ONLINE TERMS & CONDITIONS FOR THE SALE OF THE LIVING YEAR

Please read the following important terms and conditions before you buy The Living YearTM from The Cosmic CastleTM.

Summary of some of your key rights:

• By law, the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013, SI 2013/3134 say that you must be given certain key information before a legally binding contract between you and us is made. This is laid out below in a clear and understandable way. Some of this information is likely to be obvious from the context. Some of this information is also set out in this terms and conditions, such as information on our complaint handling policy.
• The Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 say that up to 14 days after receiving your products, in most cases, you can change your mind and get a full refund – see the section on the ‘Cooling Off Period’ below but please note that once you have started downloading The Living YearTM you will lose your right to cancel.
• The Consumer Rights Act 2015 says products must be as described, fit for purpose and of satisfactory quality.
• The information in this summary box summarises some of your key rights. It is not intended to replace the terms and conditions below which you should read carefully.

These terms and conditions set out:

• Your legal rights and responsibilities;
• Our legal rights and responsibilities; and
• Certain key information required by law.

In these terms and conditions:

• ‘We’, ‘us’ or ‘our’ means Amy Charlotte Murray, trading as The Cosmic CastleTM
• ‘You’ or ‘your’ means the person buying this product, The Living Year TM

If you would like to talk to us about any aspect of these terms and conditions, please contact us by emailing: [email protected]

Who are we?

I’m Amy Charlotte Murray, a sole trader, trading as The Cosmic CastleTM and my trading address is: Building 75595, PO Box 7169, Poole, United Kingdom, BH15 9EL.

Introduction

• When you buy The Living YearTM you agree to be legally bound by these terms and conditions.

Your privacy and personal information

• Your privacy and personal information are important to us. Any personal information that you provide to us will be dealt with in line with our Privacy Policy, which explains what personal information we collect from you, how and why we collect, store, use and share such information, your rights in relation to your personal information and how to contact us and supervisory authorities if you have a query or complaint about the use of your personal information.

Ordering products from us

• Below, we set out how a legally binding contract between you and us is made.
• You place an order on the site by clicking on the ‘buy now’ button.
• When you place your order at the end of the online checkout process by clicking on the pay now button, we will acknowledge it by email. This acknowledgement does mean that your order has been accepted, see below.
• We may contact you to say that we do not accept your order. This is typically for the following reasons: the products are unavailable; we cannot authorise your payment; or there has been a mistake on the pricing or description of the products.
• We will only accept your order when we email you to confirm this. At this point a legally binding contract will be in place between you and us.
• If you are under the age of 18 you may not buy this product.

Right to cancel this contract

• You may not cancel your purchase of this digital product once you have started downloading it, unless the content is faulty.
• If you are a consumer and you have not started to download or stream the products you have the right to cancel this contract within 14 days of placing your order without giving any reason.
• The cancellation period will expire 14 days after the date you placed your order.
• To exercise the right to cancel, you must inform us of your decision to cancel this contract by a clear written statement sent by email to [email protected].
• To meet the cancellation deadline, you need to send your communication concerning your exercise of the right to cancel before the cancellation period has expired.

Effects of cancellation

• If you cancel this contract, we will reimburse to you all payments received from you.
• We will make the reimbursement without undue delay, and not later than 14 days after the day on which we are informed about your decision to cancel this contract.
• We will make the reimbursement using the same means of payment as you used for the initial transaction, unless you have expressly agreed otherwise; in any event, you will not incur any fees as a result of the reimbursement.

Delivery

• The Living YearTM is a digital download. No physical product will be shipped.
• This product is a one-off purchase of digital content and we will make the digital content available for download for personal use by you as soon as we accept your order.

Payment

• We accept payment by credit card, debit card, Stripe, Apple Pay and Google Pay. We will do all that we reasonably can to ensure that all of the information you give us when paying for the products is secure by using an encrypted secure payment mechanism. However, in the absence of negligence on our part, any failure by us to comply with this contract or ourPrivacy Policy or breach by us of our duties under applicable laws we will not be legally responsible to you for any loss that you may suffer if a third party gains unauthorised access to any information that you give us.

Nature of the products

• The Consumer Rights Act 2015 gives you certain legal rights (also known as ‘statutory rights’), for example, the products: are of satisfactory quality; are fit for purpose; match the description.
• While we try to make sure that the colours of our products are displayed accurately on the site, the actual colours that you see on your computer, mobile phone or other device may vary depending on the monitor that you use.
• We may discontinue or modify products at any time without prior notice.

Faulty products

• Your legal rights under the Consumer Rights Act 2015 (also known as ‘statutory rights’), are set out at the top of these terms and conditions. They are a summary of your key rights. For more detailed information on your rights and what you should expect from suppliers of products, you can find out more from Citizens Advice on their website www.citizensadvice.uk or call them on 03454 04 05 06.
• Nothing in these terms and conditions affects your legal rights under the Consumer Rights Act 2015. You may also have other rights under common law.
• Please contact us using the contact details by emailing [email protected] within 7 days, if the products we supply are faulty and you wish to discuss with us the possibility of: us repairing the products; us replacing the products; a price reduction; or a refund.

Limit on our responsibility to you

• Except for any legal responsibility that we cannot exclude in law (such as for death or personal injury) or arising under applicable laws relating to the protection of your personal information, we are not legally responsible for:
• losses that: were not foreseeable to you and us when these terms and conditions were agreed to; or that were not caused by any breach on our part; business losses; and losses to non-consumers.
• To the fullest extent permitted by law, we shall not be liable for any loss, damage, or harm arising from the use or inability to use this product.

Entire Agreement

• These terms constitute the entire agreement between us in relation to your purchase. You acknowledge that you have not relied on any statement, promise, assurance or warranty given by or on behalf of us which is not set out in these terms and that you shall have no claim for innocent or negligent misrepresentation or negligent misstatement based on any statement in this agreement.

Disputes

• We will try to resolve any disputes with you quickly and efficiently.
• If you are unhappy with: the products; our service to you; or any other matter; please email us as soon as possible.
• If you and we cannot resolve a dispute using our internal complaint handling procedure, and either of us want to take court proceedings, the relevant courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction in relation to these terms and conditions.
• The laws of England and Wales apply to these terms and conditions.

Personal use only

• This product is for personal, non-commercial use only.
• You may not: share, resell, reproduce, or redistribute the files; upload them to shared drives, forums, or platforms; modify or reproduce them for commercial purposes
• All content remains the intellectual property of Amy Charlotte Murray, trading as The Cosmic Castle™.

Copyright

• The Living Year™ including its concept, structure, content, text, and design, is protected by copyright.
• Purchase does not transfer ownership or rights beyond personal use.

Refund policy

• Due to the nature of digital downloads, all sales are final.
• Once files have been accessed or downloaded, refunds, exchanges, or cancellations cannot be offered.
• If you experience technical issues accessing the files, please contact hello@thecosmiccastle and support will be provided.

File access and compatibility

• It is your responsibility to ensure you have a compatible device and software to open and use the files.
• The Living Year™ is designed for use with PDF annotation apps or software. Functionality may vary depending on the device or app used.

No guarantees

• The Living Year™ is a reflective planning tool. It does not guarantee: specific outcomes; personal, professional, or financial results; changes in wellbeing, productivity, or circumstances. Individual experience will vary.

Not medical or therapeutic advice

• The Living Year™ is not intended as medical, psychological, or therapeutic advice and should not be used as a substitute for professional care. If you are experiencing mental or physical health concerns, please seek appropriate professional support.

Changes to these terms

• Terms and Conditions may be updated from time to time. The version in place at the time of purchase will apply.

Contact

• For questions or support, please contact: hello@thecosmiccastle

PRIVACY POLICY

Website and Online Community Privacy Policy and Data Complaints Policy

Introduction

Welcome to the privacy policy for The Cosmic CastleTM. The Data Complaints Policy is also included at the end of this document, should you need it.

We respect your privacy and we’re committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website, social media accounts or online communities (regardless of where you visit them from), or where you sign up for our services, and will tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you. When we refer to ‘website’ in this policy the term will be deemed to include all of The Cosmic CastleTM online pages and associated social media accounts and online communities.

It contains important information on who we are and how and why we collect, store, use and share your personal information. It also explains your rights in relation to your personal information and how to contact The Cosmic CastleTM or supervisory authorities in the event you have a complaint.

We collect, use and are responsible for certain personal information about you. When we do so, we are subject to data protection laws which apply across the European Union and the United Kingdom and we are responsible as ‘controller’ of that personal information for the purposes of those laws.

By providing us with your data, you warrant to us that you are over 13 years of age.

Important information and who we are

Purpose of this privacy policy

• This privacy policy aims to give you information on how we collect and process your personal data through your use of our website and services, including any data you may provide through our website when you fill in our contact form, sign up to receive information from us, purchase a product or service, or take part in promotional activities led by The Cosmic CastleTM.
• It is important that you read this privacy policy, together with any other privacy policy or notice or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you, so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy policy supplements the other policies and notices and is not intended to override them.

Data relating to children

• This website is not intended for children. When providing personal data about children in your care, you confirm that you are their parent or legal guardian and that you have the authority to act on behalf of the child and to provide the consent for us to process and store this data. You also confirm that it is in the best interest of the child that you share this data.
• You should note the following in relation to children's data: the rights under data protection law belong to the child, even where the parent or guardian has provided the data; and once the child is deemed competent to exercise their rights, they may: access their personal data; request rectification or erasure of their data; object to processing; or withdraw consent previously provided by their parent or guardian

Controller

• Amy Charlotte Murray, trading as The Cosmic CastleTM is the controller and responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy policy).
• If you have any questions about this privacy policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact us using the details set out below.

Contact details

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact us. Our full details are:

• Full name of legal entity:  Amy Charlotte Murray
• Name & title of person to contact:  Amy Charlotte Murray, Founder of The Cosmic CastleTM
• Email address: [email protected]
• Postal address: The Cosmic Castle, c/o Amy Murray, Building 75595, PO Box 7169, Poole, United Kingdom BH15 9EL
• Business WhatsApp number: +44 333 567 1228

You 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). However, we care deeply about your data protection rights and we would appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us using the details above in the first instance. Our data complaints policy is at the end of this document.

Your duty to inform us of changes

It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.

Third-party links

This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy or notice of every website you visit.

The data we collect about you

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

• Identity Data includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier, title, date of birth and gender.
• Contact Data includes billing address, delivery or postal address, email address and telephone numbers.
• Financial Data includes bank account and payment card details.
• Transaction Data includes details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from us.
• Communication Data includes any communications that you send to us whether through forms on our website or through email, text, WhatsApp, or any social media messaging or posting or any other type of communication that you might send to us.
• Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your log-in data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
• Profile Data includes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses.
• Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, products and services.
• Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

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 in law 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.

Sensitive Data

• Sensitive data refers to data that includes details about your health, your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, and criminal convictions and offences.
• We may need to collect information about your health, which is classed sensitive data, in order to deliver our services or products.
• Where this is relevant, we require your explicit consent for processing sensitive data, so when you submit your details, we will ask you to confirm your explicit consent to this processing.

How is your personal data collected?

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

• Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity, Contact and Financial Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you (where applicable):
• apply for our products or services;
• create an account on our website;
• subscribe to our service or publications;
• request marketing to be sent to you;
• enter a competition, promotion or survey; or
• give us some feedback or contact us.
• Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies and other similar technologies. Please see our cookie policy here for more details.
• Analytics We may receive technical personal data about you from analytics providers such as Google.
• We may receive Contact, Financial and Transaction Data from providers of technical, payment and delivery services such as PayPal or Stripe.

How we use your personal data

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

• Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
• Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
• Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
• To keep you updated about our products and services where you have consented to this or it is within our legitimate interest to do so. We shall send this information to you by email. You have the right to withdraw your consent to marketing at any time by sending us an email to [email protected] or by clicking on the ‘unsubscribe’ button in our emails.

Purposes for which we will use your personal data

• We have set out below, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.
• Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data.

Purpose 1: To register you as a new customer

• Type of data: Identity; Contact
• Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest: Performance of a contract with you

Purpose 2: To process and deliver your order including: Manage payments, fees and charges; Collect and recover money owed to us

• Type of data: Identity; Contact; Financial; Transaction; Marketing and Communications
• Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest: Performance of a contract with you; Necessary for our legitimate interests (to recover debts due to us)

Purpose 3: Notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy; Asking you to leave a review or take a survey

• Type of data: Identity; Contact; Profile; Marketing and Communications
• Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest: Performance of a contract with you; Necessary to comply with a legal obligation; Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products/services)

Purpose 4: To enable you to take part in a promotion or complete a survey

• Type of data: Identity; Contact; Profile; Usage; Marketing and Communications
• Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest: Performance of a contract with you; Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them and grow our business)

Purpose 5: To administer and protect our business and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data)

• Type of data: Identity; Contact; Technical
• Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest: Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganisation or group restructuring exercise); Necessary to comply with a legal obligation

Purpose 6: To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you

• Type of data: Identity; Contact; Profile; Usage; Marketing and Communications; Technical
• Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest: Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy)

Purpose 7: To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences

• Type of data: Technical; Usage
• Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest: Necessary for our legitimate interests (to define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our website updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy)

Purpose 8: To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you

• Type of data: Identity; Contact; Technical; Usage; Profile
• Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest: Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our products/services and grow our business)

Marketing

• We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising. Our lawful ground for processing your personal data to send you marketing communications is either your consent or our legitimate interests (namely to grow our business).
• Under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, we may send you marketing communications from us if (i) you made a purchase or asked for information from us about our goods or services or (ii) you agreed to receive marketing communications and in each case you have not opted out of receiving such communications since. Under these regulations, if you are a limited company, we may send you marketing emails without your consent. However, you can still opt out of receiving marketing emails from us at any time.

Promotional offers from us

• We may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage and Profile Data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which products, services and offers may be relevant for you (we call this marketing).
• You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us or purchased goods or services from us and, in each case, you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.

Third-party marketing

We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any third party for marketing purposes.

Opting out

• You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by contacting us by email at hello@thecosmiccastle at any time.
• Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of a product/service purchase, warranty registration, product/service experience or other transactions.

Cookies

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 this website may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about the cookies we use, please see our cookie policy.

Change of purpose

• 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.
• Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.

Disclosures of your personal data

We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table in paragraph 4 above:

• External Third Parties such as service providers, professional advisers, HMRC and regulators; and
• Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy policy.

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 third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

International transfers

To deliver services to you, it is sometimes necessary for us to share your personal information outside the European Economic Area (EEA) and/or the UK, eg:

• with our service providers located outside the EEA and/or the UK;
• if you are based outside the EEA and/or the UK;
• where there is an international dimension to the services we are providing to you.

These transfers are subject to special rules under European and UK data protection law.

If you are based in the UK, whenever we transfer your personal data out of the UK, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:

• We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the UK government, or;
• Where we use certain service providers outside of the UK, we may use specific contracts or codes of conduct approved by the UK regulators which give personal data the same protection it has in the UK.
• If you are based within the EEA, whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:
• we will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the European Commission; or
• we may use US-based providers that are part of an EU approved privacy framework; or
• where we use certain service providers outside of the EEA, we may use specific contracts or codes of conduct approved by EU regulators which give personal data the same protection as it has in the EEA.

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. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
• We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

Data retention

How long will you use my personal data for?

• We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.
• To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
• By law we have to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for six years after they cease being customers for tax purposes.
• If you are not a customer, we shall retain your data for 2 years following your last engagement with us.
• In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see ‘Request erasure’ below for further information.
• In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

Your legal rights

Under certain circumstances, you have the following rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data:

• Request access to your personal data.
• Request correction of your personal data.
• Request erasure of your personal data.
• Object to processing of your personal data.
• Request restriction of processing your personal data.
• Request transfer of your personal data.
• Right to withdraw consent.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us by email at [email protected].

No fee usually required

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

Changes to this privacy policy

We may change this privacy policy from time to time – when we do, we shall inform you via our website.