This privacy policy sets out how Beyond Binge Eating uses and protects your personal data when you use this website or engage with our services.

Contents

  1. Important information and who we are
  2. Types of personal data we collect
  3. How is your personal data collected?
  4. How we use your personal data
  5. Disclosures of your personal data
  6. International transfers
  7. Data security
  8. Data retention
  9. Your legal rights
  10. Contact details
  11. Complaints
  12. Changes to this policy
  13. Third-party links

1. Important information and who we are

This privacy policy gives you information about how Beyond Binge Eating collects and uses your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide when you purchase a service from us.

This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.

Controller

Beyond Binge Eating is the controller and responsible for your personal data (referred to as "Beyond Binge Eating", "we", "us" or "our" in this privacy policy).

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights (section 9), please contact us using the information set out in section 10.

2. The types of personal data we collect about you

Personal data means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

We also collect, use and share aggregated data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated data could be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as it does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity.

3. How is your personal data collected?

We use different methods to collect data from and about you, including through:

Your interactions with us

You may give us your personal data by filling in online forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:

Automated technologies or interactions

As you interact with our website, we will automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies.

Third parties or publicly available sources

We will receive personal data about you from various third parties, including:

4. How we use your personal data

Legal basis

The law requires us to have a legal basis for collecting and using your personal data. We rely on one or more of the following:

Purposes for which we will use your personal data

Purpose / Use Type of data Legal basis
To register you as a new client Identity; Contact Performance of a contract
To process and deliver services, manage payments and recover money owed Identity; Contact; Financial; Transaction Performance of a contract; Legitimate interests (debt recovery)
To manage our relationship with you, including notifying you of changes to our terms or policy Identity; Contact; Profile Performance of a contract; Legal obligation; Legitimate interests
To administer and protect our business and website (troubleshooting, security, maintenance) Identity; Contact; Technical Legitimate interests; Legal obligation
To deliver relevant website content and measure advertising effectiveness Identity; Contact; Profile; Usage; Marketing; Technical Legitimate interests
To use data analytics to improve our website, services and marketing Technical; Usage Legitimate interests
To send you relevant marketing communications Identity; Contact; Technical; Usage; Profile; Marketing Consent
To carry out market research through voluntary surveys Identity; Contact; Profile Legitimate interests

Direct marketing

You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us or purchased services from us and have not opted out of receiving marketing.

Opting out of marketing

You can ask us to stop sending you marketing communications at any time by following the opt-out links within any marketing communication sent to you or by contacting us at mark@beyondbingeeating.com.

5. Disclosures of your personal data

We may share your personal data where necessary with the following parties:

We may also share your personal data in connection with a business transfer, sale, or merger. We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law.

6. International transfers

We may transfer your personal data to service providers outside the UK. Whenever we do so, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it — for example, by only transferring to countries deemed adequate by the UK, or by putting in place appropriate contractual safeguards.

7. Data security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. We limit access to those who have a business need to know and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have procedures in place to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator where we are legally required to do so.

8. Data retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements.

By law we have to keep basic information about our clients (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for six years after they cease being clients for tax purposes.

In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data — see section 9 below for further information.

9. Your legal rights

Under data protection law, you have the following rights:

You will not have to pay a fee to exercise any of these rights in most circumstances. We aim to respond to all legitimate requests within one month.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details in section 10.

10. Contact details

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or wish to exercise your privacy rights, please contact us:

11. Complaints

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK regulator for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.

12. Changes to this policy

We keep our privacy policy under regular review. We will update the "last updated" date at the top of this page whenever changes are made. It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current — please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.

13. Third-party links

This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.