The Bear Wareham ("us", "we", or "our") operates the https://thebearwareham.co.uk website and associated services. This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our services and the choices you have associated with that data. We use your data to provide and improve our services. By using our services, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy.

Definitions Personal Data

Personal Data means data about a living individual who can be identified from those data (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession).

Usage Data

We may use your Personal Data 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. If you choose to receive our email newsletter, your email address will be forwarded to MailChimp who provide us with email marketing services. We consider MailChimp to be a third party data processor. Your email address will stay within MailChimp’s database for as long as we continue to use MailChimp’s services or until you specifically ask us to remove it from any marketing list. You can do this by unsubscribing, using the unsubscribe links within any email newsletters that we send to you, or by requesting removal via email to us. When requesting removal via email, please send your email to us using the email account that is subscribed to the mailing list. Only persons aged 18 or over can subscribe to our mailing lists.

Cookies

Cookies are small pieces of data stored on a User’s device.

Data Controller

Data Controller means a person who (either alone or jointly or in common with other persons) determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal data are, or are to be, processed. For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, we are a Data Controller of your data.

Data Processor (or Service Providers)

Data Processor (or Service Provider) means any person (other than an employee of the Data Controller) who processes the data on behalf of the Data Controller. We may use the services of various Service Providers in order to process your data more effectively.

Data Subject

Data Subject is any living individual who is the subject of Personal Data.

User

The User is the individual using our services. The User corresponds to the Data Subject, who is the subject of Personal Data.
Information Collection And Use: We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our services to you.
Types of Data Collected Personal Data: While using our services, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you ("Personal Data"). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

• Email address

• First name and last name

• Phone number

• Address, City, County, Postal code.

Cookies and Usage Data

With your permission we may use your Personal Data 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. Only persons aged 18 or over can subscribe to our mailing lists.

Usage Data

We may also collect information how our services are accessed and used ("Usage Data"). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

Tracking & Cookies Data

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our website and hold certain information. Cookies are files with small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyse our website. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our website.

Examples of Cookies we use:

• Session Cookies: We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.

• Preference Cookies: We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.

• Security Cookies: We use Security Cookies for security purposes.

Use of Data

The Bear Wareham uses the collected data for various purposes:

• To provide and maintain our services

• To notify you about changes to our services

• To allow you to participate in interactive features of our services when you choose to do so

• To provide customer support

• To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our services

• To monitor the usage of our services

• To detect, prevent and address technical issues

• To provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information

Retention of Data

The Bear Wareham will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies. The Bear Wareham will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our services, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Transfer Of Data

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction. If you are located outside United Kingdom and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to United Kingdom and process it there.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer. The Bear Wareham will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

Contact forms and Email correspondence: If you use our website contact form, none of the data that you supply will be stored by this website or passed to / be processed by any third party data processors. The data will be sent to us over the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). Our SMTP servers are protected by TLS (otherwise known as SSL) meaning that the email content is encrypted before being sent via the internet. The email content is then decrypted by our computers and devices.

Disclosure Of Data

Disclosure for Law Enforcement - Under certain circumstances, The Bear Wareham may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Legal Requirements

The Bear Wareham may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary:

• To comply with a legal obligation

• To protect and defend the rights or property of The Bear Wareham

• To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with our services

• To protect the personal safety of users of our services or the public

• To protect against legal liability

Security Of Data

The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Your Rights

The Bear Wareham aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data. Whenever made possible, you can update your Personal Data directly within your account settings section. If you are unable to change your Personal Data, please contact us to make the required changes. If you wish to be informed what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us. In certain circumstances, you have the right:

• To access and receive a copy of the Personal Data we hold about you

• To rectify any Personal Data held about you that is inaccurate

• To request the deletion of Personal Data held about you

• You have the right to data portability for the information you provide to The Bear Wareham.

• You can request to obtain a copy of your Personal Data in a commonly used electronic format so that you can manage and move it. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.

Service Providers

We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our services ("Service Providers"), to provide our services on our behalf, to perform service-related services or to assist us in analysing how our services are used.These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Analytics: We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyse the use of our website.

Google Analytics

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 website. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualise and personalise the ads of its own advertising network. You can opt-out of having made your activity on our website available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page.

Links To Other Sites

Our website may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Children's Privacy

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 16. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child/children has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us using the form on the page.