1. INTRODUCTION

This privacy notice provides you with details of how we collect and process your personal data through your use of our site www.thegooddeck.com.

By providing us with your data, you warrant to us that you are over 13 years of age.

The Good Deck is the data controller and we are responsible for your personal data (referred to as “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy notice).

CONTACT DETAILS

• Full name of legal entity: The Good Deck
• Email address: hello@thegooddeck.com

2. WHAT DATA DO WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU, FOR WHAT PURPOSE, AND ON WHAT GROUND WE PROCESS IT

Personal data means any information capable of identifying an individual. It does not include anonymized data. We may process the following categories of personal data about you:

• Communication Data: Includes any communication that you send to us whether that be through the contact form on our website, through email, text, social media messaging, social media posting, or any other communication that you send us. We process this data for the purposes of communicating with you, for record-keeping, and for the establishment, pursuance, or defense of legal claims. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate business interests to reply to communications, maintain accurate records, and protect our legal rights.
• Customer Data: Includes data relating to any purchases of goods and/or services such as your name, title, billing address, delivery address, email address, phone number, contact details, and purchase details. (Note: We do not directly store your credit card details; those are processed securely by our third-party payment processors). We process this data to supply the goods and/or services you have purchased and to keep records of such transactions.
• User Data: Includes data about how you use our website and any online services together with any data that you post for publication on our website or through other online services. We process this data to operate our website, ensure relevant content is provided to you, maintain the security and back-ups of our website, and properly administer our platform.
• Technical Data: Includes data about your use of our website and online services such as your IP address, your login data, details about your browser, length of visit to pages on our website, page views and navigation paths, details about the number of times you use our website, time zone settings, and other technology on the devices you use to access our website. The source of this data is our analytics tracking system. We process this data to analyze your use of our website, protect our platform, and inform our marketing strategy.
• Marketing Data: Includes data about your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences. We process this data to deliver relevant website content, send you our newsletter, and measure the effectiveness of our promotions.

SENSITIVE DATA

We do not collect any Sensitive Data about you. Sensitive data refers to data that includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health, and genetic and biometric data. We do not collect any information about criminal convictions and offenses.

3. HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We collect data about you when you provide it directly to us (for example, by filling out newsletter subscription forms on our site or sending us emails). We also automatically collect certain data from you as you use our website by using cookies and similar tracking technologies.

We may receive data from third-party service providers based outside of your home region, including:

• Analytics providers (such as Google Analytics)
• Advertising networks (such as Meta/Facebook)
• Email marketing platforms (such as Mailchimp)
• Payment processors (such as Stripe or PayPal)

4. MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS

Our lawful ground for processing your personal data to send you marketing communications is either your explicit consent or our legitimate business interest to grow our platform.

In compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act and international email regulations, you can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out or unsubscribe links on any marketing message sent to you, or by emailing us directly. If you opt out of receiving marketing communications, this opt-out does not apply to personal data provided as a result of a separate transaction, such as a product purchase or service inquiry.

5. DISCLOSURES OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We may share your personal data with the parties set out below:

• Service providers who provide IT, hosting, and system administration services.
• Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers.
• Government or regulatory bodies if required by applicable law.
• Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets.

We require all third parties to whom we transfer your data to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law.

6. CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS & DO NOT TRACK

If you are a resident of California, you possess specific rights under California law regarding your personal information.

• California Shine the Light Law: California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits users who are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. We do not share your personal data with third parties for their own direct marketing purposes without your express consent.
• Do Not Track Signals: Some web browsers transmit "Do Not Track" signals to websites. Our website responds to these signals or mechanism preferences according to the capabilities of our underlying web hosting and tracking platforms. You can also manage your tracking preferences via your browser settings as detailed in our Cookie Policy below.

7. DATA SECURITY

We have put in place security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, altered, disclosed, or accessed without authorization. We limit access to your personal data to those employees, contractors, and partners who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

8. 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. For business and tax purposes, we maintain basic transactional and customer records for the legally required durations.

9. THIRD-PARTY LINKS

This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements.

10. COOKIES AND TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.

WHAT IS A COOKIE?

A “cookie” is a small text file that is stored on your computer’s hard drive. It records how you move your way around a website so that, when you revisit that website, it can present tailored options based on the information stored about your last visit. We use both session cookies (which expire when you close your browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your device until deleted) to analyze site traffic, secure our web forms, and ensure our newsletter forms function correctly.

To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.