Privacy Policy

My Spicy Chef understands that your privacy is important to you and that you care about how your personal data is used. We respect and value the privacy of everyone who visits our website and will collect and use personal data only in ways that are described here, and in a way that is consistent with our obligations and your rights under the law.

What Does This Policy Cover?

This Privacy Policy applies only to your use of our website.

What is Personal Data?

Personal data is defined by the General Data Protection Regulation (EU Regulation 2016/679) (the “GDPR”) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (collectively, Privacy Policy>“the Data Protection Legislation”)as Privacy Policy‘any information relating to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified in particular, privacy policy by reference to an identifier’.

Personal data is, in simpler terms, any information about you that enables you to be identified. Personal data covers obvious information such as your name and contact details, but it also covers less obvious information such as identification numbers, electronic location data, and other online identifiers.

What are My Rights?

Under the Data Protection Legislation, you have the following rights, which we will always work to uphold:

1. The right to be informed about our collection and use of your personal data.
2. The right to access the personal data we hold about you.
3. The right to have your personal data rectified if any of your personal data held by us is inaccurate or incomplete.
4. The right to be forgotten, i.e. the right to ask us to delete or otherwise dispose of any of your personal data that we hold.
5. The right to restrict (i.e. prevent) the processing of your personal data.
6. The right to object to us using your personal data for a particular purpose or purposes.
7. The right to withdraw consent.This means that, if we are relying on your consent as the legal basis for using your personal data,you are free to withdraw that consent at any time.
8. The right to data portability. This means that, if you have provided personal data to us directly, we are using it with your consent or for the performance of a contract, and that data is processed using automated means,you can ask us for a copy of that personal data to re-use with another service or business in many cases.
9. Rights relating to automated decision-making and profiling. We do not use your personal data in this way.

For more information about our use of your personal data or exercising your rights as outlined above, please contact me.

Further information about your rights can also be obtained from the Information Commissioner’s Office or your local Citizens Advice Bureau.

If you have any cause for complaint about our use of your personal data, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office. However, we would welcome the opportunity to resolve your concerns ourselves, so please contact me first.

What Data do You Collect and How?

Depending upon your use of our website, we may need to collect and hold some of your personal data. We do not collect any sensitive personal data or personal data relating to children or criminal convictions and/or offences. Under the Data Protection Legislation, we must always have a lawful basis for using personal data, which is described below.

Booking a workshop

When you book a workshop with us,collect the following information: your name, privacy policy telephone number and email address. We use this information to provide you with cookery workshops. For accounting purposes, we keep this information for six years.

Mailing list

When you join our mailing list, we collect the following information: your name and email address. We use your details to contact you with information, news and offers on our products and services. You may opt out of this at any time.

You will not be sent any unlawful marketing or spam. We will always work to fully protect your rights and comply with our obligations under the Data Protection Legislation and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, and you will always have the opportunity to opt out.

We will use your personal data only for the purpose(s) for which it was originally collected unless we reasonably believe that another purpose is compatible with that or those original purpose(s) and need to use your personal data for that purpose. If we do use your personal data in this way and you wish us to explain how the new purpose is compatible with the original, please contact us.

In some circumstances, where permitted or required by law, we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent. This will only be done within the bounds of the Data Protection Legislation and your legal rights.

How do You my Personal Data Safe?

The security of your personal data is essential to us, and to protect your data, we take a number of important measures, including the following:

  • limiting access to your personal data to the owner of My Spicy Chef only.
  • procedures for dealing with data breaches (the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to, your personal data) including notifying you and/or the Information Commissioner’ s Office where we are legally required to do so.

Do You Share My Personal Data?

We will not share any of your personal data with any third parties for any purposes, subject to the following exceptions.

If we sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or assets, your personal data may be transferred to a third party. Any new owner of the business may continue to use your personal data in the same way(s) that we have used it, as specified in this Privacy Policy.

In some limited circumstances, we may be legally required to share certain personal data, which might include yours, if we are involved in legal proceedings or complying with legal obligations, a court order, or the instructions of a government authority.

Can I Withhold Information?

You may access most of our website without providing any personal data at all. However, to make an enquiry online, you will be required to submit or allow for the collection of certain data.

How Can I Access My Personal Data?

If you want to know what personal data we have about you, you can ask us for details of that personal data and for a copy of it (where any such personal data is held). This is known as a “subject access request. There is not normally any charge for a subject access request. your request is manifestly unfounded or excessive (for example, you make repetitive requests) a fee may be charged to cover our administrative costs in responding. will respond to your subject access request within 4 weeks. How Do You Use Cookies? Our website does not use cookies. You can choose to enable or disable Cookies in your internet browser. Most internet browsers also enable you to choose whether you wish to disable all Cookies or only third-party Cookies.

How Do I Contact You?

To contact us about anything to do with your personal data and data protection, including to make a subject access request, please use the following details: For the attention of Ms Sameena Rizvi, info@myspicychef.co.uk

Changes To This Privacy Policy

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. This may be necessary, for example, if the law changes, or if we change our business in a way that affects personal data protection.

Any changes will be immediately posted on our website, and you will be deemed to have accepted the terms of the Privacy Policy on your first use of our website following the alterations. We recommend that you check this page regularly to keep up to date. This Privacy Policy was last updated in June 2022.