Introduction
This document refers to personal data, which is defined as information concerning any living person (a natural person who hereafter will be called the Data Subject) that is not already in the public domain.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) seeks to protect and enhance the rights of data subjects. These rights cover the safeguarding of personal data, protection against the unlawful processing of personal data and the unrestricted movement of personal data within the EU. It should be noted that GDPR does not apply to information already in the public domain.
Heron Press UK is pleased to provide the following Privacy Notice:
Personal Data
Heron Press UK uses the information collected from you to provide quotations, make telephone contact and to email you marketing information which Heron Press UK believes may be of interest to you and your business. In you making initial contact you consent to Heron Press UK maintaining a marketing dialogue with you until you either opt out (which you can do at any stage) or we decide to desist in promoting our services. Heron Press UK also acts on behalf of its clients in the capacity of data processor. When working exclusively as a data processor, Heron Press UK will be acting on the instruction of its client and will work hard to ensure that the client is fully GDPR compliant.
Some personal data may be collected about you from the forms and surveys you complete, from records of our correspondence and phone calls and details of your visits to our website, including but not limited to personally identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Heron Press UK may from time to time use such information to identify its visitors. Heron Press UK may also collect statistics about the behaviour of visitors to its website.
Heron Press UK website uses cookies, which is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. We use cookies to help Heron Press UK identify and track visitors and their website access preferences. Heron Press UK website visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Heron Press UK website.
Any information Heron Press UK holds about you and your business encompasses all the details we hold about you and any sales transactions including any third-party information we have obtained about you from public sources and our own suppliers such as credit referencing agencies.
Heron Press UK will only collect the information needed so that it can provide you with marketing and consulting services, this agency does not sell or broker your data, although coincidentally there may be times when your information could be contained in data that Heron Press UK has purchased from a third-party list broker, on behalf of a client.
Legal basis for processing any personal data
To meet Heron Press UK contractual obligations to clients and to also respond to marketing enquiries.
Legitimate interests pursued by Heron Press UK and/or its clients
To promote the marketing and consulting services offered by Heron Press UK and/or to market the services and/or products offered by Heron Press UK existing clients.
Consent
Through agreeing to this privacy notice you are consenting to Heron Press UK processing your personal data for the purposes outlined. You can withdraw consent at any time by emailing sales@heronpress.co.uk or writing to us, see last section for full contact details.
Disclosure
Heron Press UK do not broker or pass on information gained from your engagement with the agency without your consent. However, Heron Press UK may disclose your Personal Information to meet legal obligations, regulations or valid governmental request. The agency may also enforce its Terms and Conditions, including investigating potential violations of its Terms and Conditions to detect, prevent or mitigate fraud or security or technical issues; or to protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of Heron Press UK its clients and/or the wider community.
Retention Policy
Heron Press UK will process personal data during the duration of any contract and will continue to store only the personal data needed for five years after the contract has expired to meet any legal obligations. After five years any personal data not needed will be deleted.
Data storage
Data is held in The United Kingdom using different (multiple) servers. Heron Press UK does not store personal data outside the EEA.
Your rights as a data subject
At any point whilst Heron Press UK is in possession of or processing your personal data, all data subjects have the following rights:
- Right of access – you have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you.
- Right of rectification – you have a right to correct data that we hold about you that is inaccurate or incomplete.
- Right to be forgotten – in certain circumstances you can ask for the data we hold about you to be erased from our records.
- Right to restriction of processing – where certain conditions apply you have a right to restrict the processing.
- Right of portability – you have the right to have the data we hold about you transferred to another organisation.
- Right to object – you have the right to object to certain types of processing such as direct marketing.
- Right to object to automated processing, including profiling – you also have the right not to be subject to the legal effects of automated processing or profiling.
In the event that Heron Press UK refuses your request under rights of access, we will provide you with a reason as to why, which you have the right to legally challenge.
Heron Press UK at your request can confirm what information it holds about you and how it is processed
You can request the following information:
- Identity the contact details of the person or organisation (Heron Press UK) that has determined how and why to process your data.
- Contact details of the data protection officer, where applicable.
- The purpose of the processing as well as the legal basis for processing.
- If the processing is based on the legitimate interests of Heron Press UK or a third party such as one of its clients, information about those interests.
- The categories of personal data collected, stored and processed.
- Recipient(s) or categories of recipients that the data is/will be disclosed to.
- How long the data will be stored.
- Details of your rights to correct, erase, restrict or object to such processing.
- Information about your right to withdraw consent at any time.
- How to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority (Data Protection Regulator).
- Whether the provision of personal data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract, as well as whether you are obliged to provide the personal data and the possible consequences of failing to provide such data.
- The source of personal data if it wasn’t collected directly from you.
- Any details and information of automated decision making, such as profiling, and any meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the significance and expected consequences of such processing.
To access what personal data is held, identification will be required
Heron Press UK will accept the following forms of ID when information on your personal data is requested: a copy of your driving license, passport, birth certificate and a utility bill not older than three months. A minimum of one piece of photographic ID listed above and a supporting document is required. If Heron Press UK is dissatisfied with the quality, further information may be sought before personal data can be released.
All requests should be made to sales@heronpress.co.uk or by writing to us at the address further below.
Complaints
In the event that you wish to make a compliant about how your personal data is being processed by Heron Press UK or its partners, you have the right to complain to Heron Press UK. If you do not get a response within 30 days you can complain to the Data Protection Regulator.
The details for each of these contacts are:
Heron Press UK
59 The Avenue
Rubery
Birmingham
B45 9AL
Telephone 0121 457 4810 or email sales@heronpress.co.uk
Data Protection Regulator
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF