Privacy Policy

Introduction

We are committed to respecting and protecting your privacy.

This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) (together with our Terms of Use) and any other documents referred to in it) applies to your use of www.vimtobigcash.co.uk (the “Site”) and entry into any Vimto Big Cash Giveaway campaign (each a “Promotion”, and together the “Promotions”). References to our Site in this Policy applies to the Site however you may access it, or whenever you access the Site when optimised for use on mobile or tablet devices.

This Site has been created for the purposes of the Promotions.

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.

For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 2018 and the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679), including any subsequent amending, supplemental or replacement legislation, the data controller is Nichols plc (t/a Vimto).

This Policy is regularly reviewed to ensure that we continue to serve your privacy interests. We reserve the right to update this Policy from time to time, with any updates published on our Site.  We therefore encourage you to review our Policy periodically for the most up to date information on our privacy practices.  We will not however substantially change the way we use personal information you have already provided to us without the appropriate prior agreement. By continuing to use our Site after a Policy change you are indicating your acceptance of the revised Policy terms.

You do not need to register to browse our Site, and this Policy sets out how we will use your personal information, when you are generally browsing and using our Site and / or entering the Promotion(s).

Please read this Policy carefully before you browse our Site or enter the Promotion(s). If you do not agree with the ways in which we intend to use your personal information, then please do not continue to use our Site nor enter the Promotion(s).

What information do we collect and how do we collect it?

We may collect and process the following personal information about you:

  1. Information you give us. You may give us information when you:
  • Enter your name AND email address into our Site so that you can create a valid entry into the Promotion(s).
  • Share your social media account name when you engage with any of the stated Vimto social media accounts so that you may enter the social media Promotion.
  • Your payment information so that we can administer your prize payment.
  • Correspond with us by phone, e-mail, social media messaging or otherwise in respect of the Promotion(s).

This includes information you provide when you report a problem with our Site, your use of it with us or your entry into the Promotion(s).

  1. Information we automatically collect. 

Depending on your device settings (see our Cookie Policy at the end of this document), whenever you interact with our Site, we may automatically record information from your browser or device for the reasons set out within our Cookie Policy. This may include.

  • technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer or other device to our Site, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, location data, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform.
  • information about your visit to our Site, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our Site (including date and time); time of day; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), methods used to browse away from the page, devices used to access our Site and any phone number used to call our customer support services number.
  1. Information we receive from and share with other sources. 

For the purposes only of administering the Promotions and the Site, we may share your personal information (provided by you as set out above) with the following third parties:

  • Fluid Vision Limited – a company registered in England with company number 07144855, whose registered office is at 3 Thorpe House, Thorpe Street Macclesfield SK10 1LJ.
  • Halo Promo Risk Limited – a company registered in England with company number 10916303, whose registered office is at Brook Green, 184 Shepherds Bush Road, London, W6 7NL. 

If you would like further information about how these third parties treat your personal information, please contact them, and ask to see a copy of their respective privacy policies.

How do we use your information?

We respect your privacy and we will treat all personal data received from any entrant to a Promotion or any visitor to our Site as confidential. It will only be used by Vimto or on our behalf by the above-stated third parties:

  1.  for the purposes of administering the Site and the Promotions, or
  2. to disclose your personal information to third parties if we are under a duty to disclose or share it in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our Terms of Website Use or where we think it appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of us, our staff and contractors and partners, visitors to our Site, our registered consumers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and anti-money laundering.

How do we store your information?

All personal information you provide to us will be stored on our secure servers or those of third parties or contractors we engage to help us run our business. We will delete all your personal information from our secure servers during the week commencing 13 November 2023.. 

We do not transfer your personal information outside the UK. 

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we take appropriate measures to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Site or during your use of any social media platform and any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use security procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access. We ask you not to put any details that are particularly private into free text fields.

Links to other websites

Our Site contains links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates including social media sites.  If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites and any services that may be accessible through them (including those linked to your location) have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies or for the processing of your personal information by those parties.  Please check those policies before you submit any personal information to these websites.

Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal information, including the right to request access to your personal information, to request correction of your personal information and the right to withdraw consent to the processing of your personal information. 

If you wish to exercise any of the rights above, please contact us using the details set out below. 

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal information (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 could refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal information (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.

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it could 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.

Changes to this Policy

We review the ways we use your information regularly and, in doing so, we may change what kind of information we collect, how we store it, who we share it with and how we act on it.

Any changes we may make to this Policy in the future will be posted on this page. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our Policy.

Contact us

If you have any questions, comments or requests regarding this Policy please address them to:

Email:         [email protected].    

Postal:        Laurel House, 5 Woodlands Park, Ashton Road, Newton-le-Willows, WA12 0HH

Telephone:  +44 1925 222222

Cookie Policy

Who we are:

Our website www.vimtobigcash.co.uk (Site) is operated by Nichols plc (t/a Vimto).

We are a private limited partnership registered in England with partnership number 00238303. Our main trading address is Laurel House, 5 Woodlands Park, Ashton Road, Newton-le-Willows, WA12 0HH.

Please read this policy carefully before you browse our Site, or contact us. If you do not agree with the ways in which we intend to use cookies on our Site then please do not continue to use our Site.

Information about our use of cookies

A cookie is a simple text file that is stored on your computer or mobile device by a website’s server and only that server will be able to retrieve or read the contents of that cookie. Each cookie is unique to your web browser. For further information please see http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

Our Site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our Site. This helps us to improve our Site to give you the best possible experience whilst using it.

By continuing to browse and use our Site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies in the ways explained in this policy.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we can store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer, mobile phone or tablet.

We use the following cookies to help us:

• Make our Site work as you’d expect

• Remember your settings during and between visits to our Site

• Improve the speed/security of our Site

• Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook and Twitter

Below is a list of all cookies we use on our Site and what they are used for:

• supersuper.sid, supersuper.donuts: These cookies are used for the temporary storage of the state of the website for a seamless user experience when the website is recalled.

• supersuper.f: This cookie ensures the secure provision of the service complying with the parameters set by coupon publishers.

All strictly necessary cookies set by us will automatically expire within one year after your last visit to our website.

Granting us permission to use cookies

If the settings on your browser or software are adjusted to accept cookies then we take this, and your continued use of our Site, to mean that you agree to our use of cookies in the ways described in this policy. You can delete any cookies stored on your computer but this may prevent you from getting the most from your next visit to our Site.

Managing cookies

You can block or disable cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our Site. You can find out how to do this for your particular browser by clicking “help” on your browser’s menu.

It may be that your concerns around cookies relate to so called “spyware”. Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive.

Third Parties

Please note that third parties including search engines and social media websites may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.