Background
Smarttasking.com Limited understands that your privacy is important to you and that you care about how your personal data is used. We respect and value the privacy of all of our clients and will only collect and use personal data in ways that are described here, and in a way that is consistent with our obligations and your rights under the law.
1. Information about us
Smarttasking.com Limited is registered in England under company number 09679782.
Registered and main trading address: Abbey House, 282 Farnborough Road, Farnborough, GU14 7NA
VAT number: 221008373.
Data Protection Officer: Gary Gamp.
Email address: datacontroller@Smarttasking.com
Telephone number: +44 (0) 7866 315210.
Postal Address: Abbey House, 282 Farnborough Road, Farnborough, GU14 7NA.
2. What does this policy cover?
This Privacy Information explains how we use your personal data: how it is collected, how it is held, and how it is processed. It also explains your rights under the law relating to your personal data.
3. What is personal data?
Personal data is defined by the General Data Protection Regulation (EU Regulation 2016/679) (the “GDPR”) as ‘any information relating to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified in particular by reference to an identifier’.
Personal data is, in simpler terms, any information about you that enables you to be identified. Personal data covers obvious information such as your name and contact details, but it also covers less obvious information such as identification numbers, electronic location data, and other online identifiers.
The personal data that we use is set out in Part 5, below.
4. What are my rights?
Under the GDPR, you have the following rights, which we will always work to uphold:
- The right to be informed about our collection and use of your personal data. This Privacy Policy should tell you everything you need to know, but you can always contact us to find out more or to ask any questions using the details in Part 11.
- The right to access the personal data we hold about you. Part 10 will tell you how to do this.
- The right to have your personal data rectified if any of your personal data held by us is inaccurate or incomplete. Please contact us using the details in Part 11 to find out more.
- The right to be forgotten, i.e. the right to ask us to delete or otherwise dispose of any of your personal data that we have. Please contact us using the details in Part 11 to find out more.
- The right to restrict (i.e. prevent) the processing of your personal data.
- The right to object to us using your personal data for a particular purpose or purposes.
- The right to data portability. This means that, if you have provided personal data to us directly, we are using it with your consent or for the performance of a contract, and that data is processed using automated means, you can ask us for a copy of that personal data to re-use with another service or business in many cases.
- Rights relating to automated decision-making and profiling – Part 6 explains more about how we use your personal data, including automated decision-making.
For more information about our use of your personal data or exercising your rights as outlined above, please contact us using the details provided in Part 11.
Further information about your rights can also be obtained from the Information Commissioner’s Office or your local Citizens Advice Bureau.
If you have any cause for complaint about our use of your personal data, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office.
5. What personal data do we collect?
We may collect some or all of the following personal data (this may vary according to your relationship with us):
- Name;
- Date of birth;
- Gender;
- Address;
- Email address;
- Telephone number;
- Employer name;
- Job title;
- Profession;
- Previous employers, salary & job performance;
- Information about your interests;
Your personal data is obtained from the following third parties:
- Elements Group Ltd (data as listed above);
- J-Curve Solutions Ltd (data as listed above)
6. How do you use your personal data?
Under the GDPR, we must always have a lawful basis for using personal data. This may be because the data is necessary for our performance of our service to you, because you have consented to our use of your personal data, or because it is in our legitimate business interests to use it. Your personal data may be used for one of the following purposes:
- Supplying services to you.
- Personalising and tailoring our services for you.
- Communicating with you. This may include responding to emails or calls from you.
- Supplying you with information by email that you have opted-in to (you may unsubscribe or opt-out at any time by either emailing us at unsubscribe@smarttasking.com.
With your permission and/or where permitted by law, we may also use your personal data for marketing purposes, which may include contacting you by email OR telephone OR text message OR post with information, news, and offers on our services. You will not be sent any unlawful marketing or spam. We will always work to fully protect your rights and comply with our obligations under the GDPR and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, and you will always have the opportunity to opt-out.
7. How long will you keep your personal data?
We will not keep your personal data for any longer than is necessary in light of the reason(s) for which it was first collected. Your personal data will therefore be kept for as long as we are able to retain your data by law to provide you with our services.
8. How and where do we store or transfer your personal data?
We will only store your personal data in the UK. This means that it will be fully protected under the GDPR.
We will only transfer outside the UK with your express permission, and if you permit us to do so, you accept that some or all of your personal data may be transferred to countries that are not part of the European Economic Area (the “EEA” consists of all EU member states, plus Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein). These are known as “third countries” and may not have data protection laws that are as strong as those in the UK and/or the EEA. This means that we will take additional steps in order to ensure that your personal data is treated just as safely and securely as it would be within the UK and under the GDPR as follows.
Where we transfer your data to a third party based in the US, this may be protected if they are part of the EU-US Privacy Shield. This requires that third party to provide data protection to standards similar levels of data protection to those in Europe. More information is available from the European Commission.
Please contact us using the details below in Part 11 for further information about the particular data protection mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data to a third country.
9. Do we share your personal data?
We may sometimes contract with third parties to supply our services to them. Our services are listed on our website, and your details may be required by a third party to determine your suitability to assist us in delivering these services.
If any of your personal data is required by a third party, as described above, we will take steps to ensure that your personal data is handled safely, securely, and in accordance with your rights, our obligations, and the third party’s obligations under the law, as described above in Part 8.
If any personal data is transferred outside of the EEA, we will take suitable steps in order to ensure that your personal data is treated just as safely and securely as it would be within the UK and under the GDPR, as explained above in Part 8.
In some limited circumstances, we may be legally required to share certain personal data, which might include yours, if we are involved in legal proceedings or complying with legal obligations, a court order, or the instructions of a government authority.
10. How can you access your personal data?
If you want to know what personal data we have about you, you can ask us for details of that personal data and for a copy of it (where any such personal data is held). This is known as a “subject access request”.
All subject access requests should be made in writing and sent to the email or postal addresses shown in Part 11. To make this as easy as possible for you, a Subject Access Request Form is available for you to use. You do not have to use this form, but it is the easiest way to tell us everything we need to know to respond to your request as quickly as possible.
There is not normally any charge for a subject access request. If your request is ‘manifestly unfounded or excessive’ (for example, if you make repetitive requests) a fee may be charged to cover our administrative costs in responding.
We will respond to your subject access request within 14 days and, in any case, not more than one month of receiving it. Normally, we aim to provide a complete response, including a copy of your personal data within that time. In some cases, however, particularly if your request is more complex, more time may be required up to a maximum of three months from the date we receive your request. You will be kept fully informed of our progress.
11. How do you contact us?
To contact us about anything to do with your personal data and data protection, including to make a subject access request, please use the following details (for the attention of Gary Gamp):
Email address: datacontroller@Smarttasking.com
Telephone number: +44 (0) 7866 315210.
Postal Address: Abbey House, 282 Farnborough Road, Farnborough, GU14 7NA.
12. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. This may be necessary, for example, if the law changes, or if we change our business in a way that affects personal data protection.
Any changes will be made available via our website.
13. What is this Privacy Policy for?
This privacy policy is for this website www.Smarttasking.com and served by Smarttasking.com Limited and governs the privacy of its users who choose to use it.
The policy sets out the different areas where user privacy is concerned and outlines the obligations & requirements of the users, the Smarttasking.com website and Smarttasking.com website owners.
Furthermore the way the Smarttasking.com website processes, stores and protects user data and information will also be detailed within this policy.
14. The Smarttasking.com website
This Smarttasking.com website and its owners take a proactive approach to user privacy and ensure the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its users throughout their visiting experience. This Smarttasking.com website complies to all UK national laws and requirements for user privacy.
15. Use of Cookies
This Smarttasking.com website uses a small number of first-party cookies. On your first visit you will see a cookie banner that lets you accept or reject analytics cookies in one click. We do not set analytics cookies until you accept.
Cookies are small files saved to your device that store information about how you use this website. We use them as follows:
- st_cookie_consent — stores your accept or reject choice so we do not ask again on every visit. This cookie is necessary to remember your preference.
- st_session — an anonymous session id used only if you accept analytics, so related page views and button clicks can be grouped without identifying you. Expires after 30 days.
- st_geo_country — a country code derived from hosting edge data for aggregate reporting only, set only if you accept analytics. Expires after 7 days.
These analytics do not store your name, email address, or other personal contact details. If you reject analytics cookies, we will not set st_session or st_geo_country and we will not send analytics events. You can also clear cookies for this site in your browser settings at any time.
Other cookies may be stored on your device by external vendors if you follow referral programmes, sponsored links, or adverts away from this site. Such cookies are controlled by those third parties.
17. Contact & Communication
Users contacting this Smarttasking.com website and/or its owners do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use, as detailed in the Data Protection Act 1998. Every effort has been made to ensure a safe and secure form to email submission process but advise users using such form to email processes that they do so at their own risk.
This Smarttasking.com website and its owners use any information submitted to provide you with further information about the products / services they offer or to assist you in answering any questions or queries you may have submitted. This includes using your details to subscribe you to any email newsletter program the Smarttasking.com website operates but only if this was made clear to you and your express permission was granted when submitting any form to email process. Or whereby you the consumer have previously purchased from or enquired about purchasing from the company a product or service that the email newsletter relates to.
This is by no means an entire list of your user rights in regard to receiving email marketing material. Your details are not passed on to any third parties.
18. Email Newsletter
This Smarttasking.com website operates an email newsletter program, used to inform subscribers about products and services supplied by this Smarttasking.com website. Users can subscribe through an online automated process should they wish to do so but do so at their own discretion. Some subscriptions may be manually processed through prior written agreement with the user.
Subscriptions are taken in compliance with UK Spam Laws detailed in the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003. All personal details relating to subscriptions are held securely and in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. No personal details are passed on to third parties nor shared with companies / people outside of the company that operates this Smarttasking.com website. Under the Data Protection Act 1998 you may request a copy of personal information held about you by this Smarttasking.com website’s email newsletter program. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to the business address at the bottom of this policy.
Email marketing campaigns published by this Smarttasking.com website or its owners may contain tracking facilities within the actual email. Subscriber activity is tracked and stored in a database for future analysis and evaluation. Such tracked activity may include; the opening of emails, forwarding of emails, the clicking of links within the email content, times, dates and frequency of activity (this is by no far a comprehensive list).
This information is used to refine future email campaigns and supply the user with more relevant content based around their activity.
In compliance with UK Spam Laws and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 subscribers are given the opportunity to un-subscribe at any time through an automated system. This process is detailed at the footer of each email campaign. If an automated un-subscription system is unavailable clear instructions on how to un-subscribe will by detailed instead.
19. External Links
Although this Smarttasking.com website only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this Smarttasking.com website.
The owners of this Smarttasking.com website cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked Smarttasking.com website despite their best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and this Smarttasking.com website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.
20. Adverts and Sponsored Links
This Smarttasking.com website may contain sponsored links and adverts. These will typically be served through our advertising partners, to whom may have detailed privacy policies relating directly to the adverts they serve.
Clicking on any such adverts will send you to the advertisers Smarttasking.com website through a referral program which may use cookies and will track the number of referrals sent from this Smarttasking.com website. This may include the use of cookies which may in turn be saved on your computers hard drive. Users should therefore note they click on sponsored external links at their own risk and this Smarttasking.com website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.
21. Social Media Platforms
Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this Smarttasking.com website and its owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.
Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate/engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. This Smarttasking.com website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.
This Smarttasking.com website may use social sharing buttons that help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.
22. Shortened Links in social media
This Smarttasking.com website and its owners through their social media platform accounts may share web links to relevant web pages.
Users are advised to take caution and good judgement before clicking any shortened URLs published on social media platforms by this Smarttasking.com website and its owners. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine URLs are published many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore this Smarttasking.com website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.
Last Updated, November 2024. Smarttasking.com Limited. The Granary, 1 Waverley Lane, Farnham, Surrey GU9 8BB info@Smarttasking.com