Privacy Policy
This privacy policy sets out how BM-Switch.com uses and protects any information you give BM-Switch.com when you use this website. BM-Switch.com is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used under this privacy statement. BM-Switch.com may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.
Personal data about our customers is an important part of our business. We will not sell, share or rent your information to third parties in any way other than what is disclosed in this statement.
What We Collect
We may collect the following information:
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name
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contact information including email address
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demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests
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other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers
Consent
We suppose that consent is received when you fill out our forms or enter any information on our website.
What We Do With the Information We Gather
We require this information to understand better our customers’ interests and needs, complete purchase transactions, fulfill orders, and consistently improve
product quality. In particular, for the following reasons:
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Internal record keeping.
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We may use the information to improve our products and services.
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We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers, or other information that we think you may find interesting using the email address that you have provided.
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From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, or mail. We may use the information to customize the website according to your interests.
Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. A padlock will be visible in the bottom right of your web browser. This means you are in secure mode – this should always be when entering personal or payment details. Being in secure mode means all your details are encrypted for increased security (256 bit).
Cookie
The acceptance of cookies is not necessary to access BM-Switch.com. However, we draw your attention to the fact that failure to accept cookies may limit certain website functions. You can reset your browser to decline cookies at any time if you wish. You can reset your browser to decline cookies at any time if you wish.
What Are Cookies
Cookies are small data files stored on your data carrier and record specific settings and data for exchange with our system via your browser.
In general, there are two different types of cookies:
- The so-called session cookies that are deleted as soon as you close your browser.
- Temporary/permanent cookies that are stored on your data carriers for a longer period or without limit.
How We Use Cookies
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor
it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis, and then the data is removed from the system. An instrumental part is Google Analytics service.
Overall, cookies help us provide a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie does not give us access to your computer or any information about you other than the data you choose to share with us. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser settings to decline cookies. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
Links to Other Websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide whilst visiting such sites, which are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Controlling Your Personal Information
You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:
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Whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes
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If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at BM-Switch.com
We will not sell, distribute, or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are legally required. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties, which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.
You may request details of personal information we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you, please write to BM-Switch.com.
If you believe any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please email us at the above address as soon as possible. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.
Changes to This Statement
BM-Switch.com shall regularly review the sufficiency of this Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to modify and change the Privacy Policy at anytime.
Subject to your rights at law, you agree to be bound by the prevailing terms of the Policy as updated from time to time on our website. Any changes to this Policy will be published on the website. By continuing to use our website and/or services after the Policy has been amended, you hereby agree to be bound by the terms of such amended Policy.
U.S.A.
This section applies to California residents only. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) sets forth additional disclosure requirements, effective July 6, 2022: Types of Personal Information Collected. Depending on how you browse BM-Switch.com, the consumer personal information that we may collect or may have collected in the past twelve months falls within the following categories under the California Consumer Privacy Act:
1. When you use our services, we generally collect the following types of personal information:
- Identifiers, such as real names, aliases, postal addresses, unique personal identifiers, online identifiers IP addresses, email addresses, account names, social security numbers, driver’s license numbers, passport numbers, or other similar identifiers;
- Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law (e.g., gender, age, disability) under California or federal law;
- Commercial information, including personal property, records of products or services purchased, obtained or considered for purchase, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies;
- Biometric information;
- Internet or other electronic network activity information, including but not limited to browsing history, search history, and information about consumer interactions with websites, applications, or advertisements;
- Geographic location data;
- Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information;
- Expertise or employment-related information;
- Educational information, personally identifiable information that is not publicly available as defined by relevant education laws.
We generally do not collect protected classification, biometric, or educational-related information about our users. For more information about the personal information we collect and the purposes for which we collect it, please see Section 1 above.
2. If you are a California resident, you can enjoy the following related rights under the CCPA:
- Right to Know: You have the right to request to know what information about you is collected, sold, or otherwise disclosed about you.
- Right to delete: You have the right to request to delete personal information. BM-Switch.com is subject to “verifiable” requests to delete consumers’ personal information. There are a few notable exceptions, including that BM-Switch.com is not required to delete personal information if maintenance of the information is required to complete a transaction or provide a good or service.
- Right to Opt-Out of Sales: You have the right to “OPT OUT” of the “sale” of your personal information. BM-Switch.com must inform consumers of this right (including by providing a clear and conspicuous link on its website titled “Do Not Sell My Personal Information”) and must employ specified methods for consumers to opt out (including a toll-free number and opt-out website address). BM-Switch.com is required to respect consumers’ opt-out and must wait 12 months before seeking reauthorization to sell their personal information.
- Submit requests using an authorized agent: Only you, or someone you duly authorize to act on your behalf, may make verifiable consumer requests related to your personal information. As a California consumer, if you use an authorized agent to submit such a request, we will require written certification of the authorized agent being authorized to act on your behalf or a copy of the power of attorney granting that right.
- Right to Oppose Discrimination: If you choose to exercise your rights under the CCPA, BM-Switch.com may not discriminate against consumers for this reason. That is to say, a business cannot refuse to sell goods or provide services to consumers exercising its rights, charge different prices for such goods or services, or provide goods and services of lower quality.
If you would like to do any of these things and you are a BM-Switch.com customer, please contact us via the contact details described above under “Contact Us”.
E.U.
This section applies only to EU countries
Scope of application
The scope of application is all enterprises operating in the EU and all enterprises that process data using equipment located in the EU, while the scope of GDPR (2016) is extended to all enterprises that process personal information of citizens of EU member states, regardless of the citizen’s current residence within the EU.
Your rights:
- Right to know: If the personal data is obtained directly from the data subject, you have the right to ask BM-Switch.com to provide the following information:
The identity and contact details of the data controller and the identity and contact details of the representative of the data controller;
Contact details of the DPO;
Purposes of processing and legal basis for processing;
In case of transfer of personal data to third countries or international organizations, and:
(1) Whether there is an adequate decision by the committee;
(2) Description of network security measures;
Storage period of personal data;
How users can exercise their rights to access, correct, or delete personal data or to restrict processing or to object to processing, as well as the right to data portability;
The right to withdraw consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before withdrawal;
The right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority;
Whether the provision of personal data is a statutory or contractual requirement or is necessary to enter into a contract, whether the data subject is obliged to provide personal data and the possible consequences of failure to provide such data;
The existence of automated decision-making, its significance, and intended consequences for the data subject.
Personal Data Obtained from Third Parties
Where the personal data was not obtained directly from the data subject, the above requirements still apply, with the following exceptions:
BM-Switch.com is not required to provide information on whether the provision of personal data is a statutory or contractual requirement;
BM-Switch.com will notify you:
(1) The categories of personal data concerned;
(2) The source of the personal data and whether it is from public access.
- Access right: You can specify the data you want to access through the contact information in “Contact Us”.
- Right to correction: If you find that your personal information is inaccurate or incomplete, you have the right to ask BM-Switch.com to correct and supplement, and BM-Switch.com will respond and give feedback promptly. You have the right to complete personal data based on the purpose of processing, including using additional declarations.
- Right to delete: You have the right to ask BM-Switch.com to delete your personal data immediately, and BM-Switch.com is obliged to delete your personal data immediately under any of the following circumstances:
Personal data are no longer required for the purposes of processing;
The data subject has withdrawn consent, and there is no other legal basis for the processing;
Personal data are processed unlawfully;
The collection of personal data is related to the provision of information society services referred to in Article 8(1) GDPR.
Exception:
This right does not apply to:
Exercising the right to freedom of expression and information;
To comply with a legal obligation requiring processing by EU or Member State law to which the controller is subject, or to perform a task in the public interest or to exercise official powers vested in the controller;
Processing for reasons of public interest in the field of public health;
Archiving in the public interest, for scientific or historical research purposes, or for statistical purposes;
For the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.
- Right to object/opt-out: You can exercise the right to object when personal data is processed based on your consent, public interest, or legitimate interests of BM-Switch.com.
Direct marketing: If personal data is processed for direct marketing purposes, the data subject has the right to object to marketing at any time, including profiling with such direct marketing.
- Right to data portability: You have the right to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and to have these data transmitted to another controller, without hindrance from BM-Switch.com, for exercising your right to portability requirement is:
Processing is based on consent;
The processing is based on the performance of a contract;
The processing is carried out by automated means.
- The right not to be subject to automated decision-making: You have the right to object to automated decision-making and to object to decisions that have legal or similarly severe effects on you based solely on automated processing (including user profiling).
You have the right not to be bound based solely on the results of automated processing (including profiling), when it produces legal effects or similarly significantly affects him or her.
Exemption
If:
Necessary for the conclusion or performance of a contract between the data subject and the data controller;
Based on the express consent of the data subject.
- Right to restrict processing: When you file a complaint (for example, regarding the accuracy of the data), you do not require the data to be deleted, but you can ask BM-Switch.com not to continue processing the data.
Canada
This section applies to Canadian residents only.
Your rights:
- Ask whether we hold personal information about you, and request a copy of that personal information and how it is handled;
- Request correction of inaccurate personal information;
- Request erasure of personal information that is no longer necessary for the purposes of the processing, processed pursuant to withdrawn consent, or processing activities that do not comply with applicable legal requirements;
- Lodge a complaint with us about our practices concerning your personal information.
If you want to do any of these items and are a BM-Switch.com customer, please get in touch with us at the email address stated above under “Contact Us”.
Australia
This section applies to Australian residents only.
- Right to know: BM-Switch.com is obliged to notify individuals of the items stipulated in APP 5.2 when or before collecting the information. If this is impracticable, notification must be made as soon as possible after this information is collected. The notice includes who is collecting, the purpose of collection, what the information will be used for, and to whom it may be disclosed.
- Access right: the right to access personal information held by BM-Switch.com.
- Right to correction: the right to request correction of personal information held by BM-Switch.com.
- Right to delete: When personal information has been used for the purpose of collection and storage is no longer required by law, BM-Switch.com is obliged to delete or de-identify personal information (whether the individual requests it or not).
- Right to Object/Opt-Out: The right not to receive direct marketing and not to disclose personal information. Personal information collected pursuant to consent will be subject to the individual’s withdrawal of consent.
- Other rights: When exercising their rights, users are allowed to use pseudonyms or not reveal their identities unless other laws require additionally, or the company cannot use this anonymous information to help users exercise rights.
If you want to do any of these items and are a BM-Switch.com customer, please get in touch with us at the email address stated above under “Contact Us”.
Japan
This section applies to Japanese residents only.
- Controller of personal information
Any personal information provided to or collected by BM-Switch.com is primarily controlled by BM-Switch.com.
- Use of Personal Information
BM-Switch.com and its subsidiaries and other entities around the world that abide by this Privacy Policy or at least implement the practices described in this Privacy Policy as a safeguard. Your personal information will be jointly used for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. Commonly used personal information includes the personal information described in “Personal Information We Collect” and “Examples of Collected Information” in this Privacy Policy. BM-Switch.com is the operator mainly responsible for the management of shared personal information.
We will share personal information with third parties, but only within the scope described in “Disclosure of Personal Information to Third Parties”, and will operate in accordance with the Protection of Personal Information Act.
When we share your personal information with third parties outside of Japan, we require the recipient to take personal information security measures to protect your personal information.
- Your rights
You will have the right to request access to or delete your personal information in accordance with applicable law. If you want to do any of these items and are a BM-Switch.com customer, please get in touch with us at the email address stated above under “Contact Us”.
Singapore
This section applies to Singapore residents only.
Your rights:
- Right of access: If you need to access your personal data, BM-Switch.com is obliged to provide you with:
Your related data controlled by BM-Switch.com
Information on the manner in which the data was used or disclosed during the year preceding the date of the request.
BM-Switch.com will provide a copy of the data you need in the form of files or in any other form. BM-Switch.com may also deny your request to access personal data in the following cases:
- when such access reveals personal data about another person or would be contrary to the national interest;
- If the request is otherwise frivolous or vexatious.
- Right to correction: You have the right to ask BM-Switch.com to correct any inaccurate data controlled by BM-Switch.com, except for the exceptions in Schedule VI of the PDPA. If BM-Switch.com has reasonable grounds to believe that the correction should not be made, the request for correction cannot be made.
- Right to object/opt-out: You have the right to withdraw your consent to the collection, use or disclosure of your personal data by BM-Switch.com at any time. However, the withdrawal of consent does not affect any legal consequences arising from the withdrawal.
- Right to data portability: You can file a data portability request with the porting organization. After receiving the data porting request, BM-Switch.com transmits the data specified in the data porting request to the receiving organization.
If you want to do any of these items and are a BM-Switch.com customer, please contact us at the email address stated above under “Contact Us”. BM-Switch.com will respond to your request within one month; the response is free or a reasonable fee will be charged based on cost; when necessary, BM-Switch.com will authenticate the data subject.
