Privacy Policy

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The Little Beans Organic Clothing Company is registered in England and Wales with company number 9537346 to Little Beans Day Care (Garland) Limited. 

We care about your personal data and ensuring you’re informed about how we use it. Protecting the confidentiality and integrity of personal data is a critical responsibility that The Little Beans Organic Clothing 

Company takes seriously at all times. The processing of personal data, such as the name, postal address, e-mail address, or telephone number of a data subject shall always be in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”) and in accordance with the country-specific data protection regulations applicable. The Little Beans Organic Clothing Company promises to protect your data, and to manage any information you share with us in line with data protection laws.

This Policy sets out the nature, scope and purpose of the personal data we collect, use, process and store and our legal basis for this, to ensure you remain informed and in control of your data.

Please read this Policy carefully to understand how we collect, use, process and store your personal data.

If you have any questions about how The Little Beans Organic Clothing Company processes your data, please get in touch with us through our ‘Contact Us’ page on our website. 

Online:

We collect personal information on our website when you:

• Create an account on our site.
• Place an order through our site.
• Fill in forms on our site, for example when you enter a competition or respond to a survey.
• Subscribe to our email newsletters.
• Give consent to receive our catalogues and other postal mailings.
• Give consent to receive information from third party companies.

Depending on your interaction with The Little Beans Organic Clothing Company, we’ll collect the following types of information about you for marketing purposes:

Register Interest form on the website (including but not limited to):

• Your contact details, such as name, email address
• Your personal information such as gender
• How you heard about our company

If you purchase a product and click the newsletter opt in (including but not limited to):

• Your contact details, such as name, postal address, email address
• Your personal information such as gender, your date of birth
• How you have heard about us

Depending on your interaction with The Little Beans Organic Clothing Company, we’ll collect the following types of information about you to fulfil the contract you enter into when you order goods from us:

• To provide you with an account on our site, if you choose to sign up for one.
• To fulfil any order that you place with us.
• To collect payment from you.
• To provide you with a receipt, if you ask us to send this to you electronically.
• If you contact us and or our Customer Service team, we may keep a record of that correspondence. If you telephone us, we may keep a recording of that call for training and monitoring purposes.

Personal data will be collected only for specified, explicit and legitimate reasons (these are often referred to as ‘purposes’). It will not be further processed in any manner incompatible with those purposes.

The Company will not use Personal Data for new, different or incompatible purposes from that disclosed when it was first obtained unless the Data Subject has been informed of the new purposes and they have consented where necessary.

In simple terms, your personal data may be used to help us effectively market our products and surrounding information to you.

We have summarised below the different reasons why we do this. How we use your data for these purposes will depend on the nature of our relationship with you.

Marketing

• To send you marketing communications including news, updates and promotions around our products.
• By purchasing a product, you grant us and those authorised by us the free and unfettered right to use such photographs, filming and recording for any purposes it deems reasonable including, but not limited to, publication, display, sale and distribution by means of film, television, radio, print media, internet, publicity material or any other new media now or in the future.
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Analysis, targeting and segmentation

• To better understand our purchasers and allow us to serve you email marketing and messages that are optimised for you and tailored to you.

Marketing research

• To carry out research to better understand the audience profile and demographics of our customers.
• To send you surveys

Media and PR

• Contacting you about press enquiries and case studies to help promote our products if you have opted in on our entry form agreeing us for us to do so.

Art. 6 GDPR serves the legal basis for processing data. Processing is lawful if at least one of the following applies:

• Data processing as a result of your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR). As long as you have granted us consent to process your personal data for certain purposes, this processing is legal on the basis of your consent. Consent given can be withdrawn at any time. This also applies to withdrawing declarations of consent that were given to us before the GDPR came into force, i.e. before May 25, 2018. Withdrawal of consent does not affect the legality of data processed prior to withdrawal
• Data processing for performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR)
• Data processing due to statutory provisions (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR)
• Data processing in the public interest (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. e GDPR)
• Data processing in the context of balancing interests (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR)

We’ll retain personal data for different periods of time depending on your relationship with The Little Beans Organic Clothing Company. 

Generally, personal data shall be processed and stored only for the period necessary to achieve the purpose of storage. When personal data is no longer needed for specified purposes, it will be deleted or anonymised.

For marketing research purposes, The Little Beans Organic Clothing Company will keep some data indefinitely (for example, your name and purchase history).

We will only get in touch with you if you are subscribed to our marketing database. If you decide you no longer wish to hear from us, we’ll need you to unsubscribe at the bottom of any email communication or alternatively get in touch with us directly for any further requirements.

All reasonable steps will be taken to destroy or erase personal data that is no longer required from the systems. This includes requiring third parties to delete such data where applicable.

If you’d like more information on our retention policy, please get in touch via the contact details below. 

The Little Beans Organic Clothing Company operations are based in the UK and we store our data within the European Economic Area (EEA).

When The Little Beans Organic Clothing Company is using your personal information on the basis of your consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. You also have the right to ask The Little Beans Organic Clothing Company to stop using your personal information for direct marketing purposes. 

Simply unsubscribe at the bottom of any email send out or contact us and we will amend your contact preferences.

You have the following rights:

• Right to be Informed (Art. 14 GDPR)
  You have the right to be told how your personal data will be used.
• Right of Access (Art. 15 GDPR)
  You can contact us asking what information we hold on you and to request a copy of that information. We have 30 days to comply once we are satisfied you have rights to see the requested records and we have successfully confirmed your identity.
• Right of Rectification (Art. 16 GDPR)
  If you believe our records are inaccurate you have the right to ask for those records concerning you to be updated.
• Right of Erasure (Art. 17 GDPR)
  You have the right to be forgotten (i.e. to have your personally identifiable data deleted). We’ll be required to keep an appropriate record (such as a suppression list) so that we can make sure you don’t receive future communications.
• Right to Restrict Processing (Art. 18 GDPR)
  In certain situations you have the right to ask for processing of your personal data to be restricted because there is some disagreement about its accuracy or legitimate usage.
• Right to Data Portability (Art. 20 GDPR)
  Where we are processing your personal data under your consent the law allows you to request data portability from one service provider to another. This right is largely seen as a way for people to transfer their personal data from one service provider to a competitor.
• Right to Object (Art. 21 GDPR)
  You have an absolute right to stop the processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes.
• Right to Lodge a Complaint (Art. 77 GDPR)

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority (Art. 13 para. 2 lit. d and Art. 14 para. 2 lit. e GDPR). The right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority is regulated by Art. 77 para. 1 GDPR. 

According to this provision, without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, every data subject shall have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the EU Member State of his or her habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement if the data subject considers that the processing of personal data relating to him or her infringes the GDPR.

This Policy may change from time to time. For example, we will continue to update it to reflect new legal requirements. Please visit this website page to keep up to date with the changes to our Policy.

In the first instance, please talk to us directly so we can help resolve any problem or query. You can find our contact details on our website, here.