Privacy policy - Consultant Accounts

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GENERAL
This privacy statement sets out how Nigel Wynne (sole trader - conaccounts.com and consultantaccounts.com) complies with European Union data protection requirements. This applies to the entire website. Any changes to these policies will be posted on this website. You can also access this privacy statement via our homepage. Nigel Wynne (sole trader - conaccounts.com and consultantaccounts.com) and its subsidiaries are committed to respecting your privacy. We have structured our website so that, in general, you can visit conaccounts.com and consultantaccounts.com on the web without identifying yourself or revealing any personal information. Once you choose to provide us with any information by which you can be identified, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement. For your protection, we are registered under the Data Protection Act 1998 including the General Data Protection Regulation, together the “Data Protection Laws” and have given all appropriate notifications to the Information Commissioner.
WHAT WE COLLECT
We may collect the following information: · Where you can order products, we will collect your name, contact and billing information, transaction and credit card information. · We require that users supply personal information, including name, company, Consultant ID, telephone number, fax number, VAT number and e-mail address prior to purchasing products and receiving any other company information or materials. · We may also ask you to provide us with information regarding your personal or professional interests, demographics, experiences with our products, and contact preferences in order to provide you with further correspondence about our products and services. · Some pages use cookies, a data analysis technique.
WHAT DO WE DO WITH THE INFORMATION WE GATHER?
We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons: · Internal record keeping. · We may use the information to improve our products and services. · Our representatives may follow up, either by e-mail, phone, fax or mail, to people who have purchased goods from our site as part of our customer care procedures. We may periodically send promotional e-mail about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the e-mail address which you have provided when you registered as a user on this site. · We may contact you, either by e-mail, phone, fax or mail in order to offer you credit terms for the purchase of products or services from the site. · We will not contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by e-mail, phone, or mail.

RETENTION
We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
WHO WE SHARE THE INFORMATION WITH AND YOUR CHOICES
When you use this site and have not advised us to the contrary, you are agreeing that we may use your personal information for the purposes set out in this statement. We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law. We may release your personal information to our authorised direct marketing agents unless you tell us that you do not wish this to happen.
When you provide any information on line, you should look for the boxes on the user details registration page. You can click to say that you do not want the information to be used by anyone for direct marketing purposes. If you have not previously objected to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or e-mailing us at: Nigel Wynne,3 Salisbury Road, Hilltop, Dronfield, Derbyshire. United Kingdom Email: help@consultantaccounts.com
WHAT IF YOU THINK WE HAVE INCORRECT INFORMATION OR YOU WOULD LIKE A COPY OF THE INFORMATION WE HOLD ABOUT YOU?
You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998 including the General Data Protection Regulation, together the “Data Protection Laws”. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to:
Nigel Wynne,3 Salisbury Road, Hilltop, Dronfield, Derbyshire. United Kingdom
Email: help@consultantaccounts.com
If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write or e-mail us as soon as possible to the above address. We will correct any information which was found to be incorrect promptly.
SECURITY
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect on line. We use encryption when collecting or transferring sensitive data such as credit card information.
We may need to transfer your personal data (Name and login information) outside the European Economic Area (EEA), for example, if our website is located outside the EEA. We will ensure that any transfer of your data will be subject to appropriate safeguards, such as a European Commission approved contract (if appropriate) that will ensure you have appropriate remedies in the unlikely event of a security breach

OTHER WEBSITES
Our website may contain links to enable you to visit other websites of interest easily. However, once you have used these links to leave our site you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
HOW WE USE COOKIES
A cookie is a piece of text which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, your browser adds that text in a small file. A cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences. For example, when you visit an electronic store, a cookie makes it easier to shop, by allowing you to place things into a shopping basket; the basket itself is not the cookie, the cookie is placed on your hard drive and keeps track of your basket versus others in use at the same time.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system. Denial of a traffic log cookie should not prevent you from using one of these sites. Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. This practice is strictly in force. We know that people have concerns about cookies, but we believe that the benefit we both gain from their proper use is worthwhile. You may set your web browser to notify you of cookie placement requests or decline cookies completely. You can delete the files that contain cookies - those files are stored as part of your internet browser.
RIGHTS
Your rights in connection with personal information
Under certain circumstances, by law, you have the right to:
  • Request     access to your personal information (commonly known as a “data subject     access request”). This enables you to receive a confirmation from us as to     whether we process any of your personal information or not, and if this is     the case, to receive a copy of such personal information and to check that     we are lawfully processing it.
  • Request     correction of the personal information that we hold about you. This     enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about     you corrected.
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    • Request      erasure of your personal information (often referred to as “the right to      be forgotten”). This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal      information where there is no good reason for us continuing to process      it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal      information where you have exercised your right to object to processing      (see below).
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    • Object      to processing of your personal information where we are relying on a      legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something      about your particular situation which makes you want to object to      processing on this ground.  
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    • Request      the restriction of processing of your personal information. This enables      you to ask us to suspend the processing of personal information about      you, for example, if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason      for processing it, or if we no longer need your data for our legitimate      interests but we need to hold some of it for the purpose of legal      proceedings.
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    • Request      the transfer of your personal information to another party.
If you would like to exercise any of the above rights, please:
  • email,     call or write to us (see our contact details);
  • let     us have proof of your identity and address (a copy of your driving licence     or passport and a recent utility or credit card bill). This is to allow us     to verify your identity and prevent disclosure to unauthorised third     parties; and
  • let     us know the details of your request, for example by specifying the     personal data you want to access, the information that is incorrect and     the information with which it should be replaced.
Please note that if you request erasure, object to our processing of your personal data or request the restriction of our processing of your personal data we may not be able to provide our services and we may need to deactivate your account on our Website.

THE ICO
If you have any concerns or complaints about our privacy activities, you can contact us on help@consultantaccounts.com. You can also contact the Information Commissioner’s Office on 0303 123 1113.
For more details about your rights under the Act, the rules we have to adhere to in collecting and storing your information, and how you can check your data records, please visit https://www.gov.uk/data-protection/the-data-protection-act.

Version: May 2018

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