We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This notice explains how we look after your personal data when you visit our website, and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
This privacy notice relates to www.barringtonfoods.co.uk. Please read it together with any other privacy notice we may give you on specific occasions, so that you are fully aware of how and why we use your data. Our website is not intended for children, and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.
1. Who we are
Food Finders (UK) Ltd, trading as Barrington Foods, is the controller responsible for your personal data (referred to as “we”, “us” or “our” in this notice). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 09253271, with our registered office at The Old Stables, Sutton Manor Farm, Bishops Sutton, Hampshire, SO24 0AA.
If you have any questions about this notice, or wish to exercise any of your legal rights, please contact us at abi@barringtonfoods.co.uk.
2. The personal data we collect about you
Personal data means any information from which a living individual can be identified. We may collect and use the following kinds of personal data about you:
- Identity Data — such as your name and, where you provide it, your job title and the organisation you represent.
- Contact Data — such as your email address, telephone number and, where you provide it, your postal address.
- Communications Data — the content of any enquiry, email or other correspondence you send us, and our replies.
- Technical and Usage Data — such as your IP address, browser type and version, operating system, and information about how you use our website, collected automatically through cookies and similar technologies where used (see our Cookie Policy).
- Aggregated Data — statistical or demographic data, for example the percentage of visitors using a particular feature. Aggregated Data does not identify you and is not personal data in law; if we combine it with your personal data so that it can identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data.
We do not collect any special categories of personal data about you (such as data about your race or ethnicity, beliefs, health, sex life or sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, or genetic or biometric data), nor any data about criminal convictions or offences.
3. How we collect your personal data
We collect personal data:
- Directly from you — when you contact us by email or telephone, complete a form, or otherwise correspond with us or provide your details.
- Automatically — as you interact with our website, through cookies and similar technologies where used (see our Cookie Policy).
- From third parties — for example, website analytics providers, where we use them.
4. How we use your personal data
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we use it on the following lawful bases:
- Legitimate interests — to respond to and manage your enquiry, to operate, maintain and improve our website and business, to keep our services secure, and to keep our business customers and trade contacts informed about our products, prices and offers. We balance any impact on you against our interests before relying on this basis.
- Performance of a contract — to take steps at your request before entering into a contract, and to perform any contract we have with you.
- Legal obligation — where processing is necessary to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
We send direct marketing — such as price lists, product updates and special offers — to our business customers and trade contacts. As we are marketing to businesses, we rely on our legitimate interests as the lawful basis for this, rather than your consent. You can ask us to stop sending you marketing at any time by contacting us at abi@barringtonfoods.co.uk, and we will stop.
| Purpose / activity | Type of data | Lawful basis |
|---|---|---|
| Respond to and manage your enquiry or request | Identity, Contact, Communications | Legitimate interests; steps before entering a contract |
| Operate, maintain, secure and improve our website | Technical, Usage | Legitimate interests |
| Send you marketing about our products, prices and offers (e.g. price flyers) | Identity, Contact | Legitimate interests (keeping business customers informed); you can opt out at any time |
| Comply with legal, accounting and reporting obligations | Identity, Contact | Legal obligation |
5. Who we share your personal data with
We may share your personal data with:
- Service providers acting as processors — including our website hosting provider, email provider, IT support and, where used, our website analytics provider — who process data on our instructions only.
- Professional advisers — such as lawyers, accountants, auditors and insurers.
- HM Revenue & Customs, regulators and other authorities — where we are required to report or disclose.
- Third parties in connection with a business sale, merger or restructure — in which case the new owners may use your personal data as set out in this notice.
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes, and only permit them to process it for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
6. International transfers
Some of our service providers may be based outside the UK. Where your personal data is transferred outside the UK, we ensure a similar degree of protection by relying on appropriate safeguards, such as UK adequacy regulations or the ICO’s International Data Transfer Agreement (or the Addendum to the EU Standard Contractual Clauses). Please contact us if you would like further information on the specific mechanism we use.
7. Data security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. We limit access to your personal data to those who have a genuine business need to know, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality. We have procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator where we are legally required to do so.
8. Data retention
We keep your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including to deal with your enquiry and any follow-up, and to satisfy any legal, accounting or reporting requirements. When it is no longer needed, we will delete or anonymise it. You can ask us to delete your data in certain circumstances — see your legal rights below.
9. Your legal rights
Unless an exemption applies, you have the following rights over your personal data:
- request access to a copy of the personal data we hold about you;
- request that we correct any inaccurate or out-of-date data;
- request that we erase your data where it is no longer necessary for us to hold it;
- withdraw your consent at any time, where we rely on consent;
- request that we transfer your data to you or another controller (data portability), where applicable;
- request that we restrict processing while a dispute about accuracy or processing is resolved;
- object to our processing where we rely on legitimate interests, or to direct marketing.
You will not usually have to pay a fee. We may charge a reasonable fee, or refuse to comply, if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. We may need to confirm your identity before acting on a request. We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month; if your request is complex we may take longer and will keep you updated.
10. Changes to this notice
We may update this notice from time to time. This notice was last updated on 31 May 2026. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes, so that the information we hold about you remains accurate and current.
11. How to contact us or complain
For any query, request or concern about this notice or your personal data, please contact us in the first instance at abi@barringtonfoods.co.uk.
If you are not satisfied with our response, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection. You can contact the ICO on 0303 123 1113, via ico.org.uk, or at the Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF. We would, however, appreciate the chance to address your concerns before you approach the ICO.