Privacy Policy
Make It Cheaper Limited (our registered office
address is Aston House, Cornwall Avenue, London N3 1LF (Company
number: 07548195)) ("we", "us", "our") is committed to protecting
and respecting your privacy.
This policy (together with our Terms and Conditions of
Service) 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.
When you provide your personal data to us, you are deemed to have
read this privacy policy and to have accepted the terms set out
herein.
For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the "Act"), the
data controller is Make it Cheaper Limited and our trading address
is 4th Floor, 33 King William Street, London, EC4R 9AS.
1. Information we may collect from you
We may collect and process the following data about you:
- Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site www.makeitcheaper.com or by
post or over the telephone. This includes information provided in
the course of expressing an interest in, subscribing to and/or
using our services and/or to enable us to contact you in relation
to our services. We may also ask you for information when you
report a problem with our site.
- Information that you provide to us in the course of subscribing
to newsletters and email notifications.
- If we contact each other in writing, we may keep a record of
that correspondence.
- If we contact each other by telephone, we will record and keep
a record of all inbound and outbound calls to and from our call
centre.
- 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 via links from our
site.
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Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited
to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication
data and the resources that you access. This is explained in
further detail in paragraph 2 below.
2. IP Addresses and Cookies
We may also collect information about your computer and your
visits to and use of our site, including, where available, your
computer's IP address, geographical location, operating system,
referral source, browser type, length of visit and number of page
views. We will collect this information for the purposes of system
administration, optimising the use of our site and reporting
aggregate information to third party suppliers. This is statistical
data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not
identify any individual. In particular, we may use an analytics
service provider for website traffic analysis and reporting and to
track information such as which browser, screen resolution and IP
address you are using to access our website, in addition to
tracking your movements around our Site.
For the same reason, we may obtain information about your
general internet usage by using a cookie file, which is a text file
sent by a web server to a web browser and stored by the browser.
The text file is then sent back to the server each time the browser
requests a page from the server and this enables the web server to
identify and track the web browser. Therefore, we may send a cookie
which may be stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive.
They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more
personalised service. In particular, they enable us:
- To estimate our audience size and usage pattern.
- To store information about your preferences, and so allow us to
customise our site according to your individual interests.
- To speed up your searches.
- To recognise you when you return to our site.
- To effectively administer the site and improve the site's
usability.
- To use information obtained from cookies for marketing
purposes.
You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on
your browser, which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies.
However, if you select this you may be unable to access certain
parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so
that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you
log on to our site.
Please note that third party suppliers may also use cookies,
over which we have no control and for which we are not liable.
As mentioned above, we may use an analytics service provider for
website traffic analysis and reporting. Analytics service providers
generate statistical and other information about site use by means
of cookies, which are stored on users' computers. The information
generated relating to our site may be used to create reports about
the use of our site and the analytics service provider will store
this information.
3. Where we store your personal data
The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and
stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area
("EEA"). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the
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. Please do not provide your personal data to us if you are
not happy for it to be transferred overseas. By submitting your
personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing.
We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your
data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy
policy.
Our servers are situated in the UK, however we collect data from
wherever users are situated. The information that we collect may
therefore be transferred to the UK from any other country in which
you may be located and our processing of such data will be subject
to UK data protection laws rather than the laws of the country in
which you are resident.
All information you provide to us is stored on our secure
servers and all electronic transactions made via the site will be
encrypted using SSL technology. 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, together with any login details and/or user details.
We ask you not to share your password, login or user details 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.
We will retain your information for the duration of the term of
your contract with your supplier and for a reasonable period
thereafter or as long as the law requires or permits.
4. Uses made of the information
We use information held about you in the following ways:
- To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most
effective manner for you and for your computer.
- To administer caller information.
- To provide you with marketing communications by post, email,
fax, SMS/MMS and/or phone about our services and products that you
request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have
consented to be contacted for such purposes.
- To provide you with marketing communications by post, email,
fax, SMS/MMS and/or phone about services and products of our
suppliers and other third parties that you request from us or which
we feel may interest you where you have consented to be contacted
for such purposes.
- To provide third parties with information about our users to
enable third parties to provide you with marketing communications
by post, email, fax, SMS/MMS and/or phone about their services and
products which they feel may interest you, where you have given
your prior consent to such third party to contact you for such
purposes.
- To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered
into between you and us.
- To provide third parties with any information given by you to
us which is necessary for the purpose of carrying out our reporting
requirements with such third parties.
- To allow you to participate in interactive features of our
service, when you choose to do so.
- To notify you about changes to our services.
- To enable us to effectively administer, develop, support and
improve the site and improve a customer's/user's browsing
experience by personalising our site.
- To enable us to collate statistical information about customers
and carry out market research.
- To enable us to provide customer services in relation to our
services and to deal with enquiries and complaints made by or in
relation to customers and/or products supplied to customers.
- To send you general (non-marketing) communications such as
email notifications and/or newsletters which you have specifically
requested.
5. Disclosure of your information
We may disclose your personal information to 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 provide access to, disclose or sell your personal
information to third parties:
- To whom disclosure is necessary to enable us and/or a supplier
to determine if you are eligible to subscribe to our services
and/or the supplier's services.
- To whom disclosure is necessary to enable us to provide you
with any service to which you have subscribed (including without
limitation for the purposes of contract fulfilment, processing
payments, credit referencing, designing, maintaining and
administering the site).
- To enable third parties to contact you about their products and
services which may be of interest to you, where you have given your
prior consent to such third party to be contacted by them for such
purposes.
- To provide third parties with any information given by you to
us which is necessary to carry out our reporting requirements with
such third parties.
- 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 Make it Cheaper Limited (or a group company) or
substantially all of its respective assets are acquired by a third
party, in which case personal data held by us about our users may
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 rights under this Privacy Policy or under our
Terms and Conditions of Service or other agreements; or to protect
the rights, property, or safety of Make it Cheaper Limited, our
group, our users, customers or others. This includes exchanging
information with other companies and organisations for the purposes
of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
6. Your rights
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data
for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before
collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such
purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third
party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent
such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to
collect your data.
You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at
enquiries@makeitcheaper.com
or following any "unsubscribe" instructions included in any
marketing materials sent to you.
Our site contains links to and from the websites of our partner
networks, suppliers and affiliates. If you follow a link to
any of these websites, please note that these websites have their
own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility
or liability for these policies or data activities on such
websites. Please check these policies before you submit any
personal data to these websites.
The Act gives you the right to access information we hold about
you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the
Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 towards our
costs in providing you with details of the information we hold
about you and you will be required to provide us with appropriate
identification so we can verify your identity.
7. Updating Information
Please let us know if any personal information which we hold
about you needs to be corrected or updated at any time.
8. Changes to our privacy policy
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will
be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by
e-mail.
9. Contact
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy
are welcomed and should be addressed to:
Postal address: Make It Cheaper Ltd, 4th Floor, 33 King William
Street, London, EC4R 9AS
Email address: admin@makeitcheaper.com