This website is operated by RASPBERRY SOFTWARE SYSTEMS LIMITED. The privacy of our users is extremely important to us and therefore we encourage all users to read this policy very carefully because it contains important information regarding:

• ​who we are;
• how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information;
• your rights in relation to your personal information; and
• how to contact us and supervisory authorities in the event that you have a complaint.

How we use your personal information

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1. General purposes

In general, your personal information will generally be processed for the following purposes:

To make direct contact with you following an enquiry.

2. Monitoring

We may monitor communications, and in doing so we may obtain your personal information through this process. We will undertake monitoring in the following circumstances: 

All calls and emails may be monitored for quality assurance, training, fraud prevention and compliance purposes.

Lawful basis for processing of your personal information

​We have described above the purposes for which we may process your personal information. These purposes will at all times be justified by UK data protection law.

1. General lawful basis

​The lawful basis upon which we are able to process your personal data are:

(1) where we have your consent to use your data for a specific purpose;

(2) where it is necessary to enter into a legal contract with you or to perform obligations under a legal contract with you;

(3) where it is necessary to enable us to comply with a legal obligation;

(4) where it is necessary to ensure our own legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party (provided that your own interests and rights do not override those interests). Wherever we rely upon this basis, details of the legitimate interests concerned shall be provided to you;

(5) where we need to protect your own vital interests (or the vital interests of another person); and/or

(6) where it is needed in the public interest (or where we are acting in our official functions), provided that the task or function has a clear basis in law.​

In general, in order to meet the purposes we have described above, we will process your personal information where we have your express consent on each occasion that the data is processed.

Sharing of your personal information

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On any occasion where any of your personal information is shared with any third party, we shall only permit them to process such information for our required purposes, under our specific instruction, and not for their own purposes. We are required to enter into a formal legal agreement to enable such sharing to take place.

We do not anticipate that we will need to share your personal information with any third party. We will notify you should this position change.

How long your personal information will be kept

​Your personal information will only be kept for the period of time which is necessary for us to fulfil the above purposes. We envisage that your personal information shall be retained by us as follows:

Email address, name and telephone number- will be deleted.

After the period described above, your information shall be properly deleted or anonymised.

Keeping your information secure

​We will ensure the proper safety and security of your personal information and have measures in place to do so. We will also use technological and organisation measures to keep your information secure, including storing all data on secure servers. We have proper procedures in place to deal with any data security breach, which shall be reported and dealt with in accordance with data protection laws and regulations. You shall also be notified of any suspected data breach concerning your personal information.

Children

Our website is not intended for children (anybody under the age of 18). We do not intend to collect data from children.

Your rights

Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation you have a number of important rights free of charge. In summary, those include rights to:

(1) fair processing of information and transparency over how we use your use personal information;

​(2) access to your personal information and to certain other supplementary information that this Privacy Statement is already designed to address;

(3) require us to correct any mistakes in your information which we hold;

(4) require the erasure of personal information concerning you in certain situations;

​(5) receive the personal information concerning you which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit this information to a third party in certain situations;

​(6) object at any time to processing of personal information concerning you for direct marketing;

​(7) object to decisions being taken by automated means which produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you;

(8) object in certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal information, or ask us to suspend the processing procedure in order for you confirm its assurance or our reasoning for processing it;

(9) object to processing our your personal information where we are doing so in reliance upon a legitimate interest of our own or of a third party and where you wish to raise to an objection to this particular ground;

(10) otherwise restrict our processing of your personal information in certain circumstances;

​(11) claim compensation for damages caused by our breach of any data protection laws; and/or

​(12) in any circumstance where we rely upon your consent for processing personal information, you may withdraw this consent at any time.

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For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, see the Guidance from the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) on your rights under the General Data Protection Regulations.

If you would like to exercise any of these rights please contact our Data Protection Officer: Peter Jarvis in the following manner:

via email to info@raspberrysoftware.com

Complaints procedure

We hope that we can resolve any query or concern you raise about our use of your information. 

The UK General Data Protection Regulation also gives you the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority. The supervisory authority in the United Kingdom is the Information Commissioner.

Changes to the privacy policy

This privacy policy was published on 26/04/2024 and last updated on 01/03/2024

We may change this privacy policy from time to time and will notify you of any changes by:

By changes to this web page.

Contacting us

Our Data Protection Officer is Pete Jarvis

Any requests or questions regarding the use of your personal information should be made to the above named person using the following method:

via email to info@raspberrysoftware.com