Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to the website: www.webuysmall.uk  (the “Site”) owned and operated by Create Internet Ltd (collectively, “Create”, “We”, “Us”, or “Our”). Create Internet Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales under company number 03821624 and are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy in line with the UK Data Protection Act 2018 and any other applicable Legal Framework.. For the purpose of this Policy, Create Internet Ltd is the data controller. 

This Policy together with any other documents referred to on it sets out the basis of:

- What personal data we collect and why
- What we do with your personal data
- How we secure your personal data
- How you can change or delete your personal data

Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.


Definitions

‘Site’ - means the public area of www.webuysmall.uk

‘User’ - means a person who uses our Site or has sent us Personal Data via our Site

‘Personal Data’ - means any information that can personally identify an individual.

‘Legal Framework’ - any applicable, lawful act or regulation that outlines the protection of Personal Data


What Information We Collect

The legal basis in which we process information we collect is in order for us to provide the Service as advertised on www.webuysmall.uk

We may collect and process various forms of information when you use our Site:

‘User-Provided’ Information - When you use our Site, you may provide Personal Data (through the registration form, contact us form, etc) and we as a result, may collect this. Personal data is any form of information that can identify an individual for example, name and email address.

‘Automatically Collected’ Information - If you use our Site, we may automatically collect information about your computer, including, where available, your IP address, operating system and browser type. We achieve this by using cookies and other forms of technology. All of the information that is automatically collected is statistical data about our Users browsing actions and patterns. Some of this information is stored for security purposes.

Third Party Integrations - Certain areas of the site are integrated with a third-party in order to provide the functionality as advertised. Please be aware that these specific areas of the site may require additional Personal Data and the Personal Data may be shared with the relevant third-party in order to provide the full functionality as advertised. For example, Disqus, which allows you to comment and share content through our website, requires user provided information and may automatically collect other Personal Data when used. By using any area of the site that is integrated by a third party, you agree to the terms of their privacy policy. Please read the respective privacy policy before using and contact us for more info.


How We Use The Information Collected

We use the information that we collect in a variety of ways during the provision of our services and operation of our business, including the following:

Communications

  • To enable our team to provide support to Users when requested or required to do so
  • Investigate any issues that arise from using our Site
  • To notify you of any updates in relation to our Site
  • To provide any information you have requested or that we feel may be of genuine interest to you. These include updates about any service we may offer, promotions and general business information which may or may not be connected to third parties we work with. You have the right to opt-out of receiving any promotional information as detailed below under ‘Your Rights’ of this policy.


Cookies
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. They help us to improve our Site and to deliver a better and more personalised Service. By using our Site or Service, you agree to the use of cookies. You can find more information about the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them below:

We use the following cookies:

Strictly Necessary cookies - These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Site. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our Site, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.

Analytical / Performance cookies - They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Site when they are using it. These cookies enable us, Create, to monitor the performance of our site (page loading speeds, etc) to ensure that everything is functioning correctly. This also helps us to improve the way our Site works, for example, by ensuring that Users are finding what they are looking for easily.

Functionality cookies - These are used to recognise you when you return to our Site. This enables us to personalise our content for you for example, remember your preferences on the Site.

Targeting cookies - These cookies record your visit to our Site, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed, amongst other information. We will use this information to make our Site and the advertising displayed on it (if applicable) more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose. You can find out more information about cookies and how to disable them by visiting https://cookiesandyou.com.

Analytics
We use Google Analytics to measure traffic to our Site and understand how Users move around and use our Service. We use this information to enhance the Site and Service we provide to ensure that Users get the best experience possible. We also use Google Analytics to monitor aggregate information of your website which helps us monitor the performance of features we offer within our Service to ensure full functionality. The information gathered also enables us to improve these features in the future. All of the information we collect from Google Analytics is aggregate and will not be disclosed with any other third parties.

By agreeing to this Privacy Policy, you agree to the use of Google Analytics. Google may use the data collected to assess activity on our site. As Google is a separate entity to us, it has its own privacy policy which we recommend you review. Further information specific to Google analytics and how they secure the data collected can be found here. If you wish to do so, you can opt-out of Google Analytics by following the instructions here.


How We Store The Information We Collect

When your information is submitted to us, we use it to ensure that appropriate security measures are in place to ensure your information is protected. These safeguards are implemented to ensure that personal data in our possession is not subject to any unlawful forms of processing which include accidental loss, unauthorised access or disclosure. Our Site and Service have Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption present amongst other general security measures such as firewalls and password protection to certain areas of our Service. Our employees are trained to ensure that all administrative processes are followed to ensure that your data is handled and processed accordingly. These measures are regularly reviewed to ensure that your personal data is being stored in the most secure way possible.

The data we collect from you may be processed, transferred and stored using various services integral to our business operations. These services may be based in locations outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) and only the essential and necessary data will be provided to them for them to fulfill their purpose. Data may also be processed by a member of staff operating outside of the EEA who works for us. By submitting your personal data to us, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing.

We have ensured that all services we use to transfer, store and/or process data, in or outside EEA, have been verified to ensure that they are compliant with the UK Data Protection Act 2018, European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and any other relevant Legal Framework that applies to that particular service.

Further to this, we will continually monitor said services to ensure compliance is still being achieved at any given time and the data they hold is stored in a safe and satisfactory manner using the most up to date security measures. We will, to the best of our knowledge, not process, store or transfer any data to any service that does not comply with the UK Data Protection Act 2018, the GDPR or have adequate security measures in place to protect your Personal Data.

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.


Disclosure Of Information

We will only disclose your information to any third-parties as detailed in this Policy and under the following circumstances:

In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.

If Create Internet Ltd or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.

If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation

If you do not want us to use your data in this way, or to pass your details on to third parties for marketing purposes, you can do so by contacting [email protected]. For more information, please see the ‘Your Rights’ section of this Policy.

We do not disclose any personally-identifiable information about individuals to our advertisers, but we may provide them with aggregate information about our Users (for example, we may inform them that 500 men aged under 30 have clicked on their advertisement on any given day). We may also use such aggregate information to help advertisers reach the kind of audience they want to target (for example, men in the BN1 postal area). We may make use of the Personal Data we have collected from you to enable us to comply with our advertisers' wishes by displaying their advertisement to that target audience.

Our Site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.


Children's Privacy

Protecting the privacy of children is particularly important in data protection. We do not knowingly collect any Personal Data of anyone younger than 18 unless parental consent has been obtained prior to using our Service. If you are under the age of 18 and we have not been provided clear parental consent, then please do not use or access our Site at any time.

If we become aware of any personal data that has been gathered on a child who is under the age of 18 (without parental consent) we will take the appropriate action to ensure it is removed from our system unless consent has been previously gathered. 

If you, as a parent or guardian, discover that your child (under the age of 18) has provided their Personal Data without your consent, please notify us at [email protected] and will we take the relevant action to ensure the Personal Data of the child is erased.


Access To Information & Your Rights

We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy within your account. Under the UK Data Protection Act 2018, as a User of our Service, you have several rights in relation to your personal data which include:

The right of access - you have the right to know exactly what information we hold about you and how we process it.

The right of rectification - you have the right to have your personal data rectified if it is incorrect or incomplete.

The right to be forgotten - You have the right to have your personal data removed or deleted without a specific reason for doing so. This is also known as ‘the right to erasure’.

The right to restrict processing - an individual's right to block or suppress processing of their personal data. You have the right to block your personal data from being processed.

The right to data portability - you have the right to request the personal data we hold about you for your own use.

If you want to access, change or delete any personal data that we hold about you, please contact [email protected]. If you wish to exercise any of your rights in accordance with the UK Data Protection Act or any other relevant Legal Framework, please contact us with the specific request using the contact details located under the ‘Contact Us’ section of this Policy.

If you have concerns about the way we handle your personal data, you can contact the ICO or raise a complaint by contacting [email protected] and we will investigate accordingly.


Data Retention

We will continue to retain any information collected from a User as long as we have a legal basis, in line with the UK Data Protection Act 2018, for doing so or until we receive the relevant request to remove Personal Data as stated in the ‘Access To Information & Your Rights’. 


Contact Us

You can contact us at any time if you have any questions, comments or requests regarding this Privacy Policy using the following information:

Create Internet Ltd, Unit 5, Westergate Business Centre, Westergate Road, Brighton, East Sussex, BN2 4QN.

[email protected] 

Alternatively, you can use the Contact Us page on our site.


Changes To This Policy

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