This Privacy Policy sets out how we, www.local-businesses.co.uk, collect, store and use information about you when you use or interact with our website, www.local-businesses.co.uk (our website) and where we otherwise obtain or collect information about you. This Privacy Policy is effective from 22nd July, 2020.
UNIC Softech Ireland Limited T/A local-businesses (we, our and us) operates the website.
UNIC Softech Ireland Limited T/A local-businesses is an online business directory based in Ireland. Our mailing address is 6-9 Trinity Street Dublin 2 D02 EY47.
We collect and use information from individuals who contact us in accordance with this section.
Email
When you send an email to the email address displayed on our website we collect your email address and any other information you provide in that email.
Contact Form
When you contact us using our contact form, we collect name, email address, and IP address. We also collect any other information you provide to us when you complete the contact form including any optional information, such as phone number or company name.
If you do not provide the mandatory information required by our contact form, you will not be able to submit the contact form and we will not receive your enquiry.
Post
If you contact us by post, we will collect any information you provide to us in any postal communications you send us.
Post
If you contact us by post, we will collect any information you provide to us in any postal communications you send us.
We collect and use information from individuals who interact with particular features of our website in accordance with this section.
E-Newsletter
When you sign up for our e-newsletter on our website or opt to receive news, offers from us by entering the name and email address and clicking subscribe or ticking a box at checkout indicating that you would like to receive your e-newsletter, we collect name and email address.
Registering on our website
When you register and create an account on our website, we collect the following information: name, email address, IP address, mailing address, contact and any other information you provide to us when you complete the registration form, including any optional information, such as phone number or company name
If you do not provide the mandatory information required by the registration form, you will not be able to register or create an account on our website.
We collect and use information from individuals who place an order on our website in accordance with this section.
Mandatory information
When you place an order for goods or services on our website, we collect your name, email address, billing address, delivery address, picture, location, and any other mandatory information you collect from customers at checkout.
If you do not provide this information, you will not be able to purchase goods or services from us on our website or enter into a contract with us.
Optional information
We also collect optional information from you, such as your phone number and any additional optional information at checkout. We also ask you if you would like to receive marketing communications from us. For further information, see ‘Marketing communications’ in this section below.
Processing your payment
After you place an order on our website you will need to make payment for the goods or services you have ordered. In order to process your payment we use a third party payment processor, your payment will be processed by the third party payment processor you choose to process your payment.
The third party payment processor choose to process your payment collects, uses and processes your information, including payment information, in accordance with their privacy policies. You can access their privacy policies.
Marketing communications
At checkout you will have the option of receiving marketing communications from us.
This section sets out how we obtain or collect information about you from third parties.
Information received from third parties
Generally, we do receive information about you from third parties. The third parties from which we receive information about you will generally include Apple and Google.
It is also possible that third parties with whom we have had no prior contact may provide us with information about you.
Information we obtain from third parties will generally be your name and contact details, but will include any additional information about you which they provide to us. Please contact at info@local-businesses.co.uk to remove or edit your data.
If we receive information about you from a third party in error and/or we do not have a legal basis for processing that information, we will delete your information.
Information obtained by us from third parties
In certain circumstances we will obtain information about you from certain publicly accessible sources, both EU and non-EU, such as online customer databases, business directories, social media, and websites.
This section sets out the circumstances in which will disclose information about you to third parties and any additional purposes for which we use your information.
Disclosure of your information to service providers
We use third parties to provide us with services which are necessary to run our business or to assist us with running our business. Your information will be shared with the service providers where necessary to provide you with the service you have requested, whether that is accessing our website, or ordering goods and services from us.
Disclosure of Your Information to Other Third Parties
We disclose your information to other third parties in specific circumstances, as set out below.
Disclosure of Profiles and listings
We also disclose the profiles and listing page of the which include your basic information, such as local business name, location, contact, category, availability, and other related information to users.
Providing information to third parties such as Google Inc. and Apple
Google collects information through our use of Google Analytics on our website. Google uses this information, including IP addresses and information from cookies, for a number of purposes, such as improving its Google Analytics service. Information is shared with Google on an aggregated and anonymised basis. To find out more about what information Google collects, how it uses this information and how to control the information sent to Google, please see the following page: https://www.google.ie/policies/privacy/partners/.
Legitimate interest(s): meeting our contractual obligations to Google under our Google Analytics Terms of Service (https://www.google.ie/analytics/terms/us.html)
You can opt out of Google Analytics by installing the browser plugin here: https://tools.google.ie/dlpage/gaoptout
Sharing your information with third parties, which are either related to or associated with the running of our business, where it is necessary for us to do so. These third parties include our accountants, advisors, affiliates, business partners, independent contractors. Further information on each of these third parties is set out below.
If we suspect that criminal or potential criminal conduct has been occurred, we will in certain circumstances need to contact an appropriate authority, such as the police. This could be the case, for instance, if we suspect that we fraud or a cybercrime has been committed or if we receive threats or malicious communications towards us or third parties. We may need to use your information if we are involved in a dispute with you or a third party for example, either to resolve the dispute or as part of any mediation, arbitration or court resolution or similar process. We will use and process your information in order to comply with legal obligations to which we are subject.
This section sets out how long we retain your information. We have set out specific retention periods where possible. Where that has not been possible, we have set out the criteria we use to determine the retention period.
Retention periods
Server log information: we retain information on our server logs for one year.
Order information: when you place an order for goods and services, we retain that information for six years following the end of the financial year in which you place your order, in accordance with our legal obligation to keep records for tax purposes.
In any other circumstances, we will retain your information for no longer than necessary, taking into account the following:
We take appropriate technical and organizational measures to secure your information and to protect it against unauthorized or unlawful use and accidental loss or destruction, including: Only sharing and providing access to your information to the minimum extent necessary, subject to confidentiality restrictions where appropriate, and on an anonymised basis wherever possible; Using secure servers to store your information; Verifying the identity of any individual who requests access to information prior to granting them access to information;
Transmission of information over the internet is not entirely secure, and if you submit any information to us over the internet, you do so entirely at your own risk. We cannot be responsible for any costs, expenses, loss of profits, harm to reputation, damages, liabilities or any other form of loss or damage suffered by you as a result of your decision to transmit information to us by such means.
Subject to certain limitations on certain rights, you have the following rights in relation to your information, which you can exercise by sending an email to info@local-businesses.co.uk :
In accordance with Article 77 of the General Data Protection Regulation, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work or of an alleged infringement of the General Data Protection Regulation
The above rights are provided in summary form only and certain limitations apply to many of these rights. For further information about your rights in relation to your information, including any limitations which apply, please visit the following pages on the ICO’s website:
https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/individual-rights/
https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/is-my-information-being-handled-correctly/
You can also find out further information about your rights, as well as information on any limitations which apply to those rights, by reading the underlying legislation contained in Articles 12 to 22 and 34 of the General Data Protection Regulation, which is available here: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/reform/files/regulation_oj_en.pdf
Where you request access to your information, we are required by law to use all reasonable measures to verify your identity before doing so. These measures are designed to protect your information and to reduce the risk of identity fraud, identity theft or general unauthorized access to your information.
Where we possess appropriate information about you on file, we will attempt to verify your identity using that information. If it is not possible to identity you from such information, or if we have insufficient information about you, we may require original or certified copies of certain documentation in order to be able to verify your identity before we are able to provide you with access to your information. We will be able to confirm the precise information we require to verify your identity in your specific circumstances if and when you make such a request.
You have the following rights in relation to your information, which you may exercise in the same way as you may exercise by sending an email to info@local-businesses.co.uk :
We update and amend our Privacy Policy from time to time.
Minor changes to our Privacy Policy
Where we make minor changes to our Privacy Policy, we will update our Privacy Policy with a new effective date stated at the beginning of it. Our processing of your information will be governed by the practices set out in that new version of the Privacy Policy from its effective date onwards
Major changes to our Privacy Policy or the purposes for which we process your information
Where we make major changes to our Privacy Policy or intend to use your information for a new purpose or a different purpose than the purposes for which we originally collected it, we will notify you by email (where possible) or by posting a notice on our website.
We will provide you with the information about the change in question and the purpose and any other relevant information before we use your information for that new purpose.
Wherever required, we will obtain your prior consent before using your information for a purpose that is different from the purposes for which we originally collected it
We do not knowingly contact or collect information from persons under the age of 13. The website is not intended to solicit information of any kind from persons under the age of 13. It is possible that we could receive information pertaining to persons under the age of 13 by the fraud or deception of a third party. If we are notified of this, as soon as we verify the information, we will, where required by law to do so, immediately obtain the appropriate parental consent to use that information or, if we are unable to obtain such parental consent, we will delete the information from our servers. If you would like to notify us of our receipt of information about persons under the age of 13, please do so by sending an email to info@local-businesses.co.uk
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If you have any questions regarding these terms and conditions of this website, please contact us by any of the following means;
Web: www.local-businesses.co.uk
Email: info@local-businesses.co.uk
Address: UNIC Softech Ireland Limited T/A local-businesses, 6-9 Trinity Street Dublin 2 D02 EY47.
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