1.1 Privacy & Cookies Policy
We take data protection seriously and safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors is important to us. This policy (Privacy & Cookies Policy) sets out the basis on which any personal information we may collect from you, or you provide to us, will be processed and used by us. It also describes how we use cookies and how you can manage them.
Any links from our website to other websites are provided merely for your convenience and do not imply our endorsement of the content or the provider. If you follow a link to any of these websites, you do so at your own risk and we do not accept any responsibility or liability for the content of such websites.
Information we may collect from you
We can only use your personal data if we have a proper reason for doing so. According to the law, we can only use your data for one or more of these reasons:
To fulfil a contract we have with you, or
If we have a legal duty to use your data for a particular reason, or
When you consent to it, or
When it is in our legitimate interests.
Legitimate interests are our business or commercial reasons for using your data, but even so, we will not unfairly put our legitimate interests above what is best for you.
By using our websites or by registering for any of the products and services we offer through it, you are confirming to us that you understand and accept that your personal information may be used by us in the manner described below.
We may collect and process the following data about you:
information that you provide by filling in forms on our website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our website, subscribing to our products and services, posting material or requesting further products and services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our website
if you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence (including email and phone conversations)
your name, address, telephone numbers, email address and other information which you supply to us
we may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them
details of transactions you carry out through our website and the fulfilment of those transactions
details of your visits to our website including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access
Certain kinds of personal data, such as data about your racial or ethnic origin, your physical or mental health, your religious beliefs or alleged commission or conviction of criminal offences, are special categories of personal data which by law require additional protection. We try to limit the circumstances in which we collect sensitive personal data of this kind. By providing any sensitive personal data, you explicitly agree that we may collect it and use it to provide services to you.
3 Uses made of the information
We may use information held about you in the following ways:
to ensure that content from our website is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer
to provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may be of interest to you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes
to audit the usage of our website
to carry out our obligations arising from any contract entered into between you and us
for training purposes, quality assurance or to record details about the products and services you order from us
to satisfy and meet our legal and regulatory requirements
to allow you to participate in interactive features of our services, when you choose to do so
to notify you about changes to our products and services
Unless prescribed by law, we will retain your personal information for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the personal information was collected or for which it is to be further processed by us.
4 Disclosure of your information
We may disclose your personal information to any member of the Daisy Group of companies.
We may disclose your personal information to third parties if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal information in order to comply with any legal or regulatory obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms and conditions and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
In order to provide you with requested products and services we may need to transfer your personal information to service partners based in countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA). This does not diminish your rights. We will take all reasonable steps necessary to ensure that any personal information transferred outside the EEA by us will be treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy & Cookies Policy.
5 Transfers of data outside of the EEA
In order to provide you with requested products and services we may need to transfer your personal information to service partners based in countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA). This does not diminish your rights. We will take all reasonable steps necessary to ensure that any personal information transferred outside the EEA by us will be treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy & Cookies Policy.
6 IP addresses and cookies
6.1 IP addresses
We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type for system administration. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.
6.2 Cookies
Cookies are small pieces of information in the form of text files that are sent to your browser from our web server and are stored on your computer.
We do not store any personal information in the cookie; they are designed only to collect information of an anonymous nature. We will not combine such anonymous information with your personal details.
Our website uses cookies which help to identify you and any particular interests or preferences you express, making your future website visits to us more efficient. Save for the use of cookies, we do not automatically log data or collect data. You can set your computer browser to reject cookies but this may preclude your use of certain parts of our website.
Cookies are essential to using the website, as they gather information on the type of platform you’re using to view our website e.g. Windows, iOS or Android device. We use this information to optimise our website for your particular platform, in order to help us to try and give you best experience no matter which platform you use. Below are some examples of how we use cookies to do this:
To gather information which allows us to identify your platform and record enquiries so we may improve customer experience and identify issues on the website
To help ensure you are provided with correct and useful information during your visit to our website
To collect data which allows us to improve our services based on your purchases and website usage
6.3 Cookies in use
The cookies we use can be split into different functions as explained in the table below:
The cookies we use, the reason for using them and the duration for which they are stored, are as follows:
First-party cookies are cookies that belong to the same domain that is shown in the browser’s address bar (or that belong to the sub domain of the domain in the address bar).
Daisygroup.com
First-party cookies are cookies that belong to the same domain that is shown in the browser’s address bar (or that belong to the sub domain of the domain in the address bar).
StephenRyanDesign.com
Third Party Cookies
Third-party cookies are cookies that belong to domains different from the one shown in the address bar. Web pages can feature content from third-party domains (such as banner ads), which opens up the potential for tracking the user’s browsing history. Privacy setting options in most modern browsers allow the blocking of third-party tracking cookies.
For more information about cookies please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/
We may from time to time, via secure means, upload into Facebook, Google, LinkedIn. The data is ‘hashed’ so that it is an anonymous data sequence.
We from time to time add different cookies to test systems to make your user experience better, we will not use or keep any of the data captured during these trials.
6.4 Your consent to our use of cookies
On our website, there is a notice which tells you that we use cookies and which provides a link to this Privacy and Cookies Policy to demonstrate how we use cookies and how you can change which cookies you chose to accept.
If you click ‘agree and continue’ you are also providing your consent to those cookie settings and unless and until you change your settings, you’ve agreed to them.
In any event, as we have notified you with that notice about the cookies we use, your use of our website without making any changes to the existing cookie settings we have provided, is your consent to those cookie settings. In other words, we have told you about those cookies and you’ve decided not to block them, so we will assume that unless and until you change your settings, you’ve agreed to them.
Additionally, if you change the settings using your browser settings, you are giving your consent to our use of those cookies which you have not disabled.
6.5 How to reject and manage cookies
You can choose not to allow cookies in your browser settings. How you do this will depend upon the browser you are using. More information on cookies, their use and how to accept or reject them can be found at www.allaboutcookies.org.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
As our cookies are largely aimed at improving the user experience on the website, you may find that if you block certain cookies you may experience deterioration in the service you receive.
7 Your rights and how to contact us
You are entitled to see copies of all personal data held by us and to amend, correct or delete such data. You can also limit, restrict or object to the processing of your personal data. You can use our privacy centre and you can also log into MyAccount to access some data. If you gave us consent to use your data e.g. so that we can send you marketing emails, you can withdraw your consent. Information on how to do this is on each marketing email you receive as well as the preference centre.
Under the forthcoming changes to data protection legislation additions rights will be granted to data subjects. For example, the right to rectification provides that we organisations hold inaccurate data the data subject can request that it is corrected within a period of no longer than thirty days. Often, how we deal with data subject rights will through our business as usual processes. Other rights include the right to data to be erased, the right to access data (often referred to as a Subject Access Request), right to object and to restrict processing. There are also rights in respect of data portability and automated decision making, including profiling.
To raise any complaints, objections or to exercise any of your rights you can send an email to us at stephen@stephenryandesign.com
8 Contact Information
If you have comments or any questions about our Privacy & Cookies Policy please contact: stephen@stephenryandesign.com
We regularly review our policies and any changes will be posted on our website. This Privacy & Cookies Policy was last reviewed and updated in April 2018.