Our Legal Basis for Processing and Commitment to Future Compliance

This policy outlines the various legal bases under which my store processes your personal data, ensuring we are always operating within the bounds of UK law. We maintain a proactive approach to future-proofing our privacy standards against evolving UK data protection regulations.

Legal Bases for Data Processing

We rely on several legal bases for processing personal data:

Contractual Necessity: For processing order payments, packing, and dispatching your groceries.

Legal Obligation: For data processing required by law, such as sharing transaction data with HMRC (tax authorities).

Legitimate Interest: For internal administration, improving platform security, and non-intrusive analytics, provided your fundamental rights do not override our interests.

Consent: Required for all optional activities, primarily direct marketing communications and non-essential cookies.

Affirmative Consent for Cookies

Consent is the cornerstone of our cookie policy for non-essential tracking.

Cookie Exemption: The only cookies deployed without prior explicit consent are those strictly necessary to store items in your virtual shopping cart and to manage your secure login session.

Informed Choice: The information provided in our cookie consent notice is written in clear, non-technical language, detailing the purpose of each cookie category, duration, and data recipient, ensuring your consent is truly informed.

Record of Consent: We maintain an auditable, timestamped record of your cookie consent choice and any subsequent withdrawal, fulfilling a critical requirement of UK data protection law.

International Logistics and Data Minimisation

Even when engaging international logistics partners for specific specialty goods, we enforce contractual data protection clauses that mandate UK GDPR-level compliance. We ensure that only the essential data (name, delivery address, order contents) is shared to complete the delivery, upholding the principle of data minimisation across our entire supply chain.