CREATIVE MERCHANTS ONLINE LTD
Website privacy policy
This website is operated by CREATIVE MERCHANTS ONLINE LTD. The privacy of our users is extremely important to us and therefore we encourage all users to read this policy very carefully because it contains important information regarding:
Who we are
CREATIVE MERCHANTS ONLINE LTD ('we', 'us', 'our') collect, use and are responsible for storing certain personal information about you ('you', 'your', 'yours').
The personal information we collect and use
Personal information is information which you can be identified from (and does not include any anonymised forms of information).
1. Types of personal information
We may process the following types of personal information in relation to you:
name, postcode, email address, phone number
How your personal information is collected
This section describes how the above types of personal information are collected by us. Your personal information will be collected as follows:
1. Personal information obtained from you directly
We will sometimes obtain information from you directly, including when you:
Signing up for alerts to Sound Advice Live events, newsletters and booking a consultation with a Sound Advice expert
2. Personal information obtained by use of cookies or other automated means
We will sometimes obtain information via automated technology. This shall be by use of cookies and other similar technology. A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your computer or electronic device when you access our website. Similar technologies include web beacons, action tags, local shared objects ('flash cookies') and single-pixel gifs. Such technologies can be used to track users' actions and activities, and to store information about them. Usually this will be in order to monitor and obtain information regarding:
How many time a user visits the website, which specific pages they visit, how long they stay on the site, traffic data, location data
On the first occasion that you use our site we will ask whether you consent to our use of cookies and/or other similar processing technologies. If you do not consent, such technologies will not be used. Thereafter you can opt-out of using cookies at any time or you can set your browser not to accept cookies. However, some of our website features may not function as a result.
For further information on our use of cookies and other similar technologies, please see our policy document as described below.
3. Additional sources
We shall collect personal information in relation to you from the following sources:
Personal information will be collected from the booking system for consultations, registering for an email newsletter and information relating to Sound-Advice Live, and any online competitions that appear on the site
4. Changes to the way in which we collect your personal information
In the event that we need to obtain personal information in relation to you from any other source than those described above, we shall notify you of this.
How we use your personal information
1. General purposes
In general, your personal information will generally be processed for the following purposes:
To book an appointment for a consultation with one of our experts and if required, a follow up appointment with a specialised, local retailer
2. Monitoring
We may monitor communications, and in doing so we may obtain your personal information through this process. We will undertake monitoring in the following circumstances:
All calls, emails and consultations will be monitored for quality assurance, training, fraud prevention, compliance and follow up assistance if required
3. Use of your information for marketing purposes
We have described above that one of the general purposes for which your data shall be processed is for our marketing purposes.
We wish to make you aware that you have the right to object or to opt-out of any direct marketing by:
Unsubscribing using the link contained in all emails, contacting us via our email: optout@sound-advice.online
Lawful basis for processing of your personal information
We have described above the purposes for which we may process your personal information. These purposes will at all times be justified by UK data protection law.
1. General lawful bases
The lawful basis upon which we are able to process your personal data are:
(1) where we have your consent to use your data for a specific purpose;
(2) where it is necessary to enter into a legal contract with you or to perform obligations under a legal contract with you;
(3) where it is necessary to enable us to comply with a legal obligation;
(4) where it is necessary to ensure our own legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party (provided that your own interests and rights do not override those interests). Wherever we rely upon this basis, details of the legitimate interests concerned shall be provided to you;
(5) where we need to protect your own vital interests (or the vital interests of another person); and/or
(6) where it is needed in the public interest (or where we are acting in our official functions), provided that the task or function has a clear basis in law.
In general, in order to meet the purposes we have described above, we will process your personal information where we have your express consent on each occasion that the data is processed.
2. Lawful bases specifically applicable to marketing
We will only ever use your personal information to send you marketing directly where we have your explicit consent (which will be obtained in a format separately to this policy).
Sharing of your personal information
On any occasion where any of your personal information is shared with any third party, we shall only permit them to process such information for our required purposes, under our specific instruction, and not for their own purposes. We are required to enter into a formal legal agreement to enable such sharing to take place.
We may ask for your consent to share your information with third parties for marketing purposes. Any such third parties will be specifically identified by name at the time your consent is obtained.
We will not share your personal information with any third parties for marketing purposes without your explicit consent to this.
In order to meet the other purposes listed above, we may also share your information with additional third parties. These third parties will be:
Where we have consent, we will share personal data with manufacturers, distributors and retailers of specific brands that have been covered during the consultations with our experts
Necessity of information
Where information is requested from you and you do not provide this:
You will not be able to access the booking service for arranging a consultation with an expert
We will inform you at the point of collecting information from you, whether you are required to provide the information to us.
How long your personal information will be kept
Your personal information will only be kept for the period of time which is necessary for us to fulfil the above purposes.
We envisage that your personal information shall be retained by us for the following:
Name, postcode, phone number email address: 2 years
After the period described above, your information shall be properly deleted or anonymised.
Keeping your information secure
We will ensure the proper safety and security of your personal information and have measures in place to do so. We will also use technological and organisation measures to keep your information secure. These measures are as follows:
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We are ISO 27001 certified. This certification assists us in ensuring the safety of your personal information.
We have proper procedures in place to deal with any data security breach, which shall be reported and dealt with in accordance with data protection laws and regulations. You shall also be notified of any suspected data breach concerning your personal information.
Children
Our website is not intended for children (anybody under the age of 18). We do not intend to collect data from children.
Your rights
Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation you have a number of important rights free of charge. In summary, those include rights to:
(1) fair processing of information and transparency over how we use your use personal information;
(2) access to your personal information and to certain other supplementary information that this Privacy Statement is already designed to address;
(3) require us to correct any mistakes in your information which we hold;
(4) require the erasure of personal information concerning you in certain situations;
(5) receive the personal information concerning you which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit this information to a third party in certain situations;
(6) object at any time to processing of personal information concerning you for direct marketing;
(7) object to decisions being taken by automated means which produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you;
(8) object in certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal information, or ask us to suspend the processing procedure in order for you confirm its assurance or our reasoning for processing it;
(9) object to processing our your personal information where we are doing so in reliance upon a legitimate interest of our own or of a third party and where you wish to raise to an objection to this particular ground;
(10) otherwise restrict our processing of your personal information in certain circumstances;
(11) claim compensation for damages caused by our breach of any data protection laws; and/or
(12) in any circumstance where we rely upon your consent for processing personal information, you may withdraw this consent at any time.
For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, see the Guidance from the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) on your rights under the General Data Protection Regulations.
If you would like to exercise any of these rights please contact INFO@SOUND-ADVICE.ONLINE in the following manner:
datarequest@sound-advice.online
Your Requirements
If you would like this policy in another format (for example: audio, large print, braille) please contact us using the details below.
Complaints procedure
We hope that we can resolve any query or concern you raise about our use of your information. You can find the procedure outlined under "Not Happy Procedure" on the website.
The UK General Data Protection Regulation also gives you right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority. The supervisory authority in the United Kingdom is the Information Commissioner.
Changes to the privacy policy
This privacy policy was published on 6th June 2022 and last updated on 6th June 2022.
We may change this privacy policy from time to time and will notify you of any changes by:
By email if you have opted in to receive emails
By notice in the privacy policy section of the website
By notice in the Articles section of the website
Contacting us
The relevant person to contact regarding your personal information is: INFO@SOUND-ADVICE.ONLINE.
Any requests or questions regarding the use of your personal information should be made to the above named person using the following method:
datarequest@sound-advice.online
Sources of further Information
This policy provides key information to you regarding the processed of your information. For certain areas of our information processing, we have further comprehensive details contained in other documentation. This information can be located as follows:
sound-advice.online/cookie-policy
