Privacy Policy for Christmas.co.uk
Last Updated: 22.10.2026
At Christmas.co.uk (“we”, “our”, “us”), we are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This policy explains when and why we collect personal information about people who visit our website, how we use it, the conditions under which we may disclose it to others, and how we keep it secure.
1. Who We Are
Christmas.co.uk is operated by Runner Bean Web Design Ltd.
[Company Number 08428563) We are registered in England and Wales under company number and our registered office is at Suite A 82 James Carter Road, Mildenhall, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, IP28 7DE
Data Protection Contact: If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our treatment of your personal data, please contact us via the contact form on the website
2. The Data We Collect About You
We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you depending on how you interact with our website:
Identity & Contact Data: Includes your name, email address, which you provide when signing up for our newsletter, entering a competition, or contacting us.
Technical & Usage Data: Includes your internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, operating system, and information about how you use our website as provided by cookies and analytics software running on the site.
3. How and Why We Use Your Personal Data (Lawful Basis)
Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), we must have a lawful basis for using your data. We use your data in the following ways:
Consent: Where you have actively opted-in to receive our Christmas newsletter or marketing emails. You can withdraw this consent at any time by clicking “unsubscribe” at the bottom of our emails.
Legitimate Interests: To improve our website, monitor traffic (via analytics), respond to your direct inquiries, and ensure our site remains secure.
4. Cookies and Affiliate Links
Cookies: We use cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website, which helps us provide you with a good experience and allows us to improve our site. You can manage your cookie settings via your browser settings if required.
Affiliate Links: Christmas.co.uk participates in affiliate marketing programmes (such as the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program). If you click on a product link on our site and make a purchase, the retailer may use cookies to track that we referred you so we can earn a small commission. This happens at no extra cost to you and we do not receive any of your personal or payment details from the retailer.
5. Who We Share Your Data With
We will never sell or rent your information to third parties. However, we may share your data with trusted third-party service providers who work on our behalf, such as:
Website hosting providers (to keep the website running).
Analytics providers (such as Google Analytics, to help us understand website traffic).
Email marketing services (such as mailchimp if you subscribe to our mailing list).
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law.
6. Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for.
7. Your Legal Rights
Under UK data protection laws, you have the right to:
Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a “data subject access request”).
Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you.
Request erasure of your personal data (the “right to be forgotten”).
Object to processing of your personal data or ask us to restrict processing.
Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact form
8. Complaints
If you are unhappy with how we have used your data, please contact us first so we can try to resolve it. You also have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk).