Our privacy policy applies only to your use of our website. By using our website and stopsexualmisconduct.co.uk services, you unconditionally agree to be bound by this privacy policy.
This privacy policy sets out how the stopsexualmisconduct.co.uk website uses and protects any information that you provide when you use our website.
Our website is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information, which means that you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with the terms set out within this privacy policy.
How We Use Your Personal Information
All personal data is collected, used and stored securely in accordance with the principles and provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998, and your rights and our obligations under that Act. We only keep your data for as long as we need to in order to use it as described in the Terms and Conditions, and for as long as we have your permission to keep it.
Your data will only be stored within the UK.
We use your data to provide the best possible services to you. This includes managing your account and access to our website, supplying our services to you, responding to communications from you, analysing your use of our website, and gathering feedback to enable us to continually improve our website and your user experience.
We will not send you any unsolicited marketing or spam and will take all reasonable steps to ensure that we fully protect your rights and comply with our obligations under the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, as amended in 2004, 2011 and 2015, and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2016.
Consent For Processing Your Data
Consent is required for stopsexualmisconduct.co.uk to process your personal data before submitting. By agreeing to our terms and conditions, you give us permission to process your personal data and store it within our database. When we ask for your personal data, we will always tell you why and how the information will be used.
Data Security
Data security is of great importance to us, and to protect your data, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure data which is collected through our website. However, it is important to remember that the transmission of data via the internet may not be completely secure and you are advised to take suitable precautions when transmitting data to us via the internet.
stopsexualmisconduct.co.uk will not pass on your personal data to third parties without obtaining your consent.
Data Access
Under the Data Protection Act 2018, at any opportunity you have the right to view any of your personal information within our database and to withdraw this information from our database. To obtain a copy of any of your personal data held by us, a payment of a small fee, which presently will not exceed £10, is required.
To do this, please contact us at: info@stopsml.co.uk
How We Control Your Data
When you submit information via our website, you may be given options to restrict our use of your data. In particular, we aim to give you strong controls on our use of your data for direct marketing purposes (including the ability to opt-out of receiving emails from us which you may do by unsubscribing, using the links provided in our emails and/or by managing your account).
You may also wish to sign up for one or more of the preference services operating in the UK: the Telephone Preference Service (“the TPS”), the Corporate Telephone Preference Service (“the CTPS”), and the Mailing Preference Service (“the MPS”). These may help to prevent you from receiving unsolicited marketing. However, these services will not prevent you from receiving marketing communications that you have consented to.
Marketing
When submitting your data, you consent to us occasionally sending marketing material to you, including newsletters and future service offers. These will only be from stopsexualmisconduct.co.uk.
Analytics
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 Google Analytics.
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.
Cookies or Tracking Technology
The website may place and access cookies and tracking technology depending on the features offered. Cookie and tracking technology are useful for gathering information such as browser type and operating system, tracking the number of visitors to the website, and understanding how visitors use the website. Cookies can also help customise the website for visitors.
Personal information cannot be collected via cookies and other tracking technology. However, if you previously provided personally identifiable information, cookies may be tied to such information. Aggregate cookie and tracking information may be shared with third parties.
We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information that is 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/.
Managing Cookies
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can, however, obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these websites:
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome)
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox)
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer)
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411 (Safari)
https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge)
Note: blocking all cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.
Third Parties
Third-Party Websites
Links to other sites may be included on our website. This privacy policy does not extend to any websites that are linked to or from our website. Unless expressly stated, these sites are not under our control. We neither assume nor accept responsibility or liability for the content of third-party websites. The inclusion of a link to another site on our website is for information only and does not imply any endorsement of the sites themselves or of those in control of them.
In addition, if you come to our website via a third-party website, we cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of the owners or operators of that third-party website. We would recommend that you check the policy of that third-party website and contact its owner or operator if you have any concerns or questions.
You may link to our website provided that you:
- do so in a fair and legal manner.
- do not do so in a manner that suggests any form of association, endorsement or approval on our part where none exists.
- do not use any logos or trademarks displayed on our website without our express written permission.
- do not do so in a way that is calculated to damage our reputation or to take unfair advantage of it.
Deep-linking, framing or embedding of our website on other websites is not permitted without our express written permission.
You may not link to our website from any other website which contains material that:
- is sexually explicit or obscene, deliberately offensive, hateful or inflammatory.
- promotes violence or promotes or assists in any form of unlawful activity.
- discriminates against, or is in any way defamatory of, any person, group or class of persons, race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age.
- intends or is otherwise likely to threaten, harass, annoy, alarm, inconvenience, upset, or embarrass another person.
- is calculated, or is otherwise likely, to deceive another person.
- intends or is otherwise likely to infringe (or to threaten to infringe) another person’s privacy.
- impersonates any person or otherwise misrepresents the identity or affiliation of a particular person in a way that is calculated to deceive another person.
- implies any form of affiliation with us where none exists.
- infringes or assists in the infringement of the intellectual property rights (including, but not limited to, copyright, trademarks and database rights) of any other party.
- breaches any legal duty owed to a third party including, but not limited to, contractual duties and duties of confidence.
Other Third Parties
We may sometimes contract third parties to supply our services to you on our behalf. These may include payment processing, delivery of goods, search engine facilities, advertising and marketing. In some cases, third parties may require access to some or all of your data. Where any of your data is required for such a purpose, we will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your data will be handled safely, securely, and in accordance with your rights, our obligations, and the obligations of the third party under the law.
In certain circumstances, we may be legally required to share certain data held by us, which may include your personal information. Such circumstances might be where we are involved in legal proceedings, or where we are complying with the requirements of legislation, a court order, or a governmental authority. We do not require any further consent from you in order to share your data in such circumstances and will comply as required with any legally binding request that is made of us.
Data Collection
Personal information or data is information that can be uniquely identified with you. We may collect and process some or all of the following personal information or data:
- certain information required to use the website or any other services we offer, including the name and address of you and/or your business and/or your employees as well as contact information
- date of birth
- email address and a password
- job title and/or profession
- any correspondence between you and our company
- replies to any surveys or questionnaires that we may use for research purposes
- details of your visits to our website and the resources that you access
- photographs that you send to us such as before and after photos
- any information we may require from you when you report a problem or complaint
This information is only collected by us when you choose to supply it to us. You do not have to supply any personal information to us, but we may not be able to operate our services without this information or data.
Information may also be gathered through our website, without you actively providing it, through the use of various technologies and methods such as Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and cookies. These methods do not collect or store any of your personal information.
We reserve the right to change the privacy policy as we deem necessary and as may be required by law. Any changes will be posted on our website, and you will be deemed to have accepted the terms of the privacy policy on your first use of our website following the alterations. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are aware of any changes.
Any questions regarding our Privacy Policy should be directed to info@stopsml.co.uk