Here at boohoo.com UK Ltd (‘BOOHOOMAN’) we are committed to protecting and respecting the privacy of your personal data. This privacy notice explains how your data is collected, used, transferred and disclosed by boohoo. It applies to data collected when you use our websites, iOS and android applications, when you interact with us through social media, email, or phone, or when you participate in our competitions or events. It also applies to the extent that someone has nominated you through our "refer a friend" function or purchased an e-gift card on your behalf. It covers:
BOOHOOMAN is a leading online fashion retail company. We design, source, market and sell menswear products targeted at 16-24 year-old consumers in almost every country in the world.
We take the protection of your personal data seriously and will process your personal data fairly, lawfully and transparently. This privacy notice describes the personal data we are collecting about you and how it is used.
We will only collect and use your personal data for the following purposes, to:
We will also use your personal information in any other way we may describe when you provide the information or for any other purpose with your consent.
We have appropriate organisational safeguards and security measures in place to protect your data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. The communication between your browser and our website uses a secure encrypted connection wherever your personal data is involved. We require any third party who is contracted to process your personal data on our behalf to have security measures in place to protect your data and to treat such data in accordance with the law. In the unfortunate event of a personal data breach, we will notify you and any applicable regulator when we are legally required to do so.
Personal data means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include anonymised data, where the identity and identifying information has been removed.
While our website is designed for a general audience, we will not knowingly collect any data from children under the age of 13 or sell products to children. If you are under the age of 13, you are not permitted to use or submit your data to the website.
The following groups of personal data are collected:
We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this privacy notice. DBZ Marketplace Online Limited jointly controls and is jointly responsible with Debenhams Retail Online Limited for the processing of your personal data collected through the www.boohooman.com website (the “website”) and our associated brand app (the “app”). Debenhams Retail Online Limited will offer various brands that we operate which include: • Oasis
We may collect personal data about you in the following ways:
We will only collect and process your personal data where we have a legal basis to do so. As a data controller, the legal basis for our collection and use of your personal data varies depending on the manner and purpose for which we collected it.
We will only collect personal data from you when:
Your personal data is used by BOOHOOMAN to support a range of different activities. These are listed in the table below together with the types of data used and the legal bases we rely on when processing them, including where appropriate, our legitimate interests. Please be aware that we may process your personal data using more than one lawful basis, depending on the specific activity involved. Please contact us if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your personal data where more than one ground has been set out in the table below.
| Purpose/Activity | Type of data | Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest |
|---|---|---|
| To create an account and register you as a new customer (either directly or via social media). | Identity . Contact | Consent |
| (1) To process and deliver your order including: recording your order details; keeping you informed about the order status; process payments and refunds, collect money owed to us; and automated decision making to assist fraud prevention and detection.
(2) To protect our customers, boohoo group companies and website from fraud and theft, which involves automated decision making to assist such fraud prevention and detection | Identity . Contact . Financial . Transaction | (1) Performance of a contract with you
(2) For automated decision making we consider that fraud detection and prevention is in our legitimate interests to ensure that fraudulent transactors are unable to benefit from our services and in the legitimate interest of the public as a whole due to the impact of fraud on the consumer market; we also consider it a necessary element of entering into a contract with you that we are able to verify your identity and prevent fraud. |
| (1) To manage our relationship with you, including: providing you with any information, products and services that you request from us(or that has been requested on your behalf through our "refer a friend" function);
(2) Notifying you about changes to our services, terms and conditions or privacy notice; asking you to leave a review or take a survey. | Identity . Contact . Profile . Marketing and Communications | (1) Consent
(2) Performance of a contract with you |
| To enable you to take part in a competition, event, survey, or receive a reward for shopping with us. | Identity . Contact . Profile . Usage . Marketing and Communications | Where you have decided to enter into a competition or event, for the performance of a contract with you |
| Where you purchase products from one of the Concessionaire Brands, to enable the relevant Concessionaire Brand to fulfil their order with you (for example, to deliver the products, deal with collection and returns and/or any issues or complaints you may have in relation to the products). | Identity . Contact . Transaction | |
| Where you purchase products from one of the Concessionaire Brands, to enable us to keep up-to-date with your order status and track your order, receive proof of delivery for products shipped to you, provide you with tracking information and to perform invoice reconciliation. | Identity . Contact . Transaction | Performance of a contract with you |
| To assist with any queries or complaints you may have, including where you have purchased products from the Concessionaire Brands. | Identity . Contact . Transaction | Performance of a contract with you |
| To administer, protect and improve our business and our website/app, including: troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, data analysis, reporting and hosting of data; setting default options for you, such as language and currency. | Identity . Contact . Profile . Technical . Transaction . Marketing and Communications | Consent |
| To deliver relevant website content, online advertisements and information for you; and measure the effectiveness of the advertising provided. | Identity . Contact . Profile . Usage . Marketing and Communications . Technical | Consent |
| To use data analytics to: improve our website, products, services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences; and to improve our affiliated group companies’ websites, products, services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences; and for market research, statistical and survey purposes. | Identity . Contact . Profile. Technical . Usage | Consent Legitimate interests (to improve our websites, products, services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences, and those of our affiliated group companies) |
| To recommend our products, services, discounts and offers and any products, services, discounts and offers provided by our affiliated group companies, that may be of interest to you, including to send you such information by email, post or SMS. | Identity . Contact . Technical . Usage . Profile . Marketing and Communications | Consent (we always give you the choice of whether or not you wish to receive marketing communications from us (for example by providing opportunities to opt-out of receiving marketing from us).
Legitimate interests (when we share data with credit reference agencies, to ensure credit products are offered to customers who are suitable for it) |
| To inform or remind you by email of any task carried out via our website which remains uncompleted, such as incomplete orders or abandoned baskets. | Identity . Contact . Usage | Consent (by providing the opportunity to opt-out of receiving such reminders from us). |
| To process and deliver your e-gift card orders including taking payment and communicating with you and/or the nominated recipient if delivered to another person. | Identity . Contact . Financial . Transaction | Performance of a contract with you |
| We may disclose your information to other companies in connection with any merger, acquisition, insolvency situation or otherwise, in which case we will only disclose your information so far as is necessary. | Identity . Contact . Profile . Usage . Marketing and Communications . Technical | Legitimate interest (we have a legitimate interest in processing your information in connection with any mergers, acquisitions or reorganisation of our business, in which case some of your information may be shared with a prospective buyer or otherwise but only so far as is strictly necessary for the purposes of such sale or administration). |
We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If we wish to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so. We may process personal data without your consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.
If you have any questions about how Debenhams use any of your personal data, please contact our Data Protection Officer at DPO@debenhams.co.uk
We will keep your personal data for no longer than is necessary for the purpose(s) it was provided for and to meet our legal obligations. Further details of the periods for which we retain data are available on request.
We may send you marketing communications and promotional offers:
We may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, Transactional, Usage, Profile Data and Marketing and Communications Data to form a view on what we think you may like, or what may be of interest to you, and to send you details of products and offers which may be relevant for you.
We may check your details with appropriate third parties (for example credit reference agencies, such as Experian) before we send you promotions for financial services products. This is to ensure your information is accurate, that the product is suitable for you, and to tailor those offers to you.
From time to time we may also include with your order, inserts advertising goods, services or offers from other third-party companies that you may be interested in.
You will always have full control of your marketing preferences. If you do not wish to continue receiving marketing information from us or any of our affiliated group companies (or any third party, if applicable) at any time:
We will process all opt-out requests as soon as possible, but please note that due to the nature of our IT systems and servers it may take a few days for any opt-out request to be implemented.
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website and to keep track of your visits. They help us to provide you with the very best experience when you browse our website and to make improvements to our website. They also help us and our advertising networks to make advertising relevant to you and your interests.
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of our website may become inaccessible or not function properly.
For detailed information on the cookies which we and our third-party providers use and the reasons why we use them, please refer to our Cookie Policy.
We use online advertising to keep you aware of what we’re up to and to help you find our products. Like many companies, we may target boohooMAN banners and ads to you when you use other websites and apps, based on your Contact, Technical, Usage and Profile Data. We do this using a variety of digital marketing networks and ad exchanges, and a range of advertising technologies such as web beacons, pixels, ad tags, cookies, and mobile identifiers, as well as specific services offered by some sites and social networks, such as Facebook’s Custom Audience Service.
We use a range of analytics and targeted advertising tools to display relevant website content on our website and online advertisements on other websites and apps (as described above) to you, deliver relevant content to you in marketing communications (where applicable), and to measure the effectiveness of the advertising provided. For example, we use tools such as Google Analytics to analyse Google's interest-based advertising data and/or third-party audience data (such as age, marital status, life event, gender and interests) to target and improve our marketing campaigns, marketing strategies and website content. We may also use tools provided by other third parties, such as Facebook, Content Square, Adroll, Bloomreach, Criteo and Bing to perform similar tasks, using your Contact, Technical, Usage and Profile Data.
In order to opt out of targeted advertising you need to disable your ‘cookies’ in your browser settings (see Cookie Policy for details) or opt-out of the relevant third-party Ad Settings. For example, you can opt-out of the Google Display Advertising Features. As an added privacy measure, you can also use the The Digital Advertising Alliance (which includes companies such as Google, Bloomreach and Facebook) provides a tool called WebChoices that can perform a quick scan of your computer or mobile devices, find out which participating companies have enabled customised ads for your browser, and adjust your browser preferences accordingly.
If you would like any further information about the data collected by these third parties or the way in which the data is used, please contact us.
Our website may include links to and from the websites of our partner networks, Concessionaire Brands, advertisers and affiliates, or to social media platforms. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to their websites.
We may disclose and share your personal data with the parties set out below:
The sharing provisions above do not permit us to share mobile telephone numbers or text messaging originator opt-in data or consent with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes.
Worldpay are the data controller in respect of the Personal Information that you give to them (and which they hold about you) when you sign up for, access, or use services, features, technologies or functions offered on the Worldpay website (including when using Worldpay to pay for goods or services offered on the Boohoo website) and in relation to Personal Information collected during the course of business as set out in their Privacy Policy which can be found on their website at https://www.worldpay.com/.
We also may use automated data collection technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). Some web browsers permit you to broadcast a signal to websites and online services indicating a preference that they “do not track” your online activities. At this time, we do not honor such signals and we do not modify what information we collect or how we use that information based upon whether such a signal is broadcast or received by us.
You can review and change your personal data by logging into your account and visiting your account profile page. You may also send us an email at DPO@boohoo.com to request access to, correct or delete any personal data that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal data except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change or delete your personal data if we believe the change or deletion would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
The law in some jurisdictions may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of personal data. To learn more about any additional rights that may be applicable to you as a resident of one of these jurisdictions, please see the privacy addendum for your state that is attached to this privacy notice.
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area, Switzerland, or the United Kingdom, you have the additional rights described in our GDPR Privacy Addendum.
From time to time we may change this privacy notice. If there are any significant changes we will post updates on our website, applications or let you know by email.
We welcome feedback and are happy to answer any questions you may have about your data.
Please send any questions, comments or requests for more information to our nominated representative and Data Protection Officer, who can be contacted at DPO@boohoo.com.
This privacy notice was last updated on 10th July 2022 (Version v1.11) Boohoo.com UK Limited, Registered Company Number: 05723154, UK VAT Number: 185 4874 61.
Virtual try on feature
This section explains how we collect, use, store and share your personal information in relation to our virtual try on service (“Try On Feature”).
Please read this in conjunction with our general terms and conditions, Try On Feature terms and the remainder of this privacy policy.[OB1.1] Our Try On Feature is only available in the UK. The Data controller is set out earlier in this privacy policy.
What personal data is collected for the Try on Feature?
The Try On Feature uses artificial intelligence and is only available to those over the age of 18. If you are under the age of 18, you are not permitted to use this feature or submit your data to it.
The Try On Feature is a voluntary service. The Try On Feature is operated by third party providers. By using the tool you consent to us sharing your image with the third party provider for processing as set out below.
How does Debenhams collect your data?
What we do?
The Try On Feature processes your image using artificial intelligence to create a visual illustration of what a product will look like on you. We work with third party providers to vet images submitted to the Try On Feature and to generate the illustrations.
Why we do it?
To make the Try On Feature available to you so that you receive a personalised shopping experience.
**Lawful basis for processing **
Consent – you opt in to the service prior to accessing the Try On Feature via a disclaimer.
Who do we share your data with and how do we use AI?
We share your data (i.e., your image(s)) with the third party provider of the Try On Feature, for the purpose of generating a visual illustration of you wearing a specific product (“Illustration”). We work with third party suppliers to develop and deliver the Try On Feature. The third party provider of the tool processes your images momentarily in order to fulfil the request to generate your try on request. AI is used to generate the Illustrations and to vet user images.
How long do we keep your information for
We will keep your personal data for no longer than is necessary for the purpose(s) it was provided for and to meet our legal obligations.
Your images are processed by the third party provider of the Try On Feature to create the Illustration. When you use the Try On Feature, the image you upload or capture is used to generate your Illustration and is then automatically deleted after 24 hours. The deletion happens automatically and is not dependent on any action from you. If you'd like to keep a copy of your Illustration, you can choose to send it to yourself via WhatsApp.[OB2.1] Any copy sent this way is stored on your own device or WhatsApp account, not by us.
We can update this privacy notice at any time and you are encouraged to review it regularly to stay informed.