Privacy and Cookies Policy
Document Version 1.0 — Effective date: 30th of October, 2020
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Who are we?
- We are Fantasy Computerworks Ltd trading as "Fantasy Calendar". For privacy queries, you can contact us at privacy@fantasy-calendar.com. Other contact details are on our website.
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What's the point of this policy?
- It tells you what to expect when we collect your personal information via our website or otherwise. Please only use our service if you are completely happy with this policy.
- Generally, the policy covers only information provided to us. If you give personal information to other people, such as payment providers or other websites, please check their privacy policies.
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Might the policy change?
- Yes. Please check it whenever you visit our website. We will assume you agree to the new version of the policy if you use the site after its effective date. We may also notify you of any changes by email or in-service message.
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What do we collect?
- Information which you upload to our service or otherwise give us such as:
- your name email address;
- someone else's email address if you invite them to collaborate on the site;
- details about your transactions on our service;
- personal information which you otherwise display on our service (we advise against this) or which you include in messages sent via our service and/or in communications with us; and
- contact or other information which you give or allow us to use for newsletters or other marketing.
- Automated information about your use of our service such as: the internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your device to the internet, connection information such as browser type and version, information about your device including device-type and device identifier, operating system and platform, mobile network data, a unique reference number linked to the data you enter on our system, login details, the site from which you arrived at our service, details of your activity with date / time stamps including pages you visited and your searches / transactions.
- The following information about you may be provided to us by other people:
- Limited billing information sent to us by our payment provider for verification purposes e.g., the last four digits of your credit card number.
- Information which you upload to our service or otherwise give us such as:
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What's our reason / legal basis for collecting the information?
- Because it's necessary to take steps at your request to enter into a contract with you and/or to perform such a contract. This applies to initial enquiries and to contact and transaction details.
- Because it's in our "legitimate interests", e.g., to manage and improve our service including tracking usage patterns and preventing or detecting fraud or abuse. This applies to automated usage data. We may also use your contact information to carry out customer satisfaction surveys.
- Because you've specifically agreed on our service (e.g, by ticking a consent box). This applies to contact or other information which you give or allow us to use for newsletters or other marketing. You can withdraw permission at any time as explained on our service or by emailing us at the above email address.
- If you supply us with someone else's email address to invite them to collaborate on the site, we will use that information to verify if they are an existing registered user and, if not, to send them an invitation message on your behalf. We will delete the email address if the invitation link is not clicked on within 30 days.
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How long do we keep personal information?
- Until our contract with you has ended (or earlier if your account has been inactive for at least 6 months). You can end the contract by deleting your account in accordance with the instructions on our site.
- We may hold on to some of your information for longer (typically up to six years) if reasonably needed for legal, regulatory or tax reasons, deal with disputes, prevent fraud or abuse and/or enforce our terms and conditions.
- We will keep your information which we use only for newsletters or other marketing until you tell us to stop sending you such messages.
- We will generally keep automated browsing information for up to 18 months.
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To whom do we send or make available your personal information?
- To other people who supply us with a service, e.g.website hosts, payment providers, and businesses which help us send communications or monitor our website and which provide us with e-commerce and other IT services.
- To other users of our service, if you include your real name in your username or display personal information in a comment or other public action on our service (all of which we strongly advise you against doing).
- To regulators, the police and other law enforcement authorities to help deal with fraud and abuse and/or comply with legal requirements.
- To insurers and professional advisers in connection with our insurance cover or to deal with legal claims.
- To potential buyers so far as reasonably necessary, in the case of an actual or proposed (including negotiations for a) sale or merger or business combination involving all or the relevant part of our business.
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Do we send your information outside the EU?
- Your personal information which we collect is stored within the EU and is not transferred to any third countries except as follows.
- Your personal information (e.g., IP address, browsing information, email address) may be transferred to the US by the following companies: Amazon (hosting), Stripe (payment). Transfer is generally on the basis of contracts with EU-mandated standard contractual clauses designed to provide adequate safeguards for your personal information. Some of these companies were certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework which is no longer applicable due to a court decision; we understand that the authorities are working on a replacement and we aim to update our policy to reflect this in due course.
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What rights do you have?
- If the legal requirements are met: To ask us for access to your personal information, to rectify it if there are mistakes, to delete or restrict its use in certain circumstances or to "data portability" or to withdraw any consent you've given (e.g. marketing).
- You may also have the right to object to use of your personal information in certain circumstances.
- If you have a complaint about how we are dealing with your personal information, please contact us via the email address above. If you are not happy with our response or think we are not handling your personal information in accordance with the law, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).
- For more information about your rights, visit the ICO's website: www.ico.org.uk.
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What about cookies?
- We and/or other companies use cookies and other tracking technologies on our website. A cookie is an identifier (a small file of letters and numbers) that is sent to your web browser. Cookies are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the website owner or others. Some are session temporary "session" cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser only until your browser is closed. Whereas persistent cookies stay for longer (depending on the lifetime of the specific cookie). For further information on cookies, including how to use your browser to block them and how to delete existing cookies, visit: www.allaboutcookies.org. Our site's functionality will be limited if you configure your browser to reject cookies.
- We ourselves may place the following types of cookies:
Type of cookies Purpose Logged-in status Assess whether you are logged in to our site "Remember me" Remember you and speed up your login when you return to our site Authentication Identify and authenticate you to help you move easily through the site Cookie notice Store your response to our cookie notice - Our payment provider may also place cookies if you use their payment services on our site. For more information, see Stripe's privacy policy.
