Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to the Go Party Bee Limited website (gopartybee.co.uk). We are committed to protecting your privacy and personal information 

This privacy notice will inform you about how we collect and process any information that we collect from you, or that you provide to us when you visit the website. It covers information that could identify you (“personal information”) and information that could not.

Except as set out below, we do not share, or sell, or disclose to a third party any of your personal information. 

Introduction

It is important that you read this Privacy Notice together with any other Privacy Notice or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This Privacy Notice supplements the other notices and is not intended to override them.

By using the Site, you consent to the data practices described in this statement. Go party bee Limited is the data controller for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 2018. In this document, “we” or “our” refers to go party bee. 

If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact support@gopartybee.co.uk.

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance on the details below.

Go Party Bee ICO regulator members ZA533933.

Changes to the Privacy Notice and your duty to inform us of changes

It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.

Third-party 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.

The data we collect about you

Types of Data

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

• Identity Data includes first name, last name, and title,.
• Contact Data includes email address and telephone numbers].
• Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your 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 this website.
• Usage Data includes information about how you use our website or product, including submitting support cases.
• Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
• We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this Privacy Notice.

We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this 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). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.

How is your personal data collected?

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity and Contact Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:

• subscribe to our website;
• create your profile;
• request marketing material to be sent to you;
• enter a promotion or survey;
• give us some feedback;
• submit a query;
• participate in or use a go party bee service;
• participate in or use a go party bee social group; 
• make a review;
• respond to a review; or
• upload photos (please see terms and conditions). 

Automated technologies or interactions.

As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies and other similar technologies. We may also receive Technical Data about you if you visit other websites employing our cookies. Please see our cookie policy below for further details.

Third parties or publicly available sources.

We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources as set out below:

• social media networks such as Facebook and Twitter;
• advertising networks such as Google and LinkedIn; 
• search information providers such as Google; and
• public information available from your business websites.

How we use your personal data

Lawful basis

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances where:

• we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you;
• it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests;
• where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

Generally, we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data other than in relation to sending third party direct marketing communications to you via email. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us at support@gopartybee.co.uk or clicking the Unsubscribe link in any marketing communication.

Purposes for which we will use your personal data

We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.

Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please contact us at support@gopartybee.co.uk if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your personal data where more than one ground has been set out in the table below.

Purpose/Activity	Type of data	Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
To register you as a new member	Identity  ContactAdditional information given by you	performance of a contract with you
To process and deliver your service – Profile registration	Identity  ContactAdditional profile information given by you	performance of a contract with you
To process and deliver your service  – Subscription / Advertising /	Identity  ContactAdditional information given by youPayment information	performance of a contract with you
To process and deliver your service  – Research updates	Identity  Contact	Direct consent
Adding you to the go party bee directory (basic details)	Public business nameWebsite/ or Public Facebook linkBasic services	In line with ICO Directory Guidelines Legitimate interest
To use photos and videos for website, marketing, blogs and competitions	Photos and videos uploaded	Consent for each photo uploaded onto the website
To manage our relationship with you which will include: (a) notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy (b) asking you to complete a survey	Identity  Contact  Marketing and Communications	Performance of a contract with you  Necessary to comply with a legal obligation Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products and develop our offerings)
To enable you to partake in a prize draw or competition	Identity  Contact  Usage  Marketing and Communications	Performance of a contract with you Necessary for our legitimate interests (to offer additional features to our customers)
To administer and protect our business and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data)	Identity Contact Technical	Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganisation or group restructuring exercise) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you	Identity  Contact  Usage  Marketing and Communications Technical	Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy)
To use data analytics to improve our website, offers, marketing, customer relationships and experiences	Technical  Usage	Necessary for our legitimate interests (to define types of customers for our various offerings, to keep our website updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy)
To make suggestions and recommendations to you about offers that may be of interest to you	Identity  Contact  Technical  Usage	Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our products and grow our business)

Marketing

We have established the following personal data control mechanisms:

Promotional offers from us

We may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, and Usage 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 (we call this marketing).

You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us, and, in each case, you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.

Third-party marketing

We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any third-party company for marketing purposes.

Opting out

You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by contacting us at support@gopartybee.co.uk at any time.

Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of any transactions.

Cookies

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 this website may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about the cookies we use, please see the cookie policy below.

Change of purpose

We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us at support@gopartybee.co.uk.

If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.

Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.

Disclosures of your personal data

We do not sell, trade, or rent users personal identification information to others. We may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personal identification information regarding visitors and users with our business partners, trusted affiliates, subscribers and advertisers for the purposes outlined above. We may use third party service providers to help us operate our business and the Site or administer activities on our behalf, such as sending out newsletters or surveys. We may share your information with these third parties for those limited purposes provided that you have given us your permission.

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data 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 data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

How we store your data

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

All data collected will be stored on our secure sever. 

Even though we try our best we cannot guarantee the security of information. However, we promise to notify suitable authorities of data breaches. We will also notify you if there is a threat to your rights or interests.

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.

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 unauthorised 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 circumstances we may anonymise your personal data (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.

Your legal rights

You have several rights in relation to your personal information, although in some cases these rights are subject to certain conditions and limitations. You are entitled to:

• Request copies of, and/or access to your personal information.
• Request that your personal information be corrected where inaccurate or incomplete.
• Request that your personal data be deleted (or that we stop using your personal data) where it is no longer necessary. This right normally only applies where your information was provided or processed on the basis of consent, or in the performance of a contract with you which lapsed more than six years ago.
• Request that we stop sending you direct marketing communications.
• Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest and there is something about your situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have a compelling legitimate ground to process your information which overrides your rights and freedoms.
• Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios: if you want us to establish the data’s accuracy; where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
• Withdraw consent at any time- where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. 

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us at support@gopartybee.co.uk.

Cookies:

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By continuing to use this website, you accept that cookies may be set on your device, as outlined in this cookies policy.