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Companeo Limited Privacy Policy
  • Companeo Limited (we or us) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
  • This policy (together with our website terms of use and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us.  Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.
  • For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act), the data controller is Companeo Limited of Bracton House, 1st Floor, 143-145 Farringdon Road, EC1R 3AB London.
    • Information we may collect from you
  • We may collect and process the following data about you:
    • • information that you provide by filling in any forms on our site www.companeo.com (our site). This includes information provided at the time of registering to use parts of our site or our entire site, subscribing to our site or posting material on our site.  We may also ask you for information when you make an enquiry about any product or service marketed or promoted by us or when you report a problem with our site;
    • if you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence;
    • we may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them;
    • details of your visits to our site, including (but not limited to) traffic data, location data, web logs and other communication data, and the resources that you access;
    • and details about the business on whose behalf you are making an enquiry about any product or service marketed or promoted by us, including (without limitation) the business name, address, email address and telephone number and details relevant to the purchasing enquiry such as turnover and number of employees.


    IP addresses and cookies

  • We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report information to our supplier partners and aggregated information to our advertising partners.  Such aggregated information is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns and does not identify any individual.
  • For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general Internet usage by using a cookie file that is stored on the hard drive of your computer.  Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.  They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised service. 
    They enable us:
    • • to estimate our audience size and usage pattern;
    • to store information about your preferences and so allow us to customise our site according to your individual interests;
    • to speed up your searches;
    • and to recognise you when you return to our site.
  • You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site.
  • Please note that our advertising partners may also use cookies, over which we have no control.

    Where we store your personal data

  • The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (EEA).  It may also be processed by individuals operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers.  Such individuals maybe engaged in, among other things, the provision of support services.  By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing.  We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
  • All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers.  Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password that enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential.  We ask you not to share a password with anyone.
  • Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure.  Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
    Uses made of the information

  • We use information held about you in the following ways:
    • • to ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
    • to provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or that we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes;
    • to allow you to participate in interactive features of our site, when you choose to do so;
    • and to notify you about changes to our site.
  • We may also use your data, or permit selected third parties to use your data, to clarify your requirements, measure customer service and satisfaction and provide you with information about goods and services that may be of interest to you and they or we may contact you about these by post, telephone or facsimile or, subject to clauses 4.3 and 4.4 below, email or SMS.
  • If you are an existing customer, we will only contact you by electronic means (e-mail or SMS) with information about goods and services similar to those that were the subject of a previous sale to you.
  • If you are a new customer, and where we permit selected third parties to use your data, we (or they) will contact you by electronic means only if you have previously consented to this.
  • If you do not want us to use your data in this way or to pass your details on to third parties for marketing purposes, please tick the relevant box situated on the form on which we collect your data.
  • We will disclose information about identifiable individuals to our supplier partners.  We will not disclose information about identifiable individuals to our advertising partners but we may provide them with aggregate information about our users.  We may also use such aggregate information to help our advertising partners reach the kind of audience they want to target.  We may make use of the personal data we have collected from you to enable us to comply with our advertising partners' wishes by displaying their advertisements to that target audience.

    Disclosure of your information

  • We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries as defined in section 736 of the UK Companies Act 1985.
  • We may disclose your personal information to third parties:
    • • in the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets;
    • if we or substantially all of our assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by us about our customers will be one of the transferred assets;
    • or if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation or in order to enforce or apply our website terms of use and/or other agreements; or to protect the rights, property or safety of us, our customers or others.  This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

    Your rights

  • You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes.  We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes.  You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data.  You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at: COMPANEO - River House, 1st Floor, 143-145 Farringdon Road, EC1R 3AB London
  • Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our supplier partners, advertising partners and affiliates.  If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies.  Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
    • Access to information
  • The Act gives you the right to access information held about you.  Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act.  Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.
    • Changes to our privacy policy
  • Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.
    • Contact
  • Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to:
    • • Address: River House, 1st Floor, 143-145 Farringdon Road, EC1R 3AB London.
Companeo Limited Acceptable Use Policy
  • This acceptable use policy sets out the terms between you and us under which you may access our website www.companeo.com (our site). This acceptable use policy applies to all users of, and visitors to, our site.
    Your use of our site means that you accept, and agree to abide by, all the policies in this acceptable use policy, which supplement our website terms of use.
    www.companeo.com is a site operated by Companeo Limited (we or us).  We are incorporated and registered in England under company number 05604379 and our principal place of business is River House, 1st Floor, 143-145 Farringdon Road, EC1R 3AB London.
  • Registered Office Address:
    River House, 1st Floor, 143-145 Farringdon Road, EC1R 3AB London
    Registered number: 05604379

Prohibited uses
  • You may use our site only for lawful purposes.
  • You may not use our site:
    • in any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation;
    • in any way that is unlawful or fraudulent or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect;
    • for the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way;
    • to send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material that does not comply with our content standards;
    • to transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of spam or similar solicitation;
    • or to knowingly transmit any data or send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.
  • You also agree:
    • not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our site in contravention of the provisions
    of our website terms of use;
    • and not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt:
    • any part of our site;
    • any equipment or network on which our site is stored;
    • any software used in the provision of our site;
    • or any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.

Interactive services
  • We may from time to time provide interactive services on our site, including, without limitation:
    • blogs
    • bulletin boards and RSS feeds, podcasts and similar.

  • Where we do provide any interactive service, we will provide clear information to you about the kind of service offered, if it is moderated and what form of moderation is used (including whether it is human or technical).
  • We will do our best to assess any possible risks for users from third parties when they use any interactive service provided on our site and we will decide in each case whether it is appropriate to use moderation of the relevant service (including what kind of moderation to use) in the light of those risks.  However, we are under no obligation to oversee, monitor or moderate any interactive service we provide on our site and we expressly exclude our liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of any interactive service by a user in contravention of our content standards, whether the service is moderated or not.
  • Where we do moderate an interactive service, we will normally provide you with a means of contacting the moderator, should a concern or difficulty arise.

Content standards
  • These content standards apply to any and all material that y ou contribute to our site (contributions) and to any interactive services associated with it.
  • You must comply with the spirit of the following standards as well as the letter. The standards apply to each part of any contribution as well as to its whole.
  • Contributions must:
    • be accurate (where they state facts);
    • be genuinely held (where they state opinions);
    • and comply with applicable law in the UK and in any country from which they are posted.
  • Contributions must not:
    • contain any material that is defamatory of any person;
    • contain any material that is obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory;
    • promote sexually explicit material;
    • promote violence;
    • promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age;
    • infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person;
    • be likely to deceive any person;
    • be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence;
    • promote any illegal activity;
    • be threatening, abuse or invade another’s privacy or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety;
    • be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person;
    • be used to impersonate any person or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person;
    • give the impression that they emanate from us, if this is not the case;
    •or advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act, such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse.

Suspension and termination
  • We will determine in our discretion whether there has been a breach of this acceptable use policy through your use of our site. When a breach of this policy has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate.
  • Failure to comply with this acceptable use policy constitutes a material breach of the terms of use upon which you are permitted to use our site and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:
    •immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our site;
    •immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any posting or material uploaded by you to our site;
    •issuance of a warning to you;
    •bringing legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach;
    •taking further legal action against you;
    • and/or disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary.
  • We exclude liability for actions taken in response to breaches of this acceptable use policy.  The responses described in this policy are not limited and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.

Changes to the acceptable use policy
  • We may revise this acceptable use policy at any time by amending this page.  You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we make, as they are legally binding on you.  Provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site may also supersede some of the provisions contained in this acceptable use policy.
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