Privacy Policy for Pirate Pete Adventures

Last Updated: May 2026

Welcome to Pirate Pete Adventures (https://www.piratepeteadventures.co.uk). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

1. Important Information and Who We Are

Purpose of this Privacy Policy

This privacy policy aims to give you information on how Pirate Pete Adventures collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide when you purchase a book or sign up for our newsletter.

Data Controller

[Your Name or Your Business Name, e.g., John Smith trading as Pirate Pete Adventures] is the data controller and responsible for your personal data (referred to as "we", "us" or "our" in this privacy policy).

Contact Details

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:

  • Email address: paulchrisread@gmail.com

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK regulator for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO, so please contact us first.

2. Children’s Privacy

Our website is an e-commerce platform intended to sell children's books to adults (parents, guardians, and gift-buyers). While our content is family-friendly and designed to be enjoyed by readers of all ages, we do not knowingly or intentionally collect personal data from children under the age of 13.

If you are under 13, please do not attempt to buy our book or provide any personal data through our website. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with personal data without your consent, please contact us immediately at paulchrisread@gmail.com so that we can delete the information from our systems.

3. The Data We Collect About You

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

  • Identity Data: Includes first name and last name.

  • Contact Data: Includes billing address, delivery address, email address, and telephone numbers.

  • Financial Data: Includes bank account and payment card details. (Note: Payment details are securely processed directly by our third-party payment gateways and are not stored on our servers).

  • Transaction Data: Includes details about payments to and from you and other details of books you have purchased from us.

  • Technical Data: Includes internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.

  • Usage Data: Includes information about how you use our website.

  • Marketing and Communications Data: Includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences.

4. How Your Personal Data Is Collected

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

  • Direct Interactions: You may give us your Identity, Contact, and Financial Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by email. This includes personal data you provide when you purchase our book or subscribe to our newsletter.

  • Automated Technologies or Interactions: As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies and other similar technologies.

5. How We Use Your Personal Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

  1. Performance of a Contract: To process and deliver the book order you have placed with us.

  2. Legitimate Interests: Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests (e.g., to keep our website running securely and analyse how visitors use it).

  3. Consent: Where you have explicitly opted-in to receive our email newsletter. You can withdraw your consent at any time by clicking the "unsubscribe" link in any email.

6. Disclosures of Your Personal Data

We do not sell your data. To run our online shop and deliver your book, we may share your personal data with trusted third-party service providers, including:

  • Our Website and E-commerce Host: Squarespace who host our website and provide the shopping cart software.

  • Payment Processors: We use SquareSpace to securely handle your payments.

  • Delivery and Shipping Couriers: We use Royal Mail to print shipping labels and deliver your book to your address.

  • Email Marketing Provider: We will / use, Mailchimp if you sign up for our newsletter.

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

7. Data Security and Retention

Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way. This includes using SSL encryption throughout our website https://www.piratepeteadventures.co.uk.

Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements (for example, UK tax law requires us to keep basic information about our customers and transactions for 6 years after they buy from us).

8. Your Legal Rights

Under UK data protection laws, you have rights in relation to your personal data, including the right to:

  • Request access to your personal data.

  • Request correction of your personal data.

  • Request erasure of your personal data ("the right to be forgotten").

  • Object to the processing of your personal data.

  • Request restriction of processing your personal data.

  • Request the transfer of your personal data.

  • Right to withdraw consent at any time.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at paulchrisread@gmail.