Privacy Statement
This Privacy Statement was published in December 2022.
At Paws and Me we are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy in compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This privacy statement explains when and why we collect personal information, how we use it, the conditions under which we may disclose it to others and how we keep it secure. This Privacy Statement applies to customer contract fulfilment activities and marketing.
When do we collect personal data about you?
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When you enquiry about our services.
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When you interact with us in person, through correspondence, by phone, by social media, or through our website.
Why do we collect and use personal data?
We collect and use personal data mainly to perform our customer service to you. We also collect data about suppliers and partners.
We may use your information for the following purposes:
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Send you marketing communications which you have requested. These may include information about our products and services, events, activities. This communication is subscription-based and requires your consent.
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Send you information about the products and services that you have purchased from us.
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Reply to a ‘Contact us’ or other web forms you have completed on our website.
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Follow up on incoming requests (customer support, emails, or phone calls).
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Perform contractual obligations such as service confirmation, invoice, reminders, and similar.
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Notify you about any disruptions to our services (system messages).
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Contact you to conduct surveys about your opinion on our services.
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Our legal basis for collecting personal data
We use personal information for fulfilling our obligations related to agreements with our customers, partners and suppliers.
What type of personal data is collected?
We collect customers’ names and contact details. We may also collect feedback, comments and questions received from you in service-related communication and activities, such as meetings, phone calls, documents, and emails. From our websites, we may collect IP-address and actions taken on the site.
Paws and Me does not collect or process any special categories of personal data, such as public unique identifiers or sensitive personal data.
How long do we keep your personal data?
We store personal data for as long as we find it necessary to fulfil the purpose for which the personal data was collected, while also considering our need to answer your queries or resolve possible problems, to comply with legal requirements under applicable laws, to attend to any legal claims/complaints, and for safeguarding purposes.
This means that we may retain your personal data for a reasonable period of time after your last interaction with us. When the personal data that we have collected is no longer required, we will delete it in a secure manner. We may process data for internal statistical purposes and analysis.
Your rights to your personal data
You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:
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The right to request a copy of your personal data that Paws and Me holds about you.
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The right to request that Paws and Me correct your personal data if inaccurate or out of date.
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The right to request that your personal data be deleted when it is no longer necessary for Paws and Me to retain such data.
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The right to withdraw any consent to personal data processing at any time. For example, your consent to receive e-marketing communications.
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The right to request that Paws and Me provides you with your personal data and, if possible, to pass on this information directly (in a portable format) to another data controller when the processing is based on consent or contract.
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The right to request a restriction on further data processing, in case there is a dispute in relation to the accuracy or processing of your personal data.
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The right to object to the processing of personal data, in case data processing has been based on legitimate interest and/or direct marketing.
The use of cookies
We may use cookies and the web (‘Website Navigational Information’) to collect information as you navigate the company’s websites. Website Navigational Information includes standard information from your web browsers, such as browser type and browser language; your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address; and the actions you take on the company’s websites, such as the web pages viewed, and the links clicked.
Do we share your data with anyone?
We do not share, sell, rent, or trade your information with any third parties without your consent, except what is described below:
Third-party Service Providers working on our behalf:
We may pass your information on to our distributors, agents, sub-contractors and other associated organisations with the purpose of them providing services to you on our behalf.
If required by law:
We will disclose your personal information if required by law or if we, as a company, reasonably believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our company’s rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order or legal process. However, we will do what we can to ensure that your privacy rights continue to be protected.
Use of sub-contractors (processors and sub-processors)
We may use sub-contractors to process personal data on our behalf. We are responsible for making sure they commit themselves to adhere to this Privacy Policy and applicable data protection legislation by signing a Data Processing Agreement.
If the sub-contractor processes Personal Data outside the EU/EEA area, such processing must be in accordance with the EU Privacy Shield Framework, EU Standard Contractual Clauses for transfer to third countries, or another specifically stated lawful basis for the transfer of personal data to a third country.
Changes to this Privacy Statement
Paws and Me reserves the right to amend this Privacy Statement at any time. The applicable version will always be found on our websites. We encourage you to check this Privacy Statement occasionally to ensure that you are happy with any changes.
If we make changes that significantly alter our privacy practices, we will notify you by email or post a notice on our websites prior to the change taking effect.
When contacting us to ascertain the information we hold about you, it would be helpful to you could provide us with full details of your full name, company and email address.