Privacy Policy

 

How and why we use your personal data—Special category personal data

Certain personal data we collect is treated as a special category to which additional protections apply under data protection law:

• Information about your health : when you have an emergency in one of our sessions and we need to protect your life or administer first aid treatment to you.

• Information about your health

Other than as stated here, we do not collect any special categories of Personal Data about you. If you provide those pieces of information to us, we will protect it to the best of our ability, but please know that we will in no circumstance ask for these special category personal data information other than the information about your health when needed to administer first aid treatment to you.

Where we process special category personal data, we will also ensure we are permitted to do so under data protection laws, eg:

• we have your explicit consent;

• the processing is necessary to protect your (or someone else’s) vital interests where you are physically or legally incapable of giving consent; or

• the processing is necessary to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

 

How and why we use your personal data—sharing

See ‘Who we share your personal data with’ for further information on the steps we will take to protect your personal data where we need to share it with others.

 

Marketing

We will use your personal data to send you updates (by email, text message, telephone or post) about our services including exclusive offers, promotions or new services.

We have a legitimate interest in using your personal data for marketing purposes (see above ‘How and why we use your personal data’). This means we do not usually need your consent to send you marketing information. If we change our marketing approach in the future so that consent is needed, we will ask for this separately and clearly.

You have the right to opt out of receiving marketing communications at any time by:

• contacting us at Info@puppyyogauk.co.uk and/or

• using the ‘unsubscribe’ link in emails 

We may ask you to confirm or update your marketing preferences if you ask us to provide further services in the future, or if there are changes in the law, regulation, or the structure of our business.

We will always treat your personal data with the utmost respect and never sell it with other organisations for marketing purposes.

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Who we share your personal data with

We routinely share personal data with:

• third parties we use to help deliver our services to you, eg payment service providers, employees, contractors, etc;

• other third parties we use to help us run our business, eg marketing agencies or website hosts;

• third parties approved by you, eg social media sites you choose to have us tag you or share with you; and

• our banks;

 We only allow those organisations to handle your personal data if we are satisfied they take appropriate measures to protect your personal data.

We or the third parties mentioned above occasionally also share personal data with:

• our and their professional advisors (such as lawyers and other advisors), in which case the recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations;

• law enforcement agencies, courts, tribunals and regulatory bodies to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations;

• other parties that have or may acquire control or ownership of our business (and our or their professional advisers) in connection with a significant corporate transaction or restructuring, including a merger, acquisition, asset sale, initial public offering or in the event of our insolvency—usually, information will be anonymised but this may not always be possible. The recipient of any of your personal data will be bound by confidentiality obligations.

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Where your personal data is held

Personal data may be held at our secure storage databases and those of third party agencies, service providers, representatives and agents as described above (see above: ‘Who we share your personal data with’).

Some of these third parties may be based outside the UK. For more information, including on how we safeguard your personal data when this happens, see below: ‘Transferring your personal data out of the UK’.

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How long your personal data will be kept

We will not keep your personal data for longer than we need it for the purpose for which it is used. 

Different retention periods apply for different types of personal data. 

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Transferring your personal data out of the UK.

The EEA, UK and other Countries outside the UK have differing data protection laws, some of which may provide lower levels of protection of privacy.

It is sometimes necessary for us to transfer your personal data to countries outside the UK. In those cases we will comply with applicable UK laws designed to ensure the privacy of your personal data.

We will transfer your personal data to our service providers located outside the UK

Under data protection laws, we can only transfer your personal data to a country outside the UK where:

• in the case of transfers subject to UK data protection law, the UK government has decided the particular country ensures an adequate level of protection of personal data (known as an ‘adequacy regulation’) further to Article 45 of the UK GDPR. A list of countries the UK currently has adequacy regulations in relation to is available here. We rely on adequacy regulations for transfers to these countries.

• there are appropriate safeguards in place, together with enforceable rights and effective legal remedies for you; or

• a specific exception applies under relevant data protection law.

Where we transfer your personal data outside the UK, we do so on the basis of an adequacy regulation. In the event we cannot or choose not to continue to rely on either of those mechanisms at any time, we will not transfer your personal data outside the UK unless we can do so on the basis of an alternative mechanism or exception provided by UK data protection law and reflected in an update to this policy.

Any changes to the destinations to which we send personal data or in the transfer mechanisms we rely on to transfer personal data internationally will be notified to you in accordance with the section on ‘Changes to this privacy policy’ below.

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International transfers of your personal data outside the UK—in more detail

More details about the countries outside the UK to which your personal data is transferred are set out in the table below.