Privacy and cookie policy

PRIVACY POLICY AND COOKIE POLICY FOR PAUL COLLINS LTD

GENERAL

PRIVACY POLICY

  1. Paul Collins Creative Limited are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. We are the data controller and will process your personal data in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 as amended or replaced by the General Data Protection Regulation 2016 and any national laws which relate to the processing of personal data (“data protection legislation”).
  2. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding Your Data and how we will treat it.
  3. This policy applies to information we may collect about:
    • Visitors to our website
    • Customers
    • Introducers
    • Suppliers

VISITORS TO OUR WEBSITE

  1. We may collect and process personal data about you in the following circumstances:
  2. when you complete the online contact forms on our website providing us with your name, address, email address, contact number;
  3. whenever you provide information to us when reporting a problem with our Site, making a complaint, making an enquiry or contacting us for any other  reason. If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence;
  4. when you visit our Site we may retain details such as traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, and the resources that you access (see section Cookies below); and
  5. whenever you disclose your information to us, or we collect information from you in any other way, through our Sites.
  6. we may also collect data in the following ways:

IP Address

  1. we may collect information about your device, including where available your Internet Protocol address, for reasons of fraud protection. We may also collect information about your device’s operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and  patterns, and does not identify any individual.

Website Links

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of third parties. Please note that if you follow a link to any of these websites, such websites will apply different terms to the collection and privacy of your personal data and we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check before you submit your information to these websites.

CUSTOMERS

  1. We will collect details such as name, address, email address and contact number in order to provide services to customers.
  2. we will share customer personal information with our employees to manage our relationship with you and we will retain customer personal data for 100 years.
  3. we will use your personal data provided to comply with our contractual obligations arising from the agreements we enter into with our Customers and share the data with financial institutions who can assist in the provision of financial services to customers including product providers, lenders, banks, insurers, fund managers, platform providers and third party para-planners (including Tenet* paraplanners).
  4. we will use customer personal data for our legitimate interests including:
  5. with your consent, marketing our other products and services by mail and email; and
  6. with your consent, obtaining your sensitive personal data from third parties including your health, ethnic origin, or criminal prosecutions from third parties such as employers and credit reference agencies, fraud prevention agencies and other similar organisations.
  7. we will not transfer any customer personal data outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”).

SUPPLIERS

We will collect details such as contact names, address, email address and telephone number in order to contact you about goods and/or services we have ordered from you, to comply with our contractual obligations and to place further orders. We may share your personal data with our employees to manage our relationship with you and we will keep your personal data for as long as we require your goods and/or services subject to a maximum of six years from the date of our last contact with you. We will not transfer your personal data outside the EEA.

MARKETING

We may use customer personal data to provide you with details about our reminders before the end of your product term, contact for quotes/agreements in principles, up-to-date market insight, bespoke events, publications and gain information about our other which we think may be of interest.

  1. You have the right to opt-out of receiving the information detailed at any time. To opt-out of receiving such information you can:
  2.  select the relevant box situated in the form on which we collect your information; –
  3. clicking the unsubscribe button contained in any such communication received; or
  4. email us at hello@paulcollinscreative.co.uk or phoning us on 07795 430430 providing us with your name and contact details.
  5. Where you have subscribed to receive marketing correspondence from us we will keep your personal data from when you subscribed to receiving marketing information from us or until you unsubscribe from receiving such correspondence from us (whichever is earlier).

LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING YOUR PERSONAL DATA

  1. In accordance with data protection legislation we are required to notify you of the legal basis upon which we process your personal data. We process your personal data for the following reasons:
  2.  for performance of a contract we enter into with you;
  3. where necessary for compliance with a legal obligation we are subject to; and
  4. for our legitimate interests (as described within this policy).
  5. we will also process your personal data including personal sensitive data where we have obtained your explicit consent.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR DATA TO THIRD PARTIES

  1. In addition to the third parties mentioned previously in this policy, we may disclose your personal data to third parties for the following legitimate business purposes:
  2.  staff members in order to facilitate the provision of services to you;
  3. IT software providers that host our website and store data on our behalf; and
  4. to a prospective buyer of some or all of our business or assets, in which case personal data including Your Data will also be one of the transferred assets.
  5. We may disclose your personal data to the police, regulatory bodies, legal advisors or similar third parties where we are under a legal duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our agreements; or to protect our rights, property, or safety of our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
  6. We will not sell or distribute your personal data to other organisations without your approval.

CROSS-BORDER DATA TRANSFERS

We do not transfer personal data outside the EEA.  Where this is required in the future, we will ensure that safeguards are in place so that such transfers comply with data protection legislation.

DATA SECURITY

  1. Information you provide to us is shared on our secure servers. We have implemented appropriate physical, technical and organisational measures designed to secure your information against accidental loss and unauthorised access, use, alteration or disclosure. In addition, we limit access to personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties that have a legitimate business need for such access.
  2.  Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our Sites, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.
  3. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your information transmitted to our Site; any transmission is at your own risk.

ACCESS TO, UPDATING, DELETING AND RESTRICTING USE OF YOUR DATA

  1. It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current.  Please keep us informed if the personal data we hold about you changes.
  2. Data protection legislation gives you certain rights in relation to your personal data.  You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances and to withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data where this has been provided.
  3. You can also ask us to undertake the following:
  4. update or amend your personal data if you feel this is inaccurate;
  5. remove your personal data from our database entirely;
  6. send you copies of your personal data in a commonly used format and transfer your information to another entity where you have supplied this to us, and we process this electronically with your consent or where necessary for the performance of a contract;
  7.  restrict the use of your personal data; and
  8. provide you with access to information held about you and for this to be provided in an intelligible form.
  9. We may request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity.  Data protection legislation may allow or require us to refuse to provide you with access to some or all the personal data that we hold about you or to comply with any requests made in accordance with your rights referred to above. If we cannot provide you with access to your personal data, or process any other request we receive, we will inform you of the reasons why, subject to any legal or regulatory restrictions.
  10. Please send any requests relating to the above to us at hello@paulcollinscreative.co.uk specifying your name and the action you would like us to undertake. Note that in relation to requests to access personal data, we reserve the right to charge a reasonable fee to comply with your request.

RIGHT TO WITHDRAW CONSENT

Where you have provided your consent to the collection, processing and transfer of your personal data, you may withdraw that consent at any time. This will not affect the lawfulness of data processing based on consent before it is withdrawn. To withdraw your consent please contact us athello@paulcollinscreative.co.uk or phone us on 07795 430430

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

We reserve the right to update this privacy policy at any time, and any changes we make to our privacy policy will be posted on this page. We will notify you if there are any changes to this policy that materially affect how we collect, store or process your personal data. If we would like to use your previously collected personal data for different purposes than those we notified you about at the time of collection, we will provide you with notice and, where required by law, seek your consent, before using your personal data for a new or unrelated purpose. We may process your personal without your knowledge or consent where required by applicable law or regulation.

CONTACT US

If you have any questions, comments or requests regarding this policy or how we use your personal data please contact us at hello@paulcollinscreative.co.uk. This is in addition to your right to contact the Information Commissioners Office if you are unsatisfied with our response to any issues you raise at https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/

Cookie Policy 

This is the Cookie Policy for Paul Collins Creative Ltd, accessible from http://paulcollinscreative.co.uk

What Are Cookies

As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the sites functionality.

For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

The Cookies We Set

  • Forms related cookies
    When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
  • Site preferences cookies
    In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.

Third Party Cookies

In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

  • This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.
    For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
  • We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including; {List the social networks whose features you have integrated with your site?:12}, will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.

More Information

Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren’t sure whether you need or not it’s usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site. This Cookies Policy was created with the help of the CookiePolicyGenerator.com

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