This privacy policy notice is served by Pave Limited, CC415, Biscuit Factory, 100 Drummond Road, Bermondsey, SE16 4DG and under the website; paveexperience.com. The purpose of this policy is to explain to you how we use your personal information through the business and while you browse or use this website. If you do not agree to the following policy you may wish to cease viewing / using this website, and or refrain from submitting your personal data to us.
In this policy, “I”, “our”, “us”, or “we” refer to the business, Pave Limited.
In this policy, “you”, “the user” refer to the person(s) using this website.
GDPR means General Data Protection Act.
PECR means Privacy & Electronic Communications Regulation.
YICO means Information Commissioner’s Office.
“Cookies” mean small files stored on a users computer or device.
Our privacy policy embodies the following key principles of the GDPR; (a) Lawfulness, fairness and transparency, (b) Purpose limitation, (c) Data minimisation, (d) Accuracy, (e) Storage limitation, (f) Integrity and confidence, (g) Accountability.
Processing of your personal data
Under the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) we control and / or process any personal information about you electronically using the lawful bases set out in paragraph 11.
We are registered with the ICO under the Data Protection Register, our registration number is: ZA560049.
Lawful basis: Contract
Where our purpose for processing is:
We have a contract with you and we need to process your personal data to comply with our obligations under the contract such as booking logistics on the Pave Experience you have purchased.
In certain instances, for example for our Internship services, we will need to process your data prior to contracting to consider your suitability for an internship and therefore the potential of a to contract existing between us and you.
Which is necessary because: The processing is necessary for us to perform the contract with you or to consider your suitability for a place on the Pave Internship programme.
Collection of your data
Pave collects the following data:
Personal identification information (Name, email address, phone number, address etc.)
Work history (for Internships only)
Academic record (for Internships only)
Health conditions and medical information you would want us to know about in case of emergency
Next of kin and emergency contact details
Dietary requirements
Passport details
You directly provide Pave with most of the data we collect. We collect data and process data when you:
Register an account online or place an order for any of our services.
Submit an application for a Pave Internship.
Make a query on our website, via Live Chat or via Pave’s social media accounts.
Voluntarily complete a customer survey or provide feedback on any of our message boards or via email.
Use or view our website via your browser’s cookies.
Our Company may also receive your data indirectly from the following sources:
Via job boards such as Milkround, Target Jobs, Go Abroad and Go Overseas.
Via a separate travel agency
Via an organisation or university booking Pave experiences for its customers or employees.
Usage of your data
Pave collects your data so that we can:
Process your order and manage your account.
Consider your suitability and candidacy for an Internship opportunity with our Indian partner organisations.
Email you with special offers on other products and services we think you might like.
If you agree, Pave will share your data with our partner companies so that they may make your bookings for logistics and offer you their products and services.
Accommodation sites
Activities and excursions companies
Internship host organisations
When Our Company processes your order, it may send your data to, and also use the resulting information from, credit reference agencies to prevent fraudulent purchases.
Storage of your data
Our Company securely stores your data at our central management system. This is securely protected and access is only given to Pave staff who process your bookings.
Our Company will keep your personal data for 6 months after the end the Pave experience. Once this time period has expired, we will delete your data from our records unless you specifically opt to receive information on future Pave experiences and therefore keep your details on our system.
We will continue to process your information under this basis until you withdraw consent or it is determined your consent no longer exists.
We do share your personal information with third parties and they include; accommodation sites, activity and excursion companies, internship host organisations.
Change in our lawful basis and processing
If, as determined by us, the lawful basis upon which we process your personal information changes, we will notify you about the change and any new lawful basis to be used if required. We shall stop processing your personal information if the lawful basis used is no longer relevant.
the right not to be subject to automated decision-making including profiling.
You also have the right to complain to the ICO [www.ico.org.uk] if you feel there is a problem with the way we are handling your data.
We handle subject access requests in accordance with the GDPR.
Internet cookies
We use cookies on this website to provide you with a better user experience. We do this by placing a small text file on your device / computer hard drive to track how you use the website, to record or log whether you have seen particular messages that we display, to keep you logged into the website where applicable, to display relevant adverts or content, referred you to a third party website.
Some cookies are required to enjoy and use the full functionality of this website.
We use a cookie control system which allows you to accept the use of cookies, and control which cookies are saved to your device / computer. Some cookies will be saved for specific time periods, where others may last indefinitely. Your web browser should provide you with the controls to manage and delete cookies from your device, please see your web browser options.
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
We use the following Cookies:
Strictly necessary cookies: These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
Analytical/performance cookies: They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
Functionality cookies: These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
Targeting cookies: These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them by contacting us directly.
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
The following modules on the Pave website use Cookies:
WordPress core
Pure chat
Yoast SEO
Data security and protection
We ensure the security of any personal information we hold by using secure data storage technologies and precise procedures in how we store, access and manage that information. Our methods meet the GDPR compliance requirement.
Fair & Transparent Privacy Explained
We have provided some further explanations about user privacy and the way we use this website to help promote a transparent and honest user privacy methodology.
Sponsored links, affiliate tracking & commissions
Our website may contain adverts, sponsored and affiliate links on some pages. These are typically served through our advertising partners; Google Adsense, eBay Partner Network, Amazon Affiliates, or are self served through our own means. We only use trusted advertising partners who each have high standards of user privacy and security. However we do not control the actual adverts seen / displayed by our advertising partners.
Our ad partners may collect data and use cookies for ad personalisation and measurement. Where ad preferences are requested as ‘non-personalised’ cookies may still be used for frequency capping, aggregated ad reporting and to combat fraud and abuse.
Clickable sponsored or affiliate links may be displayed as a website URL or as a hyperlinked text link.
Clicking on any adverts, sponsored or affiliate links may track your actions by using a cookie saved to your device. You can read more about cookies on this website above.
Your actions are usually recorded as a referral from our website by this cookie. In most cases we earn a very small commission from the advertiser or advertising partner, at no cost to you, whether you make a purchase on their website or not.
We use advertising partners in these ways to help generate an income from the website, which allows us to continue our work and provide you with the best overall experience and valued information.
If you have any concerns about this we suggest you do not click on any adverts, sponsored or affiliate links found throughout the website.
Email marketing messages & subscription
Under the GDPR we use the consent lawful basis for anyone subscribing to our newsletter or marketing mailing list.
We only collect certain data about you, as detailed in the “Processing of your personal data” above.
Any email marketing messages we send are done so through an EMS, email marketing service provider. An EMS is a third party service provider of software / applications that allows marketers to send out email marketing campaigns to a list of users.
Email marketing messages that we send may contain tracking beacons / tracked clickable links or similar server technologies in order to track subscriber activity within email marketing messages. Where used, such marketing messages may record a range of data such as; times, dates, I.P addresses, opens, clicks, forwards, geographic and demographic data. Such data, within its limitations will show the activity each subscriber made for that email campaign.
Any email marketing messages we send are in accordance with the GDPR and the PECR. We provide you with an easy method to withdraw your consent (unsubscribe) or manage your preferences / the information we hold about you at any time. See any marketing messages for instructions on how to unsubscribe or manage your preferences, you can also unsubscribe from all MailChimp lists, by following this link, otherwise contact the EMS provider.
Our EMS provider is; MailChimp. We hold the following information about you within our EMS system;
