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PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) sets out how we, FASTSIGNS International, Inc. (“FASTSIGNS”, “we” or “us”), collect, store and use information about you when you use or interact with our website, fastsigns.com.mt, and where we otherwise obtain or collect information about you. This Privacy Policy is effective from 25th May 2018.

Contents

  • Summary
  • Our details
  • Information we collect when you visit our website
  • Information we collect when you contact us
  • Information we collect when you interact with our website
  • How we collect or obtain information about you from third parties
  • Our use of automated decision-making and profiling
  • Disclosure and additional uses of your information
  • How long we retain your information
  • How we secure your information
  • Transfers of your information outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”)
  • Your rights in relation to your information
  • Your right to object to the processing of your information for certain purposes
  • Sensitive Personal Information
  • Changes to our Privacy Policy
  • Children’s Privacy
  • California Do Not Track Disclosures
  • Copyright, credit and logo

Summary

This section summarises how we obtain, store and use information about you. It is intended to provide a very general overview only. It is not complete in and of itself and it must be read in conjunction with the corresponding full sections of this Privacy Policy.

  • Data controller: FASTSIGNS International, Inc.
  • How we collect or obtain information about you:
  1. when you provide it to us (e.g. by contacting us directly in a FASTSIGNS location or from our website by, initiating a chat session, filling out a request or contact form, sending a file, building an IDEABOOK, creating a “My Account”, emailing us, making a purchase and by signing up for our e-newsletter). We also collect information from your use of our website, using cookies and similar technologies, and occasionally, from third parties.
  • Information we collect: name, contact details, IP address, information from cookies, information about your computer or device (e.g. device and browser type), information about how you use our website (e.g. which pages you have viewed, the time you view them and what you clicked on, the geographical location from which you accessed our website (based on your IP address), company name or business name (if applicable), VAT number (if applicable)).
  • How we use your information: for administrative and business purposes (particularly to contact you, to improve our business and website, to fulfil our contractual obligations, to advertise our goods and services, to analyse your use of our website, and in connection with our legal rights and obligations).
  • Disclosure of your information to third parties: only to the extent necessary to run our business, to our service providers, to fulfil any contracts we enter into with you, where required by law or to enforce our legal rights.
  • Do we sell your information to third parties (other than in the course of a business sale or purchase or similar event): No
  • How long we retain your information: for no longer than necessary, taking into account any legal obligations we have (e.g. to maintain records for tax purposes), any other legal basis we have for using your information (e.g. your consent, performance of a contract with you or our legitimate interests as a business). For specific retention periods in relation to certain information which we collect from you, please see the main section below entitled How long we retain your information.
  • How we secure your information: using appropriate technical and organisational measures such as storing your information on secure servers, encrypting transfers of data to or from our servers using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology, and only granting access to your information where necessary.
  • Use of cookies and similar technologies: we use cookies and similar information gathering technologies such as web beacons and Google Analytics on our website including essential, functional, analytical and targeting cookies. For more information, please visit our cookies policy here: https://www.fastsigns.com.mt/cookie-policy.
  • Transfers of your information outside the European Economic Area: We transfer your information outside of the EEA to the United States. When we do so, we will ensure appropriate safeguards are in place by encrypting transfers of data using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology.
  • Use of automated decision making and profiling: we use automated decision making and/or profiling through web analytics, cookies, web beacons or server logs analysis tools (profiling) and targeting cookies to display advertisements to people who visit our website and other websites around the internet using the Google AdSense network.
  • Your rights in relation to your information:
  1. to access your information and to receive information about its use
  2. to have your information corrected and/or completed
  3. to have your information deleted
  4. to restrict the use of your information
  5. to receive your information in a portable format
  6. to object to the use of your information
  7. to withdraw your consent to the use of your information
  8. to complain to a supervisory authority
  • Sensitive personal information: we do not knowingly or intentionally collect what is commonly referred to as ‘sensitive personal information’. Please do not submit sensitive personal information about you to us. For more information, please see the main section below entitled Sensitive Personal Information.

Our details

The data controller in respect of our website is FASTSIGNS International, Inc., a Texas corporation, Corporate File Number 795399-0 of 2542 Highlander Way, Carrollton, TX 75006, USA. You can contact the data controller by writing to 2542 Highlander Way, Carrollton, TX 75006, USA or sending an email to privacy@fastsigns.com.

The data controller’s United Kingdom representative is John Davies. You can contact the data controller’s representative by writing to:

FASTSIGNS UK Corporate Office
Neptune House
Nelson Court
Dyson Way
Stafford Technology Park
Stafford, ST18 0WQ

or sending an email to privacy@fastsigns.com.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact the data controller.

Information we collect when you visit our website

We collect and use information from website visitors in accordance with this section and the section entitled Disclosure and additional uses of your information.

Web server log information

We use third party servers to host our website through AMERCIANEAGLE.COM HOSTING, the privacy policy of which is available here: https://www.americaneagle.com/legal/privacy. Our website server automatically logs the IP address you use to access our website as well as other information about your visit such as the pages accessed, information requested, the date and time of the request, the source of your access to our website (e.g. the website or URL (link) which referred you to our website), and your browser version and operating system. Our servers and our backup disaster recovery facility are located in multiple locations throughout the USA and, accordingly, your information is transferred outside the EEA. For further information and information on the safeguards used, please see the section of this Privacy Policy entitled Transfers of your information outside the EEA.

Use of website server log information for IT security purposes

Our third party hosting provider collects and stores server logs to ensure network and information technology security and so that the server and website remain uncompromised. This includes analysing log files to help identify and prevent unauthorised access to our network, the distribution of malicious code, denial of services attacks and other cyber attacks by detecting unusual or suspicious activity.

Unless we are investigating suspicious or potential criminal activity, we do not make, nor do we allow our hosting provider to make any attempt to identify you from the information collected via server logs.

Legal basis for processing: compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject (Article 6(1)(c) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Legal obligation: we have a legal obligation to implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk of our processing of information about individuals. Recording access to our website using server log files is such a measure.

Legal basis for processing: FASTSIGNS and AMERICANEAGLE.COM Hosting’s legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Legitimate interests: we and our third party hosting provider have a legitimate interest in using your information for the purposes of ensuring network and information security.

Cookies and similar technologies

Cookies are data files which are sent from a website to a browser to record information about users for various purposes.

We use cookies and similar technologies on our website, including essential, functional, analytical and targeting cookies and web beacons. For further information on how we use cookies, please see our cookies policy which is available here: https://www.fastsigns.com.mt/cookie-policy.

You can reject some or all of the cookies we use on or via our website by changing your browser settings and/or by using our cookie control tool, but doing so can impair your ability to use our website or some or all of its features. For further information about cookies, including how to change your browser settings, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org or see our cookies policy at https://www.fastsigns.com.mt/cookie-policy.

Information we collect when you contact us

We collect and use information from individuals who contact us in accordance with this section and the section entitled: Disclosure and additional uses of your information.

Email

When you send an email to the email address displayed on our website we collect your email address and any other information you provide in that email (such as your name, telephone number and the information contained in any signature block in your email).

Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Legitimate interest(s): responding to enquiries and messages we receive and keeping records of correspondence.

Legal basis for processing: necessary to perform a contract or to take steps at your request to enter into a contract (Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Reason why necessary to perform a contract: where your message relates to us providing you with goods or services or taking steps at your request prior to providing you with our goods and services (for example, providing you with information about such goods and services), we will process your information in order to do so.

Transfer and storage of your information

We use a third party email provider to store emails you send us. Our third party email provider is Google LLC. Their privacy policy is available here: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

Emails you send us may be stored outside the EEA on Google LLC’s servers in in multiple locations. Click here for more detail: https://www.lexnetcg.com/blog/gsuite/where-g-suite-data-stored/. For further information please see the section of this Privacy Policy entitled: Transfers of your information outside the EEA.

Contact form

When you contact us using our contact form, we collect name, email address, IP address and any other information you provide as part of the form request.

If you do not provide the mandatory information required by our contact form, you will not be able to submit the contact form and we will not receive your enquiry.

Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Legitimate interest(s): responding to enquiries and messages we receive and keeping records of correspondence.

Legal basis for processing: necessary to perform a contract or to take steps at your request to enter into a contract (Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Reason why necessary to perform a contract: where your message relates to us providing you with goods or services or taking steps at your request prior to providing you with our goods and services (for example, providing you with information about such goods and services), we will process your information in order to do so.

Transfer and storage of your information

Messages you send us via our contact form will be stored outside the EEA on our third party hosting servers located in the USA. A copy is also emailed to the FASTSIGNS location you selected. This email is sent via our Mail provider listed above. Our third party hosting provider is AMERICANEAGLE.COM Hosting. Their Privacy Policy is available here: https://www.americaneagle.com/legal/privacy.

For further information about the safeguards used when your information is transferred outside the EEA, see the section of this Privacy Policy below entitled: Transfers of your information outside the EEA.

Phone

When you contact us by phone, we collect your phone number and any information provided to us during your conversation with us.

We do not record phone calls.

Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Legitimate interest(s): responding to enquiries and messages we receive and keeping records of correspondence.

Legal basis for processing: necessary to perform a contract or to take steps at your request to enter into a contract (Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Reason why necessary to perform a contract: where your message relates to us providing you with goods or services or taking steps at your request prior to providing you with our goods and services (for example, providing you with information about such goods and services), we will process your information in order to do so.

Post

If you contact us by post, we will collect any information you provide to us in any postal communications you send us.

Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Legitimate interest(s): responding to enquiries and messages we receive and keeping records of correspondence.

Legal basis for processing: necessary to perform a contract or to take steps at your request to enter into a contract (Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Reason why necessary to perform a contract: where your message relates to us providing you with goods or services or taking steps at your request prior to providing you with our goods and services (for example, providing you with information about such goods and services), we will process your information in order to do so.

Information we collect when you interact with our website

We collect and use information from individuals who interact with particular features of our website in accordance with this section and the section entitled: Disclosure and additional uses of your information.

E-Newsletter

When you sign up for our e-newsletter on our website and/or opt to receive news or offers from us by providing your name and email address and clicking subscribe or ticking a box when filling out and submitting a form indicating that you would like to receive our e-newsletter, we collect your name, email address and ask for additional optional information including your business name, phone number and physical address.

Legal basis for processing: your consent (Article 6(1)(a) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Consent: you give your consent to us sending you our e-newsletter by signing up to receive it using the steps described above.

Transfer and storage of your information

We use a third party service ExactTarget (part of Salesforce Marketing Cloud) to send out our e-newsletter and administer our mailing list. Their privacy policy is available here: https://www.salesforce.com/company/privacy/.

Information you submit to subscribe to our e-newsletter will be stored outside the EEA on the Salesforce Marketing Cloud servers located in multiple locations throughout the USA and in our Content Management System servers located in multiple locations throughout the USA. For further information about the safeguards used when your information is transferred outside the EEA, see the section of this Privacy Policy below entitled: Transfers of your information outside the EEA.

Engaging with the Chat option

When you click on the Chat option on our website, we collect the information you provide to us including your name, email address, phone number, postal code, and information about your sign and graphic project. A transcript of the chat conversation is sent by email to the FASTSIGNS location you have selected and/or that is nearest to you based on your location. An employee from that location will follow up on your request by phone and/or email.

Legal basis for processing: your consent (Article 6(1)(a) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Consent: you give your consent to us selecting the chat button and engaging with the chat operator.

Transfer and storage of your information

We use a third party service, Chat 24/7 Live to manage the chat conversation and to send the transcript to the location. Their privacy policy is available here: https://www.franchise.chat247live.com/privacy.

Information you provide during the chat session will be stored outside the EEA on the Chat 24/7 live servers located in the USA.

For further information about the safeguards used when your information is transferred outside the EEA, see the section of this Privacy Policy below entitled: Transfers of your information outside the EEA.

Registering on our website for a “My Account”

When you register and create a “My Account” on our website, we collect the following information: first name, last name, email, postal code, and any other optional information you provide to us such as phone number, company name and address.

If you do not provide the mandatory information required by the registration form, you will not be able to register or create an account on our website.

Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Legitimate interest: registering and administering accounts on our website to make it easy for the you to see the history of your online quote requests, create an IDEABOOK, or to register for FASTMAIL.

Transfer and storage of your information

Information you submit to us via the registration form on our website will be stored outside the EEA on our third party hosting provider’s servers in multiple locations throughout the USA. Our third party hosting provider is AMERICANEAGLE.COM located in the USA. Their privacy policy is available here: https://www.americaneagle.com/legal/privacy.

For further information about the safeguards used when your information is transferred outside the EEA, see the section of this Privacy Policy below entitled Transfers of your information outside the EEA.

Information we collect when you request a quote or consultation, and/or you upload a file on our website

When you create a Request A Quote or Consultation and/or Upload A File on our website, we collect the following information: first name, last name, email, postal code, and any other optional information you provide to us such as phone number, company name, address.

If you do not provide the mandatory information required by the registration form, you will not be able to register or create an account on our website.

Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Legitimate interest: creating a Request A Quote or Consultation and/or uploading a file makes it easy for you to do business with a FASTSIGNS location.

Transfer and storage of your information

Information you submit to us via the Request A Quote or Consultation and/or Upload A File form on our website will be stored outside the EEA on our third party hosting provider’s servers located in multiple locations throughout the USA . Our third party hosting provider is AMERICANEAGLE.COM located in the USA. Their privacy policy is available here: https://www.americaneagle.com/legal/privacy. Also this information is shared with your selected FASTSIGNS location and if a file is attached, a copy of the file is stored with our third party vendor “SEND THIS FILE” on their servers in multiple locations throughout the USA. Their privacy policy is available here: https://www.sendthisfile.com/policy/privacy-policy.jsp.

For further information about the safeguards used when your information is transferred outside the EEA, see the section of this Privacy Policy below entitled: Transfers of your information outside the EEA.

We collect and use information from individuals who complete the Request A Quote or Consultation and/or Upload A File forms on our website in accordance with this section and the section entitled: Disclosure and additional uses of your information.

Our goods and services

You can opt in to receiving marketing communications from us in relation to our goods and services by signing up on a form to receive our email newsletter online at www.fastsigns.co.uk and ticking a box indicating that you would like to receive such communications. Opportunities to sign up can be found on our various contact forms on the website. You can opt out at any time by using the unsubscribe button on the email newsletter you received.

We will send you marketing communications in relation to our goods and services only if you opt in to receive them.

Legal basis for processing: consent (Article 6(1)(a) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Consent: you give your consent to us sending you information about our goods and services by signing up to receive such information in accordance with the steps described above.

Transfer and storage of your information

We use a third party service to administer our mailing list, ExactTarget. Information you submit to subscribe for our e-newsletter will be stored outside the EEA on our servers and our third party mailing provider’s servers in the USA. For further information about the safeguards used when your information is transferred outside the EEA, see the section of this Privacy Policy below entitled: Transfers of your information outside the EEA.

How we collect or obtain information about you from third parties

This section sets out how we obtain or collect information about you from third parties.

We do not collect information from third parties.

Our use of automated decision-making and profiling

We use automated decision making and profiling on our website. We do not consider that this has any legal effect on you or similarly significantly affects you.

You have the right to object to our use of automated decision making and profiling described in this section. You can do that by opting out of cookies and similar technologies in accordance with the method described in the relevant section below. If you do not want us to process your actual IP address (usually the IP address assigned to you by your Internet Service Provider) when you visit our website, you can use a Virtual Private Network (VPN) or a free service such as Tor.

You can find out more about our use of cookies and similar technologies (including the legal basis on which we use them) and how to opt out from them in our cookies policy, which is available here: https://www.fastsigns.com.mt/cookie-policy.

Automated decision making

Automated decision making is decision making by technological means (i.e. by a machine) without human involvement.

Use of automated decision making for display advertising

We automate the display advertisements containing our products and services on other websites you visit, based on the fact that you have visited our website using cookies. For further information on the cookies we use, please see our cookies policy which is available here: https://www.fastsigns.com.mt/cookie-policy.

Logic involved: automatically displaying advertisements to individuals who have visited our website results in increased efficiencies and costs savings for us than manually displaying advertisements or displaying advertisements by different means.

Significance and envisaged consequences: cookies will be used to recognise the fact that you have visited our website in order to display advertisements to you (unless you have blocked such cookies) and will collect information about your online behaviour.

How to object: you can block these cookies by using browser settings, or insert specific method e.g. for Google DoubleClick, by opting out of seeing personalised ads by following the instructions here: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en-GB. For further information, please see our cookies policy: https://www.fastsigns.com.mt/cookie-policy.

Legal basis for processing: legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation.

Legitimate interest: To direct the user to products and services that they have shown an interest in.

Profiling

Profiling is any form of automated processing of your information to evaluate personal aspects about you, in particular to analyse or predict things like performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behaviour, location or movements.

Use of profiling for web analytics

Our web analytics service, Google Analytics, uses and collects information such as your location based on your IP address and your behaviour based on cookies when you access our website, this includes pages you visit and what you click on and time on site, number of pages visited, frequency of visits and search terms used when finding our site. We will only process information from cookies if you have consented to us setting cookies on your computer in accordance with our cookies policy (https://www.fastsigns.com.mt/cookie-policy. Information collected about you, once collected, is anonymised and stored on an aggregate basis. We do not collect or profile your performance at work, economic situation, health, or reliability.

Logic involved: by automatically analysing and categorising information such as the location (based on IP address) as well as the behaviour and devices of visitors to our website (using cookies), we are able to gain a better understanding of what our website visitors want (in terms of the content of our website and our products), how to improve our website and how to advertise and market our services to them.

Significance and envisaged consequences: cookies will be used to track and store information about your behaviour and device on our website (unless you have opted out from receiving such cookies by opting out from analytical cookies used on our website) and your location will be analysed based on your IP address. We may target advertisements based on the level of interest we receive from certain visitors and their behaviour on our website.

Legal basis for processing: legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation.

Legitimate interest: To direct the customer to products and services that they have shown an interest in.

Use of profiling in marketing emails: We do not use web beacons, however we use other technologies provided by our third party vendor, ExactTarget (part of Salesforce Cloud) for tracking our marketing emails, to analyse our emails and what actions are taken (for example, email opens, clicks, undeliverable messages, and other online activities as a result of the email marketing newsletter. We will only process information if you have consented to receive our newsletter (or soft opted in before 25th May 2018) and are not opted out of our email newsletter program in accordance with our cookies policy at https://www.fastsigns.com.mt/cookie-policy.

Logic involved: by analysing how our email recipients respond to our emails, we are able to improve the content and effectiveness of our emails and gauge who is most interested.

Significance and envisaged consequences: your behaviour when you open our emails will be tracked using ExactTarget (part of Salesforce cloud tracking technologies). This tracking includes open rates, click through rates, opt out rates, bounce rates and web pages you’ve visited. How to object: An opt out option is included in each of our email newsletters.

Legal basis for processing: legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Legitimate interest: analysing the level of engagement and effectiveness of our marketing emails and content.

Disclosure and additional uses of your information

This section sets out the circumstances in which we will disclose information about you to third parties and any additional purposes for which we use your information.

Disclosure of your information to service providers

We use a number of third parties to provide us services necessary to run our business or to assist us with running our business, who process your information for us on our behalf. These include the following:

  • Telephone provider(s): Each FASTSIGNS location is independently owned and operated and use a different telephone providers. For more information, please contact the FASTSIGNS location that you selected. Our United Kingdom office uses British Telecom.
  • Email provider(s), including ExactTarget (part of Salesforce Cloud). Their privacy policy is available here: https://www.salesforce.com/company/privacy/ and Google LLC’s Privacy Policy is available here: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.
  • Information Technology service provider(s): Each FASTSIGNS location is independently owned and operated and each location will use a different information technology service provider. For more information, please contact the FASTSIGNS location that you selected.
  • Web developer(s), including AMERICANEAGLE.com. Their privacy policy is available here: https://www.americaneagle.com/legal/privacy
  • Hosting provider(s), including AMERICANEAGLE.com Hosting. Their privacy policy is available here: https://www.americaneagle.com/legal/privacy
  • Listen360 is our Customer Feedback vendor. Their privacy policy is available here: https://www.listen360.com/privacy-policy/

Our third party service providers are located in the USA, apart from telephone services and some Information technology services, which are located in the United Kingdom.

Your information will be shared with these service providers where necessary to provide you with the service you have requested, whether that is accessing our website or ordering goods and services from us.

Legal basis for processing: legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Legitimate interest relied on: where we share your information with these third parties in a context other than where is necessary to perform a contract (or take steps at your request to do so), we will share your information with such third parties in order to allow us to run and manage our business efficiently.

Disclosure of your information to other third parties

We disclose your information to other third parties in specific circumstances, as set out below:

Providing information to third parties such as Google LLC. Google collects information through our use of Google Analytics on our website. Google uses this information, including IP addresses and information from cookies for a number of purposes, such as improving its Google Analytics service. Information is shared with Google on an aggregated and anonymised basis. To find out more about what information Google collects, how it uses this information and how to control the information sent to Google, please see the following page: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/

Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Legitimate interest(s): analysing the level of engagement and effectiveness of our marketing emails and content.

You can opt out of Google Analytics by installing the browser plugin here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Transfer and storage of your information

Information collected by Google Analytics is stored outside the EEA on Google’s servers in the USA.

For further information about the safeguards used when your information is transferred outside the EEA, see the section of this Privacy Policy below entitled: Transfers of your information outside the EEA.

Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Legitimate interest: running and managing our business efficiently.

We do not display the identities of all of our service providers publicly by name for security and competitive reasons. If you would like further information about the identities of our other service providers, however, please contact us directly by email at privacy@fastsigns.com and we will provide you with such information where you have a legitimate reason for requesting it (where we have shared your information with such service providers). In addition, we may disclose your information to:

  • anti-fraud services;
  • Governmental, legal, regulatory, or other similar authorities, and central and/or local government agencies, upon request or where required, including for the purposes of reporting any actual or suspected breach of applicable law or regulation;
  • accountants, auditors, financial advisors, insurers, solicitors and other professional advisors to FASTSIGNS, subject to binding contractual obligations of confidentiality;
  • any relevant party, claimant, complainant, enquirer, law enforcement agency or court, to the extent necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal rights in accordance with applicable law;
  • any relevant party for the purposes of prevention, investigation, detention or prosecution of criminal offences or the execution of criminal penalties, including safeguarding against and the prevention of threats to public security in accordance with applicable law;
  • any relevant third party acquirer(s), in the event that we sell or transfer all or any relevant portion of our business or assets (including in the event of reorganization, merger or bankruptcy);

Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Legitimate interest: running and managing our business effectively.

Legal basis for processing: necessary to perform a contract or to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract (Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Reason why necessary to perform a contract: we need to share your information with other companies in order to be able to meet our contractual obligations to you or to take steps at your request prior to entering a contract., for example because of the services or information you have requested.

Legitimate interest(s): sharing your information with a prospective purchaser, seller or similar person in order to allow such a transaction to take place.

Disclosure and use of your information for legal reasons.

Legitimate interests: preventing crime or suspected criminal activity (such as fraud).

Legitimate interest: enforcing our legal rights and taking steps to enforce our legal rights.

Legitimate interest(s): resolving disputes and potential disputes.

Legal basis for processing: compliance with a legal obligation (Article 6(1)(c) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Legal obligation(s): legal obligations to disclose information which are part of the laws of England and Wales or if they have been integrated into the United Kingdom’s legal framework (for example in the form of an international agreement which the United Kingdom has signed).

Legitimate interest: where the legal obligations are part of the laws of another country and have not been integrated into the United Kingdom’s legal framework, we have a legitimate interest in complying with these obligations.

How long we retain your information and criteria for determining retention periods

We take reasonable steps designed to ensure that your information is only processed and held for the minimum period necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. The criteria for determining the duration for which we will retain your information are as follows:

(1) we will retain copies of your information in a form that permits identification only for as long as:

  • we maintain an ongoing relationship with you (e.g., where you are recipient of our services, or you are lawfully included in our initiating a chat session, filling out a request or contact form, sending a file, building an IDEABOOK, creating a “My Account”, emailing us, making a purchase and by signing up for our e-newsletter and have not unsubscribed);
  • your information is necessary in connection with lawful purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, for which we have valid legal basis (e.g., where your information is included in a contract between us, or your employer, and we have a legitimate interest in processing this information for the purposes of operating our business and fulfilling our obligations under that contract; or where have a legal obligation to retain your information): or
  • any relevant agreed industry practices on how long information should be retained.

plus:

(2) the duration of:

  • any applicable limitation period under applicable law (i.e., any period during which any person could bring a legal claim against us in connection with your information, or to which your information may be relevant),
  • an additional time period following the end of such applicable limitation period (so that, if a person brings a claim at the end of the limitation period, we are still afforded a reasonable amount of time in which to identify any information that is relevant to that claim),

and:

(3) in addition, if any relevant legal claims are brought, we may continue to process your information for such additional periods as are necessary in connection with that claim.

During the periods noted in paragraphs (2)a and (2)b above, we will restrict our processing of your information to storage of, and maintaining the security of, that data, except to the extent that that data needs to be reviewed in connection with any legal claim, or any obligation under applicable law.

Once the periods in paragraphs (1), (2) and (3) above, each to the extent applicable, have concluded, we will either:

  • permanently delete or destroy the relevant information;
  • archive your information so it is beyond use; or
  • anonymise the relevant information.

How we secure your information

We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to secure your information and to protect it against unauthorised or unlawful use and accidental loss or destruction, including:

  • only sharing and providing access to your information to the minimum extent necessary, subject to confidentiality restrictions where appropriate, and on an anonymised basis wherever possible;
  • using secure servers to store your information;
  • verifying the identity of any individual who requests access to information prior to granting them access to information;
  • using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software to encrypt any information you submit to us via any forms on our website; and
  • only transferring your information via closed system or encrypted data transfers.

Transmission of information to us by email

Transmission of information over the internet is not entirely secure, and if you submit any information to us over the internet (whether by email, via our website or any other means), you do so entirely at your own risk.

We cannot be responsible for any costs, expenses, loss of profits, harm to reputation, damages, liabilities or any other form of loss or damage suffered by you as a result of your decision to transmit information to us by such means.

Transfers of your information outside the EEA

Your information will be transferred and stored outside the EEA in the circumstances set out below. We will also transfer your information outside the EEA or to an international organisation in order to comply with legal obligations to which we are subject to (compliance with a court order, for example). Where we are required to do so, we will ensure appropriate safeguards and protections are in place.

Server log information

Information collected when you visit our website is transferred outside of the EEA and stored on the servers of our third party hosting company, AMERICANEAGLE.COM hosting. You can access their privacy policy here: https://www.americaneagle.com/legal/privacy.

Country of storage: USA. This country is not subject to an adequacy decision by the European Commission.

Safeguard(s) used: This data is stored per AMERICANEAGLE.com hosting’s strict PCI compliance requirements.

Contact form

Information you submit to us via our contact form is transferred outside the EEA and stored on the servers of our third party hosting company, AMERICANEAGLE.COM and shared with the FASTSIGNS location you selected (when applicable) by email. If a file is uploaded using the Request for Quote or Consultation, it is sent to the selected FASTSIGNS location and a copy of the uploaded file is stored on the servers of our third party file management company SEND THIS FILE located in the USA. Files are stored there for 14 days. Information submitted is also stored in our third party content management system (SiteFinity), and with our third party email provider (Google LLC)

You can access SiteFinity’s privacy policy here: https://www.sitefinity.com/privacy-policy.

You can access Google LLC’s privacy policy here: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en&gl=us

You can access AMERICANEAGLE.COM hosting privacy policy here: https://www.americaneagle.com/legal/privacy

Country of storage: USA. This country is not subject to an adequacy decision by the European Commission.

Safeguard(s) used: This data is stored on the servers of our third party hosting company, AMERICANEAGLE.com. Our third party hosting provider uses SSL encryption to transfer information to a country which is outside the EEA. Information about the safeguards used may be obtained by email to privacy@fastsigns.com.

Email

Information you submit to us by email is transferred outside the EEA and stored on our third party email provider’s servers. Our third party email provider is: Google LLC. You can access their privacy policy here: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

Country of storage: USA. This country is not subject to an adequacy decision by the European Commission.

Safeguard(s) used: Google LLC has self-certified its compliance with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield.

E-Newsletter

Information you submit to us when you sign up for our e-newsletter is transferred outside the EEA and stored on our third party mailing list provider’s servers. Our third party mailing list provider is: ExactTarget (part of Salesforce Marketing Cloud). You can access their privacy policy here: https://www.salesforce.com/company/privacy/.

Country of storage: USA. This country is not subject to an adequacy decision by the European Commission.

Safeguard(s) used: our third party mailing list provider has certified certain of its services under the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and the Swiss-U.S Privacy Shield Framework.

Chat

Information you provide when selecting the online chat option is transferred outside the EEA and stored on our third party chat provider’s servers. Our third party chat provider is: Chat 24/7 . You can access their privacy policy here: https://franchise.chat247live.com/privacy/.

Country of storage: USA. This country is not subject to an adequacy decision by the European Commission.

Safeguard(s) used: All data transmitted between Chat 24/7 Live and their server is protected with SSL and TLS encryption. As another layer of security, Chat 24/7 Live uses a firewall which receives SSL and TLS encrypted data, filters that data according to preset security standards then sends the filtered data to their server.

Google Analytics

Information collected by Google Analytics (your IP address and actions you take in relation to our website) is transferred outside the EEA and stored on Google’s servers. You can access Google’s privacy policy here: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

Country of storage: USA. This country is not subject to an adequacy decision by the European Commission.

Safeguard(s) used: Google has self-certified its compliance with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield which is available here: https://www.privacyshield.gov/welcome.

Also, where we transfer your information outside of the EEA, we relay, alternatively and independently on the following bases to transfer your information:

Model Clauses

The European Commission has adopted standard contractual clauses (also known as Model Clauses) which provide safeguards for personal information that is transferred outside of Europe. We often use these Model Clauses when transferring personal information outside of EEA. You can request a copy of our Model Clauses by emailing privacy@fastsigns.com.

Privacy Shield

FASTSIGNS does not participate in Privacy Shield at this time.

Necessary for the performance of the contract between FASTSIGNS and you

We provide voluntary services; you can choose whether or not you want to use the services. However, if you want to use the services, you need to agree to ourTerms of Use, which set out the contract between FASTSIGNS and you. FASTSIGNS operates in in the USA and uses technical infrastructure in the USA to deliver the services to you. In accordance with the contract between us, we need to transfer your information to the USA as necessary to provide the services. Simply put, we can’t provide you with the services and perform our contract with you without moving your information outside of the EEA.

Other valid mechanisms

We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and after it is received. We use third party providers to transfer and store our website contact forms. This information is sent using SSL encryption and the data is stored in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

If you want to receive more information about the safeguards applied to international transfers of information, please email privacy@fastsigns.com.

Your rights in relation to your information

Subject to certain limitations on certain rights, you have the following rights in relation to your information, which you can exercise by writing to Attention: Legal Department 2542 Highlander Way, Carrollton, TX 75006, USA or sending an email to privacy@fastsigns.com:

  • to request access to your information and information related to our use and processing of your information;
  • to request the correction or deletion of your information;
  • to request that we restrict our use of your information;
  • to receive information which you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format (e.g. a CSV file) and the right to have that information transferred to another data controller (including a third party data controller);
  • to object to the processing of your information for certain purposes (for further information, see the section below entitled: Your right to object to the processing of your information for certain purposes);
  • to withdraw your consent to our use of your information at any time where we rely on your consent to use or process that information. Please note that if you withdraw your consent, this will not affect the lawfulness of our use and processing of your information on the basis of your consent before the point in time when you withdraw your consent; and
  • the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling which produces legal affects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you.

In accordance with Article 77 of the General Data Protection Regulation, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work or of an alleged infringement of the General Data Protection Regulation.

For the purposes of the United Kingdom, the supervisory authority is the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the contact details of which are available here: https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/.

Further information on your rights in relation to your personal data as an individual

The above rights are provided in summary form only and certain limitations apply to many of these rights. For further information about your rights in relation to your information, including any limitations which apply, please visit the following pages on the ICO’s website:

You can also find out further information about your rights, as well as information on any limitations which apply to those rights, by reading the underlying legislation contained in Articles 12 to 22 and 34 of the General Data Protection Regulation, which is available here:

http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/reform/files/regulation_oj_en.pdf

Verifying your identity where you request access to your information

Where you request access to your information, we are required by law to use all reasonable measures to verify your identity before doing so.

These measures are designed to protect your information and to reduce the risk of identity fraud, identity theft or general unauthorised access to your information.

How we verify your identity

Where we possess appropriate information about you on file, we will attempt to verify your identity using that information.

If it is not possible to identity you from such information, or if we have insufficient information about you, we may require original or certified copies of certain documentation in order to be able to verify your identity before we are able to provide you with access to your information.

We will be able to confirm the precise information we require to verify your identity in your specific circumstances if and when you make such a request.

Your right to object to the processing of your information for certain purposes

You have the following rights in relation to your information, which you may exercise in the same way as you may exercise by writing to Attention: Legal Department 2542 Highlander Way, Carrollton, TX 75006, USA or sending an email to privacy@fastsigns.com.

  • to object to us using or processing your information where we use or process it in order to carry out a task in the public interest or for our legitimate interests, including ‘profiling’ (i.e. analysing or predicting your behaviour based on your information) based on any of these purposes; and
  • to object to us using or processing your information for direct marketing purposes (including any profiling we engage in that is related to such direct marketing).

You may also exercise your right to object to us using or processing your information for direct marketing purposes by:

  • clicking the unsubscribe link contained at the bottom of any marketing email we send to you and following the instructions which appear in your browser following your clicking on that link;
  • sending an SMS message containing only the words “OPT OUT” or “STOP” in reply to any marketing communication we send by text message; or
  • sending an email to privacy@fastsigns.com asking that we stop sending you marketing communications or by including the words “OPT OUT”.

For more information on how to object to our use of information collected from cookies and similar technologies, please see the section entitled How to accept or reject cookies in our cookies policy, which is available here: https://www.fastsigns.com.mt/cookie-policy

Sensitive Personal Information

‘Sensitive personal information’ is information about an individual that reveals their racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, genetic information, biometric information for the purpose of uniquely identifying an individual, information concerning health or information concerning a natural person’s sex life or sexual orientation.

We do not knowingly or intentionally collect sensitive personal information from individuals, and you must not submit sensitive personal information to us.

If, however, you inadvertently or intentionally transmit sensitive personal information to us, you will be considered to have explicitly consented to us processing that sensitive personal information under Article 9(2)(a) of the General Data Protection Regulation. We will use and process your sensitive personal information for the purposes of deleting it.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

We update and amend our Privacy Policy from time to time.

Minor changes to our Privacy Policy

Where we make minor changes to our Privacy Policy, we will update our Privacy Policy with a new effective date stated at the beginning of it. Our processing of your information will be governed by the practices set out in that new version of the Privacy Policy from its effective date onwards.

Major changes to our Privacy Policy or the purposes for which we process your information

Where we make major changes to our Privacy Policy or intend to use your information for a new purpose or a different purpose than the purposes for which we originally collected it, we will notify you by email (where possible) or by posting a notice on our website.

We will provide you with the information about the change in question and the purpose and any other relevant information before we use your information for that new purpose.

Wherever required, we will obtain your prior consent before using your information for a purpose that is different from the purposes for which we originally collected it.

Children’s Privacy

Because we care about the safety and privacy of children online, we comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA). COPPA and its accompanying regulations protect the privacy of children using the internet. We do not knowingly contact or collect information from persons under the age of 18. The website is not intended to solicit information of any kind from persons under the age of 18.

It is possible that we could receive information pertaining to persons under the age of 18 by the fraud or deception of a third party. If we are notified of this, as soon as we verify the information, we will, where required by law to do so, immediately obtain the appropriate parental consent to use that information or, if we are unable to obtain such parental consent, we will delete the information from our servers. If you would like to notify us of our receipt of information about persons under the age of 18, please do so by sending an email to privacy@fastsigns.com.

California Do Not Track Disclosures

“Do Not Track” is a privacy preference that users can set in their web browsers. When a user turns on a Do Not Track signal in their browser, the browser sends a message to websites requesting that they do not track the user. For information about Do Not Track, please visit www.allaboutdnt.org.

At this time, we do not respond to Do Not Track browser settings or signals. In addition, we use other technology that is standard to the internet, such as pixel tags, web beacons, and other similar technologies, to track visitors to the website. Those tools may be used by us and by third parties to collect information about you and your internet activity, even if you have turned on the Do Not Track signal.For information on how to opt out from tracking technologies used on our website, see our cookies policy which is available here: https://www.fastsigns.com.mt/cookie-policy.

Copyright, credit and logo

This Privacy Policy is based on a General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/769) (GDPR) compliant template provided by GDPR privacy policy. For further information, please visit https://gdprprivacypolicy.org.

The copyright in this Privacy Policy is either owned by, or licensed to, us and is protected by copyright laws around the world and copyright protection software. All intellectual property rights in this document are reserved.

Where we display the GDPR privacy policy logo on our website, this is used to indicate that we have adopted a Privacy Policy template provided by GDPR privacy policy as the basis for this Privacy Policy.