Privacy Policy
Last modified: December 2023
1. Introduction
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Hatchin© is owned and operated by Propelor Ltd, a UK registered company.
This Privacy Policy (our “Privacy Policy”) describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit or use our website located at www.gethatchin.com (our “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, our Website and all related services and functionality that we provide through them are referred to as our “Digital Services”.
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This policy applies to information we collect:
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On our Digital Services;
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In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and our Digital Services.
2. Children Under the Age of 16
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Our Digital Services are not intended for children under 16 years of age. No one under age 16 may provide any information to or through the Digital Services. We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under 16. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on or in our Digital Services or on or through any of their features. If we learn we have collected or received Personal Data from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from a child under 16, please contact us at hello@gethatchin.com.
3. The type of personal information we collect
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We currently collect and process the following information:
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Personally identifiable data, such as name and email address ("Personal Data");
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Other data related to you but that does not identify you, such as traffic data, logs, referring/exit pages, date and time of your visit to or use of our Digital Services, error information, clickstream data, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on or through our Digital Services
4. How we get the personal information and why we have it
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Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you for one of the following reasons:
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Subscribing to the email newsletter and other forms of communication
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Submitting your business and personal details to be featured within the Hatchin© Digital Services
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Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “posted”) on public areas of the Digital Services or transmitted to other users of the Digital Services or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we limit access to certain pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Digital Services with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.
5. Disclosure of this information
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We may disclose Personal Data that we collect or you provide as described in this Privacy Policy:
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To affiliates, contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business (e.g., third parties providing IT and infrastructure support services, and ordering, marketing, and payment processing services);
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To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Company about our Digital Services users are among the assets transferred;
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To fulfil the purpose for which you provide it, including to communicate with you, to connect you with other people within the community, and to provide product updates where applicable.
Specifically, we may share this information with the following third party organisations:
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Beehiiv.com
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Wix.com
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Google Analytics
This list is non-exhaustive and may be updated from time to time.
Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are:
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Your consent. You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting hello@gethatchin.com and your data will be removed from our systems.
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Legitimate interest. Your data is used in order to provide the Digital Services we offer, notably the newsletter and other content provided to the community.
6. How we store your personal information
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Your information is securely stored.
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We keep contact details for as long as you are actively participating in the community. If at any time you wish to withdraw from the community, you can communicate this intention and all personal data will be removed. We will dispose of your information by deleting all records from our database. Please note this will not necessarily remove it instantly from all data backups held.
7. Your data protection rights
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Under data protection law, you have rights including:
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Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
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Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
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Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
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Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
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Your right to object to processing - You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
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Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.
You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.
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Please contact us at hello@gethatchin.com if you wish to make a request.
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8. How to complain
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If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at hello@gethatchin.com.
You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.
The ICO’s address:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Helpline number: 0303 123 1113
ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk