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This Privacy Policy details how Balsam Hill processes your personal data ("Personal Data"), and the rights you have with respect to Personal Data. This Privacy Policy is intended to comply with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR").
Balsam International Unlimited Company ("Balsam International") is responsible for, and is the Data Controller of your Personal Data that it receives through the websites WWW.BALSAMHILL.CO.UK, WWW.BALSAMHILL.FR, BALSAMHILL.DE, and www.treetopia.co.uk, as well as information you provide in relation to your purchase of our products, service and information requests, and participation in our marketing and promotional activities.
Balsam International shares Personal Data with its affiliate in the United States, Balsam Brands Inc. ("BBI"), which acts as a data processor. Balsam International also shares Personal Data, either directly or through BBI, with its regional operating headquarters based in the Philippines, Balsam International Unlimited – Philippine ROHQ (the "ROHQ"). In both cases, Balsam International and BBI transmit Personal Data only in accordance with contracts and protocols intended to preserve the safety and confidentiality of the Personal Data and ensure that you are able to exercise your rights under the GDPR with respect to that Personal Data.
If you are a visitor to our site, we may collect, record and analyze information about how you use our website. We gather data about the number of visitors and visits, geo-location data, length of time spent on the site, the sites from which visitors have come, as well as pages and links clicked. Like many websites, we use "cookies" to enhance your experience and gather information about visitors and visits to our websites. Please refer to the "Do we use 'cookies'?" section below for information about cookies and how we use them.
We may also collect and process any Personal Data that you volunteer to us in our website’s forms, such as when you sign up for information and newsletters, when you open an account with us (even if you do not purchase anything), enter a contest or sweepstakes, respond to a survey, reply to our direct marketing campaigns (for example, filling out a response card), or participate in another site feature. The information collected and processed may include your name, address, phone number, and email address. You may, however, visit our site anonymously without providing this information.
On the other hand, if you purchase anything from us – whether on our website, over the phone, or through another means –we may collect your billing name, shipping name, billing address, shipping address, phone number(s), email address, and, when necessary, credit card information and date of birth. This information is necessary to process your order. After you have purchased something from us, we may collect sales and services information relating to your purchases, including complaints and claims for warranty services. We may collect this information when you register on our website, place an order, or contact our customer hotlines. Finally, we may – directly or through third party services or websites – collect any reviews that you submit pertaining to our products or services.
We may use the information and Personal Data we collect from you in the following ways:
The processing of your Personal Data set out above is permitted under the GDPR on the basis of these legal grounds for lawful processing of Personal Data:
Unfortunately no data transmission over the internet or electronic data storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety and integrity of your Personal Data. Your Personal Data is contained behind secured networks to prohibit unauthorized access, and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems. When you place orders or access your Personal Data, we offer the use of a secure server. All sensitive/credit information you supply is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our databases to be only accessed as stated above.
Our retention periods are based on our business needs, including but not limited to ensuring our compliance with our contract with you (e.g., warranties, product recalls, finance and accounting records, after sales queries) and other legal obligations including with respect to applicable statute of limitation periods. This means that if you revoke your consent, or request for deletion of your Personal Data, we may nonetheless still retain certain of your information in order to meet relevant legal obligations and to defend or prosecute a case or claim against you, us or a third party, in which case we may retain the necessary Personal Data as long as such case or claim could be pursued. Once your Personal Data is no longer necessary for the purpose/s for which they were obtained, they will be permanently anonymized or deleted as applicable.
We will not retain your information longer than is necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or as required by applicable laws. If any Personal Data is used for two or more purposes, we will retain it only until the purpose with the latest period has been accomplished. We will, however, no longer use the Personal Data for the purpose which has already been accomplished.
Our retention periods are based on our business needs, including but not limited to ensuring our compliance with our contract with you (e.g., warranties, product recalls, finance and accounting records, after sales queries) and other legal obligations including with respect to applicable statute of limitation periods. This means that if you revoke your consent, or request for deletion of your Personal Data, we may nonetheless still retain certain of your information in order to meet relevant legal obligations and to defend or prosecute a case or claim against you, us or a third party, in which case we may retain the necessary Personal Data as long as such case or claim could be pursued. Once your Personal Data is no longer necessary for the purpose/s for which they were obtained, they will be permanently anonymized or deleted as applicable.
Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the site's or service provider's systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. For instance, we use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart. They are also used to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services. We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.
We may contract with carefully chosen third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business.
Please review our COOKIE POLICY for more information on how we use cookies and My Cookie Preferences for how you can manage your cookie preferences. You can also choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser (like Firefox or Internet Explorer) settings. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies. If you turn cookies off, you won't have access to many features that make your site experience more efficient and some of our services will not function properly. However, you can still place orders over the telephone by contacting customer service.
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information unless we provide you with advance notice, except as described below. The term "outside parties" does not include BBI or the ROHQ. It also does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others' rights, property, or safety.
With your affirmative consent, we may share your order information and physical address with Epsilon Abacus (registered as Epsilon International UK Ltd), a company that manages the Abacus Alliance on behalf of UK retailers and charities. The participating retailers are active in the clothing, collectables, food & wine, gardening, gadgets & entertainment, health & beauty, household goods, home interiors and travel categories. Epsilon Abacus analyses your data to help retailers understand consumers’ wider buying patterns. From this information, you may be mailed suitable offers from participating retailers in the following product categories: clothing, collectables, food & wine, gardening, gadgets & entertainment, health & beauty, household goods, and home interiors retailers. We may also provide your e-mail address, physical address, or general shopping activity to carefully screened companies whose products we believe will be of interest to you and whose privacy practices meet or exceed our own privacy standards. In addition, non-personally identifiable visitor information, including generalized or aggregated visitor information, may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. If you prefer that we do not share any of your information with these companies, please contact us.
As we operate on a global scale, information may be accessed by our personnel, agents or partners from a country outside the European Economic Area for any of the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, including countries not deemed adequate by the European Union under applicable data protection law. In cases of data transfers to such countries not deemed adequate by the European Union, we will either ask for your consent to the transfer, or transfer such data subject to standard data protection clauses adopted by the European Commission, unless we are allowed under applicable law to effect such transfers without the foregoing (for example, when the transfer is necessary for us to perform our contract with you, or to implement pre-contractual measures taken at your request).
We will ensure that we have legal grounds for the transfer of Personal Data to such countries, and that such data transfers are subject to appropriate safeguards in order to protect the safety and integrity of your Personal Data.
Upon your affirmative consent, we may send you periodic promotional e-mails. If you change your mind and would like to discontinue receiving promotional e-mail from us, you may modify your email preferences in the "My Account" section of our website, if you have created an account with us. Even if you have not created an account, you may also opt-out from receiving our emails by following the "opt-out instructions" contained in any commercial email you receive from us or by visiting our unsubscribe page located at HTTPS://WWW.BALSAMHILL.CO.UK/EMAIL-UNSUBSCRIBE. Please note that due to email production schedules, you may receive any emails already in production for a brief time after you have opted out of our email list.
To opt-out of our catalogue or other paper mailings, email our customer service team at UKCATALOGUEREMOVE@BALSAMHILL.CO.UK with "NO MAIL" in the heading and your current mailing address in the body of the email, or call the customer service team at 0808 501 3434 and provide your current mailing address.
To delete all of your online account information from your profile, sign into the "My Account" section of our site and remove your shipping addresses, billing addresses & payment information. Please note that we may maintain information about an individual sales transaction in order to service that transaction and for record keeping.
To the extent that our processing of any of your Personal Data is subject to the GDPR, we rely on the legal grounds for processing described above (see section on "How Do We Use Your Information") to process your data. We may also process certain information that constitutes Personal Data for direct marketing purposes either with your consent or otherwise in accordance with your preference and you have a right to object to our use of your Personal Data for this purpose at any time as provided above.
Our Website is not intended for use by children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under the age of 13.
Subject to exceptions under applicable law, you have the following data subject rights:
These rights will be exercisable by you subject to limitations as provided for under data protection legislation. If you wish to exercise any of your data subject rights, see the contact information in the next section of this policy.
Subject to applicable law, you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority or the Irish Data Protection Commissioner, which is our lead supervisory authority in the European Union. If you are a resident of the European Economic Area and believe we maintain your Personal Data within the scope of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you may direct questions or complaints to our lead supervisory authority:
Irish Data Protection Commissioner
Office of the Data Protection Commissioner
Canal House, Station Road, Portarlington, Co. Laois, R32 AP23, Ireland
Phone +353 57 868 4757
Fax: +353 57 868 4757
Email: info@dataprotection.ie
Please also feel free to contact us if you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our practices, or if you are seeking to exercise any of your GDPR-related statutory rights. You may contact us here:
Email: privacy@balsambrands.com
Phone: 0808 501 3434
For GDPR and privacy-related inquiries, the email address above is the best way to reach us, as it is reserved exclusively for such inquiries. If you have any product questions, customer service requests, shipping inquiries, or need to reach us for any other reason, please visit the Contact Us page.
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page. Policy changes will apply only to information collected after the date of the change. This policy was last modified on 18 February 2022.
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