Privacy & cookie policy.
PRIVACY POLICY FOR PINNACA RETAIL SOLUTIONS LIMITED, and PINNACA RETAIL SOLUTIONS SAS.
Last updated: November 2022
In summary
Pinnaca Retail Solutions Limited, and Pinnaca Retail Solutions SAS (‘Pinnaca’ ‘we’, ‘us’, and ‘our’) take data protection very seriously and we are committed to protecting your personal information.
For all data matters our Data Protection Officer is Minesh Thakkar and he can be reached at dataprotection@pinnacaretail.com
This explains what information we gather about you, what we use that information for, and who we give that information to. It also sets out your rights in relation to your information, how long we keep it and who you can contact for more information. Click on the links to take you to the sections.
It is our policy to collect only the minimum information required from you. If you believe we have collected excessive information about you, please contact us at: dataprotection@pinnacaretail.com
Although you do not have to provide any of your personal information to us, if we ask you to do so and you refuse, we may be unable to provide you with the information, goods or services that you want from us.
What is personal information?
Personal information is anything that enables you to be identified or identifiable, such as your:
First and last names
Postal and email addresses
Telephone numbers
Identity documents (e.g. passports & driving licence)
Identity numbers (e.g. National Insurance and Bank accounts)
Career & educational documents (e.g. CVs & qualifications)
Contact information
Your personal information is sometimes called “personal data”. We collectively refer to handling, collecting, protecting or storing your personal information as ‘processing’.
Collecting personal information
Below are just some examples of how you may provide personal information to us:
Asking us to provide support, goods or services to you or someone else
Registering for one of the software products supplied by us
Entering into a support contract for IT services
Any request for support with your IT system under this contract
Requests for specific / one-off projects of any sort
Visiting our Offices where we have a CCTV security system
Contacting us by phone, calls are recorded
Other methods of contacting us, including through our website
Searching and browsing our website
Subscribing to our newsletters
Submitting CVs or work history information to us
Providing us with business cards or other contact information
Using personal information
When you provide personal information to us, we may use it for any of the purposes described below or as stated at the point we collect it from you (or as may obvious to you from the context of collection), including:
To provide services to you that you have requested
To develop our business and services
To consider whether to offer someone employment with us
To administer and manage our website including
To personalise and enrich your browsing experience by displaying content that is more likely to be relevant and of interest to you
To sort and analyse user data (such as determining how many users from the same organisation have subscribed to or are using the Website)
To understand how people, use the features and functions of our website in order to improve the user experience
To conduct quality and risk management reviews
Any other purposes for which personal information has been provided to us, including any of the purposes given in the ‘Collection of personal information’ section above.
We do not collect personally identifying information for sale to third parties.
Legal grounds for processing personal information
We rely on one or more of the following processing conditions:
To perform our contractual obligations to you; and/or
To satisfy any legal and regulatory obligations to which we are subject; and/or
To satisfy our legitimate interests in the effective delivery of information and services to you and in the effective and lawful operation of our businesses (where this does not interfere with your rights); and/or
When you have agreed to us processing your personal information.
Security of personal information
We have implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security in order to protect personally identifiable information from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction.
Only authorised persons are provided access to personally identifiable information we have collected, and such individuals have agreed to maintain the confidentiality of this information.
Although we use appropriate security measures once we have received your personal data, the transmission of data over the internet (including by e-mail) is never completely secure.
We endeavour to protect personal data, but we cannot guarantee the security of data transmitted to or by us in this way.
Sharing personal information
We may transfer, share or disclose the personal data we collect from you to third parties (other organisations or individuals) for:
The purposes for which the information has been submitted
The purposes listed above under ‘Use of personal information’
The administration and maintenance of our website and/or
Other internal or administrative purposes
We also may transfer share or disclose personal data to sub-contractors to deliver specific projects or support to you and to third party service providers of identity management, website hosting and management, data analysis, data backup, security and storage services.
These third-party providers may use their own third party subcontractors that have access to personal data (sub-processors). It is our policy to use only third-party providers that are bound to maintain appropriate levels of security and confidentiality, to process personal information only as instructed by us, and to flow those same obligations down to their sub-processors.
Other disclosures
We may also disclose personal information to third parties under the following circumstances:
When explicitly requested by you
When required to deliver goods or services requested by you
As otherwise set out in this privacy policy.
We may also disclose your personal information to law enforcement, regulatory and other government agencies and to professional bodies and other third parties, as required by and/or in accordance with applicable law or regulation.
International transfers of personal information
Your personal information may be transferred outside the European Economic Area (EEA).
This will usually be where we are registering you with software suppliers that are based outside the EEA and is necessary in order to provide what you have requested from us. Where this is the case we will make it clear that the software supplier is based outside the EEA.
In all other circumstances where we transfer your personal data outside the EEA, it will be only:
To provide support and services to you via our partners outside the UK
To you, including internal transfers of information within your IT system
As specifically instructed by you
Under a contractual agreement which satisfies EU requirements for the transfer of personal data outside the EEA
Retention of personal information
We will retain your personal information only for as long as we need it, given the purposes for which it was collected, or as required to do so by law.
For example, this means that information given to us to conduct a specific project will be deleted as soon as that project is completed. For more information please contact us to request a copy dataprotection@pinnacaretail.com
Marketing
Where we are legally required to obtain your consent to provide you with marketing materials, we will only provide you with such marketing materials if you have provided consent for us to do so.
If you opt into any subscriptions you will receive emails known as newsletters. If you want to unsubscribe from any subscriptions, you should look for and follow the instructions we will provided in the relevant communications to you.
If you choose to unsubscribe from any or all mailings, we may retain information sufficient to identify you so that we can honour your request.
Rights in relation to your information
You have certain rights in relation to the personal information we hold about you. In particular, you have the right to:
Request a copy of personal information we hold about you;
Ask that we update the personal information we hold about you, or correct such personal information that you think is incorrect or incomplete;
Ask that we delete personal information that we hold about you, or restrict the way in which we use such personal information;
Object to our processing of your personal information; and/or
Withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal information (to the extent such processing is based on consent and consent is the only permissible basis for processing).
If you would like to exercise these rights or understand if these rights apply to you, please contact us at dataprotection@pinnacaretail.com
Automated decision making
We will not use your personal information for automated decision making or profiling.
Children
We understand the importance of protecting children's privacy and we never knowingly collect personal information about individuals under the age of 13. We adhere to laws regarding marketing to children.
Our website
Our Website may link to third-party sites not controlled by us and which do not operate under our privacy practices. When you link to third-party sites, our privacy practices no longer apply. We encourage you to review each third-party site's privacy policy before disclosing any personally identifiable information.
We do not intend to collect special category (also known as sensitive) personal information through our website. Examples of special category information are: race or ethnic origin; political opinions; religious or philosophical beliefs; trade union membership; physical or mental health; genetic data; biometric data; sexual life or sexual orientation; and criminal records.
We ask that you do not provide us with special category personal information when using our website.
Cookies
A cookie is a small piece of data that a website asks your browser to store on your computer or mobile device. The cookie allows the website to "remember" your actions or preferences over time.
Our website only uses session cookies - this means that they are erased when you close your browser.
We do not collect or store any form of personal data from your visit to our website.
Contact us
If you have any questions or complaints about the way your personal information is processed by us, or would like to exercise one of your rights set out above, please contact us by one of the following means:
Form: www.pinnacaretail.com/contact/
Email: dataprotection@pinnacaretail.com
Data Protection Officer: Minesh Thakkar
Post UK:
Sterling House
Ground Floor Suite G1A
Langston Road
Loughton
Essex
IG10 3TS
Post FR:
12 rue Vivienne
Paris
75002
France
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection regulator, which in the UK is the Information Commissioner Office (ICO). The ICO can be contacted by the following means:
Form: www.ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/email/
Telephone: 0303 123 1113 (local rate calls to this number cost the same as calls to 01 or 02 numbers). If you're calling from outside the UK, please call +44 1625 545 700.
Post: Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF
We may update this Privacy notice at any time by publishing an updated version here. So that you know when we make changes to this Privacy statement, we will amend the revision date at the top of this page. The new modified or amended Privacy notice will apply from that revision date. Therefore, we encourage you to review this Privacy notice periodically to be informed about how we are protecting your information.