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Welcome to Optima’s privacy notice which will apply to you as a registered user of our website Optima 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 (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you. This privacy notice is provided in a layered format so you can click through to the specific areas set out below. Alternatively, you can download a pdf version of the policy here . Please also use the Glossary to understand the meaning of some of the terms used in this privacy notice.
Purpose of this privacy notice
Optima is made up of several different legal entities details of which can be found here, This privacy notice is issued on behalf of these companies and us so when we mention “Optima”, “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy notice, we are referring to the relevant company in the Optima Group responsible for processing your data.
This privacy notice aims to give you information on how Optima collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide through this website when you register or, as a registered user, you log-in. This website is not intended for children 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 or fair processing notice 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.
References to “law” in this privacy policy are to laws which is applicable in the UK and which we believe set out principles and standards applicable to all entities in the Optima Group and which are not in conflict with local laws of any particular Optima Group. In the event of conflict disputes will be dealt with as set out in our Terms of Use
Controller
Optima Contracting Limited (trading as “Optima”) is based in the UK is the controller and is responsible for this website.
Joint Controllers
Each Optima Group entity has its own website where you may register as a user. However, the data which is collected by that Optima Group entity will be shared with Optima Contracting Limited in the UK, This is because Optima Contracting Limited is responsible for security measures to enable you to safely access our products and product specifications (which it maintains in a centralised system in the UK) and to provide support services to the Optima Group entity with which you have registered as a member, as well as for marketing purposes to registered members of all Optima Group entities.
Therefore, the Optima Group entity with which you have registered as a member or to which you have been referred to as the nearest to your territory, as well as Optima Contracting Limited will be joint controllers of the data which is collected from you as a user.
If you have any questions about this privacy notice, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact the data privacy manager using the details set out in the Contact Details below.
Contact Details
Our full details are:
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 in the first instance (see our Contact Details above).
If you have registered with an Optima Group entity outside of the UK, you may also have a right to complain to the relevant data protection authorities in the jurisdiction of that entity. Again, we would appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance (see our Contact Details above).
Changes to the privacy notice and 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.
Third-party links
Other than in relation to Optima Group entities, 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 notice of every website you visit.
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 follows:
We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this privacy notice.
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 allow you to have access to Optima proprietary and technical information on our website.
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 the jurisdiction of your business organisation is outside the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area, your Identity Data, Contact Data and Technical Data will be shared with an entity in the Optima Group entity which is geographically as near as possible to the jurisdiction of your business organisation to contact you. That Optima Group entity will then be a joint controller for your personal data.
Click here to find out more about the types of lawful basis that we will rely on to process your personal data.
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 phone or email or text message as a representative of your business organisation. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us.
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.
Marketing
We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising. As a registered member and user of our website you can make decisions about the information you receive from us by changing settings to your account via this website.
Promotional offers from us
We may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage and Profile Data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to your business organisation. 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, on behalf of your business organisation:
Third-party marketing
We will get your express opt-in [INSERT LINK to below] consent before we share your personal data with any company outside of the Optima Group for marketing purposes.
Opting-out
You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by logging into the website and checking or unchecking relevant boxes to adjust your marketing preferences or by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by contacting us at any time.
Where you opt-out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of a product/service purchase, warranty registration, product/service experience or other transactions.
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.
We may have to share your personal data with the parties other entities of the Optima Group for the purposes set out in the table in paragraph 4 above, namely where the jurisdiction of your business organisation is outside the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area, your Identity Data, Contact Data and Technical Data will be shared with a company which is an entity within the Optima Group (as joint controller [INSERT LINK to Joint Controller, above]) and which is geographically as near as possible to the jurisdiction of your business organisation to contact you.
We require all entities in the Optima Group and 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.
Apart from sharing your personal information with other entities in the Optima Group for the lawful purposes and legitimate interests (as set out in the table to paragraph 4 above), we do not transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area (EEA), without your prior express written consent given by email, fax or by post.
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.
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.
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 requirements.
By law we have to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, and Transaction Data) for as long as you remain a registered user.
In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see Request erasure below for further information, but if you request erasure of some or all of your Identity Data and Contact Data it may not be possible to retain your registration in which event you will automatically cease to be a registered user and will no longer have access to Optima’s technical and proprietary information. 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.
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. Please click on the links below to find out more about these rights:
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us.
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 a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.
LAWFUL BASIS
Legitimate Interest means the interest of our business in conducting and managing our business to enable us to give you the best service/product and the best and most secure experience. We make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you (both positive and negative) and your rights before we process your personal data for our legitimate interests. We do not use your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law). You can obtain further information about how we assess our legitimate interests against any potential impact on you in respect of specific activities by contacting us
Performance of Contract means processing your data where it is necessary for the performance of a contract to which your business organisation is a party and in which you have been involved with us or to take steps at your request (on behalf of your business organisation) before entering into such a contract.
Comply with a legal or regulatory obligation means processing your personal data where it is necessary for compliance with a legal or regulatory obligation that we are subject to.
THIRD PARTIES
Optima Group: means companies being members in the same group of companies, primarily Optima Contracting Limited (trading as Optima) and the entity of the Optima Group with which you have registered, acting as joint controllers or processors Details of all entities in the Optima Group are as follows:
OPTIMA GROUP
Service providers acting as processors based [in the UK] who provide IT and system administration services. Professional advisers acting as processors or joint controllers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers based [in the UK who provide [consultancy, banking, legal, insurance and accounting services].
YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS
You have the right to:
Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request. Additionally, if you request erasure of some or all of your Identity Data and Contact Data it may not be possible to retain your registration, in which event you will automatically cease to be a registered user and will no longer have access to Optima’s technical and proprietary information.
Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.
Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios: (a) if you want us to establish the data’s accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c) where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent. However, if you withdraw consent to process your data for the purposes of permitting you to have access to Optima’s technical and proprietary information it will not be possible to retain your registration, in which event you will automatically cease to be a registered user and will no longer have access to Optima’s technical and proprietary information.
