LONDON CACTUS LTD (‘we’ or ‘us’) collect, use, and are responsible for storing certain personal information about you. When we do so, we are regulated under the General Data Protection Regulation which apply across the European Union (including the United Kingdom) and we are responsible as a ‘controller’ of that personal information for the purposes of those laws.
We may share your information with law enforcement agences in connection with any investigation to help prevent unlawful activity.
We will not share your personal information with any other 3rd parties.
We would like to send you information about products, services, offers, competitions and our business which may be of interest to you. Such information could be sent by post, email, telephone, text message, or automated call.
We will ask whether you would like us to send you marketing messages on the first occasion that you provide any relevant contact information (i.e. on purchase, signing up to a newsletter, entering a competition, etc). If you do opt-in to receive such marketing from us you can opt-out at any time (see ‘What rights do you have?’ below for further information). If you have any queries about how to opt-out, or if you are receiving messages you do not want you can contact us using the details provided below.
No personal information has to be provided by you to us at any time.
We will hold your personal information for the following periods:
Name and address – 6 years to satisfy UK tax law.
Age – Once your age has been verified by us it will be deleted.
These periods are no longer than necessary in each case.
We rely on the following as the lawful basis on which we collect and use your personal information:
Consent
Contract
Legal Obligation
Vital Interests
Public Task
Legitimate Interests
The legitimate interest relied upon are as follows:
To provide information which can be used to combat addiction.
The information is necessary for the business to undertake its activities as a data provider to charities.
The consequence to you of our use of your personal information is:
You will be presented with adverts on our site which may match your locality.
We will recommend products which we feel are most suited to people of your age and sex.
We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost, or used, or accessed in an unauthorised way. We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to know it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We are certified to ISO 27001. This family of standards helps us manage your information and keep it safe and secure.
We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.
Indeed, while we will use all reasonable efforts to secure your personal data, in using the site you acknowledge that the use of the internet is not entirely secure and for this reason, we cannot guarantee the security or integrity of any personal data that are transferred from you or to you via the internet. If you have any particular concerns about your information, please contact us using the details below.
We will not transfer your personal information outside of the EEA at any time.
Where we obtain consent from any user we will take reasonable steps to ascertain whether the user is over 13 years of age and whether the child is sufficiently informed to give valid consent. If the user is not, parental consent will be required to provide consent for the processing of any personal information
Under the General Data Protection Regulation, you have a number of important rights free of charge. In summary, those include rights to:
Fair processing of information and transparency over how we use your personal information.
Access to your personal information and to certain other supplementary information that this Privacy Notice is already designed to address.
Require us to correct any mistakes in your information which we hold.
Require the erasure of personal information concerning you in certain situations.
Receive the personal information concerning you which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to a third party in certain situations.
Object at any time to processing of personal information concerning you for direct marketing.
Object to decisions being taken by automated means which produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you.
Object in certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal information.
Otherwise, restrict our processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
Claim compensation for damages caused by our breach of any data protection laws.
For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, see the Guidance from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on individual’s rights under the General Data Protection Regulations (http://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/individual-rights/)
From time to time we may also have other methods to unsubscribe (opt-out) from any direct marketing including, for example, unsubscribe buttons or web links. If such are offered, please note that there may be some period after selecting to unsubscribe in which marketing may still be received while your request is being processed.
If you would like this policy in another format (for example audio, large print, braille) please contact us using the details below.
This privacy policy was published on 8th October 2021 and last updated on 8th October 2021.
We may change this privacy policy from time to time. You should check this policy occasionally to ensure you are aware of the most recent version that will apply each time you access this website. We will also attempt to notify users of any changes by:
Email if you have opted in to receive emails.
A notice on the Website header.
A notice in the news section of the Website.
If you have any questions about this policy or the information we hold about you, please contact us.
