Privacy Policy

Wattage Media Limited,(“Wattage”, “we”, “us”, “our”) is a provider of website services. For more information about us, please visit our website: https://www.wattagemedia.co.uk (the “Website”).

We take your privacy seriously and are committed to protecting and respecting your personal data. This privacy notice (“privacy notice”) sets out the basis on which the personal data collected from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand how we will use your personal data.

Our services are intended for individuals over the age of 18, and we do not knowingly collect data relating to individuals under 18.

1.         What personal data do we collect and process, and how do we use it?

To offer our services to you we may need to collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about our clients which we have grouped together as follows:

• Identity Data includes name, username or similar identifier, marital status, title, date of birth and gender.
• Contact Data includes billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers.
• Device Data from analytics providers
• Financial Data includes bank account and payment card details.
• Transaction Data includes details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from us.
• 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 this website, your browsing patterns and actions. Please see our cookie policy [LINK] for further details.
• Profile Data includes for example your username and password if you have an account with us, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses.
• Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, products and services.
• Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
• Aggregated Data We may also collect, use and share aggregated data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated data could be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data will not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your usage data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect aggregated data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this privacy notice.
• Location Data includes your location, for example by using GPS. To access your location, we must ask for your permission. You can turn Location Services on or off via the location services setting.

Personal data that we do not process

• 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). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.

 How we use your personal data

2.         Who do we share your personal data with?

We may need to disclose your personal data with selected third-party providers in the following limited circumstances:

• We may share your personal data with:
• Software companies we use to create, develop, operate and maintain our client websites;

• Third party platforms who we use for marketing and advertising.

• Third party payment providers such as Xero, Stripe and GoCardless.

• We may share your personal data with our insurance providers or other professional advisers if this is necessary for, for example, obtaining or maintaining insurance coverage, managing risks, obtaining professional advice or exercising or defending legal rights and claims.

3.         Transfers of your personal data

To deliver our services to you, it is sometimes necessary for us to share your personal data outside the UK/EEA, for example, with our selected third-party providers. Under data protection law, we can only transfer your personal data to a country or international organisation outside the UK/EEA where there are appropriate safeguards in place, together with enforceable rights and effective legal remedies for data subjects.

Where personal data is transferred to a third party for example in the USA, we take steps to ensure we agree standard contractual clauses (SCC’s) with the third-party providers, as well as ensuring additional safeguards are in place to protect your data.

4.         Cookies

Cookies are small text files containing a string of characters that can be placed on your computer or mobile device that uniquely identifies your browser or device. Some of our third-party service providers may place third party cookies on your device that are necessary in order to help with the proper functioning of the service, such as storing and remembering your log-in details and automatically reporting any bugs or other issues with the website. For information about the cookies that we use on the website, please read our Cookie Policy available here: [link to Cookie Policy]

5.         Third party websites

Our website may contain links to third party websites. If you follow a link to a third-party website, please note that this privacy notice does not apply to that website. We are not responsible or liable for the privacy notices or practices of any third-party websites, so check their policies and notices before you submit any personal data to those websites.

6.         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. 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.

We offer end-to-end encryption for our services. End-to-end encryption means that your messages are encrypted to protect against us and third parties from reading them.

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.

7.         Data retention

We store your personal data in line with legal, regulatory, financial and good-practice requirements and we will generally keep your personal data for up to a maximum period of six years following the end of our relationship. For further details regarding how long we keep each specific category of personal data, please contact us via info@wattagemedia.co.uk.

8.         Your rights

As a result of us collecting and processing your personal data, you have the following legal rights:

• to access personal data held about you;
• to request us to make any changes to your personal data if it is inaccurate or incomplete;
• to request your personal data is erased where we do not have a compelling reason to continue to process such data in certain circumstances;
• to receive your personal data provided to us as a data controller in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format where our processing of the data is carried out by automated means, and it is based on: (i) your consent; (ii) our necessity for performance of a contract to which you are a party to; or (iii) steps taken at your request prior to entering into a contract with us;
• to object to, or restrict, our processing of your personal data in certain circumstances;
• if we ever use your personal data for direct marketing, you can ask us to stop and we will comply with your request;
• if we use your personal data on the basis of having a legitimate interest (as set out in the table above), you can object to our use of it for those purposes, giving an explanation of your particular situation, and we will consider your objection;
• to object to, and not be subject to a decision which is based solely on, automated processing (including profiling), which produces legal effects or could significantly affect you; and
• to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk) or any other Supervising Authority in the EEA. We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.

To exercise any of your rights set out above, including to withdraw your consent where we have stated we are processing your personal data based on your consent, please contact us at info@wattagemedia.co.uk

9.         Contacting us and changes to your personal data

If you have any questions, comments and requests about this privacy notice or your personal data, please contact us at info@wattagemedia.co.uk

Please keep us informed of any changes to your personal data by emailing us at info@wattagemedia.co,uk

10.       Changes to our privacy notice

Any changes we may make to this privacy notice in the future will be displayed on the Website and, where appropriate, notified to you by email. Please check back regularly to keep informed of updates or changes to this privacy notice.

This privacy notice was last updated on 21 June 2023.