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Website privacy policy

This website skwadshop.com is operated by Potion Dynamo Ltd. We take your privacy very seriously therefore we urge to read this policy very carefully because it contains important information about on:
  • who we are,
  • how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information,
  • your rights in relation to your personal information, and
  • how to contact us and supervisory authorities in the event that you have a complaint.
Who we are
 
Potion Dynamo Ltd ('we' or 'us') (trading as SKWAD Teen Skincare) collect, use and are responsible for certain personal information about you. When we do so we are regulated under the General Data Protection Regulations which apply across the European Union (including the United Kingdom) and we are responsible as 'controller' of that personal information for the purposes of those laws. The data controller is Potion Dynamo Limited of 127 Cambridge Street, London SW1V 4PZ.

Basis for processing
 
Pursuant to the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), if you are a resident of the European Economic Area (“EEA”), we process your personal information under the following lawful bases:
  • Your consent;
  • The performance of the contract between you and the Site;
  • Compliance with our legal obligations;
  • For our legitimate interests, which do not override your fundamental rights and freedoms.
We will specify the legal basis used for the particular processing throughout this policy.  When you visit the Site, we may collect certain information about your device, your interaction with the Site, and information necessary to process your purchases. We may also collect additional information if you contact us for customer support. In this Privacy Policy, we refer to any information that can uniquely identify an individual (including the information below) as “Personal Information”. See the list below for more information about what Personal Information we collect and why.
 
We may collect the following personal information that you provide to us by filling in forms on our site to search for or purchase products, apply for a job, correspond with us by email, phone or chat, signing up to our newsletter, entering into a competition or attending a promotional event we may be involved with, leaving a review or blog post comments, completing a customer survey or visiting or interacting with our website, or clicking on an advert we may place on our website or a third party website or through one of our social media platforms (but not limited to):
  • version of web browser, IP address, time zone, cookie information, what sites or products you view, search terms, and how you interact with the Site.
  • name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card information), email address, and phone number.
Some examples of how and when we collect this information include:
  • to provide products or services to you to fulfill our contract, to process your payment information, arrange for shipping, and provide you with invoices and/or order confirmations, communicate with you, screen our orders for potential risk or fraud, and when in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.
  • to provide customer support
  • to load the Site accurately for you, and to perform analytics on Site usage to optimize our Site.
  • Additionally, some information is collected automatically when you access our Site using cookies, log files, web beacons, tags, or pixels 
The legal bases for this processing are the performance of the contract between you and the Site, compliance with our legal obligations, for our legitimate interests and your consent. 
 
Personal information you provide about third parties
 
If you give us information about another person, you confirm that the other person has appointed you to act on their behalf and agreed that you:
shall consent on their behalf to the processing of their personal data;
shall receive any data protection notices on their behalf; and
shall consent on their behalf to the transfer of their personal data abroad.

The legal bases for this processing are the performance of the contract between you and the Site, compliance with our legal obligations and for our legitimate interests.

Who your information may be shared with
 
We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us provide our services and fulfill our contracts with you, as described above. For example:
  • We use Shopify to power our online store including but limited to accepting orders and processing payments. You can read more about how Shopify uses your Personal Information here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy.
  • We use fulfilment services and couriers to process and deliver your order.
  • We use other service providers as part of our business activities for example: accountants, lawyers, marketing and social media consultants and technical analytics consultants
  • We may share information with our holding company, subsidiaries or associated companies
  • We may share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.
  • If we sell our business or our company assets are acquired by a third party, personal data held by us about our customers may be one of the transferred assets.
The legal bases for this processing are the performance of the contract between you and the Site, compliance with our legal obligations and for our legitimate interests.

Marketing
 
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. 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.
 
The legal bases for this processing are for our legitimate interests and your consent.
 
As described above, we may use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For example:
  • We may use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site. You can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
  • We may share information about your use of the Site, your purchases, and your interaction with our ads on other websites with our advertising partners. We may collect and share some of this information directly with our advertising partners, and in some cases through the use of cookies or other similar technologies (which you may consent to, depending on your location).
For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.
 
You can opt out of targeted advertising by:
Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at:  http://optout.aboutads.info/.
 
Cookies
 
A cookie is a small amount of information that’s downloaded to your computer or device when you visit our Site. We use a number of different cookies, including functional, performance, advertising, and social media or content cookies. Cookies make your browsing experience better by allowing the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login and region selection). This means you don’t have to re-enter this information each time you return to the site or browse from one page to another. Cookies also provide information on how people use the website, for instance whether it’s their first time visiting or if they are a frequent visitor. Further information about which cookies we use on our site can be found on our cookie policy
 
How long your personal information will be kept
 
When you place an order through the Site, we will retain your Personal Information for our records. Your data will be kept for as long as is necessary. This depends on the purpose it was collected for - for example data collected from our newsletter can be deleted once you unsubscribe, but data provided for an order made on our site may be kept for 6 years for accounting purposes. At the end of the retention period your data will either be anonymised or deleted completely. For more information on your right of erasure, please see the ‘Your rights’ section below
 
GDPR
 
If you are a resident of the EEA, you have the right to access the Personal Information we hold about you, to port it to a new service, and to ask that your Personal Information be corrected, updated, or erased. If you would like to exercise these rights, please contact us through the contact information below. 
Your Personal Information will be initially processed in Ireland and then will be transferred outside of Europe for storage and further processing, including to Canada and the United States. For more information on how data transfers comply with the GDPR, see Shopify’s GDPR
 
For all transfers outside of the EEA, we and our suppliers will take measures to ensure data is subject to an equivalent level of protection.
 
Your Rights
 
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 use 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 in certain other situations to our processing of your personal information
  • otherwise restrict our processing of your personal information in certain circumstances
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/) If you would like to exercise any of these rights please:
  • email, call or write to us
  • let us have enough information to identify you
  • let us know the information to which your request relates
 
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. There is no fee to exercise any of the above rights unless the request is clearly unreasonable.

Keeping your information secure
 
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 will also use technological and organisational measures to keep your information 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.
 
Minors
 
The Site is not intended to intentionally collect Personal Information from children. If you are the parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us at the address below to request deletion.
  
Changes
 
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 by email of any changes where appropriate.
 
Contact
 
For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at info@skwadshop.com or by mail using the details provided below:
Potion Dynamo Limited, 127 Cambridge Street, London SW1V 4PZ, United Kingdom Last updated: 17 June 2021
 
The General Data Protection Regulation also gives you right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in the European Union (or European Economic Area) state where you work, normally live or where any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred. The supervisory authority in the UK is the Information Commissioner who may be contacted at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/ or telephone: 0303 123 1113.  We would kindly request that you contact us in the first instance to resolve any queries.