Privacy and Cookies Policy
GDPR Website Privacy & Cookies Policy
This privacy policy sets out how Felinesoft Ltd (“Felinesoft”) uses and protects any information that you provide when you use this website. Felinesoft is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement. We may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page for the most current version.
Information Collection, Use and Storage
Information collection
We collect the following information: name and job title; contact information including email address; demographic information such as addresses, career history, preferences and interests; and other information relevant to client enquiries and candidate applications. We do not send any promotional emails; however, we may send you marketing emails related to your interests. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you may opt out of them by contacting us.
Intended use of Personal Data
Most of our services do not require any form of registration, allowing you to visit our site without telling us who you are. However, some services may require you to provide us with Personal Data. We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons: internal record keeping; to improve our products and services; to periodically send marketing emails that we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided; to contact you regarding your ‘get in touch with us’ query and to ensure your enquiry is appropriately dealt with; to support a job application made with the Company (to allow us to contact you in regards to your application/query, future potential roles); and to comply with our own legal obligations.
We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests. However, if you choose to withhold any Personal Data requested by us, it may not be possible for you to gain access to certain parts of the site and for us to respond to your query.
Marketing
We may like to send you information about our announcements, articles and press releases that we think you might like, as well as those of our group companies.
If you have agreed to receive marketing, you may always opt out at a later date. You have the right at any time to stop Felinesoft from contacting you for marketing purposes or giving your data to our group companies. If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, you can opt out from our marketing emails by contacting us.
Your individual rights
Access to information
Felinesoft would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. You have the rights to request access to the information we have on you. We will make sure to provide you with a copy of the data we process about you. In order to comply with your request, we may ask you to verify identity. We will fulfil your request by sending your copy electronically, unless the request expressly specifies a different method. For any subsequent request, we may charge you a small fee.
Every user is entitled to the following:
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact Data Controller via:
Email: privacy@felinesoft.com
Phone: 0117 325 1902
Controlling Your Personal Information
You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways: whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes; if you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at sales@felinesoft.com We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so.
How we share your information
Felinesoft will not rent, sell or distribute your personally identifiable information to third parties third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may store personal data in locations outside the direct control of Felinesoft (for instance, on servers or databases of data processors). Although, we have ensured that they are GDPR compliant. Additionally, any personally identifiable information you elect to make publicly available on our site, such as posting comments on our blog page, will be available to others.
Storage and Processing
Your information collected through our website and services may be stored and processed in Europe, in the United States, or any other country in which Felinesoft or its group companies, affiliates or service providers maintain facilities.
Felinesoft securely stores your data using a GDPR compliant CRM system and ATS System.
We will keep customers or prospect companies’ data 1 year after the end of the business relationship. Once this time period has expired, we will delete your data by erasing all your details from our system and providers.
We will keep candidate data 1 year after the date of application. Once this time period has expired, we will delete your data by erasing all your details from our system.
Links to Other Sites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
International Privacy Laws
We won’t transfer your data internationally, except if it’s a legal obligation and/or for honouring a contractual agreement. We have ensured that data processors are compliant to the EU-US Privacy Shield as set forth by the US Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal data from the European Union countries. The data processors have certified that they adhere to the Privacy Shield principles of Notice, Choice, Accountability for Onward Transfers, Security, Data Integrity & Purpose Limitation, Access and Recourse, Enforcement & Liability when processing Personal Data from the EEA in the United States.
Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
Cookies
Cookies are used in various forms by most websites and are usually harmless.
What is a cookie?
Cookies are small text files are stored on your hard-drive that can be used by websites to make your experience more efficient and in order to provide you with more functionality. For example a cookie can help a website to remember that you are logged in when processing an eCommerce transaction or may be used to remember your language preferences.
Cookies may be session or persistent. Session cookies are deleted after you have left our website and Persistent cookies remain to help you with your experience next time you return.
What are cookies used for?
We have broken up the types of cookies that most websites use into the following categories:
How do we use cookies?
For your information we have listed all of the cookies used and their purpose in our Cookie Policy.
Name |
Provider |
Purpose |
Expiry |
Type |
rc::a |
This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. |
Persistent |
HTML |
|
rc::c |
This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. |
Session |
HTML |
|
__RequestVerificationToken |
Helps prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks. |
Session |
HTTP |
|
CookieConsent |
Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain |
1 year |
HTTP |
|
PHPSESSID |
Preserves user session state across page requests. |
Session |
HTTP |
|
ARRAffinity |
Used to distribute traffic to the website on several servers in order to optimise response times. |
Session |
HTTP |
|
filterString |
Used by Our to handle the filter function in the API docs |
Session |
HTML |
|
collect |
Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor's device and behavior. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. |
Session |
Pixel |
|
_ga |
Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
2 years |
HTTP |
|
_gat |
Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate |
1 day |
HTTP |
|
_gid |
Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
1 day |
HTTP |
|
_ga |
Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
2 years |
HTTP |
Can I block cookies?
Your browser will usually allow you to alter and control the type of cookies that you will allow websites to store. If you are concerned about out cookies being stored on your computer by this website or other, we strongly recommend that you check your browser for further information. If you choose to block cookies some sections of this website might not be available to you.
The details of Third-Party cookies may change from time to time, however we will endeavour to keep this document up to date and accurate.
Contact us
If you have any questions about this policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Email us at: privacy@felinesoft.com
Call us: 0117 325 1902
Or write to us at: Data Controller, Felinesoft, Suite D, Sixth Floor, Whitefriars, Lewins Mead, Bristol BS1 2NT
How to contact the appropriate authority?
Should you wish to report a complaint or if you feel that Felinesoft has not addressed your concern in a satisfactory manner, you may contact the Information Commissioner’s Office.
Email: https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/
Phone number: 0303 123 1113