Privacy Policy & Cookies

Your privacy is very important to us at Bee Social Marketing, we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:

  • We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
  • We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our services, or protect our rights.
  • We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.

It is Bee Social Marketing’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website.

By accessing and using our website you automatically agree to this privacy policy.

Data Collection

We will only use the information that we collect about you lawfully in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR 2018). We collect information about you for the purpose of responding to your web enquiry and for internal website analytics.

The type of information we will collect about you includes:

  • your name
  • email address
  • any other contact details you may willingly provide as part of your message in the enquiry form

We will ensure that the information we hold will be accurate and up to date; relevant, not kept longer than is necessary; is processed correctly and kept secure at all times accordance with our internal security policy and the law. You can check the information that we hold about you by emailing us at [email protected]. If you find any inaccuracies we will correct it promptly or delete it.

Your Rights as an Individual

The data we hold about you is your data, and you have the following rights in respect of the personal data we hold about you; as outlined by the GDPR (please visit ICO Website for more information on these rights):

  1. The right to be informed
  2. The right of access
  3. The right to rectification
  4. The right to erasure
  5. The right to restrict processing
  6. The right to data portability
  7. The right to object
  8. Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Bee Social Marketing collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Bee Social Marketing’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Bee Social Marketing’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Bee Social Marketing may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Bee Social Marketing also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. Bee Social Marketing only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Bee Social Marketing website choose to interact with Bee Social Marketing in ways that require Bee Social Marketing to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Bee Social Marketing gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. In each case, Bee Social Marketing collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfil the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Bee Social Marketing. Bee Social Marketing does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

Bee Social Marketing may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. For instance, Bee Social Marketing may monitor the most popular pages on Google Analytics. Bee Social Marketing may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Bee Social Marketing does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Bee Social Marketing discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organisations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Bee Social Marketing behalf or to provide services available at Bee Social Marketing website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organisations may be located outside of your home country; by using Bee Social Marketing website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Bee Social Marketing will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organisations, as described above, Bee Social Marketing discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Bee Social Marketing believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Bee Social Marketing, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Bee Social Marketing website and have supplied your email address, Bee Social Marketing may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Bee Social Marketing and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Bee Social Marketing takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorised access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Bee Social Marketing uses cookies to help Bee Social Marketing identify and track visitors, their usage of Bee Social Marketing website, and their website access preferences. Bee Social Marketing visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Bee Social Marketing website, with the drawback that certain features of Bee Social Marketing website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If Bee Social Marketing, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Bee Social Marketing goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Bee Social Marketing may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Ads

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognise your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Bee Social Marketing and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Comments

Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Bee Social Marketing may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Bee Social Marketing sole discretion. Bee Social Marketing encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Force24 Cookies & Tracking

Our organisation utilises Force24’s marketing automation platform.

Force24 cookies are first party cookies and are enabled at the point of cookie acceptance on this website. The cookies are named below:

  • F24_autoID
  • F24_personID

They allow us to understand our audience engagement thus allowing better optimisation of marketing activity.

f24_autoId – This is a temporary identifier on a local machine or phone browser that helps us track anonymous information to be later married up with f24_personid. If this is left anonymous it will be deleted after 6 months . Non-essential, first party, 10 years, persistent.

f24_personId – This is an ID generated per individual contact in the Force24 system to be able to track behaviour and form submissions into the Force24 system from outside sources per user. This is used for personalisation and ability to segment decisions for further communications. Non-essential, first party, 10 years, persistent.

The information stored by Force24 cookies remains anonymous until:

  • Our website is visited via clicking from an email or SMS message, sent via the Force24 platform and cookies are accepted on the website.
  • A user of the website completes a form containing email address from either our website or our Force24 landing pages.

The Force24 cookies will remain on a device for 10 years unless they are deleted.

Other Tracking

 We also use similar technologies including tracking pixels and link tracking to monitor your viewing activities

 Device & browser type and open statistics

All emails have a tracking pixel ( a tiny invisible image ) with a query string in the URL. Within the URL we have user details to identify who opened an email for statistical purposes.

Link Tracking

All links within emails and SMS messages sent from the Force24 platform contain a unique tracking reference, this reference help us identify who clicked an email for statistical purposes.