Equip Connections Limited is a provider of sales and marketing solutions for businesses operating in both the business to business (B2B), and business to consumer (B2C)sectors. Any personal data held on you may be either personal, or business personal. This Privacy Policy sets out our data processing practices carried throughout the operation of any of our services, including the use of our website(s).
Equip Connections hereon referred to as ‘The Company’ is committed to abiding by this Privacy Policy throughout the operation of its business ensuring that your privacy is protected.
For the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1988 and General Data Protection Act (GDPR) Legislation, the data controller is Direct Market Connections.
This policy is in line with the new GDPR, which came into force on the 25th May 2018.
COOKIES
A cookie is a small amount of data which can often include a unique identifier that is sent to your device’s browser from a website that is stored on your device’s hard drive. The only cookies that are utilised for any of The Companies websites are those used anonymously by Google Analytics and are solely reported for analytical purposes. This anonymous information is used by The Company for the uses of understanding how our website is used, and to improve its efficiency.
Google Analytics stores data on the following
areas:
– Time of Visit
– Amount of time spent on each page of our website
– The browser used
– Network location and IP Address
– Interactions that you may have, I.e. with any widgets, videos, downloadable content.
As these are anonymous cookies, The Company, cannot access any of your personal data and therefore, we ourselves, are not the Data Controller. For any information relating to information gathered from Google Analytics cookies, you would need to contact Google directly. No other forms of cookies are used by The Company.
OUR USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
In accordance with data protection laws, The Company shall only process your personal data where we have a lawful basis in doing so. In respect of any personal data, these bases are as follows:
- Where you have given your consent.
- Where it is in our (or a third party I.e. customer of
The Company’s) legitimate interest to process
your personal data
The Company receives and processes personal data of individuals, and individuals within a business, in a business context to contact them about goods and/or services that may be of interest to the individual. The company also processes this personal data in order to pass it to a third party. This information is processed in accordance with its, and its customers’ legitimate interests.
The Company, uses Personal Information when carrying out our services, primarily; B2C Telemarketing, B2B Telemarketing, B2C Telesales and B2B Telesales, Email Marketing and in some cases Social Media Marketing. In addition to the use of the aforementioned Personal Information.
The Company complies in full with the TPS and CTPS to prevent any unwanted sales and marketing calls and also maintains its own company “Do Not Call List” in line with OfCom regulations. Data held within our “Do Not Call List” solely relates to the Telephone Number that we have contacted you on, and does not relate to any other number, or Personal Information. In an instance of Request of Erasure, as defined later in this Privacy Policy, of your Personal Information, it should be noted that if you wish to not be contacted again, that we, The Company, retain information solely on your Telephone Number kept securely within our “Do Not Call List”. If you, as an individual decline
for us to hold your telephone number on our “Do Not Call List” then we cannot be held liable in the instance of further contact when being supplied data from a third party.
If at any time you wish to find out exactly what information we hold about you and/or your business please feel free to contact us using: equipconnections@outlook.com
DISCLOSURES
The Company shall share your data including personal information with our customers where you have expressed an interest in the products, services or solutions that they offer. We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. Data is transferred safely and securely when being passed on to our clients whereby you have expressed an interest in their services. Any direct enquiries to The Company for our
own services shall not be passed onto any Third Parties.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
Their Privacy Policy may also differ from that of The Company. It is also recommended that where we contact you on behalf of a customer that you review our customer’s privacy policy.
YOUR RIGHTS
With any Personal Information or Data that we hold, there are certain circumstances, by law, that mean you have the right to:
Request erasure of your Personal Information. This right enables you with the power to ask us to delete or remove all, or some, of the Personal Information that we hold on you where there is no good reason for us to continue processing it. With regards to your right of erasure, you also have the right to ask us to delete or remove all, or some, of your information where you have access your right to object to data processing. Where The Company, or those of a third party, are relying on “Legitimate Interest” and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground, and where we do not have compelling legitimate interest to override any
such objection. You also have the right to object where we are processing your Personal Information for the purposes of direct marketing.
Request the restriction of processing all, or some, of your Personal Information. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of Personal Information about you, for example, if you want us to establish the accuracy of your Personal Information, the reason for us processing your Personal Information, before you decide upon your next action, I.e. Correction of Data, or a request of erasure, for example.
Request the transfer of your Personal Information to another party. We may also require that you verify your identity before being able to give effect to any request by you to exercise your rights.
Please note that the rights above are not absolute, and there may be circumstances in which we are unable to comply with your request. In such cases we will explain why we cannot comply.
Any requests should be emailed to:
equipconnections@outlook.com
Equip Connections 