BACKGROUND:
We understand that your privacy is important to you and that you care about how your personal data is used. We respect and value the privacy of everyone who visits our website and will only collect and use personal data in ways that are described here, and in a way that is consistent with our obligations and your rights under the law.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully and ensure that you understand it. Your acceptance of this Privacy Policy is requested and given by you if you continue to use our website.
Definitions and Interpretation
In this Policy the following words shall have the following meanings:
“Account” means an account required to access and/or use certain areas and features of our website;
“Cookie” means a small text file placed on your computer or device by our website when you visit certain parts of it and/or when you use certain features of it. Details of the Cookies used by our website are set out in our Cookies Policy; and
“Cookie Law” means the relevant parts of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 and of EU Regulation 2016/679 General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).
1. Information About Us
Our website is owned and operated by payeme.com, whose registered address is 8 Princes Parade, Liverpool, Merseyside, L3 1DL.
2. What Does This Notice Cover?
This explains how we use your personal data: how it is collected, how it is held, and how it is processed. It also explains your rights under the law relating to your personal data.
3. What Is Personal Data?
Personal data is defined by the General Data Protection Regulation (EU Regulation 2016/679) (the “GDPR”) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (collectively, “the Data Protection Legislation”) as ‘any information relating to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified by reference to an identifier’.
Personal data is, in simpler terms, any information about you that enables you to be identified. Personal data covers obvious information such as your name and contact details, but it also covers less obvious information such as identification numbers, electronic location data, and other online identifiers.
The personal data that we collect is set out in Part 5, below.
4. What Are My Rights?
Under the Data Protection Legislation, you have the following rights, which we will always work to uphold:
a) The right to be informed about our collection and use of your personal data. This Privacy Notice should tell you everything you need to know, but you can always contact us to find out more or to ask any questions using the details in Part 13.
b) The right to access the personal data we hold about you. Part 12 will tell you how to do this.
c) The right to have your personal data rectified if any of your personal data held by us is inaccurate or incomplete. Please contact us me using the details in Part 13 to find out more.
d) The right to be forgotten, i.e. the right to ask us to delete or otherwise dispose of any of your personal data that we hold. Please contact us using the details in Part 13 to find out more.
e) The right to restrict (i.e. prevent) the processing of your personal data.
f) The right to object to us using your personal data for a particular purpose or purposes.
g) The right to withdraw consent. This means that, if we are relying on your consent as the legal basis for using your personal data, you are free to withdraw that consent at any time.
h) The right to data portability. This means that, if you have provided personal data to us directly, we are using it with your consent or for the performance of a contract, and that data is processed using automated means, you can ask us for a copy of that personal data to re-use with another service or business in many cases.
i) Rights relating to automated decision-making and profiling. Part 6 explains more about how we use your personal data, including automated decision-making profiling.
For more information about our use of your personal data or exercising your rights as outlined above, please contact us using the details provided in Part 13.
It is important that your personal data is kept accurate and up-to-date. If any of the personal data we hold about you changes, please keep us informed if we have that data.
Further information about your rights can also be obtained from the Information Commissioner’s Office or your local Citizens Advice Bureau.
If you have any cause for complaint about our use of your personal data, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office. We would welcome the opportunity to resolve your concerns ourselves, however, so please contact us first, using the details in Part 11.
5. What Personal Data Do You Collect and How?
Depending upon your use of our services we may collect and hold some or all of the personal and non-personal data set out in the table below, using the methods also set out in the table. We do not collect any ‘special category’ or ‘sensitive’ personal data or personal data relating to children or criminal convictions and/or offences.
| Data Collected | How We Collect the Data |
|---|---|
| Identity Information that might including name, title, date of birth and gender. | If you complete a contact form in our website. |
| Contact information including address, email and telephone number. | If you complete a contact form in our website. |
| Business information including business name, job title, industry. | If you complete a contact form in our website. |
| Profile information including work history, preferences and interests. | If you complete a contact form in our website. |
| Technical information including IP address, browser type and version and operating system. | By general use of our website. |
6. How Do You Use My Personal Data?
Under the Data Protection Legislation, we must always have a lawful basis for using personal data. The following table describes how we will may use your personal data, and our lawful bases for doing so:
| What We Do | What Data We Use | Our Lawful Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Administering our business for the services to you. | All the above. | To provide our services to you. |
| Supplying our services to you. | All the above. | To provide our services to you. |
| Managing payments for our services to you. | All the above. | To provide our services to you. |
| Personalising and tailoring our services for you. | All the above. | To provide our services to you. |
| Communicating with you. | All the above. | To provide our services to you. |
| Supplying you with information by email and post that you have opted-in-to (you may opt-out at any time by contacting our DPO. | All the above. | To provide our services to you. |
With your permission and/or where permitted by law, we may also use your personal data for marketing purposes, which may include contacting you by email, telephone, text message or post with information, news, and offers on our services. You will not be sent any unlawful marketing or spam. We will always work to fully protect your rights and comply with our obligations under the Data Protection Legislation and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, and you will always have the opportunity to opt-out. We will always obtain your express opt-in consent before sharing your personal data with third parties for marketing purposes and you will be able to opt-out at any time.
Any Third-Party website whose content appears on our website may use third-party Cookies, as detailed in Our Cookies Policy. Please refer to the Policy for more information on controlling cookies. Please note that we do not control the activities of such third parties, nor the data that they collect and use themselves, and we advise you to check the privacy policies of any such third parties.
We use the following automated systems for carrying out certain kinds of decision-making and/or profiling. If at any point you wish to query any action that we take based on this or wish to request ‘human intervention’ (i.e. have someone review the action themselves, rather than relying only on the automated method), the Data Protection Legislation gives you the right to do so. Please contact us to find out more using the details in Part 13.
- The following automated decision-making method(s) may be used:
o To calculate all aspect of your salary to include tax, National Insurance or any other deductions to necessary to calculate your net salary
payment.
o To calculate your holiday entitlement
o To calculate a P45 or P60
- The following automated profiling may take place:
o To match you with a job that may suit your profile.
We will only use your personal data for the purpose(s) for which it was originally collected unless we reasonably believe that another purpose is compatible with that or those original purpose(s) and need to use your personal data for that purpose. If we do use your personal data in this way and you wish us to explain how the new purpose is compatible with the original, please contact us using the details in Part 13.
If we need to use your personal data for a purpose that is unrelated to, or incompatible with, the purpose(s) for which it was originally collected, we will inform you and explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.
In some circumstances, where permitted or required by law, we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent. This will only be done within the bounds of the Data Protection Legislation and your legal rights.
7. How Long Will You Keep My Personal Data?
We will not keep your personal data for any longer than is necessary considering the reason(s) for which it was first collected. Your personal data will therefore be kept for the following periods (or, where there is no fixed period, the following factors will be used to determine how long it is kept):
| Type of Data | How Long We Keep It |
|---|---|
| Identity Information that might including name, title, date of birth and gender. | Indefinitely as you will continue to be a trust beneficiary until your death even after you no longer use our services. |
| Contact information including address, email and telephone number. | Indefinitely as you will continue to be a trust beneficiary until your death even after you no longer use our services. |
| Business information including business name, job title, industry. | Throughout the time that we provide our services to you and no longer than three months after save as required by HMRC. |
| Profile information including work history, preferences and interests. | Throughout the time that we provide our services to you and no longer than three months after save as required by HMRC. |
| Technical information including IP address, browser type and version and operating system. | Until you clear your browser Cookies. |
8. How and Where Do You Store or Transfer My Personal Data?
We may store or transfer some or all of your personal data in countries that are not part of the European Economic Area, but only the Isle of Man which does have Data Protection Legislation comparable to ours (the “EEA” consists of all EU member states, plus Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein) This means that we have taken steps in order to ensure that your personal data is treated just as safely and securely as it would be within the UK and under the Data Protection Legislation as follows:
We share your data within the group of companies of which we are a part. Where this involves the transfer of personal data outside the EEA, our group ensures that personal data is protected by requiring all companies within the group to follow the same rules with respect to personal data usage. These are known as “binding corporate rules”. More information on binding corporate rules is available from the European Commission.
We share your data with external third parties, as detailed below in Part 9 that are based outside of the EEA. The following safeguards is are applied to such transfers:
We use specific contracts with external third parties that are approved by the European Commission for the transfer of personal data to third countries. These contracts require the same levels of personal data protection that would apply under the Data Protection Legislation. More information is available from the European Commission.
Please contact us using the details below in Part 13 for further information about the data protection mechanisms used by us when transferring your personal data to a third country.
The security of your personal data is essential to us, and to protect your data, we take important measures, including the following:
- limiting access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties with a legitimate need to know and ensuring that they are subject to duties of confidentiality; and
- procedures for dealing with data breaches (the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to, your personal data) including notifying you and/or the Information Commissioner’s Office where we are legally required to do so.
9. Do You Share My Personal Data?
We will not share any of your personal data with any third parties for any purposes, subject to the following exceptions.
If we sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or assets, your personal data may be transferred to a third party. Any new owner of our business may continue to use your personal data in the same way(s) that we have used it, as specified in this Privacy Policy.
In some limited circumstances, we may be legally required to share certain personal data, which might include yours, if we are involved in legal proceedings or complying with legal obligations, a court order, or the instructions of a government authority.
We may share your personal data with other companies in our group for the providing of our services to you. This includes subsidiaries, holding company and its subsidiaries as may exist from time-to-time.
We may sometimes contract with the following third parties to supply products services.
| Recipient | Activity Carried Out | Sector | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Other companies in our group or third parties required for our services to you who are data controllers and or processors. | To provide the services to you. | Payroll services. | England and Isle of Man. |
| HMRC which is a data controller and or processor. | To receive tax and National Insurance data and payments | Government | England |
If any of your personal data is shared with a third party, as described above, we will take steps to ensure that your personal data is handled safely, securely, and in accordance with your rights, our obligations, and the third party’s obligations under the law, as described above in Part 8.
If any personal data is transferred outside of the EEA, we will take suitable steps in order to ensure that your personal data is treated just as safely and securely as it would be within the UK and under the Data Protection Legislation, as explained above in Part 8.
If sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or assets, your personal data may be transferred to a third party. Any new owner of our business may continue to use your personal data in the same way(s) that we have used it, as specified in this Privacy Policy.
In some limited circumstances, we may be legally required to share certain personal data, which might include yours, if we are involved in legal proceedings or complying with legal obligations, a court order, or the instructions of a government authority.
10. How Can I Control My Personal Data?
10.1 In addition to your rights under the Data Protection Legislation, set out in Part 4, when you submit personal data via our website, you may be given options to restrict our use of your personal data. We aim to give you strong controls on our use of your data for direct marketing purposes (including the ability to opt-out of receiving emails from us which you may do by unsubscribing using the links provided in our emails and
10.2 You may also wish to sign up to one or more of the preference services operating in the UK: The Telephone Preference Service (“the TPS”), the Corporate Telephone Preference Service (“the CTPS”), and the Mailing Preference Service (“the MPS”). These may help to prevent you receiving unsolicited marketing. Please note, however, that these services will not prevent you from receiving marketing communications that you have consented to receiving.
11. Can I Withhold Information?
You may access certain areas of our website without providing any personal data at all. However, to use all features and functions available on our website you may be required to submit or allow for the collection of certain data. You may restrict our use of Cookies. For more information, see our Cookie Policy.
12. How Can I Access My Personal Data?
If you want to know what personal data we have about you, you can ask us for details of that personal data and for a copy of it (where any such personal data is held). This is known as a “subject access request” (SAR).
All subject access requests should be made in writing and sent to the email or postal addresses shown in Part 13. To make this as easy as possible for you, a Subject Access Request Form is available for you to use. You do not have to use this form, but it is the easiest way to tell us everything we need to know to respond to your request as quickly as possible.
There is not normally any charge for a subject access request. If your request is ‘manifestly unfounded or excessive’ (for example, if you make repetitive requests) a fee may be charged to cover our administrative costs in responding.
We will respond to your subject access request within a month and, in any case, not more than one month of receiving it. Normally, we aim to provide a complete response, including a copy of your personal data within that time. In some cases, however, particularly if your request is more complex, more time may be required up to a maximum of three months from the date we receive your request. You will be kept fully informed of our progress.
13. How Do I Contact You?
To contact us about anything to do with your personal data and data protection, including to make a subject access request, please contact us using the following details: –
Email address: reachus@payeme.com
Telephone number: 0151 370 0145
Postal address: 8 Princes Parade, Liverpool, Merseyside, L3 1DL.
14. Changes to this Privacy Notice
We may change this Privacy Notice from time to time. This may be necessary, for example, if the law changes, or if we change our business in a way that affects personal data protection.
Any changes will be made available on our website www.payeme.com