Privacy Policy

1.       Introduction

1.1    We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors and service users.

1.2    This policy applies where we are acting as a data controller with respect to the personal data of our website visitors and service users; in other words, where we determine the purposes and means of the processing of that personal data.

1.3    We will ask you to consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our website.  By using our website you agree to the terms of this policy.

1.4    In this policy, "we", "us" and "our" refer to Ribston Limited (company number: 09898152).  For more information about us, see Section 11.

2.       How we use your personal data

2.1    In this Section 2 we have set out:

(a)    the general categories of personal data that we may process;

(b)    in the case of personal data that we did not obtain directly from you, the source and specific categories of that data;

(c)    the purposes for which we may process personal data; and

(d)    the legal bases of the processing.

2.2    We may process data about your use of our website and services ("usage data").  The usage data may include your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths, as well as information about the timing, frequency and pattern of your service use.  The source of the usage data is our analytics tracking system.  This usage data may be processed for the purposes of analysing the use of the website and services.  The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely monitoring and improving our website and services.

2.3    We may process your account data ("account data").  The account data may include your name and email address.  The source of the account data is you or your employer.  The account data may be processed for the purposes of operating our website, providing our services, ensuring the security of our website and services, maintaining back-ups of our databases and communicating with you.  The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business.

2.4    We may process your personal data that are provided in the course of the use of our services ("service data").  The service data may include your name, email address, contact telephone number, company information, address.  The source of the service data is you or your employer.  The service data may be processed for the purposes of operating our website, providing our services, ensuring the security of our website and services, maintaining back-ups of our databases and communicating with you.  The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business.

2.5    We may process information that you post for publication on our website or through our services ("publication data").  The publication data may be processed for the purposes of enabling such publication and administering our website and services.  The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business.

2.6    We may process information contained in any enquiry you submit to us regarding goods and/or services ("enquiry data").  The enquiry data may be processed for the purposes of offering, marketing and selling relevant goods and/or services to you.  The legal basis for this processing is consent.

2.7    We may process information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our email notifications and/or newsletters ("notification data").  The notification data may be processed for the purposes of sending you the relevant notifications and/or newsletters.  The legal basis for this processing is consent.

2.8   We may process information contained in or relating to any communication that you send to us ("correspondence data").  The correspondence data may include the communication content and metadata associated with the communication.  Our website will generate the metadata associated with communications made using the website contact forms.  The correspondence data may be processed for the purposes of communicating with you and record-keeping.  The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business and communications with users.

2.9 We may process any of your personal data identified in this policy where necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.  The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the protection and assertion of our legal rights, your legal rights and the legal rights of others.

2.10   We may process any of your personal data identified in this policy where necessary for the purposes of obtaining or maintaining insurance coverage, managing risks, or obtaining professional advice.  The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper protection of our business against risks.

2.11  In addition to the specific purposes for which we may process your personal data set out in this Section 2, we may also process any of your personal data where such processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.

2.12   Please do not supply any other person's personal data to us, unless we prompt you to do so.

 

3.       Providing your personal data to others

3.1    We may disclose your personal data to any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries) insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes, and on the legal bases, set out in this policy.  We may also share data to any third party to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them.  If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy notice.

 

3.2    We may disclose your personal data to our insurers and/or professional advisers insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes of obtaining or maintaining insurance coverage, managing risks, obtaining professional advice, or the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.

 

3.3    We may disclose specific personal data category or categories to our suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary.

 

3.4    We may disclose your enquiry data to one or more of those selected third party suppliers of goods and services identified on our website for the purpose of enabling them to contact you so that they can offer, market and sell to you relevant goods and/or services.  Each such third party will act as a data controller in relation to the enquiry data that we supply to it; and upon contacting you, each such third party will supply to you a copy of its own privacy policy, which will govern that third party's use of your personal data.

3.5   In addition to the specific disclosures of personal data set out in this Section 3, we may disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.  We may also disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.

4.       Retaining and deleting personal data

4.1    This Section 4 sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal data.

 

4.2    Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.

 

4.3    We will retain your personal data for as long as the data is reasonably required as per the original purpose of collection, in accordance with data protection laws.

 

4.4    In some cases it is not possible for us to specify in advance the periods for which your personal data will be retained.  In such cases, we will determine the period of retention based on the following criteria:

(a)    the period of retention of personal data will be determined based on the purpose of collection.

 

4.5    Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 4, we may retain your personal data where such retention is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.

5.       Amendments

5.1    We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.

 

5.2    You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.

 

5.3    We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private messaging system on our website.

6.       Your rights

6.1    Under data protection laws you have a number of important rights.  In summary, those include rights to:

·            fair processing of information and transparency over how we use your use personal information;

·            access to your personal information and to certain other supplementary information that this policy is already designed to address;

·            require us to correct any mistakes in your information which we hold;

·            require the erasure of personal information concerning you in certain situations;

·            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 those data to a third party in certain situations;

·            object at any time to processing of personal information concerning you for direct marketing;

·            object to decisions being taken by automated means which produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you;

·            object in certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal information;

·            otherwise restrict our processing of your personal information in certain circumstances; and

·            claim compensation for damages caused by our breach of any data protection laws.

6.2    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 individual's rights under data protection laws.

6.3    If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please:

·            email us using the contact details below;

·            let us have enough information to identify you (eg account number, user name, registration details);

·            let us have proof of your identity and address (a copy of your driving licence or passport and a recent utility or credit card bill), and

·            let us know the information to which your request relates, including any account or reference numbers, if you have them.

7.       About cookies

7.1    A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser.  The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

 

7.2    Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

 

7.3    Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

8.    Cookies that we use

8.1  Our preference centre includes a full list of cookies we use together with the ability to consent to their use.  We use cookies for the following purposes:

(a)    authentication - we use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website;

(b)    status - we use cookies to help us to determine if you are logged into our website;

(c)    personalisation - we use cookies to store information about your preferences and to personalise the website for you;

(d)    security - we use cookies as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website and services generally;

(e)    analysis - we use cookies to help us to analyse the use and performance of our website and services; and

(f)    cookie consent - we use cookies to store your preferences in relation to the use of cookies more generally.

9.    Cookies used by our service providers

9.1   Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website. Please check our preference centre for a full breakdown of cookies used. Some examples of cookies we use are explained more fully here.

 

9.2  We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website.  Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies.  The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google's privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

 

9.3  We use Squarespace analytics to analyse the use of our website.  Squarespace analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies.  The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website.  Squarespace’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.squarespace.com/privacy/?_ga=2.22064700.660632042.1689968099-1510401329.1687354778&_ics=1689968110709&clickid=~ehlb3W0URNV013WQUV17YOPOHxnoja575XNEFvwmfc74XWRQPNJA.

 

9.4  We publish Google AdSense interest-based advertisements on our website.  These are tailored by Google to reflect your interests.  To determine your interests, Google will track your behaviour on our website and on other websites across the web using cookies.  To determine your interests, Google will track your behaviour on our website and on other websites across the web using cookies.  This behaviour tracking allows Google to tailor the advertisements that you see on other websites to reflect your interests (but we do not publish interest-based advertisements on our website).  You can view, delete or add interest categories associated with your browser by visiting: https://adssettings.google.com.  You can also opt out of the AdSense partner network cookie using those settings or using the Network Advertising Initiative's multi-cookie opt-out mechanism at: http://optout.networkadvertising.org.  However, these opt-out mechanisms themselves use cookies, and if you clear the cookies from your browser your opt-out will not be maintained.  To ensure that an opt-out is maintained in respect of a particular browser, you may wish to consider using the Google browser plug-ins available at: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/7395996.

10.     Managing cookies

10.1  Please use our preference centre to manage the cookies that we place on our website. The preference centre will give full details of the cookies that are used on our website.

 

10.2  Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.

 

10.3  If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.

11.     Our details

11.1  This website is owned and operated by Ribston Limited.

 

11.2  We are registered in England and Wales under registration number 09898152, and our registered office is at Unit 402, 4th Flr, Vox Studios, 1-45 Durham Street, Vauxhall, London, SE11 5JH.

 

11.3  Our principal place of business is at Unit 402, 4th Flr, Vox Studios, 1-45 Durham Street, Vauxhall, London, SE11 5JH.

 

11.4  You can contact us:

(a)    by post, to the postal address given above;

(b)    using our website contact form;

(c)    by telephone, on the contact number published on our website from time to time; or

(d)    by email, using the email address published on our website from time to time.