Privacy Policies of DOAC

Last updated : 5th of June 2024

1. Introduction

Welcome to DOAC. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

2. Important Information

This privacy policy aims to give you information on how DOAC collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide through this website when you sign up to our newsletter, purchase a product or service, or take part in a competition.

3. The Data We Collect About You

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together follows:

Identity Data: includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier, marital status, title, date of birth and gender.
Contact Data: includes billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers.
Technical Data: includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
Usage Data: includes information about how you use our website, products and services.
Marketing and Communications Data: includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences.

4. How We Collect Your Personal Data

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

Direct interactions: You may give us your Identity, Contact and Financial Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:

Apply for our products or services;
Create an account on our website;
Subscribe to our service or publications;
Request marketing to be sent to you;
Enter a competition, promotion or survey; or
Give us some feedback.

Automated technologies or interactions: As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies. [Please see our cookie policy for further details.]
Third parties or publicly available sources: We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources as set out below:

Technical Data from the following parties:

analytics providers such as Google based outside the EU;
advertising networks based inside or outside the EU; and
search information providers based inside or outside the EU.

Contact, Financial and Transaction Data from providers of technical, payment and delivery services based inside or outside the EU.
Identity and Contact Data from data brokers or aggregators based inside or outside the EU.
Identity and Contact Data from publicly available sources such as Companies House and the Electoral Register based inside the EU.

5. How We Use Your Personal Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.