Ben Mitchell Ltd t/a Mitchell Curated collects and manages data as per this privacy policy.

1. Introduction

Ben Mitchell Ltd t/a Mitchell Curated (“Ben Mitchell Ltd”, “Us”, “We”, “Our”) registered in England and Wales under company number 14517903 is the Data Controller of your Information for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the “Act”).

We respect your privacy and we are committed to protecting your personal Information as that term is defined in the Act (“Information”). We comply with the principles of the Act and aim to maintain consistently high levels of best practice in our processing of your Information.

We know how important it is for you to have control over any communications that you receive from us, so here’s a quick and easy way of opting-out of all marketing communications. BUT please remember that this will remove you from everything you’ve signed up for and you may wish to be more selective and choose which communications you no longer wish to receive, particularly by email or SMS, by clicking on the unsubscribe link provided at the bottom of each and every message we send you. Otherwise please email ask@mitchellcurated.com

Please read in conjunction with our Terms & Conditions and our Cookie Policy.

This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) is intended to inform you how we collect, use and disclose your personal data. This Policy is intended to assist you in making informed decisions about your Information when using our website or the services provided by us or our group companies. Please take a few moments to read and understand the Policy.

By using our website and services you consent to our collection and use of your Information as described in this Policy. If we change our Policy and/or procedures, we will update this Policy to keep you aware of what Information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we may disclose it. Your continued use of the website or services after this Policy has been amended shall be deemed to be your continued acceptance of the terms and conditions of this Policy, as amended. We encourage you to bookmark this Web page and review this Policy regularly.

In addition to this Policy, each service offered by us may have additional privacy provisions that are specific to the particular service. These supplemental disclosures are made adjacent to the particular service at the time your Information is collected. A list of our group companies can be seen at the end of this document.

2. What information do we collect?

All your Information will be held and used in accordance with the Act where applicable. If you want to know what Information we collect and hold about you, please email us at: ask@mitchellcurated.com, or write to us at the address given at the end of this Policy. When you visit and use our website or request our services you may provide us with or we may collect your Information such as your postal address, email address and other personal information. You may provide or we may collect this Information in a number of ways:

2.1. Information you voluntarily provide to us

We collect and maintain Information that you voluntarily submit to us during your use of our website or services. For example:

• When you register on our website or for a product or service, you may provide us with certain Information including your name, email address, user name, password and demographic Information.

• If you sign up to our service via a social network we may use the profile Information you enable us to access regarding your interests.

• If you sign up to receive a newsletter, a magazine, enter a competition or participate in social networking activities, you may provide us with contact Information (e.g., email, telephone and/or or physical address).

• You may provide us with Information in the course of email, customer support interactions and surveys.

You can choose not to provide us with certain Information, but this may stop you from gaining access to a service or limit the features that you can use on our websites. For more Information, please see the “How We Use Your Information” section of the Policy below.

2.2. Information we collect through your use of our Website

As you use our website, Information may also be passively collected by us through our use of cookies, flash cookies, web beacons, pixels, log files, and other technologies. This Information allows us to deliver more helpful Information, services, tools and advertisements. Please see our Cookie Policy for more Information.

2.3. Information we receive from third parties

We may also combine online and/or offline Information received from third parties with your Information. The third party Information is used for a variety of purposes including to verify other Information about you (e.g., verify your mailing address to send you requested products or services) and to enhance the content and relevance of the advertising we provide to you.

3. How we use your information

We will use your Information in the ways described below and as described at the time that the Information is collected.

3.1. To Provide the Services

In general, we use your Information as necessary or appropriate for our business purposes including to:

• Respond to inquiries or requests that you direct to us

• Fulfil your requests for products or services

• Send communications and administrative emails about the website or our services

• Personalise and better tailor the features, performance and support of the website and our services for your use; analyse, benchmark and conduct research on user data and user interactions with the website and our services

• Deliver customer services

• Other purposes related to any of the above

3.2. Marketing

Where you have provided us with the appropriate consents, or where the Act entitles us to do so, we may send you marketing materials about other products or services offered by Ben Mitchell Ltd.

In addition, where you have provided us with the appropriate consents, we may also pass your Information for marketing purposes to other selected third parties in the following sectors where the Information they provide will be relevant to you: Professional Associations, Automotive, Events, Financial Services, Surveys and Research, Media, Broadcast and Marketing, Publishing and Subscriptions and Business and Information Services.

However, be assured that we understand the irritations of unsolicited communications and we are fully committed to ensuring the rights and obligations set out in the Act and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003, updated 2004 and 2011 are respected.

3.3. Behavioural Advertising – customer-relevant advertising

We believe that advertising is more interesting to you when it is relevant. Accordingly, we may customise the advertisements that you see based upon:

• The Information you voluntarily provide to us

• Geographic location Information, which we may determine through your IP address, from your mobile device, or other ways

• Data we receive from third parties

• Your visits to our website or your use of our services (commonly referred to as "Behavioural Advertising"). Please see our Cookie Policy for further Information.

• Advertisers or other third parties using our website may also engage in Behavioural Advertising and use cookies and other technologies s in the manner in our Cookie Policy. We do not control these advertisers or other parties' use of cookies or other technologies or what they do with the Information they collect. Please see our Cookie Policy for further Information.

You can limit the way that we tailor advertising based on your Information by objecting to the cookies that we or third parties wish to place on your browser or deleting the cookies that we or third parties have placed on your browser. Please see our Cookie Policy for more details of how to delete cookies.

After you have exercised your right to object or reject the use of cookies, you may still see advertisements, but the advertising may not be as relevant to your interests. If you change your computer, change your browser or delete certain cookies, you will need to renew your preferences.

4. Can I find out what personal information Ben Mitchell Ltd. holds on me?

Under the Act you have the right to request a copy of the Information that we hold about you. There will be an administration fee of £10 associated with this request, as permitted by the Act, and it will require two pieces of identification to prove your identity. Please make a written application to the Ben Mitchell Ltd, The Old Dairy, Marsden Estate, Rendcomb, Cirencester, Glos, GL7 7EX, United Kingdom. The statutory time for our response is 40 days but with your help in providing us with relevant Information we endeavour to respond sooner.

If any of the Information that we hold about you is incorrect and you’d like it amended, please email ask@mitchellcurated.com and we’ll review your request.

5. How we disclose your information to third parties

We may share your Information with third parties as specifically approved by you or under the circumstances described below and in this Policy.

5.1. Disclosure for legal reasons

We may disclose your Information if we are under a duty to disclose or share your Information to comply with any legal obligation or in order to enforce or apply or fulfil our terms and conditions and other agreements or protect the rights, property, or safety of our customers, our company or others. This includes exchanging Information with other companies and organisations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

We use a number of third party organisations to help provide a professional service to our customers. These organisations act as data processors and are strictly contractually controlled in how they may/may not use your Information and we remain responsible for the protection of your Information.

5.2. Changes to our Company

In the event we go through a business transition such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your Information may be among the assets transferred. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and are permitted by this Policy.

6. Updating and control of your information

There are a number of ways in which you can control the collection, use, and sharing of your Information and update your Information and preferences.

6.1. Opting-Out on Receipt of Marketing Communications

When you receive electronic marketing communications from us you will have the opportunity to "opt-out" by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in e-mails covering any marketing communication from us.

6.2. Preference Services

The Telephone Preference Service (TPS), the Corporate Telephone Preference Service (CTPS) and the Mailing Preference Service (MPS) allow you to choose to opt out of unsolicited marketing contact. However, if you are registered on any of the preference services, which are general opt-out registers, you may still receive marketing communications from us if you have given us your consent previously or if you subsequently give us that consent.

6.3. Contacting Us

If your Information has changed or if you no longer wish to receive marketing communications from us then you can amend your Information or update your preferences if you click here.

Please note that:

• Even if you delete Information, we may retain your Information in conformance with our data retention policy most specifically for legal and tax reasons and to honour your opt-out requests; and

• We do not keep Information longer than we deem necessary.

• We are not responsible for updating or removing your Information contained in the lists or databases of third parties who have previously been provided with Information as permitted by this Policy.

7. Third party links and services

Please remember that when you use a link to go from our website to another website or you request a service from a third party, our Policy no longer applies. Your browsing and interaction on any other website or your dealings with any other third party service provider, is subject to that website’s or third party service provider’s own rules and policies. We do not monitor, control, or endorse the Information collection or privacy practices of any third parties. We encourage you to become familiar with the privacy practices of every website you visit or third party service provider that you deal with and to contact them if you have any questions about their respective privacy policies and practices. This Policy applies solely to Information collected by us through our website or services and does not apply to these third party websites and third party service providers.

8. Where we store your information

By submitting Information to us, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all reasonable steps necessary, including the use of the Model Contractual Arrangements as approved by the EU, or other contractual means to ensure that your Information is treated securely and in accordance with this Policy and the Act. We do not store credit card details nor do we share customer details with any 3rd parties.

9. Security of your information

We follow appropriate security procedures in the storage and disclosure of your Information so as to prevent unauthorised access by third parties. We also require those parties to whom we transfer personal Information to comply with the same. However, unfortunately, the transmission of Information via the Internet is not completely secure. So, we cannot ensure the security of your Information transmitted by you to us via the internet. Any such transmission is at your own risk and you acknowledge and agree that we shall not be responsible for any unauthorised use, distribution, damage or destruction of your Information, except to the extent we are required to accept such responsibility by the Act. Once we have received your Information we will use security procedures and features to prevent unauthorised access to it.

10. Reporting of security vulnerabilities

Ben Mitchell Ltd t/a Mitchell Curated is committed to the privacy, safety and security of our customers. If you discover a potential security vulnerability, we would appreciate it if you could report it just to us in a responsible manner. Please email us at ask@mitchellcurated.com and we will respond to you as soon as possible. This provides us with an opportunity to work with you and quickly address and resolve any issue. Publicly disclosing a potential vulnerability could put the wider community at risk, and therefore we encourage you to come to us first. We’ll keep you informed as we move forward with our investigations.

11. Social Media

11.1. Social networking sites, such as Facebook, Instagram, among others, work with us as trusted third party partners. We also work with application developers who specialise in social media, so that we can connect with your social networks. We provide access to our Websites for third parties and business partners so that we can generate interest in our products and services among members of your social networks and to allow you to share product and service interests with friends in your network.

11.2. We do not control how your personal Information is collected, stored or used by such third party sites or to whom it is disclosed. You should review the privacy policies and settings on any social networking site that you subscribe to so that you understand the Information they may be sharing. If you do not want your networking sites to share Information about you, you must contact that site and determine whether it gives you the opportunity to opt-out of sharing such Information. Ben Mitchell Ltd. is not responsible for how these third party sites may use Information collected from or about you.

12. Does Ben Mitchell Ltd. collect information from children?

Ben Mitchell Ltd. does not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, please do not submit any personal information through the site, service or software. We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s Internet usage and to help enforce this Policy by instructing their children never to provide personal information through the site, service or software without their permission.

13. Anti-spam policy

Ben Mitchell Ltd. provides exciting and thought-provoking content in our emails and aims to tailor them to the specific needs & interests of our brand audiences. We hope you enjoy receiving and reading them.

Ben Mitchell Ltd. has zero tolerance concerning the sending of unsolicited/bulk commercial email - “spam”. In respect of this policy, please also refer to our full Terms & Conditions and Cookie Policy.

13.1. Automated Spam Filtering: We automatically scan all incoming electronic messages and filter out those that appear to be spam. As no system can be 100% accurate in detecting genuine emails from spam, authentic messages may occasionally be filtered. If you believe this may have happened, please contact the recipient by another means.

13.2. Unwanted messages from Ben Mitchell Ltd.: Any recipient of email communication from us may request, at any time, to unsubscribe. In the unlikely event you are in receipt of email communication from Ben Mitchell Ltd. which could be considered as spam, we encourage you to report it to us by forwarding a copy to us at: ask@mitchellcurated.com

We will fully investigate any reports of abuse.

14. How to contact us

If you have any questions regarding privacy or this Policy, you may contact us as follows:

Ben Mitchell Ltd., The Old Dairy, Marsden Estate, Rendcomb, Cirencester, Glos, GL7 7EX, United Kingdom.

Email us: ask@mitchellcurated.com

Changes to this Policy

We may amend/update this policy by publishing a new version on this web site at any time, so we encourage you to check back regularly to make sure that you are still happy with the terms under which we process your personal data.

Updated 6th February 2024.