Privacy Policy

1.  Introduction

• At Connect Compliance Limited we are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our customers.
• This policy applies where we are acting as a data controller with respect to the personal data of our customers; in other words, where we determine the purposes and means of the processing of that personal data.
• We use cookies on our website.
• In this policy, “we”, “us” and “our” refer to Connect Compliance Limited.

2.  How We Use Your Personal Data

• We may process your personal data that are provided in the course of the use of our services (“personal data“). The personal data may include your name, postal address, email address and telephone numbers. The personal data may be processed for the purposes of operating our website, providing our services, ensuring the security of our website and services, maintaining back-ups of our databases and communicating with you.
• We may process information relating to our customer relationships, including customer contact information (“customer relationship data“). The customer relationship data may include your name, postal address, email address, telephone numbers and information contained in communications between us and you. The customer relationship data may be processed for the purposes of managing our relationships with customers, communicating with customers, keeping records of those communications and promoting our services to customers.
• We may process data about your use of our website and services (“usage data”). The usage data may include your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths, as well as information about the timing, frequency and pattern of your service use. This usage data may be processed for the purposes of analysing the use of the website and services.
• We may process information that you provide to us explicitly for the purpose of subscribing to our email notifications and newsletters (“notification data”). The notification data may be processed for the purposes of sending you the relevant notifications and newsletters.
• We may process any of your personal data identified in this policy where necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.
• We may process any of your personal data identified in this policy where necessary for the purposes of obtaining or maintaining insurance coverage, managing risks, or obtaining professional advice.
• In addition to the specific purposes for which we may process your personal data set out in this Section, we may also process any of your personal data where such processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, and to perform the contract we have with you.
• We do not use any automated decision making on our web site.
• If you choose not to provide us with your personal data, we will not be able to provide our service to you.
• On occasion we may be required to transfer your data out of the EEA in order to provide the services you require from us.
• Please do not supply any other person’s personal data to us, unless we prompt you to do so.

3.  Providing Your Personal Data to Others

• We may disclose your personal data to our insurers and/or professional advisers insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes of obtaining or maintaining insurance coverage, managing risks, obtaining professional advice, or the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.
• We may disclose your personal data to our suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary in order to carry out the supply of our services. This includes but is not limited to the supply of your name and address to a courier, undertaking product testing, cosmetic product safety reports and product registrations.
• In addition to the specific disclosures of personal data set out in this Section, we may disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject. We may also disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.

4.  Retaining and Deleting Personal Data

• Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
• The Cosmetic Regulation 1223/2009 requires Product Information Files are kept for 10 years after the last batch of product is placed onto the market. We therefore follow this requirement when we act as the third party Responsible Person for the product. Other personal data is kept for 6 years.

5.  Amendments

• We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.
• You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.

6.  Your rights

• In this Section, we have summarised the rights that you have under data protection law. Some of the rights are complex, and not all of the details have been included in our summaries. Accordingly, you should read the relevant laws and guidance from the regulatory authorities for a full explanation of these rights.

Your principal rights under data protection law are:

• The right to access. You have the right to confirmation as to whether or not we process your personal data and, where we do, access to the personal data, together with certain additional information. That additional information includes details of the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data concerned and the recipients of the personal data. Providing the rights and freedoms of others are not affected, we will supply to you a copy of your personal data. The first copy will be provided free of charge, but additional copies may be subject to a reasonable fee.
• The right to rectification. You have the right to have any inaccurate personal data about you rectified and, taking into account the purposes of the processing, to have any incomplete personal data about you completed.
• The right to erasure. In some circumstances you have the right to the erasure of your personal data without undue delay. Those circumstances include: the personal data is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed; you withdraw consent to consent-based processing; you object to the processing under certain rules of applicable data protection law; the processing is for direct marketing purposes; and the personal data have been unlawfully processed. However, there are exclusions of the right to erasure. The general exclusions include where processing is necessary: for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information; for compliance with a legal obligation; or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
• The right to restrict processing. In some circumstances you have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data. Those circumstances are: you contest the accuracy of the personal data; processing is unlawful, but you oppose erasure; we no longer need the personal data for the purposes of our processing, but you require personal data for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; and you have objected to processing, pending the verification of that objection. Where processing has been restricted on this basis, we may continue to store your personal data. However, we will only otherwise process it: with your consent; for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person; or for reasons of important public interest.
• The right to object to processing. You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data on grounds relating to your particular situation, but only to the extent that the legal basis for the processing is that the processing is necessary for: the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of any official authority vested in us; or the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party. If you make such an objection, we will cease to process the personal information unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing is for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
• You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes (including profiling for direct marketing purposes). If you make such an objection, we will cease to process your personal data for this purpose.
• You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data for scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes on grounds relating to your particular situation, unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out for reasons of public interest.
• If you consider that our processing of your personal information infringes data protection laws, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection. You may do so in the EU member state of your habitual residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement.
• You have the right to data portability.
• You have the right to withdraw consent.
• You may exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal data by written notice to us or by email.

7.  About Cookies

• A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.
• Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.
• Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

8.  Cookies That We Use

• We use cookies for the following purposes:
  1. authentication – we use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website.
  2. status – we use cookies to help us to determine if you are logged into our website;
  3. personalisation – we use cookies to store information about your preferences and to personalise the website for you.
  4. security – we use cookies as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website and services generally.
  5. analysis – we use cookies to help us to analyse the use and performance of our website and services.
  6. cookie consent – we use cookies to store your preferences in relation to the use of cookies more generally.

9.  Cookies Used by Our Service Providers

• Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website.

10.  Managing Cookies

• Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:
  1. https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);
  2. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox);
  3. http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/ (Opera);
  4. https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer);
  5. https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411 (Safari); and
  6. https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).
• Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.
• If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.

11.  Our Details

• This website is owned and operated by Connect Compliance Limited
• Our principal place of business is at Connect Compliance Limited, Oath Lock House, Oath, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA7 OJW.
• You can contact us:
  1. by post, to the postal address given above.
  2. by telephone, on 01458 253704.
  3. by email, using info@connectcompliance.com.

12.  Data Protection Officer

• Our data protection officer’s contact details are: Trevor Wyant, Connect Compliance Limited, Oath Lock House, Oath, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA7 OJW.