Privacy

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) EU legislation came into effect on the 25th May 2018 ensuring the data and personal information held by organisations on their customers is properly protected for all individuals within the European Union (EU).

As a business Essential Cuisine have reviewed their current practises to ensure we are GDPR compliant, including making sure data held for all customers is properly protected and is not passed onto any third parties without the individuals prior consent. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

Essential Cuisine may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page regularly to ensure that you are happy with any changes.

Our privacy policy was last updated on 25th May 2018.

What we collect

We may collect the following information:

name and job title
contact information including email address
demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests
other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers

What we do with the information we gather

We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

Internal record keeping.
We may use the information to improve our products and services.
We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.
From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail.
We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests.

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Cookies

This website uses cookies. By navigating around this site you consent to cookies being stored on your machine.

What are cookies?
Cookies are tiny text files stored on your computer when you visit certain web pages. You can find out more about cookies at www.cookiecentral.com

How does essentialcuisine.com use cookies?
We collect cookies on essentialcuisine.com to evaluate your visit to our site. We track the time and date of your visit, which pages were viewed and where you accessed our site from. We do not use cookies to collect or store any personal information that could be used to identify you, such as your name, age, telephone number, e-mail or postal address.

How do you turn off cookies?
Most internet browsers allow you to turn off cookies. To do this, look at the “help” menu on your browser. Switching off cookies may restrict your use of the website and delay or affect the way it operates.

How we use cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to enable you to visit other websites of interest easily. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Controlling your personal information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes
if you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by contacting us by phone, email, or post.

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.

You may request details of your personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. If you would like a copy of the information held, please contact us by phone, email, or post.

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please contact us by phone, email, or post. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.