Privacy Notice

Here we explain the types of personal data we may collect when you interact with One Wavelength Ltd directly, or via their trading name of 1WL Agency. Reference to any name shall, in this privacy notice, refer to both names. It explains how we handle data and how we keep it secure.

1. Legal Processing

The General Data Protection Regulation states there are several legal reasons why a company such as ourselves may collect and process personal data. They are:

Contractual – Processing personal data to fulfil an order, deliver a service or to comply with our contractually agreed obligations.

Legal Compliance – If the law requires it, we may need to collect and process your data. An example might be to provide details of wrongdoing to law enforcement.

Legitimate Interest – Under certain circumstances we store and process personal data to pursue interests that are legitimate to running our business. These circumstances we believe to be reasonably expected considering the nature of our business. This does not impact your freedom or rights. E.g. using your postal or email details to send direct marketing information on content, products and services that might interest you, with the aim of raising awareness of our business to you and your business.

2. When do we collect, add to or amend your personal data?

When you visit any of our websites or speak us on the phone.
When you purchase a product or service or enter into negotiations to do so
When you engage with us on social media.
When you contact us by any means with queries, complaints etc.
When you book any kind of appointment with us or book to attend an event, for example a meeting to discuss an opportunity.
When you choose to complete any surveys we send you.
When you’ve given a third-party permission to share the information, they hold about you with us.
We may collect data from publicly-available sources where you have given your consent for them to share information publicly such as online directories or publicly available social media pages.

3. What sort of personal data do we collect?

Contact details at the company you work e.g. email address and phone number
Details of your interactions with us through contact by phone, email or via our website.
Details of your visits to our websites, and which site you came from to ours.
Information gathered by the use of cookies in your web browser.
To deliver the best possible web experience, we collect technical information such as your internet connection and browser as well as the country where your computer is located, the web pages viewed during your visit, the advertisements you clicked on, and any search terms you entered.
Your social media username, if you interact with us through those channels, to help us respond to you.

4. How and why do we use your personal data?

We want to give you the best possible experience. By referencing the data we have about you, we’re better able to offer you content, products and services that are most likely to be of interest you.

GDPR allows this as part of our legitimate interest in understanding existing and potential customers so we only provide relevant information and can maintain the highest levels of service.

You decide how we use your data, and you’ll find details in the ‘What are my rights?’ section below, however, if you choose not to share your personal data with us, or refuse certain contact permissions, we may not be able to deliver the best experience.

Here’s how we’ll use your personal data and why:

To process any contracts or hold negotiations that you make by using our sales team or sales agents. If we don’t collect your personal data during negotiations or ordering, we won’t be able comply with our legal obligations. We would then keep those details for a reasonable period in order to fulfil contractual obligations.
To respond to your queries. We may also keep a record of these to inform any future communication with us and to demonstrate how we communicated with you previously. We do this on the basis of our contractual obligations to you, our legal obligations and our legitimate interests in providing you with the best service and understanding how we can improve our service based on your experience.
To protect our business and yours from fraud and other illegal activities. We’ll also monitor your browsing activity with us to quickly identify and resolve any problems and protect the integrity of our websites. We’ll do all of this as part of our legitimate interest.
To market our product and services. We will use your personal data, preferences and details of your transactions to keep you informed by email, web, telephone about relevant content, products and services including information, tailored offers, discounts, promotions, events, competitions and so on. We market on the basis of legitimate interest and in a way which might be reasonably expected as part of running our business. This does not impact your freedom or rights. Our marketing will follow best practice as determined by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) when dealing with corporate subscribers under the PECR.

Here are the ways we’ll communicate with you.

Of course, you are free to opt out of hearing from us at any time.

To send you relevant, personalised communications by post or email in relation to updates, content, offers, services and products. We’ll do this on the basis of our legitimate business interest.

Also:

To send you communications required by law or which are necessary to inform you about our changes to the services we provide you. For example, updates to this Privacy Notice, marketing data misuse issues, and legally required information relating to your orders. These service messages will not include any promotional content and do not require prior consent when sent by email or text message. If we do not use your personal data for these purposes, we would be unable to comply with our legal obligations.
To develop, test and improve the systems, services and products we provide to you. We’ll do this on the basis of our legitimate business interests.
To comply with our contractual or legal obligations to share data with law enforcement.
To send you survey and feedback requests to help improve our services. These messages will not include any promotional content and do not require prior consent when sent by email or text message. We have a legitimate interest to do so as this helps make our products or services more relevant to you.

Again, you are free to opt out of receiving these requests at any time

5. How is personal data protected?

We treat your data with care and take appropriate steps to protect it.

We secure access to our websites and apps using ‘SSL Encryption’ (https)
Access to your personal data is password-protected, and sensitive data is secured by SSL encryption.
We regularly monitor our system to identify ways to further strengthen security.

6. Website

What specific information is obtained?

Our website does not collect specific, detailed information about you.
Where information is gathered, we will inform you of this along with the explanation of why it is required. This information will be for purposes such as responding to an enquiry made and we will ask for this information in order for us to get in touch and provide the relevant information which has been requested from you.

What information is retained?

Cookies and tracking software are used for purposes such as website improvement. Google Analytics is the main tool we use for website improvement. This information is not shared with anyone.
By using the website, you are consenting to the use of cookies.

The personal information we collect and hold is typically:

Browser used (Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer etc.)
Location (based on IP address)
Gender
Age group
Site searches
Device(s) used
Frequency on Site
Session duration (time spent on the site)
Page(s) visited
Page session duration (time spent on specific page)
Web Surfing Behaviours

We currently use the following companies that may process your personal data through website usage. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Google.

Our Details

If you need to contact us, then please find the relevant details on our contact page here.

7. Customers / Enquirers

We hold information about customers / enquirers as it is necessary for us to conduct our business activities.

What personal information is held?

The personal information we collect and hold is the following: –

Full Name
Company Name
Company Address
Company Website Address
Email Address
Phone Number
Initial Requirement

This information may be linked together with what has already been gathered (as stated in the “what information is retained?” section) via tracking software.

How is this information gathered?

We gather this information through lead generation forms on our website and tracking software as mentioned in the “what information is retained?” section, as well as over the phone when relevant.

How long will the data be kept for?

For a reasonable period of time after you have stopped being an active customer, we may continue to contact you with information relating to our products and services. We deem a reasonable period of time to be three years after an order has been completed, or a relevant license period has expired. After this time, the data we hold will either be deleted, anonymised or retained providing you have asked us to do so.

Who will the data be passed to?

This information will not be passed on to anyone other than authorised employees of 1WL Agency / Supercharge™ and relevant processors, for example a company managing marketing on our behalf.

Additionally, if a legal matter were to arise, then we may need to provide this information for those purposes.

In this instance, we provide only the information required to perform the service
The data will only be used for that exact purpose
Partners are required to protect and respect your privacy
If we stop using a partner’s service, your data will be deleted or rendered anonymous.

Examples of third parties we work with are:

Direct marketing companies who help us manage electronic communications and telemarketing
Google/Facebook/LinkedIn to show products that might interest you. This is based on consent or your acceptance of cookies on our website.
Data Insight companies to ensure your details are up to date and accurate.
IT Companies who support our business systems

What is the reason for holding/using the information held?

While you are a customer of 1WL Agency, the basis for processing your data is ‘contract’. When you are not or no longer an active customer of 1WL Agency the basis is ‘legitimate interest’ as we would like you order products/services from us.
We may use your details for the purpose of creating a profile to gauge decision making and for direct marketing purposes. For example, using information held, we may create profiles based on the following: –

Email Address
Telephone Number
Geographic Location
Job Title/Job Role

8. Data Subject Rights (Subject Access Request, Erasure, Rectification)

You have the right to ask for information we hold for you (Subject Access Request) which will be provided free of charge and if requested, can be presented in a spreadsheet-based format.
The data we hold will be corrected when we are notified of errors.
Information we hold for you will no longer be processed if requested to do so.
Information we hold for you will be deleted if requested to do so. It is possible we may contact you at a later date as we will hold no record of you.
You have the right to withdraw consent at any time.
You have the right to stop the use of your personal data for direct marketing through selected or all channels.
You have the right to stop processing your personal data under legitimate interest for individual reasons. We will comply unless we believe there is a legitimate overriding reason to continue processing.

9. To stop the use of personal data for direct marketing:

Click Unsubscribe in any email communication we send you. We will then stop sending emails. Write to:

Andrew Swindell, Director at our office address.

10. Our Details

If you need to contact us then please find the relevant details on our contact page

11. To contact the regulator, please see below:

0303 123 113 or go to www.ico.org.uk