Privacy Policy

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Village Pizza Kitchen Ltd Privacy Notice

Village Pizza Kitchen Ltd is committed to protecting your privacy. In order to provide our services to the customer and to provide a more personalised shopping experience, we need to collect certain information from you. This Privacy Notice explains when and why we collect personal information about you as well as the types of personal data we may collect when you interact with us. It also explains how we’ll look after your data and keep it safe. 

We hope what's below covers everything, but if you have any questions at all, do please drop us a line at hello@villagepizzakitchen.com.

1. Explaining the legal bases we rely on

The GDPR law on data protection sets out a number of different reasons a company may collect and process your personal data, including:

Consent

In specific situations, we can collect and process your data with your consent - e.g. when you subscribe to our newsletter or place an order on our website. When collecting your personal data, we’ll always make clear to you which data is necessary in connection with a particular service and have given details on this below.

Contractual obligations

In some instances, we need your personal data to comply with our contractual obligations. For example, if you place an order with us, we need your address details to deliver your order and we may also need to pass your details to a courier.

Legal compliance

We may be legally bound to collect and process your data. For example, if someone is involved in any criminal activity or fraud affecting The Village Kitchen, we need to pass details to law enforcement.

Legitimate interest

We require your data to pursue our legitimate interests in a way which might reasonably be expected as part of running our business and which does not materially impact your rights, freedom or interests. For example, we may use your purchase history and shopping preferences to offer more personalised offers or products.

2. How we collect your personal data

• There are a number of ways in which we may collect information about you:
• When you visit our website, create an account with us and use your account to buy products
• When you redeem vouchers from The Village Kitchen on the phone or online
• When you sign up to our loyalty programme
• When you call our customer care team or fill in a website contact form
• When you enter a competition or prize draw or fill in a survey
• When you comment about or review our products
• When you engage with us on social media
• When you have given a third party permission to share information they hold about you with us

3. The type of personal data we collect

The personal data we may collect includes your name, billing/delivery address, email address, telephone number, notes from conversations we have with you, information from voucher redemptions, your IP address, which websites you came from when visiting ours, which of our web pages you visit, any search terms you entered on our website, information gathered by cookies in your web browser, any comments or product reviews, any information that you may have told us that suggests your preferences (e.g. you may have told us that you are vegetarian) and your social media username if you communicate with us. Please note that when you set up an account with us, your password to log in is encrypted and when you place an order, we do not hold your card details, it is collected by PayPal or SumUp, our third party payment processors who use secure online capture and processing methods. If you choose to save your credit card details these will be securely held with PayPal / SumUp.

4. How and why we use your personal data

When you engage with us, we want to give you the best possible experience. By collecting data about you, it allows us to offer a great and tailored service.

We use your data so we can fulfill our contractual obligations to you (such as deliver your food) but also to offer you products and promotions that are more likely to be of interest to you. The data privacy law allows this as part of our contractual obligations and legitimate business interest in understanding our customers and providing the highest levels of service. We will hold your data in our systems for as long as is necessary for each relevant activity or as long as is set out in any contract we have with you.

If you ever wish to change how we use your data, you can do so. Please refer to the 'Your rights over your personal data' section that is below.

If you choose not to share your personal data with us, or refuse certain contact permissions, we might not be able to provide some services you’ve asked for.

Here are some ways that we'll use your personal data and why:

• To process any orders you make on our website. If we don't collect your personal data during checkout, we won't be able to process and deliver your order and comply with our legal obligations e.g. your details may be passed to a courier so that your order can be delivered. We will keep your details for a reasonable period afterwards in order to fulfill any contractual obligation such as a refund or exchange.
• Our customer care team need to be able to respond to your queries, complaints or process a refund so we need your contact information in order to respond. We will keep a record of your information including notes on how we communicated with you and what was discussed. We do this on the basis of our contractual obligations to you, our legal obligations and our legitimate interests in providing you with excellent customer service and it helps us improve this service to you.
• We keep your personal data to maintain, update and safeguard your account and to protect our business and your account from fraud or other illegal activities. We'll also monitor your browsing activity in order to identify and resolve any problems and protect the integrity of our website. We’ll do all of this as part of our legitimate interest.
• For example, by checking your password when you login and using automated monitoring of IP addresses to identify possible fraudulent log-ins from unexpected locations.
• When you place an order with us, your card details are collected by our third party payment processors PayPal and SumUp who use secure online capture and processing methods. This helps to protect you from fraud. We do this on the basis of our contractual and legitimate business interests.
• If we discover any criminal activity or alleged criminal activity through our use of fraud monitoring and suspicious transaction monitoring, we will process this data for the purposes of preventing or detecting unlawful acts. We aim to protect the individuals we interact with from criminal activities.
• With your consent, we may use your personal data, preferences and details of your transactions to keep you informed about relevant products and tailored special offers, discounts, promotions, competitions and events by email and post. As ever, you can always opt out of hearing from us through these channels at any time.
• To comply with our legal obligations, we will send you communications required by law or which are legally necessary e.g. product recall notices and legally required information relating to your orders. These messages are to inform you about changes to the service we provide you and will not include any promotional content and so do not require prior consent when sent by email or phone.
• If you enter a competition or prize draw run by us we will use your information to contact you in the event of you winning based on your agreement to the terms and conditions of the competition at the time of entry. The personal data relating to your competition entry will be anonymised after 3 months, unless you are drawn as a winner in which case the terms and conditions of the competition may require a longer period of retention for marketing purposes.
• Introduce a friend - we may capture your email address for the purposes of issuing you with an introductory voucher to use Village Pizza Ktichen. Your email address will only be stored for the duration that the voucher is valid and can be removed from our systems on request at any time.
• To display the most interesting content to you on our website we may use data we hold about your product purchases and so on. We do so on the basis of your consent for our website to place cookies or similar technology on your device. e.g, we might display a list of items you’ve recently looked at, or offer you recommendations based on your purchase history and any other data you’ve shared with us.
• We use your data to develop, test and improve our systems and products. We’ll do this on the basis of our legitimate business interests. e.g. customer research to improve our product range, survey feedback etc.
• To comply with our contractual or legal obligations to share data with law enforcement.
• To help us form a great understanding of you as a Village Pizza Kitchen customer and what you like, we may use your personal data gathered as described above, for example your shopping history online, so that we can offer promotions and products that are relevant to your interests or local to you and where we have your consent, send you more relevant, personalised communications by post and email in relation to updates, offers, services and products. We’ll do this on the basis of our legitimate business interest.

5. Protection of your personal data

The security of your personal data is very important to us and we take a lot of care to handle and store it as best we can and in line with legislation as we know it is important to you as well as us.

Here are some ways we secure your data:

• The security of your personal data is very important to us and we take a lot of care to handle and store it as best we can and in line with new legislation as we know it is important to you as well as us.
• We use encrypted https links between our web server and your browser which means that all data passed between you and us cannot be intercepted.
• We do not store your card details ourselves, but instead utilise PayPal and SumUp, who are PCI compliant payment processing providers for all orders placed online and over the phone.
  

6. How long will we assume your consent for mailings?

After your initial consent to sign up to our mailings, we assume you still want to hear from us if you're engaging with Village Pizza Kitchen by opening our emails, visiting the website or placing an order from us. If you haven't done any of these things for a period of three years, we'll get in touch to reconfirm that you still want to hear from us. If we can't re-establish contact with you, we will opt you out of further communication.

7. Length of time we keep your personal data

We only keep your data for as long as is necessary for the purpose it was collected. After that period, your data is deleted or anonymised and for example aggregated with other data to be used for business planning and analysis.

For instance, if you placed an order with us, we keep your details for 7 years and after that it is anonymised.

If we don't see you online for a period of seven years, we will automatically anonymise your account details.

If you have been issued with a voucher through our 'Introduce a Friend' scheme we'll record the voucher code against your email address until the code expires, at which point if you have not ordered or visited in store your data will be anonymised.

8. Who we need to share your personal data with and why

At times we may need to share your personal data with trusted third parties e.g.credit card processing services. We only provide what they need and they cannot use your data for anything other than the purposes that they have your data for. Your data is deleted or rendered anonymous if we stop working with them.

We want your customer journey with the Village Pizza Kitchen to be as smooth as possible. We may use the following companies who will process your personal data as part of their contracts or terms and conditions with us:

• Web Analytics - for monitoring the volume, details and actions of visitors to our website
• Social Media Platforms - for personalising ads into your news feeds (which you can opt out of on their platform)
• Cloud Hosting Providers - we use cloud-based systems to host our website, customer and order database
• Email and text messaging marketing software
• Postcode and routing software - where we map your postcode to plan our delivery bike's route
  

Sharing your data with third parties for their own purposes:

We will never sell or trade your contact details with any third parties, unless you have given us your consent to do.

There are some instances where we may have to share your information based on our legal obligations, for instance:

• Fraudulent activity on our online systems
• If the police/government ask us to disclose information we may be required to share your personal data with them, however we would assess this sort of request very carefully
• For fraud management, we may share information about fraudulent or potentially fraudulent activity in our premises or systems. This may include sharing data about individuals with law enforcement bodies
  

For further information please email hello@villagepizzakitchen.com.

9. Where your personal data may be processed

Sometimes we will need to share your personal data with third parties and suppliers outside the European Economic Area (EEA), such as Australia or the USA.

Protecting your data outside the EEA

The EEA includes all EU Member countries as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. We may transfer personal data that we collect from you to third-party data processors in countries that are outside the EEA.

For example, this might be required in order to fulfil your order, process your payment details or provide support services.

If we do this, we have procedures in place to ensure your data receives the same protection as if it were being processed inside the EEA by ensuring they are compliant with the EU-US Privacy Shield specification.

Any transfer of your personal data will follow applicable laws and we will treat the information under the guiding principles of this Privacy Notice.

10. Your rights over your personal data

You have a choice as to whether or not you receive marketing information from us and you can withdraw your consent from specific communication channels at any time.

How can you stop the use of your personal data for direct marketing?

There are several ways you can stop direct marketing communications from us:

• Click the ‘unsubscribe’ link in any email communication that we send you. We will then stop any further emails
• If you have an account, log in into your account on our website visit the ‘My Account’ area and change your preferences
• Contact our Customer Care team hello@villagepizzakitchen.com

Please note that you may continue to receive communications for a short period after changing your preferences while our systems are fully updated. We estimate no longer than 2 weeks for email and 8 weeks for postal communications.

Requesting access and making changes to your personal data

You also have the right to access and rectify mistakes in the data we hold about you at any time.

These requests will be handled on a case by case basis and we estimate will be processed in no longer than 1 month depending on our legitimate business interests, legal and contractual obligations. If we refuse your request we will explain to you the reason for our refusal.

In order to keep your information confidential, we will ask you to verify your identity before proceeding with any requests. If there is a third party acting on your behalf, we will check that they have your permission to act.

Legitimate Business Interests

In cases where we are processing your personal data on the basis of our legitimate interest, you can ask us to stop for reasons connected to your individual situation. We must then do so unless we believe we have a legitimate overriding reason to continue processing your personal data.

11. Contacting the Regulator

If you are at all unhappy about the handling of your data, you can send a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office by calling 0303 123 1113 or go online to www.ico.org.uk/concerns