Privacy Policy

Effective Date: April 22, 2024

1. Introduction Welcome to Purely Monk (purelymonk.com). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

2. Important Information and Who We Are Data Controller: Purely Monk, located at 165 West 66th Street, Apt. 15F, New York, NY 10023, is the controller and responsible for your personal data collected through the purelymonk.com website. Contact Details: If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:

  • Email: [email protected]
  • Postal Address: 165 West 66th Street, Apt. 15F, New York, NY 10023

3. The Data We Collect About You Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

  • Identity Data includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier.
  • Contact Data includes billing address, delivery address, email address, and telephone numbers.
  • Financial Data includes bank account and payment card details.
  • Transaction Data includes details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from us.
  • Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access our website.
  • Profile Data includes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback, and survey responses.
  • Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, products, and services.
  • Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

4. How We Collect Your Personal Data We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

  • Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity, Contact, and Financial Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
    • purchase our products or services;
    • create an account on our website;
    • subscribe to our service or publications;
    • request marketing to be sent to you;
    • enter a competition, promotion, or survey; or
    • give us feedback or contact us.
  • Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies.
  • Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources such as:
    • Technical Data from analytics providers like Google based outside the EU;
    • Contact, Financial and Transaction Data from providers of payment and delivery services;
    • Identity and Contact Data from publicly available sources such as Companies House and the Electoral Register based inside the EU.

5. How We Use Your Personal Data We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

  • **To perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.**
  • Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
  • Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

Specifically, we use your data for the following purposes:

  • To register you as a new customer
  • To process and deliver your orders including managing payments and collecting money owed to us
  • To manage our relationship with you, including notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy
  • To enable you to partake in a prize draw, competition, or complete a survey
  • To administer and protect our business and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting, and hosting of data)
  • To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you
  • To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships, and experiences
  • To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you

6. Data Sharing We may have to share your personal data with external third parties for the purposes set out above. These third parties include:

  • Service providers acting as processors who provide IT and system administration services.
  • Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers based who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance, and accounting services.
  • Regulatory and other authorities who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.

7. International Transfers We may transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area (EEA) to countries not deemed by the European Commission to provide an adequate level of personal data protection. In such cases, we ensure that similar protection is afforded by implementing at least one of the following safeguards:

  • We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data.
  • Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe.

8. Data Security We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

9. Data Retention We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

10. Your Legal Rights Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including the right to request access, correction, erasure, restriction, transfer, to object to processing, to portability of data, and (where the lawful ground of processing is consent) to withdraw consent.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us at [email protected].

11. Changes to This Policy Any changes we make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.

12. Contact Us For more information about our privacy practices, or if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at [email protected] or by mail using the details provided in Section 2 above.