Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

This policy describes how 5pm Limited, (we, us or our) collect (and then use) personal data obtained from you when you visit our website, related mobile applications or similar devices and our tools (the “Site”). We are committed to protecting the privacy of anyone who uses the Site.

We need to gather and use certain information about you otherwise we will be unable to provide you with certain marketing communications or fully process any bookings or purchases. You acknowledge and agree that your personal data may be processed in accordance with this policy.

We are the data controller in respect of any personal data we collect about you.

2. Collection of Your Personal Data

We collect and process the following information about you; this is for the purposes explained in section 3.

Information you give us

Including, without limitation, name, email address (personal and/or work), postal address, encrypted password(s), telephone number(s), date of birth, gender, interests, preferences, and competition entry details and answers

Information automatically collected from you

When you visit or use our Site, we automatically collect certain information from you, including but not limited to:

  • geo-location data
  • operating system and browser type
  • domain name requested
  • server log details
  • browser language
  • access times
  • application version, platform and settings
  • URL of the website you visited before browsing to our websites
  • time you spent on each page visited
  • URLs of the pages you visited on our websites
  • IP address used to connect your computer or mobile device to the internet
  • other information about your use of and actions on our websites

Information collected from third parties

Google Analytics – collects information about how visitors use our website

Authentication information – see section 10

Blueshift - collects information on preferences to allow personalisation

Marketing cookies - for more information about our use of cookies and other similar technologies, please see our cookie policy..

3. Use of Your Personal Data

We may use your personal data for any or all of the following purposes:

  • to facilitate and process your bookings or purchases.
  • to provide high levels of customer service (including assisting with any of your enquiries and bookings)
  • to help operate, maintain and improve our offering and our Site;
  • to notify you of any security and data breach alerts, and technical notices (including services messages and updates to our website and terms);
  • to communicate with you about our offers, promotions, and other news or those of our selected partners – this may be via email, telephone, text and/or message - you can change your marketing preferences (including the way in which we contact you) by visiting your preference centre within your 5pm account – see 11*;
  • to facilitate profiling, segmentation and personalisation – these may be based on location, preferences, interests and past actions;
  • to meet our legal obligations and for establishing, exercising or defending our legal rights;
  • to compile reports and to help us understand and improve our Site; and
  • to enable us to carry out targeted online advertising more likely to be relevant to you.

For more information about our use of cookies and other similar technologies, please see our cookie policy.

4. Sharing of Your Personal Data

We sometimes need to share the personal information we process with other organisations and, where necessary or required, we may share your personal data with the following categories of third parties:

  • offer providers, to deliver the service you have booked or purchased.
  • service providers and suppliers assisting with our business activities, business associates, payment services providers, hosting providers, providers of IT support, advertising platforms, providers of booking systems, providers of cloud-based software or services used by us, accounting firms and law firms;
  • ombudsman, regulators, public authorities and security organisations, such as the police, HM Revenue & Customs and the Information Commissioner’s Office, to the extent required by law, regulation, court order or if necessary to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights, including if we suspect fraud or attempted fraud;
  • financial organisations and advisors, credit reference agencies, debt collection and tracing agencies, and tenants;
  • staff including volunteers, agents and temporary and casual workers;
  • family, associates and representatives of the person whose personal data we are processing;

The subsequent processing by these third parties is governed by their own privacy policy and practices and not subject to our control.

5. Transfer of Your Personal Data Outside of the UK or the European Economic Area (EEA)

Some third parties to whom we may transfer your personal data may be located outside of the UK or the EEA. In the event of a transfer, we will seek to ensure that appropriate safeguards to protect your data are in place which could include entering into a data transfer agreement with such third parties to ensure adequate protection for your information. Examples of the types of contractual clauses we may use can be found at the following link.

6. Legal Basis for Processing Your Personal Data

We will process your personal data where it is necessary:

  • for the performance or entering into of a contract with you, including in order to provide our offering, process your payment and/or booking and to respond to enquiries and bookings made by you;
  • or compliance with our legal obligations;
  • for the purpose of furthering our legitimate interests including to:
  • enable you to access and use the Site;
  • improve our offering and Site;
  • operate our Site efficiently and effectively;
  • to communicate with you about our offering;
  • carry out behavioural advertising; and
  • prevent, detect and investigate fraud or illegal activity.

We may also process your personal data on the basis of any consent given by you. This consent may be updated by visiting our preference centre – see section 11*.

7. Protection of Your Personal Data

We are committed to protecting your personal data and to keeping it safe and confidential and ensure that appropriate technical and organisational physical, electronic and procedural safeguards are implemented to protect it. Access to your personal data will also be limited to our employees and certain third parties who process it on our behalf.

8. Storage of Your Personal Data

Unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law, we will only hold your personal information on our systems for the period necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy or until you request it is deleted.

If, having registered for any of our services, you do not use them for a reasonable time (which may vary depending on the service(s) you’ve registered for) we may contact you to ensure you’re still happy to receive communications from us. Even if we delete your personal information it may persist on back-up or archival media for legal, tax or regulatory purposes.

9. Your Rights

You have the following rights, albeit some of them only apply under certain circumstances: · to have a copy of the personal data we have collected about you and to send a copy of it to another data controller; · to update or amend the personal data we have collected about you if it is inaccurate or incomplete; · to erase, or restrict the processing of, the personal data we have collected about you; · to object to the processing of the personal data we have collected about you, including in respect of any data processed for direct marketing purposes; · to withdraw any consents you have provided in respect of our processing of your personal data; and · to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us – see section 11.

If you want to amend your personal data or preferences, please visit our preference centre – see section 12*.

10. Connecting to Third Party Services including Social Networks

Our offering may contain links to third-party apps, services, tools and websites that are not affiliated with, controlled or managed by us (including Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter®) and these services and links may also include social networking features (such as the Facebook® “Like” button and widgets, “Share” buttons, and other interactive mini-programs).

Additionally, you may choose to use your own social networking logins from, for example, Facebook or LinkedIn® to log into some of our services. If you choose to connect using a social networking or similar service, we may receive and store authentication information from that service to enable you to log in and other information that you may choose to share when you connect with these services.

These services may collect information, such as the web pages you visited and IP addresses, and may set cookies to enable features to function properly. We are not responsible for the security or privacy of any information collected by these third parties.

You should review the privacy statements or policies applicable to the third-party services you connect to, use or access as the privacy practices of these third parties will be governed by their own privacy statements. If you do not want your personal information shared with your social media account provider or other users of the social media service, please do not connect your social media account with your account for the services we provide and do not participate in social sharing.

11. Contact Information and Updating Your Preferences

If you have any comments or questions, please contact us here or in writing to 5pm Limited, Centrum Centre, 38 Queen Street, Glasgow, G1 3DX.

If at any time you wish to change how we communicate with you or what we communicate with you about, please login to your account and visit your newsletter preference centre.

To unsubscribe from any of our marketing-related activities, please follow the link at the bottom of any of our emails. Alternatively, please contact us at customercare@5pm.co.uk and we will process your request.

12. Changes to this Policy

We may, from time to time, make changes to this Privacy Policy to reflect any changes to our privacy practices in accordance with changes to legislation, best practice or Site enhancements. We will let you know what these changes are by posting them to this page. Where the changes are significant, we may also choose to email you with the new details and get your consent to make these changes where required by law.

It is your responsibility as a user to make sure that you are aware of changes posted on this page, by checking for any changes on a regular basis. Changes posted on this page will become effective as soon as they are posted.

5pm is registered with The Data Protection Agency Z4854664

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