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Privacy Statements

Company Name: Enhanced Vision Europe Ltd.

WHO ARE WE?

In this privacy policy, the terms “we”, “our”, and “us” are used to refer to Enhanced Vision Europe Ltd. Enhanced Vision Europe Ltd., is a wholly owned subsidiary of the VFO group of companies. Our business within the VFO Group is to bring to market products and services which serve the visually impaired and blindness communities, and the infrastructure of intermediaries that support and provide services to this group

HOW WE USE YOUR DATA

We are committed to protecting your privacy. It is important that you understand how we look after your personal data and how we make sure that we meet our legal obligations to you under the data protection rules and regulations in the relevant territory (including associated guidance) (the “Data Protection Laws”). This privacy policy outlines how Enhanced Vision Europe Ltd., will collect, use, store and share your personal data.

If you have any questions in relation to this policy or generally how your personal data is processed by us, please contact our administrative team by letter addressed to: Enhanced Vision Europe Ltd., Unit C, Plot 5, Merlin Way, Quarry Hill Industrial Estate, Ilkeston, Derbyshire, DE7 4RA. Tel: 0115 944 2317

This policy applies to any personal data that we collect about you when you:

The controller above is responsible for the control of your personal data within Enhanced Vision Europe Ltd.. This policy applies to Enhanced Vision Europe Ltd. The VFO Group as a whole consists of several wholly owned enterprises and organisations. VFO’s brands each have their own websites. This  policy provides information to you about the basis on which Enhanced Vision Europe Ltd., as an legal entity collects, uses, stores and shares your information. We will use your personal data fairly, lawfully and in a transparent manner and in accordance with the Data Protection Laws.

CONSENT

The company may send you marketing messages by email, SMS, social media and post; about us and our products; where you have not unsubscribed and where you have purchased similar products and/or services from that brand or entity, or where you have otherwise signed up, or consented, to receive marketing messages from a brand or entity.

You have the right to withdraw your consent to processing of this nature at any time by contacting our customer care team using the details at the start of this privacy policy. You can tell us you no longer wish to receive marketing information from us by contacting us at Enhanced Vision Europe Ltd., Unit C, Plot 5, Merlin Way, Quarry Hill Industrial Estate, Ilkeston, Derbyshire. DE7 4RA Tel: 0800 1456115

 

WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU?

If you have an account with us or make a purchase online with us, or enter a competition or respond to a survey with us, we collect your name and contact details (including your address, telephone number, details about your order, and your billing information (where you are purchasing products)).

We also collect details of your interactions with us through our commercial offices, at events and exhibitions, online or via our apps. For example, when you telephone our office, we may collect notes of our conversations with you and details of your query and from time to time we may record your calls for training and monitoring purposes. We also collect information about the purchases that you make, your saved items, your payment information, any complaints and comments that you make and your buying preferences.

Each time you visit our website, we will also automatically collect information and personal data about your computer for system administration including, where available, your IP address, operating system and browser type. We do this to help us analyse how users use the websites (including behaviour patterns and the tracking of visits across multiple devices), to establish more about our website users and to assist us in managing your account and improving your online experience. We also collect information about your activities on our websites, for example what device you are using and what products you’re looking at.

Please see our cookies policy below for further information about what information may be automatically collected when you visit our websites

Please note that, from time to time, we will combine personal data that we receive from other sources with personal data you give to us and personal data we collect about you.

 

WHERE DO WE GET THIS INFORMATION FROM?

Information that you give us

You may share personal data about yourself with us by:

 

Information that we collect from you:

We collect personal data from you:

 

Information that we receive from other sources:

 

We collect some of your information directly from you, either through information that you give to us or information that we collect during your visits to our websites, events, or through your communications with us. We may also obtain some information from third parties, including retail analytics companies, consumer insight companies and credit reference agencies and publicly available sources to assist us with understanding customer demographics and shopper behaviours, or where we merge with or otherwise acquire another business.

WHY DO WE NEED YOUR INFORMATION?

The main purpose for which we use your information is to provide you with the products that you purchase from us and to send you offers and promotions that you might be interested in.

In particular, we use your information:

BASIS FOR USING YOUR INFORMATION

Compliance with legal obligations

As a corporate group there are certain laws we need to comply with. In particular, we will need to process your personal information to verify your identity and for fraud and crime prevention purposes. Failure to provide the requisite personal information on sign-up / as you use our websites, may mean we cannot provide our products to you, as to allow you to purchase our products may mean we may be in breach of our legal obligations. You will not be able to object to processing or ask for the deletion of your personal information insofar as it falls under this category.

Necessary for the entry into or performance of a contract

When you enter into a transaction with us or one of our brands, a contract between you and the relevant brand will have been entered into. In order for us to fulfil our obligations under such contract (e.g. to allow you to place an order and receive products from us), we will need to collect and process your personal information. Failure to provide the requisite personal information on sign-up to an account or on placing an order and payment information or objecting to this type of processing / exercising your deletion rights will mean we cannot provide our products to you.

Legitimate business interests

We use your personal data as set out in this privacy policy for the legitimate interests of our business to enable us to:

As indicated below, we will also pass your personal data to members of the JD Group and other third parties and this is also for our legitimate business interests.

We are required to carry out a balancing test of our legitimate business interests in using your personal data outlined above against your interests and rights under the Data Protection Laws and regulations in the relevant territory. As a result of our balancing test, which is detailed below, we have determined, acting reasonably and considering the circumstances, that we are able to process your personal data in accordance with the Data Protection Laws on the basis that we have a legitimate business interest.

 

Legitimate Interest:

We have a legitimate interest in processing your information as:

  1. We both benefit from the effective management of your accounts(s) (where applicable)
  2. We both benefit from the effective management, operation and administration of our websites
  3. We both benefit from the provision of products, services and support and from improvements to our services
  4. We both benefit from updates to our websites
  5. We will both benefit from the ability to enforce or apply rights under any contract between us
  6. We are required to ensure the health and safety of our customers and the security of our stored data and have a legitimate interest in ensuring any processes relating to the same are effective and that fraud and other crimes can be prevented and detected.
  7. We would be unable to provide our products and services without processing your information
  8. We have a legitimate interest in processing your information in connection with acquisitions or reorganisation of our business, in which case some of your information may be shared with a prospective buyer or otherwise but only insofar as it is strictly necessary for a sale or the administration of a reorganisation.

Necessity

We consider that it is reasonable for us to process your personal data for the purposes of our legitimate interests outlined above as we process your personal data only so far as it is necessary to achieve the purpose outlined in this policy.

Impact of Processing

We consider that it is reasonable for us to process your personal data for the purposes of our legitimate interests outlined above as the processing of your personal data does not unreasonably intrude on your privacy.

Consent

As set out above, we will send you marketing communications where you have not told us that you wish to unsubscribe and where you have purchased similar products and/ or services from the same brand or legal entity (as set out in the table above). You will also receive marketing communications from us where you have signed up, or otherwise consented, to receive marketing messages from a brand or entity within Enhanced Vision Europe Ltd.

You have the right to withdraw your consent to processing of this nature at any time by contacting our customer care team using the details at the start of this privacy policy.

 

WHO DO WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION WITH?

We do not, and will not, sell any of your information to any third party, including your name, address, email address or credit card information. However, we do share your information with a number of select third parties to enable us to provide our products and services to you, to send marketing information and to improve our business operations as set out below.

We will share your information with other members of the VFO Group but only for the purposes specified in this privacy policy. In particular:

We will also use a number of carefully selected third parties to help us to provide you with products, services and to market to you. In particular, we disclose your information to:

We will only share your information with third party suppliers where it is necessary for them to provide us with the services we need.

We may disclose your information to other companies in connection with any merger, acquisition, insolvency situation or otherwise, in which case we will only disclose your information so far as is necessary.

We may also need to disclose personal data to third parties to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation, or if necessary for legal proceedings.

 

WHAT AUTOMATED DECISIONS DO WE MAKE ABOUT YOU?

We carry out some profiling of you for the purposes of improving and developing our products and services and to help us to tailor our marketing to you.

The impact of any automated decision is to ensure you experience the best service possible.

We use information that we learn about you such as your gender, preferences, hobbies, interests and purchase history to make sure the marketing you receive from us and the way our websites are displayed to you are appropriate and tailored to you.

 

WHERE IS YOUR INFORMATION STORED AND HOW LONG DO WE KEEP IT FOR?

Transfers outside of the European Economic Area

The information which we collect about you may be transferred outside the European Economic Area. In the event of such transfer, we will ensure the adequate standard of security is in place for example by incorporating the European Commission approved clauses into our agreements with such third parties to ensure the security of your personal data. A copy of the European Commission approved model clauses is available here:http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32010D0087&from=en

Retention of your personal data

We will only keep your information for as long as is necessary to carry out the purposes we collected it for, as set out in this privacy policy (unless a longer retention period is required by the applicable law). We typically keep your personal data for 6 years from the purchase in order to enable us to deal with any issues or concerns you may have about the products or services you have received, and to allow us to bring or defend legal proceedings. In some circumstances, some of your data will be deleted in much shorter timescales, for example:

If reasonably necessary or required to meet legal or regulatory requirements, resolve disputes, prevent fraud and abuse, or enforce our terms and conditions, we will also keep hold of some of your information, even if it is no longer needed to provide our services to you.

Security of your personal data

Transmission of information via the internet is not and cannot be completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our websites; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

WHAT NON-PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

We may also collect non-personally identifiable information (that is, information that does not specifically identify you), for the purposes of aggregates and statistics.

 

WHAT RIGHTS DO YOU HAVE?

You have a number of rights under the Data Protection Laws in relation to the way we process your personal data, which are set out below. You may contact us using the details at the beginning of this privacy policy to exercise any of these rights.

In some instances, we may be unable to carry out your request, in which case we will contact you to explain why.

You have the right to request access to your personal data

You have the right to request confirmation that your personal data is being processed, access to your personal data (through us providing a copy) and other information about how we process your personal data.

You have the right to ask us to rectify your personal data

You have the right to request that we rectify your personal data if it is not accurate or not complete.

You have the right to ask us to erase your personal data

You have the right to ask us to erase or delete your personal data where there is no reason for us to continue to process your personal data. This right would apply if we no longer need to use your personal data to provide products to you, where you withdraw your consent for us to send you marketing information, or where you object to the way we process your personal data (see right 6 below).

You have the right to ask us to restrict or block the processing of your personal data

You have the right to ask us to restrict or to block the processing of your personal data that we hold about you. This right applies where you believe the personal data is not accurate, you would rather we block the processing of your personal data rather than erase your personal data, where we don’t need to use your personal data for the purpose we collected it for but you may require it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

You have the right to port your personal data

You have the right to obtain and reuse your personal data from us to reuse for your own purposes across different services. This allows you to move personal data easily to another organisation, or to request us to do this for you.

You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data

You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data on the basis of our legitimate business interests, unless we are able to demonstrate that, on balance, our legitimate interests override your rights or we need to continue processing your personal data for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

You have the right not to be subject to automated decisions

You have the right to object to any automated decision making, including profiling, where the decision has a legal or significant impact on you.

You have the right to withdraw your consent

You have the right to withdraw your consent where we are relying on it to use your personal data, for example where we are relying on your consent to send you marketing information.

Marketing

We always give you the choice of whether or not you wish to receive marketing communications from us.

By contacting us [email protected]  you can tell us that you do not wish to receive marketing communications from us and we will update your records. You can also click on the unsubscribe link in any promotional emails.

Newsletters

Enhanced Vision Europe Ltd., regularly sends out a newsletter via email to all users unless they have “opted-out”. In these newsletters we may inform you about new products, news and upcoming events, price changes and special promotions

Users are able to unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time by sending an email to [email protected]

WHAT IF YOU HAVE A COMPLAINT?

If you have any concerns regarding our processing of your personal data, or are not satisfied with our handing of any request made by you, or would otherwise like to make a complaint, please contact our customer contact centre in the first instance using the details at the start of this privacy policy, so that they can do their very best to sort out the problem.

You can also contact the Information Commissioner’s Office at Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF www.ico.org.uk .

OTHER WEBSITES

Our websites may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of third parties. 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 or your use of those websites.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We will take all measures necessary to communicate any changes to this privacy policy to you, and will post any updated privacy policies on this page.

This policy was last reviewed and updated in May 2018.

 

Cookies

Cookies are small text files that a website can write to your computer. They are widely used in order to make websites work more efficiently as well as to provide information to the owners of the site . We use cookies to identify you and allow you to log in once to our web site and search or post without having to log in again and again. Cookies are also used by our affiliates or links to identify you as a user of http:/www.enhancedvision.co.uk

The following is a summary of the types of cookies that are being used on this site, along with information about how you can block them.

Cookie Type: Essential Site Cookies (various file names)

Site Cookies are essential to the operation of this website. They are usually set when you first visit the site and deleted when you close your browser. If blocked, the site will not work correctly.

Active on this site? No

More information: n/a

Cookie Type: CMS (Content Management System) (various file names)

Cookies are set by our CMS/Blog system when you first visit this site. These cookies are usually deleted when a user closes their browser

Cookie Type: Google Analytics ( _utma, _utmb, _utmc, _utmz)

These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. The information is used to compile reports that potentially help to improve our site. The data is collected in an anonymised form and may include elements such as the number of visits to the site, how you arrived at the site and which pages you visted.

Active on our site: Yes

You can opt out of these cookies by following this link http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Cookie Type: Adverts (various file names)

Advertisers may use cookies to serve you with adverts and promotions based on your previous search and web usage. These cookies are not directly used by Optelec Ltd.

You can visit http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices for more information on how this information is used, and how you can block them

Cookie Type: Site Acceptance Cookie (cookietab-last-shown-time, cookietab-consent

These cookies are used to record if a user has accepted the use of cookies on our website

 

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboucookies.org