XED ONLINE PRIVACY POLICY
XED Online respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy notice will:
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Inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website
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Tell you about your privacy rights
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Tell you how the law protects you
WHAT DO WE COLLECT?
We may collect data about you, how you use our website, and how our website performs when you use them. This may include personal data.
Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:
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Identity data - Includes first name, maiden name, last name, username or similar identifier, marital status, title, date of birth, gender and your Internet Protocol (IP) address.
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Contact data - Includes billing address, postal address, email address and telephone numbers.
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Transaction data - Includes details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from us.
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Technical data - Includes your Internet Protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
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Profile data - Includes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses].
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Usage data - Information on how you use the site, using cookies and page tagging techniques
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Email data - Your email address and subscription preferences when you sign up to any email alerts, newsletters and other XED Onlinemailing lists.
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Email usage - How you use our emails. For example, whether you open them and which links you click on
This data can be viewed by authorised people at XED Online, and trusted partners to:
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Improve the site by monitoring how you use it e.g. pages you visit on the site and browser versions used
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Gather feedback to improve our services
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help us respond to your feedback, if you’ve asked us to
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Send email alerts or newsletters to users who request them
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Allow you to access XED Online services and make transactions
We make every effort to collect data appropriately and restrict monitoring only to parts of our websites.
HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
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Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
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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.
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Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
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To understand the behaviour of visitors to the site. This would include:
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The number of visitors to different areas
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The types of information being searched for via the sites search engine
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To identify any anomalies in site usage
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To evaluate the popularity of news articles
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WHERE WE STORE YOUR DATA
We store your data on secure servers in the European Economic Area (EEA).
Although we make every effort to keep your data in the EEA, we occasionally work with third parties in the United States. In these cases, we ensure they are certified on the EU-US Privacy Shield programme.
Use of third parties where information will be processed outside of the EEA will be identified prior to data being collected and a separate Privacy notice will be provided.
HOW WE KEEP YOUR DATA SECURE
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. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
HOW LONG WILL YOU USE MY PERSONAL DATA FOR?
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.
DISCLOSING MY INFORMATION
We may pass on your personal information if we have a legal obligation to do so, or if we have to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements. We may also share your information with other organisations that carry out marketing, market research for XED Online.
We do not pass on your details to other websites for their own marketing or commercial purposes.
YOUR RIGHTS
You can find out what information we hold about you and ask us not to use the information we collect.
You also have the right to have data erased if it is no longer necessary for the purpose for which it was originally collected/processed, or if there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing. This is sometimes known as ‘the right to be forgotten’.
OPTING OUT
COOKIES
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 our websites may become inaccessible or not function properly.
HOW TO MANAGE COOKIES IN YOUR BROWSER
DIRECT MARKETING
You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time. If you’ve signed up for email alerts, you can unsubscribe or change your settings at any time by selecting the ‘unsubscribe’ link that appears in every email.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
The XED Online website contains links to other websites.
This privacy policy only applies to XED Online (including any sub-domain) and doesn’t cover other websites that we link to. These services, have their own terms and conditions and privacy policies. If you do go to another website from this one, read the privacy policy on that website to find out what it does with your information.
FOLLOWING A LINK TO XED ONLINE FROM ANOTHER WEBSITE
If you come to XED Online website from another website, we may receive information from the other website. You should read the privacy policy of the website you came from to find out more about this.