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Privacy Policy

Customer and Business Partner Privacy Notice

Telensa is committed to protecting your privacy and keeping the personal information provided to us confidential. This Privacy Notice explains how we collect and use your personal information.

Who we are

We are Telensa Ltd, a private limited company (registered with company number 04498125).

Our registered address is Iconix 3, London Road, Pampisford, Cambridge, England CB22 3EG. We have appointed a Data Protection Officer who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this privacy notice.  For any questions or reasonable enquiry related to the protection of your data in Signify and Telensa, or regarding this Policy in general, you can contact the Signify Privacy Office:

Mail: Signify – Attn: Privacy Office – Basisweg 10, 1043 AP Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Online: privacy request form

What personal information do we collect?

We collect personal information to offer and provide you with our services and products. “Personal Information” is information that identifies you as an individual or relates to an identifiable individual.

When you contact us, by completing a website form, phoning us or emailing us:

When you complete a website form, phone us or contact us by email with general queries, we will collect the following information from you: your name, company name, email address, phone number, country and any other details you provide to us. We collect this information in order to provide the customer service you have asked us to. This could be when you ask us to provide more information about our products, or explain how our products work.

In handling your personal information in this way, we rely on our legitimate interest to promote Telensa and be able to respond to your queries. If you do not provide us with the personal information we request from you for customer services purposes, we may not be able to fully answer your queries.

If you are contacting us because you are a customer and support services are included in your contract with us, then we need to use your personal information in this way to complete the contract in place between us, in which case we will process your personal data under contractual grounds.

When you have expressed an interest in Telensa:

Telensa only engages in B2B direct marketing communications. This section applies if you have chosen to receive marketing communications from us or have previously expressed an interest in Telensa and not opted out. We will handle your personal information (such as your name, email address, postal address and telephone number) to provide you with marketing communications in line with any preferences you have told us about.

We rely on our legitimate interest to promote Telensa’s products and services to handle your personal information in this way. Every email we send to you for marketing purposes will also contain instructions on how to unsubscribe from receiving them. You are not under any obligation to provide us with your personal data for marketing purposes.

You can tell us that you do not want your personal information to be processed in this way at any time be contacting us at www.telensa.com/contact or, where relevant, by following the unsubscribe link shown in every marketing communication you receive from us.

Technical information and analytics:

We collect Technical information and analytics when you visit our websites by way of using cookies or similar tracking technologies. Please see our Cookie Notice for more information.

How do we use your information?

We may use the information that you or a third party provide for the following purposes:

  • Provision of products and services that you request; in which case we rely on legitimate interest as a grounds for processing.
  • Establishment and maintenance of (sales) communications with you; in which case we rely on legitimate interest as a grounds for processing.
  • Marketing activities about related products and offers; in which case we rely on legitimate interest as a grounds for processing.
  • Notification of events or changes to our services; in which case we rely on legitimate interest as a grounds for processing.
  • Improvement or modification of our website, the identification of usage trends, or web-marketing, in which case we rely on Consent as a legal basis for processing.
  • Management of payments / invoicing to customers (including dispatching of orders and management of deliveries), in which case we rely on Contractual necessity as a legal basis for processing.
  • Management of incidents, in which case we reply on Contractual necessity as a legal basis for processing.
  • Provision of support, in which case we reply on Contractual necessity as a legal basis for processing in case you are an existing customer or legitimate interest in case you are not.

Where do we store your data?

Most of your data is stored within the UK or the EEA. Whenever we transfer your personal information outside of the UK, we ensure it is protected by making sure at least one of the following safeguards is in place:

  • By transferring your personal information to a country that has been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection;
  • By using specific contracts (Standard Contractual Clauses) which gives your personal information the same protection it has under the EEA or UK; or
  • Where we use providers not in jurisdictions not deemed to ensure an adequate or equivalent level of protection as those in the EEA or UK, we may transfer personal data to them if additionally to the Standard Contractual Clauses, we have assessed the legal landscape of the jurisdiction and have adopted the necessary supplementary measures.

To keep this Privacy Notice as short and easy to understand as possible, we have not set out the specific circumstances when each of these protection measures are used. Please contact us in case you would require more information.

How long do we retain your data for?

We will retain your personal information for the period necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal or accounting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for the personal information we hold, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal information, the risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal information, the reasons why we handle your personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data so that it can no longer be associated with you for research or statistical purposes, in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

Disclosure

We share your data with the businesses that provide IT and related services to us, such as our customer relationship management systems, and website hosting. We only share the types of data that those businesses need in order to provide us with those services and we make sure our data sharing is governed by a contract that controls what those businesses can do with that data.

We may also share your information for legal or regulatory purposes. In addition, in the event that we sell any business or assets, we may be required to disclose your information to the prospective seller or buyer. The third parties to whom we may disclose your information are obliged to comply with laws and regulations to keep your information confidential and secure. If they would like to use your information for any other purpose, they must notify you and obtain your consent.

Your rights

Under the applicable data protection laws you have a number of important rights free of charge. In summary, those include:

  • If we rely on your consent as a legal basis for processing your data, you may withdraw your consent at any time.
  • The right to object: you have the right to object to us handling your personal information when: we are handling your personal information based on our legitimate interests (as described in the “what information do we collect” section above). If you ask us to stop handling your personal information in this way, we will stop unless we can show you that we have compelling grounds as to why our use of your personal information should continue. Your right to object is absolute for those processing operations that relate to direct marketing. If you ask us to stop handling your personal information on this basis, we will stop.
  • the right of access: you are entitled to receive confirmation as to whether your personal information is being processed by us, as well as various other information relating to our use of your personal information. You also have the right to access your personal information which we are handling.
  • the right of rectification: you have the right to require us to rectify any inaccurate personal information we hold about you. You also have the right to have incomplete personal information we hold about you completed, by providing a supplementary statement to us.
  • the right of restriction: you can restrict our processing of your personal information where:
    • you think we hold inaccurate personal information about you;
    • our handling of your personal information breaks the law, but you do not want us to delete it;
    • we no longer need to process your personal information, but you want us to keep it for legal reasons; or
    • where we are handling your personal information because we have a legitimate interest (as described in the “what information do we collect” section above, and are in the process of objecting to this use of your personal information.
    • Where you exercise your right to restrict us from using your personal information, we will then only process your personal information when you agree, except for storage purposes and to handle legal claims.
  • the right to data portability: you have the right to receive your personal information in a structured, standard machine readable format and to send this to another organisation controlling your personal information. This right only applies to your personal information we are handling because there is a contract in place between us.
  • the right to erasure: you have the right to require us to erase your personal information which we are handling in the following circumstances:
    • where we no longer need to use your personal information for the reasons we told you we collected it for;
    • when you object to our use of your personal information and we have no compelling reasons to carry on handling it;
    • if our handling of your personal information has broken the law; and
    • when we must erase your personal information to comply with a law we are subject to.
  • the right to lodge a complaint: you have the right to lodge a complaint with the ICO (please see the “how to complain” section below).

For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, see the Guidance from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on individuals’ rights under the General Data Protection Regulation. If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please contact us (see “how to contact us” below). If you would like to unsubscribe from any email you can also click on the ‘unsubscribe’ button at the bottom of the email or newsletter. It may take a few days for the change to take effect.

Keeping your personal information secure

We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way. We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to know it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality. We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.

Websites that we link to

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks and affiliates. Our site connects you to different websites. If you follow a link to any of these websites or use our services, please not that you have left our site and these websites have their own privacy policies. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies or websites. Please check their policies before your submit any personal information to these websites.

How to complain

We hope that we can resolve any query or concern you raise about our use of your information. The General Data Protection Regulation also gives you right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the European Union (or European Economic Area) state where you work, normally live or where any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred. The supervisory authority in the UK is the Information Commissioner who may be contacted at ico.org.uk/concerns.

Changes to this privacy notice

This privacy notice was last updated on 26 July 2022. We may change our Privacy Notice from time to time. We will notify you of any amendments or modifications to our Privacy Notice by posting the revised notice on our Website. Your continued use of our Website or Services following the posting of the revised Privacy Notice will constitute acceptance of our terms. You should check this notice occasionally to ensure you are aware of the most recent version.

How to contact us

For any questions or reasonable enquiry related to the protection of your data in Signify and Telensa, or regarding this Policy in general, you can contact the Signify Privacy Office:

Mail: Signify – Attn: Privacy Office – Basisweg 10, 1043 AP Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Online: privacy request form