The Competition is promoted by Rowse Honey Limited (“Rowse Honey”, “we,” “us,” or “our”).At Rowse Honey, we are committed to protecting your privacy.We take the issue of security of your personal information very seriously.

This Privacy Policy (this “Policy”) together with the Competition Terms & Conditions explains when and why we collect personal information about people who enter the Competition, how we use it, the conditions under which we may disclose it to others and how we keep it secure.Personal information is any information about you from which you can be identified (such as your name or your email address).

We are Rowse Honey Limited (company number 01024018) a manufacturer of honey in the UK. Our registered office address is at 9 Perseverance Works, Kingsland Road, London, England, E2 8DD.We are the data controller for the purposes of data protection laws, in respect of your personal information collected and used through you entering the Competition.We dictate the purpose for which your personal information is used and how we use your personal information.See “

” section below for more information on how to contact us.

As described in the section below entitled “

How is your personal information shared?”

, we may share your personal information with other organisations, such as other entities in the Rowse Honey Family, that may receive and process your personal information as a controller in their own right.

We gather personal information from you such as your first/last name that you provide voluntarily when you enter the Competition. If proof of identity is required, we may also request a copy of your passport or driver’s licence. The postal address, email address and telephone number of all winning entrants may also be requested for the purposes of the administration of this promotion and to send out the Competition prize.The personal information of Competition entrants provided to us may also be gathered for any other purpose for which an entrant has consented.

If you provide us with personal information about another person e.g. their name, photograph or any other personal information that could identify them, you must ensure that before you provide us with their personal information, you have their agreement to do so and that they are aware of the ways in which we use personal information as set out in this Policy.

Our main aim in gathering your personal information is to provide you with a customised service. In particular, your personal information may be used by us, our employees and service providers and disclosed to third parties for the following purposes. For each of these purposes, we have set out the legal basis on which we use your personal information.

To provide you with the services we offer (including any promotions or competitions). This is in our legitimate interest (i.e., the provision of the services to you), and depending on the circumstances, to perform a contract between you and us.

To communicate with you and other individuals and to carry out your requests and respond to your communications. This is in our legitimate interest (i.e., the provision and support of social media pages).

To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us. This is to perform a contract between you and us.

To comply with any legal or regulatory obligations. This is in our legitimate interests (i.e., protection of our business, employees and customers) and for compliance with legal obligations to which we are subject.

We may also use aggregate personal information and statistics for the purposes of monitoring our social media pages in order to help us develop the pages and our services. These statistics will not include any data that can be used to identify any individual.

We do not share personal information with third parties unless certain safeguards and contractual arrangements are in place.We may share personal information within the Rowse Honey Family and certain selected companies.By “Rowse HoneyFamily”, we mean the companies within the same group as Rowse Honey. The Rowse Honey Family will process your personal information in accordance with this Policy and all applicable data protection legislation.

The selected companies are those that provide technical assistance and support and perform other functions to support our marketing activities or a promotional partner who may be supplying an element of the Competition prize. Our third-party service providers include our IT service providers and marketing agencies.In some cases, third party providers will be acting as a data controller of your information and in such circumstances, we advise you to read their Privacy Policy. If any of our third-party service providers shares your information with us, we will use it in accordance with this Policy.

All selected companies may have access to personal information if needed to perform such functions but will only be permitted by us to use such personal information for the purpose of performing that function (which may include one to which you have expressly given your consent) and not for any other purpose.

We may transfer your personal information to a third party as part of a sale of some or all of our business and assets to any third party or as part of any business restructuring or reorganisation, or if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal information in order to comply with any legal obligation or to enforce or apply our terms of use or to protect the rights, property or safety of our customers. However, we will take steps with the aim of ensuring that your privacy rights continue to be protected.

We reserve the right to use or disclose any personal information as needed to satisfy any law, regulation or legal request, to fulfil your requests, or to cooperate in any law enforcement or regulatory investigation. Save for this, we do not sell, rent, transfer or disclose personal information we have collected from you to third parties outside the Rowse Honey Family.

Whilst we do not anticipate transferring your personal data outside of the UK, as part of the services offered to you through our competitions the information which you provide to us may be transferred to countries outside the UK (such a country is called a “third country”).Data protection law imposes restrictions on the transfer of personal information outside of the UK but such transfers can be made if the country to which we may transfer the data has an adequate level of protection for your rights, there are appropriate safeguards or a contract is in place allowing the transfer to take place or the transfer is necessary for reasons set out in the data protection laws.

Some countries may not have similar data protection laws to the UK. If we transfer your information outside of the UK in this way, we will take reasonable steps and implement measures to ensure that appropriate security safeguards are taken with the aim of ensuring that your privacy rights continue to be protected as outlined in this Policy and in accordance with UK data protection law.

The Data Protection Act 2018 requires us as Data Controller of your personal information to notify any breach of personal information to the applicable regulator, and in certain instances to you, the data subject, which we will do as appropriate.

We keep your personal information confidential.We use appropriate technical, physical, legal and organisational measures, which comply with data protection laws to keep personal information secure.For example, all outgoing and incoming email is scanned for viruses.

We will retain your personal information for as long as is necessary for purposes for which it was collected. The precise period will depend on the reason why it was collected; for competitions it will be retained until the competition has been administered (unless you have consented otherwise) or as long as the law requires whichever is the later.Once the retention period for each situation has expired, we will take all reasonable steps to destroy or erase from our systems all personal data that we no longer require in accordance with all our applicable record retention schedules and policies.

You have certain rights with respect to your personal information. The rights may only apply in certain circumstances and are subject to certain exemptions. Please see the table below for a summary of your rights. You can exercise those rights using the contact details below.

Right of access to your personal information

You have the right to receive a copy of your personal information that we hold about you, subject to certain exemptions.

Right to rectify your personal information

You have the right to ask us to correct your personal information that we hold where it is incorrect or incomplete.

Right to erasure of your personal information

You have the right to ask that your personal information be deleted in certain circumstances.For example (i) where your personal information is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise used; (ii) if you withdraw your consent and there is no other legal ground for which we rely on for the continued use of your personal information; (iii) if you object to the use of your personal information (as set out below); (iv) if we have used your personal information unlawfully; or (v) if your personal information needs to be erased to comply with a legal obligation.

Right to restrict the use of your personal information

You have the right to suspend our use of your personal information in certain circumstances.For example (i) where you think your personal information is inaccurate and only for such period to enable us to verify the accuracy of your personal information; (ii) the use of your personal information is unlawful and you oppose the erasure of your personal information and request that it is suspended instead; (iii) we no longer need your personal information, but your personal information is required by you for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; or (iv) you have objected to the use of your personal information and we are verifying whether our grounds for the use of your personal information override your objection

Right to object to the use of your personal information

You have the right to object to the use of your personal information in certain circumstances. For example (i) where you have grounds relating to your particular situation and we use your personal information for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party); and (ii) if you object to the use of your personal information for direct marketing purposes.

You have the right to obtain your personal information in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and for it to be transferred to another organisation, where it is technically feasible. The right only applies where the use of your personal information is based on your consent or for the performance of a contract, and when the use of your personal information is carried out by automated (i.e. electronic) means.

You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where we rely on consent to use your personal information.

Right to complain to the relevant data protection authority

You have the right to complain to the relevant data protection authority where you think we have not used your personal information in accordance with data protection law.You may lodge a complaint in the UK with the Information Commissioners Office (“ICO”) for an alleged infringement of data protection law. Please see the Questions or Complaints section below for the ICO’s contact details.

We keep this Policy under regular review and reserve the right to make changes at any time to take account of changes in our business, legal requirements, and the manner in which we process personal information. Any changes we make to this Policy will be posted on our social media pages.The updated Policy will take effect as soon as it has been updated or otherwise communicated to you. This Policy was last updated in January 2023.

If you have any questions, concerns, comments or complaints about this Policy and/or our collection or use of personal information, or if you wish us to stop processing your personal information for any particular purpose or purposes, then please contact us marketing@rowsehoney.co.uk 

You can also contact the Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) on helpline telephone number 0303 123 1113 or to call in Welsh 0330 414 6421; live chat via the ICO’s website at 

 (the helpline and live chat options are available Monday to Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (excluding bank holidays)) ; post: Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Winslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF; or any other means of contact detailed on the ICO’s website (address above). Our ICO ID number is: Z9439856.

Rowse Honey Limited’s Privacy Policy for UK Competitions

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