Meritum Cloud Services Ltd takes your privacy very seriously and will comply with the obligations imposed on us by the applicable Data Protection Legislation.
The Data protection Legislation includes the UK Data Protection Act 1998, the General Data Protection Regulation ((EU) 2016/679) (GDPR) and any national laws, regulations and secondary legislation, as amended or updated from time to time, in the UK and any subsequent legislation to the GDPR or the Data Protection Act 1998.
www.meritum.cloud is a site operated by Meritum Cloud Services Limited; a Company registered in England and Wales under registration number 09356706. Our registered address is 1 Ropemaker Street , EC2Y 9HT, London.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your Personal Data and how we will treat it.
Any questions relating to Data Privacy with Meritum Cloud Services Limited or this Policy should be sent by email to compliance@meritum.cloud, or by writing to Meritum Cloud Services Ltd, 1 Ropemaker Street , EC2Y 9HT, London, you can call us on +442070996749.
What personal information is heldWe may collect and process the following data from you:
- Information you consent to provide Meritum Cloud Services Limited that is required to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered between you and us, or potential contracts that may be in liaison between you and us.
- Information that you consent to provide by filling in forms on our website, or as part of any direct marketing or sales activities. This includes and is not limited to personal information about you such as your name, telephone contact number, geographical address/location, email address, and interests.
Note: Clear consent information is supplied at point of collection to provide information on the use of data, and a record of the consent is taken at point of collection.
If you contact us by telephone or in writing, we may keep a copy of your correspondence or communication.
Details of your visits to our website and the resources that you access
How will we use the information we hold about you?
We use information held about you in the following ways:
- Performance of a contract – We use information held about you to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, and to notify you about changes to our services.
- Legitimate Interests – We use information held about you to provide you with information, products and/or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you if relevant to the products or services currently being supplied as part of a contract with Meritum Cloud Limited, or in relation to a previous contract with Meritum Cloud Limited whereby you are happy to continue to receive such information.
- Consent (Direct Marketing) – We use information held about you to provide you with information on products and/or services that you request from us, or which we feel may interest you where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes. Where consent has been provided to Meritum Cloud Services Limited, it is a recognised right of the Data Subject that this consent can also be withdrawn. Should you wish to withdraw consent, please email compliance@meritum.cloud , or write to Meritum Cloud Services Ltd, 1 Ropemaker Street , EC2Y 9HT, London. Alternatively, you can call us on +44 (0)2070996749.
- Consent (Website) – To ensure that content from our website is presented in the most effective manner for you and your device.
We will not share your data with third parties for other marketing purposes unless we have your express consent to do so.
Your rights relating to Personal Data
You have a number of rights under the Data Protection legislation, including:
- the right to request a copy of the personal information we hold on you. When you request this information, this is known as making a Subject Access Request (SAR). In most cases, this will be free of charge, however in some limited circumstances, for example, repeated requests for further copies, we may apply an administration fee;
- the right to have personal information we hold about you transferred securely to another service provider in electronic form;
- the right to have any inaccurate personal information corrected;
- the right to have any out of date personal information deleted once there’s no business need or legal requirement for us to hold it;
- the right to object or restrict some processing, in limited circumstances and only when we don’t have legitimate grounds for processing your personal information;
- the right to object to your personal information being used to send you marketing material. We will only send you marketing material where you’ve given us your consent to do so. You can remove your consent at any time by sending an email to compliance@meritum.cloud or writing to Meritum Cloud Services Ltd, 1 Ropemaker Street, EC2Y 9HT.
Retention of your information
We will retain your Personal Data for no longer than is necessary to provide the services under the Terms and Conditions applicable to the account and to meet any legal or regulatory obligations that may apply.
Disclosure of your information
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, strategic partner(s) or strategic sponsor(s) our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries as defined in section 1159 of the UK Companies Act 2006.
As part of our GDPR compliance obligations, we are duty bound to check when personal data may be shared with third parties to ensure that they apply the same or greater controls in terms of data protection.
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; or
- If we or substantially all of our assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it 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 other agreements; or
- To protect the rights, property, or safety of Meritum Cloud Limited, our customers, or others.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
Any changes we may make to our Privacy Policy in the future will be posted to this page on our website.
Cookies Policy
Like most similar websites, this site uses cookies. On this page we explain more about cookies and how we use them. By using this website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.
About cookies
Cookies are files, often including unique identifiers, that are sent by web servers to web browsers, and which may then be sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.
Cookies can be used by web servers to identify and track users as they navigate different pages on a website, and to identify users returning to a website.
Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies. A persistent cookie consists of a text file sent by a web server to a web browser, which will be stored by the browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date (unless deleted by the user before the expiry date). A session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.
Cookies on this website
We use both session cookies and persistent cookies on this website.
How we use cookies
Cookies do not contain any information that personally identifies you, but personal information that we store about you may be linked, by us, to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. The cookies used on the website include those which are strictly necessary cookies for access and navigation, cookies that track usage (performance cookies), remember your choices (functionality cookies), and cookies that provide you with targeted content or advertising.
We may use the information we obtain from your use of our cookies for the following purposes:
- to recognise your computer when you visit the website
- to track you as you navigate the website, and to enable the use of any e-commerce facilities
- to improve the website’s usability
- to analyse the use of the website
- in the administration of the website
- to personalise the website for you, including targeting advertisements which may be of particular interest to you.
Third party cookies
When you use the website, you may also be sent third party cookies.
Our advertisers and service providers may send you cookies. They may use the information they obtain from your use of their cookies:
- to track your browser across multiple websites
- to build a profile of your web surfing
- to target advertisements which may be of particular interest to you.
We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. The IP address will be truncated before transmission. On our behalf Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet activity in connection with the use of the website. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser; however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. In addition to that you may prevent the collection of the information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including you IP address) and the processing of this data by Google if you download and install the browser plug-in available at the following link: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en
Blocking cookies
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies. For example:
in Internet Explorer you can refuse all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy”, and selecting “Block all cookies” using the sliding selector;
in Firefox you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options”, and un-checking “Accept cookies from sites” in the “Privacy” box.
in Google Chrome you can adjust your cookie permissions by clicking “Options”, “Under the hood”, Content Settings in the “Privacy” section. Click on the Cookies tab in the Content Settings.
Blocking all cookies will, however, have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you may not be able to use certain features on the website (log on, access content, use search functions).
Deleting cookies
You can also delete cookies already stored on your computer:
in Internet Explorer, you must manually delete cookie files;
in Firefox, you can delete cookies by, first ensuring that cookies are to be deleted when you “clear private data” (this setting can be changed by clicking “Tools”, “Options” and “Settings” in the “Private Data” box) and then clicking “Clear private data” in the “Tools” menu.
in Google Chrome you can adjust your cookie permissions by clicking “Options”, “Under the hood”, Content Settings in the “Privacy” section. Click on the Cookies tab in the Content Settings.
Doing this may have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.
Contact us
The website is owned and operated by Meritum Cloud Services Ltd. If you have any questions or comments about this Notice, or if you would like us to update information we have about you or your preferences, please email: compliance@meritum.cloud