Privacy Policy
We take your privacy very seriously. Please read this privacy policy carefully as 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 us 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 the General Data Protection Regulation, which applies across the European Union (including in the United Kingdom) and we are responsible as ‘controller’ of that personal information for the purposes of those laws.
Tracking & Cookies Data
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information.
Cookies are files with small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service.
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.
Examples of Cookies we use:
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Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.
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Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
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Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.
Personal information we collect about you
We may collect and use the following personal information about you:
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your name and contact information, including email address and telephone number and company details
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your gender information
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your billing information, transaction and payment card information
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information from accounts you link to us, eg Facebook
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your responses to surveys, competitions and promotions
This personal information is required to provide services to you. If you do not provide personal information we ask for, it may delay or prevent us from providing services to you.
How your personal information is collected
We collect most of this personal information directly from you—in person, by telephone, text or email and/or via our website.
How and why we use your personal information
Under data protection law, we can only use your personal information if we have a proper reason for doing so, eg:
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to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations
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for the performance of our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering
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for our legitimate interests or those of a third party; or
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where you have given consent.
A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your information, so long as this is not overridden by your own rights and interests.
What we use your personal information for:
For the performance of our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract
Marketing our services to:
—existing and former customers;
—third parties who have previously expressed an interest in our services;
For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, ie to promote our business to existing and former customers
This does not apply to special category personal information, which we will only process with your explicit consent.
Promotional communications
We may use your personal information to send you updates (by email, text message, telephone or post) about our services, including exclusive offers, promotions or new services.
We have a legitimate interest in processing your personal information for promotional purposes (see above ‘How and why we use your personal information’). This means we do not usually need your consent to send you promotional communications. However, where consent is needed, we will ask for this consent separately and clearly.
We will always treat your personal information with the utmost respect and never sell or share it with other organisations for marketing purposes.
Who we share your personal information with
We will not share your data with third parties unless we are obliged to disclose personal data by law, or the disclosure is ‘necessary’ for purposes of national security, taxation and criminal investigation, or we have your consent.
Where your personal information is held
Information is held at our premises.
How long your personal information will be kept
We will keep your personal information while we are providing services to you.
Thereafter, we will keep your personal information for as long as is necessary:
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to respond to any questions, complaints or claims made by you or on your behalf;
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to show that we treated you fairly;
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to keep records required by law.
We will not retain your personal information for longer than necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
When it is no longer necessary to retain your personal information, we will delete it. If you would like further information please contact us (see ‘How to contact us’ below).
Your rights
You have the following rights, which you can exercise free of charge:
Access - The right to be provided with a copy of your personal information (the right of access)
Rectification - The right to require us to correct any mistakes in your personal information
To be forgotten - The right to require us to delete your personal information in certain situations
Restriction of processing - The right to require us to restrict processing of your personal information incertain circumstances, eg if you contest the accuracy of the data
Data portability - The right to receive the personal information you provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and/or transmit that data to a third party in certain situations
To object - The right to object at any time to your personal information being processed for direct marketing (including profiling); in certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal information, eg processing carried out for the purpose of our legitimate interests.
For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, please contact us or see the Guidance from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on individuals’ rights under the General Data Protection Regulation.
If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please:
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email, call or write to us —see below: ‘How to contact us’; and
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let us have enough information to identify you (eg your full name and address);
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let us have proof of your identity and address (a copy of your driving licence or passport and a recent utility or credit card bill); and
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let us know what right you want to exercise and the information to which your request relates.
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Keeping your personal information secure
We have appropriate security measures to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost, or used or accessed unlawfully.
We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.
How to complain
We hope that we can resolve any query or concern you may raise about our use of your information.
The General Data Protection Regulation also gives you right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the European Union (or European Economic Area) state where you work, normally live or where any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred. The supervisory authority in the UK is the Information Commissioner who may be contacted at https://ico.org.uk/concerns or telephone: 0303 123 1113.
Changes to this privacy policy
This privacy notice was published on 24th May 2020 and last updated on 29th December 2020. We may change this privacy notice from time to time—when we do we will inform you via email.
How to contact us
Please contact us by post, email or telephone if you have any questions about this privacy policy or
the information we hold about you.
Please visit the Contact page contact information.