Privacy and Cookie Policy
Cookie Policy
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are tiny text files stored on your computer when you visit certain web pages. At dietchef.co.uk we use cookies to keep track of what you have in your basket, and to remember you when you return to our site.
To order products on Diet Chef, you need to have cookies enabled – see the section on Managing cookies. If you don’t wish to enable cookies, you’ll still be able to browse the site and use it for research purposes. Most web browsers have cookies enabled, but see Managing cookies for help to turn them on should you need to.
Cookies can’t harm your computer. We don’t store personally identifiable information such as credit card details in cookies we create, but we do use encrypted information gathered from them to help improve your experience of the site. For example, they help us to identify and resolve errors that can sometimes occur on websites.
We do have relationships with carefully-selected and monitored suppliers who may also set cookies during your visit to be used for remarketing purposes – in other words to show you different products and services based on what you appear to be interested in – (please note that we’re not responsible for the content of external websites).
We’re giving you this information as part of our initiative to comply with recent EU legislation, and to make sure we’re honest and upfront about your privacy when using our website.
Our Cookie Policy
To make full use of the online shopping and personalised features on Diet Chef, your computer, tablet or mobile phone will need to accept cookies, as we can only provide you with certain personalised features of this website by using them.
Our cookies don’t store sensitive information such as your name, address or payment details: they simply hold the ‘key’ that, once you’re signed in, is associated with this information. However, if you’d prefer to restrict, block or delete cookies from dietchef.co.uk, or any other website, you can use your browser to do this. Each browser is different, so check the ‘Help’ menu of your particular browser (or your mobile phone’s handset manual) to learn how to change your cookie preferences.
Here’s a list of the main cookies we use, and what we use them for
| Cookie Name | Cookie Purpose |
| Ad Track, Affiliate | These cookies show us how you found our website and which website you came from. This lets us establish which marketing initiatives are most effective. They also allow us to reward external websites for directing you to us. |
| Ajaxa cookie | We use this cookie to determine if your browser supports some of the features of our checkout. This makes checking out on Diet Chef faster and easier to complete. |
| CookieID cookies | This cookie allows our web servers to respond to your actions on Diet Chef. For example “Add to basket” or general browsing through the website. The website would not work for you if these cookies were not present. |
| Eid Cookie | This cookie helps us recognise you so we can display a welcome message; it also provides security when you’re using the website whether logged in or not. |
| fromAd cookie | We use this cookie to determine if you arrived at dietchef.co.uk by clicking on a advertising link on external websites, we will reward these sites for directing you to us. |
| JSE | We use this cookie to remember if you have Javascript enabled on your web browser. Without this we can display certain elements on dietchef.co.uk |
| _utma,_utmz | These cookies enable Diet Chef to use Google analytics. This software helps us take and analyse visitors to dietchef.co.uk such as visitor numbers and how effective our marketing efforts are. All this information helps us improve the website for you. This data is used by Diet Chef and Google and is never shared and doesn’t contain any confidential information. |
Diet Chef Social share buttons
If you ‘share’ content to friends or ‘like’ Diet Chef through one of our social network profiles – such as Facebook and Twitter, you may be sent cookies from these websites. We have no control over the settings of these cookies; we suggest that you check the privacy policy of these third party websites.
Third Party Cookies
| Cookie Name | Cookie Purpose |
| DC Storm | From time to time we will advertise on third party websites. DC storm cookies are used to help us and our partners to see which advertisements you click on and interact with. Each partner uses their own cookies and the data is not confidential or interchangeable. Examples of these partners are: Google advertising network Affiliate Window Struq |
| Struq | Struq uses cookies to provide you with personalised ads when you navigate other websites on the web. |
| Liveperson | We use a cookie to establish whether we have displayed our Livechat function to you. This is a tool that helps you communicate with Diet Chef from the website in real time. |
| Kampyle | If you choose to leave feedback using our “leave feedback” tool then a cookie is assigned so we know which page you were using when leaving feedback. |
| Visual Website Optimizer software | We’re constantly working to improve the website for you. These cookies are used to power our testing tool that allows us to show different versions of the same page to different users. |
Privacy Policy
Data Protection
We are committed to protecting your privacy and the security of any information given to us in order for us to process your order. Diet Chef Ltd is registered under the Data Protection Act, Registration Number Z136582X
Our Data Protection Policy
We will not gather or hold personal information about you unless you have given your express permission for us to do so. By placing an order, you will consent to the use of such personal information.
Any personal information held or processed will be kept up-to-date and will be destroyed as soon as the reason for its collection or processing has lapsed. No personal data about customers will be passed to any third party, except to fulfil the delivery of the goods to you, and as is necessary to process credit or debit card payments.
Your privacy and confidence will be respected at all times.
What Information is collected about you and how is it used?
When you place an order we need to collect your name, address, e-mail and telephone number as well as details of the method by which you intend to pay for the Goods. This information allows us to process your offer to purchase Goods and delivery of those Goods to you. We use youre-mail address to send you notification of the status of the order. We will contact you by e-mail or by telephone if any problems occur regarding delivery of the Goods to you.
This information may be provided to third party service providers for the purpose of processing your offer to purchase the goods.
We may use your e-mail address to provide you with information on products, services, promotions and special offers where you have indicated that this is acceptable by signing up to a Diet Chef profile.
If you supply your email address without placing an order, we may pass your email to a third party organisation in order to offer you the opportunity to purchase from us. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose and will not be held on file by ourselves or any third parties after the reason for collecting it has lapsed.
Third Parties
We will not sell your details to third party organisations. We will pass your details to third party organisations for the purpose of processing your offer to purchase the goods and correspond with you via email communication.
Consent
By making offer to purchase Goods you consent to the information you provide to us being processed for any of the above purposes.
Security
The security of your transaction is important to us and to prevent any details being seen by unauthorised persons it is protected throughout the payment process. To do this we use a secure server to encrypt the information before it is sent to the payments processor.
Subject Access Request
On your written request, we will (within 40 days of such a request being received by us) supply to you details of the personal information which we hold about you. You must explain to us clearly the information you require to be supplied: we are not obliged to supply to you information which is not specifically requested by you. Under the terms of the Data Protection Act 1998, we are entitled to charge you £10.00 for the provision of information following our receipt of such a request. Once we have received your written request and payment of the fee, we will respond to your request within 40 days.
You should note that, under certain circumstances, we will not be obliged to disclose the requested information to you, in which case we will explain to you the reasons for our refusal.
