The following describes the Privacy Policy for
Trafficsbest website which is owned and operated by Robert Hebel
This notice provides you with details of how we collect and
process your personal data through your use of our site Trafficsbest,
including any information you may provide through our site when
you purchase a product or service, sign up to our newsletter or
take part in a prize draw or contest.
By providing us with your data,
you warrant to us that you are over 18 years of age.
Robert Hebel is the data
controller and we are responsible for your personal data
(referred to as “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy
notice).
Our full contact details are:
Full name of legal entity: Robert
Hebel
Email address:
support@trafficsbest.com
If you are not happy with any
aspect of how we collect and use your data, you have the right
to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office. They can
be found at www.ico.org.uk.
We should be grateful if you would contact us in the first
instance if you do have a complaint so that we can try to
resolve it for you.
It is very important that
the information we hold about you is accurate and up to date.
Please let us know if at any time your personal information
changes by emailing us at support@trafficsbest.com or by using
the contact
form at the foot of this page.
Your Privacy
Your privacy is important to us.
To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining
our online information practices and the choices you can make
about the way your information is collected and used. You agree
to agree to these policies by virtue of using our website in a
way that leads to you providing us with personal
information.
State Law & Accompanying Rights
Please understand that you
may have additional rights originating from State laws based on
where you live. These State-based rights may augment,
strengthen, or otherwise somehow compliment any privacy rights
you have inherently or under Federal law. Our policy is to
comply fully with the privacy policies of every jurisdiction in
which we operate. Accordingly, you are free to use our Contact
information to reach us at any time to assert any State
rights.
Our Commitment To Children’s Privacy
Protecting the privacy of
the very young is especially important. For that reason, our
website will never collect or maintain information at our
website from those we actually know are under 18, and no part of
our website is structured to attract anyone under 18.
Under our Terms of Service
and Conditions of Use, children under 18 are not allowed to use
our website and access our services. It is not our intention to
offer products or services to minors.
Google
Analytics
Robert Hebel uses
Google Analytics to help analyse how users use the site. The
tool uses “cookies,” which are text files placed on your
computer, to collect standard Internet log information and
visitor behaviour information in an anonymous form. The
information generated by the cookie about your use of the
website (including your IP address) is transmitted to Google.
This information is then used to evaluate visitors’ use of this
website and to compile statistical reports on website
activity.
We will never (and will not
allow any third party to) use the statistical analytics tool to
track or to collect any Personally Identifiable Information of
visitors to our site. Google will not associate your IP address
with any other data held by Google. Neither we nor Google will
link, or seek to link, an IP address with the identity of a
computer user.
You may refuse the use of
cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser,
however please note that if you do this you may not be able to
use the full functionality of this website. By using this
website, you consent to the processing of data about you by
Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
Other Collection of
Personal Information
When visiting our website, the IP address used to access our
website may be logged along with the dates and times of access.
This information is purely used to analyze trends, administer our
website, track users movement, and gather broad demographic
information for internal use such as statistical assessments and
website improvement. Most importantly, any recorded IP addresses
are not linked to personally identifiable information.
Other information may be
collected as well, which is rather typical of most websites. For
instance, the source that referred you to our website is
generally known. Likewise, your duration on our website, and
your destination when you leave our website can also be tracked.
Other common data collected includes the type of operating
system the computer you are using to access our website has.
Similarly, the type of web browser is often noted. Again, this
is common data collection, and helps ultimately produce a better
end-user experience.
Cookies are another common
internet practice. Cookies are a key means of improving user
experience by allows us to customize your use of our website.
Simple information is transferred to your computer to allow the
content and experience to reflect your actions, preferences, and
so on. You should simply make the assumption our website uses
cookies, and note that you are free to make adjustments in your
web browser to disable these or otherwise receive notification
of cookies so you can take whatever desired action you so
choose. Please understand that refusing cookies may cripple some
of our website features and render some aspects useless to
you.
At times, you will be fully
aware of information received, as you are the direct source
providing it. For instance, you may comment on a blog post,
reply to an email (whether broadcast message or autoresponder),
provide an email address, complete a survey, requests SMS, or
otherwise. Likewise, purchases necessarily involve collecting
certain information, such as credit card information, Paypal
addresses, your physical address for billing and/or shipping,
phone number, and so on. Refusing to provide some of this
information may lead to us being unable to provide you with the
products or services you’ve requested.
A prime example of limited
access to our website is where content may be protected by a
username and password. Whether a username and password is
generated by our website, or created by you, these will almost
always be connected with some other information related to or
connected with you. This is true since much content that is
protected on the internet is subscription based, often paid for.
Thus, the username and password must necessarily be tied to your
other account data. Usernames and passwords, by their very
nature, should be kept private.
Website Cookies
You can set your browser to
refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when
websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse
cookies, please note that some parts of this website may not
function correctly and could even become inaccessible.
What Data We Collect
About You
Personal data means any
information capable of identifying an individual. It does not
include anonymised data.
We may process certain types of
personal data about you as follows:
• Identity Data may include your
first name, maiden name, last name, username, marital status,
title, date of birth and gender.
• Contact Data may include your
billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone
numbers.
• Financial Data may include
your bank account and payment card details.
• Transaction Data may include
details about payments between us and other details of purchases
made by you.
• Technical Data may include
your login data, internet protocol addresses, browser type and
version, browser plug-in types and versions, time zone setting
and location, operating system and platform and other technology
on the devices you use to access this site.
• Profile Data may include your
username and password, purchases or orders, your interests,
preferences, feedback and survey responses.
• Usage Data may include
information about how you use our website, products and
services.
• Marketing and Communications
Data may include your preferences in receiving marketing
communications from us and our third parties and your
communication preferences.
We may also process Aggregated
Data from your personal data but this data does not reveal your
identity and as such in itself is not personal data. An example
of this is where we review your Usage Data to work out the
percentage of website users using a specific feature of our
site. If we link the Aggregated Data with your personal data so
that you can be identified from it, then it is treated as
personal data.
Sensitive Data
We do not collect any Sensitive
Data about you. Sensitive data refers to data that 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. We do not collect any information about criminal
convictions and offences.
Where we are required to collect
personal data by law, or under the terms of the contract and you
do not provide us with that data when requested, we may be
unable to perform the contract (EG; To deliver goods or services
to you). If you don’t provide us with the requested data, we may
have to cancel an order of a product or service but if we do, we
will notify you at the time.
How We Collect Your
Personal Data
We collect data about you
through a range of different methods including:
• Direct interactions:
You may provide data by filling in forms on our site (or
otherwise) or by communicating with us by post, phone, email or
otherwise, including when you:
• Place
an order for our products or services;
• Create
an account or login on our site;
•
Subscribe to our services or publications;
•
Request resources or marketing information be sent to you;
• Enter
a contest, sweep stake, competition, prize draw, promotion or
survey.
• Give
us feedback.
• Automated
technologies or interactions: As you use our site, we
may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment,
browsing actions and usage patterns. We collect this data by
using cookies, server logs and similar technologies. We may also
receive Technical Data about you if you visit other websites
that use our cookies.
• Third parties or
publicly available sources: We may receive personal
data about you from various third parties and public
sources.
• Analytics providers such
as Google based outside the EU;
• Advertising networks based inside OR outside
the EU; and
• Search information providers based inside OR
outside the EU.
• Contact, Financial
and Transaction Data from providers of technical,
payment and delivery services based inside OR outside the EU.
• Identity and Contact
Data from data brokers or aggregators based inside OR
outside the EU.
• Identity and Contact
Data from publicly availably sources such as
Companies House and the Electoral Register based inside the EU.
How we use your personal
data
We will only use your personal
data when legally permitted to do so. The most common uses of
your personal data are:
• Where we need to perform the
contract between us.
• 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 ground for processing your personal data,
other than in relation to sending marketing communications to
you via email or text message. You have the right to withdraw
consent to marketing at any time by emailing us at support@trafficsbest.com
Lawful basis and
purposes for processing personal data
In this section we have set out
a description of the ways we intend to use your personal data
and the legal basis on which we will process such data.
We may process your personal
data for more than one lawful reason, depending on the specific
purpose for which we are using your data. Please email us at
support@trafficsbest.com if you need details about the specific
legal basis we are relying on to process your personal data
where more than one purpose has been detailed below.
To
register you as a new customer
Type of data: Identity
and Contact.
Lawful basis: Performance
of a contract with you.
To process and deliver orders including
(1) The management of payments
and
(2) To collect and recover
moneis owed to us.
Type of data: Identity,
Contact, Financial, Transaction, Marketing and Communications.
Lawful basis: 1)
Performance of a contract with you. 2) For our legitimate
business
interests to
enable the collection of debts owed to us.
To manage our relationship with
you which will include:
(1) Notifying you about changes to our
terms and conditions or privacy policy
(2) Asking you to take a survey
or leave a review
Type of data: Identity,
Profile, Contact, Marketing and Communications.
Lawful basis: 1)
Performance of a contract with you , 2) Necessary
to comply with
a
legal obligation (3)
Necessary for our legitimate interests to keep our records up to
date
and to analyise how customers use our products/services.
To enable you to take part in a
prize draw, competition, sweep stakes or complete a survey
Type of data: Identity,
Contact, Profile, Usage, Marketing and Communications
Lawful basis: 1)
Performance of a contract with you , (2)
Necessary for our legitimate
interests
to keep our records up to date
and to analyise how customers use our products/services, to enable us to
develop them and grow our business.
To
operate and protect our business and our website
(including troubleshooting, analysis of
data,
system maintenance, support, testing, reporting and hosting of
data.
Type of data: Identity,
Contact, Technical data
Lawful basis: (1)
Necessary for our legitimate business interests, provision of
administration and
IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context
of a business
reorganisation or
group restructuring exercise . (2)
Necessary to comply with a legal
obligation.
To deliver relevant content and
advertising to you and measure and understand the
effectiveness of our
advertising
Type of data: Identity,
Contact, Profile, Usage, Marketing and Communications, Technical.
Lawful basis: Necessary
for our legitimate interests to study how customers use our
products/services,
to develop them, to grow our business and to develop our marketing
strategy.
To use data analytics to
improve our websites, products/services, marketing and advertising,
customer experience and relationships.
Type
of data: Usage, Technical
Lawful basis: Necessary for our legitimate
business interests to define types of customers for our products and services, to keep
our site updated and relevant, to develop our business and marketing strategy.
To make suggestions and
recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of
interest to you
Type of data: Identity,
Contact, Profile, Usage, Technical.
Lawful basis: Necessary
for our legitimate business interests, to grow and develop our
business.
Handling of Personal
Information
Note that any
personal information you provide to others apart from us or our
vendors is wholly optional. As an example, you might disclose
something in a blog post comment. That “private” information is
now “public,” and we have no control over that. In like fashion,
you sharing information with any other third party not
functioning as a service provider to us puts that information
beyond our control and becomes subject to the policy that party
has in place.
Our primary intention for
collecting personal and private information from you is simply
to conduct our business. We can use this internally to better
serve you. Accordingly, we see no reason to share your personal
information to other parties and outside interests unless you
have authorized us to do so.
Of course, there are
instances where your information is stored with third party
service providers, such as email service providers, as they
provide services that are industry-leading in quality and
security and are far more beneficial to our end user than
attempting such services “in-house.” However, you are never
required to deal with any such third party directly, they are
limited in how they use your information, and they cannot sell
or transfer it to others in any way.
However, of course, your information does comprise part of an
overall whole. This aggregate of information, by contrast, may be
used to understand our overall user base. Further, we may share
this information about our website visitors as a whole, not
individually, with third parties for various purposes, in our sole
discretion.
While we are staunch privacy
advocates, there are times when even we may be forced to abandon
these ideals. Just as major search engines face ongoing
compulsion to provide data against their will, so too may the
same occur with our website. Illegal activity or other serious
acts or allegations could create legal liability for our
website. In those cases, we reserve the right to share your
information, or else may simply be compelled to do so by
law.
On the other hand, there may be
times when we would need to share your private information in
order to protect our own interests. For instance, in cases of
suspected or alleged copyright infringement or other
intellectual property violations, it may be necessary to share
personal information.
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 section above titled "Lawful basis and purposes
for processing personal data"
• Service providers who provide
IT and system administration services.
• Professional advisers
including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers.
• Revenue & Customs,
regulators and other authorities based in the United Kingdom and
other relevant jurisdictions who require reporting of processing
activities in certain circumstances.
• Third parties to whom we sell,
transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets.
We only permit such third
parties to process your personal data for specified purposes and
in accordance with our instructions.
Marketing communications
You will receive marketing
communications from us if you have:
(a) requested information from
us or purchased goods or services from us; or
(b) if you provided us with your
details and ticked the box at the point of entry of your details
for us to send you marketing communications; and
(c) in each case, you have not
opted out of receiving that marketing.
We will get your express opt-in
consent before we share your personal data with any third party
for marketing purposes.
You can ask us or third parties
to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following
the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you OR by
emailing us at support@trafficsbest.com at any time, or by using
the contact
form on this page.
Where you opt out of receiving
our marketing communications, this will not apply to personal
data provided to us as a result of a product/service purchase,
warranty registration, product/service experience or other
transactions.
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 purpose
and that purpose is compatible with the original purpose.
If we need to use your personal
data for a purpose unrelated to the purpose for which we
collected the data, we will notify you and we will explain the
legal ground of processing.
We may process your personal
data without your knowledge or consent where this is required or
permitted by law.
Third party service
providers outside of the European Economic Area.
Many of our third parties
service providers are based outside the European Economic Area
(EEA) so 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 do our best to ensure a similar
degree of security of data by ensuring at least 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; or
• Where we use certain service
providers, we may use specific contracts or codes of conduct or
certification mechanisms approved by the European Commission
which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe;
or
• Where we use providers based
in the United States, we may transfer data to them if they are
part of the EU-US Privacy Shield which requires them to provide
similar protection to personal data shared between the Europe
and the US.
If none of the above safeguards
is available, we may request your explicit consent to the
specific transfer. You will have the right to withdraw this
consent at any time.
Please email us at
support@trafficsbest.com if you want further information
on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your
personal data out of the EEA.
Data Security
We have in place appropriate
security measures to protect your personal data and to prevent
it from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an
unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. Additionally, we limit
access to your personal data to those employees, agents,
contractors and other third parties who have a business need to
know such data. 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.
Retention of Data
We 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.
We are legally required to keep
basic information about our customers (including Contact,
Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for six years after
they cease being customers for tax purposes.
In some circumstances you can
ask us to delete your data: see below for further information.
We reserve the right to
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.
Google Adsense and the
DoubleClick DART Cookie
Google, as a
third party advertisement vendor, may use cookies to serve ads
on this website. The use of DART cookies by Google enables them
to serve adverts to visitors that are based on their visits to
this website, including past visits, as well as other websites
on the internet.
Tracking of users through the DART cookie mechanisms
are subject to Google’s own privacy policies.
Other Third Party ad
servers or ad networks may also use cookies to track users
activities on this website to measure advertisement
effectiveness and other reasons that will be provided in their
own privacy policies, our website has no access or control over
these cookies that may be used by third party advertisers.
However, you can opt out of some, though likely not all, of
these cookies in one easy location at http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp
Links to Third Party
Websites
We have included
links on this website for your use and reference. We are not
responsible for the privacy policies on these websites. You
should be aware that the privacy policies of these websites may
differ from our own.
Comments
Policy
As you know, Web
2.0 is all about the conversation. But without a few simple
ground rules, that conversation can turn into a shouting match
that discourages others from entering into the fray.
So here is Robert Hebel comments policy. By posting on my blog,
you agree to the following:
You may comment without
registering. You can log-in via Disqus, OpenID, Twitter,
Facebook—or not at all. It’s up to you. You may post
anonymously. I don’t recommend this, but you may do so if you
wish. I may change this rule if it is abused.
You may post follow-up
questions. If you have a question, chances are you are not
alone. Others are likely thinking similarly. Therefore, I would
rather receive your comments on Robert Hebel than via email. It
is a better use of my time to address everyone at once rather
than answer several similar emails.
You may disagree with me. I
welcome debate. However, I ask that if you disagree with me—or
anyone else, for that matter—do so in a way that is respectful.
In my opinion, there is way too much shouting in the public
square to tolerate it here.
Robert Hebel reserves the
right to delete your comments. This is my blog. I don’t have an
obligation to publish your comments. The First Amendment gives
you the right to express your opinions on your blog not
mine.
Specifically, I will delete
your comments if you post something that is, in my sole opinion,
(a)snarky; (b) off-topic; (c) libelous, defamatory, abusive,
harassing, threatening, profane, pornographic, offensive, false,
misleading, or which otherwise violates or encourages others to
violate my sense of decorum and civility or any law, including
intellectual property laws; or (d) “spam,” i.e., an attempt to
advertise, solicit, or otherwise promote goods and services. You
may, however, post a link to your site or your most recent blog
post.
You retain ownership of your
comments. I do not own them and I expressly disclaim any and all
liability that may result from them. By commenting on my site,
you agree that you retain all ownership rights in what you post
here and that you will relieve me from any and all liability
that may result from those postings.
You grant Robert
Hebel a license to
post your comments. This license is worldwide, irrevocable,
non-exclusive, and royalty-free. You grant me the right to
store, use, transmit, display, publish, reproduce, and
distribute your comments in any format, including but not
limited to a blog, in a book, a video, or presentation.
In short, my goal is to host
interesting conversations with caring, honest, and respectful
people. I believe this simple comments policy will facilitate
this.
Your Legal Rights
Under certain circumstances, you
have rights under data protection laws in relation to your
personal data. These include the right to:
• Request access to your
personal data.
• Request correction of your
personal data.
• Request erasure of your
personal data.
• Object to processing of your
personal data.
• Request restriction of
processing your personal data.
• Request transfer of your
personal data.
• Right to withdraw consent.
These rights are explained in
detail here:
If you wish to exercise any of
the rights set out above, please email us at support@trafficsbest.com
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.
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.
We try to respond to all
legitimate requests within 30 days. On occasion it may take us
longer if your request is particularly complex or you have made
a number of requests.
CHANGE NOTICE:
As with any of our administrative and legal notice pages, the
contents of this page can and will change over time.
Accordingly, this page could read differently as of your very
next visit. These changes are necessitated, and carried out by Robert
Hebel, in order to protect you and our Robert Hebel
website. If this page is important to you, you should check back
frequently as no other notice of changed content will be
provided either before or after the change takes effect.
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including this one, have been diligently drafted by an attorney.
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us for any other reason, you may do so by emailing us at support@trafficsbest.com