Prominent Fluid Controls (UK) Limited – WebShop Privacy Policy


INTRODUCTION

Welcome to Prominent Fluid Controls (UK) Limited ("Prominent") WebShop privacy policy.

Prominent respect your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our WebShop (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

 

1.    IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND WHO WE ARE

This privacy policy aims to give you information on how Prominent collects and processes your personal data through your use of the WebShop, which includes any data you will provide through this WebShop when you purchase a product or service or sign up to our newsletter.

The website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.

It is important that you read this privacy policy together with any other privacy policy or fair processing policy we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy policy supplements other notices and privacy policies and is not intended to override them.

 

2.    CONTROLLER

Prominent Fluid Controls (UK) Limited is the controller and responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as "Prominent", "we", "us" or "our" in this privacy policy).

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact us using the details set out below.

CONTACT DETAILS

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact our us in the following ways:
Full name of legal entity:

Prominent Fluid Controls (UK) Ltd

Email address: sales-uk@prominent.com

Postal address: ProMinent Fluid Controls (UK) Ltd, Resolution Rd, Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, LE65 1DW Telephone number: +44 1530 560 555

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK regulator for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.

CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY AND YOUR DUTY TO INFORM US OF CHANGES

We keep our privacy policy under regular review. This version was last updated on 19 December 2023.

It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.

THIRD-PARTY LINKS

This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

 

3.    THE DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

  • Identity Data includes first name, maiden name, last name, username or similar identifier, title, date of birth and gender.
  • Contact Data includes billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers.
  • Financial Data includes bank account and payment card details.
  • Transaction Data includes details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from us.
  • Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
  • Profile Data includes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses.
  • Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, products and services.
  • Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

 

We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health, and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.

IF YOU FAIL TO PROVIDE PERSONAL DATA

Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you, and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you with goods or services). In this case, we may have to cancel a product or service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.

 

4.    HOW IS YOUR PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED?

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

  • Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity, Contact and Financial Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
    • purchase our products or services;
    • create an account on the WebShop;
    • request marketing to be sent to you;
    • enter a competition, promotion or survey; or
    • give us feedback or contact us.
  • Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we will automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies and other similar technologies.
    Please see our cookie policy for further details.
  • Third parties or publicly available sources. We will receive personal data about you from various third parties as set out below:

 

Technical Data from the following parties:

(a)    analytics providers such as Matomo Analytics (On-Premise)Google based outside the UK;

We use the open-source software tool Matomo Analytics on our website to analyse the surfing habits of our users. We also use Matomo Tag Manager. Matomo Tag Manager is a Matomo Analytics Software add-on. Tag Manager is used to integrate Matomo Analytics, for tracking events and to control the integration of third-party provider code. The following data is processed when a user visits our website:

  • 2 bytes of the IP address of the system the user uses to visit our website;
  • the website visited (URL);
  • the website from which the user accessed the visited website (referrer);
  • the sub-pages visited from the visited website;
  • the time spent on the website;
  • how often the website has been visited;

We use the on-premise version of Matomo Analytics and host the software on our own servers in Germany. The aforementioned data is exclusively stored there. We use Matomo Analytics without cookies. We do not pass the data on to third parties. The Matomo software has been configured such that IP addresses are not saved in full. Instead, the last 2 bytes of the IP address are masked (e.g. 192.168.xxx.xxx). This means it is no longer possible to link the truncated IP address to the computer used to visit the website.

The legal basis for the processing is our legitimate interest in analysing the surfing habits on our website pursuant to Art. 6 (1f) of the GDPR and in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018.

You can stop Matomo tracking your visit to our website at any time by clicking on the button below. This sets a cookie in your browser that does not contain any personal data and serves the sole purpose of deactivating our Matomo tracking for your browser.

For more information about Matomo's privacy settings, please visit: https://matomo.org/privacy/.

 

PURPOSES FOR WHICH WE WILL USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.

Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please contact us if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your personal data where more than one ground has been set out in the table below.

Purpose/ActivityType of dataLawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
To register you as a new customer(a) Identity
(b) Contact
Performance of a contract with you
To process and deliver your order including:
(a) Manage payments, fees and charges
(b) Collect and recover money owed to us
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Financial
(d) Transaction
(e) Marketing and Communications
(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to recover debts due to us)
To manage our relationship with you which will include:
(a) Notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy
(b) Asking you to leave a review or take a survey
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Profile
(d) Marketing and Communications
(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
(c) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products/services)
To administer and protect our business and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data)(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Technical
(a) Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganisation or group restructuring exercise)
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Technical
(d) Usage
(e) Profile
(f) Marketing and Communications
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our products/services and grow our business)

 

COOKIES

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about the cookies we use, please see our cookie policy.

CHANGE OF PURPOSE

We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us.

If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.

Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.

 

5.    DISCLOSURES OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We may share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table above.

  • Internal Third Parties: Prominent GmbH

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

 

6.    DATA SECURITY

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

 

7.    DATA RETENTION

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.

 

COOKIE POLICY

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.

We use the following cookies:

  • Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
  • Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
  • Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
  • Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

 

Cookie Title
Cookie Name
Purpose
Session (non-persistent cookie)This cookie helps individual web pages load faster and improve navigation through the website.
Cross-Site Request Forgery prevention (CSRF) cookiesThis cookie aids in the prevention of CSRF stealing confidential and personal data and the installation of malware.
Matomo Analytics and Matomo Tag ManagerThis cookie allows us to analyse the surfing habits of website visitors. This information helps us to improve our website and make it more user-friendly.

 

To ensure that our use of cookies complies with legal requirements, we use a cookie tool provided by OneTrust Technology Limited, 82 St John St, London, UK ("OneTrust"). You can review and manage your cookie consents and make cookie-specific settings and deactivations at the link below:

Cookie Preferences

December 2023, ProMinent Fluid Controls (UK) Ltd