Introduction

The Journey Through My Things is committed to protecting your privacy.

This privacy notices provides you with details of how Journey Through My Things (hereafter referred to as ‘we’, ‘us’, our’) collects and processes your data through the use of our site www.journeythroughthings.com. By providing us with your data, you warrant to us that you are over 13 years of age.

Our contact details

Name: Jillian Shields, trading as Journey Through My Things

Website: www.journeythroughthings.com

E-mail: hello@journeythroughthings.com

Date Privacy Policy Completed: 21 September 2021 (Version 1)

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 the Data Controller, Jillian Shields directly at hello@journeythroughthings.com

The type of personal information we collect

We collect information from you when you provide it to us by subscribing to our newsletter or filling out a form.

Personal data means any information capable of identifying an individual. It does not include anonymised data.

We may process the following categories of personal data about you:

  • Identity Data may include your first name, maiden name, last name, username, marital status, title, date of birth and gender. This would have been provided by you to us for the performance of a contract, or a potential contract between us.
  • Contact Data may include your billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone number. This would have been provided by you to us for the performance of a contract, or a potential contract between us.
  • Website usage data and technical information may include information about how you use our website, products and services. This would be provided to us by website analytic sites e.g. Google Analytics. We use the information that you have given us in order to optimise our website and services and improve the user experience.  We may share this information with selected third parties who provide technical support to our services, under legitimate interest, to run our business.
  • Marketing and Communications Data may include your consent to receive marketing communications from us and your communication preferences. This would be provided by you giving your consent to us. You can withdraw your consent or change your preferences at any time by contacting hello@journeythroughthings.com.
  • Communication Data may include any direct communication that you send to us through the contact form on our website, through email or any other method of direct communication. This would be provided by you to us and retained for record keeping purposes and for fulfilling any contract or potential contract with us.

We do not collect any sensitive data about you.

How we collect the personal information and why we have it

Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you for one of the following reasons:

(a) Consent: you have given us clear consent for you to process their personal data for a specific purpose, for example subscribing to our newsletter or filling in a form. If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email. You are also able to remove your consent by contacting hello@journeythroughthings.com.

(b) Contract: we use the information provided by you to fulfil a contract we have with you.

(c) Legal obligation: the processing is necessary for us to comply with the law. We may also have to share data with third parties where this is necessary for legal compliance.

(d) Legitimate interests: the processing is necessary for our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party, for example necessary servicing and updating the functions or our website and services,

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are:

(a) Your consent.

(b) We have a contractual obligation.

(c) We have a legitimate interest.

If you require a specific reason for a type of data, please contact hello@journeythroughthings.com.

Third Parties

We may have to share your personal data with third parties, under legitimate interest for the running of our business and services. This may include service providers and IT administration services or providers of legal or financial services.

How we store your personal information

Your information is securely stored on password-encrypted systems and backed up via cloud storage.

We keep your personal data as long as is necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, or until you withdraw your consent.

Your data protection rights

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

Your right of access – You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.

Your right to rectification – You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.

Your right to erasure – You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to object to processing – You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to data portability – You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.

Please contact us at hello@journeythroughthings.com if you wish to make a request.

Changes to this privacy policy

By submitting your information you consent to the use of that information as set out in this Policy.

If we change our Privacy Policy we will update the date at the top of this privacy policy and post the changes on our website.

How to complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at hello@journeythroughthings.com.

You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.

The ICO’s address:           

Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113

ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk

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