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 Ad Flip Digital Media (the “company”) and own all rights, the respective IP, copyrights and trademarks. The company is registered in the United States of America under company number 81-2790961 and is registered as a Data Controller with the Information Commissioners Office under registration number ZA415753.We seek to comply fully with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)/ Data Protection Act 2018 and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations (PECR), 2003. Deal Mates 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 offersContract : 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.Marketing disclosureThe company’s website is www.deal-mates.com (the “website”) 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 at the time that you enquired. 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 unsubscribe@deal-mates.com to view / amend your interests & consent preferences. A outright list of the third party offers & services can be found here. This list will be refreshed monthly.
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
Further Information
If you need further information about the use of cookies please visit; www.allaboutcookies.orgWhere we store your personal data.
We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely, and in accordance with this privacy policy, and the Data Protection Act 1998.All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access. Some of our technology servers are based outside of the EU, some of our web traffic may be routed outside of the EU. Your data may be transferred outside of the EU but we have assurances that those partners have taken equivalent internet security measures that adhere to the UK General Data Protection Legislation.
Uses made of the information
We use information about you to allow the website or its 3rd party partners (where consent is given) to provide you with relative products via email, for example to provide you with money saving offers.
We may also use your data (where you have given the website explicit consent), or permit selected third parties to use your data (where you have given the website explicit consent), to provide you with advertisments via email about goods and services which may be of interest to you..We do not disclose information about identifiable individuals to our advertisers, but we may provide them with aggregate information about our users. We may also use such aggregate information to help advertisers reach the kind of audience they want to target. You can at any time inform us that you do not want your details shared in any way by emailing us at info@deal-mates.com in writing to the address below.
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.Positive consent for contactWe give you full control over what communication you want to receive from the website. When you register you can opt-in to receiving email communications from the website, or you can opt out of all communication by ticking “To register without receiving any marketing messages from us please click here.
Further into the registration process you may be asked what other interest you have. By telling us what your interests are you can expect the website to communicate to you via email regarding those specific interests.You may change your preferences at any time by contacting us at info@deal-mates.comThe website will only ever contact you via email unless you are completing a form for a specific quote ie life insurance quote or home improvement quote in which case it is made clear on the form that you will receive a telephone call to the number provided in the form.Access to informationYou have the legal right to access information we hold about you. If you would like to find out more, please write to us at the address below, alternatively please contact us at info@deal-mates.com. You will be asked to evidence the communication you have received from the website, which is needed so we can pinpoint exactly where that communication originated. We do this to protect your personal information in line with the GDPR guidelines of 2018.Changes to our privacy policy. Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page.
Data Retention Policy
We will keep your personal, private data for a maximum of 24 months after collected on the form or from the point you last responded a communication that we sent (e.g. opened or clicked a newsletter that we sent. The company may delete your record earlier if asked.
Changes to our privacy policy
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be updated on this page. This policy was last updated on 28/07/2020. Your Rights To unsubscribe from the site please email us at unsubscribe@deal-mates.com You have the right to sign-up to this website without agreeing to receive any communication from the website. This option can be made on the registration page, under the form.
You have the right to request all your personal information held to be permanently erased from our records. To do this please contact us at info@deal-mates.com.
You also have the right to formalise a complaint to a supervisory authority if you wish. The UK authority is the ICO – Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF
You have the right to ask Deal Mates to transfer your personal information you gave them to another organisation or back to you, in certain circumstances
Unsubscribing
To unsubscribe from the site please write to us at unsubscribe@deal-mates.com
Contact
Questions, comments and requests regarding this website are welcomed and should be sent to info@deal-mates.com or addressed to the Deal Mates Data Protection Officer, 776-778 Barking Road, London E13 9PJ