Privacy policy

î Privacy policy

At Target Internet we regard your privacy as important.

We may collect information about you via our website, www.targetinternet.com.

The information we collect about you, if you agree to provide it, will allow us to contact you and send information to you about our products and/or services which you have registered an interest in.

  • In providing us your information, you thereby consent to us processing it for this purpose.
  • We will not pass your information on to any third party, other than authorities and the police in the event of any investigation, without your express permission, except as defined herein for the provision of services that you have requested.
  • Email addresses and contact details are not shared with any other user of the site unless you have explicitly chosen to do so.

By visiting our website and completing any of the consent processes (i.e. subscribing to a service and/or providing your contact information in a contact form), you accept and consent to the practices defined in this Privacy Policy.

For the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR);

  • the data controller is Target Internet.
  • Target Internet uses third-party processors to deliver specific services (see “Processors” below).

Information that we may collect from you

We may collect and/or process the following data about you:

  • Information you provide to us – by filling in forms on our website www.targetinternet.com or by entering into a contract with us, or by correspondence with us by email, letter, phone or other methods, which includes data provided by you by registering to use our website, or by subscribing for newsletters or other information services, or by joining our online learning platform, or by placing an order for products or services, and when reporting a problem with our site, or otherwise contacting us.
  • Personally Identifiable Information (PII) – the information you give us may include; your name, address, email address, IP address, phone number, together with financial and credit card information. All of which is PII and subject to the UK GDPR.

When do we collect your data

Members

If you register as a Member, we collect data when you:

  • register as a Member;
  • update your details or settings, complete our skills benchmark, access our content, make purchases and fill in contact forms.

Non-Members

If you use our website or contact us but are not a registered Member, we collect data when you:

  • use our site and subdomains (whether or not you are a Member);
  • when you make a complaint or enquiry or provide other feedback to us;
  • in monitoring your communications and/or use of our site we ensure and check compliance with the Terms of Use or otherwise as required by law;
  • when you disclose your data to us or otherwise through the site at any other point;

Data protection – all PII data we hold is protected by us in accordance with the Principles (Article 5) of the UK GDPR.

Data security – We endeavour to take all reasonable steps to protect your data. All the data collected by us is stored on a secure server in a secure hosting facility and we take all reasonable steps to ensure all accesses are pre-authorised and recorded.

Data encryption – all PII data is segmented and held in AES256 encrypted files to ensure protection. We retain a copy file within our on-premises devices together with a duplicate backup on our one-drive account within a UK data centre.

Information we collect about you

When using our website data may be automatically collected, comprisesing the following:

Technical information - such as your internet protocol (IP) address, login information, time zone, browser type and version (with plug-in types/versions), and device information (operating system and platform).

Information about your visit, such as - such as your Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) visited (including the date and time); products viewed/searched; site statistics; interactions (scrolling, clicks, mouse-overs); exit pages/methods; phone numbers used to call our customer service number; the route to our site (for example, from a search engine link, including the search engine’s address and search term used); e-learning content you interacted with (including scores and questions completed); answers to our skills benchmark questions; and webinars you attended and your interactions during those webinars.

Our website will not store any identifying information of your visit on your computer apart from a small text file called a cookie. A cookie in itself does not contain any identifying information and does not mean that you have entered the site. (See our Cookies Policy for more detail on cookies.)

See the cookies policy link at the end of this document for more detail on cookies.

Third-parties may also provide information to us about you, specifically from any of the following:

  • our business partners and/or sub-contractors;
  • credit reference agencies for payment and delivery services;
  • advertising and marketing services;
  • our technical and analytics providers; or
  • our search engine and search information providers.

How your information is used

Information that you provide to us to meet our obligations within any contracts between you and us, is used as follows:

  • to meet your requests for information, and/or products and services;
  • to notify you of changes to our products or services, or make suggestions/recommendations that may interest you;
  • to improve content of our site and ensure it is presented effectively for you and your device;

Information that we collect about you is used as follows:

  • to manage our website as well as for our efficient operations, which includes analysis, research, statistical and survey uses, together with testing and troubleshooting;
  • to improve our website and content for users and their devices;
  • to allow you to interact with our website and take advantage of our online services, whenever you may elect to do so;
  • to ensure our site and subdomains are safe and secure by monitoring activities within the context of continual process improvement, which is a best practice requirement under UK GDPR;
  • to monitor advertising and marketing effectiveness for users, and/or to fine-tune advertising by relevance to users;
  • to enable targeted suggestions/recommendations to users about products and services that may be of interest;
  • to compile anonymised analysis of digital skills, objectives and plans.

Information we receive from other sources is used as follows:

  • we may use third-party information, which may be combined with information you provided to us and/or information collected by us, which may be used for the purposes we have defined above.

Know your rights

Under the UK GDPR all individuals, who are the owners of their personally identifiable information (PII), have specific and clear rights, which are;

 

UK GDPR

Individual Rights

Description

Right to Erasure

Every individual has the right to be forgotten (to have their personal data deleted) upon request. The data controller must remove your PII data from its systems and request that any third parties holding your data also delete it.

Right to Access

Every individual has the right to access the PII data held about them upon request.

Right to Portability

Every individual has the right to request their PII data and use it for other parties they wish to engage with.

Right to be Informed

Every individual has the right to be informed about how their PII data is being used, which may be provided upon request of the individual, or before the controller changes any use of that data, giving the individual the right to consent or object.

Right to Object

Every individual has the right to object to the use of their PII data for any purpose proposed by a controller.

Right to Rectification

Every individual has the right to have errors in their PII data to be corrected.

Right to Restrict

Every individual has the right to restrict the uses of their PII data for any specific type of processing.

Rights on automated decisions & profiling

Every individual has the right to restrict or object to automated decision making processes or profiling based on their PII data.

Revoke your consent 

In accordance with the UK GDPR, to revoke consent for processing of your data send an email with the word “Revoke” in the subject field to [email protected].

Data Subject Access Request (D-SAR)

in accordance with the UK GDPR, you may request:

  • that we send you details about any PII data that we hold about you;

  • that we correct any errors in your data;

  • that we delete any/all PII data about you.

In accordance with the UK GDPR, any D-SAR will be provided free of charge within 30 days, unless a particular request is subject to other regulatory requirements as defined within the UK GDPR. In such a case, we will inform you as required by those specific regulations.

Third Parties 

Where relevant, we may pass your data to our employees, suppliers, and agents to administer your Membership and the services provided to you by us or them, now or in the future.

We may also disclose your data to the police, regulatory bodies or legal advisers in connection with any alleged criminal offence or suspected breach of our Terms of Use by you, or otherwise where required by law.

Third-Party Processors

We use the following third parties to process your data and deliver services for the purposes shown. These processors have access to some of your personally identifiable information (PII) as necessary for the purpose specified:

Third Party Processors

Processor ID

Purpose

AWS

Website and elearning hosting

Hubspot

Contact Information for announcements, newsletters and marketing segmentation

Microsoft Outlook

Contact information for administrative activity, marketing, reporting, contact information for webinars and group meetings

Microsoft Sharepoint

Contact information for administrative activity, marketing, reporting, contact information for webinars and group meetings

Microsoft Teams

Contact information for administrative activity, marketing, reporting, contact information for webinars and group meetings

PayPal (USA)

Contact and payment information for accounting

Stripe

Contact and payment information for accounting

Zoom 

Contact Information for webinars and group meetings

Target Internet also use internal systems to hold and manage member information, such as Microsoft Office.

Links to other sites

Our site may contain links to other websites that can be accessed through our site. Please note that we are not responsible for the data policies, content, or security of these linked websites. We do not have any control over any third parties that those sites may use if you choose to purchase products or services or otherwise contact them via our site.

Transfer outside the UK/EEA

We transfer your information outside of the United Kingdom and the European Economic Area (EEA), including to the United States of America (USA).

Where we do so, we will ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place in accordance with applicable data protection laws (such as the UK GDPR and EU GDPR). For example, when transferring personal data to our service providers in the USA, we rely on mechanisms such as the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (and the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, where applicable) or on Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) to ensure your data is protected to standards equivalent to those under UK GDPR and EU GDPR.

Use of automated decision making and profiling

We use automated decision-making. We use web analytics and cookies to display relevant advertisements online, to decide who we should target marketing campaigns to, and to recommend relevant content based on your previous behaviour.

Data Retention Policy

User data is retained indefinitely while the user account is active, in order to meet our legal obligations. We reserve the right to delete inactive user data older than 2 years.

Contact

If you notice any errors (spelling, grammar or otherwise) in this policy document, please feel free to notify us using the contact details below.

For any questions relating to your PII data, or to submit a D-SAR, please contact our Data Protection Officer (DPO):

Susana Rowles - [email protected]

Target Internet Limited, The Elms, La Cheve Rue, St Mary, Jersey, JE3 3EN

 

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