circumstances:

• To process your order e.g. with delivery drivers, or with third party payment service providers
• To handle complaints e.g. with our Customer Services call centre
• To detect any fraudulent activity, or assist law enforcement authorities
• To help us offer you a more personalised shopping experience by sending you offers and updates

When we share information with third parties, we will ensure that:

• We only provide the data they need to perform their specific function
• They only use the data provided as intended
• They have the requisite measures in place to protect your data and delete it once the function has been performed, or delete it when we cease working with them

Where is your data stored?

Some of our partners and third parties who may receive your personal data are based outside of the European Economic Area. In such cases, we ensure that our partners are contractually-bound to protect your data to the same degree that is required in the European Union. 

What rights do you have over the data we store and how can you ask us to stop storing it?

Right to rectification. - You have the right to request access to your data and if anything is incorrect, incomplete, or out of date you can change or remove it. 

You can disable any already stored cookies on your computer by changing your browser settings for cookies, you can also use opt-out programs such as “NAI’s Consumer opt-out” or “Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on” in order to prevent cookies from being used, please keep in mind that these settings may stop our website from functioning properly.

Right to restrict processing. - If we are processing your personal data on the basis of our legitimate interest, you have the right us to ask us to stop. We must then do so unless we believe we have a legitimate overriding reason to continue processing your personal data.

Right to object. - You have the right at any time to stop us sending you marketing material. You can do this in the following ways:

• Click the ‘unsubscribe' link in any email communication that we send you. We will then stop any further emails from that particular division.
• Contact our Customer Services Team by emailing: contact@northandnether.com
• If you have an account, log in into your account, visit the ‘My Account' area and change your preferences via our website or our app.
• You can unsubscribe from receiving push notifications by disabling the relevant options in your phone ‘settings'

Please note that you may continue to receive communications for a short period after changing your preferences whilst our systems are fully updated.

Please note that if you follow a link which clicks through to a third party site, this notice will not apply and you will need to review that third party's privacy terms and conditions.

Right of access. - You have the right to ask us what data we hold which concerns you. Such requests are usually free, but we will ask you to submit your query in writing and include the following:

Full name (we will ask you to verify your identity)

Full address

Email address

Phone number

Specific details on what you require or are requesting

We will process your request and will either respond within 30 days or contact you to gather more information before we fulfil your request. In the event that we might refuse to fulfil your request (for example if it is unreasonable), we will give a full explanation as to why.

Please submit your requests by sending an email to us: contact@northandnether.com

Right to be informed. - This Privacy Notice satisfies Your right to be informed about the collection and use of Your personal data.

Right to erasure. - You have the right to obtain from us the erasure of your personal data when the processing is based on your consent and such consent is withdrawn. To exercise your ‘right to be forgotten’, please contact us at contact@northandnether.com and we will comply with your request within 30 days from the date that we have identified you. Please note that your right to erasure does not apply to data related to any of your transactions as we have a legal obligation to keep the same.

Right to data portability. - You have the right to receive a copy of the personal data that we hold about you and/or have such personal data transmitted from us to another data controller if this is technically doable.