Privacy and cookies policy
1. Introduction
1.1 We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors and users of PoliceMP FiveM server(s).
1.2 This policy applies where we are acting as a data controller with respect to the personal data of such persons; in other words, where we determine the purposes and means of the processing of that personal data.
1.3 Our website incorporates privacy controls which affect how we will process your personal data. By using the privacy controls, you can specify whether you would like to receive direct marketing communications and limit the collection, sharing and publication of your personal data. You can access the privacy controls via preferences (https://forum.policemp.com/index.php?account/preferences) and privacy (https://forum.policemp.com/index.php?account/privacy) sections.
1.4 In this policy, "we", "us" and "our" refer to PoliceMP.
1.5 In this policy, "website” refer to policemp.com , forum.policemp.com and lms.policemp.com
2. The personal data that we collect
2.1 In this Section 2 we have set out the general categories of personal data that we process.
2.2 We may process your website user account data ("account data"). The account data may include your account identifier, name, email address, location, birthday, IP address, Discord User ID, account creation and modification dates, website settings and marketing preferences. The primary source of the account data is you registering as a member of our website and you fill out fields on your profile. Although some elements of the account data may be generated by our website. If you log into our website using a Discord account, we will obtain elements of the account data from the relevant software provider.
2.3 We may process your FiveM user account data ("FiveM account data"). The FiveM account data may include account identifier, Discord User ID, Steam User ID and your IP Address. The source of the FiveM account data is you connecting to any of our FiveM server(s).
2.4 We may process information contained in or relating to any communication that you send to us or that we send to you ("communication data"). The communication data may include the communication content and metadata associated with the communication. Our website will generate the metadata associated with communications made using the website contact forms.
2.5 We may process data about your use of our website and services ("usage data"). The usage data may include your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths, as well as information about the timing, frequency, and pattern of your service use. The source of the usage data is our analytics tracking system.
2.6 Any data which you shall provide us with as part of a support request.
2.7 Please do not supply any other person's personal data to us, unless we prompt you to do so.
3. Purposes of processing and legal bases
3.1 In this Section 3, we have set out the purposes for which we may process personal data and the legal bases of the processing.
3.2 Operations - We may process your personal data for the purposes of operating our website and providing our services. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and services.
3.3 Relationships and communications - We may process account data and/or communication data for the purposes of managing our relationships, communicating with you (excluding communicating for the purposes of direct marketing) by email, providing support services and complaint handling. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely communications with our website visitors and service users, the maintenance of relationships, and the proper administration of our services.
3.4 Direct marketing - We may process account data for the purposes of creating, targeting, and sending direct marketing communications by email. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely promoting our services and communicating marketing messages to our website visitors and service users.
3.5 Record keeping - We may process your personal data for the purposes of creating and maintaining our databases, back-up copies of our databases and our records generally. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely ensuring that we have access to all the information we need to properly and efficiently run our services in accordance with this policy.
3.6 Security - We may process your personal data] for the purposes of security and the prevention of fraud and other criminal activity. The legal basis of this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the protection of our website, services and business, and the protection of others.
3.7 Legal claims - We may process your personal data where necessary for [the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the protection and assertion of our legal rights, your legal rights and the legal rights of others.
3.8 Legal compliance and vital interests - We may also process your personal data where such processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.
4. Providing your personal data to others
4.1 We may disclose your personal data to our professional advisers insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes of managing risks, obtaining professional advice.
4.2 In addition to the specific disclosures of personal data set out in this Section 4, we may disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person. We may also disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.
5. International transfers of your personal data
5.1 In this Section 5, we provide information about the circumstances in which your personal data may be transferred to a third country under UK and/or EU data protection law.
5.2 We may transfer your personal data from the European Economic Area (EEA) to the UK and process that personal data in the UK for the purposes set out in this policy, during any period with respect to which the UK is not treated as a third country under EU data protection law or benefits from an adequacy decision under EU data protection law; and we may transfer your personal data from the UK to the EEA and process that personal data in the EEA for the purposes set out in this policy, during any period with respect to which EEA states are not treated as third countries under UK data protection law or benefit from adequacy regulations under UK data protection law.
5.3 The hosting facilities for our FiveM server are situated in France, whilst our website is hosted in the UK and France.
5.4 You acknowledge that personal data that you submit for publication through our website may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use (or misuse) of such personal data by others.
6. Retaining and deleting personal data
6.1 This Section 6 sets out our data retention policies and procedures, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal data.
6.2 Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
6.3 Any data related to support tickets/requests raised through Discord will be retained for a period of 6 months for the purposes defined above. The data will be removed automatically through a retention policy.
6.4 Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 7, we may retain your personal data where such retention is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.
7. Your rights
7.1 In this Section 7, we have listed the rights that you have under data protection law.
7.2 Your principal rights under data protection law are:
(a) the right to access - you can ask for copies of your personal data;
(b) the right to rectification - you can ask us to rectify inaccurate personal data and to complete incomplete personal data;
(c) the right to erasure - you can ask us to erase your personal data;
(d) the right to restrict processing - you can ask us to restrict the processing of your personal data;
(e) the right to object to processing - you can object to the processing of your personal data;
(f) the right to data portability - you can ask that we transfer your personal data to another organisation or to you;
(g) the right to complain to a supervisory authority - you can complain about our processing of your personal data; and
(h) the right to withdraw consent - to the extent that the legal basis of our processing of your personal data is consent, you can withdraw that consent.
7.3 These rights are subject to certain limitations and exceptions. You can learn more about the rights of data subjects by visiting https://edpb.europa.eu/our-work-tools/general-guidance/gdpr-guidelines-recommendations-best-practices_en and https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protection/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/individual-rights/.
7.4 You may exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal data by written notice to us, via email to [email protected]
8. 3rd Party Processors
8.1 To provide you with our services, we may also provide your data to service providers acting on our behalf (data processors). If you do not consent to your data being shared with these data processors, please do not use our website, forum or any of our services.
8.2 We use the following service providers:
a) OVH Cloud (Personal Data Protection)
b) Amazon Web Services (Privacy Policy)
c) Google (Privacy Policy)
d) Cloudflare (Privacy Policy)
e) Microsoft (Privacy Policy)
8.3 Whilst using our services, you may also register with 3rd parties such as Discord or Tebex. In such cases, both Discord Netherlands BV and Tebex Limited are the data controllers of your data respectively. By using our services, you agree to the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policies of the 3rd parties.
9. Personal data of children
9.1 Our website and services are targeted at persons over the age of 13.
9.2 If we have reason to believe that we hold personal data of a person under that age in our databases, we will delete that personal data.
10. Updating information
10.1 Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
11. About cookies
11.1 A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.
11.2 Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.
11.3 Cookies may not contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal data that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
12. Cookies that we use
12.1 We use cookies for the following purposes:
(a) authentication and status - we use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website, and to determine if you are logged into the website cookies used for this purpose are: xf_session and xf_user; and
(b) security - we use cookies as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website and services generally cookies used for this purpose are: xf_csrf; and
(c) analysis - we use cookies to help us to analyse the use and performance of our website and services cookies used for this purpose are: _ga, _gid, _ga_<container-id>.
13. Cookies used by our service providers
13.1 Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website.
13.2 We use Google Analytics. Google Analytics gathers information about the use of our website by means of cookies. The information gathered is used to create reports about the use of our website. You can find out more about Google's use of information by visiting https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ and you can review Google's privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy.
14. Managing cookies
14.1 Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:
(a) https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647 (Chrome);
(b) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-protection-firefox-desktop (Firefox);
(c) https://help.opera.com/en/latest/security-and-privacy/ (Opera);
(d) https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer);
(e) https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac (Safari); and
(f) https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/4468242/microsoft-edge-browsing-data-and-privacy (Edge).
14.2 Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.
14.3 If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.
15. Amendments
15.1 We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.
15.2 You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.
16. Our details
16.1 This website is owned and operated by PMP Developments Ltd.
16.2 PMP Developments Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales - 71-75, Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, United Kingdom, WC2H 9JQ.
16.3 You can contact us:
(a) by email, using [email protected]