Privacy
1. Who is responsible for managing my information?
This website is owned and maintained by Social Circular Economy (“we” or “us”). We are responsible for the collection and proper management of any personal information you submit. For example if you email us via the “Contact” link on this site, we ask you for information such as your name and email address so we can respond to your questions and comments. You may choose to provide additional information as well. We will keep your personal details secure and use the information you provide consistently with applicable privacy and data protection laws and the terms of this Privacy Policy.
2. What information do we collect?
We also collect website usage information like most websites. We do this using cookies (see section 7 below).
3. How do we use your information?
The information you provide may be used in a number of ways, for example:
4. Who will we share your information with?
In order to provide you with the products and services that we offer we may share your information with:
Service providers contracted to perform services on our behalf, who will be contractually bound from using/disclosing information except to perform the services and/or legal compliance. We may disclose information about you if required to do so by law or if we believe disclosure is appropriate to prevent physical harm, financial loss or to support an investigation of illegal activity. We may also disclose your personal information to third parties in the event we sell or buy business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets. All reasonable efforts will be made to tell the transferee to use the information in line with this policy.
5. When can we contact you in the future?
We would like to send you information about our own products and services, as well as those of selected third parties. We may do this by post, telephone, email or SMS, unless you have told us that you do not wish to be contacted in this way. We will always ask you to confirm in advance that you are happy for us to allow third parties to contact you by email. If you would like to change any of your preferences relating to the way in which we may use your information for direct marketing, then please send an email to info@socialcirculareconomy.com.
6. How long will we hold your information for?
We have a system of retention periods in place to ensure that your information is only stored whilst it is required for the relevant purposes or to meet legal requirements. Where your information is no longer required, we will ensure it is disposed of in a secure manner.
7. Cookies
Our website uses cookies 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. Unless you disable such technologies, by using our website and online services, you agree that we can place these types of cookies and related technologies on your device.
Essential Cookies: Some cookies serve an essential function and the websites cannot work properly without them and thus cannot be disabled.
Browser and Flash Cookies: Other cookies serve a functional purpose and improve user experience, for example, to tell us whether you’ve visited us before, and to support us in identifying areas where you may have the most interest. These cookies may enhance your online experience by saving your preferences while you are visiting a particular site so that you do not need to reset them each time you visit the website. Neither Browser nor Flash cookies can identify you as an individual. You can decline these via your browser but you may not be able to get all of our website features.
Web Beacons: Some cookies collect aggregate information to help us improve our website by providing information e.g. loading errors and most visited pages. Some pages may contain web beacons to help display content to visitors and generate statistics regarding web traffic and trends. They cannot identify you as an individual.
This website uses Analytics which use cookies. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website by you (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, but this may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
8. How can you access and update your information?
You have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you. If you would like a copy of some or all of your personal information, please email. We want to make sure that your personal information is accurate and up to date. You may ask us to correct or remove information you think is inaccurate.
9. Does the policy apply to linked websites?
Our website contains links to other websites. This privacy policy only applies to this website so when you link to other websites you should read their own privacy policies.
10. How do we update this privacy policy?
We keep our privacy policy under regular review and we will place any updates on our webpage. This privacy policy was last updated on June 2017.
11. Who can you contact if you have queries about this privacy policy?
Please contact us if you have any questions about our privacy policy or information we hold about you by email: info@socialcirculareconomy.com
This website is owned and maintained by Social Circular Economy (“we” or “us”). We are responsible for the collection and proper management of any personal information you submit. For example if you email us via the “Contact” link on this site, we ask you for information such as your name and email address so we can respond to your questions and comments. You may choose to provide additional information as well. We will keep your personal details secure and use the information you provide consistently with applicable privacy and data protection laws and the terms of this Privacy Policy.
2. What information do we collect?
We also collect website usage information like most websites. We do this using cookies (see section 7 below).
3. How do we use your information?
The information you provide may be used in a number of ways, for example:
- to enable us to place you on a directory or map of social circular enterprises;
- to provide you with the information, products and services you ask for, and honour any contract you have with us;
- to tell you about other products and services we think may be of interest to you (see section 5 below)];
- for statistical purposes when we evaluate our range of services;
- to personalise repeat visits to our website;
4. Who will we share your information with?
In order to provide you with the products and services that we offer we may share your information with:
Service providers contracted to perform services on our behalf, who will be contractually bound from using/disclosing information except to perform the services and/or legal compliance. We may disclose information about you if required to do so by law or if we believe disclosure is appropriate to prevent physical harm, financial loss or to support an investigation of illegal activity. We may also disclose your personal information to third parties in the event we sell or buy business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets. All reasonable efforts will be made to tell the transferee to use the information in line with this policy.
5. When can we contact you in the future?
We would like to send you information about our own products and services, as well as those of selected third parties. We may do this by post, telephone, email or SMS, unless you have told us that you do not wish to be contacted in this way. We will always ask you to confirm in advance that you are happy for us to allow third parties to contact you by email. If you would like to change any of your preferences relating to the way in which we may use your information for direct marketing, then please send an email to info@socialcirculareconomy.com.
6. How long will we hold your information for?
We have a system of retention periods in place to ensure that your information is only stored whilst it is required for the relevant purposes or to meet legal requirements. Where your information is no longer required, we will ensure it is disposed of in a secure manner.
7. Cookies
Our website uses cookies 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. Unless you disable such technologies, by using our website and online services, you agree that we can place these types of cookies and related technologies on your device.
Essential Cookies: Some cookies serve an essential function and the websites cannot work properly without them and thus cannot be disabled.
Browser and Flash Cookies: Other cookies serve a functional purpose and improve user experience, for example, to tell us whether you’ve visited us before, and to support us in identifying areas where you may have the most interest. These cookies may enhance your online experience by saving your preferences while you are visiting a particular site so that you do not need to reset them each time you visit the website. Neither Browser nor Flash cookies can identify you as an individual. You can decline these via your browser but you may not be able to get all of our website features.
Web Beacons: Some cookies collect aggregate information to help us improve our website by providing information e.g. loading errors and most visited pages. Some pages may contain web beacons to help display content to visitors and generate statistics regarding web traffic and trends. They cannot identify you as an individual.
This website uses Analytics which use cookies. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website by you (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, but this may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
8. How can you access and update your information?
You have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you. If you would like a copy of some or all of your personal information, please email. We want to make sure that your personal information is accurate and up to date. You may ask us to correct or remove information you think is inaccurate.
9. Does the policy apply to linked websites?
Our website contains links to other websites. This privacy policy only applies to this website so when you link to other websites you should read their own privacy policies.
10. How do we update this privacy policy?
We keep our privacy policy under regular review and we will place any updates on our webpage. This privacy policy was last updated on June 2017.
11. Who can you contact if you have queries about this privacy policy?
Please contact us if you have any questions about our privacy policy or information we hold about you by email: info@socialcirculareconomy.com