PRIVACY POLICY
Privacy & Data Protection
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Last updated 5th December 2024
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We respect the privacy of every person who visits www.dna-pr.com (the “Site”), contacts us through our web form, is part of our mailing lists or who participates in one of our/third party partner competitions (our “Services”) and we are committed to ensuring a safe online experience.
1. PURPOSE OF THIS POLICY
This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) explains our approach to any personal information that we might collect from you or which we have obtained about you from a third party, including competition partners, and the purposes for and basis upon which we process your personal information. This Privacy Policy also sets out your rights in respect of our processing of your personal information.
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This Privacy Policy will inform you of the nature of the personal information about you that is processed by us and how you can request that we delete, update, transfer it and/or provide you with access to it.
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This Privacy Policy is intended to assist you in making informed decisions when using the Site or when entering competitions with our partners. Please take a moment to read and understand it.
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Please also note that this Privacy Notice applies to the use of your personal information obtained by us, from submissions of the Site “contact us” form, and personal information collected during your communications with third parties/competition partners. It does not concern the use of your data by those third parties/competition partners.
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This Privacy Notice may vary from time to time so please check it regularly. Please see Changes to this Privacy Notice below for further details.
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2. WHO ARE WE AND WHAT DO WE DO?
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The Sites and our Services are operated by DnA PR Ltd (“we”, “us” or “our”).
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We are a controller of your personal information obtained in connection with the provision of our Sites and Services and your personal information will be used in accordance with this Privacy Notice.
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DnA PR Ltd is a British company with registered company number: 04277291 and whose registered office is at Pelham House, 25 Pelham Square, Brighton, BN1 4ET United Kingdom.
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3. HOW TO CONTACT US?
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If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice or want to exercise your rights set out in this Privacy Notice, please contact us by:
Sending an e-mail to: info@dna-pr.com
Calling us on: 01273 772155
Writing to us by post to: DnA PR, Pelham House, 25 Pelham Square, Brighton, BN14ET.
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4. WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT AND HOW DO WE USE IT?
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We obtain your personal information from the following sources:
Directly from you, via our Sites, on our social media pages when you contact us or someone contacts us on your behalf;
From our third-party service providers in the course of providing their services to us in connection with your use of our Sites and Services. Please see section 7 Who do we share your personal information with? to find out more about these group companies and third-party service providers;
From a PR database that displays public data in order to send you relevant news on releases on behalf of our clients
Our primary goal in collecting personal information about you is to: (i) provide our Services to you and carry out requests made by you on the Sites; (ii) to contact you about winning a competition prize; (iii) to send you relevant news and release information and (ii) use as otherwise required or permitted by law.
In particular, we use your personal information for the following purposes:
4.1 To contact you with answers to queries
To respond to any questions you may have submitted on the Site.
4.2 To contact you with relevant information
To contact you with press releases and client news that may be relevant to you. You can unsubscribe at any time by contacting us (as referenced in “3. How To Contact Us”)
4.3 Competitions, prize draws and other events and promotions
From time to time, we may run prize draws, prize competitions and other promotions with third party sites/competition partners and on social media. For the purposes of administering such promotions and events, we may process your name, contact details (including email address, postal address and/or telephone number) and any other personal information volunteered by you in your promotion entry. For certain competitions and events, we may process and publicise images, videos or sound recordings that you volunteer to us.
It is necessary for us to use your personal information to perform our obligations in accordance with any contract that we may have with you (e.g. the terms and conditions applicable to the promotion) or it is in our legitimate interest to use your personal information to enable you to participate in any prize draws, prize competitions and other promotions.
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5. WHO DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION WITH?
We may share your personal information for the purposes described in section 4 of this Privacy Policy:
internally
externally with third party service providers e.g competition fulfilment companies or warehouse contacts who are tasked with sending out physical prizes
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6. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION FOR?
If you are a competition winner, we will usually keep your data for a year after you have received your prize, however it may be deleted sooner.
If you are on our mailing lists, we will retain your data until you request to be removed from our database.
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7. CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We are committed to keeping the personal information you provide to us secure, and we will take reasonable precautions to protect your personal information from loss, misuse or alteration.
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We have implemented information security policies, rules and technical measures to protect the personal information that we have under our control from:
unauthorised access;
improper use or disclosure;
unauthorised modification; and
unlawful destruction or accidental loss.
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All of our employees and data processors (i.e. those who process your personal information on our behalf, for the purposes listed above), who have access to, and are associated with the processing of personal information, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of the personal information of all users of our Services.
8. HOW TO ACCESS YOUR INFORMATION AND YOUR OTHER RIGHTS
You have the following rights in relation to the personal information we hold about you. You can exercise these rights by contacting us using the contact details set out in Section 3 of this Privacy Policy or using any other method described below:
Your right of access.
If you ask us, we’ll confirm whether we’re processing your personal information and, if so, provide you with a copy of that personal information (along with certain other details). If you require additional copies, we may need to charge a reasonable fee.
Your right to rectification.
If the personal information we hold about you is inaccurate or incomplete, you’re entitled to have it rectified. If we’ve shared your personal information with others, we’ll let them know about the rectification where possible. If you ask us, where possible and lawful to do so, we’ll also tell you who we’ve shared your personal information with so that you can contact them directly.
Your right to erasure.
You can ask us to delete or remove your personal information in some circumstances such as where we no longer need it or if you withdraw your consent (where applicable). If we’ve shared your personal information with others, we’ll let them know about the erasure where possible. If you ask us, where it is possible and lawful for us to do so, we’ll also tell you who we’ve shared your personal information with so that you can contact them directly.
Your right to object.
You can ask us to stop processing your personal information, and we will do so, if we are:
relying on our own or someone else’s legitimate interests to process your personal information, except if we can demonstrate compelling legal grounds for the processing; or
processing your personal information for direct marketing.
You can ask us to stop sending you marketing communications sent to you by email at any time by replying ‘unsubscribe’ or getting in touch with us in any of the ways set out to you in “3. How To Contact Us”. Please note that it may take us a few days (but usually no longer than 14 days) to ensure our marketing systems are updated and during this period you may still receive marketing communications from us.
Your right to withdraw consent.
9. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
To ensure that you are always aware of how we use your personal information we will update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect any changes to our use of your personal information. We may also make changes as required to comply with changes in applicable law or regulatory requirements. We will post any changes on our Sites to keep you aware. However, we encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to be informed of how we use your personal information