Privacy Policy
WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY
Policy version: 20 September 2022
INTRODUCTION
This Privacy Policy is provided by Freelance Magnet Limited (trading as QWIDPRO),
a company registered in England and Wales under company number: 13393638 with registered
office Cardiff Bay Business Centre Titan House, Lewis Road, Cardiff, United Kingdom, CF24 5BS
('we', 'our' or 'us') for use of our products and services including our website (Services).
We take your privacy very seriously. Please read this privacy policy carefully as it contains
important information on how and why we collect,
store, use and share any information relating to you (your personal data).
It also explains your rights in relation to your personal data and how to contact us or the
relevant regulator in the event you have a complaint. Our collection, storage, use and
sharing of your personal data is regulated by law, including under the UK General Data
Protection Regulation (UK GDPR).
We are the controller of personal data obtained via the Services, meaning we are the organisation legally responsible for
deciding how and for what purposes it is used.
WHAT THIS POLICY APPLIES TO
This privacy policy relates to your use of the Services only.
The Services may link to or rely on other apps, websites, APIs or services owned and operated
by us or by certain trusted third parties to enable us to provide you with Services.
These other apps, websites, APIs or services may also gather information about you
in accordance with their own separate privacy policies. For privacy information relating to
these other apps, websites or services, please consult their privacy policies as appropriate.
For more information see the section 'Who we share your personal data with' below.
PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU
The personal data we collect about you depends on the particular activities carried out through the Services. We will collect and use the following personal data about you:
Category of data | In more detail |
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Identify and account data you input into the Services Registration is mandatory in order to use the Services |
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Data collected when you use specific functions in the Services | .
Data you store online with us using the Services including your usage history or preferences (while such data may not always be personal data as defined at law in all cases we will assume it is and treat it in accordance with this policy as if it were) |
Data collected when you permit the collection of location data |
Details of your location with a high degree of precision, see the section 'Location services/data' below data concerning location is collected when using the Maps function of the Services |
Other data the Services collects automatically when you use it |
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If you do not provide personal data we ask for where it is required, including
the geo-localisation services, it may prevent us from providing services and/or
the Services to you.
We collect and use this personal data for the purposes described in the section
'How and why we use your personal data' below.
SENSITIVE DATA
Sensitive personal data (also known as special category data) means information
related to personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin; political opinions;
religious or philosophical beliefs; trade union membership; genetic data;
biometric data (where used for identification purposes); data concerning health;
data concerning a person's sex life; and data concerning a person's sexual
orientation.
Please note that we do not knowingly or intentionally collect sensitive personal
data or information about criminal convictions from individuals and that you
should not submit sensitive data to us.
If, however you do submit sensitive data to us, such as if you make this
sensitive data available to other users of the Services (such as by publishing
it through any forum feature we may make available from time to time) we will
assume that you have purposefully made any such sensitive data manifestly public.
LOCATION SERVICES/DATA
The Services will request your consent to use location services to precisely
identify your location each session (i.e. each time the Services is opened or
has been placed in the background for more than 30 seconds). We require access
to that data in order to monitor the locations of users for statistical and
reporting purposes.
If you do not provide your consent, you may use the Services but that will mean
the "maps" feature on the Services will not be available. To withdraw your
consent at any time you can turn off the localisation permissions for our app
on your device.
The location services in the Services will not operate unless location
services/data are generally enabled on your device. You may disable such
functionality at any time by turning your device's location on "off" using
the device's settings app. When you allow your device to use location
services/data, data will also be collected by Google in accordance with their
Privacy Policy, as this is the map service we integrate to our app.
We exert no control over Google's Privacy Policy and we therefore recommend
that you consult their privacy policy for further information on how Google
protect personal data please visit their site -
https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US.
For more information see the section
'Who we share your personal data with' below.
HOW YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS COLLECTED
We collect personal data from you directly when you sign up to the Services,
contact us directly or reach out to us via social media, make submissions via
the Services when a forum element is available, or indirectly, such as your
activity while using the Services.
t in time, we do not collect any personal information about you
using cookies or similar technologies. In the event that this were to change
and if we were to decide to collect personal data about you using cookies, you
would be notified of this change by means of in-app notification, with detailed
information regarding our use of cookies and similar technologies to be made
available in the relevant cookies policy.
HOW AND WHY WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
Under data protection law, we can only use your personal data if we have a
proper reason, e.g.:
- where you have given consent
- to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations
- for the performance of a contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract, or
- for our legitimate interests or those of a third party
A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your information, so long as this is not overridden by your own rights and interests. We will carry out an assessment when relying on legitimate interests, to balance our interests against your own. You can obtain details of this assessment by contacting us (see 'How to contact us' below).
The table below explains what we use your personal data for and why.
What we use your personal data for | Our reasons |
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Create and manage your account with us |
To perform our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract |
Providing services and/or the functionalities of the Services to you |
Depending on the circumstances:
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To enforce legal rights or defend or undertake legal proceedings |
Depending on the circumstances:
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Communications with you not related to marketing, including about changes to our terms or policies or changes to the Services or service or other important notices |
Depending on the circumstances:
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Protect the security of systems and data | To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations we may also use your personal data to ensure the security of systems and data to a standard that goes beyond our legal obligations, and in those cases our reasons are for our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to protect systems and data and to prevent and detect criminal activity that could be damaging for you and/or us |
Operational reasons, such as improving efficiency, training, and quality control or to provide support to you | For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service to you |
Statistical analysis to help us manage our business, e.g., in relation to our performance, customer base, app and functionalities and offerings or other efficiency measures | For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e. to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service to you and improve and develop our app |
Updating and enhancing user records |
Depending on the circumstances:
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To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations |
Depending on the circumstances:
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To share your personal data with members of our group and
third parties in connection with a significant corporate
transaction or restructuring, including a merger, acquisition,
asset sale, initial public offering or in the event of our
insolvency.
In such cases information will be anonymised where possible and only shared where necessary |
Depending on the circumstances:
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See 'Who we share your personal data with' for further information on the steps
we will take to protect your personal data where we need to share it with others.
MARKETING
We intended to email marketing to inform you of our services such as promotions.
We will always ask you for your consent before doing sending you marketing
communications, except where you have explicitly opted-in to receiving email
marketing from us in the past or except where you were given the option to
opt-out of email marketing when you initially signed up for your account with
us and you did not do so.
You will have the right to opt out of receiving marketing communications at any
time by:
- contacting us at marketingoptout@QWIDPRO.com
- using the 'unsubscribe' link included in all marketing emails you may received from us
We will always treat your personal data with the utmost respect and never sell or share it with other organisations for marketing purposes.
For more information on your right to object at any time to your personal data being used for marketing purposes, see 'Your rights' below.
WHO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA WITH
We routinely share personal data with service providers we use to help us run
our business or provide the services or functionalities in the Services,
including developers, cloud storage providers and Google, Inc. for Google Maps
location functionality. We exert no control over Google's Privacy Policy and we
therefore recommend that you consult their privacy policy for further
information on how Google protect personal data -
https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US
We only allow service providers to handle your personal data if we are
satisfied they take appropriate measures to protect your personal data.
We also impose contractual obligations on service providers to ensure they can
only use your personal data to provide services to us and to you.
We only allow service providers to handle your personal data if we are
satisfied they take appropriate measures to protect your personal data. We also
impose contractual obligations on service providers to ensure they can only
use your personal data to provide services to us and to you.
We or the third parties mentioned above may occasionally also need to
share your personal data with:
- external auditors, e.g. in relation to the audit of our accounts and our company —the recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations
- professional advisors (such as lawyers and other advisors)—the recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations
- law enforcement agencies, courts or tribunals and regulatory bodies to comply with legal and regulatory obligations
- other parties in connection with a significant corporate transaction or restructuring, including a merger, acquisition, asset sale, initial public offering or in the event of our insolvency—usually, information will be anonymised but this may not always be possible, however, the recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations
We will not share your personal data with any other third party.
HOW LONG YOUR PERSONAL DATA WILL BE KEPT
We will keep your personal data for as long as you have an active account with
us and for a period of up to 6 years thereafter to comply with any accounting
or legal obligations including in the event of the pursuit or defence of legal
claims. Once you have closed your account with us, we will move your personal
data to a separate database so that only key stakeholders in our business on a
'need to know basis' have access to such data.
Following the end of the of the aforementioned retention period, we will
delete or anonymise your personal data.
TRANSFERRING YOUR PERSONAL DATA OUT OF THE UK
At this point in time, we do not transfer your personal data outside of the UK.
If this changes, we would comply with applicable UK laws designed to ensure the
continued protection and privacy of your personal data. Any updated destinations
to which we send your personal data, would be indicated in the present section
and notified to you in accordance with the section on 'Change to this privacy
policy' below.
Furthermore, under UK data protection laws, we can only transfer your personal
data to a country outside the UK where: the UK government has decided the
particular country ensures an adequate level of protection of personal data
(known as an 'adequacy regulation') further to Article 45 of the UK GDPR;
there are appropriate safeguards in place, together with enforceable rights
and effective legal remedies for you; or a specific exception applies under
relevant data protection law. Accordingly, if we were to start transferring
your personal data from the UK to:
- The EEA: we would rely on the adequacy finding granted by the UK to the EU under the Withdrawal Agreement to do; for any transfers from the EU to the UK, we would rely on the adequacy regulation granted to the UK under the Adequacy Decision.
- Any country located outside the UK/EEA: we would rely an appropriate safeguards under the UK GDPR, such as by including the relevant Standard Contractual Clauses in our data processing agreements
YOUR RIGHTS
You generally have the following rights, which you can usually exercise free of charge. For more information regarding these rights, please visit the ICO website here.
Access to a copy of your personal data | The right to be provided with a copy of your personal data. |
Correction (also known as rectification) | .The right to require us to correct any mistakes in your personal data. |
Erasure (also known as the right to be forgotten) | The right to require us to delete your personal data—in certain situations. |
Restriction of use | The right to require us to restrict use of your personal data in certain circumstances, e.g. if you contest the accuracy of the data. |
Data portability | The right to receive the personal data you provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and/or transmit that data to a third party—in certain situations.|
To object to use |
The right to object:
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Not to be subject to decisions without human involvement |
The right not to be subject to a decision based solely on
automated processing (including profiling) that produces legal
effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you
We do not make any such decisions based on data collected by the Services. |
If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please complete a request form—available on our website at https://QWIDPRO.com/contactor email GDPR@QWIDPRO.com , call or write to us—see below: 'How to contact us'. When contacting us please:
- provide enough information to identify yourself (e.g., your full name and username) and any additional identity information we may reasonably request from you, and
- let us know which right(s) you want to exercise and the information to which your request relates
KEEPING YOUR PERSONAL DATA SECURE
We have appropriate security measures to prevent personal data from being
accidentally lost, or used or accessed unlawfully. We limit access to your
personal data to those who have a genuine business need to access it.
We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security
breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data
security breach where we are legally required to do so.
If you want detailed information from Get Safe Online on how to protect your
information and your computers and devices against fraud, identity theft,
viruses and many other online problems, please visit
www.getsafeonline.org.
Get Safe Online is supported by HM Government and leading businesses.
HOW TO COMPLAIN
Please contact us if you have any queries or concerns about our use of your
information (see below 'How to contact us'). We hope we will be able to
resolve any issues you may have.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner.
The Information Commissioner can be contacted at
https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint
or telephone: 0303 123 1113.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may change this privacy policy from time to time. When we make significant
changes we will take steps to inform you, for example via the Services or
by other means, such as email.
HOW TO CONTACT US
You can contact us by post, email or telephone if you have any questions about
this privacy policy or the information we hold about you, to exercise a
right under data protection law or to make a complaint.
Our contact details are shown below:
- 38 Chancery Lane, The Cursitor, London, WC2A1EN
- info@QWIDPRO.com
- +44 20 4571 5741