If you have any concerns or would like to make a complaint about our processing of your personal data, you may do so via your local data protection authority directly (in the UK this is the ICO contactable at https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/) however we would encourage you to contact us on the details above in the first instance as we aim to promptly and satisfactorily resolve any concerns or complaints you may have in relation to our processing of your personal data.

This privacy notice may be updated from time to time so you may wish to check this page from time to time to ensure that you understand how your personal data will be used and to see any minor updates. If material changes are made to this privacy notice, we will provide a more prominent notice. This notice is effective from 21 June 2024.

Starlinks processes personal data of clients and consignees globally and is subject to the different data protection laws and regulations that are in place in each territory, in addition to the UK GDPR. Where there is a conflict between the local law and regulations in a territory and the UK GDPR, Starlinks will always uphold the most stringent standard so that data subjects receive the best protection and most favourable rights.

- KSA citizens
For citizens of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (“KSA”), we have included an addendum at the end of this privacy policy which covers the requirements of the Personal Data Protection Law and the Implementing Regulation.

We collect personal information from our clients and consignees in the following ways:
• following requests or instructions to complete deliveries;
• use of our services and website;
• contact made with us for any reason including any enquiries or complaints;
• completed forms and receipts (including proof of delivery receipts);
• completed customer satisfaction surveys;
• reviews left on third party websites;
• information entered or submitted via the Starlinks website;
• for entrance to Starlinks’ sites.

We may collect, use, store and transfer different types of personal data. This includes information provided from our clients and consignees and information we create when providing the services. Our services and website are not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.For more details on the personal data we process, and how this data is collected or obtained, please see the table below

We use the information that we collect for a number of different purposes in order to:

a) provide our logistics services to our clients and to improve that service;
b) process orders and to provide after sales services;
c) enhance or improve consignees' experience of our services via customer satisfaction surveys or reviews on third party websites;
d) analyse consignees’ delivery preferences or how they interact with or use our websites and applications;
e) record and monitor outbound and inbound telephone conversations to ensure consistent service levels, prevent or detect fraud, resolve queries and complaints and for performance management and training purposes; and
f) undertake research for analytical and statistical purposes.

Subject to applicable laws, we use your personal data in the following circumstances:
•Contract: the processing is necessary for a contract or agreement with you;
•Legal Obligation: the processing is necessary to comply with the law; or
•Legitimate Interests: the processing is necessary for legitimate interests pursued by Starlinks or another party providing that your fundamental rights do not override such interests.

The purposes for which we process personal data and the legal bases for doing so in each case can be seen in the table at the bottom of this webpage

Our employees, contractors or agents may access information:
• to provide delivery of goods to consignees, or management of a service;
• to process, deal or respond to any enquiry, complaint or other contact you have made with us;
• to contact you regarding reviews left on third party websites;
• to evaluate customer satisfaction surveys and reviews and improve service delivery; and
• for troubleshooting and maintenance purposes.

Our Clients:
We share consignee personal data with our clients for the purposes of providing services to them, for example the provision of proof of delivery and status of delivery information for items we are delivering to consignees on their behalf.

Other Third Parties:
We use data processors who are third parties providing elements of services for us, these may be our partners who we sub-contract parts of the services to, our suppliers or other parties related to the services. We have contracts in place with our data processors. This means that they cannot do anything with your personal information unless we have instructed them to do it. They will not share your personal information with any organisation apart from us. They will hold it securely and retain it for the period we instruct.

We may share your data with other third parties (including the police, law enforcement agencies, credit reference and fraud prevention agencies and other bodies) to protect our or another person’s rights, property, or safety, in connection with the prevention and detection of crime.

In some circumstances we are legally obliged to share information. For example, under a court order or where we cooperate with a regulator undertaking an investigation into complaints or criminal conduct. We might also share information with other regulatory bodies in order to further their, or our, objectives. In any scenario, we’ll satisfy ourselves that we have a lawful basis on which to share the information and document our decision making and satisfy ourselves we have a legal basis on which to share the information.

We may transfer your personal data to the following third parties:
• Logistics and warehousing sub-contractors – our partners who may transport or store goods on our behalf;
• Processing and export partners – our partners who facilitate customs clearance when exporting and importing goods;
• Technology service providers – our partners who provide IT, applications and website services including tracking services and parcel processing software;
• Verification service providers – our partners who provide address verification and address location data to improve the speed and accuracy of our delivery service;
• Customer service providers – our partners who work with us to administer your delivery and provide you with any help you may need;
• Telephony providers – our partners who provide telephone services and functionality;
• Regulators, lawyers, courts and or other governmental agencies or law enforcement agencies. Starlinks may be required to disclose certain personal information because it is required to by law or for the purposes of legal proceedings.
• Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer or merge parts of our business or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy notice.We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law.

Transfer of Information

We are a UK based business with data centres in Europe. We operate globally; our clients and consignees are based all over the world. To provide the services, we will often be transferring the data that we collect from you to third parties and partners who are located in a different country (this may be outside the EEA and/or United Kingdom) for support, processing or maintenance of the purposes. Any such transfer of information will only be in connection with the services that Starlinks provides and for a purpose that is stated in this privacy policy. Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA and/or the United Kingdom, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:
• we will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the European Commission (in the case of transfers out of the EEA) or the United Kingdom Government (in the case of transfers out of the United Kingdom); and/or
• where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved by the European Commission (in the case of transfers out of the EEA) and/or the United Kingdom Government (in the case of transfers out of the United Kingdom), in both cases which give personal data the same protection it has within the EEA and/or United Kingdom as applicable.

We send commercial e-mails to individuals at our clients or other companies with whom we want to develop or maintain a business relationship in accordance with applicable laws. Individuals at our clients can opt out of receiving marketing emails at any time by using the contact details at the end of this notice.

We do not conduct any form of direct marketing targeted at consignees and we will not share personal data with any third parties for the purposes of direct marketing.

Taking into account the state of the art, the costs of implementation and the nature, scope, context and purposes of processing as well as the risk of varying likelihood and severity for the rights and freedoms of natural persons, we implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk of processing, including:

• the pseudonymisation and encryption of personal data;
• the ability to ensure the ongoing confidentiality, integrity, availability and resilience of processing systems and services;
• the ability to restore the availability and access to personal data in a timely manner in the event of a physical or technical incident; and
• a process for regularly testing, assessing and evaluating the effectiveness of technical and organisational measures for ensuring the security of the processing.

We ensure that those who have permanent or regular access to personal data, or that are involved in the processing of personal data, or in the development of tools used to process personal data, are trained and informed of their rights and responsibilities in when processing personal data.

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 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.

We will hold your personal information securely for as long as is necessary to provide our services. Once the services are completed, we will determine how long to retain the different types of information about you based on our Retention Policy and the following requirements:

• How long the information is needed for the specific purpose or purposes it is used for;
• Legal and regulatory requirements – For example, if Starlinks is required to retain client and or consignee records for an additional period of time in order to comply with a legal (including regulatory) requirement; and
• To maintain records in the event of any potential or actual legal claims or regulatory investigations.

In the case of consignees, to prove export of the goods, we will need to hold your personal information for 7 years pursuant to legal requirements.
In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see ‘What are your legal rights’ below for further information.

In some circumstances we will 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.

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

• 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 and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
• 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 or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove 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 local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
• Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, Starlinks may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.•
Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios:

o If you want us to establish the data's accuracy.
o Where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it.
o Where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
o 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 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 automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
• Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.
• Right not to be subject to automated decisions where the decision produces a legal effect or a similarly significant effect on you.
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us on the contact details above.

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 could 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 it 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 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.

If you wish to exercise any of your legal rights, please contact us on the details above.

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