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WEBSITE AND COOKIES PRIVACY POLICY

For the purpose of the General Data Protection Regulation, the data controller is DA Languages Ltd of Statham House, Talbot Road, Stretford, Manchester, M32 0FP.

DA LANGUAGES LTD (“We”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This policy sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. By visiting WWW.DALANGUAGES.CO.UK (“our site”) you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy.

INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM YOU

We may collect and process the following data about you:

  • Information you give us. You may give us information about you by filling in forms on our site or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise. This includes information you provide when you register to use our site, subscribe to our service, place an order on our site and when you report a problem with our site. The information you give us may include your name, address, e-mail address and phone number, financial and credit card information, personal description and photograph.
  • Information we collect about you. With regard to each of your visits to our site we may automatically collect the following information:
  • technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform;
  • information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time); products you viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page and any phone number used to call our customer service number.
  • Information we receive from other sources. We may receive information about you if you use any of the other websites we operate or the other services we provide. We are also working closely with third parties (including, for example, business partners, sub-contractors in technical, payment and delivery services, advertising networks, analytics providers, search information providers, credit reference agencies) and may receive information about you from them.

Throughout our site we may link to other websites owned and operated by certain trusted third parties to make you aware of other information that may be relevant to you. These other third party websites may also gather information about you in accordance with their own separate privacy policies. For privacy information relating to these other third party websites, please consult their privacy policies as appropriate.

USES MADE OF THE INFORMATION

We use information held about you in the following ways:

Information you give to us. We will use this information:

  • to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us and to provide you with the information, products and services that you request from us; to provide you with information about other goods and services we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about;
  • to provide you, or permit selected third parties to provide you, with information about goods or services we feel may interest you. If you are an existing customer, we will only contact you by electronic means (e-mail or SMS) with information about goods and services similar to those which were the subject of a previous sale or negotiations of a sale to you. If you are a new customer, and where we permit selected third parties to use your data, we (or they) will contact you by electronic means only if you have consented to this. If you do not want us to use your data in this way, or to pass your details on to third parties for marketing purposes, please tick the relevant box situated on the form on which we collect your data; to notify you about changes to our service;
  • to ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.

Information we collect about you. We will use this information:

  • to administer our site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;
  • to improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
  • to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service when you choose to do so; as part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure;
  • to measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you;
  • to make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of our site about goods or services that may interest you or them.
  • Information we receive from other sources. We may combine this information with information you give to us and the information we collect about you. We may us this information and the combined information for the purposes set out above (depending on the types of information we receive).

This site is not intended for use by children and we do not knowingly collect or use personal information relating to children.

OUR LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

When we use your personal information we are required to have a legal basis for doing so. There are various different legal bases on which we may rely, depending on what personal information we process and why.

The legal bases we may rely on include:

  • consent: where you have given us clear consent for us to process your personal information for a specific purpose
  • contract: where our use of your personal information is necessary for a contract we have with you, or because you have asked us to take specific steps before entering into a contract
  • legal obligation: where our use of your personal information is necessary for us to comply with the law (not including contractual obligations)
  • legitimate interests: where our use of your personal information is necessary for our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party (unless there is a good reason to protect your personal information which overrides our legitimate interests)

FURTHER INFORMATION—THE PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT, WHEN AND HOW WE USE IT

For further details on when we collect personal information, what we collect as well as how we use it, please read the following sections:

Purpose/ActivityType of dataLawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
To manage our relationship with you

Full name

Email address

Telephone number

Communication

(a) Performance of a contract with you

(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our website)

On receipt of an enquiry regarding services and products

Full name

Email address

Telephone number

Organisation

(a) performance of a contract with you

(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests

To provide you with updates and communications about our business

Full name

Email address

Telephone number

Communication

(a) Performance of a contract with you

(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests

To administer and improve this website and our business more generally

Full name

Email address

Usage

Technical data

(a) Necessary for our legitimate interests

(b) To comply with a legal obligation

Google Analytics

Location

Device

(a) Necessary for our legitimate interests.

 

 

 

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

We may share your personal information with any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 1159 of the UK Companies Act 2006.

We may share your information with selected third parties including:

  • Business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors for the performance of any contract we enter into with them or you.
  • Analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our site.
  • Credit reference agencies for the purpose of assessing your credit score where this is a condition of us entering into a contract with you.
  • In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
  • If DA Languages Ltd or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.
  • If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use https://www.dalanguages.co.uk/terms-conditions or terms and conditions of supply https://www.dalanguages.co.uk/terms-conditions/ and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of DA Languages Ltd, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS

Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the United Kingdom (UK) or European Economic Area (EEA), we ensure it is done so in accordance with the relevant data protection legislation. ”). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the UK and/or EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff maybe engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of your order, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. Where the third country does not have an adequacy decision we will put in measures such as the Standard Contractual Clauses to ensure that your personal data is protected.

WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Any payment transactions will be encrypted TLSv1.2 Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

DATA RETENTION PERIOD

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.

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.

YOUR RIGHTS

GDPR you have a number of rights such as;

  • The right to be informed about the collection and use of your data
  • The right of access to your personal data (subject access requests)
  • The right to rectification (amend inaccurate data)
  • The right to the erasure of your personal data
  • The right to restrict processing of your personal data
  • The right to data portability (to obtain and reuse your personal data for your own purposes)
  • The right to object to processing of your personal data
  • Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling

To exercise any of the rights listed above in line with GDPR legislation, please contact us on dpo@dalanguages.co.uk or D A Languages, Statham House, Talbot Road, Stretford, Manchester, M32 0FP.

Complaints or queries with respect to our use of your personal data can also be sent to our Data Protection Officer, Emma Whitemoss on dpo@dalanguages.co.uk

Please be aware that all requests will be responded to within 30 days unless there is a reasonable reason for extension. For SAR’s requests please note that these are free of charge however a fee may be applied for additional copies or if the request for information is manifestly unfounded or excessive.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.

 

COOKIES POLICY

Our site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our site. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our site and also allows us to improve our site. For detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them see our Cookie policy (this can be found at the bottom of the privacy policy page –

see https://www.dalanguages.co.uk/privacy-policies/)

Log files allow us to record visitor’s use of the site to enable us to enhance the future layout of the site. The data we gather in this way does not contain any personal information or information about which other sites you have visited.

If you provide feedback on our site we will only use it to develop and improve the site. We will keep the actual feedback for six months after which it will be deleted but analysis of feedback may be kept.

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Statham House, Talbot Rd
Stretford, Manchester M32 0FP

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