1. INTRODUCTION TO PRIVACY POLICY

The privacy guidelines (”Privacy Policy”) outlined herein protect and safeguard the users and visitors of Ingredients Bar website (ingredientsbar.com) and all its related e-commerce services, including (but not limited to) any other interfaces (“Ingredients Bar” or “website”), as modified or otherwise amended and in effect from time to time. 

Using the website is your consent as a user to the collection, processing, use and disclosure of any personal details provided by you or obtained from your use of the website. Ingredients Bar reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time so that it reflects any changes in judicial decisions, regulations or the law, along with any modifications to our personal Data Collection and Use practices, technological advancements or website features. Prior to making any significant alterations, the website may also publish a relevant announcement in a prominent location. 

2. PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION TECHNOLOGY

Ingredients Bar uses encrypted technology to protect its customers’ personal information while their credit card transactions are in progress. The brand implements all commercially reasonable and currently available security methods of the highest security standards, including (but not limited to) SSL certification and the use of pseudonymisation, to maintain data accuracy, ensure its proper use and safe internal procedures and prevent unauthorised access to customers’ personal information.

Unfortunately, no data transmitting method is bulletproof and 100% secure when it comes to storing and transmitting electronic information over the internet. Therefore, the brand cannot guarantee security under all circumstances, despite putting forward established practices to ensure the safety of the provided personal data from our buyers and website users.

When a user or buyer subscribes to our newsletter or email list on behalf of another individual, they must ensure that they have obtained the necessary consent from the person on behalf of whom they are entering the personal information, so that we can collect, disclose and use the personal data of this third party. Ingredients Bar is under no obligation to investigate or take any other steps to verify a person’s right to disclose the information of another individual. 

3. TRANSFER OF DATA OUTSIDE THE JURISDICTIONAL LIMIT OF THE UK AND EU

The collected data from users of the website may be stored at or transferred to a destination outside the United Kingdom or the European Union (EU) and may also be processed by individuals operating overseas. Ingredients Bar ensures that the recipient of such information implements appropriate data protection practices and measures when a user’s information is sent outside the jurisdictional limit of the UK and/or the EU. 

4. USAGE OF THE COLLECTED DATA

Clicking on the “opt-out” or “unsubscribe” button when registering an account with Ingredients Bar automatically informs our systems that the user does not want to receive information about discounts and sales. This does not limit or prohibit the ability of any of the Ingredients Bar partners to communicate with the user or buyer at any time and in any manner. The brand expressly reserves the right to communicate with its users or buyers for any reason it deems appropriate, according to its own discretion and judgement through the email with which they have provided the website. 

5. COOKIES & INFORMATION WE COLLECT

The user voluntarily provides their personal identifiable information, including their email address, postal address, phone number and name to the website while registering an account and placing an order.

The website may also collect non-identifiable information, including (but not limited to) the user’s IP address, login name, payment information (stored and processed automatically by third-party payment gateways), any messages they may leave and their search preferences in relation to specific searches, as well as any additional information associated with them provided to us either directly (via using our website) or indirectly (via “cookies” and third-party websites or online services).

Ingredients Bar uses third-party applications, data controllers, websites, software and apps to collect the necessary data from our users for the purpose of rendering our services. The collected data is directly controlled, processed, and stored by these third parties.

Ingredients Bar is currently built on the WordPress platform and stores cookies on users’ devices. The brand may also use third-party API services from Apple and Google systems for data storage and GPS, or several accounting API mode systems to help track costs, analyse data and create data sheets. 

6. USE OF COOKIES

The term “cookies” refers to a text file that is stored on the user’s or visitor’s personal computer or device and gathers specific information. When a visitor returns to a webpage, the stored information related to that website is provided back to the website so that the website can identify and track its users. Ingredients Bar stores cookies on its users’ devices, specifically temporary cookies (“session cookies”) that are deleted as soon as the user exits the browser, and permanent cookies that remain on the visitor’s or user’s browser until the user deletes the cookie log file or until the file expires on its own, for the purpose of its services. 

Ingredients Bar uses cookies for the following reasons: 

1. to understand how visitors are arriving on our website;

2. to monitor the usage of our website;

3. to remember when a user last visited our website;

4. to conduct research and development by gathering user data in aggregated form.

Users can disable the collection of cookies by referring to their device’s browser settings. Kindly note that the cookies do not contain any personal identifying information, while they may also be used by our website to help remember a customer’s order throughout the checkout process even if they wish to check out as a guest user. 

7. PERSONAL DATA DISCLOSURE/SHARING

Ingredients Bar fully complies with the law about data collection and only shares users’ information under permitted ways as described in this policy, exercising discretion in all of its decisions. 

The buyer waives any right they may have to limit the disclosure of their personal data. We value and appreciate our customers’ trust in us. If they have any questions or concerns about our privacy policies and agreements, they are welcome to contact us through the appropriate channels. We also welcome all of our users’ feedback and we look forward to learning from their experience while using our website. 

Ingredients Bar may share users’ information and data with its affiliated companies and business partners for the reasons described below:

• To fulfil our contractual obligations – If there is a company’s logo that is not affiliated with Ingredients Bar on our website, it means that we have partnered with them to provide us with that service or product.

• When outsourcing business operations – Many activities, works and tasks, such as data collection and analysis, product and service marketing, credit card processing and customer service (including package delivery, postal mail and electronic correspondence), require the assistance of outside companies, contractors, service providers or freelancers (“agents”), who need access to our users’ data to provide the intended services. In some cases, they may use this data for other purposes.

• Law-dictated data sharing – Users’ information may be disclosed if obliged by law, if we reasonably believe that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or a legal process served on Ingredients Bar, and/or when we believe in good faith that disclosing this information is necessary to comply with the law, enforce the Terms and Conditions attached to our products and services, prevent fraud or other illegal activity or protect the rights, property,or safety of Ingredients Bar, our affiliated companies, our customers or others.

8. USERS’ DATA PROTECTION & SAFETY RIGHTS

8.1. Updating & Amendment of Information

Users are encouraged to use our contact form and communicate with us their desire to update, access, amend or delete the personal information that we have collected about them, or if they have any questions concerning this Privacy Policy. All users can withdraw any consent with which they have provided our website at any time. This will automatically stop us from continuing to process their information unless we are obliged to do so according to law or court decision.

8.2. Privacy & GDPR User Rights

In compliance with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) and other user privacy rights, all users and visitors of our website have the right to access their personal information, know how their data is being stored on our website and ask for copies of their personal data. Users can also object to the processing of their data, restrict the processing of their personal information, erasure and/or amend their data, complain to a supervisory authority (the UK Information Commissioner’s Office if it is a UK user), opt out of certain uses and disclosures of their personal information and have their personal information transmitted to another data controller (data portability) under certain conditions, under articles 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21 of the GDPR. Any claim or request related to data privacy is processed by our company within 30 days. In order for them to exercise their data protection rights, users are obliged to verify their identity.

9. DATA RETENTION

We retain a user’s personal information collected as described in this Privacy Policy for as long as needed to provide them with our services or if we have a legitimate business reason to do so. When we no longer have an ongoing legitimate business reason to process their personal information, all user data is deleted.