Smart Digital TV Limited
Privacy Policy
1 INTRODUCTION
[Smart Digital TV Limited (“Smart Digital”], “Us”, “We”, “Our”) registered in England and Wales under company number 09262766 is the data controller of your Information for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the “Act”). We respect your privacy and we are committed to protecting your personal information as that term is defined in the Act (“Information”). We comply with the principles of the Act and aim to maintain consistently high levels of best practice in our processing of your Information.
This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) is intended to inform you how we collect, use and disclose your personal data. This Policy is intended to assist you in making informed decisions about your Information when using our website or the services provided by us. Please take a minute to read and understand the Policy.
By using our website and services you consent to our collection and use of your Information as described in this Policy. If we change our Policy and/or procedures, we will post those changes on our website to keep you aware of what Information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we may disclose it. Your continued use of the website or services after this Policy has been amended shall be deemed to be your continued acceptance of the terms and conditions of this Policy, as amended. We encourage you to bookmark this Web page and review this Policy regularly.
In addition to this Policy, each service offered by us may have additional privacy provisions that are specific to the particular service. These supplemental disclosures are made adjacent to the particular service at the time your Information is collected.
2 WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
All your Information will be held and used in accordance with the Act where applicable. If you want to know what Information we collect and hold about you, please write to us at: info@smart-digital.co.uk. When you visit and use our website or request our services you may provide us with or we may collect your Information, such as your postal address, email address and other personal information. You may provide or we may collect this Information in a number of ways:
2.1 Information you voluntarily provide to us
We collect and maintain Information that you voluntarily submit to us during your use of our website or services. For example:
- when you register on our website or for a service, you may provide us with certain Information including your name, email address, screen name, password and demographic information;
- where our website contains a social networking function, you may create and add to your profile by providing Information about your interests;
- if you sign up to our services or contact us via our website using your personal email address (personal data) and tick the “opt-in” checkbox on our contact form, download form or email campaign, you are agreeing to sign up to receive the latest tech trends, our services, news & company updates and events from Smart Digital by email, post and phone. We will always treat your personal details with the utmost care, and we never sell our data to other companies.
- if you sign up to receive a newsletter, a magazine, enter a contest or participate in social networking activities, you may provide us with contact information (e.g., email, telephone and/or or physical address); and
- you may provide us with Information in the course of email, customer support interactions and surveys.
Any corporate email address (a PLC or LTD email address) submitted to us via a contact form or download form on our website or via our corporate email addresses or phone, will be collected and used in accordance with GDPR policy.
2.2 Information we collect through your use of our Website
As you use our website, Information may also be passively collected by us through our use of cookies, pixels, beacons, log files and other technologies. This Information allows us to deliver more helpful information, services, tools and advertisements.
2.3 Information we receive from third parties
We may also combine online and/or offline information received from third parties with your Information. The third party information is used for a variety of purposes including to verify other Information about you (e.g. verify your mailing address to send you requested products or services) and to enhance the content and advertising we provide to you.
3 HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
We will use your Information in the ways described below and as described at the time that the Information is collected.
3.1 To Provide the Services
In general, we use your Information as necessary or appropriate for our business purposes including to:
- administer your account where you have opened an account with us;
- register you and provide you access to the website or services requested by you;
- respond to inquiries or requests that you direct to us;
- fulfil your requests for products or services;
- send communications and administrative emails about the website or our services;
- personalise and better tailor the features, performance and support of the website and our services for your use; analyse, benchmark and conduct research on user data and user interactions with the website and our services;
- running competitions:
- other purposes related to any of the above
3.2 Marketing
Where you have provided us with the appropriate consents, or where the Act entitles us to do so, we may send you marketing materials about other products or services offered by Smart Digital, and/or products or services offered by our company.
In addition, where you have provided us with the appropriate consents, we may also pass your Information to selected third parties for marketing purposes. However, be assured that we understand the irritations of unsolicited communications and we are fully committed to ensuring the rights and obligations set out in the Act and the Privac
y and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003, updated 2004, 2011, 2015, 2016 are respected.
- if you provide us with a personal email address and do not agree to receive our updates by checking the “opt in” checkbox at the time of contacting us or after, we will not contact you with updates and will remove your email address from our system after 6 months of obtaining your contact information.
- all data is used in accordance with GDPR regulation
3.3 Behavioural Advertising
We believe that advertising is more interesting to you when it is relevant. Accordingly, where you have consented for us to do so we may customise the advertisements that you see based upon:
- the Information you voluntarily provide to us;
- geographic location information, which we may determine through your IP address, from your mobile device, or other ways;
- data we receive from third parties; or
- your visits to our website or your use of our services (commonly referred to as “Behavioural Advertising”).
- Advertising and use cookies and web beacons in the manner described above. We do not control these advertisers or other parties’ use of cookies or web beacons or what they do with the information they collect.
- You can limit the way that we tailor advertising based on your Information by objecting to the cookies that we or third parties wish to place on your browser or deleting the cookies that we or third parties have placed on your browser.
After you have exercised your right to object or reject the use of cookies, you may still see advertisements, but the advertising may not be as relevant to your interests. If you change your computer, change your browser or delete certain cookies, you will need to renew your preferences.
4 CAN I FIND OUT WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION Smart Digital TV Limited HOLDS ON ME?
Under the Act you have the right to request a copy of the Information that we hold about you by contacting info@smart-digital.co.uk
5 DISCLOSURE FOR LEGAL REASONS
We may disclose your Information if we are under a duty to disclose or share your Information to comply with any legal obligation or in order to enforce or apply or fulfil our terms and conditions and other agreements or protect the rights, property, or safety of our customers or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
We use a number of third party organisations to help provide a professional service to our customers (i.e. website designers). These organisations act as data controllers and are strictly controlled. They may not use your Information and we remain responsible for the protection of your Information.
5.1 Promotions and Sponsors
Some or all of the Information collected during a promotion, contest or poll (“Promotions”) may be disclosed publicly. It may also be shared with other third parties as disclosed and consented to by you at the time of collection or in the Promotion rules. These third parties may include providers of prizes in order to update you of your status of your prize or other fulfilment needs or a co-sponsor who may use your Information to administer the Promotion or for their marketing purposes, but only in conformance with your consent. We are not responsible for their privacy policy or practices.
When you participate in a Promotion, you are subject to any official rules for that Promotion, which may contain additional information about the specific privacy practices associated with the Promotion.
5.3 Changes to our Company
In the event we go through a business transition such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your Information may be among the assets transferred. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and are permitted by this Policy.
5.4 Message Boards and Chats
We may make message boards, chat rooms, and other interactive forums available as part of our services. You should be aware that any Information which you post to these interactive forums or otherwise choose to make publicly available, may be disclosed and available to all users who have access to that portion of our website or services. By using these interactive forums, you agree that we are not responsible for any Information that you disclose or communicate in such forums, and any disclosures you make are at your own risk.
6 UPDATING AND CONTROL OF YOUR INFORMATION
There are a number of ways in which you can control the collection, use, and sharing of your Information and update your Information and preferences.
6.1 Opting-Out on Receipt of Marketing Communications
When you receive marketing communications from us you will have the opportunity to “opt-out” by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in the marketing e-mail or newsletter or by contacting us (see below).
6.2 Contacting Us
If your information has changed or if you no longer wish to receive marketing communications from us then you can amend your Information or update your preferences by contacting info@smart-digital.co.uk
If you would like to update your information you can contact us at any time at: info@smart-digital.co.uk
If you would like to raise a complaint about the way in which we have handled your data, you can report your concerns to the ICO or contact us at info@smart-digital.co.uk
7 THIRD PARTY LINKS AND SERVICES
Please remember that when you use a link to go from our website to another website or you request a service from a third party, our Policy no longer applies. Your browsing and interaction on any other website or your dealings with any other third party service provider, is subject to that website’s or third party service provider’s own rules and policies. We do not monitor, control, or endorse the information collection or privacy practices of any third parties. We encourage you to become familiar with the privacy practices of every website you visit or third party service provider that you deal with and to contact them if you have any questions about their respective privacy policies and practices. This Policy applies solely to information collected by us through our website or services and does not apply to these third party websites and third party service providers.
8 HOW TO CONTACT US
If you have any questions regarding privacy or this Policy, you may contact us on info@smart-digital.co.uk