Privacy policy
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Your privacy is important to us
This privacy statement describes the online information practices which we people4business Limited (‘we’, ‘our’) employ in relation to the information which you, our users (‘you’, ‘your’) provide when using the www.people4business.com site (‘website’). By accessing and using the website you are accepting and agreeing to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
The information we collect
People4business Ltd (people4business) is the sole owner of the information collected on this website. We will not sell, share or rent this information to others in ways different from that disclosed in this Policy.
We collect personally identifiable information relating to you including name, address, phone number, e-mail address, credit/debit card information (‘Personal Information’) in the following situations:
- Information you provide: when you register on the website for an online account or otherwise contact us to obtain information relating to us or our services (including when you update the ‘Your User Page’ section of the website, communicate with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise or provide feedback;
- Information collected automatically using cookies: whenever you interact with the website, we receive and store certain types of information using cookies. We describe how we use cookies below;
- Information from other sources: we receive information from third parties we use in providing services to you from time to time (including account and credit history information from credit bureaux and sources we use to process payments).
How we normally use information about you
We will only use your personal information for the purpose(s) for which you provide it to us — including, for example, to:- respond to your enquiries;
- process invoices and payments;
- provide the services on the website by supplying Sellers’ contact details (excluding any financial information) to Buyers on request. Please note: this is monitored for misuse;
- communicate with you about products, services and promotional offers;
- update our records and maintain any online account you may have with us;
- prevent or detect fraud or abuses of our website; and
- enable third parties to carry out technical, logistical or other functions on our behalf.
Sharing your personal information
We only share your Personal Information with our other offices or authorised distributors where appropriate and with other entities only as described below. We ensure the parties with whom we share your Personal Information follow practices at least as protective as those described in this Privacy Policy.
- Agents: from time to time we employ other companies to perform functions on our behalf including invoices and processing payments. They have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for any other purpose.
- Promotional offers: if you have consented in advance we send you information on our promotional offers and those offered by other businesses.
If you no longer want to receive such offers, please notify us by e-mail legalinfo@people4business.com - Business transfers: in any transaction (e.g. buying or selling of the business). Personal Information is generally one of the transferred assets;
- Fraud/Credit risk: where necessary to prevent fraud or reduce credit risk we may exchange your Personal Information with other companies and organisations;
- With your consent: other than as set out above, you will receive notice when information about you might go to third parties and you will have an opportunity to choose not to share your information.
- We may transfer Personal Information which users in the European Union provide to us to other countries (including the United States), the data protection laws of which may differ from those of the European Union, and you expressly agree to such transfer.
Collection of information by third-party sites
Our websites may contain links to other websites whose information practices may be different to ours. You should consult the privacy policies of those third party sites as we have no control over information that is submitted to, or collected by them.
Security
We employ security measures to prevent unauthorised access to information that we collect online.
We use a secure site for all Personal Information submitted on Your User Page. To verify this, when submitting your data using the website a padlock will appear in your browser. It is normally in the status bar, towards the right hand side, at the bottom of your browser window. You can double click this padlock to verify that the secure certificate has been issued to the website.
Please note that e-mail correspondence with us is in free format text and cannot be encrypted. Accordingly please do not send any sensitive information such as credit card details or passwords via e-mail.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on your computer’s hard drive that contains some minimal information about you. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to personally identifiable information while you are visiting our website and actually facilitates your ability to use our website. If you want to disable the cookies, log out or select ‘delete cookies’ in your browser settings. Please note that if you disable cookies you may not be able to use all the features of our website.
Revisions to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to revise this Privacy Policy or any part of it from time to time. Please review the Privacy Policy periodically for changes. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies from time to time to all information that we have about you. If at any point we decide to use your Personal Information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify you by e-mail. You have the choice as to whether or not we use the information in this different manner.
How to contact us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or how we use your Personal Information you may contact us by e-mail at legalinfo@people4business.com. If at any time you decide that you no longer wish us to hold or use any of your Personal Information or wish to change the use to which your Personal Information can be put, please let us know:
Alternatively, if you no longer wish to receive e-mail materials from us, you may opt-out of receiving these communications at any time by replying to the e-mail with ‘unsubscribe’ in the subject line.
If you would like to access the Personal Information that we hold about you, please contact us at the following address: People4business, The Forum, 277 London Road, Burgess Hill, West Sussex, RH15 9QU. It may be necessary to charge you a small processing fee for this service.
Controller of Your Information
Information which you provide to us or we gather from the website is controlled primarily by:
People4business Limited,
The Forum, 277 London Road, Burgess Hill, West Sussex, RH15 9QU
last updated 02.04.08
