Privacy policy!

WELCOME TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY!

Lycatalk respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you:

  • About how we use your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide us when you register yourself on our website, purchase a product or service from us or sign up to our communications.
  • About your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

This privacy policy is provided in a layered format so you can choose the specific areas in which you are particularly interested.

Alternatively, you can find a summary here.

ABOUT US

We are Lycatel Services Ltd, operating under the trading name of ‘Lycatalk’. We provide international call services and we offer a pinless product to our customers.

We are a company incorporated under the Laws of England and Wales with registration number 05396108 and we are based in the UK at Wallbrook Building, 195 Marsh Wall, London, E14 9SG.

Lycatel Services Ltd is a data controller and is responsible for your personal data (referred to as “Lycatalk”, “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy policy).

WHAT DATA DO WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU?

Personal Data is any information about you from which you can be identified. It does not include data where your identity has been removed (it’s called anonymous data).

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

We also process your personal data to derive information so that we can make personalised offers to you. The derived information does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. However, if we combine or connect the derived information with your personal data, it can directly or indirectly identify you. So, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this privacy policy.

Where we need to collect personal data by law and you fail to provide that data when requested including updating data records or verifying the data, we may not be able to provide you with the products or services. We may also have to cancel a product or service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.

HOW DO YOU COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

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

Direct interactions. Your personal data is collected when you do the following:

Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies. Please see our Cookie Policy for further details.

HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

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

We have set out below, 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 basis depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data.

Purpose Type of data Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
To register you as a new customer
Identity, Contact
Performance of terms and conditions with you and where applicable, as required by law
To supply products and services to you
Identity, Contact, Billing
Performance of terms and conditions with you
To manage our relationship with you and administer your account which will include: Notifying you about changes to our terms and conditions or privacy policy Detecting and preventing crime and fraud Asking you to leave a review or take a survey Manage any concerns that you raise to our customer care department Quality assurance and monitoring purposes
Identity, Contact, Profile, Marketing and Communications, Customer Care, Usage,
Performance of terms and conditions with you Necessary to comply with a legal obligation Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products/services to serve them better
To market products and services to you
Identity, Contact, Marketing and Communications, Profile
Legitimate interest to process marketing data (to serve our products/services to our customers) and consent for sending electronic marketing communications for new customers or reliance on existing customer relationship to send electronic marketing communications
To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences
Technical, Usage
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our website updated and relevant for clients, to inform our marketing strategy so that we serve our customers with better products and services
To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you
Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage, Profile
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to inform our marketing strategy so that we serve our customers with better products and services

Marketing

You will receive marketing communications from us either if you have consented to receive them or you have purchased products or services from Lycatalk, and in each case, you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.

HOW CAN YOU MANAGE YOUR MARKETING PREFERENCES?

You can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by Contacting our Customer Services Department on one of the following numbers: 0800 652 7566 / 0207 132 9999 / 0330 777 1256

You can also Contact our Customer Services Department to let us know whether you’re happy to hear from us by email, text, or telephone.

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 or other purposes.

TO WHOM DO WE DISCLOSE YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

If a change happens to our business where we may choose to sell, transfer or merge parts of our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy policy.

Where applicable, we require all external 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.

WHERE IS YOUR DATA TRANSFERRED TO?

If a change happens to our business where we may choose to sell, transfer or merge parts of our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy policy.

Where applicable, we require all external 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.

Category of Recipient Location of Recipient Safeguards in place or lawful ground for processing
Technical services provider
India
Model Clauses
Affiliated Lyca entities for call centre support
India
Consent

Where there are no appropriate safeguards in place, the EU recognises that these countries do not provide the same level of data protection as provided in the EU. As such, we take steps to ensure your privacy rights are at least as compliant with the requirements of EU law, including by requiring appropriate security measures from such third parties, set out in a contract between us, to protect your personal data.

HOW SECURE DO WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

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 staff members or 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 strict duty of confidentiality.

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

HOW LONG DO WE RETAIN YOUR 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 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.

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.

WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data which are as follows:

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.

HOW TO CONTACT US?

You may contact our Customer Services Department on 0800 652 7566 / 0207 132 9999 / 0330 777 1256.

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please email us at DPO@lycagroup.com.

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the relevant data protection authority.

We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns first before you approach the supervisory authority, so please do contact us in the first instance.

Lycatalk Privacy Notice

For a detailed explanation of why and how we collect your personal information, please visit our privacy policy.

Who do we share your data with?
We may share your information with others who help us run our business and provide you with our services. This could mean sharing your information with others, such as Lyca affiliated companies which provide call centre support and external third parties which provide data centre services, technical support, payment gateway services and for regulatory purposes.

Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring that the relevant safeguard is implemented.

Where there are no appropriate safeguards in place, the EU recognises that these countries do not provide the same level of data protection as provided in the EU. As such, we take steps to ensure your privacy rights are at least as compliant with the requirements of EU law, including by requiring appropriate security measures from such third parties, set out in a contract between us, to protect your personal data.

Please read our privacy policy for more information.

How can you manage your marketing preferences?
You can follow the unsubscribe links in any email or text marketing that we send you.
You may also contact our Customer Services Department on 0800 652 7566 / 0207 132 9999 / 0330 777 1256.

Visit our privacy policy for more information.

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