Welcome to the Brighton Really Useful Little Ideas Company Ltd’s (BRULIC) privacy policy.
BRULIC respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you interact with us and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact James Pitman via our registered address which can be found in the contact section or using the email address at the bottom of this document.
You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the
Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues. We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO, so please contact us in the first instance.
We keep our privacy policy under regular review. This version was last updated in June 2020.
THE DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU
Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. We may collect, use and store the following data:
- Identity data (title and name).
- Contact data (address, email address and telephone numbers).
- Transaction data (details about payments from you and other details of anything you have purchased or licensed from us).
We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data.
HOW IS YOUR PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED?
We collect data from and about you via direct interactions. You may give us your identity, contact and financial data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise.
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:
- Where we need to perform the contract we may enter into or have entered into with you.
- 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 obligation.
Purposes for which we will use your personal data
We have set out below, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.
Purpose/Activity
To register you as a new client
Type of data
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
Performance of a contract with you
Purpose/Activity
To process and deliver the services including:
(a) Manage payments, fees and charges
(b) Collect and recover money owed to us
Type of data
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Transaction
(d) Licensing data
Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to recover debts due to us)
Purpose/Activity
To manage our relationship with you which will include:
(a) Notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy
(b) Asking you to provide references
(c) Asking you to identify third parties who may be licensed to use our technology
Type of data
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
(c) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products/services)
Change of purpose
We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which it was collected, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose.
Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge and consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.
DISCLOSURES OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We may share your personal data with our accountants and relevant tax authorities for tax purposes (necessary for our legitimate interests). We will not share your data with anyone else.
We will not transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area (EEA).
DATA SECURITY
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.
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.
DATA RETENTION
How long will you use my personal data for?
By law we have to keep basic information about our clients (including Contact, Identity and Transaction Data) for six years after they cease being clients for tax purposes.
In some circumstances, you can ask us to delete your data: see below for further information.
LEGAL RIGHTS
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data.
You have the right to:
Request access to your personal data. This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected.
Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it.
Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms.
Request restriction of processing of your personal data.
Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party.
Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data.
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