Sicon Ltd. Privacy Policy

Sicon Ltd (“We”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR), this document outlines our commitment to our Business Partners and Customers set forth by the regulation with regards to your privacy and the privacy of Customer Data.  This policy sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, “we”, “us” and “ours” refers to Sicon Ltd. and the “Website” refers to www.sicon.co.uk, www.siconreleasenotes.co.uk and www.siconproductroadmaps.co.uk. We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time so as such, please refer back to this Privacy Policy regularly. By using the Website or any of the features, resources or services on it you agree to be bound by the terms of this Privacy Policy.

For the purpose of the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), the data controller is Sicon Ltd of St. Peters House, The Anderson Centre, Olding Road, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33 3TA.  Our nominated representative for the purpose of GDPR is Jane Youngman, GDPR Officer.

Information we may collect from you

We may collect and process the following data about you:

  • Information that you provide by filling in forms on our websites. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site, subscribing to our service, posting material or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information [when you enter a competition or promotion sponsored by Sicon Ltd.] and when you report a problem with our site.
  • If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence, for example in our Sage CRM System.
  • We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
  • Details of transactions you carry out through our site and of the fulfilment of your orders.
  • Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access.
  • If you sign up to our mailing list via the double opt-in sign up form, we will use the information you provide us with to send business related updates to you, this information is held on MailChimp.

IP Addresses and Cookies

Information about your use of our websites, including details of your visits such as pages viewed and the resources that you access is tracked by Google Analytics. Such information includes traffic data, location data and other communication data. This data does not include your personal details such as name, email, phone numbers or usernames. Your IP address is not stored by Google in a database, or accessible to any client company, but it could potentially be accessed by a Google employee.

For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised service. They enable us:

  • To estimate our audience size and usage pattern.
  • To store information about your preferences and allow us to customise our site according to your individual interests.
  • To speed up your searches.
  • To recognise you when you return to our site.

You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site.

Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you login to our site.  Please note that Companies our website links to may also use cookies, over which we have no control.

Where we Store your Personal Data

For information on our Customer data and how we store/use it, please refer to the Customer Data Privacy section in this document. Data may be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff maybe engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of your order, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing.  We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with GDPR.

All information you provide to us is stored (where required) on our secure servers. Any payment transactions will be encrypted. Where you have chosen (or where we have given you upon your request) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

Uses Made of Information

We use information held about you in the following ways:

  • To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes.
  • To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
  • To notify you about changes to our service.

Disclosure of your information

We may disclose your personal information to third parties:

  • If the Sicon websites or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.
  • 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 and agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Sicon Ltd, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Your Rights

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at gdpr@sicon.co.uk.

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

Access to Information

The GDPR gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with GDPR.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email.

Customer Data Privacy

Support Investigation

If a Support Case is raised for a query with any Sicon product installed on a customer site, in order to fully investigate the case, we may require access to a Customers data.

Our preferred options at all times would be to investigate Customer data remotely to a test server which is kept up to date with copies of Live Sage companies.  If the Customer does have a Company test server available, we would connect in and investigate either with the Customer on the session or with the Customers permission, we would be able to do this session unattended.   With this option we would be working with the Customers IT company and/or Sage Partner.

If the Customer does not have a Company test server, we will kindly ask the Customers IT company/Sage Partner to upload a copy of the Customers Sage 200 data to a secure FTP site and Sicon will then download the data into our test environment.  As part of our GDPR policy we commit to deleting that data from the Sicon system once we have concluded our data investigation or after 7 days thereafter.

In either case, we kindly ask all Customers to select the ‘opt-in’ option on the online Sicon Data Request Consent Form to ensure that Sicon has Customers full approval to access their data for Support purposes.  We will keep this form on file for future investigation purposes should you agree for us to do so.

https://www.sicon.co.uk/sicon-customer-data-request-consent/

Security Measures

Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access. Unfortunately, the sending of information via the internet is not completely secure. The FTP site is compliant as below:

  • Encryption at rest
  • Encryption in transit (sFTP or FTPS)
  • Role-based access control
  • Regular backups
  • Vulnerability scanning
  • Intrusion detection system
  • Intrusion prevention system
  • Firewall
  • Anti-virus
  • Data not to leave the EU or be accessed from outside the EU at any time

Although we will do our utmost to protect your information, we cannot guarantee the security of your data; any sending of information is therefore at your own risk.

We do….

  • use your data to help us provide great customer service
  • respect your privacy and work hard to meet strict regulatory requirements
  • go the extra mile to protect your personal data

We don’t….

  • sell your data to third parties
  • store your data unnecessarily

Contact: Questions, comments and requests regarding this Privacy Policy are welcomed and should be addressed to the Sicon GDPR Team:

Sicon GDPR Officer:                          Jane Youngman, Company Director

Sicon Deputy GDPR Officer:            Vicky Stonell, Finance and General Manager

Contact Details:                                e: gdpr@sicon.co.uk   t: 01284 722850

Last Updated: April 2018