n4d.group Privacy Policy – Last updated May 2020 

N4D is committed to safeguarding the privacy of clients while providing the highest possible quality of service. Web manager at N4D is the data controller (referred to as “we”, “us” or “our”) and we are responsible for your personal data in this privacy notice.

This privacy notice provides you with details of how we collect and process personal data through the use of our site www.n4d.group, including any information you may provide through our site when you purchase a product or service, sign up to any newsletters, webinars or other resources. By providing us with your data, you warrant to us that you are over 13 years of age.

We will only use the information collected about you lawfully (in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998). If you have any questions or requests relating to the use of your personal information or queries with regard to our practices please contact, connect@n4d.group.

It is very important that the information we hold about you is accurate and up to date. Please let us know if at any time your personal information changes by emailing us at connect@n4d.group.

If you are not happy with any aspect of how we collect and use your data, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). However, if you do have a complaint, please consider contacting us first so that we can do everything we can to resolve it for you. 

Our contact details are as follows: connect@n4d.group

COLLECTION OF YOUR DATA: PURPOSE AND PROCESSING 

Personal data means any information capable of identifying any individual. It does not include anonymised data.

We may process certain types of personal data about you as follows: 

Technical Data may include your login data, internet protocol addresses, browser type and version, browser plug-in types and versions, time zone setting and location, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this site. We process this data to analyse your use of our website and other online services, to administer and protect our business and website, to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and to understand the effectiveness of our advertising. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests, which in this case are to enable us to administer our website and our business, and to grow our business through effective communication.

Customer Data may include your first name, maiden name, last name, marital status, title, date of birth, gender, billing address, delivery address, username and password, purchases or orders, your bank or card details, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses. We process this data to supply the goods and/or services you have purchased and to keep records of such transactions. Our lawful ground for this processing is to perform a contract between you and us; and/or the taking of steps, at your request, to enter into such a contract.

Usage Data may include information about how you use our website, products and services. We process this data to operate our website and ensure relevant content is provided to you, to ensure the security of our website, to maintain back- ups of our website and/or databases, and to enable publication and administration of our website, other online services and business. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests, which in this case are to enable us to properly administer our website and our business.

Communications Data may include any communication that you send to us, whether that be through the contact form on our website, through email, social media messaging, social media posting or any other communication that you send us. We process this data for the purposes of communicating with you and for record keeping. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests, which in this case are to reply to communications sent to us and to keep records.

Marketing Data may include your preferences in receiving marketing communications from us and our third parties, and your communication preferences. We process this data to enable you to partake in our promotions such as free resources and competitions, to deliver relevant website and social media content to you, and to measure and understand the effectiveness of our advertising. Our lawful ground for processing is our legitimate interests, which in this case are to measure and understand how customers are using our products/services, to develop them, and to grow our business through effective marketing.

We may also process Aggregated Data from your personal data. This data does not reveal your identity and as such in itself is not personal data. An example of this is where we review your usage Data to work out the percentage of website users using a specific feature of our site. If we link the Aggregated Data with your personal data so that you can be identified from it, then it is treated as personal data. Our lawful ground for this processing is legitimate interests, which is to grow our business. We may also use such data to send other marketing communications to you. Our lawful ground for this processing is either consent or legitimate interests (namely to grow our business). 

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, and information about criminal convictions and offences. We do not collect any Sensitive Data about you.

HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We collect data about you through a variety of different methods including:

1) Direct interactions: You may provide data by filling in forms on our site (or otherwise) or communicating with us by post, phone, email or otherwise, including when you:

• Order our products or services;
• Create an account on our site
• Subscribe to our service or publications;
• Request resources or marketing be sent to you;
• Enter a competition, prize draw, promotion or survey; or
• Give us feedback

2) Automated technologies or interactions. As you use our site, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and usage patterns. We collect this data by using cookies, server logs and similar technologies. We may also receive Technical Data about you if you visit other websites that use our cookies. Please see our cookie policy for further details.

3) Third parties or publicly available sources: We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources as set out below:

• analytics providers (such as Google) based outside the EU; and
• advertising networks (such as Facebook) based outside the EU.

HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We will only use your personal data when legally permitted. The most common uses of your personal data are:

• Where we need to perform the contract between us.
• 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.
• Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

Generally, we do not rely on consent as 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 emailing us at info@n4d.group.

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 at info@n4d.group if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your personal data.

You will 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 when you entered a competition or registered for a promotion or free resources, and if, in each case, you have not opted out of receiving that marketing. We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any third party for marketing purposes. You can ask us, or third parties, to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by emailing us at connect@n4d.group at any time. 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.

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 find out more about how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please email us at connect@n4d.group. 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 for processing. We may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent where this is required or permitted by law.

DISCLOSURES OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below:

• Service providers who provide IT and system administration services.
• Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers.
• Government bodies that require us to report processing activities.
• Third parties to whom we sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets.

We require all third parties to whom we transfer your data to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We only allow such third parties to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS

Countries outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) do not always offer the same levels of protection to your personal data so European law has prohibited transfers of personal data outside of the EEA unless the transfer meets certain criteria. Many of our third parties service providers are based outside the European Economic Area (EEA) so their processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data outside the EEA. Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we do our best to ensure a similar degree of security of data by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is in place:

• We will only transfer your personal data to countries that the European Commission have approved as providing an adequate level of protection for personal data by; or
• Where we use certain service providers; we may use specific contracts or codes of conduct or certification mechanisms approved by the European Commission that give personal data the same protection it has in Europe; or
• If we use US-based providers that are part of EU-US Privacy Shield; we may transfer data to them, as they have equivalent safeguards in place.

If none of the above safeguards is available, we may request your explicit consent to the specific transfer. You will have the right to withdraw this consent at any time.

DATA SECURITY

We have put in place security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, altered, disclosed, or accessed without authorisation. We also allow access to your personal data only to those employees and partners who have a business need to know such data. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they must keep it confidential. We have procedures in place to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach if we are legally required to.

DATA RETENTION

We will only retain your personal data for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. When deciding upon the correct length of time to keep data for, we look at its amount, nature and sensitivity, potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure, the processing purposes, and if these can be achieved by other means and legal requirements. For tax purposes the law requires us to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for six years after they stop being customers. In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data for research or statistical purposes, in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS

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 learn more about these rights at

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/individual-rights/

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please email us at contact@n4d.group. 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, or 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. On occasion, if your request is particularly complex, or you have made a number of requests, it may take us longer than a month. If this is the case, we will notify you. If you are not happy with any aspect of how we collect and use your data, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK’s supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). If you do have a complaint, please contact us first so that we can try to resolve it for you.

THIRD-PARTY LINKS  

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.

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