PRIVACY POLICY
Promethean Particles Ltd. (“Promethean Particles”) provides innovative nanomaterial products and services to our customers and users (“you”). In doing so, we recognize and greatly respect your privacy rights, and we provide this policy (“Privacy Policy”) to make you aware of how we collect and use information from you pertaining to your use of PrometheanParticles.co.uk (our “Website”) as well as the products or services that you access through the Website (our “Products”). We also explain in this Privacy Policy certain rights that you have in respect of your Personal Information (as defined herein). We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our practices in relation to Personal Information (as defined herein). This Privacy Policy provides you with information about:
- Information collected and how it is used
- Direct marketing and how you can manage your preferences
- Cookies, similar sites and third-party services
- How we use Personal Information
- The legal basis for using your Personal Information
- Transfers of Personal Information
- How we protect and store your information
- Use by children
- Your rights
- Important Additional Privacy Information for California Residents
- How to contact us
This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time and therefore we ask you to check back periodically for the latest version of the Privacy Policy, as indicated in the “Last updated:” date at the bottom of the policy. If there will be any significant changes made to the use of your Personal Information (as defined herein) in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection, we will endeavor to notify you by posting a notice on our Website.
There may also be external links to third-party websites and services on our Website. This Privacy Policy does not apply to your use of a third-party site or service. To find out more about external links, including any Personal Information (as defined herein) that may be collected by third parties, please refer to the “Cookies, Third-Party Advertisements and External Links” section.
To read our Terms of Use, please visit this page.
- INFORMATION COLLECTED AND HOW IT IS USED
1.1 Personal Information
We collect information that identifies an individual or may with reasonable effort allow the identification of an individual, or may be sensitive in nature (“Personal Information”). The categories of Personal Information we may collect about you include the following:
- Identity Data includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier, title, date of birth and gender.
- Contact Data includes billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers.
- Financial Data includes bank account and payment card details.
- Transaction Data includes details about payments to and from you and other details of products you have purchased from us.
- Profile Data includes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses.
We may collect your Personal Information when you:
- register with or use our Website or one of our Products;
- consult with a member of our sales team; or
- commence direct communications with us either in relation to a query or complaint.
We will ask you to provide certain Identity Data if you choose to create a Promethean Particles account or use our services. This may include your name, personal and work email, work or home address, employer, payment information, and phone number. We collect this information, only if voluntarily provided by you, in order to create and authenticate your account and provide you access to our Products and services. When you try to consult with a member of our sales team, we will also collect Personal Information that you voluntarily provide about your work and your company.
We also collect Personal Information when you commence direct communications via our Website enquiry form, by telephone or writing to us. When you commence direct communications with us, we may retain such communications and the accompanying Personal Information in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services.
1.2 Web Server Information
Like most website operators, we also collect web server log information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available (“Web Server Information”). This Web Server Information includes non-personally-identifying information such as browser type, language preference, and the date and time of each visitor request, as well as potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. In either case, we do not use such Web Server Information to identify visitors to our Website, and we do not disclose any Personal Information included in such Web Server Information to third parties, other than under the specific circumstances described below in this Privacy Policy where Personal Information may be disclosed. Our purpose in collecting this Web Server Information is to better understand how our visitors use the Website in order to improve the Website and our Products.
- DIRECT MARKETING AND HOW YOU CAN MANAGE YOUR PREFERENCES
We may use your Personal Information, voluntarily provided by you in the circumstances described herein, to let you know about our Products and services that we believe will be of interest to you. In all cases, we will respect your preferences for how you would like us to manage such marketing activity with you.
To protect privacy rights and to ensure you have control over how we manage marketing activities with you:
2.1 we will take steps to limit direct marketing to a reasonable and proportionate level and only send you communications which we believe may be of interest or relevance to you;
2.2 you can ask us to stop direct marketing at any time – you can ask us to stop sending email marketing, by following the ‘unsubscribe’ link you will find on all the email marketing messages we send you. Alternatively, you can contact us at [email protected]. Please specify whether you would like us to stop all forms of marketing or just a particular type (e.g., email); and
2.3 you can change the way your browser manages cookies, which may be used to deliver online advertising, by following the settings on your browser as explained below in the “Cookies, Similar Sites and Third-Party Services” section.
We recommend you routinely review the privacy policies and preference settings that are available to you on any social media platforms you use, as well as your preferences within your Promethean Particles account.
- COOKIES, SIMILAR SITES, AND THIRD-PARTY SERVICES
3.1 Use of Cookies, Web Beacons, Pixels and other Technologies
Our Website uses certain monitoring and tracking technologies (such as cookies, web beacons and pixels).
A cookie is a small text file that is stored in a web browser directory by a website or an advertisement-related action. Our Website uses two types of cookies: session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies are created temporarily in your web browser directory while you are visiting a website and are deleted once you leave the website. Persistent cookies remain in your web browser and are activated again once you visit the website that created that specific cookie. A web beacon is a small file used by a website or an advertisement-related action to keep track of your navigation through a single website or a series of websites. A pixel is a small line of code which is used by a website or an advertisement-related action to assign online activities to a computer or browser.
We use these technologies in order to ensure proper operation of our Products and Website, collect information and ensure information security. Although our collection of such information is not used to personally identify users, we are still committed to giving you the opportunity to exercise your choice of opting out from our collection of such information. For removing cookies and other technologies used on our Website, please refer to the “Opt-Out Option” sub-section below.
We will not use the above technologies to collect Personal Information without obtaining your permission, unless where we are permitted to do so under applicable privacy laws.
3.2 Opt-Out Option
Please note that your browser enables you to disable all cookies (if you do not know how to do this, check out the “Help” file of your browser), however, this may interfere with your use of the Website or other Internet websites.
If you would like to opt-out of the cookies that our Website may use (directly by us and not by third parties as referred to below), please email us at [email protected].
If you use a new computer, upgrade or change web browsers or take any action which results in the deletion of the “opt out” cookie, you will need to perform this opt-out process again upon any such change.
For more information about cookies, including how to set your Internet browser to reject cookies, please go to www.allaboutcookies.org.
3.3 Third-Party Websites and Services
Our Products may recommend third-party websites which the Product determines may be of interest to you (“Similar Sites”). Additionally, there may be links on our Website to third-party websites and services such as Google Analytics and others (“Third-Party Services”). We do not have control over such Similar Sites or Third-Party Services, including their information collection and use practices. We are not responsible for their privacy practices or policies. We therefore recommend that you review the privacy policies of Similar Sites and Third-Party Services before providing them with your Personal Information. For more information about the Third-Party Services to which links are included in our Website, please contact us at [email protected].
Third-party vendors, including Google, may show Promethean Particles ads on sites across the Internet. By using the Ads Settings, visitors can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize Google Display Network ads.
- HOW WE USE PERSONAL INFORMATION
Promethean Particles will use Personal Information solely in order to provide you with our Products and services, process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services.
We may share some or all of your Personal Information with our current or future subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies with whom we are under common control, provided such parties undertake to protect your privacy in at least the same manner as set out in this Privacy Policy.
In addition, we may share some or all of your Personal Information in the manner and for the purposes described below:
4.1 with third parties who help manage our business and deliver services. These third parties have agreed to confidentiality restrictions and use any Personal Information we share with them solely for the purpose of providing the contracted service to us. These include IT service providers who help manage our IT and back office systems;
4.2 with our regulators, to comply with all applicable laws, regulations and rules, and requests of law enforcement, regulatory and other governmental agencies or if required to do so by court order; and
4.3 we may collect and share Personal Information if required to do so as part of any legal proceedings conducted between you and Promethean Particles.
- THE LEGAL BASIS FOR USING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.
Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful basis depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. If you would like to find out more about the legal basis for which we process Personal Information, please contact us.
Purpose/Activity | Type of data | Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest |
To register you as a new customer |
(a) Identity (b) Contact |
Performance of a contract with you |
To process and deliver your order including: (a) Manage payments, fees and charges (b) Collect and recover money owed to us |
(a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Financial (d) Transaction (e) Marketing and Communications |
(a) Performance of a contract with you (b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to recover debts due to us) |
To manage our relationship with you which will include: (a) Notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy (b) Asking you to leave a review or take a survey |
(a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Marketing and Communications |
(a) Performance of a contract with you (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation (c) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products) |
To administer and protect our business and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data) |
(a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Technical |
(a) Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganisation or group restructuring exercise) (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation |
To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you |
(a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Usage (e) Marketing and Communications (f) Technical |
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy) |
To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences |
(a) Technical (b) Usage |
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to define types of customers for our products, to keep our website updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy) |
To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you |
(a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Technical (d) Usage (e) Profile (f) Marketing and Communications |
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our products and grow our business) |
- TRANSFERS OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
Please be aware that your Personal Information may be transferred, stored and processed in countries outside your country of residence from which the information was collected, including the United States, where our servers are located and our central database is operated. This means that your Personal Information will be subject to a different standard of data protection than that available in your country of residence. Promethean Particles will take appropriate steps to ensure that transfers of Personal Information are in accordance with applicable laws and carefully managed to protect your privacy rights and interests. To this end:
6.1 we ensure transfers within Promethean Particles will be covered by an agreement entered into by members of Promethean Particles (an intra-group agreement) which contractually obliges each member to ensure that Personal Information receives an adequate and consistent level of protection wherever it is transferred within Promethean Particles;
6.2 where we transfer your Personal Information outside Promethean Particles or to third parties who help provide our products and services, we obtain contractual commitments from them to protect your Personal Information. Some of these assurances are well recognized certification schemes like the EU – US Privacy Shield for the protection of Personal Information transferred from within the EU to the United States or other countries; or
6.3 where we receive requests for information from law enforcement or regulators, we carefully validate these requests before any Personal Information is disclosed.
6.4 Subject to applicable laws, you have a right to contact us for more information about the safeguards we have put in place to ensure the adequate protection of your Personal Information when it is transferred as mentioned above. See the “Your Rights” section below for more details. For information about your rights as a CA resident please refer to Important Additional Privacy Information for California Residents.
- HOW WE PROTECT AND STORE YOUR INFORMATION
7.1 Security
We have implemented and maintain appropriate technical and organizational security measures, policies and procedures designed to reduce the risk of accidental destruction or loss, or the unauthorized disclosure or access to such information appropriate to the nature of the information concerned. Note that, although we take measures to secure the information we collect and reduce the risk of unwanted disclosure, we cannot guarantee that the information will not be exposed as a result of unauthorized penetration to our servers. However, we make commercially reasonable efforts to make the collection and security of such information consistent with this Privacy Policy and all applicable laws and regulations. As the security of information depends in part on the security of the computer you use to communicate with us and the security you use to protect your user IDs and passwords, please take appropriate measures to protect this information.
7.2 Retention of your Personal Information
We will store your Personal Information for as long as is reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, as explained in this Privacy Policy. In some circumstances, we may store your Personal Information for longer periods of time, for instance where we are required to do so in accordance with legal, regulatory, tax or accounting requirements.
In specific circumstances we may store your Personal Information for longer periods of time so that we have an accurate record of your dealings with us in the event of any complaints or challenges, or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation relating to your Personal Information or dealings.
- USE BY CHILDREN
We do not offer our Products or services for use by children. If you are under 18, you may not use the Website, our Products or provide any information to the Website without involvement of a parent or a guardian. We do not knowingly collect information from, and/or about children.
- YOUR RIGHTS
You may revise your Personal Information by editing your account details. You also have the right to ask Promethean Particles to amend any Personal Information it holds about you if it is inaccurate or misleading by contacting us.
9.1 The following rights, which may be subject to certain exemptions, apply (in addition to the rights set forth above) to EU users:
9.1.1 You have a right to access information held about you. Your right of access can normally be exercised free of charge; however, we reserve the right to charge an appropriate administrative fee where permitted by applicable law.
9.1.2 You have a right to restrict the processing of your Personal Information, for example in case we no longer need your Personal Information for the initial purposes for which it was collected but it is required by you for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
9.1.3 You have a right to object to processing which has our legitimate interests as its lawful basis. We will no longer process your Personal Information upon your request, unless we have compelling legitimate grounds for the continuation of the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims. You may also object to our use of your Personal Information for direct marketing purposes. See the “Direct Marketing” and “Cookies” sections for how to unsubscribe, manage your marketing preferences and opt out of cookies.
9.1.4 You have a right to obtain a portable copy of Personal Information which is processed on the basis of your consent, or which is necessary for the performance of a contract between us. You have a right to have such portable copy of Personal Information transferred to another data controller in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format;
9.1.5 You also have a right to request details of the basis on which your Personal Information is transferred outside the European Economic Area but you acknowledge that data transfer agreements may need to be partially redacted for reasons of commercial confidentiality.
9.1.6 You have a right to lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority if you have concerns about how we are processing your Personal Information. We ask that you please attempt to resolve any issues with us first, although you have a right to contact your supervisory authority at any time.
We may ask you for additional information to confirm your identity and for security purposes, before disclosing the Personal Information requested to you. We reserve the right to charge a fee where permitted by law, for instance if your request is manifestly unfounded or excessive.
You can exercise your rights by contacting us. Subject to legal and other permissible considerations, we will make every reasonable effort to honor your request promptly or inform you if we require further information in order to fulfil your request.
We may not always be able to fully address your request, for example if it would impact the duty of confidentiality we owe to others, or if we are legally entitled to deal with the request in a different way.
- HOW TO CONTACT US
If you have any questions or comments regarding these Terms of Service, our Privacy Policy, or this System, please feel free to contact us by email at [email protected].
We will investigate and attempt to resolve complaints and disputes and will make every reasonable effort to honour your wish to exercise your rights as quickly as possible and in any event, within the timeframes provided by data protection laws.
You have a right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection supervisory authority (i.e. your place of habitual residence, place of work or place of alleged infringement) at any time. We ask that you please attempt to resolve any issues with us before your local supervisory authority.
Last updated: February 15, 2021