Purple CV Limited (“we” or “us”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This privacy policy explains how we use any personal information we collect about you when you use this website (www.purplecv.co.uk or the “Site”)
By visiting this website, you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy.
For the purpose of the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation), the data controller is Purple CV, a company registered in England and Wales under company number 08572690, with its registered office at Portland Road Business Centre, 51 Portland Road, Kingston, England, KT1 2SH.
We are a registered data controller with the Information Commissioner’s Office under number ZA028383.
We will collect and process the following categories of data about you:
We use various third parties to provide us with information to help us learn about how visitors use our website. To find out more about how these third parties may use your information, please click on their name below to see their privacy policies:
The information we collect or receive from you will be stored for as long as is reasonably necessary to enable us to provide you with the services you have requested from us, to comply with any legal obligations that require us to keep information, or for as long as we reasonably require for our legitimate interests, such as for the purposes of exercising our legal rights or defending ourselves against claims.
All information that we collect or receive from you, whether of a personal or technical nature, may be used by us in the following ways:
Where your consent has been provided in advance, we may allow selected third parties to use your data to enable them to provide you with information regarding unrelated goods and services which we believe may interest you. Where such consent has been provided, it can be withdrawn by you at any time.
Information we receive from other sources. We will combine this information with information you give to us and information we collect about you. We will use this information and the combined information for the purposes set out above (depending on the types of information we receive).
We will not disclose your personal information to any other party other than in accordance with this Privacy Policy and in the circumstances detailed below:
We will disclose your personal information to third parties:
Should you receive any information or data which does not pertain to you, we ask that you delete the information and contact us immediately.
All information that you provide to us is stored on our, or our selected business partners’, secure servers and we will take reasonable steps to protect your information in accordance with this policy, including (without limitation):
Some of our external third parties are based outside the European Economic Area (EEA) so their processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data outside the EEA.
Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:
Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of the Site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of any data transmitted to the Site and any such 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.
You have the following rights under law in respect of your personal information:
Should you wish to exercise any of these rights, you may do so at any time by emailing us at customerservices@purplecv.co.uk.
If you feel that your rights have been breached in any way, you should contact us at the email given above or lodge an official complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office via their website (https://ico.org.uk) or by writing to:
Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.
On occasion we include links to third parties on this website. Where we provide a link it does not mean that we endorse or approve that site’s policy towards visitor privacy. You should review these privacy policies before submitting any personal data to these websites.
Any changes we make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.
Please do not hesitate to contact us regarding any matter relating to this privacy policy at customerservices@purplecv.co.uk.
Live Chat
We use a live chat service on our website provided by a third party called Chat Heroes. Their privacy policy is available here: http://chatheroes.com/privacy-policy/
When you use our live chat service, we automatically collect the following information: IP address, browser type and operating system.
We will also collect your name, phone number, email address and any other information which you provide to us in order to follow up on an enquiry. If your enquiry is dependant on location, we may also need to confirm a postcode.
Transfer and storage of your information
The information collected by our live chat service is processed by Chat Heroes and their third party chat service provider, SnapEngage, the privacy policy of which is available here: https://snapengage.com/privacy-policy/. SnapEngage stores your information for 60 days.
A transcript of your live chat is forwarded to us by SnapEngage via email and stored on our email provider’s servers.
Live Chat Cookies
Our live chat service uses functional cookies to allow it to function properly. For further information on these cookies, please see our cookies policy, which is available here: https://purplecv.co.uk/cookie-policy.html
Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
Legitimate interests: we have a legitimate interest in collecting your IP address, browser information and device to better understand our customers as they access our website and live chat service.
We have a legitimate interest in collecting your name, email address, phone number and any additional information you provide in order to be able to respond to your enquiry and messages you submit via our live chat service. We ask for your phone number and email address in case we are unable to reach you on one of those means and to ensure that we are able to respond to your enquiry as quickly and effectively as possible.
We ask for your name so that we know who we will be contacting, to allow us to ensure we are contacting the correct person and for legal and evidential purposes so that we can identify what we have said to whom and when.
Legal basis for processing : necessary to perform a contract or to take steps at your request to enter into a contract with you (Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
Reason why necessary to perform a contract : where your message or enquiry relates to our goods and services, we will collect your information in order to enter into a contract with you or take steps to enter into a contract with you. This includes the collection of your name, email address and phone number so we know who we are contracting with and so that we can provide you with the information you need in order to be able to enter into a contract with you.
How Long We Retain Your information
Live chat transcripts : we store the information from our live chat service for a maximum period of seven (7) years in order to defend against legal claims. This period is the maximum period in which a claim form can be issued and served in respect of contract and tort claims under the Limitation Act 1980 under English law.
Transfers of your information outside the European Economic Area
Live chat
Information you submit to us by email is transferred outside the EEA and stored on SnapEngage’s servers in the United States of America.
Country of storage : United States of America. This country is not subject to an adequacy decision by the European Commission.
Safeguard(s) used : our SnapEngage has self-certified its compliance with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield which is available https://www.privacyshield.gov/ . The EU-U.S. Privacy Shield is an approved certification mechanism under Article 42 of the General Data Protection Regulation, which is permitted under Article 46(2)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation. You can access the European Commission decision on the adequacy of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/international-dimension-data-protection/eu-us-data-transfers_en
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