Deal Factor

PRIVACY POLICY

We are fully committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This policy sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed and used by us. The website is owned by Beesmart International LTD (the “company”) and owns all rights, the respective IP, copyrights and trademarks. The company is headquartered at 88 Wood Street, 10-15th Floor, London, London, United Kingdom, EC2V 7RS and is registered as a Data Controller.

We aim to comply with The Data Protection Act 1998, the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003, the EU regulations 2011 and the General Data Protection Regulations of 2018.

MARKETING DISCLOSURE

The site www.dealfactor.co.uk (the “website”) is hosted by: www.ovh.com. The nature of the website is to provide you with money saving products and services, so by registering you are giving your consent to be contacted by the website about the specific products and services offered by the website. This excludes 3rd parties who are not affiliated with the website and will not contact you.

Additionally you are asked at the point of registration if you would like the website to keep you informed of the specific product(s) that the website promotes. If you have not ticked that box the website will not contact you other than at a reasonable time to follow up with a customer satisfaction eg 1 month after an insurance quote or 12 months after an energy switch quote.

If when asked, you give us further information about your other interests when we ask you, you can expect us to contact you regarding those specific interests. If you do not wish to receive these marketing materials, you may request to be removed by using the opt-out/unsubscribe mechanism listed in the communications you receive. Alternatively you may contact us on support@dealfactor.co.uk to view / amend your interests & consent preferences.

Information we may collect from you can be:

Information that you have provided by completing forms on our site or partner sites when entering a competition or promotion. Eg firstname, lastname, email address, phone number, postcode If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
Details of your visits to our site and the resources that you access.
IP addresses and cookies
Your consent to receive emails from the website including your 3rd party preferences of products and/or services

Deal Factor will process personal identifiable data based on the following list as defined by the ICO:

Consent : when you have given us clear and unambiguous permission to contact you in certain ways i.e. by email for insurance offers, and automotive offers
Contract : we might need to process your data to fulfil a contractual obligation.
Legitimate Interest : When we share with you specific adverts based upon your explicit consent used at point of registration (or updated thereafter in ‘my preferences’ section) of products and /or services we have been told you are interested in.

YOU ARE IN CONTROL

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal data in the following ways:
Our registration forms will always have an unticked box for third party marketing, which you can optionally select to allow your personal data to be sent to our partners for direct marketing purposes.
You can control the channels of which you receive marketing, whether by email, phone, SMS or post by selecting the appropriate unticked box in our website forms, which determine the method by which you wish to be contacted.
Where consent has been previous obtained to us or our trusted partners to using your personal data for direct marketing purposes, you can change your mind at any time by emailing our Data Protection Officer at support@dealfactor.co.uk

YOUR RIGHTS

You have the right to:
- Obtain access to your personal data;
- Receive information about us and the purposes for which we process your personal data;
- Prevent processing which may cause you damage or distress;
- Object to direct marketing and select the contact channels by which we market
- Object to purely automated decision-making in certain cases;
- You have the right to seek compensation through the civil courts for a breach of a data controller’s - obligations;
- Ask us to correct any errors and/or delete the information we hold;
- Be forgotten by requesting all personal data collected from you, by us, be deleted completely from our - database, systems and servers *;
- Opt out of any further contact by us or selected brand partners or sponsors;
- Be notified in the event of a data breach, where data lost or stolen involves your personal data; and
- Write to, report, or complain to your relevant supervisory authority, depending on your EU Member State (- example, for UK data subjects, it is the ICO).
- If you would like to amend/delete details or contact us in relation to the above, please contact us by email to support@dealfactor.co.uk

DATA SAFETY OUTSIDE THE EUROPEAN UNION

You should be aware that some external data processors may be based outside the European Union, whose laws provide a different standard of protection than that provided under English law. We will not release your data to a non-EU country processor without performing proper due diligence as to the standards of data protection within the specified country and proof of compliance with the standards of the UK Data Protection Act 2018 and other relevant legislation. Such requirements will be part of a formal and legally binding Data Processing agreement.

SECURITY AND STORAGE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We store all data collected in a secure environment on servers located within the EU and only for as long as is necessary However, despite our best efforts the Internet is not 100% secure and we cannot guarantee the security of any information you send to us via the Internet. We will not be responsible for any loss or damage you or others may suffer as a result of the loss of confidentiality of such information.

IP ADDRESS/COOKIES

We automatically collect your IP address and record the web page from which you originated if you are using the service’s website.
Cookies are used to increase your security, not infringe on your privacy. Cookies are needed to monitor, facilitate, administer and optimise the website and service for users and to earmark any possible technical issues that may arise within the website or the service. We may use your IP address to help identify you, tend to any difficulties and to gather demographic and profile information. We also use the ‘cookies’ to collect information about your online activity on our website, such as the web pages you visit, the links you click, and the searches you conduct on our website.
Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can modify your web browser setting to decline cookies. If you choose to do this, you may not be able to avail yourself of some or all of the functionalities that the website or the service may offer.
Third party cookies that we use:
Google Analytics We use cookies from Google Analytics to track performance across our website, just like many other websites online. We use this cookie to help us with analytical tasks such as seeing how many people are viewing certain webpages and which parts of the site are most popular. The cookies that Google use are called __utma Cookie, __utmb Cookie, __utmc Cookie, __utmz Cookie and __utmv Cookie. You can find Google's privacy policy here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/

Doubleclick by Google We use cookies from Doubleclick to allow us to show relevant and engaging display ads to our users. You can find Google's privacy policy here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/

We use advertising within Facebook to promote our website and use cookies to help us know who has visited our site from Facebook and to track user behaviour on the site. You can find Facebook's cookie policy here: https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/

We use HasOffers to help monitor the performance of the campaigns and to ensure that it's always fully operational. See the following link for further information: https://www.tune.com/resources/data-and-privacy/privacy-policies/

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group as defined in the Companies Act 2006. We may also disclose your personal information to third parties in the event that we sell our Company or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer, or if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation.

MARKETING TO CHILDREN

We do not knowingly, deliberately or aim to, collect personal data from children under the age of 18, either for registration or for marketing purposes.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page.

UNSUBSCRIBING

To unsubscribe from the site please write to us at unsubscribe@dealfactor.co.uk

MARKETING SERVICES PROVIDERS

We will share your data with the Marketing Services Providers, some of them are listed below, who will use it to create products and services to help organisations better understand the likely characteristics of their customers; communicate with them more effectively; and find others like them across a range of marketing channels. This may mean that you receive advertising that is more relevant to you via direct mail or when you visit a website. To understand more please click through to the websites of the companies below:
https://www.digitalroifactory.com/