PRIVACY POLICY
We take data protection and information security very serious. The effective management of all personal data, including security and confidentiality, is the heart of our business and naturally underpins our practices and processes.
This privacy notice informs you about the type, scope and purpose of the processing of personal data we collect, use and process as a part of our website and its functions and content as well as our external online presences, such as our Social Media Profiles (the “Services”).
This notice applies to you, the User of our Services and us the provider of the Services and governs the processing of your personal data in context of our Services and business.
This Policy last updated on Friday, 9th of April, 2021.
Name and contact details of the responsible person:
GoRelocate.com
20-22 Wenlock Road,
London, N1 7GU
United Kingdom
info@GoRelocate.com
www.GoRelocate.com
Go Relocate proceeds with all data processing procedures (e.g. collection, processing and transmission) in accordance with the statutory provisions of the UK`s Data Protection Act 2018 and in line with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation). The following provides you with an overview of the type of data collected and how it is used and passed on, the security measures Go Relocate takes to protect your data and how you can exercise your rights.
Data Subject Rights
You have a number of ‘Data Subject Rights’ below is some information on what they are and how you can exercise them. There is more information on each right on the Information Commissioners (ICO) website and you can simply follow the links provided to learn more.
Where the processing of your personal information is based on consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent without detriment at any time by contacting us.
The above rights may be limited in some circumstances, for example, if fulfilling your request would reveal personal information about another person, if you ask us to delete information which we are required to have by law, or if we have compelling legitimate interests to keep it. We will let you know if that is the case and will then only use your information for these purposes. You may also be unable to continue using our services if you want us to stop processing your personal information.
We encourage you to get in touch if you have any concerns with how we collect or use your personal information. You do however also have the right to lodge a complaint directly with the ICO, their contact details can be found on their website.
Please direct all requests for information, requests for information or objections to data processing to us.
What are the relevant legal bases for processing your data?
The following informs you about the legal basis of us processing your data and unless the legal basis is not specifically mentioned, the following applies:
Consent – This is where we have asked you to provide explicit permission to process your data for a particular purpose.
Contract – This is where we process your information to fulfil a contractual arrangement we have made with you.
Answering your business enquiries – This is where we process your information to reply to your messages, e-mails, posts, calls, etc.
Legitimate Interests – This is where we rely on our interests as a reason for processing, generally this is to provide you with the best products and service in the most secure and appropriate way. Of course, before relying on any of those legitimate interests we balance them against your interests and make sure they are compelling enough and will not cause any unwarranted harm.
Legal Obligation – This is where we have a statutory or other legal obligation to process the information, such as for the investigation of crime.
Vital interests – This is where we process your information for communications about security, privacy and performance improvements of our services. Or for establishing, exercising or defending our legal rights.
Collection, use and storage of personal data
When you use the online offer, Go Relocate collects different data from you, partly also so-called personal data. This is information that relates to an identified or identifiable natural person (hereinafter “data subject”).
Visiting the Go Relocate website in general
When visiting Go Relocate website, you transmit data to our web server (due to technical necessity) via your internet browser. The following data is recorded during an ongoing connection for communication between your internet browser and our web server:
- Date and time of the request;
- Name of the requested file;
- Page from which the file was requested;
- Access status (file transferred, file not found, etc.);
- Web browser and operating system used;
- Complete IP address of the requesting computer;
- Amount of data transferred;
For reasons of technical security, in particular to defend against attempted attacks on our web server, this data is stored by us for a short period of time. It is not possible for us to draw conclusions about individual persons on the basis of this data. The legal basis for the storage is our legitimate interest.
Further personal information is only collected if you provide it voluntarily, for example in the context of an enquiry or registration. Depending on the area concerned, Go Relocate uses the personal data provided by you to answer your enquiries, to process your order and for the purpose of technical administration of the websites. In detail, the use in the respective areas follows as follows:
Search, Compare & Buy
When you place an order in our relocation and immigration services marketplace, we store the following information in order to fulfil the contract concluded between you and our service provider or to carry out pre-contractual measures:
a) Order without setting up a customer account
When placing an order, all data necessary for processing are requested by means of mandatory fields: Your full name, your e-mail address, your address (billing address and, if applicable, different delivery address) or Additional information. Your data will only be used to process your order.
b) Customer account / registration
It is also possible for you to register for your purchase. For this purpose, you can choose a password together with your e-mail address, both of which will enable you to log in more easily without having to enter your data again when you make a purchase at a later date. Go Relocate stores the data you enter to set up a customer account through which your orders are recorded, executed and processed. Go Relocate will hold your data for further orders as long as you maintain your registration. You have the right to access, correct or delete your registration data at any time.
- c) Retention of order data
If you submit data to Go Relocate for an order, your data will be stored for as long as necessary for the processing of the purchase and mandatory according to the legal retention periods. The extended storage for the fulfillment of the storage obligations is carried out on the basis of our legal obligation.
When You Register As a Service Provider
When you register as a service provider all data necessary for processing are requested by means of mandatory fields: Your full name, your e-mail address, your address (billing address and, if applicable, different delivery address) or Additional information such as Shop URL, Shop Name, Phone Number. Your data will only be used to process our contract.
Contacting Us
If you contact us, the data you provide will be stored so that your message can be forwarded to the correct contact person. This is done because it is necessary for the performance of a contract and to process your request. Your data provided via a contact form will not be used for any other purposes, in particular not for advertising.
When do we disclose your Personal Data?
We disclose your Personal Data in response to your business enquiry or your request for information within our Company in order to provide the best service possible and within our legitimate interest.
We may share your information with organisations that help us provide the services described in this Policy and who may process such data on our behalf and in accordance with this Policy, to support this website and our services. For example, with our legal other professional advisors or service providers.
We may also share information with our secure payment gateway provider (Stripe), and you may need to provide credit or debit card information directly to the provider in order to process payment details and authorise payment following a secure link. The information which you supply to in such cases is not within our control and is subject to Stripe’s own Privacy Notice and Terms and Conditions.
In relation to information obtained about you from your use of our website, we may share a cookie identifier and IP data with analytic and advertising network services providers to assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our website which is subject to our Cookies Policy.
We may disclose personal information in other circumstances such as when you agree to it or if the law, a Court order, a legal obligation or regulatory authority ask us to. If the purpose is the prevention of fraud or crime or if it is necessary to protect and defend our right, property or personal safety of our staff, the website and its users.
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.
Details of retention periods for different aspects of your personal data are available in our retention policy which you can request from us. However, we are legally required to keep basic information about our customers (including contact, identity, financial and transaction data) for six years after they cease being customers, for tax purposes.
You can learn how long your information is held and when it is destroyed from our Data Retention Policy which you can request using our contact form.
Market Research
All your data collected on the Go Relocate website for the purpose of market research will be used exclusively for Go Relocate internal purposes and will not be passed on to third parties. They will be deleted when their knowledge is no longer necessary for market research.
General technical organisational measures
Go Relocate has taken a variety of security measures to protect personal information to an appropriate extent and adequately. All information held by Go Relocate is protected by physical, technical and procedural measures that limit access to the information to specifically authorised persons in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
The Go Relocate website is behind a software firewall to prevent access from other networks connected to the Internet. In addition, only employees who need the information to perform a specific job are granted access to personally identifiable information. These employees are trained in security and privacy practices and treat your information confidentially.
Secure data transmission
The transmission of your personal information during an order transaction in the online shop is encrypted using industry standard Secure Socket Layer (“SSL”) technology, (SSL encryption version 3).
Credit card information
Any credit card information you provide will not be stored by Go Relocate , but will be encrypted and collected directly from the payment service provider (Stripe) via hypertext transfer protocol secure (“https”).
Passwords
You should never disclose your password for accessing our customer portal to any third party and you should change it regularly. If you want to leave your customer account in the online shop, you should press the logout and close your browser to prevent anyone from gaining unauthorised access to it.
Online presence in social media
We maintain online presences within social media on the basis of our legitimate interests and in order to be able to communicate with the customers, interested parties and users active there and to inform them about our services there. When calling up the respective networks and platforms, the terms and conditions and data processing guidelines of their respective operators apply.
Unless otherwise stated in our data protection declaration, we process the data of users if they communicate with us within the social networks and platforms, e.g. write posts on our online presences or send us messages.
Processing of special categories of data
No special categories data is processed.
Children Data
Our Service is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.
The Supervisory Authority
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the UK is the for us relevant authority in matters of data protection. You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the ICO (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.
Economic Analyses
In order to run our business economically, to identify market trends, customer and user wishes, we analyse the data available to us on business transactions, contracts, enquiries, etc. In doing so, we process inventory data, communication data, contract data, payment data, usage data, metadata, whereby the persons concerned include customers, interested parties, business partners, visitors and users of the online offer. The analyses are carried out for the purposes of business management evaluations, marketing and market research.
In doing so, we may take into account the profiles of registered users with details, for example, of their purchasing transactions. The analyses serve us to increase user-friendliness, to optimise our offer and business efficiency and are not disclosed externally, unless they are anonymous analyses with summarised values.
If these analyses or profiles are personal, they will be deleted or made anonymous upon termination by the user, otherwise after two years from conclusion of the contract. In all other respects, the macroeconomic analyses and general trend determinations are prepared anonymously wherever possible.
Integration Of Services And Contents Of Third Parties
We use within our online offer on the basis of our legitimate interests, we use content or services offered by third-party providers in order to integrate their content and services, such as videos or fonts (hereinafter uniformly referred to as “content”).
This always requires that the third-party providers of this content are aware of the IP address of the user, since without the IP address they could not send the content to their browser. The IP address is thus required for the display of this content. We endeavor to use only such content whose respective providers use the IP address only for the delivery of the content. Third-party providers may also use so-called pixel tags (invisible graphics, also known as “web beacons”) for statistical or marketing purposes. The “pixel tags” can be used to evaluate information such as visitor traffic on the pages of this website. The pseudonymous information may also be stored in cookies on the user’s device and may contain, among other things, technical information about the browser and operating system, referring websites, time of visit and other information about the use of our online offer, as well as be linked to such information from other sources.
The following provides an overview of third-party providers and their content, along with links to their data protection policies, which contain further information on the processing of data and, in part already mentioned here.
Our online presence is provided on a so called Content Delivery Network, Hosting Providers, widgets and plug ins. Our providers are: WordPress,
WooCommerce, Google, Office 365 Mail
Within our online offer, functions of the service Facebook are integrated. These functions are offered by Facebook HQ, 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California. If you are logged into your Facebook account, you can link the content of our pages to your Facebook profile by clicking on the Facebook button. This allows Facebook to associate the visit to our pages with your user account. We would like to point out that we, as the provider of the pages, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Facebook.
We use social plugins of the social network LinkedIn, which is operated by LinkedIn Inc, Sunnyvale (HQ), CA, United States, 1000 W Maude Ave (“LinkedIn”). When you call up a page that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to the LinkedIn servers. The plugin transmits log data to the LinkedIn server in the USA. This log data may contain your IP address, the address of the visited websites that also contain LinkedIn functions, type and settings of the browser, date and time of the request, your usage of LinkedIn as well as cookies.
Within our online offer, functions of the service, respectively the platform Twitter can be integrated (hereinafter referred to as “Twitter”). Twitter is a service of Twitter Inc, 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. The functions include the display of our posts within Twitter within our online offer, the link to our profile on Twitter as well as the possibility to interact with the posts and the functions of Twitter, as well as to measure whether users reach our online offer via the advertisements placed by us on Twitter (so-called conversion measurement).
Google Analytics
On the basis of our legitimate interests we use Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google LLC (“Google“). Google uses cookies. The information generated by the cookie about the use of the website by the user is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there.
Google will use this information on our behalf in order to evaluate the use of our website by users, to compile reports on the activities within this website and to provide us with further services associated with the use of this website and the internet. In doing so, pseudonymous user profiles of the users can be created from the processed data.
We only use Google Analytics with activated IP anonymisation. This means that the IP address of the user is shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there.
The IP address transmitted by the user’s browser will not be merged with other Google data. Users can prevent the storage of cookies by adjusting their browser software accordingly; users can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and relating to their use of the online offer to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link.
You can find further information on data use by Google, setting and objection options on the websites of Google (“Data use by Google when you use the websites or apps of our partners“), (“Data use for advertising purposes”),(“Manage information that Google uses to show you advertising”).
Communication by mail, e-mail or telephone
We use means of distance communication, such as post, telephone or e-mail, for business and marketing purposes. We process inventory data, address and contact data as well as contract data of customers, participants, interested parties and communication partners.
The processing is based on our legitimate interest and for processing in connection with legal requirements for advertising communications. Contact shall only be established with the consent of the contact partners or within the scope of the statutory permissions and the processed data shall be deleted as soon as they are not required and otherwise with objection/ revocation or discontinuation of the basis for authorisation or statutory archiving obligations.
Changes
We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.
Contact us
For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us using the details provided.