Effective date: 1st June 2026

 

1.  INTRODUCTION

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

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

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

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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 anonymised data.

We may process the following categories of personal data about you:

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Communication Data

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This 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 defence of legal claims. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests which in this case are to reply to communications sent to us, to keep records and to establish, pursue or defend legal claims.

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Customer Data

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This 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, purchase details and your card details. We process this data to supply the goods and/or services you have purchased and to keep records of such transactions. Our lawful ground for this processing is the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps at your request to enter into such a contract.

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Technical Data

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This 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 from our analytics tracking system. We process this data to analyse your use of our website and other online services, to administer and protect our business and website, to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and to understand the effectiveness of our advertising. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests which in this case are to enable us to properly administer our website and our business and to grow our business and to decide our marketing strategy.

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Marketing Data

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This includes data about your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences. Our lawful ground for this processing is either consent, contract or our legitimate interests which in this case are to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to decide our marketing strategy.

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We may use such data to send marketing communications to you. Our lawful ground for this processing is either consent or legitimate interests (namely to grow our business or for direct marketing).

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We may also use Communications Data, Customer Data, User Data, Technical Data and Marketing Data for the establishment, pursuance or defence of legal claims. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests which in this case are to establish, pursue or defend legal claims.

 

Required Processing

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Where we are required to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of the contract between us and you do not provide us with that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract (for example, to deliver goods or services to you). If you don’t provide us with the requested data, we may have to cancel a product or service you have ordered but if we do, we will notify you at the time.

We may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent where this is required or permitted by law.

Purposes of Processing

We will only use your personal data for a purpose it was collected for or a reasonably compatible purpose if necessary. For more information on this please email us at ask@ekkist.co. In case we need to use your details for an unrelated new purpose we will let you know and explain the legal grounds for processing.

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Sensitive Data, Criminal Conviction Data and Automated Processing

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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. 

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We do not collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.

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Automated Decision-Making (Non-Significant Decisions)

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We may use automated processes to assist us in making certain decisions about you. This means that we may use systems or tools to analyse your personal data to help us operate our business more efficiently.

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These automated processes are used for purposes such as:

• improving our services

• analysing trends or preferences

• managing administrative processes

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These decisions do not have a legal or similarly significant effect on you. They are used to support our internal processes and do not materially affect your rights, opportunities or access to services. Where appropriate, we ensure that human oversight is applied to these processes.

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3.  MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS

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Our lawful ground of processing your personal data to send you marketing communications is either your consent or our legitimate interests (namely to grow our business).

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Under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR), we may send you marketing communications from us if (i) you made a purchase or asked for information from us about our goods or services or (ii) you agreed to receive marketing communications and in each case you have not opted out of receiving such communications since. Under these regulations, if you are a limited company, we may send you marketing emails without your consent. However, you can still opt out of receiving marketing emails from us at any time.

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We will never share your personal details with any third party for their own marketing purposes.

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You can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by emailing us at ask@ekkist.co at any time.

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If you opt out of receiving marketing communications this opt-out does not apply to personal data provided as a result of other transactions, such as purchases, warranty registrations etc.

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4.  DISCLOSURES OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

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

• Other companies in our group who provide services to us.

• Service providers who provide IT and system administration services and marketing services.

• Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers.

• Government bodies that require us to report processing activities.

• Third parties to whom we sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets.

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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. We only allow such third parties to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

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5.  INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS

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We do not transfer your personal data outside the UK.

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6.  DATA SECURITY

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We have put in place security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, altered, disclosed, or accessed without authorisation. We also allow access to your personal data only to those employees and partners who have a business need to know such data. They will only process your personal data on our instructions, and they must keep it confidential.

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7.  DATA RETENTION

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

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When deciding what the correct time is to keep the data for, we look at its amount, nature and sensitivity, potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure, the processing purposes, if these can be achieved by other means and legal requirements.

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For tax purposes the law requires us to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, and Financial Data) for six years after they stop being customers.

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In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

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8.  YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS

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Under data protection laws you have rights in relation to your personal data that include 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.

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If you are within the UK, you can see more about these rights at:

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-resources/individual-rights/

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If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please email us at ask@ekkist.co.

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You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive or refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

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We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

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When responding to a request to access your personal data, we are only required to carry out searches that are reasonable and proportionate in the circumstances (as now expressly recognised in the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025). This means we will take into account factors such as the nature of the information sought, the context in which it is held, any difficulty involved in locating it and the potential benefit to you of receiving it.

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We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month of receiving the request (or, where applicable, of receiving the identity verification information or clarification we have asked for - the response period is paused, or "stopped", while we wait for that information, in line with the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025).

Occasionally it may take us longer than one month if your request is particularly complex or you have made several requests, in which case we may extend the response period by up to a further two months. We will notify you within one month of receiving your request if an extension is needed and explain why.

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9.  HOW TO COMPLAIN

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If you have a complaint about how we handle your personal data, we ask that you contact us first so that we can try to resolve it for you.

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You can submit a data protection complaint to us by:

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• Emailing us at ask@ekkist.co

• Ekkist Ltd, Orchard House, Charterhouse Road, Godalming, Surrey, GU7 2DA

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We will acknowledge your complaint within 30 days of receiving it. We will investigate your complaint without undue delay, keep you informed of our progress, and communicate the outcome to you clearly with sufficient detail for you to understand how we reached our conclusion.

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If you are within the UK and are not satisfied with our response, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk).

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10.  THIRD-PARTY LINKS

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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. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.

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11.  COOKIES

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