FSSI Group (UK) Ltd. ("FSSI Group", "we", "our", "us"), and our affiliated companies, are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. We are a UK based company, with our principal office located at Marston Trussel, and for the purpose of this policy and the General Data Protection Regulation (the "GDPR"), we are the data controller. When you visit the FSSI Group website, www.fssint.com ("Website"), you may provide us with specific personal information about yourself, such as your name, e-mail address, or telephone number via our "Contact Us" function. In addition, FSSI Group will receive some general information regarding your use of the Website, such as your browser information or your Internet Protocol (IP) address. This Privacy Policy describes the types of information that FSSI Group receives from you when you visit our Website, what we do with it, how we protect it, and how you can contact us if you have a question or concern about the information we hold about you.
If you are a FSSI Group client, you may have access to software or functions in restricted areas of our Website that permit you to input information regarding your clients or insureds. This Privacy Policy does not apply to such information, as the treatment of such information is governed by your (or your employer's) agreement with FSSI Group permitting you to use the applicable software or functions. In addition to the terms of any agreement, it is your responsibility to ensure that you have the authority to input such information and that you are doing so in accordance with your (or your employer's) agreement with FSSI Group and any applicable laws and regulations, including privacy and data protection laws and regulations.
Your use of this Website is also subject to the Terms of Use and other Legal terms and conditions.
FSSI Group receives Personal Information or General Usage Information from you when you visit our Website. By "Personal Information", we mean information such as your name, e-mail address, telephone number, login information, mailing address, address, job title, and other information that personally identifies you. FSSI Group only receives Personal Information about you if you choose to provide it to us. FSSI Group receives Personal Information from you when you:
We will also receive your Personal Information when our Website directs you to a third party's website to complete one of the above transactions, such as a website that processes your registration and credit card information for a FSSI Group event. By "General Usage Information", we mean your browser information, your IP address, device information, operating system, the pages you access on the Website or other information regarding your use of the Website. Personal Information and General Usage Information together will be referred to in this policy as "Information".
In general, we use your Personal Information to complete the transaction that you have requested from us. For example, we will use your Personal Information to:
By submitting your Personal Information, you hereby and consent and agree for FSSI Group to use your Personal Information for the purposes set forth above and marketing purposes, such as to tell you about FSSI Group news, events, products and services that we think may be of interest to you, and to seek feedback from you after you have purchased an FSSI Group product or service, attended an event, taken a training course, or entered into some other transaction with us. If you do not wish to receive these types of communication from us, you can let us know at any time in one of the ways described under "How can you contact FSSI Group about your Personal Information" in Section 9 below. With respect to General Usage Information, FSSI Group will use this information to monitor, protect, maintain and improve its Website, to measure and understand the effectiveness of the content FSSI Group serves to you and others.
FSSI Group does not sell your Information to anyone. Nor do we provide this Information to non-FSSI Group parties to market non-FSSI Group products to you. FSSI Group will share your Information with the following categories of recipients:
FSSI Group will also disclose your Information if we are required to do so by law, to enforce our Terms of Use, or in urgent circumstances to protect personal safety, the public, or our Website. We will also disclose your Information to third parties in the event that we sell any business or assets, in which case we will disclose your data to the prospective buyer of such business or assets or if we sell all or substantially all of our assets or are acquired by a third party, in which case information held by us about our users will be one of the transferred assets.#
Where the GDPR applies, you should be aware that this Website is hosted, and some FSSI Group companies and service providers who process your Personal Information are located, in the United Kingdom. As we expand we may store information in other territories in the future. Some of these countries do not always provide the same level of protection for your information. In these circumstances, your Personal Information is transferred within the FSSI Group group by way of the European Commission's model contracts for the transfer of Personal Information to third countries, pursuant to Decision 2004/915/EC or by way of the European Commission's model contracts for the transfer of Personal Information to third countries, pursuant to Decision 2010/87/EU (together, the "Model Clauses").
FSSI Group protects your Personal Information by maintaining up-to-date physical, electronic and procedural safeguards. For example, we use computer safeguards such as firewalls and data encryption. In addition, we only allow employees to access Personal Information only when required to fulfil their job responsibilities.
We will retain your Personal Information as follows:
In certain circumstances you have rights in relation to the Personal Information we hold about you. We set out below an outline of those rights and how to exercise those rights. Please note that we will require you to verify your identity before responding to any requests to exercise your rights by providing adequate proof of your identity, such as a passport or driver's license. To exercise any of your rights, please email info@fssint.com. Please note that for each of the rights below we may have valid legal reasons to refuse your request, in such instances we will let you know if that is the case.
Where you have provided your consent to us processing your Personal Information, you can withdraw your consent at any time by emailing info@fssint.com
At any time you have the right to object to our processing of data about you in order to send you promotions, special offers and other marketing materials, including where we build profiles for such purposes and we will stop processing the data for that purpose. You can object to processing of your data for marketing purposes at any time by emailing info@fssint.com
Like many websites, our Website uses "cookies" to collect information about how our Website is used. A cookie is a small data text file which a website stores on your computer's hard drive, if permitted by your web browser. A cookie can later be retrieved to identify you to us. For example, cookies can securely store a user's password, identify which parts of a site have been visited, and keep track of past selections. We use cookies for the limited purposes of enhancing your visit to our Website and to enable us to track usage so that we can improve the website and our offerings to you. FSSI Group uses the following categories of cookies:
Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your browser to notify you when you have received a cookie, or alternatively, to refuse to accept cookies. However, you may not be able to use certain features on our website if you choose not to accept cookies. You can find more information about cookies and how to manage them at http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.
If you choose to allow non-essential cookies, we may use Google Analytics which is a web analytics tool that helps us understand how users engage with the Website. Like many services, Google Analytics uses first-party cookies to track user interactions as in our case, where they are used to collect information about how users use our site. This information is used to compile reports and to help us improve our Website. The reports disclose website trends without identifying individual visitors. You can opt out of Google Analytics without affecting how you visit our site - for more information on opting out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites you use, visit this Google page: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. You can manage whether you want to allow non-essential cookies at any point on our dedicated cookies policy page.
Some web browsers give the ability to prevent tracking of your online activity by setting a preference in your browser alerting websites you visit that you do not want them to track your online activities. This is referred to as a Do Not Track ("DNT") signal. This is different than blocking or deleting cookies, as browsers with an enabled DNT Signal may still accept cookies. Please note that the Website may not recognize or take action in response to DNT signals from your browser. Currently, there is no accepted industry standard for what a company should do when a DNT signal is detected. In the event a final standard is established, we will assess how to appropriately respond to these signals and we will update this Privacy Policy accordingly. For more information about DNT signals please visit http://allaboutdnt.com.
Our Website includes social media features and widgets which allow you to share articles from our website, etc. These features are usually recognizable by their third party brand or logo and may collect your IP address, and set a cookie to enable the feature to work properly. These social media features and widgets are hosted by a third party and are not covered by this Privacy Policy. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.
From time to time you will receive an e-mail or other communication from us regarding FSSI Group products, services or information which we believe to be of interest to you. If you are not interested in receiving this information, you may follow the instructions in the communication explaining how you may be removed from our distribution list. Alternatively, or if there are no instructions in the communication, you may send an e-mail to info@FSSI Group.com requesting removal from our distribution list. We will endeavour to take prompt action to process your request. You may send all other inquiries regarding your Personal Information, including requests to correct or update your Personal Information, to info@fssint.com
In the event that you wish to make a complaint about how we process your Personal Information, please contact us in the first instance at info@fssint.com and we will endeavour to deal with your request as soon as possible. This is without prejudice to your right to raise a complaint with the data protection supervisory authority in the EU country in which you live or work where you think we have infringed data protection laws.
This Privacy Policy was last updated in May 2018. FSSI Group reserves the right to modify, amend, add to, replace or remove this Privacy Policy at any time. You are advised to check the Privacy, Terms of Use and Legal links on the Website for updates whenever you visit the Website.