This privacy policy sets out how we use and protect any information that you give when you use this website, in line with the GDPR. We are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement. We may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.

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Disclosure of your data

We will not transfer any of your data to any third parties without your permission or unless indicated in this privacy policy or agreed by you on a form on the Website.

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We may disclose your personal information to third parties without obtaining further consent from you including:

• The outsource any of our business functions to our business partners, suppliers and subcontractors for the performance of any contract we enter into. For specific details of supplier and subcontractors please contact csteed46@gmail.com

 

Where we use the services of another processor we will ensure that any such service provider adheres to at least the same obligations of security with regard to your data as undertaken by us

• where we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets

• if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our Website Terms & Conditions and other agreements; or to protect our rights, property, or safety of our employees, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

 

We will never sell your data to third parties for the purposes of marketing.

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Where we store your data

It is our objective not to share data outside the EEA. However, in any circumstances where this may become necessary, it will be undertaken in full compliance with the legal requirements. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology.

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Your Rights

It is important that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and current. If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect. 

 

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under UK Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA) and the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR) in relation to your personal information. You may have the right to:

• access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with data protection law;

• object to our processing, or ask us to restrict our processing of your personal information for any of the purposes listed in this policy, at any time.

• ask us to update and correct any out-of-date or incorrect personal information that we hold about you free of charge.

• ask us to erase or delete your personal information (in certain circumstances). We will do our best to respond to such requests, but these are subject to certain limitations such as legal requirements

• Request a transfer of your personal information (in certain circumstances).

 

If you wish to exercise any of the above rights or to review, verify, correct or question anything detailed in this policy or are unhappy with any aspect of how we use your data please email csteed46@gmail.com.

 

You also 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. You can contact the Information Commissioner’s Office by telephone on 0303 123 1113, or by using the live chat service which is available through the Information Commissioner’s website www.ico.org.uk.

 

We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO, so please contact us in the first instance.

 

Marketing & Market Research

We undertake a limited range of marketing activity using the data held within our database. This includes:

• maintaining contact with our clients, prospect clients, members, associates and partners to keep them advised of news

• to share our newsletter or other promotional information

• to make use of Social media channels such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter for business promotion

• using cookies to gather statistics around email opening and clicks using industry-standard technology to help us monitor and improve the information we send out. Please see below for further details on Cookies

• promoting our services and events with case studies or videos (upon the consent of the author)

 

We may also make unsolicited approaches to new potential contacts or business clients, using prospect information held within our records or using information drawn from publicly available sources. These approaches are made in a fully compliant manner as governed by PECR (the Privacy of Electronic Communications Regulation), with the contacts being given the option to opt-out from such contact.

 

The Website may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

 

Cookies

Like most websites, we use ‘Cookies’. We may gather information about your general internet use by using a cookie file. Cookies are downloaded to your computer automatically and stored on the hard drive of your computer. They help us to improve our website and the service that we provide to you by collecting statistical data about your browsing actions and patterns; they do not identify you as an individual.

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Some of the cookies we use will need your permission, by way of ‘Consent’. This is obtained when you first visit our site but can be amended at any subsequent time. Other cookies, (usually session cookies) are essential and do not require your Consent. However, regardless of whether we need your Consent or not, we will inform you if we are using them, by including information within this Policy

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The following is a synopsis of the cookies we deploy:

 

Social Network Sharing

We encourage users to share our content and/or like our on profile on the popular Social Media websites Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google+ and LinkedIn. In order to make ‘Social Sharing’ accessible, our website utilises widgets either provided directly from the Social Networks and/or via amalgamative widgets from third parties such as AddThis. Cookies and privacy implications from the social networks vary and will be dependent on your nominated privacy settings with each Social Network. Social Sharing buttons will only deploy cookies if you are signed to that respective Social Network at the time of being on our website.

 

Analytical Tracking

Our website has Google Analytics installed which allows us to track and compile anonymous visitor statistics. The information collected ranges from simple traffic volume to the type of browser you are viewing our website with. This information is valuable to us not just for marketing analysis and quantification, but to improve the usability, security and load speed of our website content. Google Analytics is a popular, secure, flagship webmaster product from Google. The privacy and security of Google Analytics data is a high priority at Google that you can read more about on Google’s Analytics Data Safeguarding page. Google also offer a Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on that will allow you to automatically Opt-out of all websites that track your activity via Google Analytics. No personal information is collected by Google Analytics.

 

Cookie Consent Check

As mentioned above, upon your first visit our website displays a banner alerting you about cookies being deployed by our website. In order for our website to remember your choice of opting-in, we store an anonymous cookie to remove the alert banner for 28 days. To prevent this cookie being stored, simply do not accept and close the alert. If you have already accepted the alert and you wish to remove the cookie, please clear your cookies within your browser settings.

 

Enquiry Forms

Visitors can choose to contact us via enquiry form(s) on our website. In order to prevent spam enquiries, we protect our forms with a ‘CAPTCHA’ challenge to ensure the submission is from a living person, rather than a computer bot. This CAPTCHA challenge creates a cookie that is used only to check the input response from the user is correct. The CAPTCHA cookie does not store any other information from your enquiry.

 

Google Maps/Places

Our website may have our Google Maps/Places profile embedded within an iframe. Google Maps creates cookies that enable the functionality of its mapping software. No personal information is stored or shared on the cookies deployed by Google Maps/Places

 

Actual Cookies Deployed

Below is a table of information which lists all cookies deployed and used on our website.

 

Google

_utma, _ga, _gat – A Google Analytics cookie, which keeps track of the number of times, a visitor has been to the site, when their first visit was, and when their last visit occurred.
_utmb – A Google Analytics cookie, which creates a timestamp of the exact moment when a visitor enters a site.
_utmc – A Google Analytics cookie, which creates a timestamp of the exact moment when a visitor leaves the site.
_utmv – Used for reporting in Google Analytics classifying the visitor.
_utmz – A Google Analytics cookie which tracks where the visitor came from, what search engine was used, what link was clicked on, what keywords used, and where in the world the site was accessed from.
PREF, NID – This cookie is set by Google Maps when you load a map of our location

 

How to disable cookies

Most modern browsers allow you to control your cookie settings for all websites that you browse. You can disable cookie deployment completely by editing your browser settings, however, in doing this you may be limiting the functionality that is displayed on our website. To learn how to disable cookies on your preferred browser we recommend reading this advice posted by Google.

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If you are concerned about cookies tracking your movements on the Internet then you may be concerned about spyware. Spyware is the name given to a particular band of cookies that track personal information about you. There are many anti-spyware programs that you can use to prevent this from happening. Learn more about anti-spyware software – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyware. As mentioned earlier in this page you call also disable Google Analytics on all websites by downloading the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

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Changes to this privacy policy

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page. By continuing to use our Website you will be deemed to have accepted such changes.

 

Contact

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to csteed46@gmail.com

 

Last modified: 9 October 2022

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