Go Taxi Hire Limited Privacy Policy
Last Updated: Monday, 30th March 2020 by R Chandler
Go2 (”We”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This policy (together with our Website Terms of Use (http://www.go2now.co.uk/?page_id=2) and any other documents referred to in it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. By visiting www.go2now.co.uk or providing your information in the circumstances described below, you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy.
For the purpose of Data Protection Legislation, the data controller is Go Coach Hire Limited, Block 10, Vestry Trading Estate, Vestry Road, Otford, Kent TN14 5EL.
What personal data do we collect?
Information provided by you.
You may give us information about you by filling in forms on our site www.go2now.co.uk, by filling in forms on our parent site www.go-coach.co.uk, within the app “Go2” or corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise. This includes information you provide when you register to use our sites, download our app, subscribe to our services, purchase tickets, register to receive email updates, register with us to use our vehicle wi-fi service, enter a competition, promotion or survey and when you report a problem with our sites or make a complaint.
The information you give us may include, but is not limited to:
- your name
- e-mail address
- phone number
- credit/debit card information
Information we collect about you.
Each of your visits to our sites or when you register to use our on-bus wi-fi services we may automatically collect the following information:
- Geographical location, IP or MAC address or details regarding your use of your mobile device or PC (specifically when launch and use the Go2 app, or you register to use our on-bus wi-fi service).
- Technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform.
Information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our sites (including date and time); products you viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page and any phone number used to call our customer service number.
Information we receive from other sources.
We may receive information about you if you use any of the other websites we operate or the other services we provide. We are also working closely with third parties (including, for example, business partners, sub-contractors in technical, payment and delivery services, advertising networks, analytics providers, search information providers, credit reference agencies) and may receive information about you from them.
Sensitive personal data.
We will not intentionally or systematically seek to collect, store or otherwise use information about you classed as ‘special categories of data’ or ‘sensitive data’ (for example, information relating to any trade union membership, ethnic origin or health).
Cookies
Our site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our site. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our site and also allows us to improve our sites. For detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them see our Cookie policy click here.
How do we use your personal data and what is the legal basis for such processing?
The collection of the personal data described above is usually mandatory and, if such personal data is not provided, we will not be able to provide the information, products and services to you. Where the collection of any personal data is not mandatory, we will inform you of this prior to collection, as well as the consequences of failing to provide the relevant personal data.
Our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described above will depend on the personal information concerned and the specific context in which we collect it.
However, we will normally process your personal information only:
- where we have your consent to do so;
- where the processing is necessary to perform our contract with you; or
- where the processing is in our legitimate interests or those of a third party and such interests are not overridden by your data protection interests or fundamental rights and freedoms; and
- where we have a legal obligation to process your personal information.
Information provided by you. We use your personal information as follows:
| Purpose of processing | Legal basis for processing |
| For purchase in app for rides or passes | Performance of a contract |
| In app messages regarding your journey | Performance of a contract |
| Marketing relating to Go2 | Consent |
| For contact purposes | Performance of a contract |
Information we collect about you. We use your personal information as follows:
| Purpose of processing | Legal basis for processing |
| • Provision of Services • Customer service • Internal operations (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes) • Improve service functionality and efficiency • Prevention of fraud/ integrity of systems and manage accounts • To optimise and personalise your experience of the Services | • Necessary for the purposes of our contract so we can arrange for Rides and payment and in our legitimate interests in understanding and improving our technology and Services. • For analysis and report generation purposes (including developing new features, support service improvements on payments, pricing, routing, algorithmic dispatching efficiencies, for quality of Service review and fraud detection). |
| • Provision of Services • Internal operations (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes) • For analysis and report generation purposes (including developing new features, support service improvements on payments, pricing, routing, algorithmic dispatching efficiencies, for quality of Service review and fraud detection) • Improve service functionality and efficiency • Prevention of fraud/integrity of systems and manage accounts. | • Our legitimate interests |
| • To optimize and personalize the user experience on the App • In relation to passengers, customer service | • Our legitimate interests |
| Provision of Services • Internal operations (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes) • Improve service functionality and efficiency • Prevention of fraud/ integrity of systems and manage accounts • To optimise and personalise the user experience on the App • In relation to, Customer service | • Necessary for the purpose of the contract between us |
Information we receive from other sources.
We may combine this information with information you give to us and information we collect about you. We may use this information and the combined information for the purposes set out above (depending on the types of information we receive).
If you have questions about or need further information concerning the legal basis on which we collect and use your personal information, please contact us using the contact details provided under the “Questions about this Privacy Notice” heading below.
Sharing Your Information
We may disclose your personal data to the following categories of recipient for the purposes described in this Privacy Notice:
- VIA our technology provider to enable you to use the Go2 app in the most seamless way possible
- Braintree payment services for the processing of fares for credit and debit purposes
- Via analytics through Tableau to understand ride data and build anonymised reporting for statistical purposes.
We may also disclose your personal data to any competent law enforcement body, regulator, government agency or other third party where we believe disclosure is necessary:
- as a matter of applicable law or regulation
- to exercise, establish or defend or legal rights; or
- to protect your vital interests or those of any other person
We may also transfer your personal data to a buyer or potential buyer (and its agents and advisers) in connection with any reorganisation, restructuring, merger or sale, or other transferring of assets provided that we inform any receiving party it must use your personal information only for the purposes disclosed in this Privacy Notice.
Finally, we may disclose your data to any other person to whom you request us to make disclosure or if you consent to such disclosure.
Data Retention
We will not retain your personal data for longer than is necessary to fulfil the purposes for which we collected that personal information, unless the law permits or requires that we retain it for longer.
The table below explains in more detail how long Go Coach Hire Limited will store different types of information for:
| Passenger Information | |
| Passenger details given within App: (i) Passengers requested rides/finished rides/cancelled rides. (ii) Current passengers (iii) Lapsed passengers | All rider information is kept for 6 years unless a request is made to remove the data from the database. If the passenger services if commissioned data will be passed to the incoming provider should that be required under the service commission. |
| Passenger data | For the duration of the passenger’s registration with the Customer and then for a period of 6 years following the end of the year in which the passenger last purchased the Customer’s services. After a six-year period we will anonymise data and use only positioning data for statistical analysis and research purposes. |
| Passenger consents to Customer terms and conditions | For the duration of the processing of the Personal Data and up to 6 years thereafter. |
| Passenger service enquiries | 3 years |
| Statistical reports/marketing data | Six (6) years |
| Register of complaints | Review after 10 years |
| Correspondence and papers including emails | Review after 6 years (or 10 years if the documents relate to a complaint or investigation) |
Information Security
We apply appropriate administrative, technical and organisational security measures to protect your personal data that is under our control from unauthorised access, collection, use, disclosure, copying, modification or disposal. All information you provide to us is stored on secure servers. We are part of Go Coach Hire Limited, which trains its employees regarding our data privacy policies and procedures and permit authorised employees to access personal data on a need to know basis, as required for their role. We also take steps to ensure that any service provider that we engage to process personal data on our behalf takes appropriate technical and organisational measures to safeguard such personal data.
Transferring Information Internationally
Your personal information may be transferred to, and processed in, countries other than the country in which you are resident. These countries may have data protection laws that are different to the laws of your country (and in some cases, may not be as protective).
Specifically, we may use third party service providers located in the United States. This means that, when we collect your personal information, it may be processed in these countries. However, we have taken appropriate safeguards to require that your personal data will remain protected in accordance with this Privacy Notice. These safeguards include implementing the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses for transfers of personal information to our third-party service providers and further details can be provided upon request.
Updates to this Privacy Notice
We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time in response to changing legal, technical or business developments. When we update our Privacy Notice, we will take appropriate measures to inform you, consistent with the significance of the changes we make. We will obtain your consent to any material Privacy Notice changes if and where this is required by applicable data protection laws.
You can see when this Privacy Notice was last updated by checking the “last updated” date displayed at the top of this Privacy Notice.
Your Data Protection Rights
You have the following data protection rights:
- If you wish to access, correct, update or request deletion of your personal information, you can do so at any time by contacting us at any time at enquiries@go2now.co.uk.
- In addition, you can object to the processing of your personal information, ask us to restrict processing of your personal information or request portability of your personal information. Again, you can exercise these rights by contacting us at enquiries@go2now.co.uk.
- If we have collected and processed your personal information with your consent, then you can withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
We respond to all requests we receive from individuals wishing to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
Questions about this Privacy Notice
If you have any question, concerns or complaints about this Privacy notice or our handling of your personal data, you can contact us by email on enquiries@go2now.co.uk or by post to the following address:
Go Taxi Hire Limited
Block 10
Vestry Trading Estate, Vestry Road
Otford, Kent (TN14 5EL)
You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your personal information. If you are based in the European Economic Area, please contact your local data protection authority.
The controller of your personal data is Go Coach Hire Limited.