Privacy Policy

BeUniqueness Ltd ("BeUniqueness”) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

The Site is owned and operated by BeUniqueness (company number 11643244) of 3 Hardman Street, Manchester, England, M3 3HF. This privacy policy will inform you as to how we process your personal data on our website and when you subscribe and register your details on our website. It also tells you how we process personal data when we act as a Data Controller and also about your privacy rights pursuant to the Data Protection Act 2018 and UK GDPR ("Data Protection Laws”). 

Data Controller for personal data 

A "data controller” is a person or organisation who alone or jointly determines the purposes for which and the way any personal data is or is likely to be processed. Unless we notify you otherwise BeUniqueness is the data controller of your personal data for the purpose of this website. 

Links to other websites 

The Site contains links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates or to websites shared by other users. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies.  Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

This privacy policy applies to the processing of personal data by us in connection with any:

  • Customers: For the provision of services by us.
  • Suppliers: For the provision of products and services to us by suppliers or service providers.
  • Visitors: For the provision of services by us as a visitor on our website. 

Types of personal data 

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. This is known as anonymised data. Anonymised data falls outside the scope of Data Protection Laws. 

Data We Collect About You

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

·       Identity Data includes first name, last name, date of birth, username or similar identifier and title. 

·       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 for the provision of 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 our website. 

·       Profile Data includes your username and password, searches made by you, your ratings and comments, preferences, feedback and survey responses.  

·       Usage Data includes information about how you use our website and services. 

·       Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

How we collect your personal data

Directly from you: You give us your personal data in your direct interactions with us. Such personal data includes Identity Data, Contact Data, Financial Data, Profile Data, Usage Data, Technical Data, Marketing and Communications Data (i) by filling in forms on our website (ii) by leaving ratings and comments (iii) by corresponding with us by email or post (iv) by calling us over the telephone. 

From use of our website

BeUniqueness gathers information and statistics collectively about visitors to the Company's website. Analysis of this information demonstrates the most frequently used sections of the website and assists us in continually improving the online service. You give us your personal data, which includes Profile Data, Usage Data, Technical Data and/or Marketing and Communications Data when you use our website or which we have agreed with you to use or when you review any publications or marketing material we send you. Please see our cookies notice for more information.

Indirectly: Third-party sources: We receive Identity Data and Contact Data about you from third parties when:

  • we provide our services or other parties send us your personal data to enable the provision of those service. 
  • you provide your personal data to a third party for the purpose of sharing it with us. 

Providing personal data 

Where we need to collect personal data by law or under the terms of a contract we have with you and you do not provide that information 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 our services. In this case we may have to cancel our service but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.

How we use your personal data 

BeUniqueness will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. We will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

  • Performance of a contract: Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you. For example when you sign up to our services. 
  • Legal obligation: Where we need to comply with a legal obligation. For example for accounting or legal purposes. 
  • Legitimate interests: 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.
  • Consent: We do not generally rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data. Where we do rely on consent you have the right to withdraw consent at any time. Please contact us at info@beuniqueness.co.uk to withdraw consent. Please also see Marketing communications

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/Activity

Type of data

Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest

To administer and manage your account, to provide you with information you request from us and to carry out any other obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.

(a) Identity 

(b) Contact

Performance of a contract with you

To respond to communications from you and to provide you with information about our Services, including notifying you about changes to our Site or Services.

(a) Identity 

(b) Contact

(a) Performance of a contract with you

(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests

To process and deliver our services to you 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 i.e., 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 i.e., to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products/services

To ensure that content from our Site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your device and to administer the Site including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes.

 

To keep the Site safe and secure, e.g. by conducting analysis required to detect malicious data and understand how this may affect your IT system.

 

(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.

 

 

To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you

(a) Identity 

(b) Contact 

(c) Profile 

(d) Usage 

(e) Marketing and Communications 

(f) Technical 

Necessary for our legitimate interests i.e., to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy

To measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others, deliver relevant advertising to you and make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of the Site about goods or services that may interest you or them.

(a)   Identity 

(b)   Contact 

(c)    Technical  

(d)   Usage 

(e)   Marketing and Communications

Necessary for our legitimate interests to define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our website updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy

 

Note: Where applicable consent will be used for data analytics obtained through cookies or similar technologies. See our cookies notice 

 

Marketing communications 

BeUniqueness may send you marketing communication. You have the right to object to processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes. You can unsubscribe from receiving marketing communications from us by using the unsubscribe methods contained in communications we send to you or by contacting us. See Contact us

Where you opt out of receiving marketing communications this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of registering for or using our service, your service experience or other interactions with this website.

How we share your personal data

We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below:

  • Internally: Your personal data will be used by our employees and contractors who are working on providing your services to you on a need-to-know basis.
  • Suppliers: This would include service providers who support our business including IT and communication suppliers and outsourced business support to ensure our service runs smoothly. 
  • Professional advisers: This would include lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance and accounting services.
  • Law enforcement bodies, regulators and other authorities: This is to comply with our legal requirements or adhere to good practices.
  • Advertising networks and analytics service providers: This is to support and display ads on our website, apps and other social media tools such as by the use of Google Ads and Google Analytics. 
  • E-consultancy providers: We use third parties such as Mailchimp and other e-consultancy and e-marketing providers to collect demographic and behavioural data for market research and for customer experience improvement.
  • Third parties: This is in the context of the acquisition or transfer of any part of our business or in connection with the business reorganisation. If a change happens to our business then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy policy.

International transfers

How we safeguard personal data when we transfer it internationally

We ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded whenever we transfer personal data out of the UK/EEA by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented: 

1.     We will only transfer your personal information to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal information; or 

2.     We will use specific contracts approved for use in the UK/EU which give personal information the same protection it has in the UK/EU. For example, the use of Article 46 UK/EU GDPR safeguard mechanisms to transfer personal data. 

You can obtain more details of the protection given to your personal data when it is transferred outside UK/EU including a copy of the standard data protection clauses which we have entered into with recipients of your personal data by contacting us as described below.

How We Secure Your Data

All of your personal information is protected and we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and management procedures to safeguard and secure the data we collect. Your information is stored on secure cloud databases, internal servers and on third party software.  Your information is only accessible by employees who have authorised access rights to such information. All of your payment information is encrypted using SSL technology.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal data we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our Site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we use strict procedures and the security features described above to try to prevent unauthorised access.

How Long We Store Your Data

We only keep your personal information for as long as it’s necessary for our original legitimate purpose for collecting the information and for as long as we have your permission to keep it. We will delete your personal information when you delete your account by emailing us at info@beuniqueness.co.uk.

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

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. 

Data Subject Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under Data Protection Laws. You can:

Request access to your personal data: This is known as a "data subject access request" and enables you to receive a copy of the personal data BeUniqueness hold about you.

Request correction of your personal data: This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected.

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. Note: We may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you at the time of your request.

Object to processing of your personal data: This is where we are processing your personal data based on a legitimate interest or those of a third party and you may challenge this.  However, we may be entitled to continue processing your information based on our legitimate interests or where this is relevant to any legal claims.  See also Marketing communications. 

Request restriction of processing your personal information: 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 information's accuracy (b) where our use of the information is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it (c) where you need us to hold the information 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 information but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.

Request transfer of your personal information ("data portability”): This is where in some circumstances we will provide to you or a third party you have chosen your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format.

Right to withdraw consent: This is where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. This will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. Depending on the processing activity, if you withdraw your consent we may not be able to provide certain services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.

Automated decision making:  This is where decisions are made about you by automated means. We do not carry out automated decision making that have a legal or similarly significant effect.

Keeping personal information accurate and current 

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. If you wish to update your personal data please contact us. See Contact us.


Carrying out your data subject rights 

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. We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal information or to exercise any of your other rights. This is a security measure to ensure that personal information 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.

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.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us at info@beuniqueness.co.uk

Concerns and complaints 

We would appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns in the first instance. Please see Contact us section. If you have unresolved concerns and you live or work in the UK or believe that a personal data breach happened in the UK you have the right to complain at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). 

If you live or work outside the UK or you have a complaint concerning our personal data processing activities you may lodge a complaint with another supervisory authority.  

Changes to our privacy policy  

This privacy policy may be changed from time to time in response to legal, technical or business developments. We will take appropriate measures to inform you when we update our privacy policy. We will obtain your consent to any material privacy policy changes if and where this is required by applicable Data Protection Laws.

Contact us 

If you would like more information about the way we manage personal information that we hold about you please contact us at:

Email address: info@beuniqueness.co.uk

 

This version was last updated on 22 June 2022.