Privacy Policy
Datamere the ‘Site’ is committed to protecting your privacy. This privacy policy explains data collection and use practices of the companies websites; it does not apply to other offline products or services. By accessing the Site, you are consenting to the information collection and use practices described in this privacy statement. Other websites maintained by partners and linked to from this site will have their own privacy statement and any data you enter on these sites will be subject to those statements.
We take your privacy seriously and will only use your personal information to administer your account and to provide the products and services you have requested from us. We will never sell, share or use your personal information other than as described here.
Datamere Software is a software development company which specialises in the utility sector and also provides back office support for licenced energy suppliers.
About This Privacy Policy
This policy sets out how we will use and share the information that you give us. This policy describes your relationship with Datamere Software Ltd.
Who We Are And How To Contact Us
Datamere Software Ltd is a trading name of Datamere Software Ltd that is registered in England and is registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office under the Data Protection Act 1998. The data controller is: Julie Jones-Ford. You can get in touch with us in any of the following ways:
Email: julie@datamere.co.uk
Phone: 01625 525033
Website: www.datamere.co.uk
Post: 5 The Courtyard, 2 Finney Lane, Heald Green, Cheadle, SK8 3GZ
How to change your preferences
You can contact us to change your preferences at any time.
How we operate
We operate in line with EU GDPR (May 2018) data protection guidelines. We are committed to maintaining your personal rights and allow all users to change or withdraw their opt-in options at any time. We will also advise you on how to complain to the relevant authorities, namely the Information Commissioner’s Office should we be unable to assist you.
Who this privacy policy applies to
Datamere Software Ltd is a Software Development company. This policy relates to users of Datamere Software Ltd’s products and services. Processing of your data is required in order to offer you these services. This policy applies to individuals who have registered with Datamere Software Ltd as either a customer, user, administrator, or in any other capacity.
Sensitive Data
We do not collect any Sensitive Data about you. Sensitive data refers to data that 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. We do not collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.
What this policy applies to
This section describes the lawful basis for processing your data and applies to the information about yourself that you choose to provide us with or that you allow us to collect. This includes (as a customer):
· Information you provide during the registration process
· Information you provide when you create campaigns
· Information you provide in the form of number data, messages or meta-data
· Information we collect about how you use the website
· Information relating to purchases and other transactions
· Information given and stored as part of our ongoing relationship
Scope of Consent
By submitting your personal data on this site, you are affirming your explicit consent for such information to be used in accordance with this privacy policy. You will be able to withdraw that consent at any time by the methods described.
Opting out at a later date
Once you have given your consent, you can amend or withdraw your consent at any time. You can also choose to object to processing at any time. We respect all user rights as defined in GDPR. If you have any comments or wish to complain please visit Datamere Software Ltd or contact us any time by one of the methods listed above.
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. These include the right to:
· Request access to your personal data
· Request correction of your personal data
· Request erasure of your personal data
· Object to processing of your personal data
· Request restriction of processing your personal data
· Request transfer of your personal data
· Right to withdraw consent.
You can see more about these rights at: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/individual-rights/
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.
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.
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.
How we store and process your data
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.
Your account data will be collected stored and processed in the UK only. Your data will be stored for 3 years your last recorded login attempt. In order to provide updates and offers that may be of interest to you we use recognised third parties to take payment, manage our company accounts and provide banking services. We will store transactions, payment and order data for up to 7 years or for as long as required by UK financial and company regulations. These third parties may operate outside the EU.
We do not store any sensitive data
Our obligations
We are a data controller and processor. In relation to the information that you provide to us, we are legally responsible for how that information is handled. We will comply with the Data Protection Act 1998 and the GDPR (2018) in the way we use and share your personal data. Among other things, this means that we will only use your personal data:
· Fairly and lawfully
· As set out in the legislation and this policy
· To the extent necessary for these purposes
We will process your personal data ourselves as the data processor. We will take reasonable precautions to safeguard the personal information that you supply.
Datamere Software Ltd may from time to time use your information for marketing, account management or relationship management purposes. The main purpose of this is to provide you with information about goods and services which we think may be of interest to you and/or to maintain any existing relationship we may have with you.
Generally, we do not rely on consent as a legal ground for processing your personal data, other than in relation to sending marketing communications to you via email or text message. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us.
Set out below is a description of the ways we intend to use your personal data and the legal grounds on which we will process such data. We have also explained what our legitimate interests are where relevant.
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 email 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/ActivityType of dataLawful basis for processing
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 find out more about how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please email us.
If we need to use your personal data for a purpose unrelated to the purpose for which we collected the data, we will notify you and we will explain the legal ground of processing.
We may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent where this is required or permitted by law.
Marketing Communications
You may receive marketing communications from us if you have:
· Requested information from us or purchased goods or services from us; or
· If you provided us with your details and ticked the box at the point of entry of your details for us to send you marketing communications; and
· In each case, you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.
You can ask us, or third parties, to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by emailing us. Where you opt out of receiving our marketing communications, this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of a product/service purchase, warranty registration, product/service experience or other transactions.
Third Parties
Your data is not shared with any third parties other than as described here.
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 such data. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We will report any breaches or potential breaches to the appropriate authorities within 24 hours and to anyone affected by a breach within 72 hours. If you have any queries or concerns about your data usage please contact us.
This website 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.
If you have any queries or concerns about your data usage please contact us.
Legitimate Interests
Under the Data Protection Act, we are also permitted to share some information with third parties who use such data for non-marketing purposes (including credit and risk assessment and management, identification and fraud prevention, debt collection and returning assets to you).
Contacting us, exercising your information rights and Complaints
If you any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, wish to exercise your information rights in connection with the personal data you have shared with us or wish to complain, please contact: The Data Protection Officer at Datamere Software Ltd. We will process SARs within 30 days, SAR responses are usually free but we reserve the right to charge for excessive or unfounded requests. We fully comply with Data Protection legislation and will assist in any investigation or request made by the appropriat
Collection of your Personal Information
We will ask you when we need information that personally identifies you (personal information) or allows us to contact you to provide a service or carry out a transaction that you have requested such as receiving information about Datamere’s products and services. The personal information we collect may include your name, title, company or organization name, work e-mail, work phone, work or home address, information about your job function and information about your company.
The Site may collect certain information about your visit, such as the name of the Internet service provider and the Internet Protocol (IP) address through which you access the Internet; the date and time you access the Site; the pages that you access while at the Site and the Internet address of the Web site from which you linked directly to our site. This information is used to help improve the site, analyze trends and administer the site.
Use of your Personal Information
The personal information collected on this Site will be used to operate the Site and to provide the service(s) or carry out the transaction(s) you have requested or authorized.
In support of these uses, Datamere Software may use personal information to provide you with more effective customer service, to improve the Site and any related Datamere products or services, and to make the Site easier to use by eliminating the need for you to repeatedly enter the same information or by customizing the Site to your particular preference or interests.
We may, with your permission, send you information about other Datamere products and services, and/or share information with Datamere partners so they may send you information about their products and services.
Datamere Software may use other companies to provide services under the Datamere Software brand. We will only provide those companies with the personal information they need to deliver the service. They are required to maintain the confidentiality of the information and are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.
Datamere Software may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Datamere or the Site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Datamere and its web site; or (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of Datamere's employees or agents, users of Datamere’s products or services, or members of the public.
Control of your Personal Information
Except as otherwise described in this statement, personal information you provide on the Site will not be shared outside of Datamere Software and its' controlled subsidiaries and partners without your permission. As described below in the next section, you can access your personal information and make choices about how you wish to be contacted.
Access to your Personal Information
You can review and edit the personal information and contact preferences you provided at this Site by logging where you have been provided with these details and by contacting us by email or phone.
Security of your Personal Information
Datamere Software is committed to protecting the security of your personal information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure.
Use of Cookies
We use cookies on this Site to ensure the integrity of the registration process and to personalize the Site. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a Web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. For example, if you personalise a web page, or navigate within a site, a cookie helps the site to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of delivering relevant content, eases site navigation, and so on. When you return to the Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the site’s features that you customised.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of this or other Web sites you visit.
Last Updated January 2018
CONTACTING DATAMERE
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or any other matter relating to Datamere or the data retention from Datamere you may contact us at support@datamere.co.uk