Privacy policy
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- About Us
- Definitions
- What Personal Data We Collect
- How We Collect Personal Data
- How We Use Personal Data
- How We Share Your Personal Data
- Your Data Protection Rights
- Security of Personal Data
- Data Retention
- International Transfers
- Marketing
- Data Protection Authority
- Personal Data Collected From Children
- Changes to this Privacy Notice
Introduction
This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes how we collect, receive, use, store, share, transfer, and process your personal information. It also describes your choices and rights with respect to your Personal Data, including your rights of access and correction of your Personal Data.
Personal data is information that relates to you and may identify you as an individual. We use your personal data in line with all applicable laws.
By using our products and/or services you signify that you have read and understood this privacy notice.
This privacy policy addresses our use of personal information about you as an individual (in relation to your use of our Services) rather than our use of information about our Customer Organizations, which is dealt with separately through our Terms of Service.
About Us
The GetBusy group includes GetBusy plc and its subsidiaries GetBusy UK Limited, and GetBusy USA Corporation, assumed name SmartVault, (referred to in this privacy policy as “we”, “us” or “our”).
We regularly review our compliance with this Privacy Policy. Questions, comments and requests regarding this Privacy Policy are welcomed and can made by
Email:
Post:
Privacy Team
GetBusy
Suite 8, The Works, 20 West Street
Unity Campus
Cambridge
CB22 3FT
United Kingdom
Phone:
UK: 01223 666880
California: (855)279 7195
For Customers in the EU:
GetBusy C/O Ametros Ltd
Unit 3D
North Point House
North Point Business Park
New Mallow Road
Cork
Ireland
Definitions
Personal information means information that (either in isolation or in combination with other information) enables you to be directly or indirectly identified (“Personal Information” or “Personal Data”)
Data controller or a Business (“Controller”) is a party that sets out the purposes and means of processing of Personal Information. Data processor (“Processor”) is a party that processes Personal Information on the Controller’s behalf.
Customer organization (“Customer Organisation”) (such as company or professional firm) that has signed up for a product and/or service offered by the GetBusy group.
What Personal Data We Collect
Personal data, or personal information means any information about an individual from which that individual can be identified.
We may collect, use and hold the following different kinds of personal information about you (depending on whether you are an Individual Customer, or an individual user of our Services employed by one of our Customer Organisations):
- Identity Data including first name, last name, username or similar identifier, title, data of birth and gender.
- Profile Data including your username and password, user preferences, comments, feedback and other information that you submit to our Services.
- Contact Data including postal address, email address and telephone numbers.
- Customer Content Data being personal information contained in documents, messages, comments, text and images that you upload to or transmit through our Services that we provide.
- Support Data being comments, feedback and information that you submit to us when using our support services.
- Financial and Transaction Data including bank account, payment card details, billing address and other payment details.
- Technical Data including unique user identifier, internet protocol (IP) address, login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access our Services.
- Usage Data being information about how you use our Services (for example, through the services metadata, we log the areas, activity types, people, features, content and links you interact with, the type of files you share and what third party services you use, if any).
- Marketing Data including your marketing preferences in relation to receiving marketing communications from us and, where relevant, third parties.
In limited circumstances, where you are an Individual Customer, we may be a data controller in respect of special categories of data about you. This will only be the case if you upload or otherwise transmit these types of data about yourself when using our Services (for example, if you upload documents or send messages that contain special categories of data about yourself). Special categories of data attract a higher level of protection under data protection laws and include data concerning health and sexual orientation and data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs or trade union membership.
How We Collect Personal Data
We use the following different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
- Direct interactions with you. For example, you may submit your personal information (including Identity Data and Contact Data) to us as part of submitting an enquiry form on our website or setting up an account for one of our Services or we may send marketing materials and promotions to you (in accordance with your marketing preferences).
- Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our Services, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies. You can control cookies through your browser’s settings and other tools. However, if you block certain cookies, you may not be able to register, login, or access certain parts or make full use of the Services that you sign up for or are otherwise authorised to access. Please see our cookie policy for further details.
- Third parties. We may receive your name and contact details from an existing customer who invites you to use a Service or through a referral arrangement with our business partners. We may also source marketing lists from third parties which contain personal information (i.e. Identity Data and Contact Data) about those that might be interested in our services.
How We Use Personal Data
In compliance with certain privacy laws, we must ensure we are clear about the purposes for which we are processing that personal data and our lawful basis for doing so.
We set out below, in a table format, a description of the ways we plan to use your personal data in our capacity as a data controller.
| Purpose/Activity | Lawful basis for processing (Under UK and EU data protection law) |
|---|---|
| For account management and other administrative purposes including keeping track of billing and payments and alerting you to an incomplete account set-up. | Necessary for our legitimate interests (where you are (i) an Individual Customer or (ii) a billing or other account management contact at the Customer Organisation) Necessary for the performance of our contract with you (where you are an Individual Customer) |
| For marketing and communication purposes such as making suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you. | Necessary for our legitimate interests to develop our products/services and grow our business |
| To administer and protect our business and keep the Service working, safe and secure (by troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance and monitoring and addressing other security/technical issues). | Necessary for our legitimate interests for running and protecting our business, ensuring appropriate security, investigating and helping to prevent security issues and abuse, to prevent fraud and so on. Necessary to comply with a legal obligation |
| To improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences (using data analytics etc.) | Necessary for our legitimate interests to define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our website updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy |
| Where you are an Individual Customer, for providing the Service to you, notifying you about changes or updates to the Service and responding to your support queries. | Necessary for the performance of our contract with you Necessary for our legitimate interests to develop our products/services and grow our business |
Note: We may process your personal data using more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your personal data. Please contact us if you would like details about the specific legal ground we are relying onto process your personal data where more than one ground has been set out in the table above.
Where you are an Individual Customer, the provision of your personal data is necessary for us to enter into a contract with you and to perform that contract.
Where you are an Individual Customer, we will also ask for your explicit consent to process any special categories of data about yourself that you upload to or otherwise transmit through our products and services. You are not required to give your consent but, if you choose not to, you must not submit to our products and services any personal data about yourself that incorporates special categories of data.
We are a provider of products and services and you are not obliged to provide your personal details to us. However, if you choose not to, we may not be able to respond to your queries or provide our products and services to you.
By providing your phone number, you opt in to receive voice calls or text messages from SmartVault related to our products and services. Message frequency may vary. Voice, message and data rates may apply.
How We Share Your Personal Data
We may share your personal data with the parties set out below to enable us to carry out the activities specified in the table above (see “How we collect and use your personal information” section):
- Entities within the GetBusy group.
- Our service providers, which include:
- hosting providers to store and process your data
- customer relationship management providers for customer communication, support, ideas portals and so on
- data analytics providers to capture and analyse your usage data and so on
- finance providers to provide financing services for certain products
- marketing platform providers
- plugin providers to enhance our products with additional functionality
- hardware and services providers to provide you with hardware and services to support you use of our products; and
- Our business partners, which include integrators.
- public authorities issuing a lawful request, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements, and response to a subpoena or search warrant.
In addition, if we choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets or if we seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them, we may need to share your personal information with those other businesses. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy notice.
We will not sell your personal data for any commercial gain other than as outlined above. i.e. where personal data is transferred to a third party where that third party assumes control of all or part of the GetBusy business.
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal information and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal information for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
Your Data Protection Rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal information. This may include the following rights:
- Request access to your personal information (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
- Request correction of the personal information that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected.
- Request erasure of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal information where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal information where you have exercised your right to object to processing (see below).
- Object to processing of your personal information. This right applies where we are relying on our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal information for direct marketing purposes.
- Request the restriction of processing of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of personal information about you, for example if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it.
- Request the transfer of your personal information to another party (known as the “right to data portability”).
- Withdraw consent. This right applies only if we are relying on your consent to process any of your personal information. This will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent.
- Not be discriminated against if exercise rights. Should you exercise any of your data rights, we will not discriminate against you in any way.
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us.
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal information (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may 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 information (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal information 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.
Security of Personal Data
SmartVault is committed to protecting the security of your personal data. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal data from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. For example, we store the personal data you provide on computer systems that have limited access and are in controlled facilities. When we transmit confidential data over the internet, we protect it through the use of encryption. SmartVault complies with applicable data protection laws, including applicable security breach notification laws.
Data Retention
We will only retain your personal information 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.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
In some places, by law we have to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for six years after they cease being customers for tax and legal purposes.
In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see the “erasure” right in the section below for further information.
In some circumstances we may anonymize your personal information (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
International Transfers
Where you are based in the European Economic Area (“EEA”) we will transfer your personal information outside of the when we share the information with:
- the entities within our GetBusy group;
- our service providers (as specified in the section above) based in the US; and
- our business partners including integrators.
Whenever we transfer your personal data outside of the EEA, we ensure that safeguards are in place which meet the standards required by European data protection laws.
Where we transfer your personal data to corporate entities within the GetBusy group or our service providers that are based outside of the EEA, we use specific contracts approved by the European Commission as having adequate safeguards in place to help ensure that your personal information is given the same protection it has in the UK and Europe as well as undertaking risk assessments ourselves that these are adequate for the purpose that they are intended.
For further details and a copy of the relevant contracts, see the European Commission’s webpage on the model contracts for the transfer of personal data to third countries.
Marketing
We want to provide you with choices regarding certain personal information uses, particularly around marketing and advertising.
You can ask us at any time to stop sending you messages by unsubscribing from emails or otherwise contacting us to specify your marketing preferences.
We may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage and Profile Data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which products, services and offers may be relevant for you.
You will receive marketing communications from us where you have requested products or services from us as an Individual Customer or if you have requested information from us and, in each case, you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.
Data Protection Authority
You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues. This is the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) whose details can be accessed via the ICO website at https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us
We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please do get in touch using the details in our “Contacting us” section below.
Personal Data Collected From Children
You must be at least 18 years old to use products and services. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 18. If we learn we have collected or received personal data from a child under 18 years old, we will delete it without undue delay.
Changes to this Privacy Notice
We reserve the right to update this privacy notice at any time, and we will provide you with a new privacy notice when we make any substantial updates. We may also notify you in other ways from time to time about the processing of your personal data.
If you have any questions about this privacy notice, please contact privacy@getbusy.com
Last Modified: 13th June 2023
