Dstricts respects your privacy and is committed
to protecting your personal data. This privacy notice will inform you as to how
we look after your personal data and tell you about your privacy rights and how
the law protects to you.
This
privacy notice is provided in a layered format so you can click through to the
specific areas set out below. Please also use the Glossary to understand the
meaning of some of the terms used in this privacy notice.
1.
Important Information and Who We Are
2. How Is
Your Personal Data Collected
3. The Data
We Collect About You
4. How We
Use Your Personal Data
5.
Disclosures of Your Personal Data
6.
International Transfers
7. Data
Security
8. Data
Retention
9. Your
Legal Rights
10.
Glossary
1. IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND WHO WE ARE
Purpose of
this privacy notice
This
privacy notice aims to give you information on how Dstricts collects and
processes your personal data through your use of this website or our services,
including any data you may provide through this website when you sign up to our
newsletter, purchase a product or service or take part in a competition. This
website is not intended for children.
It is
important that you read this privacy notice together with any other privacy
notice or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we
are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully
aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy notice supplements
the other notices and is not intended to override them.
Controller
The Dstricts
Group is made up of different legal entities. This privacy notice is issued on
behalf of each member of the Dstricts Group so when we mention " Dstricts",
"we", "us" or "our" in this privacy notice, we
are referring to the relevant company in the Dstricts Group responsible for
processing your data. Dstricts Limited is the controller and responsible for
this website.
We have
appointed a data protection officer (DPO) who is responsible for overseeing
questions in relation to this privacy notice. If you have any questions about
this privacy notice, including any requests to exercise your legal rights,
please contact the DPO using the details set out below.
Contact
details
Full name
of legal entity: Dstricts Limited
Name or
title of DPO: Kowaken Ghirmai
Email address:
Kowaken.ghirma@dstricts.com
Postal
address: Mjölnerbacken 61, 174 60 Sundbyberg
Telephone
number: +46 76 207 21 92
You have
the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office
(ICO), the Swedish supervisory authority for data protection issues. We would,
however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach
the ICO so
please
contact us in the first instance.
Changes to
the privacy notice and your duty to inform us of changes
This
version was last updated on 08 March 2023.
It is
important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current.
Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship
with us.
Third-party
links
This
website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications.
Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties
to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party
websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave
our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you
visit.
2. HOW IS YOUR PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED?
We use
different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
Direct
interactions. You may give us your Identity, Contact and Financial Data by
filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or
otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you join the Dstricts Membership
Club or place a request for services with Dstricts and includes circumstances
in which you:
apply for
our products or services;
create an
account on our website;
subscribe
to our service or publications;
request
marketing to be sent to you;
enter a
competition, promotion or survey; or
give us
some feedback.
Automated
technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we may
automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and
patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other
similar technologies. We may also receive Technical Data about you if you visit
other websites employing our cookies. Please see our cookie policy for further
details.
Third
parties or publicly available sources. We may receive personal data about you
from various third parties and public sources as set out below:
Technical
Data from analytics providers such as Google based outside the EU.
Identity
and Contact Data from publicly available sources such as Companies House and
the Electoral Register based inside the EU.
3. THE DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU
Personal
data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from
which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity
has been removed (anonymous data).
We may
collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you
which we have grouped together as follows:
Identity
Data includes first name, maiden name, last name, username or similar identifier,
marital status, title, date of birth and gender.
Contact
Data includes billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone
numbers.
Marketing
and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from
us and our third parties and your communication preferences
Financial
Data includes bank account and payment card details.
Transaction
Data includes details about payments to and from you and other details of
products and services you have purchased from us.
Technical
Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and
version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions,
operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to
interact with or access this website.
Profile
Data includes your membership identification number, purchases or orders made
by you, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses.
Usage Data
includes information about how you use our website, products and services.
We also
collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data
for any purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is
not considered personal data in law as this data does not directly or
indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data
to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature.
However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so
that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as
personal data which will be used in accordance with this privacy notice.
We may
collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes
details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex
life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership,
information about your health and genetic and biometric data).
We do not
collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.
If you fail
to provide personal data
Where we
need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have
with you and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able
to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for
example, to provide you with goods or services). In this case, we may have to
cancel a product or service you have with us but we will notify you if this is
the case at the time.
4. HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We will
only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will
use your personal data in the following circumstances:
Where we
need to perform the contract we are about to enter
into or have entered into with you
Where it is
necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your
interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
Where we
need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
Generally,
we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data
other than in relation to sending third party direct marketing communications
to you via email or text message. You have the right to withdraw consent to
marketing at any time by contacting us.
Purposes
for which we will use your personal data
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 ground depending on
the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please contact us if you
need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your
personal data where more than one ground has been set out in the table below.
Purpose/Activity
Type of
data
Lawful
basis/bases for processing including basis of legitimate interest
To register
you as a new member or customer
(a)
Identity
(b) Contact
Performance
of a contract with you
To process
and deliver your requests and orders including:
Fulfilment
of requests placed by you or on your behalf
(b) Manage
payments, fees and charges
(c) 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/services)
To enable
you to partake in a prize draw, competition or complete a survey
(a)
Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Profile
(d) Usage
(e)
Marketing and Communications
(a)
Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary
for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services,
to develop them and grow our business)
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 re-organisation 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/services,
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 and
services, 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
Necessary
for our legitimate interests (to develop our products/services and grow our
business)
Marketing
We strive
to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly
around marketing and advertising:
Promotional
offers from us
We may use your
Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage and Profile Data to form a view on what we
think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we
decide which products, services and offers may be relevant for you (we call
this marketing).
You will
receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from
us or placed a request with us or purchased goods or services from us or if you
provided us with your details when you entered a competition or registered for
a promotion and, in each case, you have not opted out of receiving that
marketing.
Third-party
marketing
We will get
your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any company
outside the Dstricts Group of companies for marketing purposes.
Opting out
You can ask
us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by
contacting us at any time.
Where you
opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to personal
data provided to us as a result of a product/service purchase, product/service
experience or other transactions.
Change of
purpose
We will
only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless
we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason
is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as
to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original
purpose, please contact us.
If we need
to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we
will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.
Please note
that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in
compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.
5. DISCLOSURES OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We may have
to share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set
out in the table in paragraph 4 above.
Internal
Third Parties as set out in the Glossary.
External
Third Parties as set out in the Glossary.
Specific
third parties such as Dstricts Group franchise partners.
Third
parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business
or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge
with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use
your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy notice.
We require
all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it
in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers
to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to
process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our
instructions.
6. INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS
We share
your personal data within the Dstricts Group. This will involve transferring
your data outside the European Economic Area (EEA).
Many of our
external third parties are based outside the European Economic Area (EEA) so
their processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data outside
the EEA.
Whenever we
transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we ensure a similar degree of
protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following
safeguards is implemented:
We will
only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide
an adequate level of protection for personal data by the European Commission.
Where we
use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved by the
European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in
Europe.
Please
contact us if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us
when transferring your personal data out of the EEA.
7. DATA SECURITY
We have put
in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being
accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or
disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those
employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need
to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they
are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have put
in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will
notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally
required to do so.
8. DATA RETENTION
How long
will you use my personal data for?
We will
only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes
we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal,
accounting, or reporting requirements.
To
determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the
amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of
harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes
for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those
purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
By law we
have to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact,
Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for seven years after they cease
being customers for tax purposes.
In some
circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see Request erasure below for
further information.
In some
circumstances we may anonymize your personal data (so that it can no longer be
associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may
use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
9. YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS
Under
certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation
to your personal data. To find out more about these rights, please refer to
paragraph 10 below:
Request
access to your personal data.
Request
correction of your personal data.
Request erasure
of your personal data.
Object to
processing of your personal data.
Request
restriction of processing your personal data.
Request
transfer of your personal data.
Right to
withdraw consent.
If you wish
to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us.
No fee
usually required
You will
not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the
other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is
clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to
comply with your request in these circumstances.
What we may
need from you
We may need
to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and
ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your
other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not
disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you
to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our
response.
Time limit
to respond
We try to
respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take
us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made
a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.
10. GLOSSARY
Lawful
Basis
Legitimate
Interest means the interest of our business in conducting and managing our
business to enable us to give you the best service/product and the best and
most secure experience. We make sure we consider and balance any potential
impact on you (both positive and negative) and your rights before we process
your personal data for our legitimate interests. We do not use your personal
data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless
we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law). You can
obtain further information about how we assess our legitimate interests against
any potential impact on you in respect of specific activities by contacting us
Performance
of Contract means processing your data where it is necessary for the
performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your
request before entering into such a contract.
Comply with
a legal or regulatory obligation means processing your personal data where it
is necessary for compliance with a legal or regulatory obligation that we are
subject to.
Third
Parties
Internal
Third Parties
Other
companies in the Dstricts Group acting as joint controllers or processors and
who are based in the United States of America, the United Arab Emirates and
Hong Kong and provide:
services
pursuant to the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with
you.
IT and
system administration services and undertake leadership reporting.
External
Third Parties
Franchise
partners acting as joint controllers or processors who may provide services
pursuant to the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with
you.
Service
providers acting as processors who provide IT and system administration
services.
Professional
advisers acting as processors or joint controllers including lawyers, bankers,
auditors and insurers who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance and
accounting services.
HM Revenue
& Customs, regulators and other authorities acting as processors or joint
controllers based in the United Kingdom who require reporting of processing
activities in certain circumstances.
Your Legal
Rights
You have
the right to:
Request
access to your personal data (commonly known as a "data subject access
request"). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold
about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
Request
correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to
have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we
may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
Request
erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove
personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it.
You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where
you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below),
where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are
required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however,
that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for
specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the
time of your request.
Object to
processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest
(or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular
situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you
feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the
right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing
purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate
grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.
Request
restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to
suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios: (a) if
you want us to establish the data's accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is
unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c) where you need us to hold the
data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or
defend legal claims; or (d) you have objected to our use of your data but we
need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
Request the
transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to
you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured,
commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to
automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or
where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
Withdraw
consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal
data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried
out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not
be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if
this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.