1. Important information and who we are
Purpose of this privacy notice
This privacy notice aims to give you information on how Visual Foundry Ltd collects and processes your personal data through your use of the VIFO/Visual Foundry Ltd. website, including any data you may provide when you purchase goods or services from us.
This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.
It is important that you read this privacy notice together with any other notice or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data.
Controller
Visual Foundry Ltd is the controller and responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as 'Visual Foundry Ltd', "we", "us" or "our" in this privacy notice).
If you have any questions about this privacy notice, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact us at ku.oc.yrdnuoflausiv@seiriuqne
2. Third-party links
This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you.
We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.
3. What does Visual Foundry Ltd do with your personal information?
Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified.
Visual Foundry Ltd collects the following types of personal information that you provide:
a. Your name and identifying information, which can include your first name, maiden name, last name, username or similar identifier, marital status, title, date of birth and gender.
b. Details of your business interests
c. Contact data includes billing, postal or delivery address, email address and telephone numbers.
d. Information about goods and services
e. Your financial information, including details about payments from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from us
f. Other information, which might include personal information about you, which is relevant to providing you with website, design and marketing services.
g. Technical data, which includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
h. Usage data which includes information about how you use our website, products and services.
i. Marketing and communications data which includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
4. How does Visual Foundry Ltd collect your personal information?
We use a variety of methods to collect your personal information as part of the services we provide to you, such as:
Through direct interactions.
You may give us your identity, contact and financial data by filling in online forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise.
This includes personal data you provide when you:
Through automated technologies or interactions.
As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect technical data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies.
Cookies
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.
Sources of information, including information collected from other sources
The personal information Visual Foundry Ltd obtains may include information obtained from:
5. How Visual Foundry Ltd uses your personal information:
Purposes
Visual Foundry Ltd may use your personal information for the following purposes:
i. to promote and market your business as part of the service we provide to you, including publishing information about you and/or your business on the internet, or for the purposes of the creation of promotional material featuring your personal data, as instructed and consented to by you
ii. for any other purpose in connection with providing a service to you in accordance with your instructions
iii. to promote and market Visual Foundry Ltd
iv. for our own development and training purposes
v. to procure goods and services,
vi. to manage matters relating to employment, including payroll and taxation
vii. to respond to potential complaints or make complaints
viii. as otherwise required or permitted by law.
6. Marketing and promotion
In relation to personal information collected for marketing purposes, the personal information consists of:
This will be processed so that you can be provided with information about, or quotations for work, from Visual Foundry Ltd.
If you don't want to hear from us just let us know by emailing ku.oc.yrdnuoflausiv@seiriuqne
7. Whether information has to be provided by you, and why?
If you become a client of Visual Foundry Ltd your contact details and personal financial information and invoicing information in respect of services provided to you may be processed in order for us to keep proper accounting records.
Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you with goods or services). In this case, we may have to cancel a product or service you have with us, but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.
If you are offering or providing Visual Foundry Ltd with goods or services, your information may be processed in relation to quotations or contracts for those goods or services.
8. The legal bases for processing your personal information
Visual Foundry Ltd needs to lawfully collect and use your personal information because:
Generally, we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data other than to respond to an enquiry you make to us via our website where by making the enquiry you consent to us using any personal data provided for the purposes of dealing with and responding to that enquiry, or in relation to sending third party direct marketing communications to you via email or text message.
9. Who will Visual Foundry Ltd share your personal information with?
It may be necessary to share your information with the following:
10. Transfer of your information outside the European Economic Area (EEA)
This privacy notice is of general application and as such it is not possible to state whether it will be necessary to transfer your information out of the EEA. However, if you reside outside the EEA then it may be necessary to transfer some of your information to that country outside of the EEA in order for us to be able to provide a service to you.
If you are in a country outside the EEA or if the instructions for our services which you request come from outside the EEA then it is inevitable that information will be transferred to those countries. If this applies to you and you wish additional precautions to be taken in respect of your information please indicate this when making your initial enquiries to us.
Some countries and organisations outside the EEA have been assessed by the European Commission and their information protection laws and procedures found to show adequate protection. The list can be found here. Most do not. If your information has to be transferred outside the EEA, then it may not have the same protections and you may not have the same rights as you would within the EEA. If Visual Foundry Ltd is instructed by you to publish a website or marketing information online containing your personal information then this may be published to the world.
11. How long will Visual Foundry Ltd store your personal information?
We will normally store all your information:
12. Consent
You have the right to withdraw your consent to us processing your personal information at any time, but this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing activity carried out prior to you withdrawing your consent. However, where Visual Foundry Ltd also relies on other bases for processing your information (eg. as required by law), you may not be able to prevent processing of your information.
If there is an issue with the processing of your information, or if you wish to withdraw your consent, please contact ku.oc.yrdnuoflausiv@seiriuqne
13. Your Rights
Under the GDPR, you have a number of rights that you can exercise in certain circumstances. These are free of charge. In summary, you may have the right to:
If you want more information about your rights under the GDPR please see the Guidance from the Information Commissioners Office on Individual's rights under the GDPR.
If you want to exercise any of these rights, please email ku.oc.yrdnuoflausiv@seiriuqne
Visual Foundry Ltd will respond to you within one month from when it receives your request.
14. Marketing Emails
Please note if you wish to unsubscribe from any marketing emails that you have signed up for, you can do so by simply by emailing ku.oc.yrdnuoflausiv@seiriuqne It may take 7 working days for this to become effective.
15. How to make a complaint?
The GDPR also gives you the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioners' Office if you are in the UK, or with the supervisory authority of the Member State where you work, normally live or where the alleged infringement of information protection laws occurred.
The Information Commissioner's Office can be contacted at http://ico.org.uk/concerns
We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO, so please contact us in the first instance.
16. Future Processing
Visual Foundry Ltd does not intend to process your personal information except for the reasons stated within this privacy notice. If this changes, this privacy notice will be amended and placed on our website www.vifo.co.uk
17. Changes to this privacy notice
This privacy notice is dated 24.5.2018. We will review our privacy practices on a regular basis and if this policy changes, we will update this privacy notice and publish it on the Visual Foundry Ltd website.
18. Contact Details
If you have any questions about this privacy notice or the information we hold about you then please contact ku.oc.yrdnuoflausiv@seiriuqne