5.1 All personal data is stored securely in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) (GDPR). For more details on security, see section 6 below.
5.2 We use your data to provide the best products and services. This includes:
5.2.1 – Providing and managing your Account
5.2.2 – Personalising and tailoring your experience on our website
5.2.3 – Supplying our products and services to you
5.2.4 – Personalising and tailoring our products and services for you
5.2.5 – Responding to communications from you
5.2.6 – Market research
5.2.7 Analysing your use of our website and gathering feedback enables us to continually improve our website and your user experience.
5.3 In some cases, the collection of data may be a statutory or contractual requirement, and we will be limited in the products and services we can provide you without your consent for us to be able to use such data.
5.4 With your permission and/or where permitted by law, we may also use your data for marketing purposes, which may include contacting you by email, telephone, text message, posting information, news and offers on our products and/or services. We will not, however, send you any unsolicited marketing or spam and will take all reasonable steps to ensure that we fully protect your rights and comply with our obligations under the GDPR and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, as amended in 2004, 2011 and 2015.
5.5 Advertisers whose content appears on our website may engage in what is known as “behavioural advertising” – advertising which is tailored to your preferences based on your activity. Your activity is monitored using cookies, as detailed below in section 12. You can control and limit your data used in this way by adjusting your web browser’s privacy settings. Please note that we do not control the activities of such advertisers nor the information they collect and use. Limiting the use of your data in this way will not remove the advertising, but it will make it less relevant to your interests and activities on our website.
5.6 Under GDPR, we will ensure that your personal data is processed lawfully, fairly, and transparently without adversely affecting your rights. We will only process your personal data if at least one of the following basis applies:
a) You have given consent to the processing of your personal data for one or more specific purposes;
b) Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or in order to take steps at the request of you prior to entering into a contract;
c) Processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject;
d) Processing is necessary to protect the vital interests of you or another natural person;
e) Processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or the exercise of official authority vested in the controller and/or
f) Processing is necessary for the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject, which require personal data protection, particularly where the data subject is a child.