This Privacy Notice is effective as of 25 May 2018; it updates and works in addition to our General Terms of Service; see our Terms & Conditions – Website.
On the 25th May 2018, the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect. Under this new law, European standards in data protection aligned with current technology standards. This is good news for all individuals who are affected by data processing; it raises standards and enforces new processes, obligations and transparency in relation to the handling and security of your personal data.
This Privacy Notice is in accordance with the new General Data Protection Regulation.
What this means for you –
- Further protection of your personal data;
- Standardisation of the European data protection; and
- Adoption of data protection in line with technology changes.
At ElectroSciences, we understand that we have a responsibility to protect and respect your privacy and look after your personal data.
This Privacy Notice, inclusive of our General Terms of Service, explains what personal data we collect, how we use your personal data, reasons we may need to disclose your personal data to others and how we store your personal data securely.
For clarity, ElectroSciences may be both data controller and data processor for your personal data under certain circumstances.
We must advise that this policy is subject to change, so please check our website on a regular basis for any further changes.
This Privacy Notice sets out your rights under the law.
Who are we?
ElectroSciences Limited is a provider of scientific consultancy services, based in Surrey. ElectroSciences has a registered office at 1 Osborn Road, Farnham, Surrey, GU9 9QT. Our registered in England company number is 06677527. Markys G. Cain is the Data Protection Officer for ElectroSciences.
How the law protects you
Data protection laws state that we are only able to process personal data if we have valid reasons to do so. The basis for processing your personal data includes, but is not limited to, your consent, performance of a contract, to enable billing and remittance, and to contact you for customer service purposes.
How do we collect personal data from you?
We receive information about you from you when you use our website, complete forms on our website, if you contact us by phone, email, live-chat or otherwise in respect of any of our products and services or during the purchasing of any such product. Additionally we also collect information from you when you sign up, enter a competition, promotion or survey or when you inform us of any other matter.
If you provide us with personal data about a third party, you warrant that you have obtained the express consent from the third party for the disclosure and use of their personal data.
Your personal data may be automatically collected when you use our services, including but not limited to, your IP address, device-specific information, server logs, device event information, location information and unique application numbers.
What type of data do we collect from you?
The personal data that we may collect from you includes your name, address, email address, phone numbers, payment information and IP addresses. We may also keep details of your visits to our website including, but not limited to traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data. We also retain records of your queries and correspondence, in the event you contact us.
This website
Currently this website collects limited contact details from you (your name, your email address, your telephone number), if you so choose. We will keep your personal information for as long as necessary and consistent with the purpose for which you have given it to us. If you have given us explicit consent to do so, we may periodically update you via a promotional email, letter, or telephone call about our products and services which you may find interesting using the email address you may have provided. You can opt out of these communications at any time by following the ‘unsubscribe’ instructions which accompany all communications. When you use this website, we may also collect, store and use other information about you (for example the URL you came from, the IP address of your computer, your browser type, the country and area code from which your computer is calling, the pages of our website which were viewed during your visit, the advertisements clicked on, as well as any search terms that you entered on our website). The purpose of this information is to administer the website, to process your requests, to provide you with information of interest regarding the website and to improve our services to you. See also our section on website Cookies below.
How do we use your data?
We use information about you in the following ways:
- To process orders and enquiries that you have submitted to us;
- To provide you with products and services;
- To comply with our contractual obligations we have with you;
- To help us identify you and any accounts you hold with us;
- To enable us to review, develop and improve the website and services;
- To provide customer care, including responding to your requests if you contact us with a query;
- To administer accounts, process payments and keep track of billing and payments;
- To detect fraud and to make sure what you have told us is correct;
- To carry out marketing and statistical analysis;
- To review job applications;
- To notify you about changes to our website and services;
- To provide you with information about products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes; and
- To inform you of service and price changes.
Retention periods
We will keep your personal data for the duration of the period you are a customer of ElectroSciences. We shall retain your data only for as long as necessary in accordance with applicable laws.
On the closure of your account, we may keep your data for up to 7 years after you have cancelled your services with us. We may not be able to delete your data before this time due to our legal and/or accountancy obligations. We may also keep it for research or statistical purposes. We assure you that your personal data shall only be used for these purposes stated herein.
Third Parties
For the avoidance of doubt, we do not and never shall sell your personal data to third parties for marketing or advertising purposes.
We work closely with a number of third parties (including business parties, service providers and fraud protection services) and we may receive information from them about you. These third parties may collect information about you including, but not limited to, your IP address, device-specific information, server logs, device event information, location information, and unique application numbers. We use their features within our website, however, in some instances, they may be acting as data controller and they will have their own privacy policies, which we advise you to read.
We may pass your personal data to third parties for the provision of services on our behalf (for example processing your payment). However, we will only ever share information about you that is necessary to provide the service and we have specific contracts in place, which ensure your personal data is secure and will not be used for any marketing purposes.
We may share your information if we are acquired by a third party and therefore your data will be deemed an asset of the business. In these circumstances, we may disclose your personal data to the prospective buyer of our business, subject to both parties entering into appropriate confidentiality undertakings.
Similarly, we may share your personal data if we are under a duty to disclose data in order to comply with any legal obligation or to protect the rights, property, or safety of ElectroSciences, our customers, or others. This includes but is not limited to exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection, credit risk reduction and dispute policies. However, we will take steps with the aim of ensuring that your privacy rights continue to be protected.
Your rights
In preventing the use or processing of your personal data, it may delay or prevent us from fulfilling our contractual obligations to you. It may also mean that we shall be unable to provide our services or process the cancellation of your service.
You have the right to object to our use of your personal data, or ask us to delete, remove or stop using it if there is no need for us to keep it. This is known as your right to be forgotten. There are legal and accountancy reasons why we will need to keep your data, but please do inform us if you think we are retaining or using your personal data incorrectly.
Our Privacy Notice shall be made clear to you at the point of collection of your personal data.
You can view, edit or request deletion of your personal data by contacting us directly. You can also enquire and make choices about ElectroSciences’ collection of your data and how we use it.
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. If you choose not to receive marketing communications from us about our products and services, you will have the choice not to choose these by ticking the relevant boxes situated on the pages either at sign up or in your control panel if available.
We will not contact you for marketing purposes unless you have given us your prior consent. You can change your marketing preferences at any time either online via links in our marketing emails, or by contacting us directly.
Accessing and updating your data
We will endeavour to maintain the accuracy of your information and ensure all your details, including but not limited to, name, address, title, phone number, e-mail address and payment details are kept up to date at all times.
You have the right to access the information we hold about you. Please email your requests to privacy@electrosciences.co.uk so that we can obtain this information for you.
Use of cookies
Currently we do not use cookies on this website except for:
- the common web stats tracking code required for Google Analytics/Google Exact Metrics (commonly known as basic GA visitor stats)
- session cookies for our online chatbot and chat applications that synchronise your chat activity with out bot &/or support staff
In the future when you enter this website, we may use other cookies. These are small files which ask permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. These cookies in no way allow us access to your computer or any information about you other than the data you choose to share with us. They are used to record the areas of the site that you have visited and for how long, which provides us with useful information that helps us make our site more accessible to our users in line with their needs. The use of cookies helps us to analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to client needs. Cookies are placed on your computer if your web browser is set to allow these. You can usually modify your web browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer, however if you do so, you may lose some of the functionality of this website.
Links to other sites
ElectroSciences may provide links to third party sites. Since we do not control those websites, we encourage you to review the privacy policies of these third party sites. Any information that is supplied on these sites will not be within our control and we cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of these.
Where we store your personal data
We follow accepted ISO standards to store and protect the personal data we collect, including the use of encryption if appropriate.
All information you provide to us is stored on our secured servers within the EEA. From time to time, your information may be transferred to and stored in a country outside the EEA in relation to provision of the services. The laws in these countries may not provide you with the same protection as in the EEA; however, any third party referred to above outside of the EEA has agreed to abide by European levels of data protection in respect of the transfer, processing and storage of any personal data. By providing your data to us, you agree to this transfer and storage. However, we will ensure that reasonable steps are taken to protect your data in accordance with this privacy notice.
As the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site and any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
Any sensitive data (payment details for example) are encrypted and protected.
Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our or your website, you are also responsible for keeping the password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.
Liability
We agree to take reasonable measures to protect your data in accordance with applicable laws and in accordance with our General Terms and Conditions.
Data Breaches
In the event of a data breach, we shall ensure that our obligations under applicable data protection laws are complied with where necessary.
Contact us
If you have any questions or comments about privacy, your data, to request a data report, or data destruction, please e-mail us at: privacy@electrosciences.co.uk
Your right to make a complaint
You have the right to make a complaint about how we process your personal data to the Information Commissioner:
https://ico.org.uk/concerns/
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Tel: 0303 123 1113
