Privacy Policy

INTRODUCTION 

Leicestershire Updates (“we”, “our”, “us”) respects the privacy of our website users (“you”) and we recognise the need for appropriate protections and management of your personal information. 

When we, and our service providers, collect and use your personal information, we are the data controller for the purposes of Data Protection Legislation. 

We have prepared this Privacy Policy to assist you in understanding what information we collect about you through our website leicestershireupdates.com and how that information is used by us and by third parties. 

We may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 22 June 2020. 

If you are not happy with any aspect of how we collect and use your data, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We should be grateful if you would contact us first if you do have a complaint so that we can try to resolve it for you. 

It is very important that the information we hold about you is accurate and up to date. Please let us know if at any time your personal information changes by emailing us at leicsupdates@gmail.com 

WHAT DATA DO WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU 

Personal data means any information capable of identifying an individual. It does not include anonymised data. 

We may process certain types of personal data about you as follows: 

  • Identity Data may include your first name, maiden name, last name, username, marital status, title, date of birth and gender. 
  • Contact Data may include your billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers. 
  • Technical Data may include your login data, internet protocol addresses, browser type and version, browser plug-in types and versions, time zone setting and location, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this site. 
  • Profile Data may include your username and password, purchases or orders, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses. 
  • Usage Data may include information about how you use our website, products and services. 
  • Marketing and Communications Data may include your preferences in receiving marketing communications from us and our third parties and your communication preferences. 

We may also process Aggregated Data from your personal data but this data does not reveal your identity and as such in itself is not personal data. An example of this is where we review your Usage Data to work out the percentage of website users using a specific feature of our site. If we link the Aggregated Data with your personal data so that you can be identified from it, then it is treated as personal data. 

Sensitive Data 

We do not collect any Sensitive Data about you. Sensitive data refers to data that 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. We do not collect any information about criminal convictions and offences. 

Where we are required to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of the contract between us, and you do not provide us with that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract (for example, to deliver goods or services to you). If you don’t provide us with the requested data, we may have to cancel a product or service you have ordered but if we do, we will notify you at the time. 

HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA 

We collect data about you through a variety of different methods including: 

  • Direct interactions: You may provide data by filling in forms on our site (or otherwise) or by communicating with us by post, phone, email or otherwise, including when you: 
  • Order our products or services; 
  • Subscribe to our service or publications; 
  • Request resources or marketing be sent to you; 
  • Enter a competition, prize draw, promotion or survey; or
  • Give us feedback. 

Automated technologies or interactions: 

As you use our site, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and usage patterns. We collect this data by using cookies, server logs and similar technologies. We may also receive Technical Data about you if you visit other websites that use our cookies. 

Third parties or publicly available sources: 

We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources as set out below:

  • Analytics providers such as Google based outside the EU;
  • Social media companies such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram 

HOW WE USE COOKIES: 

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. If you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. 

Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences. 

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our web site in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system. 

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better web site, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. 

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the web site. For more information about the cookies we use, please see our cookie policy here.

HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA 

We will only use your personal data when legally permitted. The most common uses of your personal data are: 

  • Where we need to perform the contract between us. 
  • 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 ground for processing your personal data, other than in relation to sending marketing communications to you via email or text message. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by emailing us at leicsupdates@gmail.com 

Purposes for processing your personal data 

Set out below is a description of the ways we intend to use your personal data and the legal grounds on which we will process such data. We have also explained what our legitimate interests are where relevant. 

We may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground, depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please email us at leicsupdates@gmail.com if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your personal data where more than one ground has been set out below. 

Purpose/Activity: To register you as a new customer 

Type of data: (a) Identity (b) Contact 

Lawful basis for processing: Performance of a contract with you 


Purpose/Activity: To manage our relationship with you which will include: (a) Notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy (b) Asking you to leave a review or take a survey 

Type of data: (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Marketing and Communications 

Lawful basis for processing: (a) Performance of a contract with you (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation (c) Necessary for our legitimate interests to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products/services 


Purpose/Activity: To enable you to partake in a prize draw, competition or complete a survey 

Type of data: (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Usage (e) Marketing and Communications 

Lawful basis for processing: (a) Performance of a contract with you (b) Necessary for our legitimate interests to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them and grow our business 


Purpose/Activity: To administer and protect our business and our site (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data) 

Type of data: (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Technical 

Lawful basis for processing: (a) 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 (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation 


Purpose/Activity: To deliver relevant content and advertisements to you and measure and understand the effectiveness of our advertising 

Type of data: (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Usage (e) Marketing and Communications (f) Technical 

Lawful basis for processing: 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/Activity: To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences 

Type of data: (a) Technical (b) Usage 

Lawful basis for processing: Necessary for our legitimate interests to define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our site updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy 


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

Type of data: (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Technical (d) Usage (e) Profile 

Lawful basis for processing: Necessary for our legitimate interests to develop our products/services and grow our business 


Marketing communications 

You will receive marketing communications from us if you have: 

  • Requested information from us or 
  • If you provided us with your details and ticked the box at the point of entry of your details for us to send you marketing communications; and 
  • In each case, you have not opted out of receiving that marketing

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

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 emailing us at leicsupdates@gmail.com 

Where you opt out of receiving our marketing communications, 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. 

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. If you wish to find out more about how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please email us at leicsupdates@gmail.com 

If we need to use your personal data for a purpose unrelated to the purpose for which we collected the data, we will notify you and we will explain the legal ground of processing. 

We may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent 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 paragraphs above: 

  • Other companies in our group who provide IT and system administration services and undertake leadership reporting. 
  • Service providers who provide IT and system administration services. 
  • Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance and accounting services. 
  • HM Revenue & Customs, regulators and other authorities based in the United Kingdom and other relevant jurisdictions who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances. 
  • Service providers who manufacturer and supply good sold on the website and sent to you. 
  • Third parties to whom we sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets. 

We require all third parties to whom we transfer your data to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We only allow such third parties to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions. 

We may forward your personal details to the Police or another regulatory body if we are asked to do so or wish to do so in order to comply with the law or in relation to any suspected misuse by you of our website or any of our website services. 

INTERNATIONAL 

We share your personal data within our group of companies which involves transferring your data outside the European Economic Area (EEA). 

Countries outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) do not always offer the same levels of protection to your personal data, so European law has prohibited transfers of personal data outside of the EEA unless the transfer meets certain criteria. 

Some of our third parties service providers are based outside the European Economic Area (EEA) so their processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data outside the EEA. 

Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we do our best to ensure a similar degree of security of data 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 
  • Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts or codes of conduct or certification mechanisms approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe; or 
  • Where we use providers based in the United States, we may transfer data to them if they are part of the EU-US Privacy Shield which requires them to provide similar protection to personal data shared between the Europe and the US. 

If none of the above safeguards is available, we may request your explicit consent to the specific transfer. You will have the right to withdraw this consent at any time. 

Please email us at leicesterupdates@gmail.com if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data out of 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 such data. 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 

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. 

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: see below for further information. 

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 rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. These include the right to: 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 can see more about these rights at: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/individual-rights/

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please email us at leicsupdates@gmail.com 

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. 

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 notice of every website you visit.