This privacy policy describes how we, Dooey Limited of 4 Alyth Gardens, Glasgow, United Kingdom, G52 1LF with Company number SC519147 (hereinafter: "Dooey Limited", "we", or "us"), the data controller, collect, store and process information about individual visitors to this website.
This privacy policy only applies to websites of Dooey Limited on which this privacy policy is stored or from which reference is made to this privacy policy by means of a link (hereinafter: "website"). This privacy policy does not apply to linked websites that are not owned and controlled by Dooey Limited.
Commitment to data protection
Personal data is any information about personal or factual circumstances that relates to an identified or identifiable individual. This includes, for example, your name, date of birth, e-mail address, postal address or telephone number. By contrast, information of a general nature that cannot be used to determine your identity is not personal data. This includes, for example, the number of users of a website.
In principle, we will only use your personal data in accordance with the applicable data protection laws, the UK`s Data Protection Act 2018 and in line with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation), and only as described in this privacy policy. However, we reserve the right to put this data to additional uses to the extent permitted or required by law or necessary to support legal or criminal investigations. In this case, we will inform you again about this further data processing to the extent required by law and obtain your consent.
Processing of personal data and legal basis
Registration is not required for most of our services. You can therefore visit our website without telling us who you are.
We only collect and process access data that your internet browser automatically transmits to us for technical reasons in order to provide the website. Depending on the access protocol used, the protocol data record contains general information with the following contents: Your session data (user behaviour, length of stay, which links were clicked on, etc.), your abbreviated or unabbreviated IP address, your browser version, your operating system, your website-specific settings, your cookie IDs, your pixel IDs.
This data does not allow any direct conclusions to be drawn about your person and is processed to improve our website offering and to defend against attempted attacks on our web server.
The legal basis for the processing of your personal data is the protection of our legitimate interests, which consist in particular of presenting you with a website optimised for your browser and enabling you to communicate between our server and your terminal device (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR).
Apart from that, we only collect personal data from you if you voluntarily provide it to us on the website, e.g. when you contact us.
You can also visit the website in general without disclosing personal data. In this case, however, you may not be able to use certain areas of the website or we may not be able to answer an enquiry from you.
Contact requests
For enquiries via email, it is necessary to provide your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, reason for contacting us and your message, among other things.
We process and store the personal data provided in the contact enquiry solely for the purpose of processing and responding to your enquiry and contacting you.
The legal basis for the processing of your personal data is the fulfilment of our contractual obligations (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) GDPR) or the protection of our legitimate interests, which consist in particular in contacting you and communicating with you about the respective concerns about which you have contacted us (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR).
Blog and Dooey Community
Within the Blog and our Community, you may be able to display personal information, share certain details, engage with others, exchange knowledge and insights, post and view relevant content. Content and data are publicly viewable. You have choices about the information on your profile. It’s your choice whether to include sensitive information on your comment and to make that sensitive information public. Please do not post or add personal data to your profile that you would not want to be available. The legal basis for the storage is our legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR).
Disclosure of personal data
Dooey Limited will not disclose or otherwise disseminate your personal data to third parties unless this is necessary for the performance of our services (legal basis for processing: Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) GDPR), you have consented to the disclosure (legal basis for processing: Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR) or the disclosure of data is permitted by relevant legal provisions.
Dooey Limited is entitled to outsource the processing of your personal data in whole or in part to external service providers who act as processors for Dooey Limited pursuant to Art. 4 No. 8 of the GDPR, within the framework of data protection law. External service providers support us, for example, in the technical operation and support of the website, data management, the provision and performance of services, marketing and website analysis, as well as the implementation and fulfilment of vigilance reporting obligations. The service providers engaged by Dooey Limited will only process your data in accordance with our instructions. Dooey Limited remains responsible for the protection of your data, which is ensured by strict contractual regulations, technical and organisational measures and additional controls by us.
Personal data may also be processed in other ways and also disclosed to third parties if we are required to do so by law - e.g. by court order or to comply with legal obligations - such as official vigilance regulations (legal basis for processing: Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c) GDPR) or this is necessary to support criminal or legal investigations or other legal investigations or proceedings at home or abroad or to protect legitimate interests (legal basis of processing: Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) GDPR), such as the provision of joint content, products and services.
Storage period
Your personal data will only be stored by us for as long as it is required to achieve the purposes for which the data was collected or - insofar as statutory retention periods exist that go beyond this - for the duration of the legally prescribed retention period. We then delete your personal data. Only in a few exceptional cases may your data be stored beyond this period, e.g. if storage is necessary in connection with the enforcement of and defence against legal claims in favour of Dooey Limited.
Security and confidentiality
To ensure the security and confidentiality of the personal information we collect on the Site, we use data networks that are protected by, among other things, industry standard firewalls and password systems. When handling your personal data, we take appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your data from loss, misuse, unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration or destruction and to ensure its availability.
International transfers
We may transfer your personal information outside the European Economic Area (EEA). For example, our Websites are hosted on servers within Europe and the United States of America, and our third party service providers operate around the world. We will only transfer your personal information outside the EEA if adequate protection measures are in place. To ensure that your personal information does receive an adequate level of protection outside the EEA we use the following protection measures:
Links to other websites
The Website may contain links to other websites. We have no control over the privacy practices or the content of those other websites. Therefore, we recommend that you carefully read the respective privacy policies of these other websites that you visit.
Integration Of Services And Contents Of Third Parties
We use within our online offer on the basis of our legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f. GDPR), content or services offered by third-party providers in order to integrate their content and services.
This always requires that the third-party providers of this content are aware of your IP address, since the content or service could not send to your browser without the IP address. The IP address is thus required for the display of this content and we endeavor to use providers that only use your IP address for the delivery of the content or services. However, 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.
Online presences in social media
We maintain online presences in Facebook, Twitter, Instagram on the basis of our legitimate interests within the meaning of Article 6 lit. f) GDPR and in order to communicate with customers, interested parties and users who are active there. Unless otherwise stated in this policy, we process the data of users if they communicate with us within the social networks and platforms, e.g. write articles on our online presences or send us messages.
Social Media Functions and Widgets
Within our online offer, functions and widgets of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram are integrated. When you click on or use any of those functions and widgets, your browser establishes a direct connection to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. The function or widget then transmits log data to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. This log data may contain your IP address, the address of the visited websites, type and settings of the browser, date and time of the request, your usage of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram ,as well as cookies. Those may also include the display of our post, the link to our profile, the possibility to interact with the posts and functions, as well as to measure users reach (so-called conversion measurement).
Website Analytics
On the basis of our legitimate interests (i.e. interest in the analysis, optimisation and economic operation of our online offer we use Google Analytics. The information generated about the use of the website by the user is usually transferred to Google 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 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 shortened there.
The IP address transmitted by the user's browser will not be merged with other 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.
Your Rights
As an individual whose personal data is processed as described in this Privacy Policy, you have a number of rights which are summarized below. Please note that exercising these rights is subject to certain requirements and conditions as set forth in applicable law.
Right of access
Subject to applicable law, you have the right to obtain confirmation from us as to whether or not personal data that concerns you is processed, and, if so, to request access to such personal data including, without limitation, the categories of personal data concerned, the purposes of the processing and the recipients or categories of recipients. However, we do have to take into account the rights and freedoms of others, so this is not an absolute right. If you request more than one copy of the personal data undergoing processing, we may charge a reasonable fee based on administrative costs.
Right to rectification
You have the right to request from us the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning you. Depending on the purposes of the processing, you also have the right to request that incomplete personal data be completed, including by means of providing a supplementary statement.
Right to erasure ('right to be forgotten')
You have the right to request from us the erasure of personal data concerning you in certain circumstances as defined under applicable law. When your request falls within one of those circumstances, we will erase your personal data without undue delay. If, for technical and organisational reasons, we were not able to erase your personal data, we will ensure that it is fully and irreversibly anonymized so that we will not longer be holding such personal data about you.
Right to restriction of processing
In certain circumstances as defined under applicable law, you have the right to request the restriction of processing of your personal data. In such case, your personal data shall, with the exception of storage, only be processed with your consent or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims or for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person or for reasons of important public interest.
Right to data portability
In certain circumstances as defined under applicable law, you have the right to receive the personal data concerning you, which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and you may have the right to transmit that data to another controller or to have such personal data transmitted directly from us to another controller, where technically feasible.
Right to object
In certain circumstances as defined under applicable law, you have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to the processing of your personal data by us and we can be required to no longer process your personal data unless we demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims. This notably applies in case of processing of your personal data based on our legitimate interests or for statistical purposes.
Right to object to direct marketing
Where your personal data are processed for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to processing for such direct marketing (including profiling related to such direct marketing).
Right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing,
Subject to certain restrictions, you have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processed, including profiling, which produces legal effects on you similarly significantly affects you.
Right to withdraw consent
If you have declared your consent for any personal data processing activities as described in this Privacy Policy, you can withdraw this consent at any time with future effect. Such a withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of the processing prior to withdrawal of the consent.
If you wish to access such personal data or exercise any of the rights listed above, you should apply in writing, providing evidence of your identity to us.
Any communication from us in relation to your rights as detailed above will be provided free of charge. However, in case of requests that are manifestly unfounded or excessive, in particular because of their repetitive character, we may charge a reasonable fee taking into account the administrative costs of providing the information or communication or taking the action requested; or refuse to act on the request.
Subject to change
Dooey Limited reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to change this privacy policy at any time, subject to legal requirements. This may be, for example, to comply with new legislation or to reflect new services on our website. However, we will at all times treat your personal data in accordance with the version of the privacy policy that was in force at the time we collected this information.
We intend to post changes to our privacy policy on this page so that you are fully informed about the types of personal data we collect, how we process it and under what circumstances it may be disclosed. Therefore, we encourage you to periodically check the website for our current privacy practices.
Contact details
If you have any questions about the processing of your personal data or wish to exercise any of your rights set out above, please let us know by referring to this website email us at info@dooey.io or by post to:
Dooey Limited
4 Alyth Gardens
Mosspark
Glasgow
G52 1LF
