Privacy Policy

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This information provides you with details of how I collect and process your personal data through your use of AlchemicalJourneys.com.

This privacy notice indicates that your data matters to me. I care about protecting your privacy, which means protecting the information you provide to me. To protect your privacy, Alchemical Journeys follows principles in accordance with worldwide practices for customer privacy and data protection.

By providing me with your data, you warrant to me that you are over 18 years of age.

Please understand that your privacy is absolutely paramount to me and that any data I collect is only the standard data I need for my business practices only. Everything stated below is the standard jargon I'm legally required to put here. Please do not let it overwhelm you.

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me. But everything you need to understand is written below.

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INTRODUCTION

Alchemical Journeys is serious about protecting your online privacy.

This privacy notice provides you with details of how I collect and process your personal data through your use of my website. Alchemical Journeys is the data controller and I am responsible for your personal data.

Full name of legal entity: Alchemical Journeys
Email address: AlchemicalJourneys@gmail.com

It is very important that the information I hold about you is accurate and up to date. Please let me know if at any time your personal information changes by emailing me at AlchemicalJourneys@gmail.com.

WHAT DATA I COLLECT ABOUT YOU, FOR WHAT PURPOSE, AND ON WHAT LEGAL GROUNDS I PROCESS IT

Personal data means any information capable of identifying an individual. It does not include anonymized data.

I may process the following categories of personal data about you:

• Communication Data that includes any communication you send to me, whether through contact forms on my website, email, text, social media messaging, social media posting or any other avenue. I process this data for the purposes of communicating with you, for record keeping, and to establish, pursue or defend our legal claims. My legal grounds for this processing is my legitimate interest, which in this case is to reply to communications sent to me, to keep records, and to establish, pursue or defend legal claims.

• Customer Data that includes data relating to any purchases of goods and/or services, such as your name, title, billing address, delivery address, email address, phone number, contact details, purchase details and your card details. I process this data to supply the goods and/or services you have purchased, and to keep records of such transactions. My legal grounds for this processing is the performance of a contract between you and I and/or taking steps at your request to enter into such a contract.

• User Data that includes data about how you use our website and any online services together with any data that you post for publication on my website or through other online services. I process this data to operate my website and ensure relevant content is provided to you, to ensure the security of my website, to maintain back-ups of my website and/or databases, and to enable publication and administration of my website, other online services and business. My legal grounds for this processing is my legitimate interest, which in this case is to enable me to properly administer my website and my business.

• Technical Data that includes data about your use of our website and online services such as your IP address, your login data, details about your browser, length of visit to pages on our website, page views and navigation paths, details about the number of times you use our website, time zone settings and other technology on the devices you use to access our website. The source of this data is from my analytics tracking system. We process this data to analyze your use of our website and other online services, to administer and protect our business and website, to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and to understand the effectiveness of our advertising. Our legal grounds for this processing is our legitimate interests, which in this case are to enable us to properly administer our website and our business, to grow our business, and to decide our marketing strategy.

• Marketing Data that includes data about your preferences in receiving marketing from me, and your communication preferences. I process this data to enable you to take part in our promotions such as competitions, prize draws and free giveaways, to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you, and to measure or understand the effectiveness of this advertising. My legal grounds for this processing is my legitimate interest, which in this case is to study how customers use my products/services, to develop them, to grow my business and to decide my marketing strategy.

• I may use Customer Data, User Data, Technical Data and Marketing Data to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you (including Facebook adverts or other display advertisements) and to measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising I serve you. My legal grounds for this processing is legitimate interest, which is to grow my business to better serve you. I may also use such data to send other marketing communications to you. My legal grounds for this processing is either consent or legitimate interests (namely to grow my business to better support you).

SENSITIVE DATA

I do not collect any Sensitive Data about you. Sensitive data refers to data that 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. I do not collect any information about criminal convictions and offenses.

I will only use your personal data for a purpose it was collected for or a reasonably compatible purpose if necessary. For more information on this please email me at: AlchemicalJourneys@gmail.com.

In case I need to use your details for an unrelated new purpose I will let you know and explain the legal grounds for processing. I may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent where this is required or permitted by law.

HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA

I may collect data about you by your providing the data directly to me (for example, by filling in forms on my site, by registering for coaching and/or spiritual direction with Felicity Doyle, or by sending me texts or emails). I may automatically collect certain data from you as you use my website by using cookies and similar technologies.

I may receive data from third parties such as analytics providers such as Google (based in the US), advertising networks such as Facebook (based in the US), search information providers such as Google (based in the US), and providers of technical, payment and delivery services.

MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS

My legal grounds for processing your personal data to send you marketing communications is either your consent or our legitimate interests (namely to grow our business to better support you).

Under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, I may send you marketing communications from me if (1) you made a purchase or asked for information from us about our goods or services or (2) you agreed to receive marketing communications and in each case, you have not opted out of receiving such communications since. Under these regulations, if you are a limited company, I may send you marketing emails without your consent. However, you can still opt out of receiving marketing emails from me at any time.

Before I share your personal data with any third party for their own marketing purposes, I will get your express consent.

You can ask me or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by logging into the website and checking or unchecking relevant boxes to adjust your marketing preferences OR by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you OR by emailing the third party directly by way of their contact information (once you have been receiving their messages).

You can ask me to stop sending you marketing messages by emailing me at AlchemicalJourneys@gmail.com.

If you opt out of receiving marketing communications, this opt-out does not apply to personal data provided as a result of other transactions, such as purchases, warranty registrations etc.

DISCLOSURES OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

I may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below:

• Service providers who provide IT and system administration services.
• Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers.
• Government bodies that require me to report processing activities.
• Third parties to whom I sell, transfer, or merge parts of my business or my assets.
  

I require all third parties to whom I transfer your data to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. I only allow such third parties to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

THIRD-PARTY LINKS

I may promote special offers, products and services from third parties, and direct you to websites that are owned and/or controlled by third parties.

This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you.

I pride myself on only working with quality third parties that I trust, and only those where I have good reason to believe that they have the appropriate data protections in place. I do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave my website, I encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.

You may review some of those Privacy Policies here:

• Amazon S3 https://aws.amazon.com/privacy
• Dropbox https://www.dropbox.com/en_GB/privacy
• Facebook https://m.facebook.com/about/privacyshield
• FedEx https://www.fedex.com/us/security/index.html
• Google (all products) https://policies.google.com/privacy
• Mailchimp https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/
• PayPal https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/ua/legalhub-full
• USPS https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/privacy-policy/welcome.htm

DATA RETENTION

I 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.

When deciding what the correct time is to keep the data for I look at its amount, nature and sensitivity, potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure, the processing purposes, if these can be achieved by other means and legal requirements.

For tax purposes the law requires me to keep basic information about my customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for six years after they stop being customers.

In some circumstances I may anonymize your personal data for research or statistical purposes in which case I may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

COOKIES

Alchemical Journeys may utilize cookies to create a more customized experience for users and customers. I also use tracking pixels (i.e. Google Analytics) to aid in measuring and tracking where my website traffic is coming from and to track the performance of my site. Finally, I use remarketing pixels from Facebook and Google to aid in customized, targeted follow-up advertising.

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.

COMMITMENT TO DATA SECURITY

All information collected from you is stored in a technically and physically secure environment. I only work with data controllers that are well-known and well-established in our industry and that have data security measures in place. I use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, and I do everything we can to protect user information offline.

I have put in place security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, altered, disclosed, or accessed without authorization. I also allow access to your personal data only to those employees and partners who have a business need to know such data. They will only process your personal data on my instructions and they must keep it confidential.

I have procedures in place to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach if I am legally required to.

COPPA COMPLIANCE

You must be 18 years old or older to gain access to my website and must have the requisite mental capacity to enter into this Privacy Policy. This website is not intended for those under 18, in compliance with COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.), and I do not knowingly collect or request any information from or market to children under the age of 18.

If I learn I have collected or received personal information from a minor under 18, I will delete this information, and/or attempt to obtain parental consent. If you have any reason to believe I may have unknowingly collected data from a minor, please let me know by sending me an email at AlchemicalJourneys@gmail.com.

PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Alchemical Journeys may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and at my discretion. I encourage visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to the Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

CONTACTING US

If you need to contact me, you can email me at AlchemicalJourneys@gmail.com.
I strive to provide excellent products along with equally excellent customer service. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or my practices, please feel free to contact me using the method listed above.