How do we use personal data?
When you visit our website or read our emails
We will retain information about your computer or device (such as your IP address and browser type) and your usage of our websites (such as which pages were visited and when) and your reading of emails from us, as a legitimate interest for reasons of system security and performance.
If you provide other data via the website, such as filling in forms, that data will be used in accordance with the purpose stated on the form.
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When marketing
You have the right to opt-in or opt-out of marketing at any time, by informing us using the contact details given below, or by selecting unsubscribe from our messages to you.
We will contact you for business to business marketing purposes, as our legitimate interest for business development, where you have requested further information about our services, where we have received your contact details as a corporate subscriber and believe our services are relevant to your company and your role, or where you have previously engaged in contractual negotiations (soft-opt in) with us. This may include calling you by phone (subject to TPS checks) and use of email, SMS, post or social media channels.
We will use third party data providers to obtain business contact details for marketing purpose as well as information collected by our sales agents.
Where your business is a sole trader or partnership that has yet to enter contractual discussions, we will require your consent, before sending you email or SMS marketing.
We engage third party service providers under contract to support our telephone marketing operations. Some of these processors are based outside of the EU and for these we use EU Standard Contractual Clauses to safeguard the data.
When you contact us with a general question or comment
We will use the personal data you provide in order to appropriately respond, as a legitimate interest.
Phone calls with TELEFAST will be recorded for quality assurance and training purposes.
When your business becomes a customer
We will use your professional personal details, details of your business and details of your use of our services, to enter into and fulfil our contractual arrangements with your business. If adequate details are not provided, we will not be able to accept your business as a customer.
Our use of data will include:
- Verifying your, and your business’, identity.
- Monitoring product/service usage and performance, to identify ways we can improve and/or personalise our services to you and for billing.
- Customer services and support.
- Operational communications.
- Debt collection.
When you sign up for our services, we will carry out a credit check against our own data and public data available at Companies House, as our legitimate interest to mitigate risk.
We may also carry out further credit checks on our ‘high usage’ customers during the course of the contract using a Credit Reference Agency, as our legitimate interest to mitigate on-going risk, to assess credit worthiness and affordability when people apply for credit and for fraud prevention. This means that your credit records will be searched, along with those of anyone who is financially associated with you such as your spouse or partner. The CRA will keep a record of this search and place a “footprint” on your credit file. Credit Reference Agencies (CRAs) collect and maintain information about consumers’ and businesses’ credit behaviour. This includes data sourced from the Electoral Register, fraud prevention, and credit information – including details of previous applications and the conduct of your accounts – and public information such as County Court Judgements, decrees, and bankruptcies.
We also work with third party data controllers for the provision of services to you, such as telecommunication, energy, and merchant services. Those third parties process personal data entirely independently from TELEFAST group. Where third party data controllers are engaged, data subjects will be notified in advanced of data being shared, including the identity of the providers and the services they provide.
For details about how third-party data controllers use personal data, please visit their privacy notices on their websites.
When you apply for a job
We will process relevant information, including contact details, competencies, qualifications, employment history and references, in our legitimate interests of assessing a candidate’s suitability for the role applied for with the shared intention of entering into a contract. This processing does not guarantee employment. If your application is not accepted, we will retain your data for 6 months, unless we believe future opportunities may be relevant.
When complying with legislation and regulation
We will process data where we are under a legal or regulatory requirement to do so, including sharing of data with third parties, such as regulators (e.g. Ofcom, Ofgem and the ICO), Ombudsman Services (the alternative dispute resolution scheme), courts or law enforcement agencies and where we need to for other legal purposes, for example, to share data with our advisers in order to pursue or to defend against a claim.
When any part of the business is being bought or sold
Data will be shared with the buyer or seller, as a legitimate interest, in order to provide on-going services.
When preventing or detecting crime
Data will be processed and shared with relevant third parties, including law enforcement agencies, credit bureaus and partner organisations, if we reasonably believe this will prevent or detect crime.
When handling a data subject request
Data will be processed in order to assess, respond and maintain records of data subject requests, as a legal obligation.