Your privacy is important to us. Pickle & Rye (“we”, “us”, our”) owns and operates the site www.pickleandrye.com.com (the “Site”). This Policy explains our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your personal information is collected and used through this Site.

By submitting your personal information to us, or by using the Site, you agree to the processing of your personal information as described in this Policy. Please ensure that you read this Policy carefully before using the Site.

How we collect and use your personal information

You may browse many sections of the Site without providing any personal information about yourself. However, if you choose to contact us or ask us a question through our Contact Us or Careers link or we must collect certain personal information about you. This will include your name, address, email, phone number, as well as information about what you like to receive from us.

We will use your personal information for the following purposes:

• to administer our Site and provide customer services;
• to monitor and analyse the use of any account to prevent, investigate and/or report fraud, terrorism, misrepresentation, security incidents or crime;
• to allow you to participate in the interactive features of the Site (e.g. accessing social network platforms);
• to communicate with you;
• to meet legal, regulatory and compliance requirements;
• investigate any complaints about our Site; and
• personalise your experience of our Site.

Social Platform Registrations and Social Media Plugins

Our Site may permit you to use a third party social networking platforms such as Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter and Google+. This includes use of social media plugins such as Facebook “Like”, Tweet, Pinterest “Pin,” Google “+1” buttons, etc. When you use these social networking platforms and plugins, your username and password for the services and other information available about you or collected from you on these services may be shared with us. We may ask your permission to repost your Facebook or Twitter quotes on our Site. If you agree, you grant us the right to use your posts on our Site for promotional purposes.

When you use social networking platforms and plugins, you share your information with them and their privacy policy and applicable terms of use apply to the use and disclosure of such information. In addition, they may be able to collect information about you, including your activity on our Site, and they may notify your connections on the social networking platform about your use of our Site. Such services may allow your activity to be monitored across multiple website for purposes of delivering more targeted advertising. Please note that their privacy policies and applicable terms of use may apply and we encourage you to read them. We may add new social networking plugins and buttons to our Site from time to time.

Information sharing and disclosure

With your consent, we (and if applicable, our partners or other trusted third parties) will use your personal information for certain marketing, and market research activities. It is up to you how much or how little information you allow us to use for these purposes. Our on screen notices will generally ask for your explicit permission to contact you for these purposes. These are:

to communicate with you from time to time by email and (where you provide us with those details either via the website(s) or elsewhere) by mobile (using SMS or, if your mobile device permits, EMS or MMS messages or similar technologies) and occasionally by post, with information, offers and other material which may interest you;
to make your information available from time to time to trusted partners and third parties, for the same purposes as above; or
to conduct market research, for example to ask you to participate in a survey about topical issues, conducted by us or trusted partners or third parties. We will always try to tell you before you participate in the survey how any information you provide in the survey will be used.
We may share de-identified and aggregated information about how users use our Site to third parties who help us improve our business and services.

Additionally we reserve the right to access and disclose your personal information in order to comply with applicable laws, to comply with lawful requests from governments, law enforcement agencies or parties whose request we reasonably consider to be justified in connection with any allegations by any party about your abuse of our services, to operate our systems properly or to protect ourselves or our users.

In the unlikely event that we sell or otherwise dispose of some or all of our business to another party, we will disclose your personal information to our advisers and any prospective purchaser’s advisers and will transfer your personal information to the new owners of the business.

By submitting your personal information to us and/or by continuing to use our Site, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. Regardless of where your personal information is stored or processed we will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Policy and applicable data protection laws.

Information collected from your use of the Site

We may automatically collect the following information from you:

technical information, including your device’s IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, mobile advertising identifiers; and
information about your visit, including the URL clickstream to, through and from our Site (including date and time); products you viewed, searched for or reviewed; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs or items which you have added to your shopping basket), and methods used to browse away from the page.
Some of this information is collected using cookies and other tracking technologies. To learn more, please see the following section on Cookies.

Cookies and similar technologies

Like many websites, we use and allow certain other companies to use cookies and other similar technologies (such as web beacons) to understand your use of our Site, to improve your user experience and enable personalised features and content, to enable analytics and measurement reporting, to optimise our advertisements and marketing and to enable third party advertising companies to assist us in serving ads specific to your interests either on our Site or across the Internet. You can find more information about cookies and other technologies at: www.allaboutcookies.org.

Our use of cookies

Details of cookies we use and the ability to modify your consent is available on the cookie policy page.

Your rights in respect of your personal information

You are entitled to see the personal information held about you. If you wish to do this, please contact us at enquiries@@hrv-group.com. We may require you to provide verification of your identity to provide a copy of the information we hold. Please note that in certain circumstances we may withhold access to your information where we have the right to do so under applicable data protection legislation.

You may also have the right to ask us to rectify, block, delete, restrict, object or withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal information and to request an explanation about the processing by contacting enquiries@@hrv-group.com. You may also amend or update your details by logging into your account. You may also make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office at www.ico.org.uk or seek a remedy through the courts if you believe your rights have been breached.

If you no longer wish to receive any marketing communications from us, please send an email to [email protected] specifying your name, the email address/ telephone number you used to register with us and if referring to a web registration, your user name in the email and whether you wish to stop receiving all marketing communications from us or just specific emails, newsletters or other interactions with us. Alternatively please follow the unsubscribe options at the bottom of any email we send you. Please note that if you have already requested products or services when you decide to withdraw your consent, there may be a short period of time for us to update your preferences and ensure that we honour your request. Where we require personal information to comply with legal or contractual obligations, then the provision of such data is mandatory: if such data is not provided, then we will not be able to administer our relationship with you. In all other cases, the provision of personal information is optional.

If you have any other questions about privacy issues or concerns, please send us an email to [email protected].

Children’s Privacy

Our Site is not intended for use by children under the age of 13. We do not market any of our products online for children under the age of 13, nor do we design our online applications, advertisements and other features to attract an audience of children under age of 13. We do not knowingly register or otherwise collect personal information from any child under the age of 13.

Security

We have implemented reasonable technical and organisational measures to ensure that your personal information is secure, including limiting the number of people who have physical access to our database servers, as well as electronic security systems and password protections that guard against unauthorised access. However, the Internet is an open system and we cannot guarantee that unauthorised third parties will never be able to defeat those measures or use your personal information for improper purposes.

Links to other Website

Our Site may contain links to other websites operated, controlled and maintained by independent third parties. We do not control the use of information that you may provide to such third parties. If you access other websites using the links provided in our Site, the operators of the third party sites may collect information from you which will then be used by them in accordance with their own privacy policies, not ours. These policies may differ from ours. It is your responsibility to familiarise yourself with privacy policies on our Site and other websites.

Changes to this Policy

As we continue to provide additional services and as the privacy laws and regulations evolve, it may be necessary to revise or update this Policy. We encourage you to review this Policy from time to time as you return to our Site, so that you are familiar with any changes. For significant changes, we will notify you either by posting a prominent notice on our Site or emailing you and if required by applicable law, we will obtain your consent.

This policy was last updated in July 2021.

Contact Us

Pickle & Rye is the data controller of your personal information. You may contact us on 0208 878 8982 or by emailing [email protected] if you have any questions about our Privacy & Cookies Policy or our data practices outlined above.