Privacy Policy

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Privacy Policy

 

Volksource Privacy Policy

Our commitment to your privacy.

 

1 Introduction

This is the Privacy Policy for www.volksource.com. It describes who we are, how we obtain and use your data and what your rights are. Please review it carefully.

Under new GDPR guidelines you have the right to control your personal data that you provide when you use the Volksource website. We take your privacy seriously and assure you that your personal data will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

 

2 About Us

We are Volksource Limited, a private limited company, registered number 08797227. Registered address: 1 Talbot Place, Talbot Road, Hawkhurst, Kent TN18 4NA

 

2 What personal data we collect and why

Business Customers:

We collect the following personal data from you:

  • Basic contact details: We may collect your name, email address, postal address and telephone number so that we can contact you about your business listing on our directory and any other products and services that we have agreed to provide to your business;
  • Business details: We require you to provide the name of the business you represent and details of the goods and/or services your business offers so that we can publish your business listing on our directory. You may also choose to provide other information about you and your business. We do not require you to do this but if you do, we will process this other information for the purposes of publishing your business listing on our directory;
  • Payment details: Payment for any paid-for products and services is via PayPal and no payment details are kept via Volksource. We collect associated trandaction/order data for legitimate accounting and banking legalities and do not pass these onto any other parties.
  • Correspondence: We collect any additional personal data that you may provide to us from time to time if you contact us by email, letter or telephone, through our website or by any other means.
  • IT usage information: We collect your information including email addresses, logins, passwords for portals, URL’s and IP addresses for order processing.

E-Shop Customers:

We collect the following personal data from you:

  • Basic contact details: We collect your name, email address, postal address and telephone number to comply with our contractual obligations of fulfilling your orders. For example your address will be required to deliver your product.
  • Payment details: Payment for any paid-for products and services is via PayPal and no payment details are kept via Volksource. We collect associated transaction/order data for legitimate accounting and banking legalities and do not pass these onto any other parties.
  • Correspondence: We collect any additional personal data that you may provide to us from time to time if you contact us by email, letter or telephone, through our website or by any other means.
  • IT usage information: We collect your information including email addresses, logins, passwords for portals, URL’s and IP addresses for order processing.

We also obtain information about you from other sources:

 

  • Cookies and similar technologies: We track your use of our website through cookies and other similar technologies so that we can provide important features and functionality on our website, monitor its usage, and provide you with a more personalised experienced. Please see our Cookie Policy to find out more.

 

4 How we use your personal data

We use your personal data for the following purposes:

To publish your business listing on our directory and provide you with the products and services you have requested

We use your personal data to accept you as a new or returning customer, publish your business listing on our directory and provide you with the products and services you have requested in accordance with their terms (which will differ depending on the particular products and services you have requested).

To advertise the identity, address and contact details of your business on third party search engines, social media sites and other relevant business websites on your behalf

If you have registered for this service, we share the identity, address and contact details of your business with third party search engines (such as Google), social media sites (such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest & Instagram) and other relevant business websites so that we can help promote your business to your target audience and drive potential customers to your own website.

To send you service communications, including in relation to changes to our contract terms

We use the contact details you have provided to us so that we can communicate with you about the products and services that we provide to your business, including to let you know about major changes to those products and services or to the terms of the contract between us or to any related information (such as changes to this Privacy Policy).

To process payments for orders

We process your data so that we can obtain the order information for any paid-for products and services you have requested and collect any payments for those products and services.

Direct marketing

If you have provided your consent or we otherwise have the right to do so, we may use your contact details to send you direct marketing and keep you informed of promotional offers by email, post or telephone relating to our products and services.

You can unsubscribe from our direct marketing at any time by clicking the “Unsubscribe” link in any of our emails or by contacting us directly at admin@volksource.com.

To conduct traffic profiling of your business listing

We use technology which tracks the web traffic and usage of your business listing on our website.

Please note that the legal basis for us carrying out these activities is that it is in our legitimate interests to do so, having taken into account whether your interests and fundamental rights and freedoms are overridden by this type of processing.

To track usage of our website, communications, products and services

We use cookies and similar technologies to track activity on our website so that we can provide important features and functionality on our website, monitor its usage, and provide you with a more personalised experienced. Please see our Cookie Policy to find out more.

We also use tracking technology within our emails to capture information such as the time and date you open our emails and the type of device used to open it. We use this information to understand the effectiveness of our email communications so that we can improve them in the future and provide a more personalised overall service to you.

To contact you about a renewal for paid-for products and services

We use the email address you have provided to us so that we can contact you to discuss the renewal of the contract between us for any paid-for products and services we provide. We will do this in the lead up to the expiry of your contract and, if we don’t hear back from you to confirm whether or not you would like to renew your contract with us, up to six months after the date that your contract with us expires.

Please note that if we haven’t heard from you by the time your contract for paid-for products and services expires or if you’ve told us your business no longer requires any of our paid-for products and services after your contract expires, your business will retain a free business listing on our directory. We will remove your listing if you instruct us to

To provide and improve customer support

We use your personal data to be able to provide and improve the customer support we provide to you (for example, where you have questions about our products and services).

To maintain our records and improve data accuracy

Like any business, we process personal data in the course of maintaining and administering our internal records. This includes processing your personal data to ensure that the information we hold about you is kept up to date and accurate.

To respond to enquiries, complaints and disputes

We use the personal data we hold about you to help us respond to any enquiries or complaints you have made, or deal with any dispute which may arise in the course of us providing our products and services to you, in the most effective manner.

To investigate, detect and prevent fraud and comply with our legal obligations

In certain circumstances, we use your personal data only to the extent required in order to enable us to comply with our legal obligations, including for fraud detection, investigation and prevention purposes. This may require us to provide your personal data to law enforcement agencies, including Trading Standards, if they request it.

 

5 Legitimate business interests

Necessary for the purposes of our legitimate business interests

It is sometimes necessary to collect and use your personal data for the purposes of our legitimate interests as a business, which are to

  • provide you with products and services that are as useful and beneficial to your business as possible, including by personalising our contact with you and making sure we tell you about all the offers that are relevant to your business;
  • confirm whether or not you would like to renew your contract with us for any paid-for products and services;
  • develop and improve our website to enhance the customer experience;
  • train our staff so that we can provide you with a better customer service;
  • respond to any correspondence, enquiries or complaints you have made, or deal with any dispute which may arise in the course of us providing our products and services to you; and
  • ensure effective operational management and internal administration of our business, document retention, compliance with regulatory guidance and exercise or defence of legal claims.

Please note that where we wish to rely on this legal ground for processing, we are required by data protection law to consider whether our legitimate interests are overridden by your interests or your fundamental rights and freedoms. We may continue to process your personal data on the basis of our legitimate interests only if we determine that your interests, rights and freedoms are not overridden by our legitimate interests.

We have considered these matters and on balance, we consider that the benefits described above are not outweighed by your interests or your fundamental rights and freedoms.

 

6 Third parties we work with

  • IT companies who support our website and other business systems.
  • Operational companies such as delivery couriers.
  • Our Production system developers.
  • Law enforcement and anti-fraud enforcement agencies.

 

7 How long we keep your personal data for

We retain your personal data for no longer than is necessary for the purpose(s) for which it was provided. What this means in practice will vary between different types of data. When determining the relevant retention periods, we take into account factors including:

      • legal obligation(s) under applicable law to retain data for a certain period of time;
      • potential or actual disputes; and
      • guidelines issued by relevant data protection authorities.

8 Your rights

You have the following rights regarding your personal data:

Rights What does this mean?
1. Right to be informed You have the right to be provided with clear, transparent and easily understandable information about how we use your personal data and your rights. This is why we are providing you with the information in this Privacy Policy.
2. Right of access You have the right to obtain access to your personal data (if we are processing it) and certain other information (similar to that provided in this Privacy Policy). This is so you are aware and can check that we are using your personal data in accordance with data protection law.
3. Right to rectification You are entitled to have your personal data corrected if it is inaccurate or incomplete.
4. Right to erasure This is also known as ‘the right to be forgotten’ and, in simple terms, enables you to request the deletion or removal of your personal data where there is no compelling reason for us to keep using it. This is not a general right to erasure; there are exceptions.
5. Right to restrict processing You have the right to ‘block’ or suppress further use of your personal data in certain circumstances. When processing is restricted, we can still store your personal data, but may not use it further. We keep lists of people who have asked for further use of their personal data to be ‘blocked’ to make sure the restriction is respected in future.
6. Right to data portability You have the right to obtain and reuse your personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format in certain circumstances. In addition, where certain conditions apply, you have the right to have such information transferred directly to a third party.
7. Right to object to processing You have the right to object to us processing your personal data for our legitimate business interests or for direct marketing purposes (including in each case any related profiling).
8. Right to withdraw consent to processing If you have given your consent to us to process your personal data for a particular purpose (for example, direct marketing), you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time (although if you do so, it does not mean that any processing of your personal data up to that point is unlawful).
9. Right to make a complaint to the data protection authorities You have the right to make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) if you are unhappy with how we have handled your personal data or believe our processing of your personal data does not comply with data protection law.

 

For more information about your rights or if you would like to exercise any of your rights, you are welcome to contact via email admin@volksource.com

 

9 Data Requests

You have the right at any time to request a copy and or have your information updated or removed from our systems. Please send a request to admi@volksource.com with your name, company name, contact number and postcode to enable us to locate any data held on our system. We shall provide the data within one month.

You have the right to request the information we hold is rectified if it is inaccurate or incomplete. You have the right to erasure in the form of deletion or removal of personal data where there is no compelling reason for its continued processing. We have the right to refuse to erase data where it is necessary to comply with a legal or contractual obligation. You will be advised of the grounds of our refusal should any such request be refused.

 

10 How you can contact us

If you have any questions regarding your data please contact us:

  • emailing: admin@volksource.com
  • writing to: GDPR Privacy Policy Information Request, Volksource Ltd, 1 Talbot Place, Talbot Road, Hawkhurst, Kent TN18 4NA

 

11 Links to other websites

Our website contains hyperlinks to websites owned and operated by third parties. This Privacy Policy does not apply to those other websites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit, as they will govern the use of any personal data you provide when visiting those websites. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of such third party websites and your use of such websites is at your own risk.

 

12 Changes to this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy was last updated on 25th May 2018

This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time so you may wish to check it each time you provide personal data to us. We won’t alert you to minor changes, but if there are any major changes we will let you know and where appropriate ask for your consent.

 

 

Resources & Further Information

Data Protection Act 1998
Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003
Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 – The Guide
Twitter Privacy Policy
Facebook Privacy Policy
Google Privacy Policy
Linkedin Privacy Policy
Mailchimp Privacy Policy

Volksouce Privacy Policy Ref: V2-25-5-2018

 

 

 

Cookie Policy for Volksource

 

What Are Cookies

As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the sites functionality.

For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies…

 

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

 

Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

 

The Cookies We Set

We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.

In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.

 

Third Party Cookies

In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including; Facebook, will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.

 

More Information

Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren’t sure whether you need or not it’s usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site. However if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods.

Email: admin@volksource.com