Privacy Policy
Business Quote is a trading name of Evolution Engineers Global Ltd.
Business Quote understands 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 this website, https://business-quote.co.uk Business Quote will only collect and use your personal data as described in this Privacy Policy. Any personal data we collect will only be used as permitted by law.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully and ensure that you understand it. Your acceptance of this Privacy Policy is confirmed by your use of the Site.
Information About Us
Our Site is owned and operated by Evolution Engineers Global Ltd, the company is registered in England & Wales under company number: 12079107.
Registered address: Evolution Engineers Global Ltd, Office One, 1 Coldbath Square, Farringdon, London, EC1R 5HL
Registered number 13538840 in England and Wales
VAT number: 326492296
Data Protection Officer: James Lee
Email address: james@business-quote.co.uk
Telephone number:02392 162098
ICO Register: ZB240953
What Does This Policy Cover?
This Privacy Policy applies only to your use of Our Site. Our Site may contain links to other websites. Please note that we have no control over how your data is collected, stored, or used by other websites and we advise you to check the privacy policies of any such websites before providing any data to them.
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 in particular 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.
Sharing Personal Information
We share your Personal Information with service providers to help us provide our services and fulfil our contracts with you, as described above. For example:
- We use WordPress to power our website.
- We may share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.
- If you are using our online quote service, we will share this information with all of our partners so that they can provide you with guaranteed quotes before you select which policy, service or product you intend to purchase. We will seek your explicit consent during the application process before sharing any special category data with any partner companies.
- If you are unable to provide us with the information required to arrange a quote for you, from time to time, we may receive personal information about you from third party sources, but only where we have checked that these third parties either have your consent or are otherwise legally permitted or required to disclose your personal information to us. The types of information we collect from third parties may include your contact details and information about your health, lifestyle and business. We use the information we receive from these third parties to provide you with a quote.
- IT Service providers, including those who help operate our website, telephony, IT and back-office systems;
- Legal advisers, accountants, auditors, financial institutions and professional service firms who act
- We may also share your data with our agents and advisors and with any other corporate entity in our group, including entities that we may acquire or that may acquire us in the future, provided that we inform them that they must use your personal information only for the purposes disclosed in this Privacy Policy.
- We may also share your information with any other person if you have consented to the disclosure.
What Are My Rights?
Under the Data Protection Legislation, you have the following rights, which we will always work to uphold:
The right to be informed about our collection and use of your personal data. This Privacy Policy 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 below within Section 11.
- The right to access the personal data we hold about you
- The right to have your personal data rectified if any of your personal data held by us is inaccurate or incomplete. Please contact us using the details below to find out more.
- 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 below to find out more.
- The right to restrict (i.e. prevent) the processing of your personal data.
- The right to object to us using your personal data for a particular purpose or purposes.
- 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.
- 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.
- Rights relating to automated decision-making and profiling. When processing your data Evolution Engineers Global Ltd do not undertake any automated decision-making. However, when we provide your data to our partners, for the purposes of obtaining a quote, they may undertake an automated process.
For more information about our use of your personal data or exercising your rights as outlined above, please contact us using the details provided below.
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 as long as 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 provided below.
What Personal Data Do You Collect and How?
Our Site collects certain information automatically, including your IP address, the type of browser you are using and certain other non-personal data about your computer or device such as your operating system type or version, display resolution device type, unique device identification numbers, browser type, broad geographic location (e.g. city-level location), mobile phone network and other technical information. We may also collect information about how your device has interacted with our website, including the pages accessed and links clicked.
Collecting this information enables us to better understand the visitors who come to our website, where they come from, and what content on our website is of interest to them. We use this information for our internal analytics purposes and to improve the quality and relevance of our website to our visitors.
Some of this information may be collected using cookies and similar tracking technology.
Where you utilise the pages on our website that contain products and services we may use your interaction within the Site, and information to process your purchases or register enquires. We may also collect additional information if you contact us for customer support, or if you purchase or/and utilise services.
If you send us an email or place an order or make an enquiry we may collect your name, your email address, and any other information which you choose to give us. For the purposes of the Data Protection Legislation, We are the data controller responsible for such personal data.
The lawful basis under the Data Protection Legislation that allows us to use such information is article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR which allows us to process personal data when it is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests, in this case, the proper operation and functionality of Our Site. If you contact us as described above, you will be required to consent to our use of your personal data to contact you. In this case, our lawful basis for using your personal data will be article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR, which allows us to use your personal data with your consent for a particular purpose or purposes.
We may collect Personal Information to provide our services to you, which includes (but is not limited to):
- Provide you with a quotation
- Offering Products for Sale
- Responding to queries
- Provide you with administrative services
- Keeping you up to date on new products, services, and offer
- For the prevention, detection and investigation of financial crime, including fraud;
- Statistical and analytical research; and
- Where necessary, to comply with legal and regulatory obligations.
- We may use third parties to process your data, however, we will remain as the data controller for such processing.
Device information
- Examples of Personal Information collected: version of web browser, IP address, time zone, cookie information, what sites or products you view, search terms, and how you interact with the Site.
- Purpose of collection: to load the Site accurately for you, and to perform analytics on Site usage to optimize our Site.
- Source of collection: Collected automatically when you access our Site using cookies, log files, web beacons, tags, or pixels
- Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our processor
Order/Quote information
Certain parts of our website may ask you to provide personal information voluntarily: for example, we may ask you to provide your contact details to provide you with a quote, receive further marketing communications from us, and/or to submit enquiries to us. The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.
Some of the personal information that you provide may include information classified by applicable data protection law as special category data, such as health-related information, which we need for the purposes of providing an accurate quote for you (or enabling third-party providers to provide an accurate quote for you). We have described in more detail below when, why and on what basis we will be collecting such special category data.
To provide you with an indicative quote, we will collect certain information via our websites this will include personal details such as your name, date of birth, contact numbers and email address. We may also be processing special category data in the form of health information such as your smoker status where you have explicitly consented to this. Your information will then be shared with our partners so that they can provide you with an indicative quote. We will only share special category data with our partners on the basis of your explicit consent.
- Examples of Personal Information collected: name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers) email address, and phone number Location of devices.
- Purpose of collection: to provide products or services, including quotes to you to fulfill our contract, to process your payment information, and provide you with invoices and/or order confirmations, communicate with you, screen our orders for potential risk or fraud, and when in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.
- Source of collection: collected from you
- Disclosure for a business purpose:: In some circumstances, we may be required to obtain your consent to provide you with direct marketing of our products and services. Where this requirement applies or where we have sought your consent, we will process your personal data with your consent (see your rights below for more information about how you may opt-out of marketing communications or withdraw your consent). We will also require your explicit consent as described in the information we collect.
- Newsletters Our newsletters will be used to keep you informed about our products and events. Our subscription lists will not be sold, rented or leased to any third parties. We use code within our newsletters to identify open rates and click-through rates. This enables us to identify which individuals have opened the message or clicked on links within it and better tailor any follow-up communications. You can remove yourself from the subscription lists at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link within the newsletter or by emailing support@business-quote.co.uk stating “consent is withdrawn”, please also confirm your postcode, name and DOB to allow us to identify you correctly.
Customer support information (including use of the Business Quote Portal)
- Examples of Personal Information collected: version of web browser, IP address, time zone, cookie information, what sites or products you view, search terms, and how you interact with the Site, Location of product post-purchase.
- Purpose of collection: to provide customer support
- Source of collection: collected from you.
- Disclosure for a business purpose
Information for Quotes
- Identity verification information collected: Information will be collected to verify the identity of the persons or Parties to which the quote relates.
- Special categories of personal information: including health information
- Purpose of collection: to provide customer services, Performance of services with you, to meet our legal obligations, necessary for our legitimate interests (such as provision of services and record retention)
- Source of collection: collected from you and third parties as detailed above
- Disclosure for a business purpose: To selected users of the Business Quote website and Parties who you have specifically consented to information being shared with
How Do You Use My Personal Data?
Where we collect any personal data, it will be processed and stored securely, for no longer than is necessary in light of the reason(s) for which it was first collected. We will comply with our obligations and safeguard your rights under the Data Protection Legislation at all times. For more details on security see the further details contained, below.
Any and all emails containing your personal data will be deleted no later than 30 days after your formal request to delete any such information and no other personal data will be retained for any longer than is necessary.
If you provided us with your contact details via a website, but have decided not to proceed any further, then we may keep your details for up to 12 months before we delete them.
If we have obtained further details from you directly and you have received a quote, then we will store your data for a period of six years following the quotation.
How and Where Do You Store My Data?
Your personal data is held on secure servers operated by Evolution Engineers Global Ltd and agencies contracted by us. We do not transfer your data outside the UK, and we comply with the protection offered to you under the Data Protection Act 2018, UK General Data Protection Regulation 2018 and any other applicable legislation in the UK.
If you provided us with your contact details via a website, but have decided not to proceed any further, then we may keep your details for up to 12 months before we delete them.
If we have obtained further details from you directly and you have received a quote, then we will store your data for a period of six years following the quotation.
We use appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect the personal information that we collect and process about you. The measures we use are designed to provide a level of security appropriate to the risk of processing your personal information and help ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data. All data is encrypted when in transit and stored in resilient and secure data centres that are certified to globally recognised security standards.
We will only store your personal data in the UK. This means that it will be fully protected under the Data Protection Legislation.
Personal data security is essential to us, and to protect personal data, we take the following measures:
- 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;
- 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.
Do You Share My Personal Data?
We will not share any of your personal data with any third parties for any purposes other than those referred to within this Privacy Policy, 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 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.
Behavioural Advertising
As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For example:
- We use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site. You can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
- We share information about your use of the Site, your purchases, and your interaction with our ads on other websites with our advertising partners. We collect and share some of this information directly with our advertising partners, and in some cases through the use of cookies or other similar technologies (which you may consent to, depending on your location).
- For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.
You can opt-out of targeted advertising by:
- Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads
- Google- https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous
- Microsoft- https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/personalized-ads
- Additionally, you can opt-out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: http://optout.aboutads.info/.
If any of your personal data is transferred to 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.
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.
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 (i.e. to communicate with you).
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.
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”.
All subject access requests should be made in writing and sent to the email or postal addresses shown in Part 11. 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 30 days 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.
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 use the following details for the attention of the Data Protection Officer:
Email address: support@business-quote.co.uk
Telephone number: 02392 162098
Postal Address: 5 Grove Road, Fareham, Hants, PO16 7TF
Changes to this Privacy Policy
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 immediately posted on Our Site and you will be deemed to have accepted the terms of the Privacy Policy on your first use of Our Site following the alterations. We recommend that you check this page regularly to keep up-to-date. This Privacy Policy was last updated on 09.02.2022.
Cookies
A cookie is a small amount of information that’s downloaded to your computer or device when you visit our Site. We use a number of different cookies, including functional, performance, advertising, and social media or content cookies. Cookies make your browsing experience better by allowing the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login and region selection). This means you don’t have to re-enter this information each time you return to the site or browse from one page to another. Cookies also provide information on how people use the website, for instance, whether it’s their first time visiting or if they are a frequent visitor. A full list of our Cookies and our Cookies policy can be found here.