1.1. Visitor Chat is committed to safeguarding the privacy of our Visitor Chat service users; in this policy we explain how we will handle your personal data.
1.2. Visitor Chat is a data Processor. ‘Processing’ data means doing any of the following with the information:
‘Personal information’ or ‘personal data’ means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household.
1.3. Visitor Chat processes data on behalf of its Clients who will be the organisation (s) whose website has Visitor Chat installed on. These Clients are the Data Owners. By using a website with Visitor Chat installed and agreeing to the website’s cookie policy you consent to our use of cookies, collection of behavioural data and personal information in accordance with the terms of this policy.
2.1. In this Section 2 we have set out:
2.2. If you visit a website with Visitor Chat installed, we may process anonymous data about your use of it (“usage data”). The usage data may include your geographical location, browser type and version, operating system and referral source. We may also process anonymous data about your behaviour on a website which has Visitor Chat installed (“behavioural data”). The behavioural data may include the length of your visit, the pages you have viewed and how you have navigated through these pages during your session on the site. This data may be processed for the purposes of analysing the use of our website or any website that uses our services.
This usage and behavioural data is obtained using cookies. Cookies are most commonly used to track website activity. When you visit websites that have Visitor Chat installed, the server gives you a cookie that acts as your identifier. Upon each return visit to that site, your browser passes that cookie back to our server.
Should you decide to block cookies, our service may not be available to you. Most browsers will allow you to automatically block these types of cookies. Please refer to your browser’s privacy setting for more information.
2.3. If you submit your PII (“personally identifiable information”), either in a form submission, live chat, text, or any other means of digital communication, your personal information may be retained, used and attributed to your behavioural data and usage data. The personal information could include a phone number, name, email address or address.
After a live chat interaction, should you revisit the same website using the same device, you are not automatically re-identified and are freely able to browse the site anonymously. Should you re-enter into live chat with an operator, as before, your previous communications, current session usage and current session behavioural data will be attributed to the new interaction.
The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely monitoring and improving our services, to better understand how visitors use websites with Visitor Chat installed, to give continuance to previous and ongoing communications and to offer a customized experience to the visitor should they engage in communication with an operator.
2.4. Under any circumstances, please do not supply any other person’s personal data or your own personal data to us, unless we prompt you to do so.
2.5. We may process client account data (“client account data”). The account data may include your name, company name and email address. The source of the account data is you or your employer. The account data may be processed for the purposes of, providing our services, ensuring the security of our website and services and communicating with you. The legal basis for this processing is both by your consent and our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our business.
2.6. We may process client information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our email notifications and/or newsletters (“Client notification data”). The notification data may be processed for the purposes of sending you the relevant update notifications and/or newsletters.
3.1. Unless requested otherwise within the chat on the Visitor Chat chat box, we do not share any personal information with any third party except for the Clients (this may include third party service providers and data processors of the company) whom Visitor Chat is providing the service to and the visitor has submitted personal information to. Visitor Chat will obtain consent (collected during a chat interaction with you) to send your chat contact information (PII) to its customers (our Clients) for the purpose outlined by you during a chat interaction with us. (Consent is achieved in recorded, text format.)
3.2. We may disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person. We may also disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.
3.3 Any request you make for contact to be made to you by our Clients (or indeed their clients) will be considered as a request to the Data Owner. The Data Owner may then request us as the Data Processor to pass your details on either within their organisation or to any other organisation that you may have requested contact from. This data will be shared under the control of the Client’s Privacy Policy which will be available on their website. Nothing in your request will be considered as empowering the Client or their clients as giving wider marketing privileges to yourself other that the right to make direct contact in respect of your request.
4.1. In this Section 4, we provide information about the circumstances in which your personal data may be transferred to countries inside or outside the European Economic Area (EEA).
4.2. The European Commission has made an “adequacy decision” with respect to the data protection laws. As a result, from their findings, data transfers outside of the UK will be restricted to information that contains no personally identifiable data. Personal data is hereby restricted to the EU/UK only.
4.3. The hosting facilities for our website and database are situated in Ireland, a member state of the European Union. All Data is securely transferred to Amazon AWS encrypted by SSL (TLS 256bit Keys – provided by Comodo CA Limited).
4.4. If your personal data originates from outside the EEA, any personal data we collect and maintain will be transferred to our hosting facilities in Ireland and to our Clients as specified in section 3.3, above.
5.1. This Section 5 sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal data.
5.2. Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
5.3. We will retain your personal data as follows:
5.4. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 5, we may retain your personal data where such retention is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.
6.1. We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.
6.2. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.
6.3. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private messaging system on our website.
7.1. You have the right to request that we disclose what personal information about you we collect, use, disclose, and sell. In order to make such a request, you must send an email, using an email address that you have included in the personal details we have on file for you, to our contact email address below. We may ask you to confirm certain other personal details in order to verify that the request comes from you, including your name, birth date, and a physical address that you have placed on file with us, together with a photocopy of your passport certified by a solicitor, notary or bank plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address. We will review the information you submit to us and send an email to you confirming your request, before we make a decision on whether the request appears to be valid.
7.2. In the past twelve (12) months, we have collected the following kinds of information from consumers: name (first and last), email address, telephone number, postal (or ZIP) code, length and frequency of visits to the Website, pages viewed on the Website, IP address used to visit the Website, type of device (i.e., mobile or PC) used to access the Website, and geo location. We collected this information for the following business purposes: to enable live chat services, and if requested by a customer, to allow the customer to be contacted by our Client for the marketing and sale of vehicles. We have disclosed the above-listed information to relevant Clients to effectuate the aforementioned services.
7.3. We have not sold any consumer personal information to any third parties in the past twelve (12) months. We have disclosed the information listed in Section 7.2 only to our Clients, who provide the services described in Section 7.2, for valid business purposes, within the past twelve (12) months. Since we do not permit minors to make use of our website or services, we have not sold or disclosed any personal information concerning minors to any third parties within the past twelve (12) months.
7.4. You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we have collected or maintained. You may request the deletion of personal information by sending an email to our contact email address below, using an email address that you have included in the personal details we have on file for you. We may ask you to confirm certain other personal details in order to verify that the request comes from you, including your name, birth date, and a physical address that you have placed on file with us, together with a photocopy of your passport certified by a solicitor, notary or bank plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address. We will review the information you submit to us and send an email to you confirming your request, before we make a decision on whether the request appears to be valid.
7.5. You have the right to request that we change certain details or items of personal information we maintain or have on file for you. In order to make such a request, you must send an email, using an email address that you have included in the personal details we have on file for you, to our contact email address below. We may ask you to confirm certain other personal details in order to verify that the request comes from you, including your name, birth date, and a physical address that you have placed on file with us, together with a photocopy of your passport certified by a solicitor, notary or bank plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address. We will review the information you submit to us and send an email to you confirming your request, before we make any decision on whether the request appears to be valid.
7.6. While you have the right to opt out of the sale by us of your personal information, at this time, we do not sell any personal information to third parties.
7.7. You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment by us or our agents or employees simply because you have exercised any privacy rights under this policy or provided by law. It is our policy not to engage in any discrimination against individuals who exercise their privacy rights.
7.8. You may designate an authorized agent who is authorized to make requests to us concerning your personal information. In order to designate such an agent, you will need to contact us at the email address below, using an email address that you have included in the personal details we have on file for you. We may ask you to confirm certain other personal details in order to verify that the request comes from you, including your name, birth date, and a physical address that you have placed on file with us, together with a photocopy of your passport certified by a solicitor, notary or bank plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address. We will review the information you submit to us and send an email to you confirming your designation. Your written designation should include the name and full contact details (physical address, telephone number, and email) of the authorized agent.
7.9. We are not responsible for any Client website, however, our Visitor Chat responds to “do not track” signals.
7.10. We do not collect personally identifiable information concerning any consumer that concerns an individual consumer’s online activities over time and across different websites when the consumer uses our website or services. However, we are not responsible for any collection of such information by the websites of Clients.
7.11. We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.
8.1. Visitor Chat
We are registered in England and Wales under registration number 09804738, and our registered office is at:
Visitor Chat, Building 4000 Lakeside North, Portsmouth PO6 3FT
8.1. You can contact us:
9.1. Our data protection officer’s contact details are available upon request.
This policy sets out the basis on which we process your personal data for our own business purposes, rather than on behalf of a third party. We are the data controller under this policy.
Where we process your personal data on behalf of a third party, we are the data processor. This is typically the case where we provide live chat services on another organisation’s website. In that situation, full data protection information is available from the data controller who instructed us. You can usually find this information linked at the bottom of their web page.
We are Visitor Chat Ltd (company number 09804738). Our registered office is Visitor Chat Ltd, Site 2f Building 4000, Lakeside North Harbour, Portsmouth PO6 3FT. Our website is http://visitor.chat.