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PRIM Fleet Standards Privacy Policy

 

We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our customers and other website visitors. This policy explains how we handle your personal data.

 

How we use your personal data

This section provides you with details about:

• What personal data we may process

• In the case of personal data that we did not obtain directly from you, where we obtained that data from, and what types of data we have collected

• The purposes for which we may process your personal data

• The legal grounds on which we process your data

 

Account Data

We may process the personal data that you have provided to us when your register on behalf of your organisation so that we can set up the account with us ("account data"). The account data may include your name and email address. 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.

 

We may also share the account data with our partner organisations, and process your account data to facilitate finding you suitable services. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests in finding an appropriate service for requirements.

If you consent to us doing so, we will pass your account data to those relevant organisations. 

Where you have given us your information for the purposes detailed above, we will enter the account data into our central database (“CRM”). The legal basis for this is our legitimate interests in maintaining a viable database.

 

 

Profile Data

We may process other information that you provide to us ("profile data"). This profile data may include Organisation name, address, telephone number, email address, invoice details, and company background.  The profile data may be processed for the purposes of enabling and monitoring your use of our website and services. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests.

 

We may also process your profile data in relation to services that you have expressed interest in, generally processing any service requests, facilitating the business process and furthering our relationship with you. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests in finding an appropriate service. 

We may consider you for services that you did not specifically request but which we think might be a good fit for your organisation. We may also share your profile data with our partner organisations, and process your account data to facilitate finding you suitable service. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests in finding an appropriate service.

 

We will then ask you if you would like to be put forward for such services. If you consent to us doing so, we will pass your account data to those relevant organisations. 

Where you have given us consent to process your information for the purposes detailed above, we will enter the profile data into our central database (“CRM”). The legal basis for this is our legitimate interest in maintaining a viable database.

 

Contact Data

We may collect your details from third-party sources, this information may include your name, email address or telephone number (“contact data”). We may do this where we identify that you are suitable for a provided service. We may use the contact data to contact you to ask whether you would like us to provide you with services. Our use of the contact data in these circumstances is limited to making contact with you to determine whether you are interested in receiving our services. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interest as a business to maintain a database.

 

Usage Data

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.

 

Enquiry Data

We may process information contained in any enquiry you submit to us regarding our services ("enquiry data"). The enquiry data may be processed for the purposes of offering, marketing and selling relevant products and/or services to you.

The legal basis for this processing is consent.

 

Transaction Data

We may process information relating to any payments made to you through our website ("transaction data"). The transaction data may include your contact details, your bank account details, and the transaction details. The transaction data may be processed for the purposes of processing these payments and keeping proper records of those transactions.

The legal basis for this processing is the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps, at your request, to enter into such a contract and our legitimate interests, namely our interest in the proper administration of our website and business.

 

Notification Data

We may process information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our email notifications, for example, 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.

 

Correspondence Data

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.

 

Other Processing Activities

In addition to the specific purposes for which we may process your personal data set out above, 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.

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

 

Providing Your Personal Data to Others

 

To our group companies. 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 set out in this policy.

Our insurers/professional advisers. We may disclose your personal data to our insurers and/or professional advisers insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes of obtaining and maintaining insurance coverage, managing risks, obtaining professional advice and managing legal disputes.

Our clients/partner agencies. We may disclose your profile data and account data to our clients and our partner agencies insofar as reasonably necessary in relation to potential services.

Where we provide your personal data to any third party. Where we share your personal data with any third party, we will ensure this processing is protected by appropriate safeguards including a suitable data processing agreement with that third party.

To comply with legal obligations. In addition to the specific disclosures of personal data detailed above, we may also disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation we have to comply with, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another individual.

 

Transfers of Your Personal Data Outside of the European Economic Area

Where your personal data is transferred outside of the EEA, we will ensure that either (a) The European Commission has made an "adequacy decision" with respect to the data protection laws of the country to which it is transferred, or (b) we have entered into a suitable data processing agreement with the third party situated in that country to ensure the adequate protection of your data. Transfers outside of the EEA will be protected by appropriate safeguards.

You acknowledge that personal data that you submit for publication through our website or services may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use (or misuse) of such personal data by others.

 

Retaining and Deleting Personal Data

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. We will retain and delete your personal data in accordance with our Data Retention Policy.

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.

 

Amendments

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

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

We may notify you of changes to this policy by email.

 

Your rights

 You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; provision of such information will be subject to:

• Your request not being found to be unfounded or excessive, in which case a charge may apply; and

• The supply of appropriate evidence of your identity (for this purpose, we will usually accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a solicitor or bank plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address).

• We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.

• You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.

• In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt-out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.

 

The rights you have under data protection law are:

 

• the right to access;

• the right to rectification;

• the right to erasure;

• the right to restrict processing;

• the right to object to processing;

• the right to data portability;

• the right to complain to a supervisory authority; and

• the right to withdraw consent.

 

Your Right to Access Your Data

You have the right to ask us to confirm whether or not we process your personal data and, to have access to the personal data, and any additional information. That additional information includes the purposes for which we process your data, the categories of personal data we hold and the recipients of that personal data. You may request a copy of your personal data. The first copy will be provided free of charge, but we may charge a reasonable fee for additional copies.

 

Your Right to Rectification

If we hold any inaccurate personal data about you, you have the right to have these inaccuracies rectified. Where necessary for the purposes of the processing, you also have the right to have any incomplete personal data about you completed.

 

Your Right to Erasure

In certain circumstances, you have the right to have personal data that we hold about you erased. This will be done without undue delay. These circumstances include the following: it is no longer necessary for us to hold those personal data in relation to the purposes for which they were originally collected or otherwise processed; you withdraw your consent to any processing which requires consent; the processing is for direct marketing purposes, and the personal data have been unlawfully processed. However, there are certain general exclusions of the right to erasure, including where processing is necessary: for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information; For compliance with a legal obligation; or for establishing, exercising or defending legal claims.

 

Your Right to Restrict Processing

In certain circumstances, you have the right to the processing of your personal data to be restricted. This is the case where: you do not think that the personal data we hold about you is accurate; your data is being processed unlawfully, but you do not want your data to be erased; it is no longer necessary for us to hold your personal data for the purposes of our processing, but you still require that personal data in relation to a legal claim; and you have objected to processing, and are waiting for that objection to be verified. Where processing has been restricted for one of these reasons, we may continue to store your personal data. However, we will only process it for other reasons: with your consent; in relation to a legal claim; for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person; or for reasons of important public interest.

 

Your Right to Object to Processing

You can object to us processing your personal data on grounds relating to your particular situation, but only as far as our legal basis for the processing is that it is necessary for: the performance of a task carried out in the public interest, or in the exercise of any official authority vested in us; or the purposes of our legitimate interests or those of a third party. If you make an objection, we will stop processing your personal information unless we are able to: demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing, and that these legitimate grounds override your interests, rights, and freedoms; or the processing is in relation to a legal claim.

 

Your Right to Object to Direct Marketing

You can object to us processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. If you make an objection, we will stop processing your personal data for this purpose.

 

Automated Data Processing

To the extent that the legal basis we are relying on for processing your personal data is consent, and where the processing is automated, you are entitled to receive your personal data from us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. However, you may not have this right if it would adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.

 

Complaining to a Supervisory Authority

If you think that our processing of your personal data infringes data protection laws, you can lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection. You may do this in the EU member state of your habitual residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement.

 

Right to Withdraw Consent

To the extent that the legal basis we are relying on for processing your personal data is consent, you are entitled to withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of processing before the withdrawal.

Exercising your Rights

You may exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal data by written notice to us in addition to the other methods specified above.

 

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Our Details

This website is owned and operated by PRIM Fleet Standards.

We are registered in England and Wales under registration number  12385074

 

You can contact us:

Using our website contact form

By telephone, on the contact number published on our website

by email, using the email address published on our website

Data protection officer:

Our data protection officer can be contacted via email: team@primfleetstandards.co.uk, or telephone: 0117 2794417

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