Privacy Policy

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  1. Who are we?
  2. Why do we have this privacy policy?
  3. Ways you can contact us
  4. How do we collect your personal information?
  5. What personal information do we collect?
  6. How do we use your personal information?
  7. Who do we share your personal information with?
  8. How long do we keep your personal information for?
  9. Is your personal information transferred outside the European Economic Area ("EEA")?
  10. Data Security
  11. Your legal rights
  12. Complaints and contact details for our data protection officer
  13. Changes to this policy

1. Who are we?

We (Comparitec Group Limited) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

Comparitec Group Limited's registered office is the Steam Mill Business Centre, Steam Mill Street, Chester, Cheshire, CH3 5AN and our registered company number is 12977777. We are registered with the Information Commissioner's Office with registration number ZB296934

2. Why do we have this privacy policy?

The purpose of this privacy policy is to give you a clear explanation about how we use the personal information we collect from you when you use our website. It is important that you read it in full to understand the information we need to collect from you, how we will use it and how you can access, update and delete your personal information.

If you are re-directed to, or click on a link that takes you to a third-party website that is not ours, we will not be responsible for how they use your personal information. You should read their privacy policy to understand how they may use your personal information. Other than the information in section 7 (“Who do we share your personal information with?”), this privacy policy only explains how we will process your personal information.

“Personal information” in this policy means any information that we collect that could identify you such as for e.g. your name, address and online identifiers like your IP address.

3. Ways you can contact us

You can contact us at any time by using one of the methods listed below, if you wish to know more about how we use and store your personal information:

Comparitec Group Ltd

The Steam Mill Business Centre

Steam Mill Street

Chester

CH3 5AN.

4. How do we collect your personal information?

This is information specific to you such as, but not exclusively, your name, email address, telephone number and online identifiers (i.e. IP address).

We collect personal information from you in the following ways:

  • when you complete an online form on one of our website
  • when you contact us by email or any other means
  • when you interact with us using social media such as Twitter, Facebook or Messenger etc
  • via automated technologies such as Cookies. Please see our Cookie Policy for further details
  • technical data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns

5. What Personal information do we collect?

We may collect the following information:

  • Identity information: includes your first and last name.
  • Contact information: includes your email address and mobile telephone number.
  • Technical information: includes your internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer (or device) to the internet; your browser; time zone setting; your operating system and platform; the source of your enquiry (for example Google, Facebook, Bing etc) and the device you are using. We also collect information about your visit to our website including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our website (including the date and time); page response times, download errors; length of visits to certain pages; page interaction information (such as scrolling; clicks and mouse-overs); methods used to browse away from the page, and, if you linked to our website from a search engine, the address of that search engine and the search term you used.

6. How do we use your personal information?

6.1 Staying in contact

If you contact us using our contact form, we will use your information to reply to your query and we will keep a record of that correspondence.

6.2 Website analytics

We use technical information to measure and analyse traffic to our website. It allows us to analyse the behaviour and trends to help us further improve our services and our customers' experience.

This is statistical information about our users' browsing actions and patterns and does not identify anyone.

6.3 To meet legal or regulatory requirements

We may process your personal information without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with data protection legislation, where this is required or permitted by law.

Wherever we process your personal information we will make sure that we establish a lawful processing ground in advance. In most cases this will be where the processing is necessary for our legitimate interests (providing they do not outweigh your legitimate interests) and/or where it is necessary to comply with a legal obligation.

7. Who do we share your personal information with?

When you use our website, your personal information will be shared with companies who enable us to provide Our Service or who provide services to us, for example IT Service Providers (who provide for e.g. technology platforms or other IT services including data storage), and communication providers (who provide for e.g. email and text services for customer contact and marketing purposes) and marketing data analysis providers (who provide for e.g. audience insights and analysis).

These companies help us to provide Our Service. In order that they can do this, we may need to let them process your personal information. We will make sure that they keep the information secure and in accordance with our instructions, the UK General Data Protection Regulation 2016 (“UK GDPR”) and other UK privacy legislation.

We'll also share your personal information when we have your consent, or where we are obliged to do so for a legal or regulatory reason, for e.g. to prevent or detect crime, for compliance monitoring or to enforce or apply our Terms & Conditions and other agreements.

Finally, we may also share your personal information with any 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 information in the same way as set out in this privacy policy.

8. How long do we keep your personal information for?

Unless we are required by law to keep your personal information for a different period of time, we will keep it for no longer than 12 months from the date you last visited our website, or alternatively until you ask us to delete it.

Please note that if you ask us to delete your personal information it may remain on our backup systems for legal or other regulatory reasons.

9. Is your personal information transferred outside the European Economic Area ("EEA")?

No, we do not transfer personal information outside the EEA.

10. Data security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal information to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal information on our instructions, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have 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.

11. Your legal rights

  • Right to Object - You can object to our processing of your personal data at any time by contacting us as detailed in Ways to contact us in section 3. However, this may mean that we may not be able to respond to your query.
  • Right of Access - you can ask us whether we hold your personal information and if so you can access it by contacting us as detailed in section 3.
  • Right to erasure - if it is no longer necessary for us to hold your personal information, bearing in mind the reason why you provided it to us, you can ask us to delete it.
  • Right to rectification - if we hold inaccurate personal information, you can ask us to correct it and we'll action your request promptly
  • Right to restrict our use of your information - you can ask us to restrict our processing of your personal information if you think, for example, that the personal information you gave us is inaccurate
  • Right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) - we'll try to resolve any complaint that you may have in relation to data protection issues. If you are not happy with our final response you have the right to have your complaint dealt with by the ICO. See section 12 - “Complaints and contact details of our data protection officer.”

12. Complaints and contact details for our data protection officer

We want you to be confident that we are handling your personal information responsibly and in line with good practice. If you are concerned that we are not doing this, you should contact us immediately. We will treat your concern seriously and work with you to try and resolve it.

Please address your correspondence to:

The Data Protection Officer

Comparitec Group Ltd

The Steam Mill Business Centre

Steam Mill Street

Chester

CH3 5AN.

13. Changes to this policy

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page.

Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy. However, if any significant change that we make affects the way that we are able to use your personal information (meaning that it would be unlawful for us to continue to use it), then we will do our best to communicate this to you.



Last updated 14/02/2022

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