Privacy Policy
• Policy Prepared By: Apricus Marketing Ltd
• Policy Became Operational On: 1st September 2020
What is this Policy?
This Privacy Policy provides up to date information about how we collect, hold, process and dispose of your personal data. It also explains your rights under the law relating to your personal data.
In this Privacy Policy “we” or “us” refers to Apricus Marketing Ltd.
We are known as the “data controller” of personal information we process. We require information about you to provide our products and collect payments.
For the General Data Protection Regulations 2018, the data controller is: Apricus Marketing Ltd
Company number 12766359
Registered address: Friar Gate Studios, Ford Street, Derby, DE1 1EE.
What is Personal Data?
It is defined as, “any information relating to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified in particular by reference to an identifier”. In other words, any information about you that enables you to be identified. This can include obvious information such as name or contact details, but it also includes identification numbers, electronic location data and other online identifiers.
What are Your Rights?
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), and in certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:
The right to access, update or to delete the information we have on you.
The right of rectification. You have the right to have your information rectified if it is inaccurate or incomplete.
The right to object. You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data. The right of restriction. You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.
The right to data portability. You have the right to be provided with a copy of the information we have on you in a structured, machine-readable and commonly used format.
The right to withdraw consent. You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where Apricus Marketing Ltd relied on your consent to process your personal information.
Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.
You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA).
If you require any further information on our use of your personal data or your rights outlined above, please email info@apricusmarketing.co.uk. This address should also be used if you wish to notify us of data which is inaccurate.
What Personal Data do you Hold?
When you contact us by phone, email, post, social media, in person, or by using the “Contact Us” section of any of our website (www.apricusmarketing.co.uk) we may collect some or all of the following personal data about you:
- Name
- Gender
- Address
- Email Address
- Company Name and Job Title
- Phone Number (inc mobile)
- Billing Address and Payment Details
- Order History
How do we Collect Personal Data?
We obtain personal information directly from you. For example, a “Contact Us” form, an email or a purchase order form. We may obtain some information from 3 rd parties we work closely with. For example, business partners and suppliers. We do not control or supervise how the 3rd parties providing information process your personal data, and any information request regarding the disclosure of your personal information should be directed to those parties.
How do we use your Personal Data?
If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Data we collect and the specific context in which we collect it.
We may process your Personal Data because:
• We need to perform a contract with you
• You have given us permission to do so
• The processing is in our legitimate interests and it’s not overridden by your rights
• To comply with the law
Your personal data will be used for the following purposes:
• Entering a contractual arrangement to supply goods / services to you
• Entering a contractual arrangement to purchase goods / services from you
• Communications required to fulfil contractual obligations
• To collect or send payments as per contractual obligations
• To respond to a complaint
• Legal requirements relating to data protection
• Legal requirements relating to health and safety
• Anti-money laundering and fraud investigations
• Assisting law enforcement
• Any other legal obligations placed on us
With your permission we may use your personal data for marketing purposes, which could include contacting you by email or post with news, information and offers.
How do we Store and Share your Data?
We use strict procedures and security features to prevent unauthorised access to your personal information. We will only store or transfer your personal data in the UK and fully protected under the GDPR.
On few occasions we may be required to share your data with our business partners. These include third party IT providers, payment processing companies and delivery companies.
How Long do we Keep Your Data?
We will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
How Can you Access Your Personal Data?
You can ask for a copy of your personal data (if held). This is known as a “subject access request”. Please email info@apricusmarketing.co.uk with your request.
A Subject Access Request is usually free unless your request is, ‘manifestly unfounded or excessive’. In which case an administration fee may be charged.
We will respond to all requests within 30 days.
Disclosure of Data
Disclosure for Law Enforcement Under certain circumstances, Apricus Marketing Ltd. may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).
Legal Requirements
Apricus Marketing Ltd may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
• To comply with a legal obligation
• To protect and defend the rights or property of Apricus Marketing Ltd.
• To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Services
• To protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public
• To protect against legal liability
Security of Data
The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Your Data Protection Rights Under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Service Providers
We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analysing how our Service is used.
These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
Links to Other Sites
Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the
Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
Cookies
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web site can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about webpage traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any personal information about you.
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.
We may gather information about your general internet use by using the cookie. Where used, these cookies are downloaded to your computer and stored on the computer’s hard drive. Such information will not identify you personally; it is statistical data which does not identify any personal details whatsoever.
You can adjust the settings on your computer to decline any cookies if you wish. This can be done within the “settings” section of your computer. For more information please read the advice at AboutCookies.org.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Children’s Privacy
Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”).
We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Children has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email: info@apricusmarketing.co.uk