Privacy Notice | Float Help Center

LAST UPDATED: 24 MAY 2018

INTRODUCTION

Welcome to Float’s privacy notice.

Float respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy notice will inform you as to how we look after your personal data, tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you when:

you visit our website at floatapp.com (regardless of where you visit it from) (“Site”);
you access our platform through our Site (“Platform”); and
we provide to you with our accounting and forecasting services through the Platform (“Services”).

The following are categories of individuals to whom this privacy policy applies to:

User: means any person accessing our Site or Platform.
Customer: means any individual, business or organisation, including their employees, agents or contractors, who is using the Services.

We reserve the right to change this privacy policy from time to time by changing it on the Site or by emailing you.

1. IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND WHO WE ARE

Purpose of this privacy notice

This privacy notice aims to give you information on how we collect and process your personal data through your use of the Services, including any data you may provide through the Site or Platform when you are using our Services.

The Site and Platform are not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.

Controller

In relation to the provision of our Services, Float is the controller and responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as “Float”, “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy notice).

We have appointed a data privacy manager who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this privacy notice. If you have any questions about this privacy notice, including any requests to exercise your legal rights set out below. You can contact the data privacy manager by using the contact details set out below.

Contact details

Our full details are:

The Float Yard Ltd (UK Company Number: SC386627)

Name of data privacy manager: Inga Rudzitis

Email addresses: gdpr@floatapp.com

Postal address: CodeBase, Argyle House, Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh, EH3 9DR

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.

Changes to the privacy notice and your duty to inform us of changes

This version was last updated on 24 May 2018.

It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.

Third-party links

Our Site may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.

2. THE DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data). We may check the details you provide with fraud prevention agencies and share your information with them if we suspect fraud. It is important that you don’t provide false, inaccurate information or impersonate another individual.

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together follows:

Identity Data includes first name, last name and title.
Contact Data includes billing address, residential or registered company address, email address and telephone numbers.
Financial Data includes debit and credit card numbers.
Accounting Data includes accounting information provided by you or your third party accounting provider.
Transaction Data includes details about payments to and from you and other details of Services you have purchased from us.
Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access the Site and Platform.
Profile Data includes your unique account reference number, actions or transactions made by you on the Platform, preferences, feedback, survey responses and other correspondence.
Usage Data includes information about how you use our Site, Platform and Services.
Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us, and your communication preferences.

We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific Site feature or the number of Service types that are purchased. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this privacy notice.

We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.

If you fail to provide personal data

Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you with the Services). In this case, we may have to cancel delivery of the Service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.

3. HOW IS YOUR PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED?

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity and Contact by filling in forms, providing documentation or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
purchase or use our Platform and Services;
create an account for our Platform or otherwise;
contact us to report a problem with the Site, Platform or Services, or for other purposes;
request marketing to be sent to you; or
give us some feedback.
Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our Site, we may automatically collect Usage Data and Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies and other similar technologies.
Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources as set out below:
Technical Data from the following parties:
analytics providers based outside the EU; and
search information providers.
Contact and Transaction Data from providers of technical, payment and delivery services.
Identity, Contact and Accounting Data from third parties who provide accounting or similar services.
Identity and Contact Data from publicly available sources, such as the electoral roll or Companies House.

4. HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

Generally we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data other than in relation to sending third party direct marketing communications to you via email or text message. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us.

Purposes for which we will use your personal data

We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.

Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please contact us if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your personal data where more than one ground has been set out in the table below.

Purpose/ActivityType of dataLawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interestTo register you as a new Customer or User(a) Identity

(b) Contact

Performance of a contract with youTo provide the Services to you including:

(a) Manage payments, fees and charges

(b) Collect and recover money owed to us

(d) Providing customer support services

(a) Identity

(b) Contact

(d) Transaction

(e) Profile

(a) Performance of a contract with you

(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to recover debts due to us)

To manage our relationship with you which will include:

(a) Notify you about changes to our terms, privacy policy or Services

(b) Ask you to leave a review or take a survey

(a) Identity

(b) Contact

(d) Marketing and Communications

(a) Performance of a contract with you

(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation

(c) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated, study how Users and Customers use our Services and to improve our Services into the future)

To administer and protect our business and this Site and Services (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data) (a) Identity

(b) Contact

(d) Technical

(a) Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganisation or group restructuring exercise)

(b) Necessary to comply with our legal obligations

To deliver relevant Site content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you(a) Identity

(b) Contact

(d) Usage

(e) Marketing and Communications

(f) Technical

Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how Customers and Users use our Services, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy)To use data analytics to improve our Site, Services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences(a) Technical

(b) Usage

Necessary for our legitimate interests (to define types of Customers and Users for our Services, to keep our Site updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy)To make suggestions and recommendations to you about Services or events that may be of interest to you(a) Identity

(b) Contact

(d) Usage

(e) Profile

(f) Marketing and Communications

Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our Services and grow our business)To post customer testimonials(a) IdentityOnly with your fully informed, active, clear and specific consent

Marketing

We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising.

Promotional offers from us

We may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage and Profile Data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which Services and offers may be relevant for you and send to you through our marketing messages.

You will receive marketing messages from us if you have requested information from us or purchased Services from us and you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.

Opting out

You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by contacting us or unsubscribing from our marketing list.

Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of a Service purchase, warranty registration, Service experience or other transactions.

Cookies and Pixels

Float uses cookies to track overall site usage and determine areas users prefer. Cookies also allow us to customise your visit to our Site by recognising you when you return. We never use cookies to view data on your computer or determine your e-mail address.

Most browsers accept and maintain cookies by default. Check the Help menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preference. You can choose to decline cookies while at our Site, but this may limit your ability to access certain areas of the Site.

Alternatively you may wish to visit an independent source of information, www.aboutcookies.org, which contains comprehensive information on how to delete cookies from your computer as well as more general information about cookies. For information on how to do this on the browser of your mobile phone, you will need to refer to your handset manual or network operator for advice.

To purchase and access the Platform, you must ensure your browser is able to accept cookies. Cookies are required for these services to authenticate registered users and to provide access to certain areas of our Site that are available to limited registered users only. Cookies are deleted when you close your browser.

Pixels

We employ a software technology called pixels that help us better manage content on our Site by informing us what content is effective. Pixels are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of web users. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, clear gifs are embedded invisibly on web pages. We do not tie the information gathered by clear gifs to your personal data. We use a third-party tracking service that uses cookies and clear gifs to develop information about visitors to our Site in the aggregate to track usage and volume statistics and improve our Site.

Change of purpose

We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us.

If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.

5. DISCLOSURES OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table in paragraph 4 above.

Users who are administrators of your accounts.
Other third parties who provide accounting or similar services.
Service providers who provide payment, marketing, IT and system administration services.
Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers based within the EU who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance and accounting services.
Regulators and other authorities based in the United Kingdom who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances, especially in the prevention of money laundering and fraud.
Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy notice.

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

6. INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS

Some of our external third party suppliers are based outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). Their processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data outside the EEA.

Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we endeavour to ensure one of the following safeguards is implemented:

We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the European Commission. For further details, see European Commission: Adequacy of the protection of personal data in non-EU countries.
Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe.
Where we use providers based in the US, we may transfer data to them if they are part of the Privacy Shield which requires them to provide similar protection to personal data shared between the EEA and the US. For further details, see European Commission: EU-US Privacy Shield.
Where such data cannot be afforded one of the safeguards above, we shall only transfer such data outside the EEA where it is necessary for performing our contract with you or we have your fully informed, active, clear and specific consent. We shall take all steps necessary to ensure that your personal data is protected when we transfer it outside the EEA.

7. DATA SECURITY

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

8. DATA RETENTION

How long will you use my personal data for?

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

9. YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data.

Access to information: You have the right to request a copy of the information Float holds about you.
Ensuring accuracy of information: Float wants to make sure that your personal information is accurate and up-to-date. You may ask Float to correct or complete information that is inaccurate or incomplete.
Right to erasure: You may have a right to erasure, which is more commonly known as the ‘right to be forgotten’. This means that in certain circumstances you can require Float to delete personal information held about you.
Ability to restrict processing: You may also have the right to require Float to restrict Float’s use of your personal information in certain circumstances. This may apply, for example, where you have notified Float that the information Float holds about you is incorrect and you would like Float to stop using such information until Float has verified that it is accurate.
Right to data portability: You may have the right to receive personal data Float holds about you in a format that enables you to transfer such information to another data controller (e.g. such as another service provider).
Review by an independent authority: You will always have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory body, including ICO as listed above.
Preventing direct marketing: Float does not sell your personal data. From time to time, Float may send emails containing information about new features and other news about us. This is considered direct marketing. Float will always inform you if Float intends to use your personal data or if Float intends to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes.
Objecting to other uses of your information: You may also have the right to object to Float’s use of your information in other circumstances. In particular, where you have consented to Float’s use of your personal data, you have the right to withdraw such consent at any time.

If you would like further information on how you can exercise these rights, please email us at gdpr@floatapp.com.

No fee usually required

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

What we may need from you

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

Time limit to respond

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.