This privacy notice covers polestar.digital and the data we collect from you when you use our site, together with the personal data we process when you contact us using our online form, or contact details, and the personal data we process when we deliver our services to you.
These are our reasons for collecting it, what we do with it and what your rights are.
We are Pole Star Digital Ltd., and our registered office is 22 Rivington Road, Salford, M6 8GQ, UK. Our company registration number is 09394390.
Our operational office address is Express Building C/O Huckletree, Great Ancoats Street, Manchester, M4 5AD.
You call us on (+44) 0161 686 1617, or contact us using this contact form.
We are the data controller for this processing and are registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). Our registration number is ZA819489.
We process your personal data:
Where we are responding to enquiries about our services we process your personal data because it is in our legitimate interest to do so in order to deal with your enquiry.
Where we are negotiating with you to provide our services to your organisation then we process your personal data because it is in our legitimate interest to do so in order to take the necessary steps to provide our services. Where we are negotiating with you personally then we process your personal data because we are taking the steps necessary to create a contract with you.
Where we have a contract to deliver services to your organisation we process your personal data because it is in our legitimate interest to do so in order to provide our services under that contract. Where our contract is with you personally then we process your personal data because we are performing the contract between us.
Where we are directly marketing our services to you or your organisation we process your personal data because it is in our legitimate interest to do so and you have not opted out of receiving direct marketing or because we have your consent to do so (if you have opted in to receive our direct marketing).
Where we are relying on your consent to process your personal data you are free to withdraw that consent at any time. Where we are relying on our legitimate interests to process your personal data you may object to that processing at any time and we will let you know if we agree or disagree with your objection.
We will collect and process the following data from our website’s contact form or when you get in touch with us to make an enquiry. We will also retain these personal data when we are providing our services to you.
When we are processing your personal data for our marketing activities we may process the additional personal data, depending upon the nature of the activity,
There are additional rules we must follow if we collect certain types of more sensitive data, known as Special Category Data. These include details of your ethnicity, beliefs, health and sexuality.
We do not process any special category data about you.
We will share your data if required to do so by a legitimate law enforcement agency.
When you submit your personal data online your data is held by our partner who hosts our website. We also share your personal data with our cloud storage provider, and our cloud based business software providers.
If you consent to the use of analytics and tracking cookies from our website we will share data with those third party cookie providers.
If we are communicating with you via email or social media channels we will be sharing your personal data with those email and social media providers.
Where we are using a data processor to process personal data on our behalf, for example our website hosting supplier, then we ensure that a valid data processing agreement is in place between us and that any international transfers of data have a lawful mechanism.
We will never share or sell your data to any other third parties without your permission.
We take sensible steps to keep your data secure:
You have a number of rights relating to the processing of your data, if you would like to use them or have any questions then please contact us.
We won’t charge you for doing any of the following, however we may make a charge in the case of frequent repeat requests:
Where we are relying on your consent or our legitimate interests to process your data then we will keep your personal data until you withdraw your consent for us to use it, or object to the processing in our legitimate interests and we agree with your objection.
Where we are processing your data for the purposes of performing a contract with you or your organisation, or taking the necessary steps to do so, then we will keep the personal data for 7 years after the end of the contract.
We utilise cookies on our website. Some are required for our site to work, these are known as essential cookies, and we also use others for analytics and marketing purposes.
We will ask for your consent to use any cookies which aren’t essential, and we won’t deploy any non-essential cookies without your consent.
Cookies used: Drift, Google and Facebook.
If you follow a link from our site to another site then you should read the privacy notice on the other site prior to providing your data to them.
We process data at the address shown above.
Our data processors also process data on our behalf, they are detailed below together with where they process data and the protections in place for international transfers:
Our contracts with our data processors include the necessary provisions required by GDPR to further protect your rights.
Please contact us at the above address.
You can also contact the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on their helpline 0303 123 1113 or online at www.ico.org.uk. If you should contact the ICO they will normally ask you to contact us first.
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