PRIVACY POLICY

We ask that you read this website privacy policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are, how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information, your rights in relation to your personal information and on how to contact us and supervisory authorities in the event you have a complaint.

This website privacy policy is divided into the following sections:

1                 Who we are

2                  Our website

3                  Our collection and use of your personal data 

4                  Transfer of your information out of the EEA

5                  Cookies and similar technologies

6                  Marketing

7                  Your rights

8                  Keeping your personal information secure

9                  How to complain

10            Changes to this website privacy policy

11              How to contact us

1. Who we are 

This website is operated by British Footwear Association Limited. We are trade association for the footwear industry.

We collect, use and are responsible for certain personal information about you. When we do so we are regulated under the General Data Protection Regulation which currently applies across the European Union (including in the United Kingdom) and we are responsible as ‘controller’ of that personal information for the purposes of those laws.

This privacy policy relates to your use of www.bfashoe.school, and https://britishfootwearassociation.co.uk.

Throughout our website we may link to other websites owned and operated by certain trusted third parties. These other third party websites may also gather information about you in accordance with their own separate privacy polices. For privacy information relating to these other third party websites, please consult their privacy policies as appropriate.

3. Our collection and use of your personal information 

We collect personal information about you when you access our website, register with us, contact us, send us feedback, purchase services via our website, post material to our website and compete customer surveys or participate in competitions.

We collect this personal information from you either directly, such as when you register with us, contact us or purchase services via our website or indirectly, such as your browsing activity while on our website (see ‘Cookies’ below).

4. Transfer of your information out of the EEA

• Wewill not transfer your personal information to entities located outside the European Economic Area (EEA) as follows.

5. Cookies and similar technologies

A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your device (e.g. computer, smartphone or other electronic device) when you use our website. We use cookies on our website. These help us recognise you and your device and store some information about your preferences or past actions.

For further information on cookies please see our Cookie Policy.

6. Marketing

We would like to send you information about products and services, which may be of interest to you. Where we have your consent or it is in our legitimate interests to do so, we may do this by post, email, telephone, or automated call.

If you have previously agreed to being contacted in this way, you can unsubscribe at any time by:

contacting us at info@britishfootwearassociation.co.uk

using the ‘unsubscribe’ link in emails

For more information on your rights in relation to marketing, see ‘Your rights’ below.

7. Your rights 

• Under the General Data Protection Regulation you have a number of important rights free of charge. In summary, those include rights to:

  
  

  • fair processing of information and transparency over how we use your use personal information

  • access to your personal information and to certain other supplementary information that this Privacy Policy is already designed to address

  • require us to correct any mistakes in your information which we hold

  • require the erasure of personal information concerning you in certain situations

  • receive the personal information concerning you which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to a third party in certain situations

  • object at any time to processing of personal information concerning you for direct marketing

  • object to decisions being taken by automated means which produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you

  • object in certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal information

  • otherwise restrict our processing of your personal information in certain circumstances
    
  • claim compensation for damages caused by our breach of any data protection laws
    
    

  • 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: 

    
    

    • email, call or write to us,

    • let us have enough information to identify you,

    • let us have proof of your identity and address (a copy of your driving licence or passport and a recent utility or credit card bill), and

    • let us know the information to which your request relates.

8. Keeping your personal information secure 

• We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost, or 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.

9. 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 the 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 https://ico.org.uk/concerns/ or telephone: 0303 123 1113.

10. Changes to this website privacy policy

This website privacy policy was published on last updated on 16 December 2019.

We may change this website privacy policy from time to time, when we do we will inform you via email.

11. How to contact us 

Please contact us if you have any questions about this privacy notice or the information we hold about you.

If you wish to contact us, please send an email to info@britishfootwearassociation.co.uk, write to British Footwear Association, 3 Burystead Place, Wellingborough, NN8 1AH or call +44 (0) 1933 229 005.