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Privacy Policy

We will always respect your privacy

Vodbull UK Ltd (and sQuidcard Ltd) ('Vodbull', 'sQuidcard', 'we', 'us' or 'our' for short) are registered to collect and process personal data under the Data Protection Act 1998 (the "Act" for short). Vodbull UK Ltd (and sQuidcard Ltd) are data controllers of your personal information for the purposes of the Act.

We respect and safeguard the privacy of the users of Vodbull.com (squidcard.com) ("the website"). This Privacy Policy outlines how we will do this, how we will collect and use your personal information (such as your name, your location, date of birth, your email address, mobile telephone number or other contact details) and how you can limit our use of this. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully which should be read together with our website terms and conditions.

Introduction and General Terms

Vodbull UK (and sQuidcard) are committed to protecting your personal information when you are using Vodbull UK (and sQuidcard) services. We want our services to be safe and enjoyable environments for our audience. This Privacy Policy relates to our use of any personal information you provide to us through Vodbull.com (and sQuidcard.com) website. In order to provide you with the full range of Vodbull UK (and sQuidcard) services, we are sometimes required to collect information about you.

This privacy policy explains the following:-

  • what information Vodbull UK (and/or sQuidcard) may collect about you;
  • how Vodbull UK (and/or sQuidcard) will use information we collect about you;
  • when Vodbull UK (and/or sQuidcard) may use your details to contact you;
  • whether Vodbull UK (and/or sQuidcard) will disclose your details to anyone else;
  • your choices regarding the personal information you have provided to us;
  • the use of cookies on the Vodbull UK (and sQuidcard) websites and how you can choose to manage these cookies.

As set out above, Vodbull UK (and sQuidcard) are committed to safeguarding your personal information. Whenever you provide such information, we are legally obliged to use your information in line with all laws concerning the protection of personal information, including the Data Protection Act 1998 (these laws are referred to collectively in this Privacy Policy as the "data protection laws").

Wherever our websites contain links to other websites owned and operated by third parties, they will have their own privacy and cookie policies and we urge you to review them. They will govern the use of personal information submitted by you or collected by cookies whilst visiting these websites. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of such third party websites and your use of such websites is at your own risk.

What information will Vodbull UK (and sQuidcard) collect about me?

When you sign up to the Vodbull.com (and sQuidcard.com) website, including newsletters and alerts, we may ask for personal information about you. This can consist of information such as your name, email address, postal address, telephone or mobile number or date of birth.

By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable Vodbull UK (and sQuidcard) and our affiliated scheme partners to provide you with the services you select.

Vodbull UK (and sQuidcard) also use cookies (see section on cookies below for details) and collect IP addresses (an IP address is a number that can uniquely identify a specific computer or other network device on the internet) for monitoring, security and fraud prevention purposes. We use analysis software to look at IP addresses and cookies for the purpose of enhancing your user experience. You cannot be personally identified using this data. This information is not used to develop a personal profile of you and the log files are regularly archived and purged.

We also use your IP address to determine whether you are accessing the services from the UK or not. If not, we may re-direct you to an international version of the Vodbull UK (and sQuidcard.com) websites.

How will Vodbull UK (and sQuidcard) use the information they collect about me?

Vodbull UK (and sQuidcard) will use your personal information for a number of purposes including the following:

  • for "administration purposes". Vodbull UK (and/or sQuidcard) may contact you for reasons related to the service you have signed up for, e.g. to provide you with password reminders or to notify you that a particular service has been updated, amended or suspended;
  • to personalise messages from Vodbull UK (and sQuidcard) to you, for example if we know you are in Birmingham and that a new Vodbull UK (and/or sQuid merchant) has signed up, or when there are upcoming events, we may present this information to you;
  • we may process the data you have given us or that we collect from your usage of your Vodbull UK (and sQuidCard) in order to contact you with relevant messages from Vodbull UK (and/or sQuidcard);
  • we may send you regular newsletter communications or alerts about Vodbull UK (and sQuid) marketing activity that you have subscribed to, which you can unsubscribe from at any time;
  • Vodbull UK (and/or sQuid) may send you customer service messages which are specific to your account, such as your balance is zero pounds; You may not unsubscribe from these.
  • IP addresses are used to identify the location of users, the number of visits from different countries, to block disruptive or fraudulent use and to analyse and improve the services offered on Vodbull.com (and sQuidcard.com). e.g. to provide you with the most user-friendly navigation experience.

 

When will Vodbull UK (and/or sQuidcard) contact me?

Vodbull UK (and/or sQuidcard) may contact you:-

  • in relation to the functioning of any service you have signed up for in order to ensure that Vodbull UK (and sQuidcard) can deliver the services to you;
  • where you have opted to receive further correspondence;
  • in relation to any contribution you have made to Vodbull UK (and/or sQuidcard.com), (e.g. nominate a sQuid merchant);
  • to invite you to participate in surveys about Vodbull UK (and sQuidcard) services (participation is always voluntary);
  • and for marketing purposes where you have agreed to this

Online pages will give you detailed information about how Vodbull UK (and/or sQuidcard) will contact you in relation to specific services.

Will I be contacted for marketing purposes?

Vodbull UK (and sQuidcard) and our affiliated scheme partners may contact you from time to time for marketing purposes, or promote new services to you. However, we will never send you emails requesting you to confirm account information to us by return email or by directing you to a web site. This is also known as phishing where anonymous third parties try to gather personal information, while claiming to be from a bona fide organisation. Any unaffiliated third party will not contact you genuinely, as we do not share your information with them and we urge you to disregard any such correspondence you may receive.

Will Vodbull UK (and/or sQuidcard) share my personal information with anyone else?

In order to administer and provide you with the services you have subscribed to, Vodbull UK (and/or sQuidcard) may provide our affiliated scheme partners with access to your data. Your personal details will not be supplied to parties outside of this relationship.

We will also keep your information confidential except where disclosure is required or permitted by law (for example to government bodies and law enforcement agencies) or for offensive or inappropriate behaviour. We will only use your information within Vodbull UK, (sQuidcard) and our affiliated scheme partners. Vodbull UK (and sQuidcard) require all affiliated scheme partners to comply with its instructions in regard to your data and require that they do not use your personal information for their own business purposes.

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.

How long will Vodbull UK (and sQuidcard) keep my personal information?

We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant service, or as long as is set out in any relevant contract you hold with Vodbull UK (and/or sQuidcard). In the case that you wish to cancel your registration as a Vodbull UK (and/or sQuidcard.com) member, once an account is deleted a flag goes on the database and, while people cannot use the personal information, it stays on the system for a period of time for administration purposes only before being deleted.

Can I find out what personal information Vodbull UK (and/or sQuidcard) holds about me?

Under the Data Protection Act you have the right to request a copy of the personal information Vodbull UK (and/or sQuidcard) holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. (We charge £10 for information requests and will require you to prove your identity with 2 pieces of approved photographic identification.) We will use reasonable efforts to supply, correct or delete personal information about you on our files.

Vodbull UK Ltd (as a subsidiary company of DCN Promotions Ltd) are also registered with the Information Commissioner's Office, reference Z7030072 (sQuidcard Ltd are registered with the Information Commissioner's Office, reference Z1327001.)

Please address requests and questions about this or any other question about this Privacy Policy to either;

Data Protection Officer
sQuidcard Limited
John Loftus House
Summer Road
Thames Ditton
Surrey
HT7 0QQ
dataprotection@squidcard.com

Data Protection Officer
Vodbull UK Limited
c/o Temple Bar
The Parade
Sutton Coldfield
Birmingham
B72 1PH
dataprotection@vodbull.com

Changes to Vodbull UK (and/or sQuidcard's) Privacy Policy

This privacy policy may be updated from time to time so you may wish to check it each time you submit personal information to any Vodbull UK (and sQuidcard.com) website. The date of the most recent revisions will appear at the bottom of this page.

Cookies Policy -Information Vodbull UK (and sQuidcard) collect from you

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes a unique identifier that is sent to your computer or mobile phone (referred to here as a "device") browser from a website's computer and is stored on your device's hard drive. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites. Many sites do this whenever a user visits their website in order to track online traffic flows.

Cookies record information about your online preferences and allow us to tailor the websites to your interests. Users have the opportunity to set their devices to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The last of these means that certain personalised services cannot then be provided to that user and accordingly you may not be able to take full advantage of all of Vodbull.com (and sQuidcard.com) features. Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.

During the course of any visit to Vodbull UK (and/or sQuidcard)'s web sites, the pages you see, along with a cookie, are downloaded to your device. Many websites do this, because cookies enable website publishers to do useful things like find out whether the device (and probably its user) has visited the website before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking and reviewing the cookie left on the last visit.

How do Vodbull UK (and sQuidcard) use cookies?

Information supplied by cookies can help us to analyse the profile of our visitors and help us to provide you with a better user experience. No data that can individually identify you is collected. For example: if on a previous visit you went directly to our 'Logon to sQuid' or 'Logon to Vodbull' pages, we might find this out from your cookie and direct you straight to your logon page on subsequent visits.

 

This Privacy Policy last updated 13th September 2010