PRIVACY POLICY
Last updated聽January 07, 2022
精东传媒 Ltd聽(鈥Company,鈥 鈥we,鈥 鈥us,鈥 or 鈥our鈥) are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy notice or our practices with regard to your personal information, please contact us at聽sales@simworx.co.uk.
This privacy notice describes how we might use your information if you:
- Visit our website聽at聽http://www.simworx.co.uk
- Engage with us in other related ways 鈥 including any sales, marketing, or events
In this privacy notice, if we refer to:
- 鈥Website,鈥 we are referring to any website of ours that references or links to this policy
- 鈥Services,鈥 we are referring to our聽Website,聽and other related services, including any sales, marketing, or events
The purpose of this privacy notice is to explain to you in the clearest way possible what information we collect, how we use it, and what rights you have in relation to it. If there are any terms in this privacy notice that you do not agree with, please discontinue use of our Services immediately.
Please read this privacy notice carefully, as it will help you understand what we do with the information that we collect.
WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
In Short:聽聽Some information 鈥 such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address and/or browser and device characteristics 鈥 is collected automatically when you visit our聽Website.
We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use or navigate the聽Website. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use our聽Website聽and other technical information. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our聽Website, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.
Like many businesses, we also collect information through cookies and similar technologies.
The information we collect includes:
- Log and Usage Data.聽Log and usage data is service-related, diagnostic, usage and performance information our servers automatically collect when you access or use our聽Website聽and which we record in log files. Depending on how you interact with us, this log data may include your IP address, device information, browser type and settings and information about your activity in the聽Website聽(such as the date/time stamps associated with your usage, pages and files viewed, searches and other actions you take such as which features you use), device event information (such as system activity, error reports (sometimes called 鈥榗rash dumps鈥) and hardware settings).
- Device Data.聽We collect device data such as information about your computer, phone, tablet or another device you use to access the聽Website. Depending on the device used, this device data may include information such as your IP address (or proxy server), device and application identification numbers, location, browser type, hardware model Internet service provider and/or mobile carrier, operating system and system configuration information.
- Location Data.聽We collect location data such as information about your device鈥檚 location, which can be either precise or imprecise. How much information we collect depends on the type and settings of the device you use to access the聽Website. For example, we may use GPS and other technologies to collect geolocation data that tells us your current location (based on your IP address). You can opt-out of allowing us to collect this information either by refusing access to the information or by disabling your Location setting on your device. Note, however, if you choose to opt-out, you may not be able to use certain aspects of the Services.
HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION?
In Short: 聽We process your information for purposes based on legitimate business interests, the fulfilment of our contract with you, compliance with our legal obligations, and/or your consent.
We use personal information collected via our聽Website聽for a variety of business purposes described below. We process your personal information for these purposes in reliance on our legitimate business interests, in order to enter into or perform a contract with you, with your consent, and/or for compliance with our legal obligations. We indicate the specific processing grounds we rely on next to each purpose listed below.
In legal terms, we are generally the 鈥渄ata controller鈥 under European data protection laws since we determine the means and/or purposes of the data processing we perform. However, if you are a business customer with whom we have entered into a data processing agreement for the provision of corporate services to you, then you would be the 鈥渄ata controller鈥 and we would be the 鈥渄ata processor鈥 under European data protection laws since we would be processing data on your behalf in accordance with your instructions.
We use the information we collect or receive:
- To send administrative information to you.聽We may use your personal information to send you product, service and new feature information and/or information about changes to our terms, conditions, and policies.
- To protect our Services.聽We may use your information as part of our efforts to keep our聽Website聽safe and secure (for example, for fraud monitoring and prevention).
- To enforce our terms, conditions and policies for business purposes, to comply with legal and regulatory requirements or in connection with our contract.
- To respond to legal requests and prevent harm.聽If we receive a subpoena or other legal request, we may need to inspect the data we hold to determine how to respond.
- Fulfill and manage your orders.聽We may use your information to fulfill and manage your orders, payments, returns, and exchanges made through the聽Website.
- Administer prize draws and competitions.聽We may use your information to administer prize draws and competitions when you elect to participate in our competitions.
- To deliver and facilitate delivery of services to the user.聽We may use your information to provide you with the requested service.
- To respond to user inquiries/offer support to users.聽We may use your information to respond to your inquiries and solve any potential issues you might have with the use of our Services.
- To send you marketing and promotional communications.聽We and/or our third-party marketing partners may use the personal information you send to us for our marketing purposes, if this is in accordance with your marketing preferences. For example, when expressing an interest in obtaining information about us or our聽Website, subscribing to marketing or otherwise contacting us, we will collect personal information from you. You can opt-out of our marketing emails at any time (see the 鈥WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?鈥 below).
- Deliver targeted advertising to you.聽We may use your information to develop and display personalized content and advertising (and work with third parties who do so) tailored to your interests and/or location and to measure its effectiveness.
WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH ANYONE?
In Short:聽 We only share information with your consent, to comply with laws, to provide you with services, to protect your rights, or to fulfill business obligations.
We may process or share your data that we hold based on the following legal basis:
- Consent:聽We may process your data if you have given us specific consent to use your personal information for a specific purpose.
- Legitimate Interests:聽We may process your data when it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests.
- Performance of a Contract:聽Where we have entered into a contract with you, we may process your personal information to fulfill the terms of our contract.
- Legal Obligations:聽We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena (including in response to public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements).
- Vital Interests:聽We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person and illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
More specifically, we may need to process your data or share your personal information in the following situations:
- Business Transfers.聽We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
- Google Maps Platform APIs.聽We may share your information with certain Google Maps Platform APIs (e.g., Google Maps API, Place API).聽To find out more about Google鈥檚 Privacy Policy, please refer to this聽.
Cookies
About the cookies we use, why we use them, and their impact on you.We use both persistent cookies and session cookies as further detailed below. Persistent cookies allow our website to recognise you when you return to our site another time. This provides us with useful analytics that help us optimise our website and your visits. Session cookies exist just for the life of your current visit whilst you have your browser open. They are not stored on your hard disk and are erased when you exit your web browser.If you would like more information on cookies, we recommend the聽聽internet browser cookies page.By continuing to use our site, you agree to allow us to store these cookies on your computer.
Cookies we use – Google Analytics
We use this type of cookie to understand how our website is being used in order to improve the user experience. User data is all anonymous.To disable Google Analytics, please download the browser add-on for the deactivation of Google Analytics provided by Google at聽. To learn more about privacy and Google Analytics, please consult the Google Analytics overview provided by Google at聽
Manually managing cookies
The use of cookies is now standard operating procedure for most websites. However, if you are uncomfortable with the use of cookies, most browsers now permit users to opt-out of receiving them. It is important to note that blocking cookies may result in some parts of our website not working properly. This may affect your browsing experience.There are a number of ways you can manually manage cookies on your computer/device. Read more on the聽聽website.If you access the Internet from more than one computer/device it is important to ensure each browser is configured to suit your cookie preferences.If you wish to block all cookies all the time you can set your browser to do this.
Social buttons
On many of the pages of our website, you will see 鈥榮ocial buttons鈥. These allow you to share or bookmark pages on our site.
Social media sites such as Twitter, Google, Facebook, and LinkedIn may collect information about your internet activity, including if your visit to our site and the specific pages you are on if you are logged into their services, even if you don鈥檛 click on the button.
You should check the privacy and cookies policies of each of these sites to see how exactly they use your information and to find out how to opt out, or delete, such information.
Further information
HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?
In Short:聽聽We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy notice unless otherwise required by law.We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy notice unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting or other legal requirements). No purpose in this notice will require us keeping your personal information for longer than聽2 years.When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize such information or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible
WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?
In Short:聽聽In some regions, such as the European Economic Area (EEA) and United Kingdom (UK), you have rights that allow you greater access to and control over your personal information.聽You may review, change, or terminate your account at any time.In some regions (like the EEA and UK), you have certain rights under applicable data protection laws. These may include the right (i) to request access and obtain a copy of your personal information, (ii) to request rectification or erasure; (iii) to restrict the processing of your personal information; and (iv) if applicable, to data portability. In certain circumstances, you may also have the right to object to the processing of your personal information. To make such a request, please use the聽contact details聽provided below. We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.If we are relying on your consent to process your personal information, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Please note however that this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before its withdrawal, nor will it affect the processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.If you are a resident in the EEA or UK and you believe we are unlawfully processing your personal information, you also have the right to complain to your local data protection supervisory authority. You can find their contact details here:聽.If you are a resident in Switzerland, the contact details for the data protection authorities are available here:聽.
HOW DO WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION?
We have implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security in order to protect personally identifiable data and information from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction. In particular, we ensure that all appropriate confidentiality obligations and technical and organisational security measures are in place to prevent any unauthorised or unlawful disclosure or processing of such information and data and the accidental loss or destruction of or damage to such information and data. Only authorised 精东传媒 personnel are provided access to personally identifiable information and these employees have agreed to ensure confidentiality of this information.
CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES
Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track (鈥淒NT鈥) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. At this stage, no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practise in a revised version of this privacy notice.
DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE?
In Short:聽聽Yes, we will update this notice as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws.聽We may update this privacy notice from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated 鈥淩evised鈥 date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If we make material changes to this privacy notice, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this privacy notice frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.
HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?
If you have questions or comments about this notice, you may聽contact our Data Protection Officer (DPO),聽Claire Callow,聽by email at聽clairecallow@simworx.co.uk,聽by phone at聽+44 7773 213588,聽or by post to: 精东传媒 Ltd, 37 Second Avenue, Pensnett Estate, Kingswinford,聽West Midlands, DY67UL, United Kingdom. If you are a resident in the United Kingdom, the 鈥渄ata controller鈥 of your personal information is聽精东传媒 Ltd.聽精东传媒 Ltd聽has appointed聽Claire Callow聽to be its representative in the UK. You can contact them directly regarding the processing of your information by聽精东传媒 Ltd,聽by email at聽clairecallow@simworx.co.uk,聽by visiting聽http://www.simworx.co.uk,聽by phone at聽+44 7773 213588,聽or by post to: 37 Second Avenue, Pensnett Estate, Kingswinford,聽West Midlands, DY6 7UL, England
HOW CAN YOU REVIEW, UPDATE, OR DELETE THE DATA WE COLLECT FROM YOU?
Based on the applicable laws of your country, you may have the right to request access to the personal information we collect from you, change that information, or delete it in some circumstances. To request to review, update, or delete your personal information, please聽visit聽http://www.simworx.co.uk. or email us at sales@simworx.co.uk