We collect personal information about you when you access our website or log into our distributor portal, approach us at a tradeshow or event, register with us, sign up as one of our distributors, contact us (via telephone, email, social media or our website), subscribe to receive communications, send us feedback, otherwise purchase products or complete customer surveys.
We collect this personal information from you either directly, such as when you approach us at a tradeshow or seminar or when you contact us, or indirectly, such as your browsing activity while on our website (see “Cookies” below) or via an advertising campaign.
We also collect personal information about you from other sources as follows:
- via our appointed distributors or other resellers of our products
- from conference and exhibition organisers, and other industry associations
- from third parties who may provide us with your details because you have an interest in our products – these third parties will have obtained contact information directly from you and will pass your information to us in a secure database
The personal information we collect about you depends on the purpose for which you engage with us. This information may include the following:
- Identity Data – full name, title, job title, department, employer name, along with organisational hierarchy, location, industry sector, areas of interest, product and service preferences.
- Contact Data – address, email address, fax and telephone numbers.
- Financial Data – bank account, payment card details and credit check information as required to process a transaction. Note that we may take payment details over the telephone in order to process your payment, however, we do not store these.
- Transaction Data – details about payments to and from you and other details of services you have purchased from us.
- Technical Data – internet protocol (IP) address, your distributor portal login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and geographical location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this website including, where the data is available, information about the identity of the owner of fixed IP addresses.
- Profile Data – your username and password, support requests and our internal record of orders made by you, your interests and preferences.
- Usage Data – information about how you use our website and products, including navigation paths, visitor source, information about the timing, frequency and pattern of your use, and survey responses.
- Marketing and Communications Data – your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences.
This personal information is required to provide products to you whether you are a customer or one of our distributors. If you do not provide personal information we ask for, it may delay or prevent us from providing products to you.
This website is not intended for use by children.
In addition, we do not envisage that we will collect or process any special categories of personal data about you.
How and why we use your personal information
Under data protection law, we can only use your personal information if we have a legal basis for doing so for example:
- Consent: where you have given us clear consent for us to process your personal information for a specific purpose
- Contract: where our use of your personal information is necessary for a contract we have with you, or because you have asked us to take specific steps before entering into a contract
- Legal obligation: where our use of your personal information is necessary for us to comply with the law (not including contractual obligations)
- Legitimate interests: where our use of your personal information is necessary for our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party (unless there is a good reason to protect your personal information which overrides our legitimate interests)
Purposes for which we will use your personal data
Purpose/Activity |
Type of data |
Legal basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest |
To register you as a new customer or supplier |
- Identity
- Contact
- Financial
|
Performance of a contract with you |
To provide products to you, including:
- Manage payments, fees and charges
- Collect and recover money owed to us
|
- Identity
- Contact
- Financial
- Transaction
- Marketing and Communications
|
- Performance of a contract with you
- Necessary for our legitimate interests (to recover debts due to us)
|
To manage our relationship with you which will include:
- Notifying you about changes to our products, terms or privacy policy
- Asking you to leave a review or take a survey
|
- Identity
- Contact
- Profile
- Marketing and Communications
|
- 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)
|
To enable you to complete a survey or provide us with feedback |
- Identity
- Contact
- Profile
- Usage
- Marketing and Communications
|
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products, to develop them and grow our business) |
To administer and protect our business and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data) |
- Identity
- Contact
- Technical
- Usage
|
- 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 marketing materials to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the marketing we send to you |
- Identity
- Contact
- Profile
- Usage
- Marketing and Communications
- Technical
|
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy) |
To use data analytics to improve our website, products, marketing, customer relationships and experiences |
- Technical
- Usage
|
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to define types of customers for our products, to keep our website updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy) |
To make suggestions and recommendations to you about products that may be of interest to you |
- Identity
- Contact
- Technical
- Usage
- Profile
- Transaction
|
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our products and grow our business) |
Who we share your personal information with
We routinely share personal information with:
- third parties we use to help deliver our products to you, e.g. payment service providers, warehouses, freight forwarding and delivery companies
- our third party distributors, e.g. when you raise an enquiry with us and we pass this to the distributor supplying our products in the country that you are based
- other third parties we use to help us run our business, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Salesforce third party marketing agencies and IT infrastructure providers.)
We only allow our service providers to handle your personal information if we are satisfied they take appropriate measures to protect your personal information. We also impose contractual obligations on service providers to ensure they can only use your personal information to provide services to us and to you.
We may also share personal information with external auditors, e.g. in relation to the audit of our accounts.
We may disclose and exchange information with law enforcement agencies and regulatory bodies to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.
We may also need to share some personal information with other parties, such as potential purchasers of some or all of our business or during a re-structuring. Usually, information will be anonymised but this may not always be possible. The recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations.
We will not share your personal information with any other third party.