Legal Notice

PRIVACY      

PRIVACY NOTICE
K M Associates the trading name of KMAUK projects Ltd, are a long established supplier of Colour and Trend Information to the UK Fashion, Textiles and Design Industries in the United Kingdom.

We are committed to developing long lasting relationships based on trust and to ensure that every one’s right to privacy is maintained and protected in line with GDPR. As will all our service suppliers for bookkeeping/accounting/email management/internet providers etc.

Our services are directed at professionals in the design and fashion industry and not directed at children.

K M Associates may request and collect necessary personal information from contacts and online users of our website in a variety of ways, including the use of online forms, received emails, phone calls, for registering interest in or ordering products, services and other instances where users are invited to volunteer such information, to be able to trade with us or to keep updated on our various offerings.

The information K M Associates collects, can be personal information that identifies people personally, for example:
 

PERSONAL INFORMATION
E-mail address/s (which can be a personal and business or both)
Company name or trading name
VAT number
Credit Card (not online)
Postal address (which could be a home addresses if the customer works from home.)
Delivery address if different
Telephone/fax numbers
Dates of our events you are interested in attending etc. 
 
USE
The information we collect is to:

1) Keep customers and interested parties up to date, if they have expressed interest or
have opted in, to know more about our Trend Book, Trend Magazine and Trend event Offerings.

2) Process invoices for payment and delivery of orders for services and trend books,
magazines and events that we supply.

WHEN
Personal data may be collected at various times:
 

1) When orders placed for a product or service from us over the phone or by
post or by email.

2) Through the use of online forms on our Website for registering interest in products, services and other instances where users are invited to volunteer such information, so as to be able to trade with us or to be kept updated on our various offerings.
 

CONSENT
We will ask you to opt in and give us your consent if we are to keep you on or add you to our emailing lists. Which we use to keep customers up to date, if they have expressed interest in our Trend Book, Trend Magazine and Trend event Offerings.
 

SHARING
We do not share personal data with third parties, except for accounts and payment processing, mailing services and other activities necessary to run a business.
 

3rd PARTY ACCESS
Sometimes we have to send some information to third parties including:

1) Bookkeepers and Accountants for preparation of Business Accounts.
2) Online Emailing services for occasional Marketing Campaigns. Which can be un-subscribed from..
3) Suppliers who deliver directly to our customers.
They are all required to have and apply Privacy policies to protect our customer’s personal data in line with GDPR.
 

SECURITY
We ensure reasonable measures are in place to secure all your personal data. Protecting it against, loss and unauthorised use, access, alteration or modification.
 

STORAGE
We will hold personal data in secure storage as long as necessary for data processing and to discharge our legal requirements. Deleting or destroying when no longer required.
 

USE
For invoice and payment processing, business accounts, mailing services and other activities necessary to run a business. Including use by a trusted third party to help with compliance and to manage our marketing emailings, email data, including updating and removing unsubscribers etc from address books they hold on our behalf.
 

ACCESS & MODIFICATION
You can ask to see personal data collected by us, with a request to the Company Secretary by EMAIL or writing c/o K M Associates, 19 Heyford Road Radlett WD7 8PP UK. We will respond as promptly as we can but to ensure confidentiality we will require you to identify yourself before we proceed.

This Privacy Notice will be posted on our web site and be regularly reviewed, updated and
added to as necessary. If you have opted in then you will be notified by email of any significant changes.

More information about Cookies and our internet Providers Privacy Statements.

KMAUK Projects ltd t/a K M Associates  | 7 October 2023

 

PRIVACY POLICY 

K M Associates (KMAUKprojects ltd t/a K M Associates) 
Will respect the privacy of our website users, customers and clients. This privacy policy sets out the way in which we and our internet services providor 1&1, use and maintain information collected from users of our web sites.

Privacy
K M Assocites is committed to developing long lasting relationships based on trust and to do what we can to ensure that your right to privacy is maintained and protected. As will our internet service providor 1&1.

This Website is directed at professionals in the design and fashion industry and is not directed at children.

Information.
K M Associates may request or collect personal information from online users in a variety of ways, including the use of online forms for registering interest in products, services and other instances where users are invited to volunteer such information. The information K M Associates collects, via response forms on our websites, can be personal information that identifies you personally, for example:

   Your name
   E-mail address
   Postal address
   Telephone and facsimile numbers
   Billing address information
   URL
  
We do not request Credit card or banking information online.

K M Associates may from time to time engage third parties, including its own subsidiaries and affiliated companies, to preserve, analyse or otherwise store or manipulate data received by

K M Associates from its customers. In all such cases, such third party service providers will be required to treat all such data with the same degree of care as K M Associates and they will be prohibited from disclosing such data to any other person or party, except as otherwise provided for in this Privacy Policy.

1&1, our internet services providor, might also collect collect information on how users access the Website by using a tracking ID unique to each user through the use of cookies.
 

What are Cookies?
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's computer tied to information about the user. 1&1 may use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. For session ID cookies, once you close your browser or log out, the cookie terminates and is erased. A persistent cookie is a small text file stored on your computer’s hard drive for an extended period of time. Your browser’s help file contains information and instructions for removing persistent cookies. Session ID cookies may be used by 1&1 to track user preferences while the user is visiting the website. They also help to minimise load times and save on server processing. Persistent cookies may be used by 1&1 to store, for example, whether or not you want a password remembered, or other such information. Cookies used on the 1&1 maintained Websites do not contain personally identifiable information.
 

Log Files
Like most standard Websites, 1&1, our internet services providor, use log files. This information may include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp and number of clicks to analyse trends, administer the site, track user's movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. However, none of the information stored in the 1&1 log files, including but not limited to IP addresses, is linked to personally identifiable information.
 

How 1&1, our Interent service provider, uses this information.
Disclosure of Information: 1&1 may also disclose anonymous data based on information collected from Users to investors and potential partners. In such cases, statistical information only will be disclosed and personally identifiable data will be kept strictly confidential. In case 1&1 is sold, the information collected from users may be transferred to the new owners.

1&1 may from time to time engage third parties, including its own subsidiaries and affiliated companies, to preserve, analyse or otherwise store or manipulate data received by 1&1 from its customers. In all such cases, such third party service providers will be required to treat all such data with the same degree of care as 1&1 and they will be prohibited from disclosing such data to any other person or party, except as otherwise provided for in this Privacy Policy.

Legal Disclaimer
Though every effort is made to preserve your privacy, 1&1, our Internet Service Provider, may need to disclose personal information when required to by law. If it is deemed necessary that such action needs to be taken, 1&1 will comply with judicial proceedings should a court order or legal process be served on 1&1.

The K M Associates website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that KM Associates is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. You are encouraged to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information. The 1&1 / K M Associates Privacy Policy as described herein applies solely to information collected by 1&1 / K M Associates.
 

Maintenance of Information
The information provided to K M Associates is saved indefinitely and may be stored on one or more databases directly or indirectly maintained by K M Associates and we employ standard security measures to protect the confidentiality of the information. Although K M Associates cannot guarantee that any loss, misuse or alteration of data will not occur; every effort is made to prevent such occurrences.

We do not currently ask for sensitive information online such as payment details for commercial transactions, such as credit card details. Please do not send us this sort of information by email or by our website enquiry forms.

Any information provided to 1&1 is saved indefinitely and may be stored on one or more databases directly or indirectly maintained by 1&1. 1&1 employs industry standard security measures to protect the confidentiality of the information.

Although 1&1 cannot guarantee that any loss, misuse or alteration of data will not occur; every effort is made to prevent such occurrences.

 

K M Associates Colour & Trend Information
 

Business Hours

Normal opening hours:

  • Mon – Fri
    • 09:00 am – 06:00 pm
  • Sat – Sun
    • Closed

K M Associates (KMAUKprojects ltd t/a K M Associates) 
Company No. 5904510
Regulatory authority: Registered in England
Address for correspondence: 19 Heyford Road  Radlett WD7 8PP
Data Controller: Company Secretary
Contact details: CONTACT
Registered office: 5 Beaumont Gate, Shenly Hill, RADLETT Herts, WD7 7AR

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