Privacy notice

Privacy and Cookie Policy

The Foodstate Company Privacy and Cookie Policy:

Safeguarding Your Privacy Within the Terms of GDPR Legislation 25th May 2018:

At the Foodstate Company we are committed to protecting your privacy and making sure that you have an enjoyable online experience with us. You can navigate our Web site without providing any personal information. Whilst you are welcome to navigate our site without providing any personal information, once you engage in some of our services we do require you to provide a degree of personal information. We fully respect the fact that your personal information remains your property and we will only retain it on our database with your permission. Our privacy policies are clearly explained below.

Collecting your Personal Information

The Foodstate Company respects your privacy and we will not share your information with any third party unless it is with your specific permission. We will make a clear and obvious request for personal information when you make a product purchase through the website, or sign up to receiving advice or information via email or social media. Newsletters are emailed periodically to all customers who have become registered on our website by virtue of becoming a retail customer of The Foodstate Company.

Our use of Google Analytics

The Foodstate Company uses a service known as Google Analytics, which provides an important service to us that allows us to monitor sales. Google Analytics uses 'cookies', which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. Google store the information generated by cookies and use it to analyse and evaluate the use of the website and generate subsequent reports. Google may be required to share this information when required to do so by law but it will not share your IP address with any other data that it holds on file. You have the option on your browser to refuse the use of cookies but it could have an effect on the functionality of this website. We do not share your information with any third parties unless required to do so by law, however by using this website you are consenting to the processing of data by Google for the functions explained above

We do not endeavour to try to identify anonymous users of this site. Although we collect data it is used for internal analysis and server administration, and no customer data is shared with any third parties for any reason. This protection is guaranteed to users of this site but does not extend to email interactions or when information is volunteered as part of a promotion or special offer.

Securing Your Personal Information

The Foodstate Company, to the best of our ability, will protect your personal data from misuse, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure or destruction. 

We never share your personal information with any person or entity without your permission, except under conditions explained in this policy. 

What to do if you don’t want cookies to be set

You have the ability to limit or prevent the use of cookies on your computer, however, using cookies is considered quite harmless and blocking them can result in loss of function on the website you are visiting.

The following PC operating platforms all have a facility to limit or block the use of cookies:

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, 7.0, 8.0
Google Chrome 
Safari

Mozilla Firefox

Mac

Safari on OSX
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 on OSX

Opera
Mozilla and Netscape on OSX