Privacy Policy

Introduction

This website is operated by Pick’s Organic Farm Ltd (“we”, “us” or “Pick’s”) and we are a controller for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 2018 and the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679. This means that we are responsible for, and control the processing of, the personal information you provide to us when using this website in accordance with this privacy policy.

Pick’s understands that customers care about the use and storage of their personal information and we value your trust in allowing us to do this in a careful and sensible manner. We have created this privacy policy statement in order to demonstrate our commitment to the privacy of our customers.

By using Pick’s services, our websites (including our mobile site), any future mobile app, our social media pages, our telephone line, our helpdesk functions and any other Pick’s service, you are acknowledging that we are processing your personal information and, where necessary consenting to such practices, as outlined in this statement.

If you are using our website or our recruitment portal to apply for vacancies, such activities are governed by a separate privacy policy which outlines how we process your personal information for these purposes and your rights in relation to the same. This separate privacy policy can be accessed at the bottom of the pages of our careers website.

Personal information that we collect

We collect personal information about you (and others if their personal information is provided by you) when you:

1. make or manage an online order for you or a third-party;
2. request a brochure or pricelist;
3. sign up for our newsletter and other marketing emails (in line with Marketing below);
4. enquire about or apply for a wholesale account; engage with us to receive help services (such as by contacting our customer services department, through the “Contact Us” form on our website or by calling our telephone line (which may be recorded);
5. post material to our website and / or social media page;
6. complete customer feedback or surveys as part of your stay at one of our hotels;
7. purchase items using online payment methods such as PayPal, Zettle, Square or Barclaycard as well via banking services;
8. raise a complaint or dispute with us or are involved in a legally recordable incident (e.g. in relation to health and safety reporting);
9. speak to one of our representatives, call centre agents or members of our customer services or PR team;
10. participate in competitions or promotions;
11. and / or use our website and customer applications in any other way.

The personal information collected in the above manner may include the following about you (and others if their personal information is provided by you):

1. full name;
2. postal address;
3. email address;
4. telephone number;
5. payment details (transactional information from our payment partners);
6. geo-location;
7. machine identifiers (such as IP addresses);
8. dispute resolution information;
9. disability and health information;
10. supplementary information (dietary and other preferences and special requirements);
11. image data;
12. behavioural data (tags and cookies – see Cookies and Tracking section below);
13. voice recordings; and
14. identification information (such as passports, drivers’ licences or national identity cards).

Personal information provided by third parties

We may obtain information about you with social media providers such as X (formely Twitter), Instagram and Facebook or from third party websites where you have left commentary or feedback about us (for example on TripAdvisor, Mailchimp or Tawk.to).  We also will collect personal payment information and it will be necessary to share this with our payment processors.  Depending on the payment processor you choose you can view their privacy statement here: https://stripe.com/gb/privacy or https://www.paypal.com/uk/legalhub/privacy-full.  If we ship your order to you it may be necessary to share address and contact information with our appointed courier so that they may deliver your order to you APC's privacy statement can be found here: https://apc-overnight.com/site-information/privacy-policy.

How we use your information

We will collect personal information:

1. in order to take the necessary steps in preparation of, or to fulfill our obligations under, an order either online or by other means:
   1. Orders and payments – provide communications about orders, products and services being provided to you (and others if their personal information is provided by you).  If you pay by Stripe we store a payment 'token' which acts as a pre-authorisation for your payment method which makes payments simpler to process and the order system simpler to use for the end-user;
   2. Orders and account updates – send details of new, amended or cancelled orders or ‘My Account’ account details and changes – usually via email;
   3. Update you on matters affecting your order – contact you (and others if their personal information is provided by you) in the event of a change that affects an order or any data or personal information you have provided us with, such as changes to terms and conditions of order or this privacy policy;
   4. Website service communication – provide notifications of any changes to our website or to our services that may affect you (and others if their personal information is provided by you);
   5. Customer service communication – provide you with requested information or correspondence, such as a Pick’s newsletter or a response from us to an enquiry made by you;
   6. To provide assistance in completing orders – send reminder emails to continue with an order which is in your “basket” on our websites or mobile app but is not paid and completed;
   7. Maintain your My Account – create a profile about you in relation to your order, to update our records, create and maintain your account.
2. with your consent:
   1. Marketing communications – create a profile about you for marketing purposes to tailor our communications to you. We may use automated processes to do this;
   2. Promotional offers – inform you about promotional offers and other products or services that may be of interest (in line with Marketing communications above);
   3. Maintain records indicating your consent to status – to ensure we accurately reflect your wishes when communicating to you;
3. in our legitimate interest* improve our services:
   1. Market research – to contact you (and others if their personal information is provided by you) to ask about the experience using our hotels and services as part of a continual programme of customer service improvement. This is not marketing communication and is separate to Marketing communications above. We may use third parties for example TripAdvisor to provide such market research communications to you on our behalf;
   2. Website customisation – to customise our website and its content to your particular preferences in accordance with the Cookies and Tracking section below;
   3. Customer support – monitor calls and help train staff in relation to our customer support and helpdesk function;
   4. Product and service improvement – to improve our product and services;
   5. Service analysis – to conduct research, statistical analysis and behavioral analysis. This may include providing aggregate statistical information relating to customers, sales, traffic patterns and related site information to reputable third parties.
4. in our legitimate interest* to protect against fraud:
   1. Website improvement and fraud prevention – improve our websites, prevent or detect fraud or abuses of our websites and enable third parties to carry out technical, logistical or other functions on our behalf;
   2. Security – carry out security checks when allowing you access to our services and to block fraudulent or suspected fraudulent activity.
5. in order to meet our legal obligations:
   1. Taxation – ensure we meet our tax and other regulatory obligations;
   2. Registration – ensure local jurisdiction regulations are complied with (where registration is necessary in such jurisdictions).

* any reliance on legitimate interest shall not prejudice your interest or fundamental rights and freedoms.

Marketing

We may periodically send promotional material to you about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting based on the profile we have created about you to the email addresses and phone numbers which you have provided.

If these are similar to products, services and orders previously supplied by us to you, we will assume, under our legitimate interests to promote similar goods and services, that you are willing to receive this information unless you tell us otherwise. Please note that we do not want to send you information that you do not want to receive and you can opt out at any time (please see ‘The right to ask us to stop contacting you with direct marketing’ below for further information).

We will always ask your permission before sending you email marketing information (unless your company is a member of Pick’s Business or you have already received similar services, products or orders from us as mentioned above). We do this by asking for your positive confirmation (e.g. by providing a tick or inserting your contact details in the relevant boxes) indicating that you wish to receive marketing and you can opt out at any time (please see ‘The right to ask us to stop contacting you with direct marketing’ below for further information). This ensures you only receive information that you have given us permission to send and are willing to receive.

If your company is a member of Pick’s Business we will send electronic marketing messages to the email addresses provided by the member company to promote Pick’s Business and related benefits. However you will still have the ability to opt out of these messages in accordance with this policy (see ‘The right to ask us to stop contacting you with direct marketing’ below).

We may use your information to create a profile about you in order to tailor, by automated means, our communication and marketing to you. You can object to such profiling, please see ‘The right to object to automated decision making / profiling’ below).

From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for research purposes and / or to ask about your experience using our hotels and services as part of a continual programme of customer service improvement. We may contact you by email, telephone, text, social media and / or mail. We may also use the information to customise the website according to your interests.

Advertising and Analytics

We use Facebook Custom Audiences to deliver advertisments to Website Visitors on Facebook.  You may learn more about Facebook Custom Audiences by visiting https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/dataprocessing and may learn how to opt out of receiving advertisments from picksorganic.

How long we will keep your personal information

We retain your information for a range of purposes which determine the period of time for which we need to keep such information. For example (list is not exclusive):

We will remove your data from our systems at the end of the applicable data retention periods, unless we are required by current or future law to retain your personal information for a longer period.

Our approach to information security

To protect your information, Pick’s has policies and procedures in place to make sure that only authorised personnel can access the information, that information is handled and stored in a secure and sensible manner and all systems that can access the information have proportionate and reasonable security measures in place. To achieve this, employees, contractors, sub-contractors and third party suppliers have contracts, with defined roles and responsibilities.

While we take commercially reasonable measures to ensure the safety and security of your data, due to the inherent risks with the Internet, we are unable to warranty the absolute security of your data when using our services.

Transfers of your information out of the EEA

We may from time to time need to transfer your personal information to partners which are located outside the European Economic Area, for the purpose of ensuring our websites are operating correctly or in relation to third parties to whom we share your data. Any transfer of your data will be subject to adequate levels of protection that will safeguard your privacy rights and give you remedies in the unlikely event of a security breach.  We may also share limited and pre-approved information with social media partners.

Your rights

In order to process any of the requests listed below, we may need to verify your identity for your security. In such cases your response will be necessary for you to exercise this right.

The right to access information we hold about you

At any point you can contact us to request details concerning the information we hold about you, why we have that information, who has access to the information and where we got the information. In most cases you may be entitled to copies of the information we hold concerning you. Once we have received your request we will respond within 30 days.

The right to correct and update the information we hold about you

If the data we hold about you is out of date, incomplete or incorrect, you can inform us and we will ensure that it is updated.

The right to have your information erased

If you feel that we should no longer be using your data or that we are illegally using your data, you can request that we erase the data we hold. When we receive your request, we will confirm whether the data has been deleted or tell you the reason why it cannot be deleted.

The right to object to processing of your data

You have the right to request that Pick’s stops processing your data. Upon receiving the request, we will contact you to tell you if we are able to comply or if we have legitimate grounds to continue. If data is no longer processed, we may continue to hold your data to comply with your other rights.

The right to ask us to stop contacting you with direct marketing

You have the right to request that we stop contacting you with direct marketing. On promotional emails we provide an ‘unsubscribe’ link at the bottom of the email which will unsubscribe you from that service. You can also unsubscribe by updating your profile preference center or via your ‘My Account’ account on our website or via our unsubscribe link. If you wish to opt out with respect to more than one email address, you must complete a separate request for each email address.

Please note it is not possible to ‘opt-out’ of receiving communication from us which relates to your orders or customer satisfaction surveys sent as part of the order (which are not considered marketing for these purposes). This ensures that we can always contact you as a result of circumstances that may affect your stay with us and in order for us to improve our services going forward.

The right to data portability

You have the right to request that we transfer your data to another controller. Once we have received your request, we will comply where it is feasible to do so.

The right to object to automated decision making / profiling

You have the right to request that we stop profiling you in relation to our direct marketing practice. You can inform us and we will deal with your request accordingly.

The right to complain

You can make a complaint to us by contacting us via or to the data protection supervisory authority – in the UK, this is the Information Commissioner’s Office, at https://ico.org.uk/.

Consent

In those cases where we need your consent to process your information, we will ask you to make a positive indication (e.g. to tick a box or insert your contact details on the relevant form or web page requiring consent). By actively providing us with your consent, you are stating that you have been informed as to the type of personal information that will be processed, the reasons for such processing, how it will be used, for how long it will be kept, who else will have access to it and what your rights are as a data subject and that you have read and understood this privacy policy.

Sharing your information

The information and data we collect is important for Pick’s and we understand that you care about the use and storage of your personal information we value your trust in allowing us to do this. We would not want to share this with anyone else unless we have your express consent, we will never disclose, rent, trade or sell your personal information to any third parties for their marketing purposes.

We do disclose or transfer your data or personal information to other companies, data processors or agents employed by us to perform any necessary functions on our behalf (such as hosting and maintaining our website, providing us with data management systems, market research, customer satisfaction surveys and support services), but they are bound by similar terms to those set out in our privacy policy and may not use this information for their own purposes.

In the event that Pick’s or any part of its business is sold to or integrated with another business, Pick’s may disclose your personal information to the new owners (and their professional advisers on the transaction) to be used by the new owners and their group of companies in the same ways as set out in this privacy policy, including to continue providing you with the same services and marketing information services as are currently provided by Pick’s.

We may also provide aggregate statistics about our customers, sales, traffic patterns and related site information to reputable third parties in order to better understand our services, website and overall customer satisfaction which may include personally identifying information.