INTRODUCTION

1.IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND WHO WE ARE
2.THE DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU
3.HOW IS YOUR PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED
4.HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
5.DISCLOSURES OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
6.INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS
7.DATA SECURITY
8.DATA RETENTION
9.YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS

Important information and who we are

Purpose of this Privacy Notice

This privacy notice aims to give you information on how we collect and process your personal data in a variety of circumstances. It is important that you read this privacy notice so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data.

Controller

Vanden Recycling Limited (NI611544) of registered address at Marlborough House, 30 Victoria Street, Belfast BT1 3GG is the controller and responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as we, us or our in this privacy notice). If you have any questions about this privacy notice (including any requests to exercise any of your legal rights) please contact us by emailing supply@vandenrecycling.com

Third-Party Links

Our 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 notice of every website you visit.

The Data We Hold About You

Personal data means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together follows:

‧ Identity Data includes first name, last name, image, online username or similar identifier, title, date of birth and gender;
‧ Contact Data includes email address, physical address and telephone numbers;
‧ Financial Data includes bank account and payment card details;
‧ 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 our website;
‧ Usage Data includes information about how you use our website and services;
‧ Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences;
‧ Employment Data includes data which may be provided to us during a recruitment campaign, including your racial or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs or trade union membership.

Other than Employment Data, we do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data) through use of the website or when otherwise dealing with or concerning you. Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.

If you fail to provide personal data

Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you with services). In this case, we may have to cancel a service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.

Your Duty to Inform us of Changes

It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.

How is your personal data collected?

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

Process of Collection  Types of data collected
 A/ during direct interactions whenever you provide the personal data in person, by post, by phone, via our website, by email, via social media, or otherwise or are visible on any of our CCTV equipment  Identity Data
Contact Data
Financial Data
Marketing and Communications Data
 B/ as you interact with our website, we may use cookies, server logs and similar technologies  Technical Data
Usage Data
Marketing and Communications Data
 C/ from third parties including your employer, analytics providers (like Google Analytics), advertising networks (like AdWorks), electronic payment providers (like our bank) or data aggregators (like Apache Hive) or lead generating service providers that search publicly available sources such as company websites  Identity Data
Contact Data
Financial Data
Technical Data
 D/ from publicly available sources (like Companies House, the Electoral Register and social media)  Identity Data
Contact Data
 E/ during recruitment campaigns from third party recruitment service providers or from you  Employment Data

How we use your personal data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data under the following conditions:

‧ where we need to perform a contract we are about to enter into, or have entered into, with you;
‧ where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests; or
‧ where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

Generally we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data other than where expressly asked for separately than in this notice, in relation to certain cookies and if necessary for sending third party direct marketing communications to you via email or text message. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us.

Purposes for, and legal basis on, which we will use your personal data

We have set out below a description of all the ways we may use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so (including a description of the legitimate interest pursued). Note that we may process your personal data for more than one basis depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data.

Purpose/Activity Legal basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
To register you as a new customer and administer any contracts with you Performance of a contract with you
To manage our relationship with you which may include notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy, asking you to leave a review or dealing with any issues you have brought to our attention (including providing service specifications and pricings)

  • Performance of a contract with you
  • Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
  • Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products/services)
    To enable you to participate in a prize draw, competition or complete a survey • Performance of a contract with you
  • Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them and grow our business)
    To administer a contract with an organisation you are associated with (e.g. your employer)
  • Necessary for our legitimate interests (to establish and perform a contractual relationship, including processing payments and all ancillary services)
    To administer and protect our business and our website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data) • Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganisation or group restructuring exercise)
  • Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
    To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy)
    To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, business relationships, customer relationships and experiences Necessary for our legitimate interests (to define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our website updated and relevant, to develop our business, to ensure we have reliable credit relationships with our customers and suppliers and to inform our marketing strategy)
    To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our products/services and grow our business)
    To manage the recruitment process, including setting up and conducting interviews, evaluating the results and as otherwise needed in the recruitment and hiring process
  • Performance of a contract with you
  • Necessary for our legitimate interests (to solicit, evaluate and select applicants for employment)
  • Necessary to comply with a legal obligation

Note:

Legitimate Interest means the interest of our business in conducting and managing our business to enable us to give you the best service/product and the best and most secure experience. We make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you (both positive and negative) and your rights before we process your personal data for our legitimate interests. We do not use your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law).

Marketing

If you are a customer of ours, we may contact you from time to time by call or email to provide some information about our products or services. You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by contacting us, as appropriate, at any time. Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of a service experience or other transactions.

We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any company outside of our own for marketing unrelated to our company

Dislosures of your Personal Data

We may have to share your personal data with the parties (all established in the European Union unless otherwise stated) set out below for the purposes set out in the table in paragraph 4 above:

  • Our customers whenever we sell certain products to them, but we will only share such data as is required by law.
  • Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy notice.
  • HM Revenue & Customs, regulators and other authorities acting as processors or joint controllers who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances or to other recipients to whom we are required to disclose information in accordance with a law or court order;
  • Professional advisers acting as processors or joint controllers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers based in the European Union or United Kingdom who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance and accounting services;
  • Service providers acting as processors, including our parent company and, as at the date noted above (and who may be updated from time to time):
  • shipping lines and other transportation providers who are primarily based in the EEA but may be required to transfer personal data outside the EEA in order to perform contracts to provide collection or delivery services;
  • an operator who is engaged to provide IT hosting services within the EEA;
  • an operator based in India who is engaged to provide IT support services; and
  •  an automated electronic mailing service provider who is based in the USA.

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

International Transfers

We do not transfer, or allow access of, your personal data outside the European Economic Area (EEA) other than to the company we use to provide automated emailing services, the company we use to provide IT support services and our parent company and other members of our group of companies. For these recipients, we ensure that a similar degree of protection is enforced as is required within the EEA by ensuring that the recipients have Privacy Shield (further details) certifications if established in the USA), the recipient countries have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection by the European Commission (further details), the transfer is necessary for the performance of a contract with you or for your benefit or we have implemented standard contractual clauses with the recipient which provide for sufficient safeguarding of the data.

Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. 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. 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. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

Data Retention

How long will you use my Personal Data for?

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil 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 unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data, how long a legal claim may be taken and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

In some circumstances, we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

Your Legal Right

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

Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us;
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, where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.
Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios: (a) if you want us to establish the data’s accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c) where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) you have objected to our use of your
data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us.

No fee usually required

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

What we may need from you

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

Time limit to respond

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

Supervisory Authority Contact

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.

Information about our use of Cookies

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

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

We use the following cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services. Your consent is not needed for this type of cookie.
Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise 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, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
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. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookie Name Purpose
Analytic Google Analytics Estimate our audience size and usage pattern.

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies), or do not give us consent to use cookies, you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

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