PRIVACY NOTICE
Last updated February 10, 2023
Thank you for
choosing to be part of our community at JC
Watson ("Company," "we," "us,"
or "our"). We are committed to protecting
your personal information and your right to
privacy. If you have any questions or concerns
about this privacy notice or our practices with
regard to your personal information, please
contact us at robert_k@jcwatson.co.uk.
This privacy notice
describes how we might use your information if
you:
- Visit our
website at http://www.jcwatson.co.uk
- Engage with us
in other related ways ― including any sales,
marketing, or events
In this privacy
notice, if we refer to:
- "Website,"
we are referring to any website of ours that
references or links to this policy
- "Services,"
we are referring to our Website, and other
related services, including any sales,
marketing, or events
The purpose of this
privacy notice is to explain to you in the
clearest way possible what information we
collect, how we use it and what rights you have
in relation to it. If there are any terms in
this privacy notice that you do not agree with,
please discontinue use of our Services
immediately.
Please read this
privacy notice carefully, as it will help you
understand what we do with the information that
we collect.
1. WHAT
INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
Personal information you disclose to us
In Short: We
collect personal information that you provide to
us.
We collect personal
information that you voluntarily provide to us
when you register on theWebsite, express an
interest in obtaining information about us or
our products and Services, when you participate
in activities on the Website or otherwise when
you contact us.
The personal
information that we collect depends on the
context of your interactions with us and
the Website, the choices you make and the
products and features you use. The personal
information we collect may include the
following:
Personal
Information Provided by You. We
collect names; phone numbers; email
addresses; mailing addresses; job
titles; usernames; passwords; contact
preferences; contact or authentication
data; billing addresses; debit/credit card
numbers; and other similar information.
All personal
information that you provide to us must be true,
complete and accurate and you must notify us of
any changes to such personal information.
Information automatically collected
In Short: Some
information — such as your Internet Protocol
(IP) address and/or browser and device
characteristics — is collected automatically
when you visit our Website.
We automatically
collect certain information when you visit, use
or navigate the Website. This information does
not reveal your specific identity (like your
name or contact information) but may include
device and usage information, such as your IP
address, browser and device characteristics,
operating system, language preferences,
referring URLs, device name, country, location,
information about how and when you use
our Website and other technical information.
This information is primarily needed to maintain
the security and operation of our Website and
for our internal analytics and reporting
purposes.
Like many businesses,
we also collect information through cookies and
similar technologies.
The information we
collect includes:
- Log and Usage
Data. Log and usage data is
service-related, diagnostic, usage and
performance information our servers
automatically collect when you access or use
our Website and which we record in log
files. Depending on how you interact with
us, this log data may include your IP
address, device information, browser type
and settings and information about your
activity in the Website (such as the
date/time stamps associated with your usage,
pages and files viewed, searches and other
actions you take such as which features you
use), device event information (such as
system activity, error reports (sometimes
called 'crash dumps') and hardware
settings).
- Device Data. We
collect device data such as information
about your computer, phone, tablet or other
device you use to access the Website.
Depending on the device used, this device
data may include information such as your IP
address (or proxy server), device and
application identification numbers,
location, browser type, hardware model
Internet service provider and/or mobile
carrier, operating system and system
configuration information.
- Location
Data. We collect location
data such as information about your device's
location, which can be either precise or
imprecise. How much information we collect
depends on the type and settings of the
device you use to access the Website. For
example, we may use GPS and other
technologies to collect geolocation data
that tells us your current location (based
on your IP address). You can opt out of
allowing us to collect this information
either by refusing access to the information
or by disabling your Location setting on
your device. Note however, if you choose to
opt out, you may not be able to use certain
aspects of the Services.
2. HOW DO WE USE
YOUR INFORMATION?
In Short: We
process your information for purposes based on
legitimate business interests, the fulfillment
of our contract with you, compliance with our
legal obligations and/or your consent.
We use personal
information collected via our Website for a
variety of business purposes described below. We
process your personal information for these
purposes in reliance on our legitimate business
interests, in order to enter into or perform a
contract with you, with your consent and/or for
compliance with our legal obligations. We
indicate the specific processing grounds we rely
on next to each purpose listed below.
In legal terms, we
are generally the "data controller" under
European data protection laws since we determine
the means and/or purposes of the data processing
we perform. However, if you are a business
customer with whom we have entered into a data
processing agreement for the provision of
corporate services to you, then you would be the
"data controller" and we would be the "data
processor" under European data protection laws
since we would be processing data on your behalf
in accordance with your instructions.
We use the
information we collect or receive:
- To facilitate
account creation and logon process. If
you choose to link your account with us to a
third-party account (such as your Google or
Facebook account), we use the information
you allowed us to collect from those third
parties to facilitate account creation and
logon process for the performance of the
contract.
- To post
testimonials. We post
testimonials on our Website that may contain
personal information. Prior to posting a
testimonial, we will obtain your consent to
use your name and the content of the
testimonial. If you wish to update, or
delete your testimonial, please contact us
at John_L@jcwatson.co.uk and be sure to
include your name, testimonial location and
contact information.
- Request
feedback. We may use your
information to request feedback and to
contact you about your use of our Website.
- To enable
user-to-user communications. We
may use your information in order to enable
user-to-user communications with each user's
consent.
- To manage
user accounts. We may use
your information for the purposes of
managing our account and keeping it in
working order.
- To send
administrative information to you. We
may use your personal information to send
you product, service and new feature
information and/or information about changes
to our terms, conditions and policies.
- To protect
our Services. We may use
your information as part of our efforts to
keep our Website safe and secure (for
example, for fraud monitoring and
prevention).
- To enforce
our terms, conditions and policies for
business purposes, to comply with legal and
regulatory requirements or in connection
with our contract.
- To respond to
legal requests and prevent harm. If
we receive a subpoena or other legal
request, we may need to inspect the data we
hold to determine how to respond.
- Fulfill and
manage your orders. We may
use your information to fulfill and manage
your orders, payments, returns and
exchanges made through the Website.
- Administer
prize draws and competitions. We
may use your information to administer prize
draws and competitions when you elect to
participate in our competitions.
- To deliver
and facilitate delivery of services to the
user. We may use your
information to provide you with the
requested service.
- To respond to
user inquiries/offer support to users. We
may use your information to respond to your
inquiries and solve any potential issues you
might have with the use of our Services.
- To send you
marketing and promotional communications. We
and/or our third-party marketing partners
may use the personal information you send to
us for our marketing purposes, if this is in
accordance with your marketing preferences.
For example, when expressing an interest in
obtaining information about us or
our Website, subscribing to marketing or
otherwise contacting us, we will collect
personal information from you. You can
opt-out of our marketing emails at any time
(see the "WHAT
ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?" below).
- Deliver
targeted advertising to you. We
may use your information to develop and
display personalised content and advertising
(and work with third parties who do so)
tailored to your interests and/or location
and to measure its effectiveness.
- For other
business purposes. We may
use your information for other business
purposes, such as data analysis, identifying
usage trends, determining the effectiveness
of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate
and improve our Website, products, marketing
and your experience. We may use and store
this information in aggregated and
anonymised form so that it is not associated
with individual end users and does not
include personal information. We will not
use identifiable personal information
without your consent.
3. WILL YOUR
INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH ANYONE?
In Short:
We only share information with your consent, to
comply with laws, to provide you with services,
to protect your rights, or to fulfill business
obligations.
We may process or
share your data that we hold based on the
following legal basis:
- Consent: We
may process your data if you have given us
specific consent to use your personal
information for a specific purpose.
- Legitimate
Interests: We may process
your data when it is reasonably necessary to
achieve our legitimate business interests.
- Performance
of a Contract: Where we
have entered into a contract with you, we
may process your personal information to
fulfill the terms of our contract.
- Legal
Obligations: We may
disclose your information where we are
legally required to do so in order to comply
with applicable law, governmental requests,
a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal
process, such as in response to a court
order or a subpoena (including in response
to public authorities to meet national
security or law enforcement requirements).
- Vital
Interests: We may disclose
your information where we believe it is
necessary to investigate, prevent, or take
action regarding potential violations of our
policies, suspected fraud, situations
involving potential threats to the safety of
any person and illegal activities, or as
evidence in litigation in which we are
involved.
More specifically, we
may need to process your data or share your
personal information in the following
situations:
- Business
Transfers. We may share or
transfer your information in connection
with, or during negotiations of, any merger,
sale of company assets, financing, or
acquisition of all or a portion of our
business to another company.
- Affiliates. We
may share your information with our
affiliates, in which case we will require
those affiliates to honor this privacy
notice. Affiliates include our parent
company and any subsidiaries, joint venture
partners or other companies that we control
or that are under common control with us.
- Business
Partners. We may share your
information with our business partners to
offer you certain products, services or
promotions.
4. DO WE USE
COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES?
In Short: We
may use cookies and other tracking technologies
to collect and store your information.
We may use cookies
and similar tracking technologies (like web
beacons and pixels) to access or store
information. Specific information about how we
use such technologies and how you can refuse
certain cookies is set out in our Cookie Notice.
5. HOW LONG DO WE
KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?
In Short: We
keep your information for as long as necessary
to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy
notice unless otherwise required by law.
We will only keep
your personal information for as long as it is
necessary for the purposes set out in this
privacy notice, unless a longer retention period
is required or permitted by law (such as tax,
accounting or other legal requirements). No
purpose in this notice will require us keeping
your personal information for longer than six
(6) months past the termination of the user's
account.
When we have no
ongoing legitimate business need to process your
personal information, we will either delete or
anonymise such information, or, if this is not
possible (for example, because your personal
information has been stored in backup archives),
then we will securely store your personal
information and isolate it from any further
processing until deletion is possible.
6. HOW DO WE KEEP
YOUR INFORMATION SAFE?
In Short: We
aim to protect your personal information through
a system of organizational and technical
security measures.
We have implemented
appropriate technical and organizational
security measures designed to protect the
security of any personal information we process.
However, despite our safeguards and efforts to
secure your information, no electronic
transmission over the Internet or information
storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100%
secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that
hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorised
third parties will not be able to defeat our
security and improperly collect, access, steal,
or modify your information. Although we will do
our best to protect your personal information,
transmission of personal information to and from
our Website is at your own risk. You should only
access the Website within a secure environment.
7. DO WE COLLECT
INFORMATION FROM MINORS?
In Short:
We do not knowingly collect data from or market
to children under 18 years of age.
We do not knowingly
solicit data from or market to children under 18
years of age. By using the Website, you
represent that you are at least 18 or that you
are the parent or guardian of such a minor and
consent to such minor dependent’s use of
the Website. If we learn that personal
information from users less than 18 years of age
has been collected, we will deactivate the
account and take reasonable measures to promptly
delete such data from our records. If you become
aware of any data we may have collected from
children under age 18, please contact us
at John_L@jcwatson.co.uk.
8. WHAT ARE YOUR
PRIVACY RIGHTS?
In Short: In
some regions, such as the European Economic Area
(EEA) and United Kingdom (UK), you have rights
that allow you greater access to and control
over your personal information. You may review,
change, or terminate your account at any time.
In some regions (like
the EEA and UK), you have certain rights under
applicable data protection laws. These may
include the right (i) to request access and
obtain a copy of your personal information, (ii)
to request rectification or erasure; (iii) to
restrict the processing of your personal
information; and (iv) if applicable, to data
portability. In certain circumstances, you may
also have the right to object to the processing
of your personal information. To make such a
request, please use the contact
details provided below. We will consider and
act upon any request in accordance with
applicable data protection laws.
If we are relying on
your consent to process your personal
information, you have the right to withdraw your
consent at any time. Please note however that
this will not affect the lawfulness of the
processing before its withdrawal, nor will it
affect the processing of your personal
information conducted in reliance on lawful
processing grounds other than consent.
If you are a resident
in the EEA or UK and you believe we are
unlawfully processing your personal information,
you also have the right to complain to your
local data protection supervisory authority. You
can find their contact details here: https://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm.
If you are a resident
in Switzerland, the contact details for the data
protection authorities are available here: https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/en/home.html.
If you have questions
or comments about your privacy rights, you may
email us at john_L@jcwatson.co.uk.
Account Information
If you would at any
time like to review or change the information in
your account or terminate your account, you can:
- Contact us using
the contact information provided.
Upon your request to
terminate your account, we will deactivate or
delete your account and information from our
active databases. However, we may retain some
information in our files to prevent fraud,
troubleshoot problems, assist with any
investigations, enforce our Terms of Use and/or
comply with applicable legal requirements.
Cookies and
similar technologies: Most Web
browsers are set to accept cookies by default.
If you prefer, you can usually choose to set
your browser to remove cookies and to reject
cookies. If you choose to remove cookies or
reject cookies, this could affect certain
features or services of our Website. To opt-out
of interest-based advertising by advertisers on
our Website visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.
Opting out of
email marketing: You can
unsubscribe from our marketing email list at any
time by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the
emails that we send or by contacting us using
the details provided below. You will then be
removed from the marketing email list however,
we may still communicate with you, for example
to send you service-related emails that are
necessary for the administration and use of your
account, to respond to service requests, or for
other non-marketing purposes. To otherwise
opt-out, you may:
- Contact us using
the contact information provided.
9. CONTROLS FOR
DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES
Most web browsers and
some mobile operating systems and mobile
applications include a Do-Not-Track ("DNT")
feature or setting you can activate to signal
your privacy preference not to have data about
your online browsing activities monitored and
collected. At this stage no uniform technology
standard for recognizing and implementing DNT
signals has been finalised. As such, we do not
currently respond to DNT browser signals or any
other mechanism that automatically communicates
your choice not to be tracked online. If a
standard for online tracking is adopted that we
must follow in the future, we will inform you
about that practice in a revised version of this
privacy notice.
10. DO CALIFORNIA
RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS?
In Short: Yes,
if you are a resident of California, you are
granted specific rights regarding access to your
personal information.
California Civil Code
Section 1798.83, also known as the "Shine The
Light" law, permits our users who are California
residents to request and obtain from us, once a
year and free of charge, information about
categories of personal information (if any) we
disclosed to third parties for direct marketing
purposes and the names and addresses of all
third parties with which we shared personal
information in the immediately preceding
calendar year. If you are a California resident
and would like to make such a request, please
submit your request in writing to us using the
contact information provided below.
If you are under 18
years of age, reside in California and have a
registered account with the Website, you have
the right to request removal of unwanted data
that you publicly post on the Website. To
request removal of such data, please contact us
using the contact information provided below,
and include the email address associated with
your account and a statement that you reside in
California. We will make sure the data is not
publicly displayed on the Website, but please be
aware that the data may not be completely or
comprehensively removed from all our systems
(e.g. backups, etc.).
11. DO WE MAKE
UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE?
In Short: Yes,
we will update this notice as necessary to stay
compliant with relevant laws.
We may update this
privacy notice from time to time. The updated
version will be indicated by an updated
"Revised" date and the updated version will be
effective as soon as it is accessible. If we
make material changes to this privacy notice, we
may notify you either by prominently posting a
notice of such changes or by directly sending
you a notification. We encourage you to review
this privacy notice frequently to be informed of
how we are protecting your information.
12. HOW CAN YOU
CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?
If you have questions
or comments about this notice, you may contact
our Data Protection Officer (DPO), John
Lyman, by email at John_L@jcwatson.co.uk, by
phone at 020 3733 3050, or by post to:
HouseDevelop
John Lyman
Office 2, Cecil’s
Barn, Fieldhouse Farm, Dunnings Lane, Brentwood,
Orsett, England CM13
3HE
United Kingdom
If you are a resident
in the United Kingdom, the "data controller" of
your personal information is HouseDevelop. JC
Watson has appointed John Lyman to be its
representative in the UK. You can contact them
directly regarding the processing of your
information by HouseDevelop, by email
at John_L@jcwatson.co.uk, by visiting http://www.jcwatson.co.uk, by
phone at 020 3733 3050, or by post to:
Office 2, Cecil’s
Barn, Fieldhouse Farm,
Dunnings Lane,
Brentwood,, Essex, CM13 3HE
England
13. HOW CAN YOU
REVIEW, UPDATE, OR DELETE THE DATA WE COLLECT
FROM YOU?
Based on the
applicable laws of your country, you may have
the right to request access to the personal
information we collect from you, change that
information, or delete it in some circumstances.
To request to review, update, or delete your
personal information, please submit a request
form by clicking here.
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