Privacy Policy

1. Data We Collect

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

1.1 Information You Provide to Us

• Identity Data: Includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier.
• Contact Data: Includes email address and telephone numbers.
• Profile Data: Includes your username and password, your interests, preferences, feedback, and survey responses.
• Marketing and Communications Data: Includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

1.2 Information We Automatically Collect

• Technical Data: Includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, 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 and services.

1.3 Information from Third Parties

We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources, such as analytics providers like Google, advertising networks, and search information providers.

2. How We Use Your Data

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:

• To register you as a new website user or subscriber
• To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you
• To send you newsletters, updates, and marketing communications
• To manage our relationship with you, including notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy
• To administer and protect our business and this website
• To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences
• To respond to your inquiries, comments, or questions

2.1 Marketing Communications

We may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage, and Profile Data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which products, services, and offers may be relevant for you.

You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us, subscribed to our services, or provided us with your details when entering a competition or registering for a promotion and, in each case, you have not opted out of receiving marketing communications.

3. Your Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including the right to:

• Access your personal data: 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 your personal data: This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected.
• 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.
• Object to processing of your personal data: This enables you to object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing.
• Request restriction of processing your personal data: This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data.
• Request transfer of your personal data: This enables you to request the transfer of your personal data to a third party.
• Right to withdraw consent: This enables you to withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details provided in the "Contact Information" section below.

4. Cookie Policy

Our website uses cookies and similar technologies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

4.1 What are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and provide information to the website owners.

4.2 Types of Cookies We Use

• Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential for you to browse the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the site.
• Analytical/Performance Cookies: These allow us to recognize 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.
• Functionality Cookies: These are used to recognize you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalize our content for you and remember your preferences.
• Targeting Cookies: These cookies 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 the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.

4.3 Managing Cookies

Most web browsers allow you to manage your cookie preferences. You can set your browser to refuse cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. The Help function within your browser should tell you how.

Please note that if you disable or refuse cookies, some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.

5. Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized 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.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

6. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

7. Third-Party 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.

8. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of this policy.

You are advised to review this privacy policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this privacy policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

9. Contact Information

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact us:

• Email: privacy@qudresame.org
• Phone: +3292693790
• Postal Address: 49 Vanessa Gateway, Port Adrianbury, E12 5QJ

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the data protection authority in your country. We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the authority, so please contact us in the first instance.