PRIVACY POLICY

What does this Website Privacy Policy Cover?

We want to be transparent with you (consumers, our clients and our network of publishers) about how we collect and use your Personal Data when you visit our website available at www.leadscompany.eu or any other Leads Company web property or services referencing this Website Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Website”). We understand the importance of privacy, and we strive to keep personal information confidential.

Incoming, EU-wide data protection legislation known as the “General Data Protection Regulation” or “GDPR” (a copy of which is posted here), took effect from May 25th, 2018. The Website Privacy Policy is intended to meet our duties of Transparency under the GDPR and all other applicable privacy laws.

Who we are.

We are Leads Company, with address at 30, Ortensia Triq Il Papa Piju XII, MST 2651, Mosta, Malta. When we refer to “Leads Company”, “we” or “us” in this Website Privacy Policy, we are referring to Leads Company Ltd.

We have appointed a “Data Protection Officer”, this is a person who is responsible for overseeing and advising us in relation to our compliance with the GDPR and our compliance with this Privacy Policy. If you want to contact our Data Protection Officer directly, you can email: support@leadscompany.eu

What we do.

Leads Company is a data processor under the definitions of GDPR.

We are a client services agency that specialises in helping both advertisers and publishers across a multi-channel and geo basis for any and all lead generation / data acquisition requirements.

Our offering involves campaign planning, buying, management, compliance, delivery, optimisation, measurement and analytics for advertisers and agencies.

1. Which personal data we collect and store

If you utilise our offering and/or use our website by filling out the entry fields and/or contact us and/or merely visit our website, we may collect personal data as follows:

Personal data that you provide us by utilising our offering and/or using our website may be collected. If one or several provisions of this Agreement should be or become lawfully ineffective, this shall not impair the validity of the other provisions. The invalid provision will be replaced as quickly as possible with another provision most closely approximating the economic intent and content of the invalid provision. “Personal data” include, in particular, your name, address, e-mail address, phone number, and any interests, etc., that may be identified in surveys.

To the extent when you enter into a contract on our website or issue a declaration of intent, we store the information for an order and, if any, payment details associated therewith.

To the extent that you answer any questions regarding your preferences, interests, user behavior, etc. after participating in the prize draw and/or your interests become apparent because you sign up for a sample subscription or similar items, we will also store this information in order to establish a personal user profile that enables interest-driven, optimised direct marketing.

We also collect and process personal data that you provide to us by contacting us.

Personal data that may be collected through your visit to our page, particularly data traffic, location and time information, IP addresses, and other communication information provided through the use of your computer.

Further data – such as, in particular, local times, time zones, and usage data – may also be stored in addition to the data specified above.

Statistical data may be collected and used in the case of a visit to our website. “Statistical data” means, among other things, data regarding the use of a particular Internet browser and the browser version.

2. How and why we process and transfer your personal data, and what it is used for

The data collected during registration to the prize draw is used to conduct the prize draw, determine the winner, handle the awarding of prizes and notify the winner and transmit the prize (Article 6(1)(b) GDPR).

If, after the conclusion of the prize draw, declarations of intent for purchase, service, or other contracts with external companies are received, the data collected, where applicable, and further data collected on a contract-specific basis will be disclosed to the external company or companies in question. Otherwise those companies cannot use the data to establish or perform a contract or contracts (Article 6(1)(b) and (f) GDPR).

Based on the participation agreement that is entered into and in the event of an online participation in a prize draw, Leads Company will collect and process your personal data. This agreement requires that you provide your personal data if and insofar as you wish to participate in our prize draw offering. The data processing takes place for both our own direct marketing (Article 6(1)(b) GDPR) as well as for our sponsors to also enable them to engage in individual, demand-driven direct marketing that is tailored to you via the channels of e-mail, mail, phone, and text message (Article 6(1)(b) GDPR).

Processing your personal data would be in accordance with declaration of consent for advertising and marketing purposes, via phone, text messages, email, mail and/or the disclosure of data for direct marketing purposes for the mentioned sponsors of the prize draw that may have been issued separately; this also takes place within the scope of our legitimate interests as established by your relevant consent (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR).

Processing of personal data for 3rd party usage:

Leads Company acts as Data Processor for various partner companies, wherein a data subject co-registers or otherwise gives positive opt-in consent for 3rd party marketing communications.

Leads Company assumes that the consent to receive advertising by phone, text message, e-mail, and mail from us and our sponsors, which is to be declared separately, also constitutes consent for purposes of data protection and privacy law to the processing of your personal data with the result that – in addition – the relevant, aforementioned data processing is also permitted pursuant to (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR).

Possible sectors that you may expect to receive advertisement about are:

Retail
Online retail
General stores
Automotive (including dealerships and accessories)
Property
Home furnishings
Home improvement
Fashion and clothing
Telecoms and utilities
Finance
Pensions
Loans, credit cards and mortgages
Investments & savings
Claims Companies
Financial claim services
Insurance
Home
Car
Travel
Pet
Personal
Other insurances
Travel
Holidays
Hotel
Airlines
Travel booking
Sector Lifestyle
Health & Well-being
Fitness
Charities
Media & publishing companies
Leisure
Gaming
Educational institutions
Legal Services
Claims
Personal Injury Claims Management
Lottery

It may be the case that an analysis of your affinities, interests, and preferences is performed before the data is used for direct marketing and/or disclosed to sponsors. To this end, the answers that you will provide after registering to the prize draw may also be analysed, and a profile may be established in order to enable more targeted performance of direct marketing measures by us and our sponsors, if any (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR).

Using the data obtained, particularly those from our surveys following the prize draw registration page, we will create a “user profile” of you in order to be able to offer you an interest-driven service that is geared towards your individual needs and requirements. By creating this profile, we may categorise personal aspects, such as your interests and preferences, extensive automated processing of your data in order to make it possible for both Leads Company and our sponsors to send you exclusive advertising and offers that match you profile.

Leads Company frequently receives – provided that your end device supports this function – confirmation of which e-mails from us you open and how you proceed with the e-mail. This helps us to understand your interests and supports us in making the offers more useful interesting, tailor-made to you in the future (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR).

Assertion, if any, of your rights (Article 6(1)(c) and (f) GDPR) as provided in Sec. 5 of this data protection and privacy statement also leads to collection and processing of your personal data.

Disclosure of your personal data may take place in cases in which we are under a legal obligation of disclosure (Article 6(1)(c) GDPR) or to the extent that disclosure should be necessary to enforce other rights/demands or for purposes of legal defense, if and insofar as these are based on the legitimate interests of the organiser or other third parties (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR). The same applies in the event of (also partially) purchase or sale of business assets and/or other assets, in the event that our business is otherwise acquired by a third party, in the event of initiation of insolvency proceedings, or if a request for initiation of insolvency proceedings is denied for lack of sufficient assets (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR).

3. Where we store your personal data and for how long; and to where your data may be exported

a) We store your personal data within the European Union.

However, in agreement with the sponsors named in the prize draw’s sponsor list, which also shows the respective country of the establishment as the destination location for any transfer of data, it is also possible that data will be transferred to “third countries.” Third countries are countries located outside the European Union. With regard to such data transfers, we point out that with regard to all of the destination countries mentioned in the sponsor list, a secure transfer within the scope of EU specifications on data protection and privacy is ensured. The European Commission has issued corresponding adequacy decisions for the third countries of Andorra, the Faroe Islands, Guernsey, Israel, the Isle of Man, Jersey, Canada (commercial organisations), and Switzerland. These decisions confirm that based on their own domestic legal provisions or international obligations, the aforementioned third countries ensure an adequate level of protection of personal data. To the extent that datasets are transferred to third countries, for which an adequacy decision has not yet been issued, we have entered into contracts based on the standard clauses issued by the EU. These standard clauses were published by the EU to ensure the relevant level of protection - with the corresponding partners that are based or headquartered in these countries. These agreements ensure adequate and uniform protection of data at the level provided by European specifications.

b) Unless the data is erased or blocked pursuant to your exercise of the rights specified in Sec.°5, your data will be stored permanently for the purposes mentioned above.

After you have revoked any consent to the processing of data that may have been issued and/or have objected thereto, we will put you on our “blocking list.” This means that we will no longer use your personal data for marketing purposes, nor will we disclose them any longer. We will then only store your data for legal purposes (e.g. documentation obligations, defending against and asserting claims, etc.), and will erase the data after a further period of four years unless compelling reasons argue against our doing so or the processing of this data is permitted for other reasons, for example by way of new consent.

Furthermore, we will proceed in the same manner if we have not used your personal data for a period of 24 months, meaning that we have not used the data for our own marketing purposes or disclosed them to sponsors.

4. Protection of your personal data

We take corresponding precautions – administrative/organisational, technical, and physical – to protect your personal data against loss, theft, abuse, unauthorised access, unauthorised disclosure, unauthorised modification, and destruction. For example, your data is protected in particular within the scope of physical access control (secure location of servers, to which physical access is granted only following to a defined security procedure), systems access control (128-bit encryption of data transfers, individual assignment of passwords, menus, and authorisations for employees, up-to-date virus software), information access control (individual access authorisation for employees through personal accounts, identification and authentication requirements), transmission control (ongoing monitoring and notifications to authorised parties, no local storage of data, logging of all data exports and transfers), input control (account-linked reviews, logging with time stamps and host), job control (continuous monitoring by managing director(s) and data protection officer, clear drafting of contracts with regard to the specifications pursuant to Art. 28 GDPR in coordination with the data protection officer and executive management) and availability control (general safeguarding measures by the hoster constant power supply (UPS), halon gas system, etc.], backup streaming involving other general safeguarding measures by the hoster [e.g. UPS, halon gas system, etc.], backup streaming at another location [with all security precautions; see physical access control] every night, mirroring on two additional hard drives, virus protection programs).

Despite these precautions, the insecure nature of the Internet means that we cannot guarantee the security of your data transfer to our website. Therefore, any and all transfers of data by you to our website take place at your own risk.

5. Your rights

You have the right to obtain information regarding the personal data stored regarding you, including the origin and recipients of your data and the purpose of data processing, at any time pursuant to Article 15 GDPR.

You also have the right to demand, at any time, that we correct inaccurate personal information concerning you (Article 16 GDPR). You can restrict the processing of data if any of the prerequisites mentioned in Article 18(1) GDPR are met, e.g. in the event of a dispute concerning the accuracy of your personal data.

Moreover, you have the right to revoke any declaration(s) of consent to the processing of your personal data that may have been issued, with effect for the future (Article 7 GDPR). Such a revocation does not, however, affect the legality of the processing that has taken place up until then.

In addition, you are entitled to demand that we provide the personal data transferred to us in a format that permits the transfer thereof to another body (Art. 20 GDPR).

Subject to the prerequisites set out in Article 21(1), (2), and (3) GDPR, you can object to the processing of data for reasons that arise from your particular personal situation.

Furthermore, you have the right to demand the erasure of your data and assert your right to be forgotten pursuant to Article 17 GDPR. If the statutory prerequisites are met, we will proceed in this regard even without such a request having been issued on your part and will erase your personal data.

To assert your rights as enumerated above in this section, please contact us at Leads Company Ltd, 30, Ortensia Triq Il Papa Piju XII, MST 2651, Mosta, Malta or write to us by e-mail at support@leadscompany.eu

If you have a complaint, you can contact the supervisory authority with jurisdiction over Leads Company or any other supervisory authority.

6. Right to erasure of personal data

The data subject shall have the right to obtain from Leads Company (the controller) the erasure of personal data concerning him or her without undue delay.

The controller shall have the obligation to erase personal data without undue delay where one of the following grounds applies:

the personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed;
the data subject withdraws consent on which the processing is based according to point (a) of Article 6(1), or point (a) of Article 9(2), and where there is no other legal ground for the processing;
the data subject objects to the processing pursuant to Article 21(1) and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing, or the data subject objects to the processing pursuant to Article 21(2);
the personal data have been unlawfully processed;
the personal data have to be erased for compliance with a legal obligation in Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject;
the personal data have been collected in relation to the offer of information society services referred to in Article 8(1).

Where the controller has made the personal data public and is obliged pursuant to paragraph 1 to erase the personal data, the controller, taking account of available technology and the cost of implementation, shall take reasonable steps, including technical measures, to inform controllers which are processing the personal data that the data subject has requested the erasure by such controllers of any links to, or copy or replication of, those personal data.

Paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply to the extent that processing is necessary:

for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information;
for compliance with a legal obligation which requires processing by Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject or for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller;
for reasons of public interest in the area of public health in accordance with points (h) and (i) of Article 9(2) as well as Article 9(3);
for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes in accordance with Article 89(1) in so far as the right referred to in paragraph 1 is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of the objectives of that processing; or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

7. Withdrawal of Consent

Withdrawal of consent for data communications from Leads Company can we achieved as easily as giving consent. Data subjects can unsubscribe from communications via the following channels:

Leads Company: Unsubscribe link or preference center

email request to support@leadscompany.eu

8. Usage data

You can view our Internet pages without providing personal information. However, certain technical data, known as "usage data", are generated whenever our pages are visited. In addition, we may use one or more cookies and integrate social media plugins in some cases. The text below is intended to provide you with information regarding this as well.

Usage data:

When you visit our Web pages, the only items of information we store by default are the website from which you reached our page, the name of your Internet service provider, which Web pages you visited within our Internet presence, and the date and duration of your visit. The data obtained is fully anonymous.

Your IP address and a time stamp are also stored for security reasons and used for internal purposes. The IP address is a machine-related code that provides information of the computer or Internet gateway used to access the Internet at the time of online retrieval. A time stamp is a value in a defined format that assigns a certain point in time to an event (for example, sending or receiving a message, modification of data, etc.). The purpose of a time stamp is to make it clear to people or computers when events occurred.

9. Cookies

We do not collect data from cookies whilst you browse our public pages of the Site.

10. Minors

This site, including the data protection and privacy policy and the general terms and conditions of business, is not aimed at minors. No personal data of minors are knowingly collected, used, and/or disclosed.

This privacy policy was last modified on 01-11-2020