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This privacy supplement gives some additional information specific to Secure Net and the accompanying App. Secure Net is a security product that provides additional protection when browsing on our mobile network. For general information about how we process your data as part of providing mobile connectivity, view our main privacy policy
Last updated: 21 May 2018
We are Vodafone Limited, a member of the Vodafone Group.
In this privacy policy:
Our registered office is Vodafone House, The Connection Newbury, Berkshire RG14 2FN. We are registered in England under company number 1471587. Vodafone Limited is registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), registration number Z1933885.
Our main switchboard is +44(0)1635 33251 or you can email us at data.protection@vodafone.com
Your opinion matters to us – if you have any questions about our privacy policy, you can email us at: data.protection@vodafone.com or you can write to our privacy team at:
Vodafone Privacy Team
Faraday House
The Connection
Newbury
RG14 2FN
England
The types of information we process about you and any devices you register with the service when you use Secure Net and the accompanying App are:
We collect your personal information when:
Secure Net is an optional service, which you can deactivate at any time. To do so, you can navigate to the Secure Net portal at this link or via the link sent to you in your welcome text message or alternatively, you can contact our Customer Services team by calling 191 free from your Vodafone mobile.
In order for us to protect you from security threats, we view the content of your communications in order to do so. We do not use this information for marketing or personalised profiling and it is retained for a limited period of time.
Our threat monitoring is based on profiling and automated decisions; for example, websites we block at based on the intelligence we have gathered. You can, however, go into your portal or App and view why something has been blocked (for example, if it was malicious or contained malware).
Where applicable, we share information about you with:
We do not transfer data outside of the EEA without adequate safeguards; data is stored in our data centres in Germany and Ireland.
We keep a limited record of your browsing history for service and customer care purposes only. Vodafone does not repurpose your browsing for the purposes of marketing or personalised profiling.
We have specialised security teams who constantly review and improve our measures to protect your personal information from unauthorised access, accidental loss, disclosure or destruction.
Communications over the internet (such as emails) aren’t secure unless they’ve been encrypted. Your communications may go through a number of countries before being delivered, as this is the nature of the internet.
We cannot accept responsibility for any unauthorised access or loss of personal information that is beyond our control.
We’ll never ask for your secure personal or account information by an unsolicited means of communication. You’re responsible for keeping your personal and account information secure and not sharing it with others.
Our website may provide links to third-party websites. We cannot be responsible for the security and content of such third-party websites. So make sure you read that company’s privacy and cookies policies before using or putting your personal information on their site.
The same applies to any third-party websites or content you connect to using our products and services.
You may choose to disclose your information in certain ways such as social plug-ins (including those offered by Google, Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest) or using third-party services that allow you to post reviews or other information publicly, and a third party could use that information.
Social plug-ins and social applications are operated by the social network themselves and are subject to their own terms of use and privacy and cookies policies. You should make sure you’re familiar with these.
Below we set out details on how you can exercise your rights. If you have a question or cannot find the answer, please contact our Customer Services team by calling 191 free from your Vodafone mobile.
You have the right to have information held about you corrected if it is not accurate. If what we hold on you needs updating, or you think it may be inaccurate, you can log in to My Vodafone to update it or contact our Customer Services team.
You have the right to make a request for a copy of the personal data that Vodafone holds about you. To make this request as an individual or an authorised third party, visit our form [PDF:1.37MB], which gives details on how to do this. Alternatively, you can contact our Customer Services team.
You have the right to be able to take with you the personal data you provided to us in certain circumstances.
We provide you with a view of the data we are processing via the Secure Net portal.
Vodafone ensures that you can take your data with you by allowing you to download your monthly bills, at the click of a button. In order to do this, log in to My Vodafone and go to your billing area.
You have the right, in certain circumstances, to object to Vodafone processing your personal information. Please use our privacy query form and a member of our dedicated team will respond to you. Alternatively, you can contact our Customer Services team.
If you want to contact us about any of your rights or complain about how we use your information, please use our privacy query form and a member of our dedicated team will respond to you. Alternatively, you can contact our Customer Services team - we’ll do our best to help but if you’re still unhappy, you can contact the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). Their website www.ico.org.uk has details on how to contact the ICO
If you feel data we hold on you is inaccurate, or you believe we shouldn’t be processing your data, please contact our Customer Services team to discuss your rights. In certain circumstances you will have the right to ask us to restrict processing.
Vodafone strives to only process and retain your data for as long as we need to. In certain circumstances you have the right to request that we erase personal data of yours that we hold. If you feel that we are retaining your data longer than we need, it is worth first checking that your contract with Vodafone has been terminated, which you can do with Customer Services. If your contract with Vodafone has been terminated, we may still have lawful grounds to process your personal data. For more information on retention periods, see our privacy policy
Cookies are tiny text files that are stored on your computer, tablet or mobile phone when you visit a website. The cookies mean that the website will remember you and how you've used the site every time you come back.
Cookies themselves don't hold personal information such as your name or bank details. And in many cases, we won’t be able to link the information we collect by using a cookie back to you. They can, however, help us to find information once you're logged in or help us link your browsing information to you and your personal information, for example, when you choose to register for a service, white paper or newsletter.
First party cookies originate from the same domain as the website you’re currently visiting.
Cookie | Meaning of the cookie | Domain | Duration |
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SESSION | Used to track a session ID to allow user to stay logged in. | .vodafone.com | Session |
L | User’s preferred language is stored in this cookie. | .vodafone.com | Session |
backButtonURL | Used to manage back button functionality storing proper link to last visited site in Secure Net portal. | .vodafone.com | Session |
VF-UUID | Used to track interactions between user and Secure Net portal. | .vodafone.com | Session |
recall | Used to remember last user logged in to Secure Net portal. | .vodafone.com | 30 Days |
IDP | This cookie is used to store a session ID to keep user logged in to Secure Net portal. | .vodafone.com | Session |
JSESSIONID | Used to identify customer's session after user got authenticated and identified. | .vodafone.co.uk | Until users starts new session |
vdf_openid_uk | While Vodafone is authenticating a user of its service, this cookie is set. It is used to identify the user during authentication process. | .vodafone.co.uk | Until users starts new session |
vdf_ulff_ula_uk | An ID is stored that supports Vodafone to identify users in case of troubleshooting should become necessary. | .vodafone.co.uk | Until users starts new session |
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