Website Privacy Policy

This privacy notice provides you with details of how we collect and process your personal data through your use of our site businesscostcomparison.co.uk.

By providing us with your data, you warrant to us that you are over 13 years of age.

Business Cost Comparison is the data controller and we are responsible for your personal data (referred to as “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy notice).

We have appointed a Data Protection Officer who is in charge of privacy related matters for us. If you have any questions about this privacy notice, please contact the Data Protection Officer using the details set out below.

Contact Details

Our full details are:

Full name of legal entity: BETTER SOLUTIONS GROUP LIMITED T/A Business Cost Comparison

Company Number: 13536124 

Steven Fee – Data Protection Officer

Email address: info@bettersolutionsgroup.co.uk 

It is very important that the information we hold about you is accurate and up to date. Please let us know if at any time your personal information changes by emailing us at info@bettersolutionsgroup.co.uk

BUSINESS COST COMPARISON AS A DATA CONTROLLER

BusinessCostComparison.co.uk requires the use of your personal contact data only, to help provide you, the prospect, the best products and services for your business needs, through comparing multiple service providers.

To do this we collect your personal contact data from the completed web forms, supplied on our website or via Facebook, and connect you with the relevant service provider who may call or contact you via the contact data you provide to discuss your requested quotation.

There is no obligation to buy from the relevant service provider who makes contact.

Under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) there are six lawful grounds for processing your personal data.  These are detailed as follows:

  • Consent – the individual has given clear consent for you to process their personal data for a specific purpose
  • Contract – the processing is necessary for a contract you have with the individual, or because they have asked you to take specific steps before entering into a contract
  • Legal Obligation – the processing is necessary for you to comply with the law (not including contractual obligations)
  • Vital Interests – the processing is necessary to protect someone’s life
  • Public Task – the processing is necessary for you to perform a task in the public interest or for your official functions, and the task or function has a clear basis in law
  • Legitimate Interests – the processing is necessary for your legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party unless there is a good reason to protect the individual’s personal data which overrides those legitimate interests. (This cannot apply if you are a public authority processing data to perform your official tasks.)

Further information regarding the lawful basis for processing personal data can be found at ico.org.uk

WHAT DATA DO WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU, FOR WHAT PURPOSE AND ON WHAT GROUND WE PROCESS IT 

Personal data means any information capable of identifying an individual. It does not include anonymised data.
We may process the following categories of personal data about you:

Data Category Purpose Lawful Ground
Prospect Data
via Get-A-Quote website form, contact form, emails, Facebook Ad Leads, Messenger Leads and or recorded calls
To connect you with the relevant Service Provider Legitimate Interests
Communication Data
via website contact form, emails, social media and messaging or recorded calls

To communicate with you

To call and confirm your details

For Record Keeping

For the establishment, pursuance or defence of legal claims

Legitimate Interests
Technical Data
via browsing activity on our website including IP address, browser details, length of visits, session activity, devices, page views and paths

To analyse your use of our website and other online services

To administer and protect our business and website

To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you

To understand the effectiveness of our advertising

Legitimate Interests
Marketing Data
via your set preferences for receiving marketing from us and our 3rd parties

To enable you to partake in our relevant promotions including competitions, prize draws and free give-aways

To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you

To deliver the latest relevant information, advice, guidance and offers

Consent and Legitimate Interests

SENSITIVE DATA

We do not collect any Sensitive Data about you. Sensitive data refers to data that 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. We will only use your personal data for a purpose it was collected for or a reasonably compatible purpose if necessary. For more information on this please email us at info@businesscostcomparison.co.uk. In case we need to use your details for an unrelated new purpose we will let you know and explain the legal grounds for processing. We may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent where this is required or permitted by law. We do not carry out automated decision making or any type of automated profiling.

Partial data

On uncompleted forms, we may seek to complete the enquiry form on your behalf, based on validating the partial information provided, and may contact you using that information.

We may use active business IP addresses to gain further information, such as business name and address, telephone number and email addresses of key decision makers, to allow us to contact you with services you may have a legitimate interest in.

  • To provide you with an accurate quote.
  • To connect you with a relevant provider.
  • To communicate with you.
  • To call and confirm your details.
  • For Record Keeping.

Providing third parties with information about you

Third party companies may process, collect and store your information. This information falls under legitimate interests, and is necessary to identify which of our services are relevant to you.

Cross referrals may be carried out and your information may be shared to contact you with other relevant services outside of the field searched for, based on legitimate interest.

  • To connect you with other relevant services.
  • To communicate with you.
  • To provide an accurate quote.

HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA

  • When completing our Get-a-Quote form on our website, we will ask you for your contact details including your name, business name, email address, telephone number and postcode.
  • This webform will also ask you for information on your service requirements relevant to your intended visit to our website.
  • During telephone communication we record and store all calls digitally and securely.
  • When completing a quote form on Facebook, we will ask you for your contact details including your name, business name, email address, telephone number and postcode.
  • When communicating via Facebook Messenger we may collect your personal data such as your name, business name, email address, telephone number, Facebook Profile Photo and postcode.
  • In addition to the above we may also collect personal data if you contact us, or we contact you via email, telephone or post.
We may automatically collect certain data from you as you use our website by using cookies and similar technologies. Please see our cookie policy for more details about this - VIEW OUR COOKIE POLICY We may receive data from third parties such as analytics providers such as Google based outside the EU, advertising networks such as Facebook based outside the EU, such as search information providers such as Google based outside the EU, providers of technical, payment and delivery services, such as data brokers or aggregators. We may also receive data from publicly available sources such as Companies House and the Electoral Register based inside the EU.

MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS

Our lawful ground of processing your personal data to send you marketing communications is either your consent or our legitimate interests (namely to grow our business). Under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, we may send you marketing communications from us if (i) you made a purchase or asked for information from us about our services or (ii) you agreed to receive marketing communications and in each case you have not opted out of receiving such communications since. Under these regulations, if you are a limited company, we may send you marketing emails without your consent. However you can still opt out of receiving marketing emails from us at any time. Before we share your personal data with any third party for their own marketing purposes we will get your express consent. You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or OR by emailing us at info@bettersolutionsgroup.co.uk at any time. If you opt out of receiving marketing communications this opt-out does not apply to personal data provided as a result of other transactions, such as purchases, warranty registrations etc.  

DISCLOSURES OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below:
  • Other companies in our group who provide services to us.
  • Service providers who provide IT and system administration services.
  • Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers
  • Government bodies that require us to report processing activities.
  • Trusted partners or service providers who supply the relevant quotations for your business needs.
  • Third parties to whom we sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets.
We require all third parties to whom we transfer your data to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We only allow such third parties to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.  

INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS

We share your personal data within our group of companies which involves transferring your data outside the European Economic Area (EEA). We are subject to the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulations that protect your personal data. Where we transfer your data to third parties outside of the EEA, we will ensure that certain safeguards are in place to ensure a similar degree of security for your personal data. As such:
  • We may transfer your personal data to countries that the European Commission have approved as providing an adequate level of protection for personal data by; or
  • If we use US-based providers that are part of EU-US Privacy Shield, we may transfer data to them, as they have equivalent safeguards in place; or
  • Where we use certain service providers who are established outside of the EEA, we may use specific contracts or codes of conduct or certification mechanisms approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe.
If none of the above safeguards is available, we may request your explicit consent to the specific transfer. You will have the right to withdraw this consent at any time.

DATA SECURITY

We have put in place security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, altered, disclosed, or accessed without authorisation. We also allow access to your personal data only to those employees and partners who have a business need to know such data. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they must keep it confidential. We have procedures in place to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach if we are legally required to.

DATA RETENTION

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. When deciding what the correct time is to keep the data for we look at its amount, nature and sensitivity, potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure, the processing purposes, if these can be achieved by other means and legal requirements. For tax purposes the law requires us to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for six years after they stop being customers. In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.  

YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS

Under data protection laws you have rights in relation to your personal data that include the right to request access, correction, erasure, restriction, transfer, to object to processing, to portability of data and (where the lawful ground of processing is consent) to withdraw consent. You can see more about these rights at: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/individual-rights/ If you wish to exercise any of the following rights as linked above, please make your request in writing by emailing us at info@businesscostcomparison.co.uk. 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 or refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances. 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. 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. If you are not happy with any aspect of how we collect and use your data, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We should be grateful if you would contact us first if you do have a complaint so that we can try to resolve it for you.  

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.  

COOKIES

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