PRIVACY POLICY
- Introduction
This policy explains when, why and how we collect personal information from the people who visit our website, sign up or purchase any of our services or request or contact us in any other manner. The policy also details the conditions under which we may disclose the information to others and how we keep it secure.
While we encourage clients to read our privacy policy in full, we do have a number of guiding principles we operate our company by:
We will never sell your data on.
We will never share your data for marketing to by any third parties.
We will always keep your personal data secure using strong encryption, abiding by data protection rules and by implementing good security practice.
We will never send you direct email marketing without your consent, our newsletter requires you to explicitly opt-in, you can opt-out at any time using the unsubscribe link contained within the email or through your client area by selecting Communications > Manage E-mail Subscriptions
If you are ever concerned or have question about how your personal data is collected or used, please contact us at support@techbros.gg
You can read our full privacy policy below.
- About us
Our Company is registered at the following address:
Company number:
ICO registration No:
This policy (together with our terms of use Terms and Conditions and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.
Our privacy policy is GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) and Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act) compliant.
Our nominated representative for the purpose of the Act is ______________________
- When do we collect your personal data
We may collect data about you in the following ways:
By filling in forms on any of our websites, this includes information provided at the time of registering to use our websites, subscribing to any of our services, posting material or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you enter a competition or promotion sponsored by us or if you report a problem with our site.
If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
Details of transactions you carry out through our site and of the fulfilment of your orders.
Visiting our sites, including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data and other communication data required for our own security, diagnostic, authentication and billing.
- What personal data do we collect
If you are simply viewing our website then we will collect the following information within our logs:
IP Address (See cookies and IP addresses)
If you sign up to use our services we will then collect the following information:
- Name
- Address
- Email Address(s)
- Telephone number(s)
- IP address
- Payment details
While not actively collected we may store any other personal information that you may disclose during live chat, tickets or emails.
- Cookies and IP Addresses
IP Addresses
We collect IP address information for security (DDoS prevention, anti-hacking and fraud prevention), diagnostics and statistical analysis of traffic used for improvements to the performance and usability of our services, for GDPR purposes we collect this information under legitimate interest.
Cookies
A cookie is a small file saved on your computer that is used to help store preferences and other information that is used by websites you may visit.
We use cookies for the Following:
- Authentication of users when logging in or out of our services.
- Analysis of traffic to our website via Google Analytics (see Google Analytics).
- Tracking of website preferences.
- Third party services such live chat.
If you register with us or if you continue to use our site, you agree to the use of cookies.
You can block cookies by activating the setting in your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies you may not be allowed access to all or parts of our site.
Unless you have adjusted your browser settings so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies as soon as you visit our site.
- Where we store and process your personal data
The data that we collect from you is stored in the UK but it may be processed by staff operating outside the EEA (European Economic Area) who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff may be engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of your order, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services.
By submitting your personal data, you agree to the processing of this data outside of the EEA.
We take all steps necessary to ensure that your data, regardless of where it is processed, is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy and the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) which includes certification to ISO27001 standard.
- How we Protect your personal data
We treat all data with the utmost care and take appropriate steps in compliance with data protection regulation to ensure it is kept safe.
- All data we collect is done so over encrypted connections (https).
- All data is stored behind state of the art firewalls managed by our security team.
- All data is access controlled to ISO27001 standards.
- All systems storing personal data have access logging.
- All passwords are encoded at rest.
- All systems are subject to regular penetration testing and are monitored for vulnerabilities and attacks.
- Uses we make of personal data
We use information held about you in the following ways:
- To verify your identity.
- To provide you with the products and services you have purchased from us.
- To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
- To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for your device.
- To respond to queries.
- To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us where you have consented to be contacted.
- To notify you about changes to our services.
- To send you marketing emails where you have given explicit consent.
- To display personalised Ads from us.
- To prevent fraud.
- To detect, prevent and diagnose potential security breaches.
- Legal basis for the collection and processing
Data protection law sets out the conditions under which personal data can be collected and which we use as the basis for collection and processing, these include:
- Contractual obligations
When you purchase a service, we need to collect personal data to fulfill our legal contractual obligation, for example: so we can manage and invoice your account and contact you for technical support purposes.
- Legal compliance
The law requires we collect and process data for certain purposes such as for keeping financial records (i.e. invoicing) and that we can comply with law enforcement requests for data.
- Legitimate interest
We collect data under legitimate interest in a way that is reasonably expected as part of the day to day running of our business.
For example, we collect and log IP addresses for fraud protection and security as well as analysis of our site usage.
- Consent
In certain cases, we may collect and process your data with your consent, for example our newsletter and hot offers emails. Consent to receive these can be withdrawn at any time.
- Children
Our Site and Services are not directed children under the age of 18. If you are under 18, you may not access, attempt to access, or use our Site or Services. We do not knowingly collect or allow the collection of Personal Information via the Site or Services from persons under the age of 18, pursuant to applicable law and regulations. If we learn that we have collected the Personal Information of someone under the age of 18, we will take appropriate steps to delete this information. If you are a parent or guardian of someone under the age of 18 and discover that your child has submitted Personal Information to us, you may contact us at support@techbros.gg and ask us to remove your child’s Personal Information from our systems.
- How long we keep personal data
Your data will be kept until it is no longer required for the purpose of its collection.
At the end of the retention period the data will either be deleted or anonymised so it can no longer be linked back to an individual.
Personal data linked to purchases or any other financial transaction are kept for a minimum of 6 years as required by UK law to retain financial data.
- Who we share personal data with
Like many websites we use a number of third-party services for functionality such as email sign-up and payment processing. The following is a list of companies we share data with on a day to day basis. This list does not include services we share anonymous data with or that provide services on an ad-hoc basis such as IT contractors. All the suppliers below have been carefully selected to ensure they provide suitable protections under GDPR.
- Making Updates
We may change this Policy from time to time. If we make any changes to this Policy, we will change the “Effective Date” date above. If we make any material change(s) to the Policy, we will post a notice on our Site prior to such changes(s) taking effect. Your continued use of the Site and/or any of our Services after the changes have been made will constitute your acceptance of the changes. Therefore, please read any such notice carefully. If you do not wish to continue using the Site or our Services under the new version of this Privacy Policy, please stop using the Site and our Services.
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