Privacy Policy



This website is operated by Marijuana Anonymous UK. We take your privacy very seriously therefore we urge you to read this policy very carefully because it contains important information about:

  

  • who we are,

  • how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information,

  • your rights in relation to your personal information, and

  • how to contact us and supervisory authorities in the event that you have a complaint.


Who we are

Marijuana Anonymous UK ('we' or 'us') collect, use and are responsible for certain personal information about you. When we do so we are regulated under the United Kingdom data protection regulations and we are responsible as 'controller' of that personal information for the purposes of those laws.


The personal information we collect and use

a) Personal information you provide to us

We collect the following personal information that you provide to us:

Name, address, telephone number, email

Some examples of when we collect this information include:

When making purchases


b) Personal information you provide about third parties

If you give us information about another person, you confirm that the other person has appointed you to act on their behalf and agreed that you:

shall consent on their behalf to the processing of their personal data;
shall receive any data protection notices on their behalf; and
shall consent on their behalf to the transfer of their personal data abroad.


c) Monitoring and recording communications

We may monitor communications such as emails and telephone calls for the following purposes:

Quality assurance, training, fraud monitoring, legal and compliance purposes


How we use your personal information

We collect information about our users for the following purposes:

Identify you and manage any accounts you have with us; process your order; conduct research, statistical analysis and analyse your purchasing preferences.


Who your information may be shared with

We may share your information with:

Law enforcement agencies in connection with any investigation to help prevent unlawful activity

We will not share your personal information with any other third parties.


Marketing

We would like to send you information about products, services, offers, competitions and our organisation which may be of interest to you. Such information could be sent by post, email, telephone, text message or automated call.

We may ask whether you would like us to send you marketing messages on the first occasion that you provide any relevant contact information (i.e. on purchase). If you do opt in to receive such marketing from us you can opt out at any time (see 'What rights do you have?' below for further information). If you have any queries about how to opt out, or if you are receiving messages you do not want you can contact us using the details provided below.


Whether personal information has to be provided by you, and if so why

The provision of the following information may be required from you:

Name, Address, Email, Telephone, Age, Gender

This is to enable us to do the following:

Name and Address and Email for delivery purposes

Telephone number for service calls

Age to prohibit underage usage of product

Gender to provide product specific items

We will inform you at the point of collecting information from you, whether you are required to provide the information to us.


How long your personal information will be kept

We will hold your personal information for the following periods:

Name and Address and contact details held for maximum of 6 year.

Age, once verified will be deleted

Gender once verified will be deleted

These periods are no longer than necessary in each case.


Reasons we can collect and use your personal information

We rely on the following as the lawful basis on which we collect and use your personal information:

consent

performance of contract

legal obligation

public task

legitimate interests

The legitimate interests relied upon are as follows:

The information is necessary for the fellowship to undertake its activities.  We will endeavour to make to minimise the impact on your privacy. 

Keeping your information secure

We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost, or used or accessed in an unauthorised way. We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine need to know it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We will also use technological and organisation measures to keep your information secure. 

We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.

Indeed, while we will use all reasonable efforts to secure your personal data, in using the site you acknowledge that the use of the internet is not entirely secure and for this reason we cannot guarantee the security or integrity of any personal data that are transferred from you or to you via the internet. If you have any particular concerns about your information, please contact us using the details below.


Transfers of your information out of the UK

We will not transfer your personal information outside of the UK at any time.


Children and the validity of consent

Where we obtain consent from any user we will take reasonable steps to ascertain whether the user is over 13 years of age and whether the child is sufficiently informed to give valid consent. If the user is not, parental consent will be required to provide consent for the processing of any personal information.


What rights do you have?

Under the data protection legislation you have a number of important rights free of charge. In summary, those include rights to:

  • fair processing of information and transparency over how we use your use personal information

  • access to your personal information and to certain other supplementary information that this Privacy Notice is already designed to address   

  • require us to correct any mistakes in your information which we hold

  • require the erasure of personal information concerning you in certain situations

  • receive the personal information concerning you which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to a third party in certain situations

  • object at any time to processing of personal information concerning you for direct marketing

  • object to decisions being taken by automated means which produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you

  • object in certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal information

  • otherwise restrict our processing of your personal information in certain circumstances

  • claim compensation for damages caused by our breach of any data protection laws

For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, see the Guidance from the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) on individual's rights under the General Data Protection Regulations (http://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/individual-rights/)

If you would like to exercise any of these rights please:

  • email or call

  • let us have enough information to identify you

  • let us have proof of your identity (a copy of your driving license, passport or a recent credit card/utility bill)

  • let us know the information to which your request relates

From time to time we may also have other methods to unsubscribe (opt-out) from any direct marketing including for example, unsubscribe buttons or web links. If such are offered, please note that there may be some period after selecting to unsubscribe in which marketing may still be received while your request is being processed.


How to complain

We hope that we can resolve any query or concern you raise about our use of your information.

The data protection legislation  also gives you the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. The supervisory authority in the UK is the Information Commissioner who may be contacted at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/ or telephone: 0303 123 1113.


Changes to the privacy policy

This privacy policy was published on 01/05/2021 and last updated on 28/07/2021.

We may change this privacy policy from time to time. You should check this policy occasionally to ensure you are aware of the most recent version that will apply each time you access this website. We will also attempt to notify users of any changes byEmail if you opted to receive emails. By a notice on our website header, or by a notice in the news section of our website


Contacting us

If you have any questions about this policy or the information we hold about you, please contact us by:

e-mail: chairperson@marijuana-anonymous.org.uk

or

telephone: Tel: UK 0300 124 0373

Calls will be answered by voicemail and a member of our team will contact you back.