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Privacy Policy Notice

The policy: This privacy policy notice is served by Foers International Limited, CRN: 13175854, registered address: 1st Floor, 2 Central Parade, 101 Victoria Road, Horley, Surrey RH6 7PH, United Kingdom under the website; www.Foers.Design. The purpose of this policy is to explain to you how we control, process, handle and protect your personal information through the business and while you browse or use this website. If you do not agree to the following policy you may wish to cease viewing / using this website, and or refrain from submitting your personal data to us.

Policy key definitions:
• “I”, “our”, “us”, or “we” refer to the business, [Business name & other trading names].
• “you”, “the user” refer to the person(s) using this website.
• GDPR means General Data Protection Act.
• PECR means Privacy & Electronic Communications Regulation.
• ICO means Information Commissioner’s Office.
• Cookies mean small files stored on a user’s computer or device.

Key principles of GDPR:
Our privacy policy embodies the following key principles; (a) Lawfulness, fairness and transparency, (b) Purpose limitation, (c) Data minimisation, (d) Accuracy, (e) Storage limitation, (f) Integrity and confidence, (g) Accountability.

Processing of your personal data
Under the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) we control and / or process any personal information about you electronically using the following lawful bases.
• We are registered with the ICO under the Data Protection Register, our registration number is: C1014146
• Lawful basis: Consent
Where our purpose for processing is : communication between yourselves and us. Unless you have requested otherwise, the information you provide is used by the business, to communicate with you. These may include:
–  Providing you with the services and information you have requested
– The promotion of benefits and services available to you
– The promotion of Foers Design
– Distribution of business mailings (e.g. magazine, newsletters)

We process your information in the following ways: to improve overall site experience and provide you additional information about our services. To ensure that our communications are relevant to you and your interests, we may use tools that help us track whether the emails we send are opened and which links are clicked within a message. We may also track website visits and use analytical tools, such as Google Analytics, to use this information to improve our website.
• Data retention period: We will continue to process your information under this basis until you withdraw consent or it is determined your consent no longer exists.
Sharing your information: We do not share your information with third parties.
If, as determined by us, the lawful basis upon which we process your personal information changes, we will notify you about the change and any new lawful basis to be used if required. We shall stop processing your personal information if the lawful basis used is no longer relevant.

The Data We Hold

If you are a supplier, contractor, consultant, customer, visitor, guest or employee, most of the data we hold would have been provided by you. This includes but is not limited to:

• Your name, title, gender and date of birth
• Your home address, email address and telephone numbers
• Health information
Some of the personal data we hold about you has been provided by you during interactions with our employees namely:
• Updates to your contact details. Address, email and phone
• Records of verbal or email conversations/meetings, including personal and philanthropic interests
• Your family and partner/spousal details
• A record of the communications we have sent to you and any responses to such communications
• Your contact preferences
• Your contact preferences
• Your current job title, employer and work email addresses
• Previous role(s) and job title

Your individual rights
Under the GDPR your rights are as follows. You can read more about your rights in details here;
• the right to be informed;
• the right of access;
• the right to rectification;
• the right to erasure;
• the right to restrict processing;
• the right to data portability;
• the right to object; and
• the right not to be subject to automated decision-making including profiling.
You also have the right to complain to the ICO [www.ico.org.uk] if you feel there is a problem with the way we are handling your data. You are in control of your data and have the right to opt-out of all or specific communication types at any point.
We handle subject access requests in accordance with the GDPR.

Internet cookies
We use cookies on this website to provide you with a better user experience. We do this by placing a small text file on your device / computer hard drive to track how you use the website, to record or log whether you have seen particular messages that we display, to keep you logged into the website where applicable, to display relevant adverts or content, referred you to a third party website.
Some cookies are required to enjoy and use the full functionality of this website.
We use a cookie control system which allows you to accept the use of cookies, and control which cookies are saved to your device / computer. Some cookies will be saved for specific time periods, where others may last indefinitely. Your web browser should provide you with the controls to manage and delete cookies from your device, please see your web browser options.
Cookies that we use are;

Data security and protection
We ensure the security of any personal information we hold by using secure data storage technologies and precise procedures in how we store, access and manage that information. Our methods meet the GDPR compliance requirement.

Fair & Transparent Privacy Explained
We have provided some further explanations about user privacy and the way we use this website to help promote a transparent and honest user privacy methodology.

Sponsored links, affiliate tracking & commissions
Our website may contain affiliate links on some pages. These are typically served through our partners listed on our site, or are self served through our own means. We only use trusted partners who each have high standards of user privacy and security. However, we do not control the actual adverts seen / displayed by our partners. Our partners may collect data and use cookies for ad personalisation and measurement. Where ad preferences are requested as ‘non-personalised’ cookies may still be used for frequency capping, aggregated ad reporting and to combat fraud and abuse.
Clickable affiliate links may be displayed as a website URL like this; https://bit.ly/2YR4v5d or as company Logos or as a titled text link like this: Second Hand Toys Shop.
Clicking on any affiliate links may track your actions by using a cookie saved to your device. You can read more about cookies on this website above. Your actions are usually recorded as a referral from our website by this cookie. We do not earn any commission from our partners whether you make a purchase on their website or not.
We use our partners to provide you with the best overall experience and valued information.
If you have any concerns about this, we suggest you do not click on affiliate links found throughout the website.

Email marketing messages & subscription
Under the GDPR we use the consent lawful basis for anyone subscribing to our newsletter or marketing mailing list. We only collect certain data about you, as detailed in the “Processing of your personal data” above. Any email marketing messages we send are done so by us directly and do not involve EMS provider.
Email marketing messages that we send may contain tracking beacons / tracked clickable links or similar server technologies in order to track subscriber activity within email marketing messages. Where used, such marketing messages may record a range of data such as; times, dates, I.P addresses, opens, clicks, forwards, geographic and demographic data. Such data, within its limitations will show the activity each subscriber made for that email campaign.
Any email marketing messages we send are in accordance with the GDPR and the PECR. We provide you with an easy method to withdraw your consent (unsubscribe) or manage your preferences / the information we hold about you at any time. See any marketing messages for instructions on how to unsubscribe or manage your preferences.
We hold the following information about you within our EMS system;
• Email address
• I.P address
• Subscription time & date

Resources & further information
• Overview of the GDPR – General Data Protection Regulation
• Data Protection Act 2018
• Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003
• The Guide to the PECR 2003
• Twitter Privacy Policy
• Facebook Privacy Policy
• Google Privacy Policy
• Linkedin Privacy Policy

Changes to the Privacy Statement
In the interest of being transparent we may amend this Privacy Statement from time to time. Any significant changes to this Policy or to the way we treat your data will be communicated via the Foers Design website.