1. Introduction
Welcome to patrick-berger.com (“we,” “our,” “us”). We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring your personal data is handled responsibly. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and share your personal information in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
2. Data Controller
The data controller responsible for your personal information is:
[Your Company Name]
[Address]
[Email Address]
[Phone Number]
3. Data Collection
We collect the following types of personal data:
* Identity Data: Name, username, or similar identifier.
* Contact Data: Email address, postal address, phone numbers.
* Technical Data: IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
* Usage Data: Information about how you use our website, products, and services.
* Marketing and Communications Data: Your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences.
4. How We Collect Data
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including:
* Direct Interactions: You may provide personal data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise.
* Automated Technologies: 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.
* Third Parties: We may receive personal data about you from various third parties, including analytics providers, advertising networks, and search information providers.
5. 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:
* To register you as a new customer.
* To process and deliver your order.
* To manage your relationship with us.
* To administer and protect our business and this website.
* To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you.
* To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships, and experiences.
* To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you.
6. Legal Basis for Processing
We rely on the following legal bases to process your personal data:
* Consent: Where you have given us explicit consent to process your data.
* Contract: Where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you.
* Legal Obligation: Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.
* Legitimate Interests: Where processing is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party), provided your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
7. Data Sharing
We may share your personal data with:
* Service Providers: Third parties who provide IT and system administration services.
* Professional Advisers: Including lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance, and accounting services.
* Regulatory Authorities: HM Revenue & Customs, regulators, and other authorities who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.
8. International Transfers
Your data may be transferred to and processed in countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA). We ensure your personal data is protected by requiring all our group companies to follow the same rules when processing your personal data. These rules are called “binding corporate rules.”
9. 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.
10. Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
11. Your Legal Rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including the right to:
* 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.
* Withdraw consent.
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us.
12. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.
