Privacy Policy
INTRODUCTION
1. Here at Save Me A Slice, your privacy and security is very important, therefore, this Privacy & Cookies Policy (the “Policy”) outlines how Save Me A Slice will treat your personal information. It will also inform you of some of your rights regarding how Save Me A Slice will treat your personal information.
2. This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”), in addition to out Terms and Conditions and any other document(s) referred to in them, details how Save Me A Slice will treat your personal information, and is designed to help you understand how Save Me A Slice deals with any personal information that may be obtained from you and how you may access, alter, rectify and/or remove it.
3. Under data protection legislation Save Me A Slice is the “Data Controller” and is required to notify you of the information contained in this Policy. It is important that you read this Policy so that you are aware of how and why Save Me A Slice is using such information.
4. This Policy only relates to the collection, protection, disclosure and use of personal data belonging to individuals who visit www.savemeaslice.co.uk (“the Site”) or anybody who otherwise provides Save Me A Slice with their personal information. It does not relate to data which originates from other sources, however, the principles contained within the Policy are generally applicable whatever the source.
5. Save Me A Slice will only use your information for the purpose/s for which it was collected.
6. This Policy has been drafted to comply with the requirements of all relevant laws and regulations relating to data protection, whether those be local, national or international. The legislation taken into account includes: (i) the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (EC Directive) 2003 (S/2003i2426) (ii) the Data Protection Act 2018 (iii) all applicable requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation ((EU) 2016/679) (the “GDPR”) and any other national implementing laws, regulations and secondary legislation, as amended or updated from time to time in the UK unless and until the GDPR is no longer directly applicable in the UK and then (iv) any successor legislation to the GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 and also The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) Regulations 2011, (the “Acts”).
7. By providing your personal information to Save Me A Slice (in whatever form or by whatever means), you agree that Save Me A Slice may collect and use such personal information in the ways described in this Policy. If you do not agree with the terms of this Policy, please do not provide personal details to Save Me A Slice.
8. It may be necessary to update this Policy from time to time in order to reflect changes in the law. Any changes Save Me A Slice may make to the Policy will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. It is recommended that you check this page regularly to ensure that you have read the most recent version of our Privacy Policy and that you are happy with any changes.
9. This Policy was last revised on 8th March 2023.
10. INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM YOU
10.1. It is your choice whether to provide Save Me A Slice with personal information or not. Personal information (or ‘personal data’) is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (“data subject”). This means someone who can be identified, directly or indirectly, (ie by name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or other factors). Personal data does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).
10.2. The information Save Me A Slice may collect from you includes, but is not limited to:
10.2.1. personal contact details such as name, title, address, telephone number, email address, your preferences for receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences that you may provide to Save Me A Slice by filling in forms on the Site, or if you request information from Save Me A Slice or when contacting Save Me A Slice by telephone;
10.2.2. correspondence, or a record of such correspondence if you should contact Save Me A Slice via any means;
10.2.3. details of your visits to the Site (including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own purposes or otherwise) and the resources that you access;
10.2.4. surveys that Save Me A Slice may use for research purposes, which Save Me A Slice may ask you to complete, although you are not obliged to respond to such surveys;
10.3. It is important to Save Me A Slice that the personal data held about you is accurate and up to date. Please advise Save Me A Slice if your personal information changes during our relationship.
10.4. Save Me A Slice may provide you with the option to select whether you would like to receive information from Save Me A Slice by opting in or out of receiving promotional offers. In some circumstances, you will not have the option to opt out, for example, when Save Me A Slice is administering a transaction requested by you, or if a legal requirement is being satisfied.
11. HOW DO WE COLLECT YOUR INFORMATION?
11.1. There are a number of ways in which you may be providing Save Me A Slice with personal information, for example,
11.1.1. registering on the Site;
11.1.2. contacting Save Me A Slice with an enquiry;
11.1.3. signing up to receive a newsletter, news and/or exclusive offers;
11.1.4. joining a mailing list;
11.1.5. purchasing a product
11.1.6. requesting Save Me A Slice to forward a product to another email address;
11.1.7. completing a survey which contains your personal information;
11.1.8. reporting a problem.; and/or
11.1.9. giving feedback.
11.2. The information Save Me A Slice may collect from you includes, but is not limited to:
11.2.1. data concerning traffic on the Site;
11.2.2. location data;
11.2.3. weblogs; and/or
11.2.4. other communication data, (whether this is required for our billing purposes or otherwise) and the resources that you access.
11.3. The Site contains a function which enables visitors to contact Save Me A Slice via an integrated Contact Form. If you contact Save Me A Slice via this form the information transmitted by you will be automatically stored for the purpose of processing your query and/or contacting you.
11.4. By providing any personal information to Save Me A Slice, you indicate that you fully understand and clearly consent to the transfer, collection and processing of such personal information in accordance with the terms of this Policy.
12. IP ADDRESSES & COOKIES
12.1. Like many other websites, Save Me A Slice may use “cookies” to help gather and store information about visitors to the Site.
12.2. Save Me A Slice may collect information about your computer. This may include your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration. This is statistical data about our Site users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify you as an individual.
12.3. A “cookie” is a small text file which is created on your computer’s hard disk when you access certain websites. Cookies allow the website to recognise your computer and can identify the pages that are being viewed. This information can assist us to select the pages that the visitor sees.
12.4. “Session” cookies only exist whilst visitors are online on a particular occasion. These are temporary cookies that assist your journey around the Site and remember the preferences you have selected during your “session”.
12.5. "Persistent" cookies remain on a visitor’s computer, so that you can be recognised as a previous visitor when you next visit our Site. These cookies allow us to collect information about your browsing habits whilst on our Site, and can be useful in assisting us to monitor and improve our services for you and future users.
12.6. Save Me A Slice do not store sensitive information such as account numbers or passwords in any cookies, and cookies themselves, do not contain enough information to identify you. You will only become personally identifiable in relation to your browsing habits after you have formally provided us with your personal data for the purposes outlined above.
12.7. In addition to using cookies, Save Me A Slice might also use other web tools, such as Google Analytics, to collect information about your browsing activities whilst on our Site. In this respect the information that is provided is similar to the information supplied by cookies, and is used for the same purposes.
12.8. Any information that Save Me A Slice acquires about you using cookies or other web tools is subject to the same restrictions and conditions as any other information Save Me A Slice may collect about you, as outlined in this Policy.
13. THE COOKIES USED ON OUR SITE
13.1. Elements of Facebook and Instagram have been integrated into parts of the Site.
13.2. The operating company of Facebook is Facebook, Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States. If a person lives outside of the United States or Canada, the controller is the Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland.
13.3. The operating company of the services offered by Instagram is Instagram LLC, 1 Hacker Way, Building 14 First Floor, Menlo Park, CA, UNITED STATES.
13.4. With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this website, which incorporates a Facebook or Instagram component, your web browser is automatically prompted to download display of the corresponding Facebook/Instagram component from Facebook/Instagram through the Facebook/Instagram component.
13.5. An overview of all the Facebook Plug-ins can be found at: httpss://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/.
13.6. Facebook/Instagram will be made aware of what specific sub-site of the website was visited by the data subject.
13.7. If you are logged into Facebook/Instagram, Facebook/Instagram will detect which sub-site of the webpage you visited for as long as you stay on that site. This information is collected through the Facebook/Instagram component and associated with your Facebook/Instagram account. If you click on one of the Facebook/Instagram buttons integrated into the website, Facebook/Instagram will match the information with your user account and store the personal data.
13.8. Facebook/Instagram will receive information about a visit to the Site whenever you are logged in at the same time on Facebook/Instagram during the time of the call-up to our website. This occurs through the Facebook/Instagram component and occurs irrespective of whether you click on the Facebook/Instagram component or not. You can prevent such a transmission by logging off from your Facebook/Instagram account before a call-up to the website is made.
13.9. The data protection guideline published by Facebook, is available at: httpss://facebook.com/about/privacy/
13.10. The data protection guideline published by Instagram, is available at: httpss://help.instagram.com/155833707900388 and httpss://www.instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/.
13.11. Cookies set by Google Analytics are used to store information about the number of visits, duration of browsing, referring sites and other analytical information and compile reports for us on Site activity. No personal information is stored in these cookies.
13.12. These cookies collect information about how you use a website, for instance which pages you go to the most often and if you get error messages from web pages. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. They are only used to improve how a website works, by managing the performance and design of the Site.
13.13. For more information about the way in which Google Analytics uses these cookies, please visit the following link: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage
13.14. Save Me A Slice has enabled Google Analytics in order to help better understand who the users are including their age, gender and interests. The data Save Me A Slice collects is used to develop the Site’s content to address user’s interests. If you wish to opt out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising you can do this by using the Ads Settings.
13.15. Google stores the information collected by the cookies on servers in the United States. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google state that they will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. By using our Site, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
13.16. Further information on Google Analytics is available by visiting the following website: httpss://www.google.com/analytics/.
13.17. If you wish to know all the cookies set and how to delete or manage them, please refer to www.allaboutcookies.org
13.18. By continuing to use the website without changing your settings, you consent to the use of cookies as outlined above.
13.19. Save Me A Slice may from time to time utilise Google AdWords. This service allows the advertiser to place advertisements in Google search engine results and the Google advertising network to assist in the promotion of the website.
13.20. If you arrive at the Site through a Google ad, a conversion cookie is filed on your information technology system through Google. This expires after 30 days and is used to create visit statistics for the Site which will, in turn, optimize the use of future AdWords ads.
13.21. The conversion cookie stores information such as what internet pages have been visited.
13.22. To disable cookies, please see below.
13.23. You can object to interest based advertisement on Google by altering your browser settings by visiting: http://www.google.de/settings/ads
14. HOW TO DISABLE/ENABLE COOKIES
14.1. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. You can find out how to do this by checking your browser’s ‘Help’ menu. If you are using Internet Explorer, you can simply go to Tools and then Internet Options, where there is then the option to change your settings to disable cookies. You may not be able to use all the interactive features of the Site if cookies are disabled.
14.2. You also have the ability to delete cookies that have been installed in the cookie folder of your browser. To do this you should search for “cookies” in your “Help” function for information on where to find your cookie folder.
14.3. Unless you have adjusted your browser settings so that it will refuse cookies, the Site will issue cookies on visiting, browsing and logging in.
14.4. To prevent Google Analytics cookies being set, you may install the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-On which is compatible with all major browsers by clicking on this link - http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout and following the instructions.
15. USES MADE OF THE INFORMATION BY SAVE ME A SLICE
15.1. Save Me A Slice will only use personal information collected from you for the purposes for which it was collected (or for related purposes), to provide specific services that you request and to provide additional services that may be of interest to you, or in the following circumstances:
15.1.1. Ease of Use – To ensure that content from the Site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
15.1.2. Transactional Purposes – To carry out Save Me A Slice's obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and Save Me A Slice, to respond to your queries and requests, maintain your accounts and manage transactions, such as credit card payments for any products that you order from Save Me A Slice, or for the fulfilment of such transactions.
15.1.3. Communication – To notify you about changes to information Save Me A Slice places on the Site or to any services.
15.1.4. Marketing Communications– Save Me A Slice may use your personal information to communicate with you about products and services and for internal marketing analysis, for example, to assess trends amongst consumers or to measure the amount of traffic to the Site.
15.1.5. Compliance – To comply with a legal duty or regulatory obligation to which Save Me A Slice is subject.
15.1.6. Legitimate Interests – Where it is necessary for Save Me A Slice's legitimate interests, and when your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests. Legitimate Interest means the interest of Save Me A Slice's business in conducting and managing our business to enable Save Me A Slice to give you the best service/product and the best and most secure experience. Save Me A Slice make sure to consider and balance any potential impact on you (both positive and negative) and your rights before your personal data is processed for our legitimate interests. Save Me A Slice do not use your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by any adverse impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law).
15.1.7. Save Me A Slice will also store comments or reviews, if you choose to leave them so that Save Me A Slice can recognise and approve any follow-up comments.
15.2. Any information or statistics relating to the business that Save Me A Slice disclose to others shall not identify you personally. Save Me A Slice may, for example, perform statistical analyses of the behaviour of the users of the website in order to measure interest in the various areas of the Site. This information, and any other general information about users that shared with others, will not contain personal information about you.
15.3. Save Me A Slice will not, under any circumstances, sell your personal information to anyone else.
16. CHANGE OF PURPOSE
16.1. Save Me A Slice will only use your personal data for the purposes for which it was collected, unless it is reasonably considered that Save Me A Slice needs to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact Save Me A Slice by sending an email to info@savemeaslice.co.uk or using the contact form available on the Site.
16.2. If Save Me A Slice needs to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, you will be notified and Save Me A Slice will explain the legal basis which allows this.
16.3. Please note that Save Me A Slice may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law
17. OPTING OUT
17.1. You can ask Save Me A Slice to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by logging into the Site and checking or unchecking relevant boxes to adjust your marketing preferences or by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by sending an email to info@savemeaslice.co.uk . Alternatively you can inform Save Me A Slice that you wish to opt out by using the contact form available on the Site.
18. LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
18.1. The Site may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. Save Me A Slice does not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave the Site, Save Me A Slice encourages you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.
19. HOW AND WHERE DO WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
19.1. All personal information collected from you is stored on secure servers.
19.2. The personal information that is collected from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff may be engaged in, among other things, the provision of support services. By submitting your personal information, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. If your personal information is shared, you can expect a similar degree of protection in respect of your personal information as we require third parties to respect the security of your data and to take appropriate measures to protect your personal information in line with this Policy.
19.3. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although Save Me A Slice try to protect your personal data, Save Me A Slice cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to the Site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once Save Me A Slice has received your personal data, strict procedures and security features will be used to try to prevent unauthorised access.
20. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?
20.1. Save Me A Slice will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary for the purposes it was collected for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements, and for the uses set out in this Policy.
20.2. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, Save Me A Slice 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 Save Me A Slice process your personal information and whether those purposes can be achieved through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
20.3. If no storage purpose is applicable, or, if a storage period prescribed by the relevant and applicable legislation expires, your personal data will be routinely blocked or erased to ensure that no unnecessary personal data is processed.
20.4. In some circumstances Save Me A Slice may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
21. DISCLOSURE BY SAVE ME A SLICE OF YOUR INFORMATION
21.1. Save Me A Slice may disclose your personal information:
21.1.1. to third parties to whom you have provided your consent in order that they will be able to prepare or send any communications to you,
21.1.2. to assist Save Me A Slice in connection with any administrative or business functions, (including, but not limited to warehousing and delivery, marketing and advertising and credit card and data processing) or in the provision of any services and/or products to you.
21.1.3. in the event that Save Me A Slice sells or buys any business or assets, in which case Save Me A Slice may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer.
21.1.4. if Save Me A Slice, or substantially all of its assets, are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.
21.1.5. if Save Me A Slice are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our Terms and Conditions and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Save Me A Slice, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
21.2. Save Me A Slice require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. Save Me A Slice do not permit third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with Save Me A Slice's instructions.
22. DATA SECURITY
22.1. Save Me A Slice has put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, Save Me A Slice limits access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
22.2. Save Me A Slice has put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where legally required to do so.
23. INTERACTIVE AREAS OF THE SITE/BLOG
23.1. Information that you post via social networking (including but not limited to Facebook and Twitter) is generally accessible to, and may be collected by, others and may result in unwelcome communications. For your own safety and security you should not provide information about yourself on these areas of our Site or via social networking.
23.1.1. If you disclose any information via social networking, Save Me A Slice do not accept any responsibility or liability for any breach of privacy, loss, damage, effect on your reputation or otherwise whatsoever.
24. YOUR RIGHTS
24.1. Under the GDPR you have the right to access information Save Me A Slice holds about you (commonly known as a "data subject access request") free of charge. If you would like a copy of this information, please email info@savemeaslice.co.uk or use the Contact Form on our Site.
24.2. You have the right to ask Save Me A Slice not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by marking your preferences on the forms Save Me A Slice uses to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting info@savemeaslice.co.uk or using the Contact Form on our Site.
24.3. Where you have provided your consent to the collection, processing and transfer of your personal information for a specific purpose, you have the right to withdraw your consent for that specific processing at any time. Withdrawal of consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before such consent is withdrawn. If you withdraw your consent, Save Me A Slice may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. Save Me A Slice will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent. To withdraw your consent, please contact info@savemeaslice.co.uk or use the Contact Form on our Site. Once Save Me A Slice has received notification that you have withdrawn your consent, Save Me A Slice will no longer process your information for the purpose/s you originally agreed to, unless there is another legitimate basis for doing so in law.
24.4. Under certain circumstances you also have the right to:
24.4.1. Request access to the personal information that Save Me A Slice holds about you. This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data Save Me A Slice holds about you and to check that it is being lawfully processed.
24.4.2. Request correction of the personal information that Save Me A Slice holds about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data held about you corrected or completed, though Save Me A Slice may need to verify the accuracy of the new data provided. It is important that the personal information held about you is accurate and current. Please keep Save Me A Slice informed if your personal information changes.
24.4.3. Request erasure of your personal information where there is no good reason for continuing to process it.
24.4.4. Object to processing of your personal information where Save Me A Slice are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. In some cases, Save Me A Slice may demonstrate that there are compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where Save Me A Slice are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes.
24.4.5. Request the restriction of processing of your personal information. This enables you to ask Save Me A Slice to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios:
24.4.5.1. if you want Save Me A Slice to establish the data's accuracy;
24.4.5.2. where the use of the data is unlawful but you do not want Save Me A Slice to erase it;
24.4.5.3. where you need Save Me A Slice to hold the data even if Save Me A Slice no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or
24.4.5.4. you have objected to Save Me A Slice's use of your data but we need to verify whether Save Me A Slice have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
24.4.6. Request the transfer of your personal information to you or to a third party.
24.5. If you want to contact Save Me A Slice with regards to the information held about you as above, please do so by emailing info@savemeaslice.co.uk or using the Contact Form on the Site. You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, Save Me A Slice may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, Save Me A Slice may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
24.6. Save Me A Slice may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access the information (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is another appropriate security measure to ensure that personal information is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it.
25. TIME LIMIT TO RESPOND TO YOU
25.1. Save Me A Slice tries to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or if you have made a number of requests. In this case, Save Me A Slice will notify you and keep you updated.
26. COMPLAINTS
26.1. You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues.
27. CONTACT
27.1. Questions, comments and requests regarding this Policy are welcomed and should be addressed to info@savemeaslice.co.uk or sent via the Contact Form on the Site.