Privacy and Cookie Policy
1 About Us
Netomnia Limited (“Netomnia”, “we” or “us”) is a full fibre infrastructure company. We are a limited company registered in England and Wales under company number 12008248 and our registered office and main trading address is at Unit H The Courtyard, Tewkesbury Business Park, Tewkesbury, United Kingdom, GL20 8GD.
Netomnia is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
Our Privacy and Cookie Policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes how we collect and use your personal data and tells you about your privacy rights. When we refer to “personal data” in this Privacy Policy, we mean information which can identify you as an individual. It is important that you read this Privacy Policy so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data.
By providing us with your personal data, you agree to the collection and use of your information under the terms of this Privacy Policy.
We are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. We also want to ensure you are properly informed about how your information is used and that you receive certain information that we are required to give you by law, which is why provide this privacy statement.
We may change this statement from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are aware of and understand any changes.
2 Information we collect about you
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:
Identity Data includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier, title, date of birth and gender.
Contact Data includes address, email address, social media username (if given), job title and telephone numbers.
Usage Data includes information about how you use our services, our network and our Website. This may include information about your device and about your visits to and use of the website including IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation information.
Business Information that you may provide to our customer service team and third party service providers, for example, when they attend your premises to carry out installations or when you contact us for pre or post-sales support. This information may include details of your existing internet service provider.
Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
We also collect, use, and share “Aggregated Data” (this means statistical or demographic data derived from your personal data). Aggregated Data is not considered personal data in law as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity.
3 How we collect your personal data
(i) Identity Data, Contact Data and Business Information
You may give us your Identity and Contact by corresponding with us by via our Website, systems or communicating with our team, by email, on the telephone or by post. This includes personal data you provide when you:
fill in forms on our Website
register to use our Website
record your registered interest in the network
send us information by email
give us your details for us to contact you in relation to our services
post any material on our Website
ask for help or advice or report a problem with our services
request marketing communications to be sent to you
enter a competition, promotion or survey
give us feedback
When you contact us (by phone, email or via our Website), we may keep a record of it and what you say to us.
(ii) Profile Data
We automatically collect Technical Data about your visits to our Website (including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data) and the websites and other products and services you access through it. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies. Please see the Cookie Policy section below for more information about how we use cookies and how to change your browser settings to refuse some or all cookies.
(iii) Marketing and Communications Data
We will keep a record of whether you have opted out of receiving marketing from us. We will also keep a record of your communication preferences.
4.0 How we use your personal data
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests
Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation
Where we need to do so to perform a contract with you. Performance of a contract means using your data as necessary for us to provide a quote to you or to fulfil a contract to provide our services to you.
Legitimate Interest means using your data as necessary for the commercial interests of our business, allowing us to conduct and manage our business to give you the best possible service 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.
Comply with a legal or regulatory obligation means using your personal data to the extent necessary for us to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation that we are subject to.
We have set out below a description of the ways we use your personal data. Note that we may use your personal data for more than one lawful ground, depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data.
| Purpose/Activity | Type of data | Lawful ground for processing |
|---|---|---|
| To monitor and record our communications with you and to provide you with information (including information about network updates), products or services or take actions that you request | Identity, Contact Usage and Business | Necessary for our legitimate interests (for training and quality purposes) |
| To manage our ongoing relationship with you which may include us collecting information when you contact us to ask for information, you bring a complaint to us, including about our build projects or when you ask us to review any decision we’ve made. For internal administration, governance and record keeping and for business analytics, financial and accounts management and reporting purposes. To meet our legal obligations or to bring or defend legal claims. | Identity, Contact, Business Marketing and Communications | To perform our contract with you; Necessary to comply with a legal obligation; Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated, maintain and develop our service provision and to understand how communities feel about our services) |
| To administer, monitor, analyse and protect our business, services, network and Website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data). To maintain risk and compliance records, and carry out compliance monitoring, incident management and investigations of relevant suppliers and third party service providers | Identity, Contact and Business Information | 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); and Necessary to comply with our legal obligations |
| To provide you with promotional material which we feel may interest you and to deliver relevant Website content and advertisements in the most effective manner to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you. | Identity, Contact Profile Usage, Business and Marketing and Communications | Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how communities view our business, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy) |
| To use data analytics to improve our Website, services, network marketing, customer relationships and experiences | Profile Usage and Business Information | Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our Website updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy) |
| To register your interest in the network; To administer the Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme and other similar schemes with Governmental authorities | Identity, Contact and Business Usage | To perform our contract with you; Necessary for our legitimate interests (maintain and develop our business and service offering) |
5.0 Marketing Communications
If you have registered interest in the network, we may also use your Identity, Contact, Usage, Profile, and Marketing and Communications Data to form a view on what services and offers may be relevant for you and to send you recommendations about services that we think may be of interest or to invite you to participate in prize draws or competitions ("marketing communications").
If you have given us your details to record your registered interest in joining the network in the future or for us to contact you in relation to our services or business development (including to receive our newsletter), we may use your Identity Data to keep you up to date about our services and coverage.
You will only receive marketing communications from us if you have registered an interest in connecting to the Netomnia network and requested information from us in relation to our services or our internet service providers services in each case, you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.
6 Disclosures of your personal data
We may sometimes need to share your personal data with the types of third party listed below:
Our group companies for the purposes of internal administration, governance and recordkeeping, business analytics, financial and account management and reporting purposes and which provide some of the services on our behalf
To other companies that provide essential support to our network or which we contract with to provide services to you, such as our network integrators, resellers, our approved thirdparty internet service providers, data centres, mobile operators and network construction providers
To authorised third parties providing a service on our behalf or in connection with our business, including our insurers and professional advisors, marketing services partners, survey partners, technology and hosting providers and fraud protection and credit risk reduction service providers
Analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our Website
IT and administration services service providers
Business support service providers (such as providers of payment services, customer support and administration and support services.
Governmental and local authorities including the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) in relation to your participation in the Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme or other similar schemes.
Professional advisers including lawyers, auditors and insurers
Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer or merge parts of our business
To the extent that we are required to do so by law, including by regulators, courts or law enforcement agencies or in order to enforce or apply our Acceptable Usage Policy
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.
7 International Transfers
Some of the third parties who have access to your personal data may be located or transfer or host data outside the UK and the European Economic Area (EEA). We will ensure your personal data is protected by requiring all our divisions to follow the same rules when processing your personal data to ensure its security. These rules are set out in "Standard Contractual Clauses".
Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the United Kingdom (UK) and EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:
The third party country has been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data for the purpose of the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR); or
The service provider has provided adequate safeguards to ensure that individuals rights are enforceable and legal remedies are available for the purpose of UK GDPR.
8 Data Security
We have in place appropriate technical and organisational measures to safeguard and secure your personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access. 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 also have in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and the ICO (the UK supervisory authority) of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology. Where we have given you (or you have chosen) a customer ID, password(s) or log-ins to allow you to can access certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping these confidential. You are responsible for how our services are used from your account and for keeping your account information secret. Please keep this information safe, and do not share it with others.
9.0 Data Retention
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.
In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you and is no longer personal data) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
10.0 Your Legal Rights
You have various rights in relation to your personal data – these are set out in detail below. If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please email us at: dataprotection@netomnia.com
To be informed. You have the right to be provided with clear, transparent and easily understandable information about how we use your information and your rights. This is why we are providing you with the information in this privacy and cookie policy.
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.
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 your personal data when we no longer need it. You may also ask us to delete 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 a legal obligation. However, we may not be able to comply with your request of erasure, for example, if we are required to retain your personal data for legal reasons. We will let you know if this is the case.
You have the right to object to certain types of processing that is based on legitimate interests. Where you object, we may continue to process your information where we can show compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your rights and interests or where we need to use your information to bring or defend legal claims. However, if you object to direct marketing, we will stop this as soon as possible.
Request restriction of processing of your personal data. You may ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios: (a) if you do not think the data we hold is accurate, whilst we verify its accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c) where we no longer need to process it but you require us to store it in relation to a legal claim; or (d) if 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 if feasible practically 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 information which we process by automated means and use to perform a contract with you.
Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data (for example, for marketing purposes). However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent.
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data or to exercise any of your other rights. However, if we feel that your request is unfounded, repetitive or excessive, we may charge a reasonable fee or we may let you know that we are refusing to comply with your request. If we refuse your request, we will explain why and you will be entitled to raise the issue with the ICO.
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.
We will respond to all legitimate requests within 30 days of receipt and, if possible, achieve a satisfactory resolution within that time period. 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.
11.0 Changes to this Privacy Policy
Any changes we may make to this Privacy Policy in the future will be posted on this page. You should check this page from time to time for any changes we made. We may also email you about these changes if you are a customer of Netomnia.
12.0 Contact
If you have any questions, comments and requests regarding this Privacy Policy, including any requests to exercise any of your legal rights under it, please contact us using the details set out below.
Email: hello@netomnia.com
Post: Netomnia Limited, Unit H The Courtyard, Tewkesbury Business Park, Tewkesbury, United Kingdom, GL20 8GD
If you have any complaint about how we are using your personal data or otherwise in relation to this Privacy Policy, please contact us in the first instance and will we do our best to resolve it. If we do not resolve it to your satisfaction, 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.
13.0 Cookie Policy
Our Website uses cookies – these are small files of letters and numbers which we store on your browser or the device you use to access our Website. Some of the cookies we use are essential (our Website won't work without them) and others make our Website work more efficiently and help us to recognise you when you return to our Website.
13.1. How we use cookies
We use these types of cookies:
Essential (Necessary) cookies: These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our Website.
Preferences cookies: These are cookies we use to recognise you when you return to our Website. They enable us to personalise our content for you and save your preferences in a cookie on your device (for example, your choice of language or region or, if you select the 'Remember me on this computer' box, your username and password). This means that the next time you log on to our Website using that device you won't need to re-enter those details. We suggest you don't select the 'Remember me' box if you use a shared device or publicly available computer. The cookie file itself won't store your personal information.
Analytics (Statistics) cookies: These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our Website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. All information collected for these purposes and shared with our analytics providers is anonymous or collected in such a way that users cannot be identified from this data. This information allows us to improve our Website and our services, for example, to measure the effectiveness or success of our advertising campaigns and products. For more information about Google Analytics, please see their privacy policy at: google.com/policies/privacy.
Affiliate and advertising cookies: We use cookies to place adverts about Netomnia products on other websites and manage referrals from those websites to our Website. If you follow a link from another website then purchase our services, we may use cookies to tell the other website that you have made a purchase. Or if you click on a link to an advert, video or social media channel on our Website, we may use cookies to gather statistics about this.
13.2. Which cookies we use:
Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after 24 months.
| Cookie name and description | Party and Type | More information |
|---|---|---|
| __cfruid | Third party, Necessary | This cookie is a part of the services provided by Cloudflare - Including load-balancing, deliverance of website content and serving DNS connection for website operators. |
| __zlcstore | Third party, Necessary | This cookie is necessary for the chat box function on the website to function . |
| AWSALBCORS | Third party, Necessary | Registers which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimize user experience. |
| ZD-suid | Third party, Necessary | Unique id that identifies the user's session. |
| ZD-store | Third party, Preferences | Registers whether the self-service-assistant Zen desk Answer Bot has been displayed to the website user. |
| youFibreCokkieConsent | First party, Preferences | Cookie consent cookie. Allows the system to know if the user is not first-time visitor in order not to repeat cookie consent. |
| _ga | Third party, Statistics | Google analytics cookie. Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website |
| _gid | Third party, Statistics | Google analytics cookie. Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website |
| _gat | Third party, Statistics | Google Analytics cookie. Used to throttle request rate. |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | Third party, Statistics | This cookie is used to count how many times a website has been visited by different visitors - this is done by assigning the visitor an ID, so the visitor does not get registered twice. |
| _hjFirstSeen | Third party, Statistics | This cookie is used to determine if the visitor has visited the website before, or if it is a new visitor on the website. |
| _hjIncludedInPageviewSample | Third party, Statistics | Determines if the user's navigation should be registered in a certain statistical placeholder. |
| hjTLDTest | Third party, Statistics | Registers statistical data on users' behavior on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator. |
| _hjid | Third party, Statistics | Sets a unique ID for the session . This allows the website to obtain data on visitor behavior for statistical purposes. |
| zabUserId | Third party, Statistics | Collects data on the user’s navigation and behavior on the website. Th is is used to compile statistical reports and heatmaps for the website owner. |
| ZD-buid | Third party, Statistics | Unique id that identifies the user on recurring visits. |
| zabVisitId | Third party, Statistics | Collects data on the user’s navigation and behavior on the website. Th is is used to compile statistical reports and heatmaps for the website owner. |
| _fbp | Third party, Marketing | This cookie is used to provide you with more relevant advertising across Facebook. |
| __zlcmid | Third party, Marketing | Preserves users states across page requests. |
| fr | Third party, Marketing | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. |
| ads/ga-audiences | Third party, Marketing | Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor's online behavior across |
| tr | Third party, Marketing | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. |
| zte# | Third party, Marketing | Saves a Zopim Live Chat ID that recognises a device between visits during a chat session . |
| F24_autoID | Third party, Marketing | This is a temporary identifier on a local machine or phone browser that helps us track anonymous information to be later married up with f24_personid. If this is left anonymous it will be deleted after 6 months . Non-essential, first party, 10 years, persistent. |
| F24_personID | Third party, Marketing | This is an ID generated per individual contact in the Force24 system to be able to track behaviour and form submissions into the Force24 system from outside sources per user. This is used for personalisation and ability to segment decisions for further communications. Non-essential, first party, 10 years, persistent. |
13.3 How to block cookies
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. If you want to stop cookies being stored on your computer in future, you should check your browser manufacturer's instructions by clicking "Help" in your browser menu. However, if you block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or certain parts of our Website. Unless you've set your browser to refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies as soon you visit our Website.
If you want to delete any cookies that are already on your computer, you should check the instructions for your file management software to locate the file or directory that stores cookies.
You can learn about and opt out of a number of commercial third-party cookies (including some used by us) at www.networkadvertising.org. Some of the opt-outs used by our commercial service providers require a cookie to be placed on your computer. This "opt-out" cookie is only used to tell the relevant cookie servers not to send you any more cookies. If you keep deleting cookies (including "opt-out" cookies) from your temporary internet files, you might need to repeat the opt-out process, the next time you visit our Website.
For more information about deleting and controlling cookies visit www.youronlinechoices.com or www.aboutcookies.org.
14.0 Date
These Terms are effective from 24 February 2023.
