Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 2024.

This Privacy Policy describes how R&M Horizon Ltd (the "Site", "we", "us", or "our") collects, uses, and discloses your personal information (“personal data”) when you visit www.safebandd.com (the "Site"), use our Services, or make a purchase or otherwise communicate with us (collectively, the "Services"). For purposes of this Privacy Policy, "you" and "your" means you as the Services user, whether you are a customer, website visitor, or another individual whose information we have collected according to this Privacy Policy.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By using and accessing any of the Services, you agree to the collection, use, and disclosure of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use or access any of the Services.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, including to reflect changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will post the revised Privacy Policy on the Site, update the "Last updated" date and take any other steps required by applicable law.


HOW WE COLLECT AND USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

To provide the Services, we collect and have collected over the past 12 months personal information about you from a variety of sources, as set out below. The information that we collect and use varies depending on how you interact with us.

In addition to the specific uses set out below, we may use the information we collect about you to communicate with you, provide the Services, comply with any applicable legal obligations, enforce any applicable terms of service, and to protect or defend the Services, our rights, and the rights of our users or others.


WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

The types of personal information we obtain about you depend on how you interact with our Site and use our Services. When we use the term "personal information" or “personal data”, we are referring to information that identifies, relates to, describes or can be associated with you. The following sections describe the categories and specific types of personal information we collect.


INFORMATION WE COLLECT DIRECTLY FROM YOU

Information that you directly submit to us through our Services may include:

  • Basic contact details including your name, address, phone number, email.
  • Account information including your username, password, security questions.
  • Customer support information including the information you choose to include in communications with us, for example, when sending a message through the Services.

Some features of the Services may require you to directly provide us with certain information about yourself. You may elect not to provide this information, but doing so may prevent you from using or accessing these features.


INFORMATION WE COLLECT THROUGH COOKIES

We also automatically collect certain information about your interaction with the Services ("Usage Data"). To do this, we may use cookies, pixels and similar technologies ("Cookies"). Usage Data may include information about how you access and use our Site and your account, including device information, browser information, information about your network connection, your IP address and other information regarding your interaction with the Services.

We use essential Cookies to power and improve our Site and our Services (including to remember your actions and preferences), to run analytics and better understand user interaction with the Services (in our legitimate interests to administer, improve and optimise the Services).


INFORMATION WE OBTAIN FROM THIRD PARTIES

Finally, we may obtain information about you from third parties, including vendors and service providers who may collect information on our behalf, such as but not limited to:

  • Companies who support our Site and Services (i.e. Amazon, Etsy).

Any information we obtain from third parties will be treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We are not responsible or liable for the accuracy of the information provided to us by third parties and are not responsible for any third party's policies or practices.


HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may use your Personal Information for the following purposes:

  • Provide and Maintain our Services, including monitoring the usage of our Services.
  • Manage your Account: to manage your registration as a user of the Services. The Personal Information you provide can give you access to different functionalities of the Services that are available to you as a registered user.
  • Performance of a Contract: the development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items or services you have purchased or of any other contract with us through the Services.
  • Contact You: via email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application's push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
  • Provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information.
  • Manage your Requests: to attend and manage your requests to us.
  • Email Marketing: we may use your Personal Information to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send or by contacting us. We may use Email Marketing Service Providers to manage and send emails to you.
  • Google Analytics: we may use third-party Service providers to monitor and analyse the use of our Services. Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Services. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualise and personalise the ads of its advertising network.

    You may opt out of certain Google Analytics features through your mobile device settings, such as your device advertising settings or by following the instructions provided by Google in their Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy

  • Security and Fraud Prevention. We use your personal information to detect, investigate or take action regarding possible fraudulent, illegal or malicious activity. If you choose to use the Services and register an account, you are responsible for keeping your account credentials safe. We highly recommend that you do not share your username, password, or other access details with anyone else. If you believe your account has been compromised, please contact us immediately.
  • Other Purposes: we may use your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Services, products, marketing and your experience.

HOW WE DISCLOSE PERSONAL INFORMATION

In certain circumstances, we may disclose your personal information to third parties for legitimate purposes subject to this Privacy Policy. Such circumstances may include:

  • With Vendors or other Third Parties who perform services on our behalf (e.g., IT management, payment processing, data analytics, customer support, cloud storage, fulfillment and shipping).
  • With Service Providers: we may share your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyse the use of our Services, to contact you.
  • With Business and Marketing Partners to provide services and advertise to you. Our business and marketing partners will use your information in accordance with their own privacy notices.
  • With our Affiliates or otherwise within our corporate group, in our legitimate interests to run a successful business, in which case we will require those affiliates to honour this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.
  • For Business Transfers: for a business transaction such as a merger or bankruptcy, to comply with any applicable legal obligations (including responding to subpoenas, search warrants and similar requests), to enforce any applicable terms of service, and to protect or defend the Services, our rights, and the rights of our users or others.
  • With Other Users: when you share personal information or otherwise interact in public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside. If you interact with other users or register through a Third-Party Social Media Service, your contacts on the Third-Party Social Media Service may see your name, profile, pictures and description of your activity. Similarly, other users will be able to view descriptions of your activity, communicate with you and view your profile.
  • With Your Consent: we may disclose your personal information for any other purposes with your consent.

We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information for the purpose of inferring characteristics about you.


USER-GENERATED CONTENT

The Services may enable you to post product reviews and other user-generated content. If you choose to submit user-generated content to any public area of the Services, this content will be public and accessible to anyone.

We do not control who will have access to the information that you choose to make available to others, and cannot ensure that parties who have access to such information will respect your privacy or keep it secure. We are not responsible for the privacy or security of any information that you make publicly available, or for the accuracy, use or misuse of any information that you disclose or receive from third parties.


THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES AND LINKS

Our Site may provide links to websites or other online platforms operated by third parties. If you follow links to sites not affiliated or controlled by us, you should review their privacy and security policies and other terms and conditions. We do not guarantee and are not responsible for the privacy or security of such sites, including the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of information found on these sites. Information you provide on public or semi-public venues, including information you share on third-party social networking platforms may also be viewable by other users of the Services and/or users of those third-party platforms without limitation as to its use by us or by a third party. Our inclusion of such links does not, by itself, imply any endorsement of the content on such platforms or of their owners or operators, except as disclosed on the Services.


CHILDREN’S DATA

The Services are not intended to be used by children. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18.

If you are the parent or guardian of a child who has provided us with their personal information, you may contact us using the contact details set out below to request it be deleted.


SECURITY AND RETENTION OF YOUR INFORMATION

This Site ensures that data is encrypted when leaving the Site. This process involves the converting of information or data into a code to prevent unauthorised access. This Site follows this process and employs secure methods to ensure the protection of all credit and debit card transactions. Encryption methods such as SSL are utilised to protect customer data when in transit to and from this Site over a secure communications channel.

Whilst we do everything within our power to ensure that personal data is protected at all times from our Site, we cannot guarantee the security and integrity of the information that has been transmitted to our Site.

How long we retain your personal information depends on different factors, such as whether we need the information to maintain your account, provide the Services, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes or enforce other applicable contracts and policies.


YOUR RIGHTS AND CHOICES

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you, as a data subject, have a number of rights which are detailed below:

  • Right to Access / Know. You may have a right to request access to personal information that we hold about you, including details relating to how we use and share your information.
  • Right to Delete. You may have a right to request that we delete the personal information we maintain about you.
  • Right to Correct. You may have a right to request that we correct the inaccurate personal information we maintain about you.
  • Right of Portability. You may have a right to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to request that we transfer it to a third party, in certain circumstances and with certain exceptions.
  • Restriction of Processing: You may have the right to ask us to stop or restrict our processing of personal information.
  • Withdrawal of Consent: Where we rely on consent to process your personal information, you may have the right to withdraw this consent.
  • Appeal: You may have a right to appeal our decision if we decline to process your request. You can do so by replying directly to our denial.
  • Managing Communication Preferences: We may send you promotional emails, and you may opt out of receiving these at any time by using the unsubscribe option displayed in our emails to you. If you opt out, we may still send you non-promotional emails, such as those about your account or orders that you have made.

You may exercise any of these rights where indicated on our Site or by contacting us using the contact details provided below.

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights. We may need to collect information from you to verify your identity, such as your email address or account information, before providing a substantive response to the request. In accordance with applicable laws, you may designate an authorised agent to make requests on your behalf to exercise your rights. Before accepting such a request from an agent, we will require that the agent provides proof that you have authorised them to act on your behalf, and we may need you to verify your identity directly with us. We will respond to your request in a timely manner as required under applicable law.


STORAGE AND RETENTION

We will keep your personal data for as long as we need it for the purposes set out above, and so this period will vary depending on your interactions with us. For example, where you have made a purchase with us, we will keep a record of your purchase for the period necessary for invoicing, tax and warranty purposes. We may also keep a record of correspondence with you (for example if you have made a complaint about a product) for as long as it is necessary to protect us from a legal claim. Where we no longer have a need to keep your information, we will delete it. Please note that where you unsubscribe from our marketing communications, we will keep a record of your email address to ensure we do not send you marketing emails in future.


COMPLAINTS

If you have complaints about how we process your personal information, please contact us using the contact details provided below. If you are not satisfied with our response to your complaint, depending on where you live you may have the right to appeal our decision by contacting us using the contact details set out below, or lodge your complaint with your local data protection authority.


DATA CONTROLLER & CONTACT DETAILS

R&M HORIZON Ltd is the data controller responsible for your personal data.

Should you have any questions about our privacy practices or this Privacy Policy, or if you would like to exercise any of the rights available to you, please contact us:

Full name of legal entity: R&M Horizon Ltd

Email address: hello@safebandd.com

Postal address: 128 City Road, London, United Kingdom, EC1V 2NX