Privacy policy

You directly provide Habitus with most of the data we collect. We collect data and process data when you:

• Register online or purchase any of our services.

• Voluntarily complete a customer survey or provide feedback on any of our message boards or via email.

• Use or view our website via your browser’s cookies.

• Click on links in marketing emails.

Habitus may also receive your data indirectly from the following sources:

• Social media click-throughs.

Habitus collects your data so that we can:

• Contact you regarding services that may be of interest to you.

• Email or call you in response to any contact you initiate with us via our website.

Habitus is committed to taking all reasonable measures to protect the personal information we store against any unauthorised use, loss or access. These include measures to address any suspected data breach.

We endeavour to protect your data by storing it with leading cloud service providers which use the highest technical levels of compliance with international standards and security measures to safeguard your personal data and to reduce the risk of loss, misuse, unauthorised access, disclosure and alteration.

Some of the safeguards we use include firewalls and data encryption.

Although we believe we have taken adequate and appropriate measures, no system is perfect and we therefore cannot guarantee that unauthorised access or theft will not occur.

Habitus will keep your personal identification data for 3 years. Once this time period has expired, we will delete your data by securely erasing your personal data from our systems.

Habitus sends out marketing emails to sell our services. Under current data protection legislation, if you receive a marketing email from us, we believe we can demonstrate having a legitimate interest in using your information for marketing purposes. This is based on the fact you will have, within the last three years, have indicated some interest in our services through either opening a marketing email, subscribing to our updates, enquiring about our services, giving specific consent to be added to our mailing database, or engaging in a commercial transaction with us.

We may also send you marketing emails if you have previously been on contact lists supplied by Selectabase Ltd and we believe, from your job title, organisation name and/or sector, may be interested in our services.

We rent third party contact lists from Selectabase Ltd, a supplier of email lists of contacts within the NHS, local authorities and charities. Through the third-party provider, ‘Mailchimp’ (a registered trademark of The Rocket Science Group, LLC), all third party and in-house lists are screened. In addition, we keep a ‘do not contact’ list of anyone who objects or opts out of our own mailings.

We do not knowingly contact sole traders or any other individual who does not have a business email address, unless they have specifically consented to be added to our mailing lists or are an existing customer or client.

If you have agreed to receive marketing, you may always opt-out at a later date. Additionally, you have the right at any time to stop Habitus from contacting you for marketing purposes.

If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes at any time, you may click an ‘unsubscribe’ link at the end of each marketing communication.

Alternatively, please click here.

Habitus would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You have the right to request Habitus for copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.

The right to rectification – You have the right to request that Habitus correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request Habitus to complete the information you believe is incomplete.

The right to erasure – You have the right to request that Habitus erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that Habitus restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to Habitus’ processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to data portability – You have the right to request that Habitus transfer the data that we have collected to another organisation, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us:

By email:

info@habituscollective.co.uk Ensure that the words ‘Data protection’ appear at the start of the email subject line.

Or write to us:

Habitus Collective UK LLP
7 Bell Yard
London
WC2A 2JR

Habitus uses HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security) on our entire website which encrypts the content served during sessions.

We use this protection to safeguard your data during its transmission. This level seeks to ensure that you are actually sending your data to us and that no-one else can read or tamper with it during transmission.

The use of HSTS can help prevent downgrade attacks and security violations. When viewing pages on our website, you will see a closed padlock symbol visible in your browser. This denotes you are viewing a secure site.

Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behaviour information.

When you visit our websites, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology

For further information, visit allaboutcookies.org

Habitus uses cookies in a range of ways to improve your experience on our website, including:

• Understanding how you use our website

• For marketing purposes

There are a number of different types of cookies, however, our website uses:

• Functionality – Habitus uses these cookies so that we recognize you on our website and remember your previously selected preferences. These could include what language you prefer and location you are in. A mix of first-party and third-party cookies are used.

• Advertising – Habitus uses these cookies to collect information about your visit to our website, the content you viewed, the links you followed and information about your browser, device, and your IP address. Habitus sometimes shares some limited aspects of this data with third parties for advertising purposes. We may also share online data collected through cookies with our advertising partners. This means that when you visit another website, you may be shown advertising based on your browsing patterns on our website.

You can set your browser not to accept cookies. However, in a few cases, some of our website features may not function as a result.

The website listed in the paragraph ‘What are cookies?’ above, describes how to remove cookies from your browser.

The Habitus website contains links to other websites. Our privacy policy applies only to our website.

Should you click a link that directs you to another website, we encourage you to read the privacy statements on those other websites.

Habitus keeps its privacy policy under regular review and places any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on 1 April 2022.

If you have any questions about Habitus’ privacy policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Email us:
info@habituscollective.co.uk

Or write to us:
Habitus Collective UK LLP
7 Bell Yard
London
WC2A 2JR

Should you wish to report a complaint or if you feel that Habitus has not addressed your concern in a satisfactory manner, you may contact the Information Commissioner’s Office.

Call: 0303 123 1113

Address:
Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF