Effective date: 1 January 2021
Severine Collective Limited (“Severine Collective”, “we” or “us”) takes your privacy seriously and handles your personal information in accordance with all applicable privacy laws. This Privacy Policy sets out what information we collect, how we use it and your rights in respect of your personal information.
We collect personal information that you provide to us directly, or where we have let you know we will collect it from third parties, including:
- when you sign up to use Severine Collective’s services on our website;
- when you enter, upload or disclose information as part of using Severine Collective’s services on our website;
- when you contact us (by email or otherwise);
- information automatically using cookies, or other web measurement tools, as you use the Severine Collective website;
- to the extent permitted by applicable laws, your criminal history from the appropriate local authority. For this collection, we may ask you to provide us with a signed consent to collect that information (and we will not be able to accept you as a member of Severine Collective unless you do so); information about you from identity verification services such as Cloudcheck and Truepic;and
- information you choose to provide us with access to certain personal information stored by social media sites, such as Facebook, Instagram and Google, by associating an account managed by a third party with your Severine Collective account and authorising Severine Collective to have access to this information. The information we may receive varies by site and is controlled by that site.
The personal information we collect may include:
· yourname, gender, and date of birth;
· your contact details including your email address;
· your physical address and geo-location information;
· your identity verification;
· your criminal history;
· yourpayment and transaction information;
· arecord of how you use the Severine Collective website, including the amount of time you spend and your activities on the website;
· yourlog data and device information; and
· arecord of your communications with Severine Collective.
You are not obliged to provide us with this personal information. However, if for any reason you are unable to provide us with the personal information that we require for you to be accepted as a member of Severine Collective then we may refuse you access to the Severine Collective website and services.
We will only hold and use your personal information for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, and for any purpose disclosed at the time of collection or for any related purposes. Generally we will only use your personal information for the following purposes:
· to register you as a member of, and set up your account on,the Severine Collective website;
· to facilitate your access to, and use of, the Severine Collective website and for personalising your experience;
· tooperate, and analyse your use of, the Severine Collective website;
· to provide, improve and develop the Severine Collective website;
· to provide, personalise, measure, and improve our advertising and marketing,including, where you have provided your consent, to send you marketing messages(via email or text) about Severine Collective;
· to respond to any queries you make, including assisting with the resolution of technical support issues;
· to provide payment services;
· for our research and development purposes, including contacting you to ask you to evaluate and give us feedback on Severine Collective;
· to prevent illegal activity that threatens the Severine Collective website, our computer systems or networks;
· to create and maintain a trusted and safe environment; and
· to comply with any applicable laws and/or regulations.
We will only share your personal information:
· with other Severine Collective partners, employees, contractors, and third party providers involved in providing our services;
· with other Severine Collective members to help facilitate house swap bookings and other interactions between members;
· organisations which provide services to us, such as advertising agencies;
· where we have your consent to do so; or
· where we are required to do so by applicable law.
We rely on your consent as the basis for our use of your personal information. You can contact us to remove your consent at any time by emailing info@severinecollective.com.
Severine Collective is dedicated to keeping personal information secure. We will take all reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information provided by you is protected from misuse and loss, and from unauthorised access, modification, or disclosure. We'll only store your information for 5 years from your last log in to the Severine Collective website at which point we destroy it by securely erasing all digital data.
Severine Collective is required to keep your information accurate, up-to-date and relevant.
Wherever you are in the world, you have rights of access to and correction of personal information that Severine Collective holds. If you request a copy of your personal information we may charge a small fee for this service. You may correct or change the information collected at any time and Severine Collective will provide reasonable assistance with this.
If you are in the UK or Europe, you may have the following additional data protection rights under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR):
- the right to request copies of your personal information, and we may charge a small fee for this service;
- the right to request completion of information you believe is incomplete;
- the right to request we erase your personal information in certain circumstances;
- the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information and the right to object to our processing of your personal information in certain circumstances; and
- the right to request that we transfer your personal information we have collected to another organisation or directly to you, in certain circumstances.
To exercise any of your rights, contact us by emailing info@severinecollective.com.
The Severine Collective website uses both non-persistent and persistent cookies to manage visits to the site. Non-persistent cookies are temporary and are deleted when a browser session is closed and persistent cookies are used in order that third party vendors, such as Google, can serve ads based on a user's prior visits to the Severine Collective website.
Other than as noted above, information about a visit to the Severine Collective website is not permanently stored on a visitor's personal computer.
While Severine Collective recommends that you enable cookies in order to enjoy all the features of our website, this is entirely up to you.
Severine Collective uses services such as Google Analytics, which will issue cookies from their own servers and which will be able to track website visitors throughout the Severine Collective website and through any other sites that use those services. Severine Collective does not control how those cookies are issued, or the data that they store. Please refer to the Google Analytics Privacy Policy for more information.
We may change this Privacy Policy at any time and if we do, we will post the updated policy on the website. By continuing to use the website, you agree to the updated Privacy Policy. If you do not accept the contents of this Privacy Policy, please do not provide us with your personal information.
If you are in the UK or Europe and you are unhappy with how we have used your data, please contact us by emailing info@severinecollective.com. You can also complain to the ICO:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Helpline number: 0303123 1113
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, contactus by emailing info@severinecollective.com.
