For the purposes of this privacy notice, The Bike Shed (also referred to as ‘we’, ‘our’ and ‘us’) will be the organisation acting as the Data Controller. The individual (to be referred to as ‘you’ and ‘your’) is the person(s) whose data is being collected and processed.
The Bike Shed is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified, you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
The Bike Shed may change this policy at any time by updating this page. So it is recommended that you check this page regularly to ensure that you are happy with any changes. You will not be notified of any change as it’s made. This policy is effective from May 2018.
When you shop with us, we require certain information from yourself in order to provide the goods and services for which you’re paying. The contractual necessity is our lawful basis for processing this information.
The information we gather, and how we use it is outlined below.
Title, name, phone number, address, email address
Payment Details
Your behaviour, including your purchase history and browsing history
We process data for the purposes of contractual necessity:
We also store and process personal data indefinitely for the purposes of an individual’s vital interests:
We will also process personal data for the purposes of an individual’s legitimate interests:
We will never sell, distribute or lease your data to any third party. In order to fulfil orders and provide you with a highly personal level of service, we do share your data with the following data controllers:
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties ever, in any circumstance. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.
You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the General Data Protection Regulation 2018. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to Data Controller, The Bike Shed, Union Road, Crediton, EX17 3AW.
If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.
Under the General Data Protection Regulation 2018, you have the right to request that all personal information held by Bike Shed about you is forgotten. This is not merely a removal from a mailing list, rather a complete removal of all data held by us, including your purchase history and unique bicycle frame number(s). If you would like to exercise your right to be forgotten, please write to Data Controller, The Bike Shed, Union Road, Crediton, EX17 3AW.