Design & Online Promotions Ltd (also known as ‘daop’) is committed to ensuring the best standards of practice in all its activities. Visitors to our website can be assured that the protection of privacy and confidentiality are given the highest priority. All personal information is collected, held and used in strict compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation.

We may amend this policy from time to time. Any changes to this policy in the future will be posted to our site. This policy was last updated 26th April 2018.

By continuing to visit our site, provide information, you consent to the collection, use, and transfer of your information under the terms of this policy (as the same is updated from time to time) and our terms and conditions. We recommend that you read this policy regularly so that you understand our current approach to privacy.

This Privacy Policy sets out how we, Design & Online Promotions Ltd (also referred to as ‘daop’), collect, store and use information about you when you use or interact with our website, https://www.daop.co.uk (our website) and where we otherwise obtain or collect information about you.

Contents
Summary.
Our details.
Information we collect when you visit our website.
Information we collect when you contact us.
Information we collect when you interact with our website.
Information we collect when you place an order for our goods and services.
Our use of automated decision-making and profiling.
How we collect or obtain information about you from third parties.
Disclosure of your information to third parties.
How long we retain your information.
How we secure your information.
Transfers of your information outside the European Economic Area.
Your rights in relation to your information.
Your right to object to the processing of your information for certain purposes.
Sensitive Personal Information.
Changes to our Privacy Policy.
Children’s Privacy.
California Do Not Track Disclosures.

Summary

This section summarises how we obtain, store and use information about you. It is intended to provide a very general overview only. It is not complete in and of itself and it must be read in conjunction with the corresponding full sections of this Privacy Policy.

Data controller: Design & Online Promotions Ltd.

How we collect or obtain information about you

  • When you provide it to us (e.g. by contacting us, requesting a quotation or placing an order for our goods and services).
  • From your use of our website, using cookies, and
  • Occasionally, from third parties (quotation websites etc).

Information we collect

Name, contact details including phone number and email address, IP address, cookies and information from cookies, information about your computer or device (e.g. device and browser type), information about how you use our website (e.g. which pages you have viewed), the time when you view them and what you clicked on, the geographical location from which you accessed our website (based on your IP address), company name or business name (if applicable), VAT number (if applicable) and your website address (URL).

How we use your information

For administrative and business purposes (particularly to contact you and process orders for digital products and services you place with us), to improve our business and website, to analyse your use of our website, and in connection with our legal rights and obligations.

Disclosure of your information to third parties

  • Only to the extent necessary to run our business, to our service providers, to fulfil any contracts we enter into with you, where required by law or to enforce our legal rights.
  • Do we sell your information to third parties (other than in the course of a business sale or purchase or similar event): No, we do not. We never pass your details onto any person or third party – unless required to by law.

How long we retain your information

For no longer than necessary, taking into account any legal obligations we have (e.g. to maintain records for tax and accounting purposes), any other legal basis we have for using your information (e.g. your consent, performance of a contract with you or our legitimate interests as a business) and certain additional factors described in the main section below entitled ‘How long we retain your information’. For specific retention periods in relation to certain information which we collect from you, please see the main section below entitled ‘How long we retain your information’.

How we secure your information

Using appropriate technical and organisational measures such as storing your information on UK based secure servers (via third party provider UK Fast Ltd), encrypting transfers of data to or from our servers using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology and only granting access to your information where necessary.

Use of cookies

We use cookies on our website including analytical, functional and targeting cookies. For more information, please visit our cookies policy here.

Transfers of your information outside the European Economic Area

We do not intend to transfer your information outside of the European Economic Area, except in the unlikely event that we are required to do so by law (in which case we will ensure appropriate safeguards are in place).

Use of automated decision making and profiling

We use profiling through our use of Google Analytics. We do not consider that this has a significant effect on you.

Your rights in relation to your information

  • To access your information and to receive information about its use.
  • To have your information corrected and/or completed.
  • To have your information deleted.
  • To restrict the use of your information.
  • To receive your information in a portable format.
  • To object to the use of your information.
  • To withdraw your consent to the use of your information.
  • To complain to a supervisory authority.

Sensitive personal information

We do not knowingly or intentionally collect what is commonly referred to as ‘sensitive personal information’. Please do not submit sensitive personal information about you to us. For more information, please see the main section below entitled ‘Sensitive Personal Information’.

Our details

The data controller in respect of our website is Design & Online Promotions Ltd (UK company registration number: 06127952). You can contact the data controller by writing to

International House,
61 Mosley Street
Manchester
M2 3HZ
United Kingdom

or sending an email to support@daop.co.uk

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact the data controller by phone (0800 689 0253), email or post.

Information we collect when you visit our website

We collect and use information from website visitors in accordance with this section and the section entitled Disclosure of your information to third parties.

Web server log information

We use a UK based third party server to host our website. Our website server automatically logs the IP address you use to access our website as well as other information about your visit such as the pages accessed, information requested, the date and time of the request, the source of your access to our website (e.g. the website or URL (link) which referred you to our website), and your browser version and operating system.

Our server is based in Manchester in the United Kingdom.

Use of website server log information for IT security purposes

Our third party hosting provider collects and stores server logs to ensure network and IT security and so that the server and website remain uncompromised. This includes analysing log files to help identify and prevent unauthorised access to our network, the distribution of malicious code, denial of services attacks and other cyber attacks, by detecting unusual or suspicious activity.

Unless we are investigating suspicious or potential criminal activity, we do not, nor do we allow our website server provider to, identity you or attempt to identify you from the information collected via server logs.

Legal basis for processing:

  • Compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject (Article 6(1)(c) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
  • Legal obligation: recording access to our website using server log files is an appropriate technical measure to ensure a level of security appropriate to protect information collect by our website under Article 32(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation.

Cookies and similar technologies

Cookies are data files which are sent from a website to a browser to record information about users for various purposes.

We use cookies on our website, including analytical, functional and targeting cookies. For further information on how we use cookies, please see our cookies policy which is available here.

You can reject some or all of the cookies we use on or via our website by changing your browser settings or non-essential cookies by using our cookie control tool, but doing so can impair your ability to use our website or some or all of its features.

For further information about cookies, including how to change your browser settings, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org or see our cookies policy.

Information we collect when you contact us

We collect and use information from individuals who contact us in accordance with this section and the section entitled Disclosure of your information to third parties.

Email

When you send an email via our website we collect your email address and any other information you provide in that email (such as your name, telephone number and the information contained in any signature block in your email).

Legal basis for processing:

  • Our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation)
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  • Legitimate interest(s): responding to enquiries and messages we receive and keeping records of correspondence.

Transfer and storage of your information

We use a third party email provider to store emails you send us. Emails you send us will be stored on our third party’s servers in the UK.

Contact form

When you contact us using our contact form, we collect the following information: your name, email address, telephone number, company name (if applicable), location (postcode & IP address), and the reason for you contacting us and any information you provide in the ‘your enquiry’ field.

We also collect any other information you provide to us when you complete the contact form, including any optional information, such as your website URL. 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. Unless right to consent is given for the information to be submitted, the form will not process and send the data.

If you do not supply the optional information required by our contact form, we will not be able to correspond with you by phone or be able to refer to your website URL (if you have one) to help us deal with your enquiry.

Legal basis for processing:

  • Our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
  • Legitimate interest(s): responding to enquiries and messages we receive and keeping records of correspondence.

Transfer and storage of your information

Messages you send us via our contact form will be stored on our third party website server in the UK.

Phone

When you contact us by phone, we collect your phone number and any information provide to us during your conversation with us. Most of this information is similar to the data we ask for through any enquiry forms.

  • Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
  • Legitimate interest(s): responding to enquiries and messages we receive and keeping records of correspondence.

Transfer and storage of your information

Information about your call, such as your phone number and the date and time of your call, is processed by our third party telephone service provider and stored in the UK.

Post

If you contact us by post, we will collect any information you provide to us in any postal communications you send us.

Legal basis for processing:

  • Our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
  • Legitimate interest(s): responding to enquiries and messages we receive and keeping records of correspondence.

Information we collect when you interact with our website

We collect and use information from individuals who interact with particular features of our website in accordance with this section and the section entitled Disclosure of your information to third parties.

Blog

Our blog does not offer a sign up option or facility to comment on any articles. Our website does not offer any type of registration facility or sign up to newsletters and subscriptions.

Legal basis for processing:

  • Our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
  • Legitimate interest(s): we do not have a legitimate interest in posting comments on our blog to allow users to interact with our blog in order to increase the engagement and value of our blog to website visitors.

Information we collect when you place an order for our digital products and services

We collect and use information from individuals who place an order with us in accordance with this section and the section entitled Disclosure of your information to third parties.

Information collected when you place an order

Mandatory information

When you place an order for digital products and services we collect the following mandatory information: name, email address, billing address, company name (if applicable) and VAT number (if applicable). If you do not provide this information, you will not be able to purchase products or services from us or enter into a contract with us.

Legal basis for processing:

  • Necessary to perform a contract (Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Reason why necessary to perform a contract: we need the mandatory information to establish who the contract is with and to contact you to fulfil our obligations under the contract, including sending you receipts and order confirmations.
  • Legal basis for processing: compliance with a legal obligation (Article 6(1)(c) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
  • Legal obligation: we have a legal obligation to issue you with an invoice for the goods and services you purchased from us where you are VAT registered and we require the mandatory information collected by our invoice form for this purpose.

Processing your payment

After you place an order you will need to make payment for the goods or services you have ordered. In order to process your payment you can use either BACS or company/personal cheque. HSBC Bank PLC collects, uses and processes your information, including payment information, in accordance with their privacy policies. You can access its privacy policy on their website. HSBC Bank plc is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority (Financial Services Register number: 114216). HSBC Bank plc is a company incorporated under the laws of England and Wales with company registration number 14259 and its registered office at 8 Canada Square, London E14 5HQ.

Transfer and storage of your information

  • Legal basis for processing: necessary to perform a contract (Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
  • Reason why necessary to perform a contract: to fulfil your contractual obligation to pay for the goods or services you have ordered from us.

Information collected or obtained from third parties

This section sets out how we obtain or collect information about you from third parties.

Information received from third parties

Generally, we not receive information about you from third parties. The third parties from which we receive information about you will generally include people who recommend our services to you, including our existing or previous customers. 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 may include any additional information about you which they provide to us.

Information obtained by us from third parties

In certain circumstances (for example, to verify the information we hold about you or obtain missing information we require to provide you with a service) we will obtain information about you from certain publicly accessible sources, both EU and non-EU, such as business directories, media publications, social media, and websites (including your own website if you have one).

Our use of automated decision-making and profiling

We use profiling on our website. We do not consider that this has any legal effect on you or similarly significantly affects you.

You have the right to object to our use of automated decision making and profiling described in this section. You can do that by opting-out of cookies and similar technologies in accordance with the method described in the relevant section below. If you do not want us to process your actual IP address (usually the IP address assigned to you by your Internet Service Provider) when you visit our website, you can use a Virtual Private Network (VPN) or a free service such as Tor.

You can find out more about our use of cookies and similar technologies (including the legal basis on which we use them) and how to opt out from them in our cookies policy, which is available here.

Profiling

Profiling is any form of automated processing of your information to evaluate personal aspects about you, in particular to analyse or predict things like your performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behaviour, location or movements.

Use of profiling for web analytics

Our web analytics service, Google Analytics, collects information such as your location (based on your IP address) and your behaviour (based on cookies) when you access our website (such as the pages you visit and what you click on). You can find out more about Google Analytics here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en

We sometimes also use Hotjar to generate ‘heatmaps’ to help us analyse user behaviour on our website by generating a visual representation of where users have spent their time on our website (such as highlighting where users have moved their mouse cursor on a web page, its location on the page and what they have clicked on). You can find out more about how Hotjar works and the information they collect in their privacy policy via the following link: https://www.hotjar.com/privacy

We will only process information from cookies if you have consented to us setting cookies on your computer in accordance with our cookies policy (/cookies-policy/).

  • Logic involved: By automatically analysing and categorising information such as the location (based on IP address) as well as the behaviour and devices of visitors to our website (using cookies), we are able to gain a better understanding of what our website visitors want (in terms of the content of our website and our products), how to improve our website and how to advertise and market our services to them.
  • Significance and envisaged consequences: Cookies will be used to track and store information about your behaviour and device on our website (unless you have opted out from receiving such cookies by using our cookie control tool) and your location will be analysed based on your IP address. We may from time to time target advertisements based on the level of interest we receive from certain visitors and their behaviour on our website.
  • Legal basis for processing: Legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
Legitimate interest: We have a legitimate interest in analysing how visitors use our website to improve our website and services.

Disclosure of your information to third parties

This section sets out the circumstances in which will use and disclose information about you to third parties and the third parties to which we will disclose information about you.

Disclosure of your information to service providers

We use a number of third parties to provide us with services which are necessary to run our business or to assist us with running our business and who process your information for us on our behalf.

These include the following:

  • Telephone provider.
  • Email provider, and
  • Hosting provider.

Our third party service providers are located in the United Kingdom.

Your information will be shared with these service providers only where necessary to provide you with the service you have requested, whether that is accessing our website or ordering digital products and services from us.

Legal basis for processing:

  • Legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Legitimate interest relied on: Where we share your information with these third parties in a context other than where is necessary to perform a contract (or take steps at your request to do so), we will share your information with such third parties in order to allow us to run and manage our business efficiently.
  • Legal basis for processing: Necessary to perform a contract and/or to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract (Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
  • The reason why necessary to perform a contract: We may need to share information with our service providers to enable us to perform our obligations under that contract or to take the steps you have requested before we enter into a contract with you.

Disclosure of your information for legal reasons

Indicating possible criminal acts or threats to public security to a competent authority

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 online fraud or a cyber crime has been committed or if we receive threats or malicious communications towards us or third parties.

We will generally only need to process your information for this purpose if you were involved or affected by such an incident in some way.

  • Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
  • Legitimate interests: preventing crime or suspected criminal activity (such as fraud).

In connection with the enforcement or potential enforcement our legal rights

We will use your information in connection with the enforcement or potential enforcement of our legal rights, including sharing information with debt collection agencies if you do not pay amounts owed to us when you are contractually obliged to do so. Our legal rights may be contractual (where we have entered into a contract with you) or non-contractual (such as legal rights that we have under copyright law or tort law).

  • Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
  • Legitimate interest: enforcing our legal rights and taking steps to enforce our legal rights.

In connection with a legal or potential legal dispute or proceedings

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.

  • Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
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Legitimate interest(s): resolving disputes and potential disputes.

For ongoing compliance with laws, regulations and other legal requirements

We will use and process your information in order to comply with legal obligations to which we are subject. For example, we may need to disclose your information pursuant to a court order or subpoena if we receive one or to the National Crime Agency in connection with suspected or potential money laundering matters.

  • Legal basis for processing: compliance with a legal obligation (Article 6(1)(c) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
  • Legal obligation(s): legal obligations to disclose information which are part of the laws of England and Wales or if they have been integrated into the United Kingdom’s legal framework (for example in the form of an international agreement which the United Kingdom has signed).
  • Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
  • Legitimate interest: where the legal obligations are part of the laws of another country and have not been integrated into the United Kingdom’s legal framework, we have a legitimate interest in complying with these obligations.

Disclosure of your information to other third parties

We disclose your information to other third parties in specific circumstances, as set out below.

Providing information to third parties such as Google Inc. 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.com/policies/privacy/partners/

  • Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
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Legitimate interest(s): meeting our contractual obligations to Google under our Google Analytics Terms of Service (https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html)

You can opt out of Google Analytics by installing the browser plugin here: https://tools.google.com/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, business partners, and insurers. Further information on each of these third parties is set out below.

  • Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
  • Legitimate interest: running and managing our business efficiently.

Accountants

We share information with our accountants for tax purposes. For example, we share invoices we issue and receive with our accountants for the purpose of completing tax returns and our end of year accounts.

Our accountants are located in the United Kingdom.

Advisors

Occasionally, we obtain advice from advisors, such as accountants, financial advisors, solicitors and public relations professionals and other specialists. We will share your information with these third parties only where it is necessary to enable these third parties to be able to provide us with the relevant advice.

Our advisors are located in the United Kingdom.

Business partners

Business partners are businesses we work with which provide goods and services which are complementary to our own or which allow us to provide goods or services which we could not provide on our own (for example, website documentation or online payment services). We share information with our business partners where you have requested services which they provide whether independently from, or in connection with or own services.

Our business partners are located in the United Kingdom.

Insurers

We will share your information with our insurers where it is necessary to do so, for example in relation to a claim or potential claim we receive or make or under our general disclosure obligations under our insurance contract with them.

Our insurers are located in the United Kingdom.

We will share your information with a prospective or actual purchaser or seller in the context of a business or asset sale or acquisition by us, a merger or similar business combination event, whether actual or potential.

  • Legal basis for processing: legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
  • Legitimate interest(s): sharing your information with a prospective purchaser, seller or similar person in order to allow such a transaction to take place.

How long we retain your information

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 90 days after which they are deleted.
  • Order information: when you place an order for goods and services, we retain that information for ten years following the end of the financial year in which you placed your order, in accordance with our legal obligation to keep records for tax purposes and to defend against legal claims.
  • Enquiries: when you make an enquiry, whether by email, via our contact form or by phone, we will retain your information for as long as it takes to respond to and resolve your enquiry, and for two further years, after which point we will delete your information.

Criteria for determining retention periods

In any other circumstances, we will retain your information for no longer than necessary, taking into account the following:

  • The purpose(s) and use of your information both now and in the future (such as whether it is necessary to continue to store that information in order to continue to perform our obligations under a contract with you or to contact you in the future);
  • Whether we have any legal obligation to continue to process your information (such as any record-keeping obligations imposed by relevant law or regulation);
  • Whether we have any legal basis to continue to process your information (such as your consent);
  • How valuable your information is (both now and in the future);
  • Any relevant agreed industry practices on how long information should be retained;
  • The levels of risk, cost and liability involved with us continuing to hold the information;
  • How hard it is to ensure that the information can be kept up to date and accurate; and
  • Any relevant surrounding circumstances (such as the nature and status of our relationship with you).

How we secure your information

We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to secure your information and to protect it against the unauthorised 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; and
  • Using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software or other similar encryption technologies to encrypt information you submit to us via our website’s contact form.

Transmission of information to us by email

Transmission of information over the internet is not entirely secure, and if you submit any information to us over the internet (whether by email, via our website or any other means), 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.

Transfers of your information outside the European Economic Area

Other than to comply with any legal obligations to which we are subject (compliance with a court order, for example), we do not intend to transfer your information outside the EEA or to an international organisation. In the unlikely event that we are required to transfer your information outside the EEA (or to an international organisation) for such a purpose, we will ensure appropriate safeguards and protections are in place.

Your rights in relation to your information

Subject to certain limitations on certain rights, you have the following rights in relation to your information, which you can exercise by writing to International House, 61 Mosley Street, Manchester M2 3HZ, United Kingdom or sending an email to support@daop.co.uk

  • To request access to your information and information related to our use and processing of your information;
  • To request the correction or deletion of your information;
  • To request that we restrict our use of your information;
  • To receive information which you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format (e.g. a CSV file) and the right to have that information transferred to another data controller (including a third party data controller);
  • To object to the processing of your information for certain purposes (for further information, see the section below entitled Your right to object to the processing of your information for certain purposes); and
  • To withdraw your consent to our use of your information at any time where we rely on your consent to use or process that information. Please note that if you withdraw your consent, this will not affect the lawfulness of our use and processing of your information on the basis of your consent before the point in time when you withdraw your consent.

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.

For the purposes of the UK, the supervisory authority is the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the contact details of which are available here: https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us

Further information on your rights in relation to your personal data as an individual

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/; and
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: https://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/reform/files/regulation_oj_en.pdf

Verifying your identity where you request access to your information

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 unauthorised access to your information.

How we verify your identity

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 identify 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.

Your right to object to the processing of your information for certain purposes

You have the following rights in relation to your information, which you may exercise in the same way as you may exercise by writing to International House, 61 Mosley Street, Manchester M2 3HZ United Kingdom or sending an email to support@daop.co.uk

  • To object to us using or processing your information where we use or process it in order to carry out a task in the public interest or for our legitimate interests, including ‘profiling’ (i.e. analysing or predicting your behaviour based on your information) based on any of these purposes; and
  • To object to us using or processing your information for direct marketing purposes (including any profiling we engage in that is related to such direct marketing).

You may also exercise your right to object to us using or processing your information for direct marketing purposes by:

  • clicking the unsubscribe link contained at the bottom of any marketing email we send to you and following the instructions which appear in your browser following your clicking on that link, sending an email to support@daop.co.uk, asking that we stop sending you marketing communications or by including the words “OPT OUT”.

For more information on how to object to our use of information collected from cookies and similar technologies, please see the section entitled ‘How to accept or reject cookies’ in our cookies policy, which is available here.

Sensitive Personal Information

‘Sensitive personal information’ is information about an individual that reveals their racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, genetic information, biometric information for the purpose of uniquely identifying an individual, information concerning health or information concerning a natural person’s sex life or sexual orientation.

We do not knowingly or intentionally collect sensitive personal information from individuals, and you must not submit sensitive personal information to us. If, however, you inadvertently or intentionally transmit sensitive personal information to us, you will be considered to have explicitly consented to us processing that sensitive personal information under Article 9(2)(a) of the General Data Protection Regulation. We will use and process your sensitive personal information for the purposes of deleting it.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

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.

Children’s Privacy

Because we care about the safety and privacy of children online, we comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA). COPPA and its accompanying regulations protect the privacy of children using the internet. We do not knowingly contact or collect information from persons under the age of 18. The website is not intended to solicit information of any kind from persons under the age of 18.

It is possible that we could receive information pertaining to persons under the age of 18 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 18, please do so by sending an email to support@daop.co.uk

California Do Not Track Disclosures

“Do Not Track” is a privacy preference that users can set in their web browsers. When a user turns on a Do Not Track signal in their browser, the browser sends a message to websites requesting that they do not track the user. For information about Do Not Track, please visit www.allaboutdnt.org

At this time, we do not respond to Do Not Track browser settings or signals. In addition, we use other technology that is standard to the internet, such as cookies to track visitors to the website. Those tools may be used by us and by third parties to collect information about you and your internet activity, even if you have turned on the Do Not Track signal. For information on how to opt out from tracking technologies used on our website, see our cookies policy which is available here.

For any questions about this Privacy Policy please email support@daop.co.uk or call 0800 689 0253 Mon – Fri 9 am – 5 pm.

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