Privacy Policy

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  Privacy Policy for KStackle Last Updated: 29 September 2026

Welcome to KStackle (accessible via our website, the "www.kstackle.co.uk". We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how kstackle collects, uses, stores, and shares your personal data when you visit our website, set up an account, use our shopping basket, or buy fishing tackle and equipment from us.

For the purpose of UK data protection law (including the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018), we are the Data Controller responsible for your personal data

.1. The Data We Collect About You 

We may collect, use, and process different kinds of personal information about you, including:

• Identity Data: Your first name, surname, and title.
• Contact Data: Your billing address, delivery address, email address, and telephone numbers.
• Financial Data: Your payment card details. These are processed securely via our third-party payment gateways; we do not store your raw card details on our servers.
• Transaction Data: Details about products you have purchased from us, payments made, and items you have placed in your online shopping basket.
• Technical and Usage Data: Your IP address, login details, browser type, time zone setting, operating system, and details about how you navigate and use our website.
• Marketing Data: Your preferences in receiving marketing updates from us.

2. How and Why We Use Your Personal Data

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

• To register you as a new customer: We process your Identity and Contact Data on the lawful basis of performing our contract with you.
• To process and deliver your order: We process your Identity, Contact, Financial, and Transaction Data to fulfill our contract with you (handling payments and dispatching your fishing tackle). We also do this for our legitimate interests to recover any debts owed to us.
• To manage our relationship with you: We use your Identity and Contact Data to notify you about changes to our terms or privacy policy, or to ask you to leave a product review. This is necessary to fulfill our contract or to comply with a legal obligation.
• To administer and protect our website: We use Technical and Usage Data for troubleshooting, data analysis, fraud prevention, and IT security. This is necessary for our legitimate interests in running our business safely.

3. Sharing Your Personal Data

We do not sell your personal data to third parties. To fulfill your orders and run our online shop, we share your data with trusted service providers, including:

• Website Platform: GoDaddy Operating Company, LLC, who host our e-commerce platform and store our website data securely.
• Delivery Partners: Courier and postal services (such as Royal Mail, DPD, or Evri) to ship your rods, reels, line, and bait.
• Payment Gateways: Secure payment processors (such as PayPal, Stripe, or Apple Pay) to safely handle your checkout transactions.
• Analytics Providers: Services like Google Analytics to help us understand how users browse and find kstackle.
• Legal Obligations: Professional advisors, insurers, or regulatory authorities if we are strictly required to do so by law.

4. Data Security & International Transfers

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, altered, disclosed, or accessed without authorization.Because we use GoDaddy to host our website, some data may be processed outside the UK (for example, in the United States). Whenever your personal data is transferred out of the UK, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by utilizing UK-approved Standard Contractual Clauses and data protection safeguards.

5. Data Retention

We will only keep your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. For standard retail transactions, we typically retain customer order data for 6 years to comply with UK tax and financial laws.

6. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

Our site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users, keep track of items in your shopping basket, and improve your browsing experience.

• Functionality Cookies: We use these to recognize you and remember the fishing tackle items you add to your basket if you leave our site without checking out.
• Analytical Cookies: These allow us to count visitors and see how they move around our site.

You can set your browser to refuse cookies, or use our website cookie banner to manage your preferences. Please note that parts of this site may fail to function properly (such as the shopping basket) if cookies are disabled

.7. Your Legal Rights

Under the UK GDPR, you have several rights regarding your personal data, including the right to:

• Access your data by requesting a copy of the personal information we hold about you.
• Correct any inaccurate or incomplete data we hold.
• Erase your data from our systems (the 'right to be forgotten').
• Object to or restrict how we process your data.
• Withdraw consent at any time where we rely on your permission to send you marketing messages.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please email us at info@kstackle.co.uk We will respond to your request within one calendar month.

8. How to Complain

If you have any concerns or questions about our use of your personal information, please contact us directly at info@kstackle.co.uk so we can resolve it for you.