Introduction
- • The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us, and we are committed to safeguarding it. This policy explains what we will do with your personal information.
- • Consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our website permits us to use cookies every time you visit our website.
Collecting personal information
- • information about your computer including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, and operating system;
- • information about your visits to and use of this website including the referral source, length of visit, page views, and website navigation paths;
- • information, such as your name and email address, that you enter in order to contact us;
- • information that is generated while using our website, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it;
- • information contained in any communications that you send to us by email or through our website, including its communication content and metadata;
- • any other personal information that you send to us.
Using your personal information
Personal information submitted to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information for the following:
- • administering our website and business;
- • personalising our website for you;
- • sending statements, invoices, and payment reminders to you, and collecting payments from you;
- • sending you non-marketing commercial communications;
- • sending you email notifications that you have specifically requested;
- • sending you marketing communications relating to our business which we think may be of interest to you, by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications);
- • dealing with inquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website;
- • keeping our website secure and prevent fraud;
Disclosing personal information
We may disclose your personal information to our employees, insurers, professional advisers, or subcontractors as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
We may disclose your personal information:
- • to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
- • in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
- • in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);
- • to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.
Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.
Retaining personal information
- • This Section sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.
- • Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
- • To the extent that we are required to do so by law. We must keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for six years after they cease being customers for tax purposes.
- • If we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
- • in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).
Security of your personal information
- • We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information.
- • We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure (password- and firewall-protected) servers.
- • You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
- • You are responsible for keeping the password you use for accessing our website confidential; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).
Amendments
We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you understand any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private messaging system on our website.
Your rights
You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; provision of such information will be subject to the following:
- • 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.
- • the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity for this purpose.
We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.
You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.
In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.
Third party websites
Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third party websites. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.
Updating information
Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.