Last updated: March 16, 2025
Introduction
Welcome to Beekeeper Corner (“we,” “our,” or “us”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
Important Information and Who We Are
Purpose of This Privacy Policy
This privacy policy aims to give you information on how Beekeeper Corner collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide through this website when you sign up for our newsletter, purchase a product, or engage with our content.
This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.
Controller
Beekeeper Corner is the controller and responsible for your personal data.
The Data We Collect About You
Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:
- Identity Data includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier.
- Contact Data includes email address and optional telephone numbers.
- Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
- Profile Data includes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback, and survey responses.
- Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, products, and services.
- Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health, and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offenses.
How We Collect Your Personal Data
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
Direct interactions
You may give us your Identity and Contact Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
- Subscribe to our newsletter or publications;
- Request marketing to be sent to you;
- Enter a competition, promotion, or survey;
- Give us feedback or contact us.
Automated technologies or interactions
As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies.
Third parties or publicly available sources
We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources such as analytics providers like Google; advertising networks; and search information providers.
How We Use Your Personal Data
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
- Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
- Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
- Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.
Purposes for Which We Will Use Your Personal Data
We have set out below a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so.
To register you as a new customer
- Type of data: Identity, Contact
- Lawful basis: Performance of a contract with you
To process and deliver your order
- Type of data: Identity, Contact, Financial, Transaction, Marketing and Communications
- Lawful basis: Performance of a contract with you, Necessary for our legitimate interests
To manage our relationship with you
- Type of data: Identity, Contact, Profile, Marketing and Communications
- Lawful basis: Performance of a contract with you, Necessary to comply with a legal obligation, Necessary for our legitimate interests
To administer and protect our business and this website
- Type of data: Identity, Contact, Technical
- Lawful basis: Necessary for our legitimate interests, Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you
- Type of data: Identity, Contact, Profile, Usage, Marketing and Communications, Technical
- Lawful basis: Necessary for our legitimate interests
To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships, and experiences
- Type of data: Technical, Usage
- Lawful basis: Necessary for our legitimate interests
Disclosures of Your Personal Data
We may share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in section 4 above:
- Service providers who provide IT and system administration services.
- Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers.
- Regulators and other authorities who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.
- Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets.
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our 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 our instructions.
International Transfers
We may transfer your personal data to countries outside your home country. If we do, we ensure your personal data is protected by requiring the use of specific contracts approved for use in your jurisdiction.
Data Security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit 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.
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.
Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
Your Legal Rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. These include the right to:
- Request access to your personal data.
- Request correction of your personal data.
- Request erasure of your personal data.
- Object to processing of your personal data.
- Request restriction of processing your personal data.
- Request transfer of your personal data.
- Right to withdraw consent.
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us.
No Fee Usually Required
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive, or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
What We May Need From You
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
Time Limit to Respond
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.
Cookies
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact us at:
Email: [email protected]
We hope this Privacy Policy helps you understand how we handle your personal data. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to reach out to us.