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Privacy policy

Welcome to Cambridge Bioscience Limited's privacy notice.

Cambridge Bioscience Limited respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data.  This privacy notice explains the types of personal data we may collect about you when you interact with us. It also explains how we will store and deal with that data and keep it safe. This privacy notice is provided in a layered format, so you can click through to the specific areas set out below. Please also use the Glossary to understand the meaning of some of the terms used in this privacy notice.

1. Important information & who we are
2. The data we collect about you
3. How is your personal data collected
4. How we use your personal data
5. Disclosures of your personal data
6. Internation Transfers
7. Data Security
8. Data retention
9. Your legal rights
10. Glossary

1. Important information & who we are

Purpose of this privacy notice

This privacy notice aims to give you information on how Cambridge Bioscience Limited collects and processes your personal data through your interaction with us, including any data you may provide through our website or when you purchase a product or service.

It is important that you read this privacy notice together with any other privacy notice or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy notice supplements the other notices and is not intended to override them.

Controller
Cambridge Bioscience Limited is the controller and responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as "Company", "we", "us" or "our" in this privacy notice). If you have any questions about this privacy notice, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact us using the details set out below.

Contact details
Our full details are:
Full name of legal entity: Cambridge Bioscience Limited
Email address: support@bioscience.co.uk
Postal address: Cambridge Bioscience Limited, Munro House, Trafalgar Way, Bar Hill, Cambridge, CB23 8SQ, United Kingdom

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.

Changes to the privacy notice and your duty to inform us of changes
This version was last updated on 7th September 2018

It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.

2. The data we collect about you
Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).

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, maiden 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.
• Financial Data includes bank account and payment card details.
• Transaction Data includes details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from us.
• 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.
 Profile Data includes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses. 
• 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 our third parties and your communication preferences.
• Registration Data includes information and data that you provide to us to register with us, in the course of any communication with us, or provided to us for the purpose of subscribing to our website services, email notifications and/or newsletters (including name, job title, organisation, department, address, telephone numbers, e-mail address, interest areas).
• Other Data includes any other information and data that you choose to send to us.

If you fail to provide personal data
Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you with goods or services). In this case, we may have to cancel a product or service you have with us, but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.

3. How is your personal data collected?
We use different methods to collect data from and about you, including through:
• Direct interactions
You may give us 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;
- contact us or communicate with us by any means including telephone, email or website form with questions, orders or complaints etc;
- interact with a member of our team on a visit or at an exhibition, conference or demonstration etc;
- give us some feedback.

• Automated technologies or interactions
If you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies. We may also receive Data about you if you visit other websites employing our cookies.

• Third parties or publicly available sources
We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources as set out below:
- Data from the following parties:
a. analytics providers;
b. advertising networks; and
c. search information providers.
- Data from providers of technical, payment and delivery services.
- Data from publicly availably sources such as Companies House and the Electoral Register.

4. 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 we have obtained your consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us.
• Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
• 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.

Click here here to find out more about the types of lawful basis that we will rely on to process your personal data.

Purposes for which we will use your personal data
We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.

Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please contact us if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your personal data where more than one ground has been set out in the table below.

Purpose/Activity Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
To register you as a new contract customer and fulfil contractual obligations a. Performance of a contract with you
b. Necessary for our legitimate interests
To process and deliver your order including:
a. Manage payments, fees and charges
b. Collect and recover money owed to us
a. Performance of a contract with you
b. Necessary for our legitimate interests (to recover debts due to us)
To manage our relationship with you which will include:
a. Notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy
b. Asking you to leave a review or take a survey
c. Sending you general (non-marketing) commercial communications
d. Communicating with you in response to your specific requests

a. Performance of a contract with you
b. Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
c. Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products/services)
d. We have obtained your consent
 
To enable you to partake in a prize draw, competition or complete a survey a. Performance of a contract with you
b. Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them and grow our business)
c. We have obtained your consent
 
To administer and protect our business and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data, improve your browsing experience by personalising the website, improve your browsing experience by personalising the website) a. Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganisation or group restructuring exercise)
b. Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
 
To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you a. Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy)
b. We have obtained your consent
 
To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences a. Necessary for our legitimate interests (to define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our website updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy)
b. We have obtained your consent
 
To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you and send to you our marketing communications (relating to our business or the businesses of carefully-selected third parties which we think may be of interest to you) by email, post or similar technology. a. Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our products/services and grow our business)
b. We have obtained your consent

Marketing
We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising. We have established the following personal data control mechanisms:

Promotional offers from us
We may use your Data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which products, services and offers may be relevant for you (we call this marketing).

You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us or purchased goods or services from us or if you provided us with your details when you entered a competition or registered for a promotion and, in each case, you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.

Third-party marketing
We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any company outside the Cambridge Bioscience Limited group of companies for marketing purposes.

Opting out
You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by logging into the website and checking or unchecking relevant boxes to adjust your marketing preferences or by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by contacting us at any time.

Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of a product/service purchase, warranty registration, product/service experience or other transactions.

Change of purpose
We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us.

If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.

Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.

5. Disclosures of your personal data
We may have to share your personal data for the following purposes:
• to the extent that we are required to do so by law.
• in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings.
• in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).
• Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets.

Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy notice.

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

6. International transfers
Some of our external third parties may be based outside the European Economic Area (EEA) so their processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data outside the EEA.
Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:
• We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the European Commission. For further details, see European Commission: Adequacy of the protection of personal data in non-EU countries.
• Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe. For further details, see European Commission: Model contracts for the transfer of personal data to third countries. 
• Where we use providers based in the US, we may transfer data to them if they are part of the Privacy Shield which requires them to provide similar protection to personal data shared between the Europe and the US. For further details, see European Commission: EU-US Privacy Shield.

Please contact us if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data out of the EEA.

7. Data security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure servers or in GDPR compliant systems. All electronic transactions you make to or receive from us will be encrypted using SSL technology.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

8. Data retention

How long will you use my personal data for?
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

By law we have to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for seven years after they cease being customers for tax purposes.

Details of retention periods for different aspects of your personal data are available upon request.
In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see Request Erasure below for further information.

In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

9. Your legal rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. Please click on the links below to find out more about these rights:
• Request access to your personal data
• Request correction of your personal data
• Request erasure of your personal data
• Object to processing of your personal data
• Request restriction of processing your personal data
• Request transfer of your personal data
• Right to withdraw consent
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us.

No fee usually required
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

What we may need from you
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

Time limit to respond
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

10. Glossary

LAWFUL BASIS
Legitimate Interest means the interest of our business in conducting and managing our business to enable us to give you the best service/product and the best and most secure experience. We make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you (both positive and negative) and your rights before we process your personal data for our legitimate interests. We do not use your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law). You can obtain further information about how we assess our legitimate interests against any potential impact on you in respect of specific activities by contacting us

Performance of Contract means processing your data where it is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request before entering into such a contract.
Comply with a legal or regulatory obligation means processing your personal data where it is necessary for compliance with a legal or regulatory obligation that we are subject to.

Consent: you have given clear consent for us to process their personal data for a specific purpose.

THIRD PARTIES
Internal Third Parties
Other companies in the Cambridge Bioscience Limited Group.

External Third Parties
• Service providers acting as processors who provide IT and system administration services.
• Professional advisers acting as processors or joint controllers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance and accounting services.
• HM Revenue & Customs, regulators and other authorities acting as processors or joint controllers who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.

YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS
You have the right to:

Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a "data subject access request"). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.

Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.

Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.

Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.

Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios: (a) if you want us to establish the data's accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c) where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.

Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.

Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.

Slavery and human trafficking statement

  1. Introduction
  2. About Cambridge Bioscience
  3. Our Commitment to the principles of The Modern Slavery Act 2015
  4. Assessing and managing risk
  5. Due diligence
  6. Engagement and transparency
  7. Approval and review
     

1. Introduction
Cambridge Bioscience is committed to preventing acts of modern-day slavery and human trafficking, and to eliminating the possibility of modern-day slavery or human trafficking from any part of our supply chain. This statement is made in accordance with section 54(1) of the Modern Slavery Act 2015.

2. About Cambridge Bioscience
Cambridge Bioscience is a distributor of specialist life science research products. Our goal is to identify companies that develop innovative technologies and to bring their products to our customers to enable their research.

3. Our Commitment to the principles of The Modern Slavery Act 2015
Cambridge Bioscience is committed to the Principles of the Modern Slavery act 2015, and the abolition of modern slavery and human trafficking.

Our Recruitment and Personnel Management processes are designed to ensure that all prospective employees are legally entitled to work in the UK, and to ensure that our employees are safe from abuse or coercion.

Cambridge Bioscience does not enter into business with any organisation, in the UK or abroad, which knowingly supports, or is found to be involved in: Slavery, servitude, employee abuse, forced, compulsive or coercive labour.

Cambridge Bioscience is committed to providing equal opportunities in the workplace, and work to create a respectful and non-discriminatory environment for our staff. We aim to foster an environment where all our staff feel confident that they can expose wrongdoing without risk to themselves.

4. Assessing and managing risk
Due to the nature of our business, we assess ourselves to have a low risk of modern-day slavery or human trafficking. As a distributor of specialist life science research products, we work with and maintain close relationships with our suppliers. These relationships enable us to closely manage compliance.

As part of our Integrated Management System (ISO9001 & ISO14001), we continually identify, assess, monitor, and manage potential business risks, including Modern-day slavery and human trafficking.

5. Due diligence

  • Recruitment: Recruitment processes are undertaken internally or through third-party recruitment agency. Prior to commencement of employment, Cambridge Bioscience undertakes checks to demonstrate the legal entitlement of our employees to work in the UK. Records demonstrating compliance are kept for the duration of ongoing employment.
  • Training: As part of the induction process, all employees of Cambridge Bioscience are required to undertake training that includes “Modern Slavery” and “Bullying and Harassment in the workplace” modules. Our current training is delivered by Citation Ltd., Training records are available on the Citation Atlas platform for all employees.
  • Procedures and policies: Cambridge Bioscience has a whistleblowing policy in place, and a comprehensive employee handbook which addresses the standard(s) required of our employees. HR procedures are in place to deal with misconduct and any abusive or coercive behaviour in the workplace will be dealt with in accordance with our policies.
     

6. Engagement and transparency
Cambridge Bioscience publishes and makes available its organisational structure as part of its Integrated Management System (ISO9001 & ISO14001). Subject to requirements, data protection legislation and commercial sensitivity, Cambridge Bioscience will make this statement, plus other relevant policies, procedures, and records available to our supply-chain partners to enable them to meet their due diligence requirements vis-à-vis the Modern Slavery Act 2015.

7. Approval and review
This statement has been reviewed and accepted by Mike Kerins (Director) for the Year: 10th May 2023 to 10th May 2024. It will be reviewed annually and updated accordingly.