We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy and pledge to handle your data fairly and legally at all times.
Summary of what’s below:
This Privacy Policy together with our Terms of Service sets out how we will collect and process your personal data. References to “we”, “us” and “our” refer to Spicyapple Limited and to “you” and “your” are to you, the Website user.
By visiting spicyapple.io (the “Website”) you are accepting the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to any of the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use our Website.
We are Spicyapple Limited, a limited company registered in England and Wales under company number 6298938 and our registered address is Spicyapple Ltd, C/O Lesstax2pay 169 High Street, Barnet, Herts, EN5 5SU.
We are the data controller and we are responsible for your personal data referred to in this privacy notice.
If you have any questions about this privacy notice please contact us by email at hello@spicyapple.io or use the contact form on our Website.
If you are not happy with any aspect of how we collect and use your data, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We should be grateful if you would contact us first if you do have a complaint so that we can try to resolve it for you.
By providing us with your data, you warrant to us that you are over 18 years of age. It is very important that the information we hold about you is accurate and up to date. Please let us know if at any time your personal information changes by emailing us at hello@spicyapple.io.
We know how important people’s personal data is and therefore make sure that we all treat any personal data we collect as confidential. There are times, though, that we need to share your data with relevant selected third parties and by providing your personal data, you are agreeing to us sharing this.
In order to provide our services and other related business activities, we will need to collect and process information about you such as:
By interacting with us on social media platforms by way of “liking”, “following”, commenting, “retweeting” or “sharing”, you understand that you are consenting for our interaction with you.
We measure visitors to our website using Google Analytics. This records what pages you view within our site, how you arrived at our site and some basic information about your computer. All of that information is anonymous – so we don’t know who you are; just that somebody visited our site.
The information we collect from analytics helps us understand what parts of our sites are doing well, how people arrive at our site and so on. Like most websites, we use this information to make our website better.
You can learn more about Google Analytics or opt out if you wish.
If we do want to collect personally identifiable information through our website, we will be up front about this. We will make it clear when we collect personal information and will explain what we intend to do with it.
The information we (and trusted partners acting on our behalf) collect may be used to:
We will not sell your name, address, e-mail address, or personal information to any third party without your permission. We will share your information with our carefully selected service providers to enable us to carry out our services, we may also share your information to enable us to comply with any applicable laws or lawful government and/or regulatory requests. Where we have a legal right or duty to use or disclose your information (for example in relation to an investigation by a public authority or in a legal dispute). In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets we may disclose and/or transfer your personal data to the prospective buyer or seller.
Sometimes we may ask for your permission to share your information with business partners, sponsors, advertisers and promoters (for example, if you enter a prize draw, competition or promotion, we may (if we tell you) share your information with any third party involved in that prize draw).
Purpose/Activity | Type of data | Lawful basis for processing |
To register you as a new customer | (a) Identity (b) Contact | Performance of a contract with you |
To process and deliver your order including: (a) Manage payments, fees and charges (b) Collect and recover money owed to us | (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Financial (d) Transaction (e) Marketing and Communications | (a) Performance of a contract with you (b) Necessary for our legitimate interests to recover debts owed to us |
To manage our relationship with you which will include: (a) Notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy b) Asking you to leave a review or take a survey | a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Marketing and Communications | (a) Performance of a contract with you (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation (c) Necessary for our legitimate interests to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products/services |
To enable you to partake in a prize draw, competition or complete a survey | (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Usage (e) Marketing and Communications | (a) Performance of a contract with you (b) Necessary for our legitimate interests to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them and grow our business |
To administer and protect our business and our site (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data) | (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Technical | (a) Necessary for our legitimate interests for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganisation or group restructuring exercise (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation |
To deliver relevant content and advertisements to you and measure and understand the effectiveness of our advertising | (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Usage (e) Marketing and Communications (f) Technical | Necessary for our legitimate interests to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy |
To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences | (a) Technical (b) Usage | Necessary for our legitimate interests to define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our site updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy |
To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you | (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Technical (d) Usage (e) Profile | Necessary for our legitimate interests to develop our products/services and grow our business |
As part of the registration process for our e-newsletter, we collect personal information. We use that information for a couple of reasons: to tell you about stuff you’ve asked us to tell you about; to contact you if we need to obtain or provide additional information; to check our records are right and to check every now and then that you’re happy and satisfied. We don’t rent or trade email lists with other organisations and businesses.
We use a third party provider, MailChimp, to deliver our newsletter. We gather statistics around email opening and clicks using industry standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our e-newsletter. For more information, please see MailChimp’s privacy notice.
We would like to tell you about the great offers, ideas, products and services and where you have consented to us doing so, we may do this through the post, by email, text message, online, using social media, push notifications via apps, or by any other electronic means.
We won’t send you marketing messages if you tell us not to but we will still need to send you occasional/essential service-related messages.
You can unsubscribe to mailings at any time of the day or night by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any of our emails or by emailing our data protection officer hello@spicyapple.io .
We will retain a record of your personal information. This is done in order to provide you with a high quality and consistent service. We will always retain your personal information in accordance with law and regulation and never retain your information for longer than is necessary.
We make sure that all personal data is well looked after and we always take reasonable steps to ensure that all data is treated securely and in accordance with all relevant laws.
Once we have received your personal data we will use all our powers and security features to try and prevent any unauthorised access but, unfortunately, nobody can guarantee 100% security all of the time. Therefore, we have to say that whilst we will do our utmost best to protect your data, we cannot guarantee the security of any transmitted data to our site and therefore any transmission is at your own risk.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
The information you provide to us will usually be stored and processed on servers based within the United Kingdom but you agree that we may store the data on carefully selected portable devices, in paper files, and to transfer data abroad.
It may be processed by staff operating outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”) who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff maybe engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of your order, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We do our best to ensure that your personal data is kept securely.
We use third parties that may store data outside of the EEA in places such as USA. Companies such as Google (Email and cloud storage), Dropbox (cloud storage), Mailchimp (Email marketing), Kashflow/Receipt bank (Accounts), Siteground/United Hosting (web hosting/domains). There are agreements in place to ensure that all of our third party service providers process personal information using appropriate safeguards that meet the requirements of EU data protection laws.
Our websites use SSL encryption, we use 2 factor authentication as much as possible and store all of our passwords securely on password management solutions such as Dashlane.
You have the right to access the personal information that we hold about you in many circumstances. If we agree that we are obliged to provide personal information to you we will provide it to you or them free of charge. Email your request to our data protection officer hello@spicyapple.io .
Before providing personal information to you we will ask for proof of identity and sufficient information about your interactions with us that we can locate your personal information.
If any of the personal information we hold about you is inaccurate or out of date, you may ask us to correct it.
If you would like to exercise these rights, please contact us as set out below.
You have the right to object to us processing your personal information if we are not entitled to use it any more and to have your information deleted.
If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us as set out below.
You have the right to opt out of receiving promotional communications at any time, by:
This privacy notice does not cover the links within this site linking to other websites. Those sites are not governed by this Privacy Policy, and if you have questions about how a site uses your information, you’ll need to check that site’s privacy statement.
We keep our privacy notice under regular review. Any changes to our Privacy Policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.
Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy. Your continued use of our Website will be your acknowledgment of your agreement to the revised policy.
This privacy notice was last updated on 27th August 2019 .
Questions, comments and requests in relation to this privacy policy are welcome and should be addressed to hello@spicyapple.io.
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These cookies are completely safe and secure and will never contain any sensitive information. We do not use cookies to retrieve personal information about you from your computer. We will only gain such information if you have knowingly and willingly provided such information to us. They are used only by us or the trusted partners we work with.
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