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Prospects and Visitors
Our privacy practices for people who visit our website or who work for companies that might be a good fit for our services
Who is GoCardless?
GoCardless provides the technology and other services that help merchants around the world process payments for their goods or services.
If you have a question about how we handle your personal data, you can reach us at:
GoCardless Ltd., Sutton Yard, 65 Goswell Road, London EC1V 7EN, United Kingdom
Our marketing and your choices
Like many businesses that sell to other companies, we have a legitimate interest in engaging in sales, marketing and lead generation activities. We respect your right to opt out of these activities, which you can do at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” link in one of our emails or asking a GoCardless caller to take you off our lists. You can ask us at any time not to carry out profiling for direct marketing, or to stop using profiling and marketing cookies, using our cookie preference tool.
Where did we get your email address?
If you didn’t provide it to us yourself by requesting content or registering for an event, we may have found it online or purchased it as part of a lawfully acquired list. We might have just found your name and used the services of an email verification tool, or we may have guessed it from the normal email style of your company. Wherever it came from, you can tell us not to contact you again using the unsubscribe link in the footer of the email you received or by contacting support at any time.
How do we collect and use personal data?
So that we can sell our services and grow our business, we identify and communicate with companies that might be a good fit for our services. In addition to providing you with the content or service you request, we collect and use personal data to:
Market our services to you - We send marketing emails and campaigns - We make sales calls - We purchase targeted online advertising - We measure which campaigns lead to the most sign-ups | Understand and improve our services - We gather website analytics and track email open rates - We observe and test the effectiveness of our content and website (sometimes by recording browser sessions - read more about Full Story here) |
Here is more detail about how and why we engage in these activities:
Reason for processing | Type of personal data we use |
Providing you with our content and services We operate our website, share white papers and guides, and host webinars and live events. | Identification, contact, company, interaction, connection We use strictly necessary or functional cookies for these activities. |
Identifying prospective customers We try to identify the companies who are most likely to use our services and the contact details of employees of those companies who make those kinds of decisions. We may purchase data from third parties like list brokers, or our internal sales teams may research the data. We monitor suppliers and our sales teams to ensure that they use appropriate sources, for example, the data you share on LinkedIn or that appears in public news sources. | Identification, contact, company, preferences |
Webforms and online chat tools When you fill in a webform or interact with our online chat tool because you want to get in touch with us, download a GoCardless white paper, or participate in an event, we use the information you share as a way to assess if you are a potential customer and to contact you if we think you might be interested in our services. | Identification, contact, company, interaction, connection We use functional cookies for these activities. |
Targeted marketing We try to identify and communicate online with people from companies who might be a good fit for our services, through practices like retargeting, account-based marketing, and social media lookalikes. When someone visits our website, we check the IP address they came from, and we try to match it to a company. Cookies and services from a company that offers account-based marketing help us do this. We might use what we learn this way to tailor the content you see on our website. For example, if you work for a company in a certain industry, we may show you content about how we can help solve payment problems for that industry. After you leave our website, we may purchase online advertising that is shown to you on other sites you visit. We might tailor this retargeted advertising to you based on the way you interacted with our website (for example, which pages you visited). We use tools from social media companies like Facebook and LinkedIn, who analyse lists we share with them of the kinds of customers we’d like to market to, to help us show GoCardless online marketing to their users with similar interests or profiles. Where we’ve identified you as a likely customer, you may be part of an online or email marketing campaign targeted to decision-makers at your company. | Identification, contact, company, interaction, connection, preferences We use advertising cookies for these activities. |
Analytics and A/B testing We use cookies and other online tools to understand how visitors use our site and services, to analyse how effective they are, and to test how people might respond to changes to our site and services. | Interaction, connection We use analytics cookies for these activities. |
Marketing attribution We measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns by trying to connect a merchant’s activity to the marketing campaign that reached them. | Identification, contact, company, interaction, connection We use advertising cookies for these activities. |
What personal data do we use?
If you have a question or a problem
You can contact our privacy team to ask a question or exercise your rights or choices about our privacy practices.
If we can’t resolve your concerns, you may have the right to complain to a data protection authority or other regulator where you live or work, or where you believe a breach may have occurred.
The legal details
If you'd like to read more about our data protection compliance and the disclosures we're required to make by law, click here.
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Seen 'GoCardless LTD' on your bank statement? Learn more
GoCardless Ltd., Sutton Yard, 65 Goswell Road, London, EC1V 7EN, United Kingdom
GoCardless (company registration number 07495895) is authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority under the Payment Services Regulations 2017, registration number 597190, for the provision of payment services.
