PRIVACY POLICY
September 2024
Welcome to the privacy policy of Atellier ltd. (“Privacy Policy”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) or contact us by telephone or email, and will tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
1.Introduction
This Privacy Policy (together with our terms and conditions and any other documents referred to in it)
describes the type of information that we collect from you (“you/your”) through the use of our services
(“Services”), or the use of our website www.atellierstories.com (“Website”), how that information may
be used or disclosed by us and the safeguards we use to protect it.
Our Website and Services may contain links to third party websites that are not covered by this Privacy
Policy. We therefore ask you to review the privacy statements of other websites and applications to
understand their information practices.
We have drafted this Privacy Policy to be as clear and concise as possible. Please read it carefully to
understand our policies regarding your information and how we will treat it. By using or accessing our
Website or the Services, you agree to the collection, use and disclosure of information in accordance with
this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy may change from time to time and your continued use of the
Website or the Services is deemed to be acceptance of such changes, so please check periodically for
updates.
This Privacy Policy was last updated in September 2024. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully and
ensure that you understand it. Your acceptance of our Privacy Policy is deemed to occur upon your first
use of our Website. If you do not accept and agree with this Privacy Policy, you must stop using our
Website immediately.
You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK
supervisory authority 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. 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.
If you have any comments on this Privacy Policy, please email them to info@atellierstories.com
2.Who We Are
2.1 Here are the details that the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council
of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regards to the processing of personal data and
on the free movement of such data, known as General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) says we have to give
you as a ‘data controller’:
Our Website address is www.atellierstories.com
– Our company name is Atellier ltd.
– Our registered address is C/O Numbercloud Limited, 37
Church Street, Saffron Walden, England, CB10 1JQ.
Atellier Ltd is the controller and responsible for your personal data.
2.2 We respect your right to privacy and will only process personal information about OR provided by you
in accordance with the Data Protection Legislation which for the purposes of this Privacy Policy shall
mean: (i) unless and until the GDPR is no longer directly applicable in the UK, the General Data
Protection Regulation ((EU) 2016/679) and any national implementing laws, regulations and secondary
legislation, as amended or updated from time to time, in the UK and then (ii) any successor legislation to
the GDPR or the Data Protection Act 1998 and other applicable privacy laws.
3.What we may collect
3.1 Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that
person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous
data).
3.2 We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have
grouped together as follows:
– Identity Data includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier. When you email, phone,
live chat or otherwise, we may collect information such as your first name, last name, email address and
phone number.
– Contact Data includes billing address, invoicing address, email address and telephone numbers.
– Financial Data includes bank account and payment card details.
– Transaction Data includes details about payments and other details of our Services you have purchased
from us.
– Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time
zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other
technology on the devices you use to access this Website.
– Profile Data includes your username and password, reservations made by you, your interests, preferences,
feedback and survey responses.
– Usage Data includes information about how you use our Website and Services.
– Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third
parties and your communication preferences.
– Interaction Data includes any information that you might provide to any discussion forums on the
Website.
– Cookies Data like many websites, we use “cookies” to enhance your experience and gather information
about visitors and visits to our websites. Please refer to the “Do we use ‘cookies’?” section below for
information about cookies and how we use them and what kind.
– Third Parties and Information we receive from other sources. We may receive information about you if you
use any of the other websites we operate or through the Services we provide . In this case we will have
informed you when we collected that data that it may be shared internally and combined with data collected
on our Website. We are also working closely with third parties (including, for example, business partners,
suppliers, sub-contractors, advertising networks, analytics providers, and search information providers)
and may receive information about you from them.
– Analytics includes third-party analytics services (such as Google Analytics) to evaluate your use of the
Website, compile reports on activity, collect demographic data, analyse performance metrics, and collect
and evaluate other information relating to our Website and internet usage. These third parties use cookies
and other technologies to help analyse and provide us the data. By accessing and using the Website, you
consent to the processing of data about you by these analytics providers in the manner and for the
purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.
3.3 We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any
purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law
as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your
Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we
combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify
you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this Privacy
Policy.
3.4 We only collect Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race
or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade
union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data) if you have voluntarily
shared this information with us which is a clear indication that you have consented to their being used by
us for the purposes of our business with you. Please only share these information if you believe they are
essential to our satisfactory provision of our services.
3.5 Under GDPR we will ensure that your personal data is processed lawfully, fairly, and transparently,
without adversely affecting your rights. We will only process your personal data if at least one of the
following bases applies:
a) You have given consent to the processing of your personal data for one or more specific purposes;
b) processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or in order to take
steps at the request of you prior to entering into a contract;
c) processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject;
d) processing is necessary to protect the vital interests of you or of another natural person;
e) processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the
exercise of official authority vested in the controller; and/or
f) processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party
such as our financial payments, except where such interests are overridden by the fundamental rights and
freedoms of the data subject, in particular where the data subject is a child.
3.6 If we receive from you another data subject’s personal information in the course of providing our
Services to you , we expect you to have complete responsibility for ensuring that the content of this
Privacy Policy is known to them and for you either:
3.6.1 to be able to consent on their behalf; or
3.6.2 to have obtained their consent for us to process their Personal Information.
3.7 In some instances, it may be appropriate for us to combine your information with other information
that we may be holding about you, such as combining your name with your geographic location or your
browsing or purchasing history.
4.How we may collect and use your data
4.1 We (or third party data processors, agents and sub-contractors acting on our behalf) may collect,
store and use your personal information by way of different methods to collect data from and about you
including through:
4.1.1 Direct interactions. You may give us your information by filling in forms via our Website or by
corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when
you:
a) present Website content;
b) use any of our Services;
c) request marketing to be sent to you;
d) enter a competition, promotion or survey; or
e) give us some feedback.
The information you give us may include your name and contact details, including address, telephone
number, and email address, as well as your payment information;
4.1.2 On behalf of another: We recommend that where you are providing the Personal Information of a child
or children or a similarly vulnerable person that you do so in person using phone communication.
We do not knowingly collect personal information online from children under the age of 16. If a child
under the age of 16 provides personal information without parental or guardian consent, the parent or
guardian may contact us by emailing us at
info@atellierstories.com. We will remove the information and unsubscribe the child from any of our
electronic marketing.
4.2 In addition to the above, we may use the information in the following ways:
a) To personalise your Website experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product
offerings in which you are most interested.
b) To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature.
c) Present Website content effectively to you.
d) Provide information, and services that you request, or (with your consent) which we think may interest
you.
e) Carry out our contracts with you.
f) Provide the relevant Services to you
g) Tell you our charges.
4.3 If you are already our customer, we will only contact you electronically about things similar to what
was previously sold to you.
4.4 If you are a new customer, you will only be contacted if you agree to it.
4.5 We may keep a record of those links which are used the most to enable us to provide the most helpful
information but we agree to keep such information confidential and you will not be identified from this
information.
4.6 In addition, if you don’t want us to use your personal data for any of the other reasons set out in
this section in 5, you can let us know at any time by contacting us at info@atellierstories.com, and we will delete your data from
our systems. However, you acknowledge this will limit our ability to provide the best possible products
and services to you.
4.7 The collection of personal data is a contractual requirement, and we will be limited in the products
and services we can provide you if you don’t provide your personal data in these cases.
4.8 We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your
personal data in the following circumstances:
a) Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
b) Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and
fundamental rights do not override those interests.
c) Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation
4.9 Generally we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data other than in
relation to our marketing communications or sending third party direct marketing communications to you via
email or text message. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us
at info@atellierstories.com, and we will either delete your
data from our systems or move your data to our “unsubscribe list”. However, you acknowledge this will
limit our ability to provide the best possible services to you.
4.10 As already indicated above, with your permission and/or where permitted by law, we may also use your
data for marketing purposes which may lead to us contacting you by email and/or telephone with
information, news and offers on our Services. We agree that we will not do anything that we have not
agreed to under this Privacy Policy, and we will not send you any unsolicited marketing or spam. We will
take all reasonable steps to ensure that we fully protect your rights and comply with our obligations
under the GDPR and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations in its most recent
amended version.
Social Media Widgets
Our site include social media features, such as the Instagram, Twitter, and Linkedin widgets. These features may collect information about you such as your IP address and which page you are visiting on our site. They may set a cookie or employ other tracking technologies to accomplish this. Social media features and widgets may be hosted by a third party. Your interactions with those features are governed by the privacy policies of the companies that provide them.
5.Cookies
5.1 All Cookies used by and on our website are used in accordance with current English and EU Cookie
Law.
5.2 We use cookies to distinguish users and improve our Website. Please look at our Cookie Policy for more cookie information.
6.Where we store your data and security
6.1 We may transfer your collected data to storage outside the European Economic Area (EEA). It may be
processed outside the EEA to fulfil your order and to receive our Services and deal with payment. If we do
store or transfer data outside the EEA, we will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your data is
treated as safely and securely as it would be within the EEA and under the GDPR. Such steps may include,
but not be limited to, the use of legally binding contractual terms between us and any third parties we
engage with and the use of the EU-approved Model Contractual Arrangements. Your acceptance of this Privacy
Policy shall be your consent permitting us to store or transfer data outside the EEA if it is necessary
for us to do so.
6.2 Where we use providers based in the US, we may transfer data to them if they are part of the Privacy
Shield which requires them to provide similar protection to personal data shared between the Europe and
the US. For further details, see the European Commission: EU-US Privacy Shield.
6.3 Data security is of great importance to us, and to protect your data we have put in place suitable
physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure data collected through our Website.
In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third
parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions
and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
6.4 We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you
and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
6.5 By giving us your personal data, you agree to this arrangement. We will do what we reasonably can to
keep your data secure.
6.6 We have implemented security measures such as a firewall to protect any data and maintain a high level
of security.
6.7 Notwithstanding the security measures that we take, it is important to remember that the transmission
of data via the internet may not be completely secure and that you are advised to take suitable
precautions when transmitting to us data via the internet and you take the risk that any sending of that
data turns out to be not secure despite our efforts.
6.8 We will keep personal data for as long as is necessary which is usually the life of our relationship
and up to a period of seven years after our relationship have ended. We may however be required to retain
personal data for a longer period of time to ensure we comply with our legislative and regulatory
requirements. We review our data retention obligations to ensure we are not retaining data for longer than
we are legally obliged to.
7.Disclosing your information
7.1 We are allowed to disclose your information in the following cases:
7.1.1 If we want to sell our business, or our company, we can disclose it to the potential buyer.
7.1.2 We can disclose it if we have a legal obligation to do so, or in order to protect other people’s
property, safety or rights.
7.1.3 We can exchange information with others to protect against fraud or credit risks.
7.2 We may contract with third parties to supply services to you on our behalf. These may include but are
not limited to search engine facilities, advertising and marketing. In some cases, the third parties may
require access to some or all of your data. These are the third parties which have access to your
information:
www.google.com (as we use Google analytics)
www.cloudabove.com (the hosting company we use)
https://wistia.com We use Wistia to power our videos. Wistia tracks how
you interact with the videos on this site: how much of a video you watch, at what points in a video you
pause or rewind, etc. Wistia does not sell or provide the data it collects from our videos to third
parties. We use this data to improve website user experience.
www.complianz.com The Privacy Suite for WordPress which manages
cookies on our websites.
Contact form 7 WordPress plugin (the contact form provider we use)
Flamingo WordPress plugin (stores submission data collected through contact forms, which may include the
submitters’ personal information, in the database on the server that hosts the website)
7.3 Where any of your data is required for such a purpose, we will take reasonable steps to ensure that your data will be handled safely, securely, and in accordance with your rights, our obligations, and the obligations of the third party under GDPR and the law. We accept no liability to you for third parties’ processing of your data where they collect Personal Information via a plugin.
8.Your rights
8.1 When you submit information via our Website, you may be given options to restrict our use of your
data. We aim to give you strong controls on our use of your data (including the ability to opt-out of
receiving emails from us which you may do by unsubscribing using the links provided above in this Privacy
Policy.
8.2 Under the GDPR, you have the right to:
– request access to, deletion of or correction of, your personal data held by us at no cost to you;
– request that your personal data be transferred to another person (data portability);
– be informed of what data processing is taking place;
– restrict processing;
– to object to processing of your personal data; and
– complain to a supervisory authority.
8.3 You also have rights with respect to automated decision-making and profiling as set out in section 11
below.
8.4 You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually
inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend
to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes.
8.5 To enforce any of the foregoing rights or if you have any other questions about our Website or this
Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@atellierstories.com.
9.Links to other sites
9.1 Please note that our terms and conditions and our policies will not apply to other websites that you
get to via a link from our Website. We have no control over how your data is collected, stored or used by
other websites and we advise you to check the privacy policies of any such websites before providing any
data to them.
10.Changes
10.1 If we change our Privacy Policy, we will post the changes on this page. If we decide to, we may also
email you.
11.Terms and Conditions
11.1 Please also visit our Terms and
Conditions section establishing the use, disclaimers, and limitations of liability governing the use
of our Website.
12.Your Consent
12.1 By using our Website and by way of acknowledgment, you consent to our Privacy Policy.
13.Dispute Resolution
13.1 The Parties will use their best efforts to negotiate in good faith and settle any dispute that may
arise out of or relate to this Privacy Policy or any breach of it.
13.2 If any such dispute cannot be settled amicably through ordinary negotiations between the parties, or
either or both is or are unwilling to engage in this process, either party may propose to the other in
writing that structured negotiations be entered into with the assistance of a fully accredited mediator
before resorting to litigation.
13.3 If the parties are unable to agree upon a mediator, or if the mediator agreed upon is unable or
unwilling to act and an alternative mediator cannot be agreed, any party may within 14 days of the date of
knowledge of either event apply our lawyer to appoint a mediator.
13.4 Within 14 days of the appointment of the mediator (either by mutual agreement of the parties or by
our lawyer, the parties will meet with the mediator to agree the procedure to be adopted for the
mediation, unless otherwise agreed between the parties and the mediator.
13.5 All negotiations connected with the relevant dispute(s) will be conducted in confidence and without
prejudice to the rights of the parties in any further proceedings.
13.6 If the parties agree on a resolution of the dispute at mediation, the agreement shall be reduced to
writing and, once signed by the duly authorised representatives of both parties, shall be final and
binding on them.
13.7 If the parties fail to resolve the dispute(s) within 60 days (or such longer term as may be agreed
between the parties) of the mediator being appointed, or if either party withdraws from the mediation
procedure, then either party may exercise any right to seek a remedy through arbitration by an arbitrator
to be appointed by our lawyer.
13.8 Any dispute shall not affect the parties’ ongoing obligations under this Privacy Policy.