Privacy Policy – Credosoft
Introduction
Welcome to Credosoft's privacy notice.
Credosoft 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, tell you about your privacy rights
and how the law protects you when:
- you visit our website at credosoft.com (regardless of where you visit it from) (“Site”);
- you purchase our risk base inspection software packages from us (“Software”); and
- we provide to you with our support and related services (“Services”).
The following are categories of individuals to whom this privacy policy applies to:
- Customer:
means any individual, business or organisation, including their
employees, agents or contractors, who is purchasing our Software or
using our Services.
- User: means any person accessing our Site.
We reserve the right to change this privacy policy from time to time by changing it on the Site or by
emailing you.
- Important information and who we are
Purpose of this privacy notice
This privacy notice aims to give you information on how we collect and process your personal data
through your purchase of our Software and use of the Services, including any data you may provide
through the Site when you purchase our Software or are using our Services.
The Site are not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.
Controller
In relation to the provision of our Software and Services, Credosoft is the controller and responsible
for your personal data (collectively referred to as “Credosoft”, "we", "us" or "our" in this privacy
notice).
We have appointed a data privacy manager who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation
to this privacy notice. If you have any questions about this privacy notice, including any requests to
exercise your legal rights set out below. You can contact the data privacy manager by using the
contact details set out below.
Contact details
Our full details are:
Credosoft Limited (UK Company Number: SC163937)
Name or title of data privacy manager: Silvia Bordoni
Email addresses:
silvia.bordoni@credosoft.com
Postal address:
50 Albany Street, EH1 3QR
Telephone number:
0044 (0) 7826 055 330
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 (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however,
appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact
us in the first instance.
Changes to the privacy notice and your duty to inform us of changes
This version was last updated on 29/06/2018.
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.
Third-party links
Our Site 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.
- The data we collect about you
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 check the details you provide with fraud prevention agencies and share your
information with them if we suspect fraud. It is important that you don’t provide false, inaccurate
information or impersonate another individual.
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have
grouped together follows:
- Identity Data includes first name, last name and title.
- Contact Data includes billing address, residential or registered company address, email address and telephone numbers.
- Transaction Data includes details about payments to and from you and other details of
- Services you have purchased from us.
- Technical Data
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 the Site.
- Profile Data
includes your unique account reference number, actions or transactions
made by you with us, preferences, feedback, survey responses and other
correspondence.
- Usage Data includes information about how you use our Site, Software and Services.
- Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us, and your communication preferences.
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 Site feature or
the number of Service types that are purchased. 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.
If you fail to provide personal data
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 the Services). In this case,
we may have to cancel delivery of the Service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the
case at the time.
- How is your personal data collected?
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
- Direct interactions.
You may give us your Identity and Contact by filling in forms,
providing documentation or by corresponding with us by post, phone,
email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
- purchase or use our Software and Services;
- create an account;
- contact us to report a problem with the Site, Software or Services, or for other purposes;
- request marketing to be sent to you; or
- give us some feedback.
- Automated technologies or interactions.
As you interact with our Site, we may automatically collect Usage Data
and Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns.
We collect this personal data by using cookies and other similar
technologies.
- Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources as set out below:
- Technical Data from the following parties:
- analytics providers based outside the EU; and
- search information providers.
- Contact and Transaction Data from providers of technical, payment and delivery services.
- Identity and Contact Data from publicly available sources, such as the electoral roll or Companies House.
- How we use your personal data
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.
Purposes for which we will use your personal data
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.
Note that 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 contact us 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 in the table below.
Purpose/Activity
|
Type of data
|
Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
|
To register you as a new Customer or User |
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
|
Performance of a contract with you
|
To provide the Software and Services to you including:
(a) Manage payments, fees and charges
(b) Collect and recover money owed to us
|
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Transaction
(d) Profile
|
(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to recover debts due to us)
(c) Necessary for the legitimate interests of others (preventing fraud)
|
To manage our relationship with
you which will include:
(a) Notify you about changes to our terms, privacy policy, Software or Services
(b) Ask you to leave a review or take a survey
|
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Profile
(d) Marketing and Communications
|
(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, study how Users and Customers use our Software and Services
and to improve our Software and Services into the future)
|
To administer and protect our business and this Site, Software and Services (including troubleshooting, data analysis,
testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data)
|
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Technical
|
(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 our legal
obligations
|
To
deliver relevant Site content and advertisements to you and measure or
understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you
|
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Profile
(d) Usage
(e) Marketing and
Communications
(f) Technical
|
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how Customers and Users use our Software and Services, to develop them,
to grow our business and to inform our
marketing strategy)
|
To use data analytics to improve
our Site, Software and Services,
marketing, customer relationships
and experiences
|
(a) Technical
(b) Usage
|
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to
define types of Customers and Users for
our Software and Services, to keep our
Site updated and relevant, to develop our
business and to inform our marketing
strategy)
|
To make suggestions and recommendations to you about
Services or events that may be of
interest to you
|
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Technical
(d) Usage
(e) Profile
(f) Marketing and
Communications
|
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to
develop our Software and Services and
grow our business)
|
To acquire and provide references for our Software and Services
|
(a) Identity
|
Only with your fully informed, active, clear
and specific consent.
|
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 Services and offers may be
relevant for you and send to you through our marketing messages.
You will receive marketing messages from us if you have requested
information from us or purchased Services from us and you have not
opted out of receiving that marketing.
Opting out
You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by contacting
us or unsubscribing from our marketing list.
Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to personal data
provided to us as a result of a Service purchase, warranty registration, Service experience or other
transactions.
Cookies
Our Site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our Site. This helps us to provide you
with a good experience when you browse our Site and allows us to improve our Site. 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 Site. They include, for example,
cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our Site.
- Analytical/performance cookies. These cookies allow
us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how
visitors move around our Site when they are using it. This helps us to
improve the way our Site 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 Site. This enables us to personalise our
content for you and remember your preferences (for example, your choice
of language or region).
- Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to
our Site, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed.
We will use this information to make our Site and the advertising
displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We also share this
information with third parties for this purpose.
For further details on the cookies, please see the table set out below.
Cookie name
|
Type of Cookie
|
Purpose of Cookie
|
ga
|
Unique user cookie
|
Used to distinguish users
|
gid
|
Unique user cookie
|
Used to distinguish users
|
_gat
|
Throttles request rate
|
Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google cookie will be named _dc_gtm_<property-id>.
|
AMP_TOKEN
|
Analytics/performance cookie (first party cookie)
|
Contains
a token that can be used to retrieve a Client ID from AMP Cli possible
values indicate opt-out, inflight request or an error retrieving a
Client ID service.
|
_gac_<property-id>
|
Tracking cookie
|
Contains
campaign related information for the user. If you have linked and
AdWords accounts, AdWords website conversion tags will read th opt-out
|
_utma
|
Unique visitor cookie
|
Used to distinguish users and sessions.
|
_utmt |
Throttles request rate
|
Used to throttle request rate.
|
_utmb |
Session cookie
|
Used to determine new sessions/visits.
|
_utmc |
Session cookie
|
Not used in ga.js. Set for interoperability with urchin.js.
|
_utmz |
Campaign cookie
|
Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site.
|
_utmv |
Visitor segmentation cookie
|
Used to store visitor-level custom variable data.
|
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. These
cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting
cookies.
You may 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. If you
would like more information about cookies, we can recommend
www.aboutcookies.org and
www.allaboutcookies.org as helpful resources. Both websites also provide instructions on how to reject cookies if you would like to do so.
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 get an explanation as to how the processing for the new
purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us.
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.
- 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 the table in paragraph 4 above.
- Service providers who provide payment, marketing, IT and system administration services.
- Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers,
auditors and insurers based within the EU who provide consultancy,
banking, legal, insurance and accounting services.
- Regulators and other authorities based in the United
Kingdom who require reporting of processing activities in certain
circumstances, especially in the prevention of money laundering and
fraud.
- 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 data
in the same way as set out in this privacy notice.
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
- International transfers
Some of our external third party suppliers are based outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”).
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 ensure a
similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring that, where
we use providers based in the US, they are part of the Privacy Shield
which requires them to provide similar protection to personal data
shared between the EEA and the US. For further details, see European
Commission: EU-US Privacy Shield.
If there are no safeguards in place, we will only transfer your data
outside of the EEA with your consent or where it is necessary for the
performance of our contract with you.
- 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. 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
How long will you use my personal data for?
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.
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.
- Your legal rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal
data.
- Access to information: You have the right to request a copy of the information Credosoft holds about you.
- Ensuring accuracy of information:
Credosoft wants to make sure that your personal information is accurate
and up-to-date. You may ask Credosoft to correct or complete
information that is inaccurate or incomplete.
- Right to erasure:
You may have a right to erasure, which is more commonly known as the
‘right to be forgotten’. This means that in certain circumstances you
can require Credosoft to delete personal information held about you.
- Ability to restrict processing:
You may also have the right to require Credosoft to restrict
Credosoft’s use of your personal information in certain circumstances.
This may apply, for example, where you have notified Credosoft that the
information Credosoft holds about you is incorrect and you would like
Credosoft to stop using such information until Credosoft has verified
that it is accurate.
- Right to data portability:
You may have the right to receive personal data Credosoft holds about
you in a format that enables you to transfer such information to
another data controller (e.g. such as another service provider).
- Review by an independent authority: You will always have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory body, including ICO as listed above.
- Preventing direct marketing:
Credosoft does not sell your personal data. From time to time,
Credosoft may send emails containing information about new features and
other news about us. This is considered direct marketing. Credosoft
will always inform you if Credosoft intends to use your personal data
or if Credosoft intends to disclose your information to any third party
for such purposes.
- Objecting to other uses of your information:
You may also have the right to object to Credosoft’s use of your
information in other circumstances. In particular, where you have
consented to Credosoft’s use of your personal data, you have the right
to withdraw such consent at any time.
If you would like further information on how you can exercise these rights, please email us at
silvia.bordoni@credosoft.com
No fee usually required
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.
What we may need from you
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.
Time limit to respond
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.