Privacy Policy

This page explains our Privacy Policy. By visiting our website you are accepting the practices described in this policy.

 

What personal information do we collect about you?

We gather two types of information from you:

  • Information you actively give us, which includes comments on our blog or messages you send us. We use this information to deal with your request and never share this information with anyone outside of our business except for those we do business with on your behalf including sub contractors. You may also be invited to join our mailing list but you will not be added automatically.
  • Information your web browser gives us, such as your computer’s IP address, your city and your screen size. We also monitor your use of the website by seeing which pages you visit and how long you spend on them.  We send this information to Google’s “Google Analytics” service so that we can measure how effectively our website is at giving you the information you’re after.

Your personal information

Your personal information including name, address, telephone number and email address, will be stored securely in Drupal, WordPress and Salesforce and, when contracts are entered into, in Dropbox and SAGE. We may also use Microsoft, Apple and Google services to store your data. We use that information to tell you about stuff you’ve asked us to tell you about; to contact you if we need to obtain or provide additional information; to check our records are right and to check that you’re happy and satisfied. For more information see WordPress privacy policyDrupal privacy policyDropbox privacy policy, Sage privacy policy Microsoft privacy policyApple privacy policy and Google privacy policy.

We use the information stored in Salesforce to help analyse our business historically over time. We will keep this information indefinitely but you can ask for your personal data to be removed at any time by emailing our data protection officer Mark Brown.. For more information please see Salesforce privacy notice.

When entering into a contract with you, we may share your name and contact details with other’s who are engaged to fulfil your contract.

As part of the registration process for our e-newsletter, we collect personal information. We use that information to tell you about stuff you’ve asked us to tell you about. We don’t rent or trade email lists with other organisations and businesses.
We use a third-party provider, MailChimp, to deliver our newsletter. We gather statistics around email opening and clicks using industry standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our e-newsletter. For more information, please see MailChimp’s privacy notice. You can unsubscribe to general mailings at any time of the day or night by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any of our emails or by emailing our data protection officer Mark Brown.

How we use cookies

“Cookies” are small files which your web browser transfers to your computer when you visit a site.  They are widely used in order to make websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as providing information to the owners of the site.

Like many websites, we use cookies to help us monitor your use of the website.  These cookies are used by Google Analytics so that we know when you’ve visited one page and then another.  We also use cookies if you login to our website with a username and password we’ve given you.

What cookies do we use?

Each cookie has a unique name which you can use to identify where it came from.

  • Some features of our site use Javascript. We set a has_js cookie if you have javascript enabled, so we can give you the best possible experience.
  • Google Analytics uses cookies with the following names to monitor visitors to our website, so that we can improve the experience for all users: _utma, _utmb, _utmc, _utmzRead more about the Google Analytics privacy policy
  • If you login to our site in order to post a comment we will also store a cookie so that we can identify you as a logged-in user

How we protect your privacy

We never share personally identifiable information with those outside of our business.

We share anonymous website usage information with Google Analytics as listed above.

Disclosure of your information:

We may disclose information in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is:

  • reasonably necessary to comply with the law
  • necessary to protect our rights and those of our users

How you can manage your privacy

Although using cookies helps us to improve our site, you do not need to accept our cookies in order to access our website.  The majority of web browsers allow some control of cookies.

The methods vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:

(a)    https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);

(b)    https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox);

(c)    http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/ (Opera);

(d)    https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer);

(e)    https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411 (Safari);

(f)    https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).

You are entitled to view, amend, or delete the personal information that we hold. Email your request to our data protection officer Mark Brown.

This privacy policy was updated April 2019.