COOKIE & PRIVACY POLICY

We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website and sign up to receive updates from us. It will also tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

We are Furocity Limited, a company registered in England and Wales (company number 13515791), the controller and company responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as "we", "us" or "our" in this privacy policy).

  1. What data do we collect and how?

    2. We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

    • Identity and Contact Data includes your name and email address.
    • Technical Data includes browser type and version, location, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
    • Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, products and services.
    • Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences

    We may collect data through direct interactions with you (where you give your data to us) and through automated technologies or interactions (such as cookies).

    This website and our products are not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.

    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.

  2. How we use your personal data

    3. 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:

    • Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
    • 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.
  3. Why we use your personal data

    4. We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to 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.

    Purpose/Activity Type of data Lawful basis for processing
    To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you (a) Identity and Contact
    (b) Usage
    (c) Marketing and Communications
    (d) Technical    		 Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy)
    Purpose/Activity Type of data Lawful basis for processing
    To administer and protect our business and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data) (a) Identity and Contact
    (b) Technical    		 (a) Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business sale, reorganisation or group restructuring exercise)
    (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
    Purpose/Activity Type of data Lawful basis for processing
    To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences (a) Technical
    (b) Usage     		Necessary for our legitimate interests (to define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our website updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy)
    Purpose/Activity Type of data Lawful basis for processing
    To enable you to partake in a prize draw, competition or complete a survey (a) Identity and Contact
    (b) Usage
    (c) Marketing and Communications     		(a) Performance of a contract with you
    (b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them and grow our business)
    Purpose/Activity Type of data Lawful basis for processing
    To make suggestions and recommendations to you about Furocity goods or services that may be of interest to you (a) Identity and Contact
    (b) Technical
    (c) Usage
    (d) Marketing and Communications     		Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our products/services and grow our business)
    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, or where it is required or permitted by law.

    Third-party website 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 policy of every website you visit.

  4. Sharing your personal data

    5. We want to earn and maintain your trust. So as a rule, we do not, and will not, sell any of your personal data to any third party.

    However, we may share your data with the following categories of companies, as an essential part of being able to provide our services to you:

    • Companies that do things to run our website and the systems that support our customer service teams
    • Professional service providers, such as marketing agencies, advertising partners and other advisors and agents, who help us run our business, undertake market research and gather product reviews
    • Our security contractors, law enforcement, cybersecurity companies, fraud prevention and crime reduction agencies, so we can help tackle fraud and criminal activity. We may also receive information from these bodies and use it to keep you safe online
    • Companies approved by you, such as social media sites (if you choose to link your accounts to us)

    We may provide third parties with aggregated but anonymised information and analytics, but before we do, we'll make sure that it does not identify you.

    We may also be required to disclose your personal data to the police or other enforcement, regulatory or Government body upon a valid request to do so. These requests are assessed on a case-by-case basis and we'll always take your privacy into consideration before sharing.

    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.

    If any of the third parties are based outside of the UK, we have procedures in place to ensure that your data receives the same standard of protection it gets in the UK. Please contact us if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data out of the UK.

  5. Data security

    6. 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.

  6. How long will you use my personal data for?

    7. 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.

  7. Your legal rights

    8. Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us.

    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.

    You have the right to:

    Opt out of marketing: You can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by contacting us at any time.

    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:

    • If you want us to establish the data's accuracy.
    • Where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it.
    • 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.
    • You have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.

    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.

    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.

  8. Cookies

    9. 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.

    Our website may use:

    • Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website.
    • Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works.
    • Targeting cookies. These cookies may record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and any advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.
  9. Contact Us

    10. You can contact us in the following ways:

    Furocity Limited, PO Box 249

    legal@furocityenergy.com

    You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK regulator for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO, so please contact us in the first instance.

December 2021

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