Privacy Policy

For the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998 (“Act”) and any laws that replace or amend the Act from time to time (including without limitation the General Data Protection Regulation 2016 (Regulation (EU) 2016/679)) (“Data Protection Law”), the data controller is Valpak Limited of Unit 4 Stratford Business Park, Banbury Road, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Warwickshire, CV37 7GW.

Please read the following policy carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

Please note that by visiting and using the Platform you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to this privacy policy in its entirety and to the practices set out in it.

If you do not agree to this privacy policy in its entirety, you must not use the Platform.

If you have any questions or need further information about our privacy practices, please email info@valpak.co.uk

The Personal Data we Collect From You

We will collect and process the following data about you (“your information“):

• Information you give us. This is information about you that you give us by filling in forms on the Platform or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail, or otherwise. It includes information you provide when you register to use our site, subscribe to or enquire about our service, search for a service or product, place an order on the Platform, participate in discussion boards or other social media functions on the Platform, enter a competition, promotion or survey and when you report a problem with the Platform. The information you give us may include your name, address, e-mail address and phone number, financial and credit card information, personal description, and photograph.
• Information we collect about you. With regard to each of your visits to the Platform we will automatically collect the following information:

• technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, your login information, browser type, and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform;

• information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL), clickstream to, through and from the Platform (including date and time), products you viewed or searched for, page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), methods used to browse away from the page and any phone number used to call our customer service number.

Cookies

For information about the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them see our Cookie Policy

How we may Use and Store your Information

We use your information in various ways. Please click here to see a detailed breakdown of the activities and legal grounds for and on which we process your information.

Disclosure of your information

You agree that we have the right to share your information with:

• any member of our group excluding Valpak Retail WEEE Services Limited will include, without limitation Valpak Holdings Limited, Valpak Limited, Valpak Recycling Limited, and Valpak Scotland Limited, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company, and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 1159 of the UK Companies Act 2006;
• carefully selected third parties including:
  • business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors (including, without limitation any appropriate agency or government authority) for the performance of any contract we enter into with them or you; and
  • analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our site.

We will disclose your information to third parties:

• in the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we will disclose your information to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets;
• if Valpak Limited or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case your information will be one of the transferred assets; or
• if we are under a duty to disclose or share your information in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use

We may transfer your personal information outside of Europe. Such processing may be necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are party.

If at any time we transfer your personal information to countries located outside of the EEA, we will endeavour to ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place for that transfer.

Marketing                                

We may contact you by email, SMS, telephone, or post with information about products and services which are similar to those we previously provided to you or that you have enquired about unless you have indicated that you do not want to hear from us.

We may also pass your information to other organisations (as set out in the paragraph entitled ‘Disclosure of your information’) who may contact you to provide marketing information about their products and services if you have provided us with your consent to do so.

If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please tick the relevant boxes during the order process when we collect your information. You may ask us at any time not to use your information for marketing purposes by clicking here to contact us.

Where we store your information                                  

All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers using SSL technology. Any payment transactions will be encrypted. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password that enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.

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

How long we hold your information                                   

The length of time we retain your information is determined by a number of factors including the purpose for which we use that information and our obligations under other laws.

We do not retain your information in an identifiable format for longer than is necessary for the purposes described above at “How we may use and store your information”.

We do not always apply a fixed retention period to the information we hold. Where it is not possible to provide details of a fixed retention period, we have instead provided details of the criteria we use to determine the period that applies.

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