TDS Ultra Limited Privacy Policy
Introduction
Welcome to the TDS Ultra privacy and cookies policy (Policy). TDS Ultra respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy notice will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from), social media accounts or any of our services or apps (Sites) as well as where we interact in the course of our business and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
We will never sell your personal data to a third party.
This Policy is provided in a layered format so you can click through to the specific areas set out below. Please also use the Glossary to understand the meaning of some of the terms used in this Policy.
Please also use the Glossary to understand the meaning of some of the terms used in this privacy notice.
1. IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND WHO WE ARE
2. THE DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU
3. HOW IS YOUR PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED
4. HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
5. DISCLOSURES OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
6. INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS
7. DATA SECURITY
8. DATA RETENTION
9. YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS
10. GLOSSARY
11. COOKIE POLICY
1. Important information and who we are
Purpose of this policy
This Policy aims to give you information on how TDS Ultra collects and processes your personal data, through your use of our Sites, including any data you may provide when you contact us, use a product or service, or when you sign up to our newsletter or downloadable content or take part in a competition.
Our Sites are not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.
It is important that you read this Policy together with any other privacy 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. This Policy supplements the other notices and is not intended to override them.
Controller
TDS Ultra Limited (Company Number 10219630) is the controller and responsible for our Sites and is responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as “TDS Ultra”, “we”, “us” or “our” in this Policy).
We have appointed a Data Privacy Manager who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this Policy. If you have any questions about this Policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact the Data Privacy Manager using the details set out below.
Contact details
Data Privacy Manager: privacy@tdsultra.com
Changes to the privacy policy and your duty to inform us of changes
This version was last updated in March 2023 and may be subject to further revisions.
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.
Third-party links
Our Sites 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.
2. The data we collect about you
Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous or pseudonymised data).
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:
· Identity Data includes: first name, last name, maiden name, username or similar identifier, title, driver licence, vehicle registration or identifier or employee reference, photos or other images.
· Contact Data includes: address, email address and telephone numbers, and any social media accounts used to contact us or used via our Sites.
· Financial data includes bank account and payment card details.
· Transaction data includes details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services purchased from us.
· Technical Data includes: device ID, 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 our Sites.
· Profile Data includes: any username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests preferences, feedback and survey responses.
· Usage Data includes: information about how you use our Sites.
· Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data will notdirectly or indirectly reveal your identity.
For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the nature or volume of driver journeys taken, vehicle types used, or events experienced of users accessing a specific Site feature. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this privacy notice.
We do not knowingly collect any Special Categories of Personal Data (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data). We may however be provided with Special Category Personal Data under a contract we have with a customer or provider, but we will only receive and process this where you will have given your express consent to sharing it in advance.
If you fail to provide personal data
Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you, or your employer or other client entity that has given you access to our Sites (“Service Subscriber” – which is the term we use in our End User Licence and Acceptable Use Policy), or which is a condition of an event registration or other service, 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 (or to provide you with 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.
3. How is your personal data collected?
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
· Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity, Contact and Financial Data by filling in forms on our Sites or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email, social media or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
· register as a client or user of our Sites or services;
· create an account on our Sites or with one of our services;
· request marketing to be sent to you;
· enter a competition, promotion or survey; or
· make a general enquiry about our services; or
· give us feedback or contact us.
· Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our Sites or social media accounts, 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. We may also receive Technical Data about you if you visit other websites employing our cookies. Please see our Cookie Policy for further details.
· Third parties or publicly available sources. We will receive personal data about you from various third parties, Service Subscriber via an API, and public sources as set out below:
Technical Data from the following parties:
a) analytics providers such as Google inside the EU;
(a) analytics providers, such as Google Analytics or social media providers based in the UK, EU/ EEA or US;
(b) advertising networks; and
(c) search information providers
Identity and Contact Data from publicly available sources and advertising networks, such as LinkedIn, Twitter, based inside or outside the UK; and
· Contact, Financial and Transaction Data from providers of technical, payment and delivery services, based inside or outside the UK and HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC);
· Technology providers we use, including client relationship, marketing and other hosting and communications providers (i.e. MailChimp), inside or outside the UK; or
· Identity and Contact Data from publicly availably sources such as Companies House and the Electoral Register based in the UK, as well as any employer or client authorised to use our Sites and permitted to share your personal data with us.
4. 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:
· To process your acceptance as a client, or registration as an Authorised User of our services and Sites as a result of a contract we have with an Service Subscriber;
· Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you;
· For use with technology providers for the administration of our business, including client relationship, financial, marketing and other hosting and communications providers (i.e. MailChimp or other contracted service support provider), inside or outside the UK;
· 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.
· We rely on consent as one of the legal bases for processing your personal data where you have expressly given it. In relation to sending third party direct marketing communications to you via email or text message we will only rely upon consent. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us.
Purposes for which we will use your personal data
We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we may 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.
Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data.
Please contact us at privacy@tdsultra.com if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your personal data where more than one ground has been set out in the table below.
Marketing
We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising. We have established the following personal data control mechanisms:
Promotional offers from us
We may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage, Profile, Marketing and Communication Data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which products, services and offers may be relevant for you (we call this marketing).
We may send you information on products or services similar to those you have previously had from us, or registered for or other communications we are obliged to send under a legal or contractual obligation.
You will receive marketing communications from us where you have opted to do so or where you have requested information from us or purchased services from us or if you provided us with your details when you entered a competition and, in each case, you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.
Third-party marketing
We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any company outside of TDS Ultra for marketing purposes.
Opting out
You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time, including by following the opt-out or unsubscribe links in any marketing message sent to you or by contacting us at any time.
Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of service provision, registration, or other transactions, or where we need to keep your contact details or make contact with you for contractual performance or legitimate interest purposes, or compliance with a legal obligation.
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 our Sites may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about the cookies we use, please see our Cookie Policy.
Change of purpose
We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us at privacy@tdsultra.com.
If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.
Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.
5. Disclosures of your personal data
We may share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table Purposes for which we will use your personal data above.
· Internal Third Parties as set out in the Glossary or elsewhere in this Policy.
· External Third Parties as set out in the Glossary or elsewhere in this Policy.
· Specific third parties listed in the Glossary or elsewhere in this Policy.
· Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this Policy.
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
6. International transfers
The servers for our Sites and services are provided by Amazon Web Services and ANS
In order to perform certain aspects of our services and to enable certain functionality via our Sites we may be required to transfer your personal data outside the UK.Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the UK, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:
· We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data. including the European Commission (see European Commission: Adequacy of the protection of personal data in non-EU countries..
· Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved for use in the UK (or approved for use by the European Commission) which give personal data the same protection it has in the UK (or the EU). For example, the Information Commissioner’s Office template Standard Contractual Clauses, which implement the International Data Transfer Agreement (IDTA) and UK Addendum in relation to the UK GDPR.
Please contact us if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data out of the UK.
7. 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. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
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.
We seek to use third party technology providers that are ISO27001 certified or equivalent (SOC II) where practical.
8. Data retention
How long will you use my personal data for?
We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements.
We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.
By law we have to keep basic information about our clients, users and employees (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for six years after they cease being clients, users or employees for tax and legal liability purposes, but we may also keep this information to make it easier for users to process new, follow-on or repeat service requests.
In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see your legal rights below for further information.
In some circumstances we will anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes, in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
9. Your legal rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. Please click on the links below to find out more about these rights:
· Request access to your personal data.
· Request correction of your personal data.
· Request erasure of your personal data.
· Object to processing of your personal data.
· Request restriction of processing your personal data.
· Request transfer of your personal data.
· Right to withdraw consent.
If you have been provided with access to our Sites through an employer or other client Service Subscriber of ours, then you should in the first instance contact your employer or other entity that has provided you with such access.
In all other instances, if you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above then please contact us at privacy@tdsultra.com
No fee is usually required
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we could refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
What we may need from you
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
Time limit to respond
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it could take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated. Glossary
10. Glossary
LAWFUL BASIS
· Consent means the unambiguous approval to use personal data in a specific way, it must involve a clear affirmative action (an opt-in). In relation to the use of Special Personal Data, the consent must be given expressly in relation to this use. We seek consent in relation to marketing permissions and in relation to our own employees or sub-contractors.
· Legitimate Interest means the interest of our business in conducting and managing our business to enable us to give you the best service/product and the best and most secure experience. We make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you (both positive and negative) and your rights before we process your personal data for our legitimate interests. We do not use your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law). You can obtain further information about how we assess our legitimate interests against any potential impact on you in respect of specific activities by contacting us.
· Performance of Contract means processing your data where it is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request before entering into such a contract.
· Comply with a legal obligation means processing your personal data where it is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation that we are subject to.
THIRD PARTIES
Internal Third Parties
Other companies in the TDS Ultra group acting as joint controllers or processors and which provide IT and system administration services and undertake reporting.
External Third Parties
· Service providers acting as processors based in and outside the UK who provide IT and system administration services (e.g. MailChimp or other contracted service support provider), as well as any employer or client authorised to use TDS Ultra services and Sites and within whom we are permitted to share your personal data.
· Professional advisers acting as processors or joint controllers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers based within the UK who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance and accounting services to us.
· HM Revenue & Customs, regulators and other authorities acting as processors or joint controllers based in the United Kingdom or EU who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.
YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS
You have the right to:
· Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a "data subject access request"). 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, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
· 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. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
· Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) 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. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.
· Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios:
o If you want us to establish the data's accuracy.
o Where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it.
o Where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
o You have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
o Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
o Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us privacy@tdsultra.com
11. Cookie policy
Our Sites use cookies to distinguish you from other users. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse and sue our Sites and also allows us to improve our Sites. By continuing to use the Sites, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
We use the following cookies:
o Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Sites. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our Sites.
o Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Sites when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our Sites work, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
o Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our Sites. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
o Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our Sites, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our Sites and any advertising displayed more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
You may block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our Sites.
Privacy Policy Reviewed March 2023 by the TDS Ultra ISMS Committee
Question? Contact us at privacy@tdsultra.com
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