Roots Research takes privacy seriously. The following principles underpin our approach to respecting your privacy.
• We will always use your personal information in a way that is fair and reasonable and as a minimum, comply with prevailing legislation and observe generally accepted principles governing data protection.
• We aim to be transparent and provide accessible information about how we use your personal information – what information we collect, what we do with it, with whom we share it and who you should contact if you have any concerns.
• We will take all reasonable steps to protect your information from misuse and keep it secure, by putting suitable measures in place.
Please note that Roots Research is the Data Controller of your personal information. The principles set out in this Privacy Notice apply to all instances in which Roots Research receives your personal information as a Data Controller for the purposes described in this notice. Those purposes are processing of information in order to participate in the various activities available on this website or as mentioned below.
You can provide your personal information if you wish. We only collect personal information that you want to provide to us or that is needed to provide (and improve) our service to you. We collect personal information directly such as name, address, telephone number and e-mail address as well as connection and system information. The legal basis for the processing of your personal data is your consent and/or any other applicable legal basis, such as our legitimate interest in engaging in commerce and offering products and services of value to you. Any consent you provide may be withdrawn at any time by contacting us.
You may want to give us your e-mail address, name, telephone number etc. so that we can provide you with information on our products and /or services, respond to your questions or comments; or just keep you updated about product/service developments that you are interested in. Some website functionality may be unavailable to users who do not provide their data, or who do not consent to the use of Cookies and similar technologies on this site. Additionally, if you choose not to provide your personal information, we will not be able to provide you with our products or services or with other support or responses.
Roots Research takes security measures in line with data protection regulations, to prevent data loss, to preserve data integrity, and to regulate access to the data. Only authorized Company personnel, and authorized personnel of our third-party service providers’ processing data on our behalf, have access to your personal information. All such personnel who have access to your personal information are required to adhere to our Privacy Notice and all third-party service providers are requested by us to ensure that any of their personnel who have access to your personal information have signed non-disclosure agreements. In addition, contracts are in place with such third-party service providers acting as data processors for us that have access to your personal information, to ensure that the level of security required in your jurisdiction is in place, and that your personal information is processed only as instructed by us.
Your personal information will only be used for the purposes for which you provided it to us, as indicated to you at the time you provided your personal information. It will also be used to administer, support and obtain feedback on the level of our services, to help prevent breaches of security, the law or our contract terms, and for direct marketing purposes.
We will never share your personal information with any third-party business organisation that intends to use it for their own purposes, other than as required by law. With your consent, we may share your personal information with third-parties such as those who assist us in providing the products and services and who perform technical operations, and to our “third-party data processors” (service providers such as any fulfilment and activation partners, and digital agencies, hosting providers, data storage providers and other technical partners) who help us administer this website, or process the data submitted to it, may have access to your information.
Under the data protection legislation, you have the right to:
• object to the processing of personal/company information;
• prevent processing for direct marketing;
• object to decisions being taken by automated means;
• have inaccurate personal/company information corrected,
• to require us to erase your personal information;
• to require us to restrict or object to our data processing activities;
• to receive from us the personal information we hold about you which you have provided to us, in a reasonable format specified by you, including for the purpose of you transmitting that personal information to another data controller.
Please note that these rights may be limited by data protection legislation, and we may reasonably be entitled to refuse your request under certain allowable circumstances.
We may make use of Cookies, which are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit, or certain emails you open and other similar technologies such as Flash Cookies and web beacons. Such technologies are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide business and marketing information to the owners of the site, to gather such personal data as browser type and operating system, referring page, path through site, domain of ISP etc. for the purpose of understanding how visitors use this website. Cookie and similar technologies help us tailor this website to meet the personal needs of customers and potential customers of our business.
This type of information obtained through cookies will not be disclosed outside Roots Research or our authorized third-party data processors. It will not be used for unsolicited communications.
Cookies located on your computer do not contain your name but an IP address. In many case, after the user’s session is cancelled the information contained in the cookies is no longer available to us.
Please ensure that your computer setting reflects whether you are happy to accept cookies or not. You can set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, or you can simply set it to refuse them, although you may not have access to all the features of the website if you do so. See your browser “Help” button for how you can do this. Some Flash Cookies may not be affected by such settings. You do not need to have cookies on to use or navigate through many parts of this website. Remember that if you use different computers in different locations you will need to ensure that each browser is adjusted to suit your cookie preferences.
With your consent, and as set out below, we may use the information you give us about yourself when you register online along with any third party acting on our behalf, to collect website usage information about visitors to our website for the purposes of statistical analysis, sales and marketing research, tracking page usage and paths used by visitors through our site, targeting the site content, targeting our marketing campaigns and direct marketing emails
We may also combine this web usage data with other information we have collected about you, for example, whether you have arrived at our site through a marketing email sent to an individual account, and web usage data stored against a previous cookie set on your machine. We store this information so that we have a better and more specific understanding of the way customers are using our site and their preferences and interests. We may use it to undertake sales and marketing research and to tailor our site, our marketing campaigns and email communications specifically to you.
We will occasionally make changes and corrections to this Website Privacy Notice. If we believe that the changes are material, we’ll let you know by doing one (or more) of the following: (1) posting the changes on this site, or (2) sending you an email or message about the changes. We will also give you the opportunity to consent to these material changes. Changes will be effective upon the posting of the changes and your acceptance of the changes, which may be through your continued use of the site after the changes take effect.
Third Party Processors
Our carefully selected partners and service providers may process personal information about you on our behalf as described below:
Digital Marketing Service Providers
We periodically appoint digital marketing agents to conduct marketing activity on our behalf, such activity may result in the compliant processing of personal information. Our appointed data processors include:
(i)Prospect Global Ltd (trading as Sopro) Reg. UK Co. 09648733.
You can contact Sopro and view their privacy policy here: http://sopro.io . Sopro are registered with the ICO Reg: ZA346877 their Data Protection Officer can be emailed at: [email protected].
We will retain your information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this notice. We will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your information to comply with applicable tax/revenue laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. We also retain log files for internal analysis purposes. These log files are generally retained for a short period of time, except where they are used for website security, to improve website functionality, or we are legally obligated to retain them for longer time periods.
The data controller responsible for your personal information for the purposes of the applicable European Union data protection law is Roots Research Limited. You may contact our Data Protection Lead at:
Roots Research Limited
50 Grand Parade
Brighton
BN2 9QA
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 01273 617132
If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice or our data collection practices, please contact us at the address, telephone number or email listed above and specify your country of residence and the nature of your question.
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