Privacy Policy.
Introduction:
International Trade Partners respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data.
This privacy notice will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website or social media feeds (regardless of where you visit them from) or when we send you other digital or non-digital marketing communications or other digital media and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
Purpose of this Privacy Notice:
This privacy notice aims to give you information on how International Trade Partners Ltd collects and processes your personal data through your use of our website or when we send you other digital or non-digital marketing communications, including any data you may provide through our website or social media feeds when you sign up to one of our newsletters, purchase a product or service or take part in a promotion, giveaway or competition, for example.
Our websites and social media platforms are not intended for children (under the age of 18 years) and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.
It is important that you read this privacy notice together with any other privacy notice, fair processing notice, or terms and conditions, that 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 notice supplements the other notices and is not intended to override them.
Controller:
This privacy notice is issued on behalf of International Trade Partners Ltd, so when we mention “International Trade Partners Ltd”, “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy notice, we are referring to International Trade Partners Ltd, who is responsible for processing your data.
International Trade Partners Ltd. is the controller and responsible for the www.internationaltradepartners.co.uk website and associated UK social media feeds.
We have appointed a data privacy manager who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this privacy policy. If you have any questions about this privacy policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact us on sales@internationaltradepartners.co.uk
You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority 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 first.
Your Duty to Inform us of Changes:
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 following the procedure on our latest communication to you or by emailing sales@internationaltradepartners.co.uk
Third-party Links:
Our websites and social media feeds 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 websites and social media feeds, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.
The Data We Collect About You:
This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:
Information about your browser, network and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Web pages you view while on this website
Your IP address
This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:
Information about your browser, network, and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Your IP address
This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:
Clicks
Internal links
Pages visited
Scrolling
Searches
Timestamps
We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.
When you submit information to this website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us. We also share this information with Gmail for storage purposes.
Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services.
This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:
Information about your browser, network, or devices
Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it
Your IP address
We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you. For details about this category please visit the ICO website and search for ‘Special Category Data’.
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.
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 information by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
apply for our products or services;
create an account on our websites or follow our social accounts
subscribe to our service or publications;
request marketing to be sent to you;
enter a competition, promotion or survey; or
give us some feedback.
Automated Technologies or Interactions:
As you interact with our website or social feeds, we may 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.
How We Use Your Personal Data:
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
Where we need to perform the contract, we are about to enter or have entered with you.
Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
Where you have specifically requested to be kept informed about our products, services and promotions etc
Generally, we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data other than in relation to sending third party direct marketing communications to you via email or text message. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us.
Marketing and Opting-Out:
We may send you marketing emails, which you can unsubscribe from at any time. We share your contact information with Squarespace, our email marketing provider, so they can send these emails on our behalf.
We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising. Our latest communication to you will tell you how to unsubscribe, or you can email sales@internationaltradepartners.co.uk and your request will be processed.
Promotional Offers From Us:
We may use your data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which products, services and offers may be relevant for you (we call this marketing).
You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us or purchased goods or services from us or if you provided us with your details when you signed up to one of our newsletters, entered a competition or registered for a promotion and, in each case, you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.
Third-party Marketing:
We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any company outside International Trade Partners Ltd. of companies for marketing purposes.
Cookies:
This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app.
These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.
These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.
For more information about the cookies we use, please see our Cookie Policy.
Change of Purpose:
We will only use your personal data while necessary 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. 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.
Disclosures of Your Personal Data:
We may have to share your personal data with service providers or as required by law. 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, relating to International Trade Partners Ltd. and in accordance with our instructions
International Transfers:
We do not transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area (EEA).
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 team members, 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
Data Retention:
How Long will You use my Personal Data for?
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
Your Legal Rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, to include the right to:
Request access to your personal data.
Request correction of your personal data.
Request erasure of your personal data.
Object to processing of your personal data.
Request restriction of processing your personal data.
Request transfer of your personal data.
Right to withdraw consent.
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact sales@internationaltradepartners.co.uk
No Fee Usually Required:
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
What we May Need From You:
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
Time Limit to Respond:
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made several requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.
International Trade Partners Ltd, Unit 10, Enterprise Centre, Terminus Rd, Chichester PO19 8FY
Tel: 01243 211469
Website: https://www.internationaltradepartners.co.uk
Email: sales@internationaltradepartners.co.uk