GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION (GDPR) AND PRIVACY NOTICE

Who we are

We are Waseka Limited (company number 09426653) and our address is Unit 14, Bourne Court, Southend Road, Woodford Green, Essex, England, IG8 8HD. Our VAT number is 9426653. We are the providers of the website www.waseka.co.uk (referred to as the “Site)

This Site allows estate agents, letting agents and auctioneers (“Members”) that have subscribed with us to advertise properties online.

References to “you” or “your” refers to a user of the Site or any of our services.

Our contact details

We have appointed a data protection officer (DPO) who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this privacy policy. If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact the DPO using the details set out below.

Data Protection Officer
Waseka Limited
Unit 14, Bourne Court, Southend Road, Woodford Green
Essex
IG8 8HD

Alternatively, please contact us at privacy@waseka.co.uk

Third-party links

This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

The date we collect about you

How we use your personal data

We collect and use personal information in accordance with data protection laws to assist in making improvements and enhance your experience on our Site. It is also used for data analysis, statistical and troubleshooting purposes, and passing your messages to our advertisers including estate agents, letting agents and auctioneers. Generally, we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data, but one of the following grounds will usually be used:

Where we have your permission (‘consent’)

To provide you with news about offers and deals that we think will be interesting to you. We will only contact you in the ways you have given us permission to do so.

Where we have a justifiable reason (‘legitimate interests’)

• To process your data in the legitimate interest of our business in order that we may provide you with the best service or product.
• To send you information regarding new products and services where we can demonstrate a relationship with you and you have not told us that you do not want to receive these.
• To maintain our list of people who have asked not to receive direct communication from us.
• To help keep our website safe and secure.
• To allow our internal business processes to function- for example transacting with our partners, carrying out audits, producing management information and dealing with complaints.
• To undertake market research.
• To request feedback on our performance.
• To help prevent fraud and maintain security.
• To assist in training, quality assurance and compliance.

Where we must do something by law (‘legal obligation’)

• This means processing your personal data where it is necessary for compliance with a legal or regulatory obligation.

In exceptional circumstances (‘vital interests’)

• We may use your information in rare situations where vital interests of yourself or another person needs protecting.

Who do we share your data with?

• Waseka Limited will never share or sell your data to any other company for commercial gain. We only ever “share” or transfer your data as part of our own, core processing activities. So, for example, by using a card payment processing provider to take payment for goods or services.
• We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

Marketing

We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising. We have established a privacy centre where you can view and make certain decisions about your personal data use, including when you sign in to your account.

Opting out

You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by logging into the website and checking or unchecking relevant boxes to adjust your marketing preferences or by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you.

Cookies

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about the cookies we use, please see our Cookie Policy

How long will you use my personal data for?

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for satisfying any legal, accounting or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means

Your legal rights

At any point you can exercise your:

• Right of access – contact us for a copy of the data we hold about you.
• Right of rectification – let us know if the data we hold is out of date or inaccurate and we’ll update it.
• Right to be forgotten – if you no longer want to use our services, please contact us and we’ll delete all related data.
• Right to restrict processing – we only ever collect data we need and actively ensure we’re never collecting anything over and above need. You can opt in and out of SDP’s individual services by contacting us.
• Right of portability – we will support reasonable requests to transfer your data to another organisation should you require it.
• Right to object to automated decision making and profiling- we do not currently use any automated profiling of any description. In the event you’re unhappy with the way we’re processing your data please contact our Data Protection Officer