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Smiley Monroe is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. We understand our responsibilities under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), as well as our obligations to ensure we are clear about how your data is handled while in our possession.
This policy provides details on what data we collect about you, why we collect it, what we do with it, and your rights in relation to our processing of this data.
This policy applies to customers, suppliers, website users and third parties. These groups of people are referred to in this policy as you.
Smiley Monroe Ltd has grown to become the leading global producer of hot-spliced Endless Conveyor Belts and Custom Cut Parts for the materials processing equipment manufacturing sector. The company’s products are exported to 60 countries, serving 7 equipment segments: crushing, screening, recycling, washing, environmental and road construction.
Smiley Monroe’s head office is at 23 Ferguson Drive, Knockmore Hill Industrial Park, Lisburn, BT28 2EX. We can be contacted at hello@smileymonroe.com or by telephoning 02892 673777.
This policy has been developed to help the Company be compliant with the regulations. The regulations clearly set out principles which any party handling data must comply with. These principles are that all data shall be:
– processed fairly, lawfully and in a transparent manner
– collected for specific, explicit, and legitimate purposes
– adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary for the purposes of processing– accurate and up to date
– not kept for longer than is necessary for its given purpose
– processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security of the data
– compliant with the relevant GDPR procedures for international transferring of personal data
When providing or receiving goods and services 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, last name, title, job title, company name, gender
Contact Data – includes mailing address, email address and telephone numbers
Transaction Data – includes details of products and services you have purchased from us or we have purchased from you
Financial Data – includes payment method, bank account details, payment history and company owner / director details
Technical Data – includes internet protocol (IP) address, 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 access our website
Usage Data – includes information about how you use our website, products or services
Aggregated Data – includes statistical or demographic 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 carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us
– To provide you with information, products and services we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about
– To notify you about changes to our products and services
– Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation
– To provide relevant marketing communications relating to our business
Generally, we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data. You have the right to withdraw consent at any time by contacting us using the details at the end of this policy.
The reasons we process your personal data are listed below. Please be aware 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.
We may share your information including personal data with the following parties for the purposes set out above:
– Any employee of Smiley Monroe.
– Selected third parties including business partners, suppliers, and sub-contractors for the performance of any contract we enter into with them or you.
– Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers.
– HM Revenue & Customs, Invest NI and other regulators and authorities who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.
– Analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our website.
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.
We may share your personal data with members of Smiley Monroe India or Smiley Monroe Inc which may require transferring your data outside of EEA. We will ensure your personal data is protected by requiring all members of Smiley Monroe to follow the same rules when processing your personal data.
We have statutory legal obligations to keep some information for a period of time after it has been used. We will not keep any information after it has been used that we are not required to keep under these statutory or legal obligations.
Once information is no longer required it will be erased from our systems in a controlled and secure manner.
We will endeavour to maintain physical, technical, and procedural safeguards that are appropriate to the sensitivity of the personal data in question. These safeguards are designed to protect your personal data from loss and unauthorised access, copying, use, modification or disclosure.
We provide all employees who process or have access to personal data with GDPR and data protection training.
You can contact us at any time using the details in section 14 of this policy for one or more of the following reasons:
– To ask us to fix information about you that is wrong or incomplete, this is known as a right to rectification.
– To ask us to delete information about you, this is known as the right to erasure.
– To tell us you no longer agree to us using information about you and ask us to stop, this is known as a right to object.
– To tell us to stop using information about you to sell you products and services, which is known as the right to restrict processing.
– To make a “subject access request” – which is a request for us to send you the information we have about you.
– To ask us to provide you or someone else (on your request) in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format with the information you have provided to us about yourself. This is known as a “data portability” right.
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If at any time you are unhappy with how the Company has processed or processes your data, or if you wish to exercise any of your rights outlined in section 12 please contact our Data Protection Officer by emailing hello@smileymonroe.com or telephoning 02892 673777.
If you feel your request was not handled or dealt with correctly by the Company you may wish to raise the issue with the Information Commissioners Office on 0303 123 1113