Latest Update: December 2022
WEBSITE PRIVACY NOTICE
Ditto Digital Limited (Ditto Digital, “we”, “us” or “our”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This website privacy notice is provided to explain:
- the types of personal information we collect about individuals on our website,
- how we may use and share that information,
- the choices available to you regarding our use of your personal information,
- the measures we take to safeguard your personal information,
- how long we retain your personal information, and
- how to contact us about our privacy practices and exercise your data privacy rights.
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Information we may collect from you
We may collect and store personal information that you provide to us through your use of our website, including contact information, such as your name and e-mail address and other personal information you provide to us.
When you use our website, certain personal information may also be available automatically via browser cookies, web beacons, device identifiers, server logs, and other technologies. See our Cookie Policy below for more information.
Third-Party Web Analytics Services
Our website uses third-party online analytics services, such as Google Analytics. The service providers that administer these analytics services use automated technologies to collect data to evaluate use of our website and to diagnose technical issues.
To learn more about Google Analytics visit https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-GB.
To opt out of Google Analytics visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl+en=GB.
Online Tracking and Interest-Based Advertising
Through our website, certain third parties, such as Google, may collect information about your online activities to provide you with advertising about products and services tailored to your individual interests. Where required by applicable law, we will obtain your consent for the processing of your personal information for such marketing purposes. Online advertising networks use information they collect to show adverts that may be tailored to individuals’ interests, to track users’ browsers or devices across multiple websites and apps, and to build a profile of users’ online browsing and app usage activities. This data collection takes place on third-party websites and apps that participate in the advertising networks.
If you want to opt out of interest-based advertising you can update your choices here or click the AdChoices icon in an advert and follow the instructions. You may also opt out of interest-based adverts from many sites through the Network Advertising Initiative’s (NAI) Opt Out Tool including specifically in the UK. You may also go to the Digital Advertising Alliance (“DAA”) Consumer Choice Page for information about opting out of interest-based advertising and choices regarding having information used by DAA companies. If you delete cookies, use a different device, or change web browsers, you may need to opt out again.
Opting out of interest-based advertising does not mean that you will no longer see adverts. It just means that your personal information will not be used and that any advertising you see will not be customised for you.
How we use personal information
We may use the personal information we obtain through our website to:
- personalise your experience on our website,
- provide our services to you,
- respond to your requests and enquiries,
- operate, evaluate and improve our business (including developing new services, enhancing and improving our services, analysing our services, managing our communications, performing data analytics and market research),
- market our services to you or your company, and
- comply with and enforce applicable legal requirements, relevant industry standards and our policies, including this website privacy notice.
If your personal information is used in any other ways, we will provide you with specific notice of this at the time of collection or ensure that we have your consent.
Disclosure of your information
We do not disclose personal information we obtain about you, except as described in this website privacy notice.
We may share your personal information with partner agencies and service providers who perform services on our behalf – such as hosting our website or data analytics. This is only done for the purposes described in this website privacy notice. We do not authorise our service providers to use or disclose the information that we collect except as necessary to perform services on our behalf or comply with legal requirements.
We also may disclose information about you:
- if we are required to do so by law or legal process (such as a court order or subpoena),
- in response to requests by government agencies, such as law enforcement authorities,
- to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights,
- when we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to prevent physical or other harm or financial loss,
- in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual illegal activity,
- in the event we sell or transfer all, or a portion of, our business or assets (including in the event of a reorganisation, dissolution or liquidation).
Data transfers
We will only share or transfer personal data to entities located outside of the country in which the information was originally collected in accordance with the law to ensure your rights are appropriately protected.
Your rights and choices
We offer you certain choices in connection with the personal information we obtain about you. To update your preferences, update or correct your information, limit the communications you receive from us, or submit a request, please contact us directly. You can also unsubscribe from our mailing list by following the “Unsubscribe” link in our emails.
Under UK law, all data subjects to whom the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) applies have certain rights, including to:
- request access to the personal information we hold about you,
- request that we update, correct, amend, erase or restrict our use of your personal information,
- exercise your right to data portability, by contacting us as indicated below,
- lodge a complaint regarding any breach of UK data protection rules, and
- in certain circumstances, request the erasure of or object to the retention or use of personal data.
You can exercise any of your rights as a data subject under the UK GDPR by contacting us directly.
Third-party websites
Our website may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our clients and other third parties. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that they have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies or the content or operation of these websites. We recommend you review these third-party privacy policies.
Retention of personal information
To the extent permitted by applicable law, we retain personal information as long as it is needed for the purposes for which we obtained it, or we have a separate and clear lawful basis for retaining the personal data.
Our aim is always to comply with the UK GDPR, which necessarily means that we only hold the personal data that we need and for so long as we either need or can reasonably justify holding these data.
Protection of personal information
We maintain administrative, technical and physical safeguards designed to protect the personal information we obtain through our website against accidental, unlawful or unauthorised destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure or use.
Children’s personal information
Our website is designed primarily for a business audience. It is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from children – i.e. individuals under the age of 16 – through our website. If you believe that a child may have provided us with personal information, please contact us.
Updates to our website privacy notice
This website privacy notice may be updated periodically and without prior notice to reflect changes in our personal information practices. We will indicate at the top of the notice when it was most recently updated.
How to contact us
You can contact us by email at contact@dittodigital.co.uk in relation to any privacy matter including our use of your personal data.
COOKIE POLICY
Cookies and web beacons
“Cookies” are text files that websites send to a visitor’s computer or other device to uniquely identify that visitor’s browser or store information or settings in that visitor’s browser.
“Web beacons” – also known as internet tags, pixel tags or clear GIFs – link web pages to servers and their cookies, and may be used to transmit information collected through cookies back to a server.
We may use cookies and web beacons to improve user experience and website functionality in the following ways:
- remember personal information so you do not have to re-enter it when you re-visit our website,
- track and understand how you use and interact with our website,
- tailor our website around your preferences.
Personal data collected using “cookies”
The information we collect using cookies may include your device IP address, domain name, identifiers associated with your devices, device and operating system type and characteristics, web browser characteristics, language preferences, your interactions with our website (such as the web pages you visit, links you click, videos you watch and features you use), any pages that referred you to our website, dates and times of access to our website, geolocation information, and other information about your use of our website.
Cookies – Your Choices
To the extent required by applicable law, we will obtain your consent before placing cookies or similar technologies on your computer. You may change your cookie settings at any time by clicking here. Additionally, you can stop certain types of cookies from being downloaded on to your computer by selecting the appropriate settings on your web browser. Most web browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new browser cookies, how to be notified when you receive a new browser cookie and how to disable existing cookies. You can find out how to do this for your particular browser by clicking “help” on your browser’s menu or by visiting https://allaboutcookies.org.
A Summary of the Different Types of Cookies:
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.
Performance Cookies
These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our website. They help us understand which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around our website. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and, therefore, anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our website, and will not be able to accurately monitor it’s performance.
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Functional Cookies
These are used to recognise a website user when they return to a website. This enables us to personalise content for you, for example by:
- greeting the user by name,
- remembering the user’s preferences – such as font size changes,
- providing information on local events or news by storing regional location.
- providing services such as watching a video or commenting on an item. These cookies cannot track browsing activity on other websites and the information they collect may be anonymised – but they will be able to identify a user’s device. These cookies will remain on a user’s device until the user chooses to clear them.