Privacy and Policy

 

 

Shepherd Freight (also known as Shepherd Freight) ("us", "we", or "our") operates the www.shepherdfreight.co.uk website and the mobile application (hereinafter referred to as the "Service").

Your privacy is important to us. Shepherd Freight is committed to respecting your privacy while using our website and mobile application. This Policy defines the requirements to ensure compliance with the applicable data privacy laws and regulations applicable to Shepherd Freight's collection, use, and transmission of Personal Data for information collected by us on our website.

We use your data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, the terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions.

For residents (data subjects) of the European Union, when we collect and use personal data (information) about you, we may be subject to the General Data Protection Regulation (‘GDPR’) of the European Union and responsible as a ‘data controller’ for such personal data.

For residents (consumers) of the United States, when we collect and use personal information about you, we may be subject to the applicable US Federal Protection Act (FPA) and responsible as a ‘business’ or ‘service provider’ for such personal data.

1. Definitions
• Services

Service means the www.shepherdfreight.co.uk website and the mobile application operated by Shepherd Freight.

• Personal Data

Personal Data means data about a living individual who can be identified from those data (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession).

• Usage Data

Usage Data is data collected automatically either generated using the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

• Cookies

Usage Cookies are small files stored on your device (computer or mobile device).

• Data Controller

Data Controller means the natural or legal person who (either alone or jointly or in common with other persons) determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal information are, or are to be, processed.

For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, we are a Data Controller of your Personal Data.

• Data Processors (or Service Providers)

Data Processor (or Service Provider) means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Data Controller. We may use the services of various Service Providers in order to process your data more effectively.

• Data Subject (or User)

Data Subject is any living individual who is using our Service and is the subject of Personal Data.

2. Information Collection and Use

We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.

3. Types of Data Collected
• Personal Data

While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you ("Personal Data"). Personally, identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

• Email address
• First name and last name
• Phone number
• Cookies and Usage Data

We may use your Personal Data to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials, and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt-out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or the instructions provided in any email we send.

• Usage Data

We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Service or when you access the Service by or through a mobile device ("Usage Data").

This Usage Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When you access the Service with a mobile device, this Usage Data may include information such as the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser you use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We may also obtain data from third parties including:

Social networks, when you grant permission to us to access your data on one or more networks through our website.

Service providers that help us determine a location based on your IP address in order to customise offerings and content to your location.

• Tracking Cookies Data

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and we hold certain information.

Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Other tracking technologies are also used such as beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyse our Service.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.

Examples of Cookies we use:

• Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.
• Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
• Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.
3. Use of Data

Shepherd Freight uses the collected data for various purposes:

• To provide and maintain our Service
• To notify you about changes to our Service
• To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so
• To provide customer support
• To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Service
• To monitor the usage of our Service
• To detect, prevent and address technical issues
• To provide you with news, special offers, and general information about other goods, services, and events that we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information
4. Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), Shepherd Freight's legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Data we collect and the specific context in which we collect it.

Shepherd Freight may process your Personal Data because:

• We need to perform a contract with you
• You have given us permission to do so
• The processing is in our legitimate interests and it is not overridden by your rights
• To comply with the law
5. Retention of Data

Shepherd Freight will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

Shepherd Freight will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer periods.

7. Transfer of Data

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction.

If you are located outside the United Kingdom and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to the United Kingdom and process it there.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

Shepherd Freight will take all the steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organisation or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

8. Disclosure of Data
• Business Transaction

If Shepherd Freight is involved in a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

• Disclosure for Law Enforcement

Under certain circumstances, Shepherd Freight may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

• Legal Requirements

Shepherd Freight may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

• To comply with a legal obligation
• To protect and defend the rights or property of Shepherd Freight
• To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
• To protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public
• To protect against legal liability
8. Security of Data

The security of your data is important to us but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

10. Our Policy on "Do Not Track" Signals under the European Law

We do not support Do Not Track ("DNT"). Do Not Track is a preference you can set in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked.

You can enable or disable Do Not Track by visiting the Preferences or Settings page of your web browser.

11. Your right to withdraw consent to the processing

If you have consented to us processing your personal data for a particular purpose, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, free of charge, by contacting us at www.shepherdfreight.co.uk/ContactUs. If you withdraw your consent to the processing, we may still contact you in connection with your account, relationship, activities, transactions, and communications with us.

Your right to withdraw consent to direct marketing

Please contact us at www.shepherdfreight.co.uk/ContactUs if you have consented to receive direct mail from us and would like to opt-out. If you have consented to receive promotional emails from us and would like to opt-out, please follow the unsubscribe instructions in each email. If you opt-out of receiving promotional correspondence from us, we may still contact you in connection with your account, relationship, activities, transactions, and communications with us.

If you have consented, but later prefer that we not share your personal data with third-party marketers, please contact us. This includes if you would like to opt-out of receiving advertisements from us when you visit and/or log in to third-party websites. (Note that we never share your payment information with other marketers.) If you do request that we stop sharing your personal data with third parties for their direct marketing purposes, it is also prudent to contact that third party directly.

12. Your right to have an electronic copy of your personal data transmitted.

Where we hold personal data about you with your consent or for the performance of a contract with you, you also have the right to ask us to provide you with the personal data we hold about you in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and, where technically feasible, to transmit that personal data to another organisation.

Your right to lodge a complaint with the local data protection authority.

You have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection authority if you believe that we have not complied with applicable data protection laws.

If you are based in the UK, the Information Commissioner's Office can be contacted as follows:

Telephone: +44 0303 123 1113
Email: casework@ico.org.uk
Website: www.ico.org.uk
Web-form: www.ico.org.uk/concerns/
Address: Water Lane, Wycliffe House, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF

If you are based elsewhere in the European Economic Area (EEA), please use this link for a list of local data protection authorities in the EEA countries in which we operate:
http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/article-29/structure/data-protectionauthorities/index_en.htm.

Any questions?

If you have any questions or concerns about the identity of the data controller(s) of your information and/or any questions about this Privacy & Security Policy and/or about the privacy policies and practices of our service providers, please email us from our Contact Us page at www.shepherdfreight.co.uk/ContactUs or at info@shepherdfreight.co.uk, or write to us at Customer Services, (Unit 1105), Safestore Newcross, 737, Old Kent Road, London, SE15 1JL, United Kingdom.

Attn: Privacy Officer.

13. Service Providers

We may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service ("Service Providers"), provide the Service on our behalf, perform Service-related services, or assist us in analysing how our Service is used.

These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

14. Links to Other Sites

Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

15. Children's Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 ("Children").

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

16. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "effective date" at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

17. Contact Us

For any legal concern/question, please contact us at info@shepherdfreight.co.uk

 

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