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Terms of Use
Last updated: February 4th, 2021
Welcome to County Business Clubs
Welcome to County Business Clubs!
This Terms of Use sets forth the Agreement between you and County Business Clubs Sussex Ltd (“we” or “us”) regarding your use of our web service and mobile applications, specifically including each County Business Club you join (collectively the “Service”). Please read this Agreement, because it contains important information about your content (you own it!), our limitation of liability to you, and your agreement to resolve any disputes by individual arbitration and to waive the right to participate in a class action, and information sharing between Members.
If you cannot agree, don’t use our Service.
1. Using the Service
Our service enables people to participate in a community dedicated to an individual, identity, or interest (a “County Business Club”) for free or for a fee. A County Business Club invites people (“Members”) to connect with each other, to message, and to exchange information and content. County Business Clubs Sussex Ltd tailors each club by the Members they invite, the conversations they organize, what they call a County Business Club, and additional branding they may choose to use.
You must be at least 18 to participate in a County Business Club.
When you set up a profile with County Business Clubs, you must provide us accurate information. We will treat registration information according to our Privacy Policy. Your name and contact information will be made available staff of County Business Clubs Sussex Ltd and other members in line with your privacy settings. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password.
Our privacy practices are set forth in our Privacy Policy, which is part of this Agreement. By joining a County Business Club, you are sharing personally identifiable information with other Members, and us.
We hope you will take care to keep your interaction with others a positive experience for everyone. You agree to follow the County Business Clubs Acceptable Use Policy at all times. We reserve the right, but have no obligation or liability for, monitoring any interactions with other Members of the Service. You may also submit a complaint or concern about another Member to administrator@countybusinessclubs.co.uk.
You may close your Member account at any time by going to account settings and disabling your account. We may suspend your use of the Service or the Service at any time for any reason, without any notice. We may terminate your account if you violate the County Business Clubs Acceptable Use Policy or for any other reason.
We welcome your feedback and suggestions about how to improve County Business Clubs. Submit feedback at administrator@countybusinessclubs.co.uk. By submitting feedback, you agree to grant us the right to use it for free.
2. Your Content Stays Yours: You keep complete ownership of all content, but give us permission to run County Business Clubs, such that your content shows up, but that’s it. Make sure you have permission to use content that you post on County Business Clubs.
The Service enables you to add posts, articles, photos, videos, questions, polls, links, files, events, groups, and chat with other Members. All material that you upload, publish or display to others via a County Business Club is “Your Content.” Material that a Member uploads, publishes, or displays to others via a County Business Club is “User Generated Content”. Your Content, including User Generated Content, does not include Data (defined below).
In connection with your use of the Service, you hereby grant and will grant County Business Clubs Sussex Ltd and its affiliated companies a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty free, fully paid up, transferable, sublicensable (through multiple tiers), perpetual, irrevocable license to copy, display, transmit, perform, distribute, store, modify, and otherwise use Your Content in connection with the operation of the Service in any form, medium or technology now known or later developed, including publication and use on any Integrated Services (as defined below). This license includes the right for us to make Your Content available to other entities and individuals who partner with us in the delivery of the Service. If you join a County Business Club that is Private or Hidden, rather than Public, only we, and Users who are invited to join that County Business club will be able to see Your Content that you post on that website. County Business Clubs Sussex Ltd may preserve Your Content and may also disclose Your Content if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (a) comply with legal process, applicable laws or government requests; (b) enforce these Terms of Use; (c) respond to claims that any Your Content violates the rights of third parties; or (d) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of County Business Clubs Sussex Ltd its Users and the public. The technical processing and transmission of Your Content may involve transmissions over various networks and changes to conform to technical requirements of connecting networks or devices.
You agree to follow the County Business Clubs Acceptable Use Policy. Do not infringe the intellectual property and personal rights with Your Content. You accept responsibility if Your Content violates the intellectual property or personal rights of others. You agree to pay all royalties, fees, and any other monies owed to any person by reason of any of Your Content. We are not obligated, but reserve the right, to remove or suspend, in whole or part, Your Content that violates the County Business Clubs Acceptable Use Policy or for any other reason.
3. Copyright and Trademark Policies
The County Business Clubs Copyright Policy and County Business Clubs Trademark Policy are incorporated by reference into this Agreement. If you believe that your intellectual property is being violated on the Service, you can submit a complaint and request for takedown of specific material at administrator@countybusinessclubs.co.uk.
4. Our Content and Materials
You own Your Content and User Generated Content. County Business Clubs Sussex Ltd collects and stores data about County Business Clubs, and Members (“Data”) in order to run the Service more effectively and efficiently. Our Privacy Policy explains how we do this, and your rights to opt out.
All right, title, and interest in the Service, including the County Business Clubs buttons, badges, logos, widgets, text, images, design, software, documentation, source code, algorithms, graphics, photographs, video and audio files, other files, data, and the selection, arrangement, structure, coordination, and “look and feel” thereof (excluding Your Content, User Generated Content, third-party web services or third-party content linked to or posted within the Service) (collectively “Our Content and Materials”) are the property of County Business Clubs Sussex Ltd and/or its licensors Copyright ©2020 County Business Clubs Sussex Ltd. and/or its licensors. The County Business Clubs name and logo, the County Business Clubs mark, the County Business Clubs logo are trademarks and service marks of County Business Clubs. We retain all right, title, and interest in and to the Data and Our Content and Materials. Except as expressly provided in these terms, you agree not to use, modify, reproduce, distribute, sell, license, reverse engineer, decompile, or otherwise exploit Our Content and Materials or Data without our express written permission.
Subject to these terms, including our County Business Clubs Acceptable Use Policy, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive license to use and access Our Content and Materials and the Service. We may terminate this license at any time for any reason. Except for the rights and license granted in these terms, we reserve all other rights and grant no other rights or licenses, implied or otherwise.
Please note that the Service contains access to third-party content and other interactions over which we have no control. We assume no responsibility for, nor do we endorse, screen, or approve the content, offerings, or materials made available to you within a County Business Club, or the conduct of parties who participate in a County Business Club.
5. Rights and Obligations of Members
The name and contact information of Members who register to join a specific County Business Club is made available to that County Business Club’s Members in line with a Member’s privacy settings in order to facilitate communications. A Member may use the contact information of other Members solely to communicate with that Member for purposes related to the County Business Club or the reasonably assumed interests of the Member who has joined the County Business Club. In no event may a Member: i) sell contact information of a Member to a third-party, or ii) or use or disclose it for commercial purposes unrelated to the County Business Club or the interest of Member who joined the County Business Club.
Members may be provided access to certain Data, which may be aggregated or personalized, in order to facilitate Member engagement and communications or to assist in deciding how to advertise or use the site. The Member may not sell or share Data accessible from the Service to third parties.
As a Member it is important for you to respect and honour the trust of other Members who join the County Business Club you are a part of. You represent and warrant that, in your communications with Members and handling of Data, you: i) will comply with all applicable laws and regulations; and ii) will honour the restrictions set forth in Sections 5(a) and 5(b). You also represent and warrant that all advertising, sponsorships, and promotions you introduce to your County Business Club will comply with all applicable laws, regulations, and industry guidelines, including but not limited you represent and warrant that you have obtained user consent prior to sending emails outside of the Service, as EU law requires opt-in consent for emails. You must provide a means of opting-out of any emails.
In the event that a party requires a takedown request (within or outside of the Service), they should ensure that the request has been received by administrator@countybusinessclubs.co.uk
6. Integrated Services
You may enable various online services like Facebook to be integrated into your County Business Clubs Member account or County Business Club (“Integrated Services”). For example, you may be able to share or access your County Business Club activity on Integrated Services such as Facebook. To take advantage of these features, we may ask you to register for or log into the Integrated Services on the websites of their providers. By enabling Integrated Services in connection with the Service, you are allowing us to pass to, and receive from, these Integrated Services your login information and other Data for use in connection with the Service and/or the Integrated Services. For more information about the implications of activating these Integrated Services and our use, storage, and disclosure of information related to you and your use of such services within County Business Clubs (including your friend lists and the like), please see our Privacy Policy. However, please remember that your use of any Integrated Services, and the manner in which any Integrated Services offer or perform their services and collect, use, store, and disclose your information is governed solely by the terms of use, privacy policies, and other policies of such third parties, and we shall have no liability or responsibility for the privacy practices or other actions of any Integrated Services or any other third party site or service, whether or not they are directly enabled within the Service.
7. Premium Services
a. Fees.
If you select a portion of the Service for which a fee applies (“Premium Service”), you agree to pay the applicable fee when you sign up. For a Premium Service, you will be required to select a payment plan and instrument for payment. For Premium Services, additional terms may apply, and you may be asked to agree to additional terms by separate agreement.
b. No Refund at Termination.
8. Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability
PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY SINCE IT LIMITS THE LIABILITY OF COUNTY BUSINESS CLUBS SUSSEX LTD ENTITIES TO YOU. “COUNTY BUSINESS CLUBS SUSSEX LTD ENTITIES” MEANS COUNTY BUSINESS CLUBS LTD, AND ANY SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES, RELATED COMPANIES, SUPPLIERS, LICENSORS AND PARTNERS, AND THE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, AND REPRESENTATIVES OF EACH OF THEM. EACH PROVISION BELOW APPLIES TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW:
9. Indemnification
You agree to release, indemnify, and defend County Business Clubs Sussex Ltd Entities from all third-party claims and costs (including reasonable lawyers’ fees) arising out of or related to: i) your use of Service, ii) Your Content, iii) your conduct or interactions with other Members of the Service, or iv) your breach of any part of this Agreement. We will promptly notify you of any such claim and will provide you (at your expense) with reasonable assistance in defending the claim. You will allow us to participate in the defence and will not settle any such claim without our prior written consent. We reserve the right, at our own expense, to assume the exclusive defence of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you. In that event, you will have no further obligation to defend us in that matter.
You also agreed to release, indemnify, and defend your Members from all third-party claims and costs arising out or related to: i) your use of the Service, ii) Your Content, iii) your conduct or interactions with Members, or iv) your breach of any part of this Agreement.
10. Dispute Resolution, Arbitration, and Class Action Waiver
We hope that our customer success team can resolve any issues you may have. However, if that does not work, then both parties agree to resolve any dispute arising out of these terms exclusively by individual, binding arbitration. The term “dispute” is to be given the broadest possible meaning that will be enforced, and will include disputes related to your use of the Service, this Agreement (including the scope of this provision), regardless of whether such disputes are based in contract, tort, statute, fraud, unfair competition, or some other legal theory. Disputes regarding privacy shall be resolved by the mechanisms outlined in our Privacy Policy.
The arbitration process can be a faster, simpler, less formal, and less expensive route than filing a lawsuit and going to court. In arbitration you are still entitled to a fair hearing, but your rights will be determined by a neutral arbitrator (and not a judge or jury). Arbitrator decisions are as enforceable as any court order and are subject only to very limited review by a court. Each party is giving up the right to sue in court and to have a trial before a judge or jury.
Each party here agrees to try in good faith for 30 days to informally resolve any dispute before starting arbitration. A party who intends to seek arbitration must first send the other a written notice that describes the nature and basis of the dispute as well as the relief sought. If you want to send such a notice to us, send it to administrator@countybusinessclubs.co.uk. If we want to send such a notice to you, we will send it to the email address associated with your account. If the parties do not reach an agreement to resolve the dispute within 30 days after the date the notice was sent, then the parties may start arbitration as described below.
The arbitrator’s award will be final and specifically enforceable under applicable law, and judgment may be entered upon it in any court with jurisdiction. The arbitration costs, including arbitrator compensation, will be shared between you and us
Any dispute resolution proceedings will be conducted only on an individual basis and not in a class, consolidated, or representative action. By agreeing to these terms, you are waiving the right to participate in a class action. Further, unless the parties mutually agree otherwise, the arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person’s claims and may not otherwise preside over any form of a representative or class proceeding. If this waiver is found to be illegal or unenforceable, then the parties agree that this entire section will be unenforceable, that any dispute will be resolved exclusively in a county court located in England, and that the parties both submit to the personal jurisdiction of such courts. If a claim proceeds in court rather than through arbitration, the parties waive any right to a jury trial.
This section does not: (i) prevent either party from litigating any dispute in small claims court; (ii) apply to disputes arising out of or related to infringement or other misuse of our intellectual property rights; or (iii) prevent either party from bringing a dispute to the attention of local government agencies.
If you do not want to be bound by this binding arbitration provision and class action waiver, you must notify us within 30 days of the date that you first accept or receive these terms by sending a written notification to administrator@countybusinessclubs.co.uk that includes your actual name and County Business Clubs user name, address, and a clear statement that you do not wish to resolve disputes with us through arbitration.
11. General Legal Terms
We may amend this Agreement (including any policies, such as the Privacy Policy, County Business Clubs Acceptable Use Policy, County Business Clubs Copyright Policy , and County Business Clubs Trademark Policy that are incorporated into this Agreement) at any time in our sole discretion. If we amend the terms to this Agreement, such amendment will be effective after we send you notice of the amended agreement. Such notice will be in our sole discretion and manner of notification could include, for example, via email, posted notice on the Service, or other manner. You can view the Agreement at any time. Your failure to cancel your account, or cease use of County Business Clubs, after receiving notification of the amendment, will constitute your acceptance of the amended terms. If you do not agree to the amendments or to any of the terms in this Agreement, your only remedy is to cancel your account or to cease use of County Business Clubs.
You agree that County Business Clubs is operated in the United Kingdom. For any claims for which arbitration is inapplicable, you agree that such claims will be brought a in a court in the United Kingdom
County Business Clubs Sussex Ltd expressly disclaims any representation or warranty that the Service complies with all applicable laws and regulations outside of the United Kingdom. If you use the Service outside of the United Kingdom, you expressly understand and agree that you are responsible for determining compliance with different laws, regulations, or customs that may apply in connection with your use of the Service.
The Service is controlled and operated from our offices in Sussex. County Business Clubs software is subject to United States export controls. No software for County Business Clubs may be downloaded or otherwise exported or re-exported in violation of any applicable laws or regulations. You represent that you are not (1) located in a country that is subject to a U.S. government embargo, or that has been designated by the U.S. government as a “terrorist supporting” country, and (2) listed on any U.S. government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
If you access the Service through a County Business Clubs mobile application, you acknowledge that this Agreement is between you and County Business Clubs Sussex Ltd only, and not with another application service or application platform provider (such as Apple, Inc. or Google Inc.), which may provide you the application subject to its own terms. To the extent you access the Service through a mobile device, your wireless service carrier’s standard charges, data rates, and other fees may apply.
The following provisions will survive expiration or termination of this Agreement: Sections 1(f)(Termination), 1(g)(Feedback), 2(b)-(c)(Your Content and Your Responsibilities for Your Content), 4(a)(Data) and 4(b)(Our Content and Materials), Section 5(c)(Representation and Warranty of Members), any outstanding payment obligations pursuant to Section 7(Premium Services) and Sections 8-11.
Any County Business Clubs software and related documentation are “Commercial Items,” as that term is defined at 48 C.F.R. §2.101, consisting of “Commercial Computer Software” and “Commercial Computer Software Documentation,” as such terms are used in 48 C.F.R. §12.212 or 48 C.F.R. §227.7202 (as applicable). Consistent with 48 C.F.R. §12.212 or 48 C.F.R. §227.7202- 1 through 227.7202-4 (as applicable), the Commercial Computer Software and Commercial Computer Software Documentation are being licensed to U.S. government end users: (i) only as Commercial Items; and (ii) with only those rights as are granted to all other end users pursuant to this Agreement.
You may not assign or transfer this Agreement (or any of your rights or obligations under this Agreement) without our prior written consent; any attempted assignment or transfer without complying with the foregoing will be void. We may freely assign or transfer this Agreement. This Agreement inures to the benefit of and is binding upon the parties and their respective legal representatives, successors, and assigns.
You consent to receive communications from us by email in accordance with this Agreement and applicable law. You acknowledge and agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications that we provide to you electronically will satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.
This Agreement supersedes all prior terms, agreements, discussions and writings regarding the Service and constitutes the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service, except as provided for in Section 7. If any provision in this Agreement is found to be unenforceable, then that provision will not affect the enforceability of the remaining provisions of the agreement, which will remain in full force and effect.
In construing or interpreting the terms of this Agreement: (i) the headings in this Agreement are for convenience only, and are not to be considered, and (ii) no presumption is to operate in either party’s favour as a result of its counsel’s role in drafting this Agreement.
All notices permitted or required under this Agreement, unless specified otherwise in this Agreement, must be sent in writing as follows in order to be valid: (i) if to you, by us via email to the address associated with your account, and (ii) if to us by you via administrator@countybusinessclubs.co.uk. Notices will be deemed given (a) if to you, when emailed, and (b) if to us, on receipt by us.
This Agreement does not confer any third-party beneficiary rights and does not create a joint venture, agency, partnership, or other form of joint enterprise between you and us. Except as expressly provided herein, neither party has the right, power, or authority to create any obligation or duty, express or implied, on behalf of the other.
No waiver of any terms will deem a further or continuing waiver or such term or any other term. Our failure to assert a right or provision under this Agreement will not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.
You agree to execute a hard copy of this Agreement and any other documents and take any actions at our expense that we may request to confirm and effect the intent of this Agreement and any of your rights or obligations under this Agreement.
Feel free to contact us at Administrator@countybusinessclubs.co.uk with any questions about these terms.
When you use the Service, you agree to the terms of use set forth in this agreement (including the Privacy Policy and County Business Clubs Acceptable Use Policy), regardless of whether you are a registered user.
We are always trying to improve your experience on the Service. We may need to add or change features and may do so without notice to you.
County Business Clubs Ltd Privacy Policy
Last updated: February, 4th, 2020
Welcome to County Business Clubs Ltd
County Business Clubs is a Service of County Business Clubs Sussex Ltd. All visitors to our Service (“Visitors”) who register with the Service and join a County Business Club are Members. Members register and participate in one or more County Business Clubs. This Privacy Policy describes how we, County Business Clubs Sussex Ltd, obtain and use information about you and your visits to our website at www.countybusinessclubs.co.uk, as well as other websites wholly owned by County Business Clubs Sussex Ltd that are linked to from www.countybusinessclubs.co.uk to provide the Service, and your participation in a County Business Clubs Ltd and your use of County Business Clubs Sussex Ltd mobile applications. To offer the personalized experience of a County Business Clubs, we collect personal information about you (“Personal Data”). This policy describes how we collect, use, and share your Personal Data with other Members in connection with your use of the Service, including our mobile applications. Unless defined here, capitalized words have the same meaning as in the County Business Clubs Sussex Ltd Terms of Use, which this Privacy Policy is part of.
1. Information we collect and how we use it
When you visit our website, or become a member, interact with through the Service, or use our mobile applications, we, as the service collect Personal Data and other information from you (collectively, “Data”). We use your Personal Data to be able to provide the Service to you:
A. Personal Data you provide directly
‘Personal Data or Personal Information’ means any information relating to you from which you can be identified, directly or indirectly, including your name, identification number, location, online identifier such as your IP address or device ID, or one or more factors specific to your physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity.
‘Special Categories of Personal Data’ means data revealing your racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, and data concerning your health, sex life or sexual orientation.
‘Aggregated Data’ is data in a summary form for statistical analysis. A common purpose of aggregation is to get more information about particular groups based on specific variables such as age, profession, or income level.
‘Pseudonymisation’ means the processing of your personal data in a way that the personal data can no longer identify you without the use of additional information, so long as the additional information is kept separately and is subject to technical and organizational measures to prevent you from being identified or identifiable.
We store and use your Personal Data together with an ID we assign each time you join a new County Business Club. We assign you one ID per County Business Club to ensure you have a personalized experience in each one.
Name and Email Address. When you register as Member of any County Business Club, we ask you for your real name and your email address.
We receive access to this information and use it to communicate with you about the Service. In addition, we may use this address to email you about products or services believed to be of interest to you. If you are a paying Member, we may also collect your mailing address and post code for billing purposes. Third parties may decide to collect your mailing address, via our Services.
Social Media Profiles. In the future we may enable you to register with your Facebook or LinkedIn account. When you register this way, you give us permission to access your Facebook or LinkedIn profile and photo. Your profile and photo may become part of your County Business Club profile. See below for more information on Integrated Services like Facebook and LinkedIn.
Profiles and Topics. When you join a County Business Club, you may be prompted to add a profile, including a short bio, and to choose topics to follow (“Topics”). From this information, County Business Clubs Sussex Ltd may personalizes your experience in each County Business Club.
Your Location. We ask you for your location so that we can facilitate interactions with other Members in your geographic area. In addition, if you opt-in our mobile app collects your GPS location information. If you enable location features, or do not disable GPS on your mobile device, other Members may be able to see your location.
Other Personal Data You Provide Directly. You may also provide us Personal Data when you use certain features of the Service such as participating in conversations or polls, contact us with inquiries, or respond to one of our surveys.
B. Personal Data and Information we collect automatically
You may have the option of registering using an Integrated Service, such as Facebook. If you choose to do this, your profile picture and other Personal Data in your profile on the Integrated Service will become part of your profile on the County Business Clubs websites and mobile apps. Please see the section below on Integrated Services for more detail.
Information About Your Use of the Service. Our servers automatically record your visits to the Service. Like all other website and mobile app servers, ours compiles a log that records the date, time, browser (i.e., Firefox), device type (i.e., iPhone), operating system (i.e. Android), and originating IP address of each page you visit.
We use cookies to collect information about your visits to our website and Service. Cookies are text files placed on your computer by websites to collect standard log information and visitor behaviour information. Our cookies collect the following information about you: which website or ad you visited right before ours, which pages you visited on our Service, and how much time you spent on each section of our Service. We may also collect other data about your visit, such as search requests and results. We use this information for our legitimate interests to track usage of our Service, to measure the number of unique visitors to the different sections of our Service, to understand how Members find and join County Business Clubs, and to help us make our Service more valuable to every Member. The use of this information is called “analytics.” Often information used for analytics is aggregated.
Our mobile applications on iOS (Apple) and Android (Google) have to interact with our computer servers. We assign your device a token so that you do not have to log in every time you use the Service via our mobile apps.
You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some of our Service features may not work properly without cookies. Most browsers accept cookies automatically but allow you to disable them. For more information about cookies visit https://www.allaboutcookies.org.
Information About Your Location. From your IP address, we can tell generally where you are when you are accessing our Service, such as which city. We start by choosing a location for you based on the IP address of your Internet connection. You can update or remove this location at any time by logging in to your account on the Service.
C. Personal Data and Information Third Parties collect automatically
Third-Party Cookies for Site Use Analysis. We use third parties such as Google to help us analyse how people are using our Service. We also use the Google Analytics service to provide us with demographic data about Members, such as age and gender. Google uses a cookie that can be recognized by Google or its affiliate DoubleClick when you visit other websites. For more information about how Google collects, uses, and shares your information, please visit the Google Privacy Policy-Partners website at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.
Third-Party Cookies Used to Target Ads to You When You Use the Service or are on Other Websites. “Beacons” are transparent pixel images that are used in collecting information about website usage across websites and over time. We may use their own or third-party cookies or beacons to target ads to you when you visit other websites. We may also work with other companies who use their cookies or beacons to target third party ads to you on other websites based on your prior visits to the our website Service. This is called online behavioural advertising (“OBA”), because you receive ads based on your prior online behaviour. We do not have access to these cookies; it is third parties who engage in OBA.
2. Our Sharing of your Personal Data and other information
We consider personalizing your County Business Clubs experience an important part of our Service. We want you to understand what Personal Data gets shared with other Members in County Business Clubs, and other third parties as part of the Service.
‘Third Party’ means a person or company who is not a Member, and government bodies and public agencies and authorities. Third Parties include our service providers whom we authorize, through a data processing agreement, to process your personal data or information to help us with: development, maintenance, and support of our websites and mobile applications, marketing and advertising, marketing research and analysis, communications, and customer service. We do not permit our Third-Party service providers to use your personal data for any other purpose. We do not share Personal Data with any person or company unless we have an agreement with them that controls their use of the data.
‘Processing’ or ‘Process’ means any operation or set of operations performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, including by automatic methods, such as collecting, recording, organizing, structuring, storing, adapting or altering, retrieving, consulting, using, disclosing, transmitting, sharing or otherwise making available, aligning or combining, restricting, erasing or destroying.
‘Consent’ or ‘Agree’ means your freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous expression of your wishes through a statement or other clear affirmative action such as checking a box which indicates your agreement to our processing of personal data relating to you.
If you are not comfortable with this type of sharing, don’t use our Service.
A. Personal Data shared within the Service
County Business Clubs Sussex Ltd will have access to your name, email address, and all personal or contact information that you provide when you register for County Business Clubs membership. In order to facilitate Member engagement, we will also have access to Data regarding your usage activity, in both aggregated and personally identifiable forms. For example, we will be able to see aggregated Member activity from County Business Clubs websites and online platforms, as well as specific information like how many people cheered in response to a comment you made. We also will be able to associate Your Content, and any Personal Information it contains, with your contact information. If you have agreed, we may communicate with you outside of the Service about County Business Clubs or relevant topics of interest to you and may retain your personal information after you leave County Business Clubs. You should only join a County Business Club if you are comfortable sharing your personal information with County Business Clubs Sussex Ltd.
Searching and Messaging by Others. Visitors to our Service may be able to search for you by your name and location if you are a Member of a County Business Club. Members of your County Business Club can search for you by location, Topics, or other personal information so that they may message you within the County Business Club that you have joined. Whether your information is available to other Visitors and Members depends on whether that information is provided in way that Public, Private, or hidden.
Public, Private, and hidden. Groups Organisers can select whether to make a group Public, Private, or hidden
Personal Information Included in Your Content. If you include personal information in Your Content, it will be displayed to other Members based on the privacy levels defined above.
B. Personal Data and Information shared with Third Parties
Integrated Services. If you have used the option to register using an Integrated Service, such as Facebook, we share your information with the operators of the Integrated Service. More information is in the sections below entitled “Integrated Services.”
Business Transfers. As we develop our business, we might sell or buy businesses or assets. In the event of a corporate sale, merger, reorganization, dissolution, or similar event, Personal Data may be part of the transferred assets.
Agents, Consultants and Third Parties Whom We Have Contracts With. County Business Clubs Sussex Ltd, like many businesses, sometimes hires other companies to perform certain business-related functions. Examples include emailing information to you, maintaining our website, databases and mobile applications, processing payments, marketing and advertising, marketing research and analysis, and customer service. When we employ another company to perform a function of this type, we only provide them with the Personal Data and Information they need to perform their specific function and we do not authorize these service providers to use or disclose your personal information except as necessary to perform the tasks we have asked them to do for us or to comply with legal requirements.
Legal Requirements. We may disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to (i) comply with a legal obligation, (ii) cooperate with a legal investigation or a request from a government authority, (iii) protect and defend the rights or property of County Business Clubs Sussex Ltd, (iv) protect the legal rights, safety, and security of users of our website and the Service, (v) protect our legal rights and legitimate interests, and those of our business partners, service providers, and customers; (vi) prevent fraud; (vii) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public, or (v) protect against legal liability.
C. Aggregated data shared
We disclose aggregated statistics, such as number of Members, in order to describe our Service to current and prospective business partners, and to our Third-Party service providers for our legitimate interests and other lawful purposes.
3. Your Personal Data Rights
You have rights regarding the Personal Data and Information we have about you.
You may object to, or restrict, our collection, use, sharing, transfer and/or storage of your personal information. You may also request a copy of the information that we have about you. You may also ask us to correct or remove personal information you think is incorrect.
You may contact the us to object, restrict, access, correct or delete your personal information. If you need help finding contact information for our privacy officer, please contact us using our contact information below.
If you have a registered account in the Service, you may object, restrict, access, correct, or request deletion or a copy of some or all of your Personal Data or Information by logging in to your account.
If you do not have a registered account in the Service and you would like to object, restrict, access, correct, delete, or request a copy of some or all of your personal information, please email, write, or call us at the following address: administrator@countybusinessclubs.co.uk or by sending your request by post to County Business Clubs Sussex Ltd, Unit 1, Swan Barn Business Centre, Swan Barn Road, Hailsham, E.Sussex, BN21 2BY, phone 01323 819007
We will respond to your request within a reasonable period of time.
Please note, we will keep your personal information for as long as necessary for us to provide the Service to you. We will also keep and use your personal data or information to comply with laws including tax laws and other applicable laws. We will also keep your Personal Data and Information as necessary for backup, archiving, audit, preventing fraud, resolving disputes, and troubleshooting problems.
If you are located in the European Union (EU), European Economic Area (EEA), UK, or Switzerland, please see also Section 13 below about how to make complaints regarding personal data collected in the EU, UK, and Switzerland and transferred to the U.S.
You may also make a privacy or data use complaint about us to the Data Protection Authority in the UK or EU/EEA Member State where you live or work by visiting the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner list of Data Protection Authorities at https://www.dataprotection.ie/docs/European-Functions-Useful-Links/b/99.htm.
Our Data Protection Officer is at administrator@countybusinesslcubs.co.uk.
4. Your choices
A. Join County Business Clubs Ltd
You get to decide whether to join County Business Clubs Sussex Ltd. You also get to decide whether you trust County Business Clubs Sussex Ltd with the information sharing described in this policy.
B. Public, Private, or Hidden County Business Club group settings
An Administrator or Organiser of a group can choose to make a County Business Clubs group Public, Private, or Hidden as described above.
C. Adjust your notification settings
In your account settings, you can control the frequency, type, and mode of notifications you receive through the Service. You can choose to be notified by email or mobile alerts, both, and neither. You can choose to turn on or off your notifications by type, such as cheers on your posts, and questions you can help answer.
D. Opting out of email
We would like to send you information about our services that you may be interested in. If you have agreed to receive marketing messages from us, you may opt-out at any time. We provide an opt-out link at the bottom of each email message.
Because we plan our communications in advance, it may take several weeks for the opt-out request to take effect. If you continue to receive marketing messages from us after you opt-out, please let us know so that we can investigate the situation.
E. Opting out of Google Analytics
To prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics, click here for instructions.
F. Opting out of Google behavioural advertising
To opt out of Google behavioural advertising, click here to see your Google ad settings.
G. Opting out of tracking
Please see our Cookie Policy for important information about non-Google cookies that are placed by us or by our business partners on your computer, mobile phone or other device and how to opt out. We do not have access to, nor does this Privacy Policy govern, the use of cookies or other tracking technologies that may be placed on your computer, mobile phone, or other device by non-affiliated, third-party ad technology, ad servers, ad networks, or any other non-affiliated third parties. If you would like to learn more about OBA or to opt out of having this information used by companies that are part of the Network Advertising Initiative to deliver targeted ads, please visit https://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp, or if you are located in the UK, European Union/European Economic Area, please visit European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA) Your Online Choices website at http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/. Please note you will continue to receive generic ads.
H. Deleting cookies
To manage or delete browser cookies, please see your browser’s privacy settings.
5. Account termination
You can leave one or more of your County Business Clubs on a Club by Club basis. As soon as you leave, we stop collecting your Personal Data for that County Business Clubs.
6. Exclusions
This Privacy Policy does not apply to any Personal Data collected by County Business Clubs Sussex Ltd, outside the Service, such as a telephone call. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any unsolicited information you provide to County Business Clubs Sussex Ltd, through the Service or through any other means, such as information posted to any public areas of the Service, any ideas for new products or modifications to existing products, and other unsolicited submissions (collectively, “Unsolicited Information”). All Unsolicited Information shall be deemed to be non-confidential and County Business Clubs Sussex Ltd, shall be free to reproduce and use such Unsolicited Information without limitation or attribution. We respect your copyrights in Your Content, as outlined in our Terms of Use.
7. Disputes with other Members
County Business Clubs Sussex Ltd cannot control the actions of other Members; if you have a privacy-related dispute with another Member, you should contact that person directly. You should alert us at administrator@countybusinessclubs.co.uk if you believe that another Member has violated this Privacy Policy or our Acceptable Use Policy.
8. Children
County Business Clubs Sussex Ltd does not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, please do not use the Service or submit any Personal Data through the Service. If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 13 has provided Personal Data to County Business Clubs Sussex Ltd through the Service, please contact us at administrator@countybusinessclubs.co.uk and we will look to delete that information from our databases.
9. Links to other web applications
This Privacy Policy applies only to the Service. The Service may contain links to other websites not operated or controlled by County Business Clubs Sussex Ltd, (the “Third Party Sites”). The policies and procedures we described here do not apply to the Third-Party Sites. The links from the Service do not imply that County Business Clubs Sussex Ltd, Inc. endorses or has reviewed the Third-Party Sites. We suggest contacting those sites directly for information about their privacy policies and practices.
10. Integrated services
One of the special features of the Service is that it allows you to enable various online Third-Party services, such as social media and social networking services like Facebook and LinkedIn (each, an “Integrated Service”), to integrate directly into your County Business Club. By directly integrating these services, we make your use of County Business Clubs richer and more personalized. To enable Integrated Services, we will ask you to authorize County Business Clubs Sussex Ltd to access the Integrated Services (or vice versa). When you add an Integrated Service account to a County Business Club (or vice versa), your log-in information, Personal Data, non-personal data, location information, your content, your County Business Club name, your County Business Club location, your County Business Club affiliation, profile photo, Facebook Connect ID, Profile (if you are integrating your Facebook account) and other relevant personal information may be passed through to, or received from, the Integrated Service in connection with your use of the Service. We may import, use, disclose, and retain such data and information to, among other things, customize and improve the Service for you and others. Note that Integrated Services may also import, use, and retain this information. You may be able to control how certain information is shared with us in your privacy settings within the Integrated Services. However, please remember that the manner in which Integrated Services collect, use, store, and disclose your information is governed solely by the policies of the companies operating those Integrated Services, and we shall have no liability or responsibility for the privacy practices or other actions of any Integrated Service that may be enabled within the Service.
If, and only if, you have elected to integrate your County Business Club with an Integrated Service, we may share your information with Integrated Services. This may happen when you first register with County Business Clubs Sussex Ltd, when you log into a County Business Club from time to time, or in emails or other communications we may send you consistent with this Privacy Policy. We may from time to time share your Personal Data and anonymous data, your location information, your County Business Clubs Membership, your County Business Clubs URL, your location, and your use of certain features on County Business Clubs with Integrated Services to facilitate and enhance your use of the Integrated Services. Please keep in mind that services provided by Integrated Services are not provided by us and therefore your use of the Integrated Services will be governed by the Integrated Services’ Terms of Use and other policies, and that the collection, use, and disclosure of information provided by you or us to Integrated Services is not governed by this Privacy Policy.
11. Security of Your Personal Data
We use appropriate technical and organizational measures including encryption, aggregation, and pseudonymization to protect your Personal Data provided via the Service from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access or use, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no Internet, email, or other electronic transmission is ever 100% secure or error free, so we cannot guarantee that your Personal Data will never be accessed, used, or disclosed, so you should take special care in deciding what information you share on the Service.
“Phishing” is a scam designed to steal your Personal Data or Information. If you receive an e-mail that looks like it is from us asking you for information about you, please contact us.
13. Transferring your Personal Data to Other Countries
This Section Includes Important Updates as of December 11, 2020
Our website and mobile applications are provided from within the United States and are subject to state and federal laws of the United States. If you are located outside the United States, your Personal Information is being transferred to, stored, used, and shared in the United States.
Following the invalidation of the EU-US Privacy Shield by the Court of Justice of the European Union on July 16, 2020 (known as the “Schrems II” decision) and of the Swiss-US Privacy Shield on September 8, 2020, Personal Data subject to the GDPR are no longer transferred by or to County Business Clubs Sussex Ltd on the basis of the Privacy Shield but are instead subject to the EU Standard Contractual Clauses. The Schrems II decision also placed additional compliance requirements on the use of EU Standard Contract Clauses (SCC) for transfer of EU/EEA Personal Data to the U.S. by companies subject to Section 702 of the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and/or Executive Order 12333 (E.O. 12333). It is our good faith belief that the types of EU/EEA Personal Data we receive, collect, process, use and/or share in the U.S. are not of the types of data that would generally be subject to requests from U.S. government authorities pursuant to FISA Section 702 and/or E.O. 12333.
As explained above in this Privacy Policy in Section 2(b), we sometimes share your Personal Information with Third Party service providers so they can perform services for us. If we share Personal Information we have received from EU/EEA/Swiss data subjects, with a Third Party, that Third Party’s access, use, and disclosure of your Personal Information will be subject to the Standard Contractual Clauses. Under the Standard Contractual Clauses, like the Privacy Shield Principles, we may be liable to you for the failure of our service providers to comply with the Standard Contractual Clauses.
While EU and U.S officials are working to resolve the issues which were the basis for the Schrems II decision invalidating the EU-U.S Privacy Shield framework, we continue to adhere to the EU Privacy Shield Principles required by our Privacy Shield Certification(s). We remain subject to the regulatory and enforcement authority of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. If you are located in the UK, European Union (EU), Switzerland or European Economic Area (EEA), and have a question or complaint regarding data collected in the UK, EU, EEA or Switzerland that was transferred to the U.S. under the Privacy Shield Frameworks, you should first direct your question or complaint to administrator@countybusinessclubs.co.uk You can also write or call us at the following address: County Business Clubs Sussex Ltd, Unit 1, Swan Barn Business Centre, Swan Barn Road, Hailsham, East Sussex, BN21 2BY
County Business Clubs Sussex Ltd continues to refer unresolved privacy complaints under the Privacy Shield Principles to BBB EU PRIVACY SHIELD, a non-profit alternative dispute resolution provider located in the United States and operated by the Council of Better Business Bureaus.
If you do not receive timely acknowledgment of your complaint from us, or if we have not resolved your complaint, please visit https://www.bbb.org/EU-privacy-shield/for-eu-consumers for more information or to file a complaint. The services of the BBB EU Privacy Shield are provided free of charge to you. Finally, as a last resort and in limited circumstances, UK, EU & Swiss individuals with residual complaints may be eligible to request binding arbitration before a Privacy Shield Panel described on the Privacy Shield Annex I website found at https://www.privacyshield.gov/article?id=ANNEX-I-introduction.
14. Access to information; contacting us
To keep your Personal Data accurate, current, and complete, please update your account settings or contact us at the email address below. We will take reasonable steps to update or correct Personal Data in our possession that you have previously submitted via the Service.
Please also feel free to contact us if you have any questions about County Business Clubs Sussex Ltd’s Privacy Policy or the information practices of the Service. Our email address for privacy issues is administrator@countybusinessclubs.co.uk You can also write or call us at the following address: County Business Clubs Sussex Ltd, Unit 1, Swan Barn Business Centre, Swan Barn Road, Hailsham, East Sussex, BN21 2BY
15. Changes to County Business Clubs Ltd’s Privacy Policy
We keep this Privacy Policy under regular review, and we will notify you when we make changes in the future. Please review this policy periodically, and especially before you provide any Personal Data to us. We will also place any updates on our website. This privacy policy was last updated on the date indicated at the top of this document.
We have no liability or responsibility for the privacy policies or practices of our Members or other actions of any Integrated Service that may be enabled within the Service.