Privacy Policy

This privacy notice tells you what to expect us to do with your personal information.

  • Contact details

  • What information we collect, use, and why

  • Lawful bases and data protection rights

  • Where we get personal information from

  • How long we keep information

  • Who we share information with

  • Sharing information outside the UK

Contact Details

Post: Peculiar Perfumes, The Orchard, Warrendene Road, Hughenden Valley, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, HP14 4LX, United Kingdom.

Email: info@peculiarperfumes.com

What information we collect, use, and why

We collect or use the following information to provide services and goods, including delivery:

  • Names and contact details

  • Addresses

  • Payment details (including card or bank information for transfers and direct debits)

  • Website user information (including user journeys and cookie tracking)

We collect or use the following personal information for dealing with queries, complaints or claims:

  • Names and contact details

  • Address

  • Payment details

  • Purchase or service history

  • Financial transaction information

Lawful bases and data protection rights

Under UK data protection law, we must have a “lawful basis” for collecting and using your personal information. There is a list of possible lawful bases in the UK GDPR. You can find out more about lawful bases on the ICO’s website.

Which lawful basis we rely on may affect your data protection rights which are set out in brief below. You can find out more about your data protection rights and the exemptions which may apply on the ICO’s website:

Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information. You can request other information such as details about where we get personal information from and who we share personal information with. There are some exemptions which means you may not receive all the information you ask for. Read more about the right of access.

Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to correct or delete personal information you think is inaccurate or incomplete. Read more about the right to rectification.

Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to delete your personal information. Read more about the right to erasure.

Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to limit how we can use your personal information. Read more about the right to restriction of processing.

Your right to object to processing - You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data. Read more about the right to object to processing.

Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you. Read more about the right to data portability.

Your right to withdraw consent – When we use consent as our lawful basis you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Read more about the right to withdraw consent.

If you make a request, we must respond to you without undue delay and in any event within one month.

To make a data protection rights request, please contact us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.

Our lawful bases for the collection and use of your data

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information to provide services and goods are:

  • Consent - we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

  • Contract – we have to collect or use the information so we can enter into or carry out a contract with you. All of your data protection rights may apply except the right to object.

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for dealing with queries, complaints or claims are:

  • Consent - we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

  • Contract – we have to collect or use the information so we can enter into or carry out a contract with you. All of your data protection rights may apply except the right to object.

Where we get personal information from

  • Directly from you

How long we keep information

We retain your name, address and other details for 7 years. After that time all data is securely removed from any device or drive on which it is stored.

For more information on how long we store your personal information or the criteria we use to determine this please contact us using the details provided above.

Who we share information with

Data processors:

Squarespace - This data processor does the following activities for us: Processes customer information to facilitate completion of the sales contract for the purchase of goods available on this website. Uses customer information, such as IP address, device and software data to analyse the use of this website.

Google - This data processor does the following activities for us: Provides business email processing to and from customers.

Royal Mail - This data processor does the following activities for us: Processes customer information to facilitate delivery and return of goods purchased on this website.

Sharing information outside the UK

Where necessary, we will transfer personal information outside of the UK. When doing so, we comply with the UK GDPR, making sure appropriate safeguards are in place.

Organisation name: Squarespace

Category of recipient: Data processor

Country the personal information is sent to: US

How the transfer complies with UK data protection law: The country or sector has been assessed as providing adequate protection to data subjects (also known as Adequacy Regulations or UK data bridge)

Organisation name: Google

Category of recipient: Data processor

Country the personal information is sent to: US

How the transfer complies with UK data protection law: The country or sector has been assessed as providing adequate protection to data subjects (also known as Adequacy Regulations or UK data bridge)

Where necessary, our data processors may share personal information outside of the UK. When doing so, they comply with the UK GDPR, making sure appropriate safeguards are in place.

Organisation name: Squarespace

Category of recipient: Data Processor

Country the personal information is sent to: US

How the transfer complies with UK data protection law: The country or sector has been assessed as providing adequate protection to data subjects (also known as Adequacy Regulations or UK data bridge)

Organisation name: Google

Category of recipient: Data processor

Country the personal information is sent to: US

How the transfer complies with UK data protection law: The country or sector has been assessed as providing adequate protection to data subjects (also known as Adequacy Regulations or UK data bridge)

Further details on the Privacy Policies of our data processors can be found by following the links below:

Squarespace: https://www.squarespace.com/privacy/

Google: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US

Royal Mail: https://www.royalmail.com/privacy-notice

How to complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a data protection complaint to us:

Email: info@peculiarperfumes.com

Post: Peculiar Perfumes, The Orchard, Warrendene Road, Hughenden Valley, Buckinghamshire. HP14 4LX

If you remain unhappy with how we’ve used your data after raising a complaint with us, you can also complain to the ICO. 

The ICO’s address:

Information Commissioner’s Office
, Wycliffe House, 
Water Lane, 
Wilmslow
, Cheshire. 
SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113


Website: https://www.ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint