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Quality Inspired respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy notice will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
Please also use the Glossary to understand the meaning of some of the terms used in this privacy notice.
This privacy notice aims to give you information on how Quality Inspired collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website, describes who we are, our practices and views regarding your personal data, how we treat it and who has access to it.
This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.
It is important that you read this privacy notice 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 so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy notice supplements the other notices and is not intended to override them.
By visiting www.qualityinspired.co.uk or becoming a member, you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this Privacy Notice.
You have the right to object to us processing your personal data.
Quality Inspired is the controller and responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as “Quality Inspired”, “we”, “us” or “our”, in this privacy notice).
CONTACT DETAILS: Company registered number is 0960086. Registered: Quality Inspired Limited, International House, 142 Cromwell Road, London, SW7 4EF, United Kingdom.
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. We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.
We reserve the right to make changes to the Privacy Policy and the Terms and Conditions at any time. We encourage you to check the website frequently to view any recent changes. Such changes will be effective upon posting.
This version was last updated on 17th February 2021.
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.
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 notice of every website you visit prior to providing them with any personal data. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of such third-party websites and your use of such websites is at your own risk.
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 follows:
· Identity Data: This includes your name and username or similar identifier, title, date of birth, billing address, website addresses, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers. We do not publish this information, we hold this information so that we can contact you about your listing, validate reviews, responding to your requests, customising future offers for you, improving our Site and communicating directly with you. We will send you service communications, confirm your identity and verify the information you provide.
· Financial and Purchasing Data: We may require your payment details so that we can obtain payment for any products or services that we provide your business with. This may include bank account details or payment card details, details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from us. We will contact you when processing payments and contact you about a contract renewal.
· Technical Data: This includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login 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: This includes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses.
· Usage Data: This includes information about how you use our website, products and services.
· Marketing: This includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences. We will contact you when developing and improving our website and customer service skills. All emails will contain links to unsubscribe and manage your profile settings, so you can choose to subscribe or unsubscribe at any time.
· Correspondence Data: We collect additional personal data from you if you contact us via email, contact form, letter, telephone or any other means. We may keep a record of conversations and correspondence for improvement purposes, to comply with our legal obligations, to deal with disputes or claims. We may sometimes ask for further information if you report any issues you may have with our site.
We may also contact you regarding maintenance of records, document retention, compliance with regulatory guidance and exercise or defence of legal claims and to investigate, detect and prevent fraud and comply with our legal obligations.
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.
We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.
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 goods 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 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:
o Apply for our products or services;
o Create an account on our website;
o Subscribe to our service or publications;
o Request marketing to be sent to you;
o Enter a competition, promotion or survey; or
o Give us some feedback.
· 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 for further details.
· Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive personal data about you from various third parties as set out below:
o Technical Data from the following parties: Analytics providers such as Google based outside the EU; Search information providers.
o Identity and Contact Data from publicly availably sources such as Companies House based inside the EU.
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.
Generally, we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data other than in relation to sending third party direct marketing communications to you via email or text message. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us.
It may be necessary to collect and use your personal data to carry out any obligations arising from any contacts between us and you, notify you about changes to our services or for the purposes of our legitimate interests as a business. We have set out below, in a table format, 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.
MARKETING. We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising.
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 [or if you provided us with your details when you entered a competition or registered for a promotion] 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 company outside the Quality Inspired company for marketing purposes.
OPTING OUT. You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time [by logging into the website and checking or unchecking relevant boxes to adjust your marketing preferences or by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by contacting us 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, product/service experience or other transactions.
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 need 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.
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.
To provide you with the products or services requested by you, and to perform other activities related to such services and products, including billing and collection; we may disclose your personal data to our suppliers and services providers, who perform certain business services for us. Quality Inspired makes reasonable efforts to limit its designated service providers disclosure of your personal information.
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.
We do not pass on any of your personal details for marketing purposes.
We may disclose your personal data if we are legally obliged to disclose or share your personal data, or in order to protect the rights, property or safety of our business or others.
Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA, 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 European Commission.
· Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe.
· Where we use providers based in the US, we may transfer data to them if they are part of the Privacy Shield which requires them to provide similar protection to personal data shared between the Europe and the US.
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.
You are responsible to keep your website sign in password confidential and secure. Do not share your password with anyone. Information transmitted over the internet is not completely secure. We will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information however, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
We will erase your personal data from our systems when it is no longer needed. We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for. We take into account factors including:
· Legal obligation(s) under applicable law to retain data for a certain period of time
· Statute of limitations under applicable law
· Potential or actual disputes
· Guidelines issued by relevant data protection authorities
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.
In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data.
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.
We securely erase your personal data from our systems when it is no longer needed.
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out below, please contact us:
· 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
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.
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.
We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. The data we receive from your computer (such as browser type, country, time, which pages are viewed) helps us to determine what we can do to improve the user experience, track the site performance and statistical data but it does not identify individuals. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
We use “cookies” and we obtain certain types of information when your Web browser accesses www.qualityinspired.co.uk
We use cookies for a number of reasons. They can:
· Help to improve our site and service;
· Help to remember you and your preferences
· Identify and resolve errors
· Provide website performance statistics
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
We use the following cookies:
· Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
· Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
· Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
· Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control as they are external to our site.
You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
· Legitimate Interest means the interest of our business in conducting and managing our business to enable us to give you the best service/product and the best and most secure experience. We make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you (both positive and negative) and your rights before we process your personal data for our legitimate interests. We do not use your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law). You can obtain further information about how we assess our legitimate interests against any potential impact on you in respect of specific activities by contacting us.
· Performance of Contract means processing your data where it is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request before entering into such a contract.
· Comply with a legal or regulatory obligation means processing your personal data where it is necessary for compliance with a legal or regulatory obligation that we are subject to.
· Service providers [acting as processors] based the US who provide IT and system administration services.
· Professional advisers [acting as processors or joint controllers] including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers based the UK who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance and accounting services.
· HM Revenue & Customs, regulators and other authorities [acting as processors or joint controllers] based in the United Kingdom who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.
You have the right to:
· Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
· Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
· Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
· Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.
· Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios: (a) if you want us to establish the data’s accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c) where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
· Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
· Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.
Quality Inspired Ltd, International House, 142 Cromwell Road, London, SW7 4EF, United Kingdom
+44 (0)7943615747