Birgittas trädgård Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 2023

Birgittas trädgård receives, collects and stores any information you enter on our website or provide to us in any other way. We process personal data such as names, email addresses, home addresses and phone numbers in order to sell our products and complete orders for our products through our website.  We value your privacy and therefore this document outlines further information about the way in which we handle personal data and your rights in relation to your personal data.

This site uses the Squarespace platform. Squarespace uses cookies for the functionality and security of our site. Cookies are small files that websites place on your device as you are browsing in order to enable the proper functionality and security of our website. This policy describes the cookies that are used on the Birgittas trädgård website and how you can manage your preferences in relation to these cookies.

Our contact details

Name: Courtney Adamson, e-mail: courtney@birgittastradgard.com

(1) The type of personal information we collect

We currently collect and process the following information:

  • Personal contact details, including name, email address, home address and telephone number.

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(2) How we get the personal information and why we have it

Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you for one of the following reasons:

  • you contact us through the contact form on our website; 

  • you provide your personal information in order to receive our newsletter;

  • you provide your personal information to become a member of our “andelsjordbruk”; and/or,

  • you purchase an item from our website.

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We do not provide for online payment on our website. Payments occur via Swish or invoice. We therefore do not collect any customer payment details online.

We use the information that you have given us in order to:

  • complete your purchase or order with us;

  • contact you about the delivery of your purchase;

  • send you Birgittas trädgård newsletters if you have signed up to this service;

  • send you a weekly Birgittas trädgård newsletter as a member of our “andelsjordbruk” about the products you have purchased from us; and/or

  • provide customer services and support.

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Birgittas trädgård may use your personal information to send newsletters to you via email where:

  • you have purchased a product from us and opted in to receive our newsletters;

  • you have signed up to our newsletter service on our website or offline; and/or

  • you have signed up as a member of our “andelsjordbruk” to receive weekly vegetable deliveries and receive a weekly newsletter as part of this service.

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You can unsubscribe from any of our newsletters by contacting us directly at courtney@birgittastradgard.com

or alexander@birgittastradgard.com or by clicking on the “unsubscribe” button provided at the bottom of each newsletter we send out.

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the lawful basis we rely on for processing this information is:

(a) Your consent. You consent to us collecting your information when you provide your personal details to us at the time that you purchase a product from Birgittas trädgård. You are able to remove your consent and request for your data to be deleted at any time. You can do this by contacting us Courtney Adamson at courtney@birgittastradgard.com or on 0765580323.

We will not share your information with any third parties without your consent.

(3) How we store your personal information

We use the website building services provided by the Squarespace platform. Your data is therefore stored in squarespace.com’s data storage, databases and general squarespace.com applications. Your information is securely stored behind a firewall on the Squarespace platform. For more information about the Squarespace platform and Squarespace's privacy policy click here:

(4) The duration of time that we store your personal information

We keep your contact details, including name, email address, home address and telephone number for the period of time that you are an active customer of Birgittas trädgård.

You are an active customer of Birgittas trädgård if you:

  • purchase a product from us;

  • are in contact with us about our products and/or the purchase of products from us; and/or

  • are a member of Birgittas trädgårds “ändelsjordbruk” and receive our weekly newsletters about the products you have purchased from us.

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We review the data we hold on an annual basis, and erase it when we no longer need it. If you are no longer an active customer of Birgittas trädgård, the longest period of time we will hold onto your data is two years from the date that you last purchased a product from us. We will then remove your personal information by deleting it from the Wix platform.

(5) Your data protection rights

Under European Union data protection law, you have rights including:

  • Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.

  • Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.

  • Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

  • Your right to object to processing - You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

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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.

(6) How to raise your concerns with us

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us directly.

(7) The use of cookies

The following relevant cookies are used by the Squarespace platform for the Birgittas trädgård website. 

First party cookies used by Squarespace platform:

  • crumb - Squarespace sets this cookie to prevent cross-site request forgery (CSRF).duration: session Type: Necessary

  • sscvr - Squarespace sets this cookie to identify unique visitors and track a visitor’s sessions on a site. duration: 1 year 1 month 4 days Type: Analytics

  • sscvt - Squarespace sets this cookie to identify unique visitors and track a visitor’s sessions on a site. duration: 1 hour Type: Analytics

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Session cookies: these cookies last for the duration of a visitor's session and are erased when you close your browser, and do not collect information from your computer. They typically store information in the form of a session identification that does not personally identify the user.

Persistent cookies: these cookies are stored on your hard drive until they expire (at a set expiration date) or until you delete them. These cookies are used to collect information about the user, such as web surfing behavior or user preferences for a specific site.

(8) Controlling, disabling and deleting cookies

We will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you. You can restrict and disable the use of cookies in your Internet browser. Further information regarding disabling cookies for the most popular web browsers is listed below:

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You can also delete cookies in your Internet browser. Keep in mind that delete cookies can affect the proper functioning of our website. Further information regarding deletion of cookies is available here: https://www.learn-about-cookies.com/how-to-delete-cookies

(9) Updates to Birgittas trädgård privacy policy

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.