We take your privacy seriously and we respect your privacy and data protection rights. This privacy notice aims to give you information on how we collect and process your personal data through your use of our websites, mobile apps and our services, including any data you may provide through our websites, mobile apps and our services when you sign up to receive news, offers, promotions and updates, take part in a competition, complete a survey, provide feedback, use our Wi-Fi, use our mobile apps, or otherwise purchase a product or service. Please take time to read this privacy notice in full, together with any other privacy notice or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you, to ensure that you understand and are happy with how we collect and process your personal data. This privacy notice supplements the other notices and is not intended to override them. We do not collect or process Sensitive Data (such as your health information, race, ethnicity) or Children’s Data. We do not collect or process any information about criminal convictions and offences.
This privacy notice is issued by Metatec Evolution Limited (company number 11163304 with its registered office at Ivydene, Munstone, Hereford. HR1 3AJ). Metatec Evolution Limited is the controller and is responsible for our websites, mobile apps and this service. We have a data protection officer (DPO), who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this privacy notice. If you have any questions about this privacy notice, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact the DPO using the details below:
Our full details are:
Data Protection Officer
dpo@metatec.uk.com
Ivydene, Munstone, Hereford. HR1 3AJ
You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the supervisory authority for data protection issues in the UK (phone: 0303 123 1113 or at www.ico.org.uk/concerns). However, we would appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO, so please feel free to contact us in the first instance.
We will need to update this privacy notice from time to time as the law and/or our business changes and develops. We will endeavour to tell you in advance by sending a service message to you if we hold your email address. Otherwise, please look out for the flags on our websites and materials that indicates we have changed this privacy notice. If you continue to use our websites and/or services after we have changed our privacy notice, we will take this as an indication that you accept the changes. It is important that the personal data that we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.
Our websites, mobile apps and/or the service 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, mobile app and/or service, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website, plug-in and/or application that you visit. One such example is Google which can be found here https://privacy.google.com/businesses/compliance/
Personal data 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 process different kinds of personal data about you, which we have categorised as follows:
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. 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. Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you with products or services). In this case, we may have to cancel a product or service you have with us, but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.
We use different methods to collect personal data from and about you including through:
We only process your personal data when allowed to do so by law. Most commonly, we will process your personal data with your consent:
The below table sets out how we process your personal data. Please contact us if you would like further information about the specific basis for processing.
# | Activity | Data | Basis |
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1 |
To manage our relationship with you, which includes: to notify you about changes to our privacy policy to communicate with you about operational changes to our products, services, websites and mobile apps, for example if we were to withdraw one of our apps to gather feedback from you about our brands, websites, mobile apps and other services and activities from time to time to respond to, deal with and address any questions, suggestions, issues or complaints you have raised and reporting and analysis in respect of these to respond to any social media reviews, posts or other public comments you make about us, our brands, websites, mobile apps, services or other activities |
Identity Data Contact Data Profile Data Marketing and Communications Data |
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) |
2 | To provide information to legal and regulatory bodies where we are under a legal or regulatory obligation to do so. |
Identity Data Contact Data Technical Data Usage Data Profile Data Marketing and Communications Data |
Necessary to comply with a legal obligation |
3 |
To tailor our direct marketing to you and to send you direct marketing communications including via: SMS Push Notifications |
Identity Data Contact Data Technical Data Transaction Data Usage Data Profile Data Marketing and Communications Data |
In terms of tailoring our direct marketing, necessary for our legitimate interests, being to develop our business and inform our marketing strategy In terms of sending direct marketing where you are a customer and have not previously opted out of receiving such direct marketing, as necessary for our legitimate interests, being to offer you relevant products and services related to what we have previously provided to you In terms of sending direct marking where you are not one of our customers, with your consent given when you sign up to our mobile app, website or otherwise give your details and provide consent when doing so |
We cannot run our business or provide many of the services and benefits you expect to receive without involving other people and businesses. We only share your information in accordance with the laws applicable to us and for the purposes set out in the table in “How we use your personal data ”.
We share your personal data with:
Some of our external third parties are based outside of the EEA so their processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data outside the EEA. Whenever we transfer your personal data outside of the EEA, we ensure that a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:
If you have any questions in relation to this section, please contact dpo@metatec.uk.com
We take the security of your personal data very seriously and have in place appropriate security measures at all times, including where we share your information with our suppliers and partners, to protect your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. We have also 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.
We can only keep your personal data for as long as necessary for the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. The precise length of time we hold your personal data for varies depending on the individual circumstances, but in determining 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. We regularly review our retention periods to ensure that we are not keeping your data for longer than necessary. Details of retention periods for different aspects of your personal data are available by contacting us.
In certain circumstances, you may have the right to request access, transfer, rectification and/or erasure of the personal data that we process about you. You may also have the right to object to and/or restrict our processing of your personal data. Details of the rights are set out below.
To exercise any of these rights please contact us using the details in above. The ICO regulates most UK data and information laws. To learn more about your rights, visit the ICO website at www.ico.org.uk.