The privacy policy describes the rules for the processing of information about you, including personal data and cookies, i.e. cookies.
1. General information
2. This policy applies to the Website operating at the url address: www.comparegeek.co.uk
3. The website operator and the personal data administrator is: Polisa Direct Ltd, 2nd Floor College House, 17 King Edwards Road, Ruislip, HA4 7AE
4. Operator’s e-mail address: info@polisadirect.co.uk
5. The Operator is the Administrator of your personal data in relation to the data provided voluntarily on the Website.
6. The website uses personal data for the following purposes:
- Handling inquiries via the form
- Searching and comparing motor insurance offers
The website performs the functions of obtaining information about users and their behavior in the following way:
1. By voluntarily entering data in forms, which are entered into the Operator’s systems.
2. Through cookie files saved in end-devices (so-called “cookies”).
3. Selected methods of data protection used by the Operator
The places of logging in and entering personal data are protected in the transmission layer (SSL certificate). As a result, personal data and login data entered on the website are encrypted on the user’s computer and can only be read on the target server.
The operator periodically changes his administrative passwords.
An important element of data protection is regular updating of all software used by the Operator to process personal data, which in particular means regular updates of programming components.
Hosting
The website is hosted (technically maintained) on the operator’s server: Blue Host
1. Your rights and additional information on the use of data
2. The administrator has the right to transfer your personal data to other recipients, if it is necessary to perform the contract concluded with you. of the contract or to fulfill the obligations incumbent on the Administrator. This applies to such groups of recipients:
- hosting company on the basis of entrusting
- insurers
- insurance comparison websites
3. Your personal data processed by the Administrator for no longer than it is necessary to perform the related activities specified in separate regulations (eg on accounting). With regard to marketing data, the data will not be processed for more than 3 years.
4. You have the right to request from the Administrator:
for access to your personal data,
for rectification,
for deletion,
for processing restrictions,
and for data transfer.
5. You have the right to object to the processing indicated in point 3.3 c) to the processing of personal data in order to perform the legitimate interests pursued by the Administrator, including profiling, while the right to object may not be exercised if there are valid legally justified grounds for processing, overriding interests, rights and freedoms, in particular for establishing, investigating or defending claims.
Complaints against the Controller’s actions may be lodged with the Information Commissioner’s Office, for more information visit www.ico.org.uk
Providing personal data is voluntary, but necessary to operate the Website.
1. In relation to you, actions may be taken consisting in automated decision making, including profiling in order to provide services under the concluded contract and for the purpose of conducting direct marketing by the Administrator.
2. Personal data is not transferred from third countries within the meaning of the provisions on the protection of personal data. This means that we do not send them outside the European Union.
3. Information in forms
4. The website collects information provided voluntarily by the user, including personal data, if provided.
5. The website may save information about connection parameters (time stamp, IP address).
6. The website, in some cases, may save information facilitating the linking of data in the form with the e-mail address of the user filling in the form. In this case, the user’s e-mail address appears inside the url of the page containing the form.
7. The data provided in the form are processed for the purpose resulting from the function of a specific form, eg to process the service request or commercial contact, service registration, etc. The context and description of the form each time clearly informs what it is used for.
8. Administrator’s logs
9. Information on the behavior of users on the website may be subject to logging. These data are used to administer the website.
10. Relevant marketing techniques
1. The operator uses statistical analysis of website traffic through Google Analytics (Google Inc. based in the USA). The operator does not provide personal data to the operator of this service, but only anonymised information. The service is based on the use of cookies on the user’s end device. In terms of information about user preferences collected by the Google advertising network, the user can view and edit information derived from cookies using the tool: https://www.google.com/ads/preferences/
2. The operator uses remarketing techniques that allow for matching advertising messages to the user’s behavior on the website, which may give the illusion that the user’s personal data is used to track him, but in practice no personal data is transferred from the Operator to advertising operators. The technological condition for such activities is that cookies are enabled.
3. The operator uses the Facebook pixel. This technology means that Facebook (Facebook Inc. based in the USA) knows that a given person registered in it uses the Website. In this case, it is based on data for which it is the administrator itself, the Operator does not provide any additional personal data to Facebook. The service is based on the use of cookies on the user’s end device.
4. The operator uses a solution that examines user behavior by creating heat maps and recording behavior on the website. This information is anonymized before it is sent to the service operator so that it does not know what natural person it relates to. In particular, passwords and other personal data are not recorded.
5. Information about cookies
1. The website uses cookies.
2. Cookie files (so-called “cookies”) are IT data, in particular text files, which are stored on the Website User’s end device and are intended for the use of the Website’s pages. Cookies usually contain the name of the website they come from, the storage time on the end device and a unique number.
3. The entity that places cookies on the Website User’s end device and obtains access to them is the Website operator.
4. Cookies are used for the following purposes:
1. to maintain the Website user’s session (after logging in), thanks to which the user does not have to re-enter the login and password on each subpage of the Website;
2. achieving the goals set out above in the “Important Marketing Techniques” section;
5. The Website uses two basic types of cookies:
session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies are temporary files that are stored on the User’s end device until logging out, leaving the website or turning off the software (web browser). Persistent cookies are stored on the User’s end device for the time specified in the cookie file parameters or until they are deleted by the User.
6. Software for browsing websites (web browser) usually by default allows the storage of cookies on the User’s end device.
The Website Users can change the settings in this regard. The web browser allows you to delete cookies. It is also possible to automatically block cookies.Detailed information on this subject can be found in the help or documentation of the web browser.
7. Restrictions on the use of cookies may affect some of the functionalities available on the Website pages.
8. Cookies placed on the Website User’s end device may also be used by entities cooperating with the Website operator, in particular the companies: Google (Google Inc. based in the USA), Facebook (Facebook Inc. based in the USA), Twitter (Twitter Inc. based in the USA).
9. Managing cookies – how to express and withdraw consent in practice?
1. If the user does not want to receive cookies, he may change the browser settings. We reserve that disabling cookies necessary for authentication processes, security, maintaining user preferences may make it difficult, and in extreme cases may prevent the use of websites.