Privacy Policy
Privacy Notice
This privacy notice (“Privacy Notice”) describes how BOX MARKETPLACE LTD and its subsidiaries
and affiliates acting in its role as data controller (“BOX MARKETPLACE LTD”, “our,” “us” or “we”)
may collect, use and share information relating to you as an identified or identifiable natural person
(“personal data”).
Please carefully read this privacy notice in its entirety before using our websites, email notifications,
mobile apps, social media apps, widgets, and other online services of BOX MARKETPLACE LTD (the
“Services”). This privacy notice will clarify to you what data we collect, how we use and share it, and
help you understand your choices with respect to that data.
About Us
BOX MARKETPLACE LTD
12128747
39 Erskine Road, Chorley, PR60HS
theboxhut.com
Contacting Us
If you wish to exercise your data privacy rights in line with this notice, or if you have any questions
about your data privacy rights our contact information is as follows:
Data Protection Officer
support@theboxhut.com
Overview
This Privacy Notice only governs the use of BOX MARKETPLACE LTD services that specifically link
to this Privacy Notice.
Personal data we collect about you when you use our services
When you use our services we may collect personal data from you including but not limited to:
Name email username phone number company and address other contact information
Credited card number billing address shipping address security code and other payment
transaction and verification details supplied when you provide payment information
Information you show interest in regarding pages and product viewed items added to your
shopping cart ads you clicked on emails sent by us opened by you browser type OS IP address
and location information. This information is collected by us and used as analytical
information.
Publicly available information from third-party sources such as the postal service for shipping
address verification;
Your mobile device OS by way of mobile device identifier embedded either by us or by another
commonly used mobile device identifier.
We collect personal information from third parties via usage data, including but not limited to:
Your email address and other personal data collected about you may be forwarded to the
Company by a third-party website when you request for us to contact you through such a thirdparty website
Your personal data may be forwarded to the Company when you opt in to participate in a thirdparty offer or application or feature such as live chat or by interacting on one of our social
media pages or a similar app or feature on a third-party website
Additional personal information may be forwarded to the Company from a third party in
combination with personal information we collect through your use of our services. This is in
order to enhance our services to focus particular content we provide and to offer various offers
and opportunities available to purchase products or services that we feel may be of interest to
you based upon the analytical information we have collected.
We will apply the terms of our Privacy Notice and Data Protection Policies to any personal
data we receive from third parties unless we have disclosed to you otherwise. the Company is
not responsible for third parties’ distribution of your personal data.
How we use your personal data
We may use your personal data for the following purposes, as permitted by data protection
regulations and legislation:
Purchases: We may use received contact information and received payment information to
process and fulfil purchases you make through our offered services.
Customer Service: We may use your received contact information to respond to any questions
you ask us about our products and services and to communicate with you generally about
offers competitions surveys or sweepstakes. To adequately respond to any queries we may also
request information about your industry and other relevant questions regarding your interest
in our product.
Feedback: We may use information such as your username email address purchases and other
relevant user-generated content you provide when you comment on or review our products.
Website Registration: We may use your contact information when you create an account with
us in order to allow us to provide you with a more personalised user experience.
Analytics: When you use our services we automatically collect and use data for analytical
purposes to allow us to improve your experience with us and our services and to target market
relevant products for you.
Marketing: We use personal data to determine what products may be of interest to users
provide relevant marketing communications and to carry out market research. We may also
use information provided including industry information to generate information of products
owned experience with products and other user generated content to allow us to market
services effectively.
Location-Based Services: We may collect user location data including address and/or postal
code to provide locations of stockists of our products or other appropriate location
information.
We may also use your personal data in different ways that are consistent with the above described purposes to administer our websites and provide our services to you.
Legal Bases for the Processing and Consequences
BOX MARKETPLACE LTD rely on the following legal bases for the collection, processing, and use of
your personal data:
The processing is necessary to provide our services as requested by you;
Your consent;
The processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party, or to
commence at your request before entering into a contract;
The processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are a party;
The processing is necessary for purposes of legitimate interests pursued by us or a third party,
except where such interests are overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and
freedoms which require protection of personal data; such legitimate interests are the
fulfilment of the processing purposes set out in this Privacy Notice.
Generally, the provision of your personal data is voluntary. However, in some cases, it is necessary
in order to enter into a contract with us or to receive our products or services as explicitly requested
by you.
By not providing your personal data may result in disadvantages for you. However, unless otherwise
specified, by not providing your personal data will not result in legal consequences for you.
Personal data shared with third parties
We will only ever share personal data with companies, organisations and individuals outside of BOX
MARKETPLACE LTD as explained below.
Recipients within BOX MARKETPLACE LTD and Third Parties. We may share your personal data
with affiliates of BOX MARKETPLACE LTD and other companies worldwide, including unaffiliated
agents, suppliers or manufacturers, in order for these companies to contact you about relevant
products, services or other offers that may be of interest to you. We may also share your personal
data with relevant business partners.
Subject to the categories of personal data and the reasons for the collection of personal data, your
data may be shared with and provided to various entities within our internal departments. For
example, IT, marketing and sales departments may have access to your data, depending upon
product orders. Other departments, such as finance, auditing, legal and compliance may require
access to certain personal data, albeit on a “need to know” basis.
This Privacy Notice does not oversee unaffiliated third-party websites or any other website that does
not link back to this Privacy Notice.
Service Providers. We share personal data with both affiliated and unaffiliated companies. These
companies perform certain tasks on our behalf related to our business. These service providers
include, but not limited to:
Payment Processing
Fullfilling orders
Delivering packages
Website analysis applications
Data service providers
Marketing companies
Social commerce services for example forums reviews and ratings
Any third-party service providers we use will receive your personal data only as necessary to
perform their role and are instructed not to use your personal data for any other purposes.
We will use and disclose your personal data as permitted by data protection laws and regulations as
follows:
To comply with legal processing and responding to requests from legal, public and government
authorities.
To enforce our terms and conditions, including investigating potential violations;
To detect and prevent fraud, cyber security or other technical issues;
To protect our business operations or those of our affiliates;
To protect the rights of our customers, our company our property, and that of our affiliates
and others;
To allow us to pursue remedies or limit any damages that we may sustain.
Business Transfers
As our business continues to develop, we may at some time sell or buy further products, brands,
subsidiaries, stores or business units. In this respect, we may share or transfer personal data we
hold about you with third parties as part of transactions including but not limited to company
reorganisation, sale, merger, assignment, joint venture, transfer or disposition of any or all of our
business, brands, subsidiaries, affiliates, or other company assets.
Customer information normally is a part of a business asset to be transferred but remains subject to
any pre-existing applicable Privacy Notice.
We may share aggregated data that has been anonymised (data that is not identified) with third
parties – for example, publishers, advertisers or associated websites and, accordingly, this data will
be publicly available. An example of when we may do this is when we wish to share information
publicly to show trends about the use of our services or products.
Links to Social Networking and other Third-Party Websites
Our services contain links to social networking websites and other third party mobile applications.
These are operated and controlled by third parties. While we endeavour to link to reputable websites
that equally share our high data privacy standards, we cannot take responsibility for any content or
privacy practices deployed by these third party websites. Any personal data you provide to such
third party websites will be collected by that third party and not by BOX MARKETPLACE LTD and
will be subject to that third party’s privacy policy, rather than BOX MARKETPLACE LTD Privacy
Notice. In this situation, BOX MARKETPLACE LTD shall not be responsible, or have any control over
that third party’s use of any personal data you provide to them.
Your Rights
If you have declared your consent regarding certain collecting, processing and use of your personal
data you can withdraw this consent at any time with immediate effect.
Further, you have the right to object to the use of your personal data for the purposes of marketing.
Please note that the rights mentioned above and below may be subject to modification under the
applicable data protection law.
For the avoidance of doubt this Privacy Notice applies only for data subjects located in the EEA:
Right to request access to your personal data
You have a right to request from us confirmation as to whether or not your personal data is being
processed and, where that is the case, to request access to the personal data.
The access information includes information regarding the purposes of the processing, the
categories of personal data concerned, and the recipients or categories of recipient to whom your
personal data is disclosed.
You have the right to request and receive a copy of any personal data we are processing. In the case
of repeated requests however, we may charge a reasonable fee based on administrative costs.
Right to request rectification
You have the right to request that we rectify inaccurate personal data concerning you.
Right to request erasure (Right to be forgotten)
You have the right, in certain circumstances, to request from us the erasure of personal data
concerning you and we are obliged to erase such personal data.
Right to request processing restriction
You have the right to request that we restrict processing your personal data. In such cases.
Right to request data portability
You have the right to request and receive all personal data concerning you, which you have provided
to us, in a structured, conventionally used, easy to read format. You have the right to transmit this
downloaded data to another entity without obstruction from us.
Right to object
You have the right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data by us.
In this case, we can no longer process your personal data.
Such rights to object may especially apply if BOX MARKETPLACE LTD collects and processes your
personal data for the purposes of profiling.
You also have to right to object to the use of your data for direct marketing purposes.
If you exercise this right, your personal data will no longer be processed for such purposes by us.
If you wish to exercise this right, please contact us at Yes
Please note that this right to object may not exist if the processing of your personal data is deemed
necessary to facilitate the creation of a contract between you and BOX MARKETPLACE LTD or to
execute a contract already concluded.
In the case where you have already provided us with your consent for direct marketing purposes, for
example, you have completed an online form or actively subscribed to our newsletters, you can
withdraw your consent as already explained within this Privacy Notice.
Rights in connection with automated decision-making
With respect to automated individual decision-making, you have the right to
Request human intervention
Express your point of view
Contest the decision.
You also have a right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection supervisory
authority.
Data Retention Periods
We retain personal data for as long as necessary to provide you with the services and products
requested.
Once you have terminated your relationship with us, we will either destroy your personal data or
anonymise it in line with the GDPR requirements ensuring that data can never again be identified.
There are some exceptions, where statutory retention requirements are in force for example for
taxation or legal purposes.
Where you show interest in our products and services and allow us to send you marketing
information, we may retain your contact details for a longer period of time.
We may also be obligated to retain your personal data after the termination of the contractual
relationship if it is necessary to ensure compliance with applicable laws, or if we need to retain your
personal data on the basis of establishing, exercising or defending a legal claim. However, this will
be on a need to know basis. To this extent and as far as possible we will restrict any processing of
your personal data to such limited purposes as required for the above and in any event, destroy
personal data once any legal bases are fulfilled and terminated.
Children
This website and our services are also intended for children and we do knowingly collect data
relating to children.
Alterations to this Privacy Notice
We may amend and update this Privacy Notice from time to time.
We will notify you of any such changes, including when any proposed changes will take place.