Privacy Policy

Genius Security is owned and operated by Genius Security Consulting Ltd, a company registered in England with company number 11392945 and whose trading address is at Kings Head House, 15 London End, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, HP92HN. We regard the protection of your personal information with the utmost importance. This privacy policy explains how we collect, use and store your personal information and how we ensure it is secure. At Genius Security we know that protecting your privacy is important. We’ve written this Privacy Policy to explain:

  • When we collect information
  • What type of information we collect
  • How we collect information
  • How we use information
  • With whom we share information
  • The steps we take to protect your information.

WHEN DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION?

Genius Security may collect information about you when you interact with us in the following ways:

  • Access or browse our Websites : www.GeniusSecurity.co.uk
  • Order Genius Security products.
  • Communicate with us via e-mail, telephone, fax or other manner
  • Fill out a survey
  • Request or register to receive information about our products. (News Letter subscription)
  • Meet face to face or hand over your business card at a trade show, exhibition, corporate event, meeting, conference, PR event, training or technology seminar or any other event.

WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

Information we collect is generally of two types – personally identifiable information and non-personally identifiable information.

Personally, identifiable information comprises any information that can help us identify or locate an individual, including, without limitation, an individual’s name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, an online identifier (social media account or IP address), health information, date of birth, bank account and other financial records, documents used for ID purposes including credit card number. Personally, identifiable information does not include publicly available information that is lawfully made available to the general public from local government records.

Non-personally identifiable information comprises information that does not by itself identify an individual. This information generally includes anonymous information about an individual’s use of the Website that includes, among other things, information concerning date and time of visit, the pages of the Website visited, path through the Website, IP address, the type of browser and operating system used.

HOW DO WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION? AND WHY?

General

We do not collect personally identifiable information, except when you specifically and knowingly disclose such information. This information is generally collected when you order our products, fill out surveys, enter promotional events (including competitions), correspond with us, discuss a service issue on the phone with an associate, sign up to receive Genius Security product and service updates or when we meet with you at meetings or events. If you disclose your personal information, we will only store and use such information that we need to meet your requests and our legitimate business objectives, including, where you have consented, providing you with information about products and services that we consider may be of interest to you. We primarily use your personal information to provide you an improved and customised online experience and service. We may use this information for marketing purposes.

Product Purchases

When purchasing through the Website or over the Telephone, we employ a registration process which requires that you provide us with your first and last name, billing and shipping information (which includes your home or other physical address, the name of your city or town, your telephone number, your e-mail address or other personal contact information). If you choose not to provide your personal contact information at the point of collection, you will not be able to purchase products through the Website or the Telephone.

Personal Contact Information

We use your contact information to complete and support your purchases from us, to facilitate and improve your use of the Website, to communicate with you (including sending marketing communications) and to comply with any requirements of law. We also use this information to respond to any questions you might have and to provide you with information about specials offered through the Website. This information may be disclosed to our staff and to third parties involved in the completion of your transaction (PayPal or similar payment gateway provider), the delivery of your order or the support of your use of the Website.

Credit Card Information

When you order any product through our Website on our Website, you may be redirected to a third-party payment gateway service to provide your credit card information including the credit card number, card security code (also called CVV2, CVC2, CID code), the expiration date and the billing address. The third-party payment gateway service is fully compliant with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) for payment processing.

Online Surveys

In order to improve our products and services, we may use your personal information to send you online surveys. These surveys help us to know more about your experience with our products and services. Your responses to these surveys are treated as confidential information. If you do not wish to participate in a survey, you may simply decline when asked. You may also choose to opt-out/unsubscribe from participating in any future surveys. If you do so, we will not send you any survey requests in the future.

Product Updates and Promotional E-mails

We regularly send product updates and promotional e-mails as a service to our existing customers, and to individuals who have registered or consented to receive such updates and emails. We will use your personal information to send you newsletters and e-mails periodically listing current specials, promotions and deals only if you elect to receive these e-mails. If you have elected to receive these e-mails and wish to discontinue receiving them in the future, please follow the opt-out/unsubscribe instructions provided on the e-mails or log into your account on the Website and follow the instructions to make the appropriate changes.

Correspondence

If you contact us by telephone, e-mail, fax or letter with feedback, comments, questions or for any other reason, we may keep a record of that correspondence and collect your personal information to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services.

Legal Basis of Collection

In some cases, we will ask you for explicit consent to use and or share your information, in the manner described in this privacy policy. Where we have not asked for your explicit consent, the legal basis for processing your information will be in order to fulfil the terms of the services you have requested or our legitimate interests, which are in the proper administration of our Website and business.

HOW DO WE COLLECT YOUR NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION? AND WHY?

General

We automatically collect certain non-personally identifiable information each time you visit the Website. We may use cookies, tags, server logs and other technology to acquire or store this information. We collect this anonymous information so that we may better understand how people are using the Website and to improve the overall quality of our users’ online experience.

Cookies

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit our Website. For information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them, please read our Cookie Policy.

Log Files

Log files record a range of variables related to a visitor’s time on the Website. This includes, but is not limited to: IP addresses, browser versions and types, internet service providers, pages visited, entry/exit pages, referring sites, platform types, etc. We use this information to understand how our visitors are using the Website and to discover how we might modify the site to better serve our customers. This information is gathered automatically when you visit the Website and is not personally identifiable.

Navigational Data

As you browse the Genius Security Website and third party sites, we may gather navigational data that shows what pages are visited and how long various features are used. This information will not reveal your identity or be linked to you personally. We use this information to facilitate and improve the Website; to comply with any requirements of law; to serve, or have a third party serve specialized or relevant advertising content and/or recommendations to you on the Website and third party sites; and for our internal purposes. We may from time to time supply the owners or operators of third party sites with information relating to the number of users linking to the Website from their sites. You cannot be identified from this information.

IP Addresses and System Specifications

When you access the Website, our servers may record your IP address. We may use IP addresses for system administration and troubleshooting, ensuring user compliance with our terms of service, investigating security breaches and compiling anonymous non-personal information such as how many users visited the Website.

HOW DO WE SHARE THE INFORMATION THAT WE COLLECT?

General

Personal information which we collect for a particular purpose will only be saved and used for that purpose, unless you have agreed to allow us to use it for some other purpose, as described in this Privacy Policy. We sometimes share non-personal information with third parties about our user base, but that information does not include any personally identifiable information. Except as set forth in this Privacy Policy, we do not trade, share, rent, sell or give away information concerning you to third parties.

Change of Control

In the event that another company acquires all or substantially all of the assets related to the Website, or if we experience some other change of control event such as merger, insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership, we reserve the right to include any or all user-related information among the assets transferred to the acquiring company. We cannot guarantee that any entity receiving such information in connection with any of these transactions will comply with all the terms of this policy.

WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

The information that we collect from you will not be transferred to, stored in, processed in or accessed by any third party except for when required by law.

By submitting your personal information, you agree to storing, processing or accessing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your information is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

SECURITY

Genius Security takes appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorised access to, or unauthorised alteration, disclosure or destruction of, users’ information. We restrict access to your personally identifying information to employees who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our products, services and the Website. Our servers are protected by firewalls and are physically located in secure data facilities to further increase security.

We use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology for mutual authentication, data encryption and data integrity. We regularly test our Website from third party security companies for compliance and vulnerabilities (Website Application Testing). We also engage accredited security auditors to test our network for resilience (Penetration Testing).

While no computer is 100% safe from outside attacks, we believe that the steps we have taken to protect your personal information drastically reduce the likelihood of security problems to a level appropriate to the type of information involved.

RETAINING DATA

It is not possible for us to specify in advance the periods for which your personal data will be retained. However, we will determine the period of retention based on your continued use of our Website or services and based on our requirements for proper record keeping and accounting and legal purposes. Usually, this will be no longer than 6 years.

Notwithstanding the above provision, we may retain your personal data where such retention is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your legal interests or the legal interests of another person.

INTEGRITY

During the online account registration process, you can review, change or remove any information you have submitted. Our goal is to ensure that our information about you is as accurate as possible and encourage you to promptly update your information if it changes. You may, at any time, access your information to update, modify or delete any inaccuracies by accessing your account through the Website or by contacting our customer service department through our dedicated DPO email address: DPO@geniussecurity.co.uk

You may also request that we remove your account information from our databases. We will endeavour to remove as much information as legally allowable. However, as we generally keep information related to past transactions for our records, we may not be able to completely remove all of your information.

YOUR RIGHTS

Your principal rights under data protection law are (a) the right to access; (b) the right to rectification; (c) the right to erasure; (d) the right to restrict processing; (e) the right to object to processing; (f) the right to data portability; (g) the right to complain to a supervisory authority; and (h) the right to withdraw consent.

You have the right to confirmation as to whether or not we process your personal data and, where we do, access to the personal data, together with certain additional information. That additional information includes details of the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data concerned and the recipients of the personal data. You have the right to have any inaccurate personal data about you rectified and, taking into account the purposes of the processing, to have any incomplete personal data about you completed.

To the extent that the legal basis for our processing of your personal data is (a) consent or (b) that the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract, and such processing is carried out by automated means, you have the right to receive your personal data from us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. However, this right does not apply where it would adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.

If you consider that our processing of your personal information infringes data protection laws, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection. You may do so in the EU member state of your habitual residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement.

To the extent that the legal basis for our processing of your personal information is consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of processing before the withdrawal.

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal information for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your information) if we intend to use your information for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your information. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at DPO@geniussecurity.co.uk

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the Websites of third parties (Distributors or Resellers). If you follow a link to any of these Websites, please note that these Websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal information to these Websites. If you wish to access or update personal information held about you, or to make any enquiries about the processing of personal information, please contact us at DPO@geniussecurity.co.uk. Any access request may be subject to an administration fee to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.

CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY

We may change our policy at any time by posting a new version of it on the Website. We encourage you to check the Website regularly for information about revisions to this Privacy Policy. In the event that we change our Privacy Policy, such changes will affect all of the information we collect after any such change. If you object to the change to our Privacy Policy, then you must contact us in writing regarding your objection.

For the purpose of the UK Data Protection please contact DPO@geniussecurity.co.uk

QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, you may contact us at DPO@geniussecurity.co.uk

How can I contact Genius Security if I have any further questions?

Genius Security
Kings Head House
15 London End
Beaconsfield
Buckinghamshire
HP92HN

Tel: +44 (0) 203 409 6292
Email: info@geniussecurity.co.uk