{"id":64,"date":"2026-08-25T19:23:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T19:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merry-snow.online\/?page_id=64"},"modified":"2026-08-25T19:23:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T19:23:21","slug":"privacy-policy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/merry-snow.online\/?page_id=64","title":{"rendered":"Privacy Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><strong><span class=\"\">Last Updated:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"\">\u00a025 August 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"\">1. Introduction<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\">Welcome to\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/merry-snow.online\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"\">merry-snow.online<\/span><\/a><span class=\"\">.<\/span><span class=\"\">\u00a0We are committed to protecting your personal data and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website or interact with us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\">We are the data controller for the purposes of the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"\">2. Who We Are and How to Contact Us<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><strong><span class=\"\">Website:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/merry-snow.online\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"\">merry-snow.online<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><strong><span class=\"\">Email:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"\">merry-snow.online@gmail.com<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><strong><span class=\"\">Address:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"\">\u00a0Weston Ln, Tyseley, Birmingham B11 3RP, United Kingdom<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><strong><span class=\"\">Phone:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"\">\u00a0+441217060102<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\">If you have any questions about this policy or your data, please contact us using the details above.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"\">3. What Data We Collect<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\">We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you, which we have grouped as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><strong><span class=\"\">Identity Data:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"\">\u00a0This includes your name and title.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><strong><span class=\"\">Contact Data:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"\">\u00a0This includes your billing address, delivery address, email address, and telephone numbers.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><strong><span class=\"\">Transaction Data:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"\">\u00a0This includes details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from us.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><strong><span class=\"\">Technical Data:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"\">\u00a0This includes your internet protocol (IP) address, 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><strong><span class=\"\">Usage Data:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"\">\u00a0This includes information about how you use our website, products, and services.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><strong><span class=\"\">Marketing and Communications Data:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"\">\u00a0This includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\">We do not collect any &#8220;Special Categories&#8221; of personal data (such as race, religion, or health information) unless you provide it voluntarily through a contact form.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"\">4. How We Collect Your Data<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\">We use different methods to collect data from and about you:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><strong><span class=\"\">Direct Interactions:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"\">\u00a0You may give us your Identity, Contact, and Financial Data by filling in forms, making a purchase, or corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><strong><span class=\"\">Automated Technologies or Interactions:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"\">\u00a0As you interact with our website, we will automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><strong><span class=\"\">Third Parties or Publicly Available Sources:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"\">\u00a0We may receive personal data about you from various third parties, including analytics providers (such as Google) and payment processing providers.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"\">5. How We Use Your Data and the Lawful Basis<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\">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:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"ds-scroll-area ds-scroll-area--show-on-focus-within ds-scroll-area--enabled _1210dd7 c03cafe9\">\n<div class=\"ds-scroll-area__gutters\">\n<div class=\"ds-scroll-area__horizontal-gutter\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ds-scroll-area__vertical-gutter\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th><strong><span class=\"\">Purpose\/Activity<\/span><\/strong><\/th>\n<th><strong><span class=\"\">Type of Data<\/span><\/strong><\/th>\n<th><strong><span class=\"\">Lawful Basis for Processing<\/span><\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"\">To process and deliver your order<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"\">Identity, Contact, Transaction<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"\">Performance of a contract with you<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"\">To manage our relationship with you<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"\">Identity, Contact, Marketing<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"\">Performance of a contract \/ Necessary for our legitimate interests<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"\">To enable you to participate in a promotion or survey<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"\">Identity, Contact, Usage, Marketing<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"\">Necessary for our legitimate interests<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"\">To administer and protect our business and this website<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"\">Identity, Contact, Technical<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"\">Necessary for our legitimate interests \/ Necessary for compliance with a legal obligation<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"\">To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"\">Identity, Contact, Usage, Marketing<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"\">Necessary for our legitimate interests<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"\">To use data analytics to improve our website, products, services, and customer relationships<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"\">Technical, Usage<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"\">Necessary for our legitimate interests<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"\">To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"\">Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage, Marketing<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"\">Necessary for our legitimate interests<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<h3><span class=\"\">Consent<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\">Where we use your personal data for direct marketing (email or SMS), we will rely on your consent. You have the right to withdraw consent at any time.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"\">6. Cookies<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\">Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users and to improve your experience. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. For detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them, please see our Cookie Policy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><strong><span class=\"\">PECR Compliance:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"\">\u00a0Under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR), we require your consent for all non-essential cookies. You will be presented with a consent banner upon your first visit, allowing you to accept or reject non-essential cookies.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"\">7. Data Sharing<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\">We may share your personal data with the following parties:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><strong><span class=\"\">Service Providers:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"\">\u00a0We may share your data with third-party service providers who provide IT, delivery, payment processing, and email marketing services on our behalf.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><strong><span class=\"\">Professional Advisers:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"\">\u00a0We may share your data with lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers for the purpose of obtaining professional advice.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><strong><span class=\"\">HM Revenue &amp; Customs, Regulators, and Other Authorities:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"\">\u00a0We may share your data where required by law.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\">We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"\">8. International Transfers<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\">We may transfer your personal data outside the UK. Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the UK, we ensure that a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by implementing at least one of the following safeguards:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\">We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the UK Government.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\">Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved for use in the UK which give personal data the same protection it has in the UK.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"\">9. Data Security<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\">We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"\">10. Data Retention<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\">We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"\">11. Your Legal Rights<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\">Under the UK GDPR, you have the following rights:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><strong><span class=\"\">The right to access<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"\">\u00a0\u2013 You have the right to request copies of your personal data.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><strong><span class=\"\">The right to rectification<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"\">\u00a0\u2013 You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><strong><span class=\"\">The right to erasure<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"\">\u00a0\u2013 You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><strong><span class=\"\">The right to restrict processing<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"\">\u00a0\u2013 You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><strong><span class=\"\">The right to object to processing<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"\">\u00a0\u2013 You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><strong><span class=\"\">The right to data portability<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"\">\u00a0\u2013 You have the right to request that we transfer the data we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><strong><span class=\"\">The right to withdraw consent<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"\">\u00a0\u2013 You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><strong><span class=\"\">The right to lodge a complaint<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"\">\u00a0\u2013 You have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner\u2019s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ico.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"\">www.ico.org.uk<\/span><\/a><span class=\"\">).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\">If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us via the details in Section 2.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"\">12. Changes to This Policy<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\">We reserve the right to update this privacy policy at any time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Updated:\u00a025 August 2026 1. Introduction Welcome to\u00a0merry-snow.online.\u00a0We are committed to protecting your personal data and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website or interact with us. 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