For the purposes of this policy, "GSC" is defined as the GSC Ltd, "personal data" as data that identifies living individuals, "prospect" as a business in contact with but does not have an established relationship with GSC (or representative of a business) and the term "client" as a business with which GSC does have an established relationship (or representative of a business).
Information Collection — GSC collects personal data, such as name, addresses, emails, telephone numbers, transactional data, lifestyle and demographic data both online and offline through questionnaires, promotions, our partners, public sources, commercially available databases and our websites. Personal data may be kept in its identifiable form, or in an aggregated form (so that individuals cannot be identified), for the purposes listed below.
We may collect personal data online from individuals via our questionnaire websites and from prospects and clients to help us efficiently perform various business transactions. Personal data may be sought when requesting information from GSC, registering for a free trial or demonstration of certain products and services, signing up or subscribe to products and services, or participating in a special offer or contest. We may also use cookies to identify repeat visitors, and to collect statistical data that enable us to make our sites more user-friendly.
Information Uses and Disclosures — GSC, the GSC group of companies, and our partners and clients (where permitted by GSC) may use this personal data:
- to undertake research and analysis,
- to market their products and services,
- for product development and testing,
- for identity validation and fraud reduction,
- support client relationship,
- for work planning, management and strategic decision making, and
- for data hygiene, data integration, update and validation of files.
Personal data used in GSC’s data products and services may be passed to and used by members of the GSC group of companies worldwide, after obtaining appropriate permissions where applicable. We will only pass personal data outside this group to our contracted suppliers that process personal data on our behalf and to our clients and their subcontractors. When we do so, we ensure that appropriate contractual safeguards are put in place. These parties may be located in UK or abroad. GSC may also disclose personal data as required by law and to comply with legal process.
Data Subjects’ Rights — Individuals may access or correct their personal data, or withdraw their consent at any time by contacting us or by refusing technologies such as cookies.
Contact Us— Individuals wishing to inquire about our policies, to access or correct their personal data, or withdraw consent should contact GSC by writing to us at Consumer Services department, GSC Ltd, Unit 1-2, 5-11 Lavington Street, London, SE1 0NZ
Other Important Information
Compliance — GSC Ltd has notified its processing activities with the Information Commissioner We have implemented measures designed to ensure compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998, the Telecommunications Act 2003 and other applicable legislation as amended from time to time. Furthermore, GSC Compliance is checked annually by the Direct Marketing Association of which GSC is an active member.
Cookies— At all sites owned by GSC, where technologies such as "cookies" are used, web-browsers can be set to notify individuals when a cookie is received. This will give individuals the chance to choose whether to accept it or not. Detail explanation of the way cookies work is available at www.cookiecentral.com
Other Web Sites — GSC’s web site may contain links to other web sites which are outside our control and are not covered by this privacy policy. If individuals access other sites using these links, the operators of these sites may collect personal data for their own use from individuals in accordance with their own privacy policy, which may differ from ours.
Transfer of Assets — As GSC develops its business, there may be a change of control of GSC or divisions, subsidiaries, affiliates or portions of GSC. In this situation, personal data is typically considered a transferable asset. Also, in the event that GSC or a part of its divisions, affiliates or subsidiaries are purchased, personal data will be one of the transferred assets.
Security — GSC takes security seriously. We make considerable investments to keep our sites and systems secure and to prevent personal data from being made available to any unauthorised persons or businesses.
Changes To Our Privacy Policy — GSC reserves the right to update and revise this privacy policy from time to time to take into account legislative and other developments. Any changes we may make to our privacy policy will be posted on this page and contain an "effective date" reflecting when the last changes occurred.
Effective date: June 2008
