Copyright Notice

 

This website and its social media feeds content is copyright of LABRATS. Any redistribution or reproduction of part or all of the contents in any form is prohibited other than the following:

You may print or download to a local hard disk extracts for your personal and non- commercial use only. You may copy the content to individual third parties for their personal use, but only if you acknowledge the website as the source of the material.

Individuals may not, except with our express written permission, distribute or commercially exploit the content. Nor may you transmit it or store it in any other website or other form of electronic retrieval system.

Organisations may not use, reproduce or exploit our content without our express written permission. 

 

 

 

PRIVACY POLICY

 

1.0 OUR CORE BELIEFS REGARDING USER PRIVACY AND DATA PROTECTION

• User privacy and data protection are human rights

• We have a duty of care to the people within our data

• Data is a liability, it should only be collected and processed when absolutely necessary

• We do not spam or support the practice

• We will never sell, rent or otherwise distribute or make public your personal information

 

 

2.0 RELEVANT LEGISLATION

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Along with our business and internal computer systems, this website is designed to comply with the following national and international legislation with regards to data protection and user privacy:

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UK Data Protection Act 1988 (DPA)

EU Data Protection Directive 1995 (DPD)

EU General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR)

UK Data Protection Act 2018. (UK GDPR)

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This site’s compliance with the above legislation, all of which are stringent in nature, means that this site is likely compliant with the data protection and user privacy legislation set out by many other countries and territories as well. If you are unsure about whether this site is compliant with your own country of residences’ specific data protection and user privacy legislation you should contact our data protection officer (details of whom can be found in section 9.0) for clarification.

 

 

 

3.0 PERSONAL INFORMATION THAT THIS WEBSITE COLLECTS AND WHY WE COLLECT IT

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This website collects and uses personal information for the following reasons:

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3.1 Site visitation tracking

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Like most websites, we use Google Web Analytics (GWA) to track user interaction. We use this data to determine the number of people using our site, to better understand how they find and use our web pages and to see their journey through the website.

Although GWA records data such as your geographical location, device, internet browser and operating system, none of this information personally identifies you to us. GWA also records your computer’s IP address which could be used to personally identify you but Google do not grant us access to this. We consider GWA to be a third party data processor (see Section 6.0 below).

GWA makes use of cookies, details of which can be found on https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage.

FYI Disabling cookies on your internet browser will stop GWA from tracking any part of your visit to pages within this website.

 

3.2 Contact forms and email links

 

Should you choose to contact us using the contact form on our Contact us page or an email link, none of the data that you supply will be stored by this website or passed to / be processed by any of the third party data processors defined in Section 6.0. Instead, the data will be collated into an email and sent to us over the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). Our SMTP servers are protected by TLS (sometimes known as SSL) meaning that the email content is encrypted using SHA-2, 256-bit cryptography before being sent across the internet. The email content is then decrypted by our local computers and devices.

 

3.4 Email newsletter

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If you choose to join our email newsletter, the email address that you submit to us will be forwarded to MailChimp who provide us with email marketing services. We consider MailChimp to be a third party data processor (see section 6.0 below). The email address that you submit will not be stored within this website’s own database or in any of our internal computer systems.

Your email address will remain within MailChimp’s database for as long as we continue to use MailChimp’s services for email marketing or until you specifically request removal from the list. You can do this by unsubscribing using the unsubscribe links contained in any email newsletters that we send you or by requesting removal via email. When requesting removal via email, please send your email to us using the email account that is subscribed to the mailing list.

If you are under 16 years of age you MUST obtain parental consent before joining our email newsletter.

While your email address remains within the MailChimp database, you will receive periodic (approximately quarterly) newsletter-style emails from us.

 

4.0 HOW WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

 

4.1 Submitted Data

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Data submitted to us for processing other than defined in Section 4.1 will be securely retained within our secure IT system.  All data within this system is subject to additional password protection and encryption. We retain only the basic data required to deliver our services to you.  This is typically Name, Address, Email address, Subscription start/end details and contact opt-in details.  

 

4.3 Opt-Out List

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We also maintain a list of people who have opted out of receiving communications from our organisation.  Should you attempt to opt-in having opted out previously we will contact you to confirm this decision and for your approval to remove you from the opt-out list.  All mailings will be screened against our opt-out list.

 

4.4 Right to be forgotten

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We fully support your right to be forgotten which can be applied by writing to our Data Protection Officer at Section 9.0 giving your identifying details and requesting removal of all material from our data systems.  Our DPO will conduct a full sweep of all systems and remove your personal data, this includes our opt-out lists. Once complete the DPO will advise you of this action.

 

5.0 ABOUT THIS WEBSITE’S SERVER

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This website is hosted on a server provided and managed by Godaddy Details of which can be found in Section 6.1

 

6.0 OUR THIRD PARTY DATA PROCESSORS

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We use several third parties to process personal data on our behalf. These third parties have been carefully chosen and all of them comply with the legislation set out in Section 2.0.

 

6.1 Website Hoster (Godaddy)

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We utilise Godaddy to manage website presence. Some websites may capture details of your customers especially if Paypal is used for shop management.

Godaddy are GDPR compliant. Their legal information can be found by clicking this link: (Privacy policy)

 

6.2 MailChimp

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MailChimp Privacy Policy can be found by clicking this link: (Privacy policy)

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6.3 PayPal

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We utilise PayPal for our donations and shop payments. All information regarding credit and debit cards is not stored on this site, all information is stored by PayPal. PayPal's privacy policy can be found by clicking this link: (Privacy Policy)

 

7.0 DATA BREACHES

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We will report any unlawful data breach of this website’s database or the database(s) of any of our third party data processors to any and all relevant persons and authorities within 72 hours of the breach if it is apparent that personal data stored in an identifiable manner has been stolen.

 

8.0 DATA CONTROLLER

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The data controller of this website is: LABRATS CIC - ICO Registration ZA897366

 

9.0 DATA PROTECTION OFFICER

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Email:  info@labrats.international

 

10.0 ICO INDEPENDENT