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Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy  

This Privacy Policy describes::

  • how The Dog’s Breakfast Limited and its websites www.thedogsbreakfast.im and www.thedogsbreakfast.net (the “Site” or “we”) collects, uses, and discloses your Personal Information when you visit or make a purchase from the shop and/or Site.
  • Who we are and how to contact us
  • When we collect personal data, how we use personal data and how long we keep personal data for
  • Your rights

Please read this policy carefully.

If you have additional questions after reading this policy, want more information about our privacy practices please contact us by e-mail at admin@thedogsbreakfast.im or in writing using the details provided below.

Using and Collecting Personal Information

We use your personal Information to contact you, provide and improve our services to you, which includes: offering products for sale, processing payments, delivery and fulfilment of your order, and keeping you up to date on new products, services, and offers.  We may ask you to provide personally identifiable information which may include but is not limited to your email address, first name, last name, phone number, address, Town/City/Village, Postal Code,  usage date.  By using the service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. 

Order information we collect is used to fulfil any orders you place through our site, such as processing your payment, arranging collection/delivery, providing invoices/order confirmations.  We also use it to:

  • Communicate with you
  • Screen for potential risk/fraud for example, by using your IP address
  • Improve our site by looking at analytics to see how you browse and interact with out site
  • Assess the outcome of our advertising & marketing
  • And depending on preferences you share with us – to prove you with information or advertising relating to our produces and service.

Device Information

When you use our site, we automatically collect certain information about your device such as its IP address (internet protocol address), web browser type/version, time zone, your interaction with the Site such as the pages you visit, time spent on those pages, the time and date of your visit, products you view, what referred you to our site, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data/information necessary to process your purchases .  We may also collect additional information if you contact us for customer support.  

If you access the service by or through a mobile device we may collect information automatically including but not limited to, the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of you rmobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile internet browser you use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our service or when you access the service by or through a mobile device.

Personal Information

Our Privacy Policy, refers to any information about an identifiable individual (including the information below) as “Personal Information”. See the list below for more information about what Personal Information we collect and why.

  • Device information
    • Purpose of collection: to load the Site accurately for you, and to perform analytics on Site usage to optimise our Site.
    • Source of collection: Collected automatically when you access our Site using cookies, log files, web beacons, tags, or pixels.
    • Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our processor WordPress.
    • Personal Information collected: version of web browser, IP address, time zone, cookie information, what sites or products you view, search terms, and how you interact with the Site.
  • Order information
    • Purpose of collection: to provide products or services to you to fulfil our contract, to process your payment information, arrange for delivery, provide you with invoices and/or order confirmations, communicate with you, screen our orders for potential risk or fraud, and when in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.
    • Source of collection: collected from you.
    • Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our processor WordPress and Opayo for the purpose of processing your order and taking payments.
    • Personal Information collected: name, billing address, delivery address, payment information (including credit card numbers, email address, and phone number, paypal information?????.
  • Customer support information
    • Purpose of collection: to provide help with products or services, to deal with enquiries/complaints you may need to make, when undertaking investigations in accordance with statutory requirements, for the purpose of correspondence such as our newsletter, updates and special offers
    • Source of collection:
    • Disclosure for a business purpose: for the sale and supply of pet food and associated products and gifts
    • Personal Information collected: 
    • Purpose of collection: to provide customer support.
    • Source of collection: collected from you

Sharing Personal Information

We may share your Personal Information with service providers/third parties to help us provide our services and fulfil our contracts with you, as described above. For example:

  • We may share your information with a supplier to complete an order, such as engraving requests.
  • We may share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a lawful request for information or to otherwise protect our rights.

Why we keep your information

When you place an order through the Site, we will retain your Personal Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete it.

Behavioural Advertising

As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For example:

For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at https://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

You can opt out of targeted advertising by:

Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: https://optout.aboutads.info/.

Lawful basis

Pursuant to the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), if you are a resident of the Isle of Man and or the United Kingdom we process your personal information under the following lawful bases:

  • Your consent is given when you use our website or place an order
  • The performance of the contract between you and the Site;
  • Compliance with our legal obligations to you in fulfilling your order;
  • To protect your vital interests;
  • To perform a task carried out in the public interest;

For our legitimate interests, which do not override your fundamental rights and freedoms

Automatic decision-making

Our processor Opayo uses limited automated decision-making to prevent fraud that does not have a legal or otherwise significant effect on you.

Services that include elements of automated decision-making include:

  • Temporary blacklist of IP addresses associated with repeated failed transactions. This blacklist persists for a small number of hours.
  • Temporary blacklist of credit cards associated with blacklisted IP addresses. This blacklist persists for a small number of days.

Selling and Disclosing Personal Information

We will never sell your personal data.

We will not disclose personal data without your prior knowledge.  However, when we investigate a complaint, we may for example need to share information with one of our suppliers. 

Your rights

The Isle of Man has implemented the GDPR into its law so that it can continue to do business with EU countries. The GDPR has been implemented in the Isle of Man using an Order made under a new Data Protection Act 2018 which enables the Isle of Man to bring in EU laws relating to data protection.

If you are a resident of the Isle of Man, you have the right to access the Personal Information we hold about you unless and to the extent necessary, that the right of access is restricted.  You can ask that any mistakes be corrected, updated or for your data to be erased. You also have the right subject to any statutory limitations to object to processing or restriction of processing and to data portability.   

If you are a European resident you will benefit from any mandatory provisions of the law of the country in which you are resident in.

UNITED STATES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT END USE PROVISIONS

If You are a U.S. federal government end user, our Service is a “Commercial Item” as that term is defined at 48 C.F.R. §2.101.

UNITED STATES LEGAL COMPLIANCE

You represent and warrant that (i) You are not located in a country that is subject to the United States government embargo, or that has been designated by the United States government as a “terrorist supporting” country, and (ii) You are not listed on any United States government list of prohibited or restricted parties.

Please note that your information may be transferred outside the Isle of Man, including to the UK, Canada and the United States to enable us to fulfil payment processing, your orders and to enable us to fulfil contracts we might have with you.

If you would like to exercise these rights, please contact the Data Protection Officer at admin@thedogsbreakfast.im

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

We collect device information using Cookies and beacons, tags and scripts and similar tracking technology to track the activity on our service and store certain information.  Tracking technologies we use can track information and to improve and analyse our service.  The technologies we may use include:

Cookies or Browser Cookies – A cookie is information downloaded to your computer or device by way of a small data file when you visit our Site. We use a number of different cookies, including functional, performance, advertising, and social media or content cookies.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

You can control and manage cookies in various ways.  Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can choose whether or not to accept cookies through your browser controls   

If you don’t accept Cookies you may not be able to use some parts of our service and negatively impact your user experience as parts of our website may no longer be fully accessible.

For more information about how to block, manage or filter cookies visit : www.allaboutcookies.org.

Flash Cookies – features of our service may use local stored objects (flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences or your activity on our service.  Flash Cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as those used for Browser Cookies.  For more information on how you can delete Flash Cookies please read ‘Where can I change the settings for disabling or deleting local shared objects? Available at Adobe Flash Disable Local Shared Object

Log files – track actions on the site and collect data such as your IP address, browser type, internet service provider, referring/exit pages, date/ time stamps.

Web Beacons – certain sections of our service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also known as clear gifs, pixel tags and single-pixel gifs), used to collect information about how you browse the site, count how many visitors have visited pages, record website statistics.

Additionally, please note that blocking cookies may not completely prevent how we share information with third parties such as our advertising partners. To exercise your rights or opt-out of certain uses of your information by these parties, please follow the instructions in the “Behavioural Advertising” section above.

Do Not Track

Please note that we do not alter our data collection and usage practices when we detect a do not trace signal from your browser.

Links to Other Websites

Our website may use links to other websites.  The Company has no control over the links to third party websites or services and assumes no responsibility for their content, privacy policies or the practices of any third party websites or services for the links to other websites. 

We strongly recommend and positively encourage you to read the privacy policy and statement on other websites you visit by using the links on our website and service.

By using our website and service you acknowledge an degree that the Company is not responsible or liable, directly or indirectly for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with the use of or reliance upon any content, goods or services available on or through any of the links on our site to other website or services.

Changes           

We reserve the right to update our Privacy Policy from time to time which may be to reflects regulatory, legal, operational changes or changes to our practices.

We reserve the right to make changes to our terms and conditions and any changes will be at our sole discretion to modify or replace our terms and conditions at any time.  We will make reasonable effort to provide notice of any material change prior to any new terms taking effect and this will be at least 30 days notice.  The meaning of material change is determined at out sole discretion.  If you continue to use our service after any changes to the terms and conditions and/or our privacy policy you will be deemed to have accepted the changes and agree to be bound by the changes made by us.  If you do not agree to the changes in part or in whole please stop using our service and our website.

Minors

The Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 18 (eighteen). We do not intentionally collect Personal Information from children/minors.  If you are the parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us at dpo@thedogsbreakfast.im to request deletion.

Getting In Touch

The Dog’s Breakfast Limited

We are a limited company incorporated on the Isle of Man, company registration number 136532C

You can visit us at our shop at The Dog’s Breakfast Knockaloe Farm Shop Patrick IM5 3AJ or online at www.thedogsbreakfast.im

We sell Nutriment Raw pet food and Nutirment treats.  We also sell other pet foods, pet related products, gifts for all occasions, plants and garden ranges.

Our contact details for enquiries are admin@thedogsbreakfast.im or 07624 261745

If you wish to contact our Data Protection Officer please email admin@thedogsbreakfast.im

If You have any concern or dispute about the Service, You agree to first try to resolve the dispute informally by contacting the Company.

All rights, title and interest are assigned to the Company in any Feedback You provide to the Company.   If for any reason such assignment is ineffective, you agree to grant the Company a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty free, worldwide right and license to use, reproduce, disclose, sub-license, distribute, modify and exploit such Feedback without restriction.

If you need to get in touch, please contact us by e-mail or by mail using the details provided above.

If you are not satisfied with our response to your complaint, you have the right to lodge your complaint with the Office of Fair Trading and their contact details can be found in our Terms and Conditions.

If your complaint is about collecting and using your personal data, you can contact the Isle of Man Information Commissioner and you can find out more about this at:

https://www.inforights.im/organisations/data-protection-law-2018/remedies-for-individuals

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy

Account         a unique account created for you to access our service or parts of our

Service

Company       (referred to as either the Company, we, us, our in this document) refers

to The Dog’s Breakfast, Frimley, Cannan Avenue, Kirk Michael,

IM6 1HE

Data                For the purposes of GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)  the

Controller      Company is the Data Controller

                        For the purposes of GDPR Data Controller refers to the Company as

the legal person which alone or jointly with others determines the

purposes and means of the processing of Personal Data.

Cookies         These are small files that are placed on your computer, mobile device

or any other device by a website, containing details of your browsing

history on that website among its many users

Country          The Isle of Man

Device            any device that can access the service such as a computer, a

Mobile/cellphone or digital tablet

Personal        Any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.

Data                For the purposes for GDPR, Personal Data means any information

relating to you such as name, an identification number, location data,

online identifier, or to one or more factors specific to the

physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social

identity.

Service           website and any account you create

Service           any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the

Provider         Company.  It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by

the Company to facilitate the service, to provide the service on behalf

of the Company, to perform services related to the service or to assist

the Company in analysing how the service is used. 

For the purpose of the GDPR service providers are considered Data

Processors

Third Party     any website or any social network website through which a user can

Social             log in or create an account to use the service

Media

Service

Device            data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the service

Information    or from the service infrastructure itself (for example the duration of a

page visit)

Website          The Dog’s Breakfast accessible from https://www.thedogsbreakfast.im and www.thedogsbreakfast.net

You                 the individual accessing or using the service or the Company or other

legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the

service as applicable

                        Under GDPR you can be referred to as the Data Subject or as the User

as you are the individual using the service.