Privacy & Cookie Policy
FMR Research Ltd is registered in Scotland.
Company number: SC141767
Registered address:
FMR Research Ltd, 100 Queen Street, Glasgow, G1 3DN
Email: simon@researching.co.uk
Effective From: February 1st, 2022
Privacy Policy
Introduction
This privacy notice provides you with details of how we collect and process your personal data through your use of our website.
This website is intended for use by adults. We do not target, or knowingly collect any personal information from children or people under the age of 18.
By providing us with your data you warrant to us that you are over 18 years of age.
It is very important that the information we hold about you is accurate and up to date. Please let us know if at any time your personal information changes by emailing us at the address provided in the contact information above.
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make changes, we will update the ‘Effective From’ date at the top of the page. If we make a material change in the way we use your personal information, we will prominently note the change through email or notification on our website.
How We Collect Your Personal Data
We may collect data about you by you providing the data directly to us (for example by filling in forms on our site or by sending us emails). We may automatically collect certain data from you as you use our website by using cookies and similar technologies.
We may receive data from third parties, for example analytics providers such as Google, advertising networks such as Facebook, and providers of technical, payment, and delivery services, such as data brokers or aggregators.
We may also receive data from publicly availably sources such as Companies House and the Electoral Register based inside the EU.
We may process the following categories of personal data about you:
Communication Data
This includes any communication that you send to us whether that be through a contact form on our website, through email, text, social media messaging, social media posting, or any other communication that you send us. We process this data for the purposes of communicating with you, for record keeping, and for the establishment, pursuance, or defence of legal claims. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests which in this case are to reply to communications sent to us, to keep records and to establish, pursue or defend legal claims.
Blogs and Forums
We may provide an opportunity for you to post information to blogs, forums, or other public areas on the Services. By doing so, you consent to the posting of any personal information that you provide. You should be aware that such personal information can be read, collected, or used by other visitors to these public areas. We have no control over how these visitors use your personal information.
Inquiries
If you send us a comment or question or make an inquiry, we will retain the information that you provide to us for the purpose of responding to you, as well as for improving the Services and our customers’ use of our Services.
Registration
When you register on the Services, such as to subscribe to a newsletter, request information, or access a Product, you will be asked to provide certain personal information, which we will use to fulfil your request.
Survey Data
We may ask you to complete surveys or opinion polls from time to time. We only use the information that we collect from surveys in an aggregate manner, not in individually identifiable form. We may use specific comments shared on surveys, in an anonymised way. We may also reach out for further clarification on survey responses and potentially request more and permission to share. But we will never share anything personally identifiable shared on a survey unless given consent.
User Data
This includes data about how you use our website and any online services together with any data that you post for publication on our website or through other online services. We process this data to operate our website and ensure relevant content is provided to you, to ensure the security of our website, to maintain back-ups of our website and/or databases, and to enable publication and administration of our website, business, and other online services. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests which in this case are to enable us to properly administer our website and our business.
Technical Data
This includes data about your use of our website and online services such as your IP address, your login data, details about your browser, length of visit to pages on our website, page views and navigation paths, details about the number of times you use our website, time zone settings, and other technology on the devices you use to access our website. The source of this data is from our analytics tracking system. We process this data to analyse your use of our website and other online services, to administer and protect our business and website, to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you, and to understand the effectiveness of our advertising. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests which in this case are to enable us to properly administer our website and our business, to grow our business, and to decide our marketing strategy.
Web Logs
We maintain web logs that automatically record basic information about everyone who visits or uses the Services. We use web log information to help us design our website, to identify popular features, to improve our services, and for other managerial and analytic purposes. We may also use web logs to help identify any person who may be misusing the Services. These logs contain:
The Internet domain from which you access the Services
Your IP address
The type of browser and operating system that you use
The date and time you visited the Services
The pages that you visited on the Services
The address of the website you linked from to get to the Services
Marketing Data
This includes data about your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties, and your communication preferences. We process this data to enable you to partake in our promotions, to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you, and to measure or understand the effectiveness of this advertising. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests which in this case are to study how customers use our Products/Services, to develop them, to grow our business, and to decide our marketing strategy.
Customer Data
This includes data relating to any purchases of goods and/or services such as your name, title, billing address, delivery address, email address, phone number, contact details, purchase details, and your card or bank details. We process this data to supply the goods and/or services you have purchased and to keep records of such transactions. Our lawful ground for this processing is the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps at your request to enter into such a contract.
Linking from Emails
If you click a link to any of our Sites from an email message from us, we will be able to identify your email address and associate that email address with the manner in which you use the Sites (e.g., which pages you visit or whether you make a purchase).
Visitors
If you are just visiting the Sites and not registering, requesting information, contacting us, or posting to a public area of the Services, and you did not access the Sites from a link contained in one of our email communications, we will not ordinarily collect any personal information about you except through web logs, as described above. In that case, we obtain the information that you provided and will use it to respond to your inquiry or fulfil your request if we can. We do not share any of this information with anyone else, except to respond to your request, if you consent, or as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy.
How We Use Your Information
Here is how we may use your information and data:
Communicating with You
We may use information that we collect from you for the purpose of communicating with you and responding to your inquiries. Those communications could, for example, take the form of service updates, promotions for products or services that we or one of our marketing partners provide, or newsletters.
Service Providers
We at times contract with third-party service providers to perform functions for us. These service providers may be given access to the information we collect for the purpose of performing those functions, but they will be contractually bound to maintain the confidentiality of the information and not to use it for any other purpose.
Social Media
The Sites may include social media features, such as Facebook “Like” and “Share” buttons. These features may collect your IP address and which page(s) you are visiting on the Site; and they may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company that provides the feature.
Business Transfers
If we were to transfer all or substantially all of our assets to another company, one of the assets we would likely include in the transfer is our database of personal information.
Disclosures for Legal Reasons
We will disclose personal information when we are required to do so by law, regulation or, for example, in response to a court order. We also may disclose such information in response to a law enforcement agency’s request or when we believe such disclosure is appropriate to protect our legal rights or to safeguard anyone’s property or safety.
Marketing Communications
We may use customer data, user data, technical data, and marketing data to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you (including Facebook adverts or other display advertisements) and to measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve you. Our lawful ground for this processing is legitimate interests which is to grow our business. We may also use such data to send other marketing communications to you. Our lawful ground for this processing is either consent or legitimate interests (namely to grow our business).
Our lawful ground of processing your personal data to send you marketing communications is either your consent or our legitimate interests (namely to grow our business).
We never knowingly share your personal data with any third parties for their marketing purposes.
You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by clicking the unsubscribe button at the bottom of our emails or by emailing us at the address provided in the contact information above.
If you opt out of receiving marketing communications this opt-out does not apply to personal data provided as a result of other transactions, such as purchases, warranty registrations etc.
How We Share Information and Why
We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below:
- Other companies in our group who provide services to us;
- Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers;
- Government bodies that require us to report processing activities;
- With third-party advertising platforms so that we can create marketing campaign advertising (e.g. using your email address to create a Facebook targeting audience);
- When you participate in an interactive area of our Sites, Products, or Services, and your information may be displayed to other users: such information may include, your name, photo, the comment, and other information you chose to provide at the time of submission. In the case of surveys, we will never share personally identifiable information without express consent.
- In response to a request for information if we believe disclosure is in accordance with, or required by, any applicable law, regulation, or legal process;
- If we believe your actions are inconsistent with our user agreements or policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others;
- Third parties to whom we sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets;
- With your consent or at your direction.
We require all third parties to whom we transfer your data to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We only allow such third parties to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
Where we transfer your data to third parties outside of the EEA, we will ensure that certain safeguards are in place to ensure a similar degree of security for your personal data.
As such:
We may transfer your personal data to countries that the European Commission has approved as providing an adequate level of protection for personal data by; or
If we use US-based providers that are part of EU-US Privacy Shield, we may transfer data to them, as they have equivalent safeguards in place; or
Where we use certain service providers who are established outside of the EEA, we may use specific contracts or codes of conduct or certification mechanisms approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe.
If none of the above safeguards is available, we may request your explicit consent to the specific transfer. You will have the right to withdraw this consent at any time.
Sensitive Data
We do not collect any sensitive data about you. Sensitive data refers to data that includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health, and genetic and biometric data. We do not collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.
Where we are required to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of the contract between us you do not provide us with that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract (for example, to deliver goods or services to you). If you don’t provide us with the requested data, we may have to cancel a Product or Service you have ordered but if we do, we will notify you at the time.
We will only use your personal data for the purpose it was collected for or a reasonably compatible purpose if necessary. For more information on this please email us the address provided in the contact information above using the subject line: “Data Request.” In case we need to use your details for an unrelated new purpose we will let you know and explain the legal grounds for processing.
Data Security
We have put in place security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, altered, disclosed, or accessed without authorisation. We also allow access to your personal data only to those employees and partners who have a business need to know such data. They will only process your personal data on our instructions, and they must keep it confidential.
We have procedures in place to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach if we are legally required.
We maintain all personal information with physical, electronic, and managerial safeguards to help ensure the security and confidentiality of the data against reasonably foreseeable risks. Security is designed to prevent unauthorised use, access, disclosure, destruction, and changes of data.
Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
When deciding what the correct time is to keep the data for, we look at its amount, nature and sensitivity, potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure, the processing purposes, if these can be achieved by other means, and legal requirements.
In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
Third Parties
Links
This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.
Collection of Information by Third Parties
We may use a third-party advertising company to serve ads when you visit our Site. If we do so, this company may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visit to the Services in order to provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you. In the course of serving advertisements to the Services, the advertiser might place or recognise a unique “cookie” on your browser.
We may offer you the opportunity to contact other companies, such as advertisers, marketing affiliates, and content providers, to obtain information or to buy products or services. You decide when and whether to give your personal information to these companies. If you provide information, its use and security is governed by the policies and practices of those companies and not by this Privacy Policy.
We make no representations or warranties about any of these other companies or their privacy or security policies. Once you click through to an unaffiliated website, this Privacy Policy no longer applies. We strongly urge you to read the applicable policies of these other companies and their websites.
Your Privacy Choices
If you would like us to stop sending you email or other communications or would like to access your personal information to correct or delete it, you may send us a request at our email or postal addresses indicated above. We will endeavour to satisfy such requests within a reasonable time.
Your Legal Rights
We are committed to adhering to our Privacy Policy and applicable laws, and to making your online experience secure and valuable. If you have a question, request, complaint, dispute, or concern related to this privacy policy, email or write to us using the contact information provided above. We will work with you to obtain a prompt resolution to any issues you may have.
Under data protection laws you have rights in relation to your personal data that include the right to request access, correction, erasure, restriction, transfer, to object to processing, to portability of data, and (where the lawful ground of processing is consent) to withdraw consent.
You can see more about these rights here.
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please email us at the address provided in the contact information above. 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 or refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data 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.
If you are not happy with any aspect of how we collect and use your data, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We should be grateful if you would contact us first if you do have a complaint so that we can try to resolve it for you.
Cookie Policy
We use cookies, web beacons, and similar technology to help you navigate the Services, to allow us to learn how you use the Services, and to improve the Services. Cookies are text files we place in your computer’s browser to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not reveal any personal information unless you choose to provide this information to us by, for example, registering at our Site. However, once you choose to provide personal information to the Services, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie. If you decide not to permit cookies on your computer, this may affect your ability to use the Services.
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of the Services may become inaccessible or not function properly.