Welcome to Akixi’s Privacy Notice.
Akixi respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your Personal Data. This privacy notice tells you how we look after your Personal Data and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
This privacy notice is organised into multiple sections so you can click-through to the specific areas set out below. Please also use the Glossary to understand the meaning of some of the terms used in this privacy notice.
Our Privacy Notice should be read in conjunction with our Terms Of Service, which is available at https://www.akixi.com/terms-of-service/. We do occasionally update this policy so please do return and review this policy from time to time.
This privacy notice aims to give you information on how Akixi collects and processes your Personal Data.
We do not knowingly collect data relating to children.
It is important that you read this privacy notice together with any other privacy notice or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing Personal Data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your Personal Data.
Data Protection Legislation as used and applied in this Privacy Notice means and is governed by the Data Protection Act 1998 and UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK-GDPR) and any national implementing laws, regulations and secondary legislation until there is any successor legislation to the UK-GDPR or the Data Protection Act 1998.
The new and amended Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA2018) took effect on January 31, 2020. The DPA2018 will no longer rely on the EU GDPR, but on the UK-GDPR instead. It will instead refer to the new domestic GDPR after Brexit, this privacy policy aligns to UK-GDPR requirements but also respect the requirements of the EU-GDPR.
Akixi Limited is the Processor and responsible for your Personal Data (collectively referred to as Akixi, Akixi Group, Akixi group of companies, “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy notice).
We have appointed Data Compliance Officers (DCO) who are responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this privacy notice. If you have any questions about this privacy notice, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact a DCO using the details set out below.
Our full details are:
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). You can contact the ICO as follows:
We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.
This version was last updated on 10th January 2023.
It is important that the Personal Data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your Personal Data changes during your relationship with us.
Our resources, services, and documentation collateral may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third-parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party resources and are not responsible for their privacy statements. We encourage you to read the privacy notice of every third-party website you visit.
Personal Data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data). We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of Personal Data about you which we have grouped together as follows:
We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your Personal Data but is not considered Personal Data in law as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your Personal Data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as Personal Data which will be used in accordance with this privacy notice.
We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.
Where we need to collect Personal Data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you with goods or services). In this case, we may have to cancel a product or service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
For Customers subscribing to Akixi’s reporting services, that organisation’s call, ACD, and other telephony activity will automatically be recorded.
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:
Refer to sub-section “Purposes For Which We Will Use Your Personal Data” to find out more about the types of lawful basis that we will rely on to process your Personal Data.
Generally we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your Personal Data other than in relation to sending direct marketing communications to you via e-mail, text message, or a postal delivery service. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us at the following e-mail address: marketing@akixi.com
We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your Personal Data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.
Note that we may process your Personal Data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please contact us if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your Personal Data where more than one ground has been set out in the table below.
| Purpose / Activity | Type Of Data | Lawful Basis For Processing Including Basis Of Legitimate Interest |
| To register you as a new Akixi telephony reporting End User. |
| Performance of a contract with you or your Telephony Services Provider. |
| To register you as a new Akixi Channel Partner (i.e. Aggregator and/or Reseller of our Akixi telephony reporting service). |
| Performance of a contract with you. |
| To respond to and engage in correspondence with you. |
| Performance of a contract with you. |
To process and deliver your order including:
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To manage our relationship with you which may include:
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| To administer and protect our business and websites (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data). |
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| To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you. |
| Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how Customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy). |
| To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, Customer relationships and experiences. |
| Necessary for our legitimate interests (to define types of Customers for our products and services, to keep our website updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy). |
We aim to provide you with choices regarding certain Personal Data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising.
We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your Personal Data with any company outside the Akixi group of companies for their own marketing purposes.
You can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you, or by contacting us at any time at the following e-mail address: marketing@akixi.com
Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to Personal Data provided to us as a result of a product/service purchase, warranty registration, product/service experience or other transactions.
A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device by our websites so that it can remember some information about your browsing activity in order to help us provide you with a better user experience. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of our websites may become inaccessible or not function properly.
Cookies are either Session or Persistent cookies, depending on how long they are stored for:
We will only use your Personal Data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us.
If we need to use your Personal Data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.
Please note that we may process your Personal Data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.
We may have to share your Personal Data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table in paragraph 4 above.
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.
We operate internationally including in some locations and/or with third-parties based outside of the UK or EEA. Whenever we transfer your Personal Data out of the UK or EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:
Please contact us if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your Personal Data out of the UK or EEA.
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your Personal Data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your Personal Data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third-parties who have a genuine business-related reason for doing so. 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 regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
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.
By law we have to keep basic information about our Customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for 7 years after they cease being Customers for tax purposes.
In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see sub-heading “Request Erasure” for further information.
In some circumstances we may 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.
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us using the details under sub-heading “Contact Details”.
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 may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
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 try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. 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.
Other companies in the Akixi Group acting as joint processors or sub-processors and who are based inside or outside the UK or EEA, providing IT, system administration, software development, and visual design services.
You have the rights to:
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, we 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: (a) if you want us to establish the data’s accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c) 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; or (d) 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.
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