Privacy Policy

PRIVACY POLICY

INTRODUCTION 

Our customers data and privacy are taken very seriously at Gratisfaction.co.uk and we treat all information you give us with care and consideration. All personal information you provide us directly is protected using our secure systems and processes.  

Our privacy policy states how we collect, process and then keep your personal data secure whilst you are using our website gratisfaction.co.uk and how any information you provide us when you join our newsletter is used. 

Gratisfaction.co.uk is owned and operated by Gratisfaction UK LLP and is in control of your data and therefore responsible for your personal data. As such we are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected and secure (Gratisfaction UK LLP is referred to as “Gratisfaction.co.uk” “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy policy). 

This policy is effective from 4th May 2018. 

 

WHY WE COLLECT YOUR DATA 

At Gratisfaction.co.uk we send out a daily newsletter. Our free service email newsletter is the only reason we collect your personal data input by you on our website, we hold your name and email address on a secure emailing system known as Mailchimp. We also use cookies to collect more technical varied data to ensure we can send you the best possible deals and offers. 

 

DATA COLLECTED ABOUT YOU 

Personal data is any information that can be used to identify an individual. It does not include anonymized data. 

By using our website Gratisfaction.co.uk we may possibly process different types of personal data such as, identity data which may include your first name, middle name, last name, salutation and sex. Contact data which could include your personal address and personal email address. Technical data which may include your login data, IP addresses, browser type, browser plug-in types or versions, time zone setting and/or location, operating system and/or platform and other technology on the devices you use to access Gratisfaction.co.uk. Usage Data might include information on how you use Gratisfaction.co.uk and its products or services. Marketing plus communications data collected could include your choices on receiving email/social communications from us and your preferences on how we communicate. 

Gratisfaction.co.uk may process mass data such as your location which we review in our usage data to to see for example a specific set of users using a certain section of our website. If we decided to link this mass data with your personal data in order to identify you from it, then it is treated as personal data. 

Gratisfaction.co.uk does not collect any sensitive data. Sensitive data includes details about race or ethnicity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, political opinions, information about your health and genetic, biometric data and trade union data. Gratisfaction.co.uk does not collect any information regarding criminal convictions or offences. For cases where we are required to collect your personal data by law and you do not give us this data when requested we will not be able to perform the service to you. If you don’t provide us with the requested data, we may have to cancel our service to you. 

 

THE COLLECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA 

Gratisfaction.co.uk collects personal data through a variety of different means that include: 

  • Direct communication: You, the end user can provide us with your data by filling in forms on our site or by communicating with us by, phone or email, which includes when you subscribe to our service and offers, ask for information to be sent to you, enter a competition, promotion or happen give us feedback requesting promotional services. 
  • Automated technologies – When you use Gratisfaction.co.uk we may (through Google) collect technical information about your computer, browsing methods and usage patterns. 
  • We collect this data by using cookies. 
  • If another website uses our cookies we may also use your technical data which is automatically gathered. 
  • Third parties – We may use personal about you from various third parties. 

 

HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA 

Gratisfaction.co.uk only uses a user’s personal data when legally sanctioned. The most common uses of your personal data are: 

  • When it is necessary for our genuine interests and your genuine interests and your rights are not affected by these combined interests. 
  • Where Gratisfaction.co.uk has the need to adhere to the law or a regulatory obligation. 

For the most part, we do not depend on permission as a legal ground for using your personal data, other than communicating with you via email. 

It is your right to withdraw consent from our marketing when you wish by emailing us at admin@gratisfaction.co.uk or using the unsubscribe links in all our newsletters or social channels. 

 

HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA CONTINUED

 

We use your data for the following purposes:

Purpose/Activity Type of data Lawful basis for processing
 

To sign you to our daily newsletter

 

Identity data, contact data to perform our agreement with You
 

to administer and protect our business and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data)

 

 

technical data, marketing and communication data (i) as necessary for our legitimate interests in running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganization or group restructuring exercise(ii) as necessary to comply with any legal obligations
 

to deliver relevant newsletters, content/advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of our advertising

 

Identity data, contact data, technical data, marketing and communication data as necessary for our legitimate interests in studying how customers use our website and newsletters, to develop them
 

to use data analytics to improve our website, services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences

 

Technical data, marketing and communication data to keep the website updated and relevant, to develop our business and to develop our marketing strategy

 

 

HOW WE CONTROL YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION 

You can restrict our use of your personal information in the following ways: 

  • If you are applying for products on our site look for the tick box requesting not to be sent any more information, by doing so you will receive no promotional materials. 
  • Where you have already given us consent to using your personal information for marketing purposes you can change this decision at any time by emailing us or through the unsubscribe option. 

Gratisfaction UK LLP can guarantee you that we will not send or share your data with any third parties but we may send you information through us that we think you may find interesting and of use. 

 

REASONS FOR PROCESSING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION 

We use your personal data in a number of ways and below is a description of how we do so and the legal grounds on how we process this data. 

Gratisfaction UK LLP can use your personal data for many lawful reasons which depend on the reason and purpose of which we use your data. Send us an email if you require specific details on the legality behind the processing of your personal data. 

 

MARKETING CONTACT 

We will be contacting you via email if you have signed up to our newsletter on our website and therefore requested to receive our marketing communication on a daily basis. 

 

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION 

At Gratisfaction UK LLP we could possibly have to share your personal data with these potential third parties: 

  • The owners of Gratisfaction UK have access to all data provided. 
  • Professional advisers that include lawyers should any legal issues arise. 
  • UK Government should and regulators or authorities require reporting for any of our activities. 

Any third parties who require access to any data stored by Gratisfaction UK LLP will be required to respect the personal information and treat it according to the law. 

 

INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS 

Gratisfaction UK LLP has partners that are located outside of the EEA which has weaker personal data protection laws. Should we process any of your personal information with partners outside of the EEA we will do our best to ensure the security of data is the same standard as inside the EEA. The EEA has restricted the transfer of personal data outside of its region unless certain criteria are met. 

 

DATA SECURITY 

Gratisfaction UK LLP takes security extremely seriously and we have placed measures to keep your data secure from being lost, used or stolen in an unauthorised way. We have taken steps to keep data secure that includes firewalls, anti-virus, trusted mailing websites and procedures inside the managerial side of things to ensure personal information kept online is safe. 

We also limit access to any personal data you provide and limit access to any data shared with third parties where we ensure it is only used on our instructions and in a confidential way. 

Should there be any data breach we will be sure to notify all effected users and any applicable regulator when we are legally required to do so. 

 

DATA RETENTION 

Gratisfaction UK LLP will only store personal data for the necessary period of time needed to fulfil the reason if was collected for that includes legal and reporting requirements of Gratisfaction UK LLP. 

We decide the correct retention period based on the nature and sensitivity of the data collected and once this personal data is no longer used it is removed completely from all our systems, therefore not having any association or record of such data. 

Regarding the law we may have to keep personal data of our users for up to 6 years due to tax reasons. You can request we delete your data or have it as anonymous data so therefore no longer linked to you. 

 

OUR USERS LEGAL RIGHTS 

In certain cases, you as a user of Gratisfaction.co.uk have rights under the data protection laws to your personal data. 

These rights include 

  1. Right to be informed
  2. Right of access
  3. Right to rectification
  4. Right to erasure
  5. Right to restriction of processing
  6. Right to data portability
  7. Right to object

Should you want to exercise your rights please email admin@gratisfaction.co.uk 

There will be no fee involved regarding any of these rights unless the request is deemed unfounded, repetitive or excessive. We also reserve the right to reject such a request in these circumstances. 

In the unlikely event that we need to confirm an identity we may contact you asking for personal data and this measure is in place to ensure data does not get in the hands of people who are not associated with such personal data. 

We will do our utmost to respond to data requests from our users inside of one month and will keep the users in question up to date regarding the data request. 

 

THIRD PARTY LINKING 

We use Google adverts and other links to website we think may be of interest, once you have navigated away from Gratisfaction.co.uk you should understand that we have no control over the website you visit. For this reason, we cannot be held responsible for the protection of your privacy one you leave our website for one that is not governed by our privacy protection. We suggest checking each website and their privacy section to ensure your data is safe. 

 

COOKIES ON OUR WEBSITE 

Gratisfaction.co.uk uses cookies like 99% of websites in the world, cookies are small files that are used to improve your user experience whilst being online. 

By using the Gratisfaction.co.uk website you are initially asked to accept that we use cookies, by doing you agree for the small files to be downloaded and placed on your computer which will in turn create a better experience and also provide us with information such as where you are visiting us from or whether you are a returning customer. A cookie is used to better your experience and gathers information about your personal preferences. 

Our website uses cookies as part of our newsletter sign up form to remember whether you have signed up and are a subscribed user already. We also use traffic-based cookies that let us know for example which page you are using and in turn let us better understand our customer’s needs. 

Some of the ads may be served by Google. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to Users based on their visit to our Site and other sites on the Internet. DART uses “non personally identifiable information” and does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, etc. You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html

Adverts appearing on the site may be delivered to advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile non personal identification information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This privacy policy does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

This information is only used for statistical analysis and does not stay on our systems. 

Should you not accept to use cookies on our website your user experience will be vastly reduced but you can modify whether or not to accept them in your browser settings. 

 

CONTACT DETAILS 

Email address: admin@gratisfaction.co.uk 

Office address:
25 Stonehill
Street
Somerset
BA160PF 

We have clearly stated how important information is and we would appreciate it if you could keep your information up to date and accurate, please contact us if your personal information changes by sending us an email or using our contact form – https://www.gratisfaction.co.uk/contact-us/ 

Gratisfaction UK has the discretion to update this privacy policy at any time. When we do, we will revise the updated date at the bottom of this page. We encourage Users to frequently check this page for any changes to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this privacy policy periodically and become aware of modifications.

By using this Site, you signify your acceptance of this policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our Site. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.

 

DISCLAIMER POLICY

Gratisfaction UK contains links to other websites.  External links contain content which is not endorsed or controlled by Gratisfaction UK.  All information that you submit to other websites is done so at your own risk.  Please read the Privacy Policy of websites we link you to before submitting any information when you take advantage of any of the offers of this site.  We offer no guarantee regarding any of the offers posted on Gratisfaction UK and there is no guarantee that you will receive any of the freebies listed, as all offers are made by other entities and companies. All Flash Bargain prices are subject to change and all Voucher Codes offered are also subject to change or be withdrawn.

We cannot guarantee the accuracy of the information presented as it is impossible for us to keep track of  thousands of previously published posts on a daily basis.  We welcome your feedback and your assistance in updating the information we present by using the Contact Us or contacting us via social media.  We will correct any errors as we discover them or as they are brought to our attention.

Last updated: 04.05.2018