INTRODUCTION
Welcome to Echolution Limited’s privacy and cookie policy.
Echolution Limited respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy and cookie policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
1. IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND WHO WE ARE
PURPOSE OF THIS PRIVACY AND COOKIE POLICY
This privacy and cookie policy aims to give you information on how Echolution Limited collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website.
This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.
It is important that you read this privacy and cookie policy together with any other privacy and cookie policy or fair processing policy 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 and cookie policy supplements other notices and privacy policies and is not intended to override them.
CONTROLLER
Echolution Limited is the controller and responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as ”Echolution”, “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy and cookie policy).
CONTACT DETAILS
If you have any questions about this privacy and cookie policy or our privacy practices, please contact Echolution in the following ways:
Email address: Info@echolution.com
Postal address: 4th Floor, Rex House, Regent St, St James
Telephone number: 0207 550 5597
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.
CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY AND COOKIE POLICY AND YOUR DUTY TO INFORM US OF CHANGES
We keep our privacy and cookie policy under regular review. This version was last updated on May 2019
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 and cookie policy of every website you visit.
2. THE DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU AND HOW WE USE IT
We will collect and process the following data about you:
- Information you give us. This is information about you that you might provide us by filling in forms on our site or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise. We use this information to respond to your request or question.
- Information we collect about you. With regard to each of your visits to our site, in order to gather website statistical data and help analyse how users use our site we will automatically collect the following information:
- technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform,
- information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL), clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time), pages you viewed, response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), methods used to browse away from the page, and any phone number used to call our customer service number.
3. 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.
- Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we will automatically collect technical data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs 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 Party Analytics Services. Our website uses third-party online analytics services, such as those of Google Analytics[SP1] [EL2] . The service providers that administer these analytics services use automated technologies to collect data (such as email address, IP addresses, cookies and other device identifiers) to evaluate, for example, use of our website and to diagnose technical issues. To learn more about Google Analytics, please visit http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html. You may opt out of Google Analytics by visiting https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl+en=GB.
4. 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.
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 where this is required or permitted by law.
5. DISCLOSURES OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We may share your personal data with:
- Service providers acting as processors who provide IT and system administration services.
- Professional advisers acting as processors or joint controllers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance and accounting services.
- HM Revenue & Customs, regulators and other authorities acting as processors or joint controller based in the United Kingdom who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.
- Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer or merge parts of our business or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. 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 and cookie policy.
- Other third parties if we are required to do so by law or legal process (such as a court order)
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.
6. INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS
We will only share or transfer personal data to entities located outside of the country in which the information was originally collected (which may include to countries outside of the European Economic Area) in accordance with the law to ensure your rights are appropriately protected.
7. DATA SECURITY
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.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
8. DATA RETENTION
To the extent permitted by applicable law, we retain personal information we obtain about you as long as (1) it is needed for the purposes for which we obtained it, in accordance with the provisions of this Privacy and cookie policy, or (2) we have another lawful basis for retaining the data beyond the period for which it is necessary to serve the original purpose for collecting the data.
9. YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Under EU law, all data subjects to whom the EU General Data Protection Regulation (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 with a European supervisory authority regarding any breach of European 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 GDPR by contacting us directly as Info@echolution.com
10. COOKIE POLICY
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
We use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
- Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
Cookie Title | Purpose |
Analytical performance cookies | This cookie enables us to: (a) Estimate our audience size and usage pattern. (b) Store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site and to provide you with offers that are targeted to your individual interests. (c) Recognise you when you return to our site. |
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.
Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after 30 days.
To the extent required by law, we will obtain your consent before placing cookies or similar technologies on your computer. 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.