Privacy Policy
Owben 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 when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
1. IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND WHO WE ARE
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Purpose of this privacy notice
This privacy notice aims to give you information on how Owben collects and processes your personal data when you contact us, including any data you may provide through telephone calls, emails, letters or by other means when you engage us to provide you with our services.
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This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.
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It is important that you read this privacy notice together with any other privacy notice or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy notice supplements the other notices and is not intended to override them.
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Controller
Owben Limited is the controller and responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as “Owben”, “the Company”, “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy notice).
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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, please contact the data privacy manager using the details set out below.
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Contact details
Full name of legal entity: Owben Limited
Name of data privacy manager: Andrew Corsar
Email address: andrewcorsar@owben.co.uk
Postal address: Unit 3, NEP Business Park, Stratford Road, Washington, Tyne & Wear, NE38 8QP
Telephone number: +44 (0) 191 447 5230
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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.
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Your duty to inform us of changes
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.
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2. 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 collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together follows:
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Identity Data includes first name, last name and title.
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Contact Data includes billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers.
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Financial Data includes bank account and payment card details.
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Transaction Data includes details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from us.
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Profile Data includes past and current orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses.
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Usage Data includes information about how you use our products and services.
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Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
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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 offenses.
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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 goods or services). In this case, we may have to cancel a product or service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.
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3. HOW IS YOUR PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED?
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
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Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity, Contact and Financial Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
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apply for our products or services;
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create an account on our website;
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subscribe to our service or publications;
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request marketing to be sent to you;
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enter a competition, promotion or survey; or
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give us some feedback.
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Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies.
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Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources as set out below:
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Technical Data from the following parties:-
analytics providers; and
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search information providers based inside the EU.
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Contact, Financial and Transaction Data from providers of technical, payment and delivery services based inside the EU.
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Identity and Contact Data from publicly availably sources such as Companies House and the Electoral Register based inside the EU.
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Professional bodies and insurance companies based inside the EU.
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4. 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:
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Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
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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.
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Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
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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.
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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 contacting 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.
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Purpose/ActivityLawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
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To register you as a new customerPerformance of a contract with you
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To process and deliver your order including: (a) Manage payments, fees and charges (b) Collect and recover money owed to us(a) Performance of a contract with you (b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to recover debts due to us)
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(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)
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To administer and protect our business and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data)(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
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To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to youNecessary 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
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To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and experiencesNecessary for our legitimate interests (to define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our website updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy)
To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to youNecessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our products/services and grow our business)
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Marketing
We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising.
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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 products, services and offers may be relevant for you (we call this marketing).
You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us, purchased goods or engaged our services and, in each case, you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.
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Third-party marketing
We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any company outside Owben for marketing purposes.
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Opting out
You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by contacting us at any time.
Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of a product/service purchase, product/service experience or other transactions.
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Cookies
The cookies we use do not store personally identifiable information nor can they harm your computer.
By using our website, you agree to the use of cookies and other technologies as set out in this policy. Some users may like more control over their visit to our website and can adjust their settings accordingly. If you do not agree to such use, please refrain from using the website.
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We use Google analytics to generate information about the website. To view Google’s Privacy Policy click here. Google will store and use the information from Google analytics.
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To find out more about cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org
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We will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you. However, should you choose to disable, reject or block our cookies, some parts of our website will not function fully, or in some cases, our website will not be accessible at all.
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For more information on how to control your cookie settings and browser settings, or how to delete cookies on your hard drive, please visit www.aboutcookies.org
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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 contacting 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.
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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.
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5. 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.
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External Third Parties as set out in the Glossary.
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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.
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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.
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6. INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS
We do not transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area (EEA) except where expressly stated in our Third Party List below.
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Should circumstances arise in future where we need to transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we will ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:
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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. For further details, see European Commission: Adequacy of the protection of personal data in non-EU countries.
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Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe. For further details, see European Commission: Model contracts for the transfer of personal data to third countries.
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Where we use providers based in the US, we may transfer data to them if they are part of the Privacy Shield which requires them to provide similar protection to personal data shared between the Europe and the US. For further details, see European Commission: EU-US Privacy Shield.
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Service providers acting as processors such as Google Drive based in the US and EEA who provide IT and system administration services.
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Professional advisers acting as processors or joint controllers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers based in the UK who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance and accounting services.
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HM Revenue & Customs, regulators and other authorities acting as processors or joint controllers based in the United Kingdom who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.