Please read this notice carefully. It contains important information about how we process your personal information.
We are KP Snacks Limited (Company Registration No. 08314505, Registered Office: Fifth Floor, The Urban Building, 39 Albert Street, Slough, SL1 2BE).
We are the Data Controller for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 2018 and the UK General Data Protection Regulation .
As a company, we are committed to protecting and respecting the privacy of your personal information. We want you to be confident that your information will be properly protected whilst in our possession.
This notice explains how we, and carefully selected third parties we work with, will collect and use the personal information of our consumers, users of our websites, job applicants and, where relevant, customers and suppliers. If this describes you, please read this notice carefully and make sure you’re comfortable with the content.
Our representative for the purpose of data protection compliance can be contacted at data@kpsnacks.com.
If you have any questions about our use of your personal information, or you wish to exercise one of your rights under data protection legislation, please contact us. A summary of your rights is detailed in this notice.
This notice details how we use information you provide to us, including through the “Contact Us” function on www.kpsnacks.com and on www.tyrrellscrisps.co.uk which we link to on the following websites:
www.popchips.co.uk
– Collectively referred to in this notice as our Websites.
Any other external websites that may be linked to our Websites will be subject to their own data protection statements/privacy policies which may be different to this notice. You should check carefully the content of those third party notices before you submit any personal information to them.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information through the internet is never completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal data at all times, we cannot guarantee the security of the data you send to us through our Websites. Any transmission made is therefore at your own risk. Once we have received your information we use strict procedures and state of the art security features to protect against unauthorised access.
We hope the following helps you to understand what information we may collect, in what circumstances and how we use that information (including how long we retain it for):
Information you give to us (“Voluntary Information”) This is information you give to us about you by:
1. Contacting us with an enquiry or to report a problem with our products or our Websites
2. Entering a promotion on our Websites or through a text number, website or telephone number referenced on one of our products.
3. Entering a promotion we run through our pages on various social media platforms (e.g. Facebook, Twitter).
4. Corresponding with us (for example by email, phone or letter)
5. Business contact information
6. Clicking on the ‘Our Vacancy’ pages on KPSnacks.com which are operated by Recruitee.com (please note that cookies will need to be placed on your computer for you to use these pages).
Your personal data is processed by Indeed on pages where we display a button to ‘Apply with Indeed’, even when you don’t use that functionality. Indeed may use cookies. The privacy policy of Indeed applies for processing of personal data by Indeed:
https://www.indeed.com/legal
Personal data of job applicants
If you apply for a job then we process your personal data to facilitate the entire job application procedure on the grounds of our legitimate interests for recruiting. After the procedure we will delete your personal data as soon as possible, unless we have informed you that we require it for other purposes. The following personal data can be processed for the job application procedure:
Under European data protection law we are required to inform you that withholding personal data in your job application can give you a disadvantage in comparison to other candidates who are applying for the same role.
Your personal data has to be processed by LinkedIn and Indeed to allow for the ‘Apply with LinkedIn’ and ‘Apply with Indeed’ functionalities. LinkedIn and Indeed may use cookies. You can find their privacy policies on the following websites:
https://www.indeed.com/legal
https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
Information we receive from third parties (“Third Party Information”)
We work with third party service providers including but not limited to agencies to run our promotions for us. We will notify you when we receive information about you from these third parties and the purposes for which we intend to use that information.
Do I have to provide this information?
In most cases the personal information you provide to us is entirely voluntary. You are not under a statutory or contractual obligation to provide it to us. The only exceptions to this are:
Providing us with personal information of another person
If you need to provide us with personal information about another person you must obtain that individual’s express consent to pass us their information. You should share this notice with those individual as it may also apply to them.
Marketing
We will not use your personal information to directly market our products and services to you unless you have consented to this.
If you send personal information to us indirectly through the third parties we work with (marketing agencies, recruitment agencies) these third parties may be in control of your personal information. You should check their privacy notices to ensure you’re comfortable with their marketing activities and the marketing you have consented to.
Children
We appreciate that children may visit our Websites to learn more about our products. We take the protection of children’s privacy very seriously.
We do not collect personal information about children. All our promotions are only eligible for individuals aged over 18. Where we establish that personal information relating to an individual under the age of 18 has been collected despite our best efforts we will cease to process that data except (where necessary) to notify the relevant parent or guardian of the processing that has been conducted.
We would encourage all parents and guardians to instruct their children in the safe and responsible use of personal data when using the internet
Where we send your personal information
We would encourage all parents and guardians to instruct their children in the safe and responsible use of personal data when using the internet.
Consumers of our products who contact us solely to report an issue with our products or our Websites: your personal information will only be shared with carefully selected IT providers whose systems we utilise for our core business processes and who provide us with IT support, and in very rare circumstances potentially with our insurers. Other than this, we do not share any personal information we receive from you with third parties.
In all other cases: we may share your personal information with:
Whenever we share your personal information with third parties we will take all reasonable steps to ensure appropriate safeguards are in place to protect your personal information and your privacy rights.
Where we store your data
The data that you provide to us as set out above may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) by us and/or by the carefully selected third parties we work with.
We and third parties we work with may use cloud platforms to store your personal information.
A cloud is a network of remote servers hosted on the internet. We will, and our third parties will, only use cloud platforms which give adequate guarantees that your personal data is secure.
Where your data is held outside of the EEA, on a cloud or otherwise transferred, we will ensure this is only to a country which has been deemed adequate by a competent data protection regulator or where adequate protections have been put in place to safeguard the data (to the same standards as prescribed within the EEA). This includes contractual protections.
We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this notice. All information you provide to us is also stored on our secure servers.
Your rights
We recognise that the personal information we hold about you belongs to you and it is right that you have control over that personal information. We have detailed below a summary of your legal rights.
You can:
If you would like to exercise any of these rights, or discuss them in more detail, please contact us via data@kpsnacks.com.
We need to make you aware that even where you exercise a right detailed above, we may not be able to comply with that request if an exception in law applies. Where this is the case we will notify you and explain why we’re unable to meet your request.
Changes to this notice
We keep this notice under regular review. This notice was last updated on 1 October 2024.
Any changes we make to this notice will be posted on our Websites and, where appropriate, we will notify you by email.
If, in the future, we wish to use your personal information in a way not set out in this notice we will notify you and seek your permission to do so.