Privacy policy
This privacy policy governs how Female Edge Ltd handles personal data. Female Edge Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales (company number 13902515) with a registered office at 27 Benjamin Street, BA15 1FW.
We believe strongly in people’s rights to privacy – it’s why we don’t use Facebook or collect cookies for the purpose of website analytics on our website. We will keep any information we collect about our clients to an absolute minimum.
When you use our services, you will share some information with us. We want to be upfront about the information we collect, how we use it, who we share it with and the choices we give you to control, access and update your information.
For the purposes of data protection legislation, we are the data controller of your personal data.
Please read this privacy policy carefully.
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be sent to anna@thefemaleedge.co.uk
Summary
We keep to a minimum the information we hold about you
We use your data to provide our services to you, respond to your enquiries, manage our relationship with you, meet our legal obligations.
We delete your data when it is no longer needed for these things.
We do not collect cookies for the purpose of website analytics on our website.
We do not give your details to third parties without your consent.
The personal information we collect and use
Billing Contacts and Members
We process data relating to those individuals or organisations who pay for Female Edge services (“Billing Contacts”) and those individuals who are employed by, work for or who contract with Billing Contacts (“Members”). Sometimes we obtain the contact details of members through their employer under the lawful basis of legitimate interests. In the course of providing you, we will have your personal information.
For example:
Contact Information: when you register we collect your first and last name, username, password and email address.
Billing information: we require Billing Contacts to provide billing details, a name, address, email address and financial information corresponding to your selected method of payment (e.g. a credit card number and expiration date or a bank account number). We use a third party payment gateway to collect, store and process billing information. We do not store this information and all payment pages use TLS technology.
How we use your personal information
We process personal data about you:
with your consent; and/or
to fulfil our contractual responsibility to deliver the services to you; and/or
to pursue our legitimate interests of improving the services we offer and developing new service features; and/or
to comply with a legal obligation
Category of personal data
Contact Information and ID
Purpose for processing
We use your contact information to:
provide you with support
send you information relating to news and events
perform anti money laundering checks
to ask you to carry out surveys so you can let us know how we’re doing
Legal basis for processing
Fulfilment of a contract
Legitimate interests
Legal requirement
Sharing and transferring your personal information
We may share your information or data with trusted third parties who help provide certain aspects of our services. In particular, we engage third parties to:
facilitate customers in making credit/debit card payments
log any errors and issues with our website
provide accountancy services to us
keep you connected with us
We enter into confidentiality and data processing terms with our partners to ensure they comply with high levels of confidentiality and best practice in privacy and security standards and we regularly review these standards and practices.
We also share information or data in order to:
meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request
enforce applicable policies, including investigation of potential violations
defect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security and technical issues
protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of our users, the public or to us and/or as required or permitted by law
We may transfer your personal information to third parties which are located outside the European Economic Area (EEA). Any transfer of your personal information outside of the EEA will be subject to a European Commission approved contract as permitted under Article 46(5) of the General Data Protection Regulation that are designed to help safeguard your privacy rights.
We will not otherwise transfer your personal data outside of EEA or to any organisation (or subordinate bodies) governed by public international law or which is set up under any agreement between two or more counties.
If you would like more information about who we share your personal information with, please contact us.
Retaining your personal information
We will hold on to your information for as long as is needed to be able to provide the services to you.
If you hold an account with us we do not delete the data in your account unless you haven’t used your account for 2 years or more, unless retaining the data is required for tax purposes. Otherwise, you are responsible for and control the time periods for which we retain your data. There are controls in your account where you can delete data.
If reasonably necessary or required to meet legal or regulatory requirements, resolve disputes, prevent fraud and abuse, or enforce our terms and conditions, we may also keep hold of some of your information as required, or it is no longer needed to provide the services to you.
Keeping your personal information secure
We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost or used or accessed in an unauthorised way.
We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to know it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
Control over your personal information
Under the General Data Protection Regulation, you have a number of important rights available to you for free. In summary, those include rights to:
Be informed about how your personal information is being used
Access the personal information we hold about you
Request that we port elements of your data to another service provider
Request us to correct any mistakes in your information which we hold
Request the erasure of personal information concerning you in certain situations
Receive the personal information concerning you which you have provided to us, in a structured format
For further information on each of these rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, see the Guidance from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on individuals rights under the General Data Protection Regulation. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please:
email us at anna@thefemaleedge.co.uk
let us have enough information to identify you;
let us have proof of your identity and address (a copy of your driving licence or passport and a recent utility or credit card bill);
let us know the information to which your request relates.
let us have proof of your identity and address (a copy of your driving licence or passport and a recent utility or credit card bill); and
let us know the information to which your request relates.
How to complain
We hope that we can resolve any query or concern you raise about our use of your information. If you are not happy with how we manage your personal data, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. The supervisory authority in the UK is the Information Commissioner who may be contacted at www.ico.org.uk/concerns
Changes to this privacy notice
This privacy notice was published on March 2022.
Any changes we make to this notice will be posted on this page.