Privacy Policy

Name: The Competition Platform
Address: 145a Bradfield Road, Sheffield, S6 2BY
Phone Number: 0114 281 5760
E-mail: data@dmri.co.uk

The type of personal information we collect

We currently collect and process the following information:
• Personal identifiers, contacts and characteristics (for example, name, job title and contact details)
• How you heard about us
• What service you are interested in
• Your marketing preferences
• Past history with us

How we get the personal information and why we have it

Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you for one of the following reasons:
• To provide the service we offer and fulfil our obligation to you
• Verification to maintain the security of the service and personal information
• Personalise communication to you
• To be able to contact you
• Personalise your experience of the site
• Make improvements to the site
• Make improvements to the service
• Identify when we are dealing with multiple contacts at one company and streamline the experience of the company
• Carry out market research
• Send marketing communications about our products and services. This could be via email, phone, post or direct mail
• To profile your data and ensure you receive the most appropriate service – this can be done manually and via artificial intelligence and automation.

We collect this information when you do the following:

• When you contact us by email, phone, social media, through on a form on our website, a stand-alone contact form, a response to an advert, write to us or other form of direct contact.
• When you visit our website
• When you visit our social media sites
• When we are engaging with you in a conversation, via phone, Skype, Zoom, email or social media in relation to discussing the possibility of working together
• Engaging with or requesting information from webinars, white papers, surveys or other types or marketing or information based communications
• When you interact with a third party and it clearly states they may share your details with us
• We may also check and store information that is publicly available such as Company’s House, LinkedIn, social media company websites,

We may share this information with by third parties we use to run our service, add improved processors. This means it could be stored outside the European Economic Area (EEA). It may also be processed by employees operating outside the European Economic Area who are working either directly for us or one of our suppliers or partners where an adequate level of protection is in place.

If the company is acquired in its entirety or partially then the data held on you may be shared with the acquiring company or group of companies. This data could be used to identify where they already have a relationship with you and/or inform you of the change in ownership, additional or changed service.

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are:
Your consent. You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting 0114 3990 828
We have a contractual obligation.
We have a legitimate interest.


How we store your personal information

We use a variety of methods to safeguard your data and are continually monitoring and improving this area. Even though we take these measures, we cannot guarantee its security if you transfer information over the internet to us.

All employees are trained on the importance of data security.

Your data protection rights

Under data protection law, you have rights including:
Your right of access – You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.

Your right to rectification – You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.

Your right to erasure – You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to object to processing – You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to data portability – You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.
Please contact us at data@dmri.co.uk if you wish to make a request.

How to complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at data@dmri.co.uk

Media

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Cookies

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If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

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These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

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How long we retain your data

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For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

Suggested text: If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

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