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Privacy Policy

Scopism Limited (We) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. Your privacy is extremely important to us and we want you to have a safe, enjoyable and pleasant experience using www.scopism.com (our site).

This page sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (Act), the data controller is Scopism Limited of Unit A, 82 James Carter Road, Mildenhall, IP28 7DE, United Kingdom.

Information we may collect from you

We may collect and process the following data about you:

  • Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site, subscribing or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our site.
  • If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
  • We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
  • Details of transactions you carry out through our site and of the fulfilment of your orders.
  • Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access.

IP addresses

We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.

Cookies

Our site uses a number of cookies. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we put on your computer if you agree. These cookies allow us to distinguish you from other users of our site, which helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our site and also allows us to improve our site. The cookies we use are:

(a)       “session” cookies;

Also called a transient cookie, a cookie that is erased when the user closes the Web browser. The session cookie is stored in temporary memory and is not retained after the browser is closed. Session cookies do not collect information from the user s computer.

[(b)      “persistent” cookies”; and

A persistent cookie, also known as a stored cookie, is a file that is stored on a user’s hard drive. The cookie would remain on the hard drive until it reaches its expiration date. At this point the browser would purge the cookie from the hard drive.

[(c)      “analytical” cookies

These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our site works, for example by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

Our cookie policy is here

Where we store your personal data

The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (EEA). It may also be processed by staff who operate outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers.

Any payment transactions through our site will be processed securely by our selected payment processor. We do not store, process or have any visibility of any credit or debit card information.

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.

Scopism Ltd GDPR Compliance Statement

Scopism Ltd (“we”, “us” or “our”) is committed to ensuring the security and protection of the personal information that we process, and to provide a compliant and consistent approach to data protection.

We have created this GDPR Compliance Statement to explain our approach to implementing our GDPR compliance program. It describes the implementation of our data protection roles, policies, procedures, controls and measures to ensure ongoing compliance with GDPR.

Our GDPR Principles 

Scopism Ltd takes the privacy and security of individuals and their personal information very seriously. Our principles for processing personal information are:

  • We will process all personal information fairly and lawfully
  • We will only process personal information for specified and lawful purposes
  • Where practical, we will keep personal information up to date
  • We will not keep personal information for longer than is necessary

Data Subjects Rights under GDPR 

At Scopism Ltd, an individual can request information about:

  • What personal information we hold about an individual
  • The categories of personal information we collect from an individual
  • The purposes for collecting and processing personal information from an individual
  • How long we plan to keep the personal information
  • The process to have incomplete or inaccurate personal information corrected or completed
  • Where applicable, the process for requesting erasure of the personal information or for restricting the processing of personal information in accordance with data protection laws, as well as to object to any direct marketing from us
  • About any automated decision-making that we use

Our GDPR compliance plan 

Here’s an overview of our steps that we are taking to ensure compliance with GDPR at Scopism Ltd

  • We conducted a data mapping inventory and analysis of collected personal information in our systems and records
  • We have established procedures and policies to restrict processing of personal information
  • We have updated our procedures for data breaches and incident responses
  • We have updated our company’s Data Protection Policy, Data Retention Policy, Information Security Policy, Cookies Policy and Privacy Policy
  • We have reviewed all processing activities to identify the legal basis for processing personal information and to ensure that each basis is appropriate for the activity it relates to

Changes to our privacy policy

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email.

Contact

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to contact@scopism.com.

July 2024