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Privacy policy

Get Consultants Ltd (we/us/our) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Notice (Notice) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us and the purpose for our collection of it. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

Data protection

For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 2018 (the Act) and the provisions of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (the General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR), Get Consultants Ltd is the data controller of your personal information and is entered in the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) Register of Data Controllers, registration number ZA487531.

This Notice explains how we may collect and process personal data about:

  • customers and prospective customers
  • visitors to our website;and;
  • current employees

Depending on our relationship with you this notice may be supplemented with additional information relating to our use of your personal data included for example in our terms of business (for customers) and our application form and employment contract (for job applicants and employees).

What personal information do we collect and why do we collect it?

We may collect and process the personal information about you including information:

  • that you provide by filling in forms on our website, requesting further services or reporting a problem with our website
  • that you provide when you use our professional services as a customer
  • received in correspondence that you send to us
  • provided to us as part of a job application you make
  • received during certain calls to and from us
  • concerning your visits to our website (including but not limited to traffic data)

We may also collect information about you in other ways, for example:

  • if you are a customer of one of our customers, and we are undertaking services on our customer’s behalf
  • if you have any other dealings with one or more of our customers which are related to services which we are providing to our customer or on our customer’s behalf
  • indirectly, through one of our customers or a third party
  • if you are a supplier of ours, from that supplier relationship
  • from publicly available sources, for example the electoral roll or Companies House

How we use your personal data

The way we process your personal data we collect as set out above varies depending on our relationship with you. In each case the purposes for which we request the information will be clear from the context in which it is acquired. These include:

  • providing our services to you or an entity for which you work
  • verifying your identity
  • keeping a record of the services you have subscribed to and deliver services you may have requested
  • administration, billing and record-keeping purposes
  • communicating with you by telephone, email, fax or post
  • meeting our legal, regulatory and contractual obligations arising from any our relationship with you (for example under anti-money laundering legislation)
  • providing and improving customer service and support
  • administering our website, enhancing operational capabilities and for internal operations
  • verifying or enforcing compliance with this Notice and applicable laws

Disclosure of your personal data

We will only disclose your personal information to another person or organisation where we:

  • need to share the information to provide a service you have requested
  • need to send the information to persons or organisations that work on our behalf to provide a product or service to you. Where such a person or organisation does work on our behalf we will ensure that they are contractually required to take appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal information against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, personal information and only use the information in order to provide a product or service on our behalf
  • are required to disclose the information in order to comply with the law or the requirements of a regulatory authorityOur use of your personal data as outlined above is subject to different legal bases for processing, including where necessary for:

Our legal basis for using your personal data

Our use of your personal data as outlined above is subject to different legal bases for processing, including where necessary for:

  • the purposes of the performance of any contract we enter into with you or to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract with you
  • our legitimate interests, for example in providing services to an entity you work for, managing and monitoring our website operation, preventing fraud and for our business compliance purposes
  • compliance with our legal and regulatory responsibilities.

If you do not agree to provide your personal data to us we may not be able to provide you with services or process your application for other services or employment. Where our use of your data is not necessary for one of the purposes outlined above we may use it in a particular way with your consent (for example if you have registered to attend an event we are hosting). Where we ask for your consent you are free to refuse our use of your personal data for those purposes and you may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us using the details set out below. This shall not affect the lawfulness of any processing that was based on your consent before you withdrew it.

Retention of your personal data

We will retain your personal information for a minimum of six years and so long as is reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was obtained and in accordance with our legal obligations and follow our data destruction policy and processes thereafter.

Links to other websites

This Notice only extends to our website, which is owned and operated by Get Consultants and does not, therefore, extend to your use of, provision of information to and collection of information on any website not connected to Get Consultants to which you may link by using the hypertext links within our website.

Your rights

Your personal information is protected under data protection law and you have a number of rights (see below) which you can seek to exercise. Please contact us in writing, by email or telephone using the details shown under ‘Contact and Complaints’ below if you wish to do so, or if you have any queries in relation to your rights. Please note these rights do not apply in all circumstances.

Right of access – subject to certain exceptions, you have the right of access to your personal data that we hold.

Right to rectify your personal information – if you discover that the information we hold about you is inaccurate or incomplete, you have the right to have this information rectified (i.e. corrected).

Right to be forgotten – you may ask us to delete information we hold about you in certain circumstances. This right is not absolute and it may not be possible for us to delete the information we hold about you, for example, if we have an ongoing contractual relationship or are required to retain information to comply with our legal obligations.

Right to restriction of processing – in some cases you may have the right to have the processing of your personal information restricted. For example, where you contest the accuracy of your personal information, its use may be restricted until the accuracy is verified.

Right to object to processing – you may object to the processing of your personal information (including profiling) when it is based upon our legitimate interests. You may also object to the processing of your personal information for the purposes of direct marketing and for the purposes of statistical analysis.

Right to data portability – you have the right to receive, move, copy or transfer your personal information to another controller when we are processing your personal information based on consent or on a contract and the processing is carried out by automated means.

IP addresses

We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to collect aggregate information for us to use. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns and does not identify any individual.

Security

Get Consultants takes great care to ensure the security of our website and your personal information. Only authorised personnel and contractors have access to your information. We will keep your information secure by taking appropriate technical and organisational measures against unauthorised or unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction and damage.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our website; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

Changes to this notice

We may change this Notice at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we have made, as they are binding on you. If we make any substantial changes in the way we use your personal information we will notify you by posting a prominent notice on our website.

Cookies

This site has no first party cookies and only category 3 third party cookies from YouTube.com to enable video play functionality on our site. (see detail below). Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device. Some cookies are allocated to your PC only for the duration of your visit, and these are called session based cookies. These automatically expire when you close down your browser. Another type of cookie known as “persistent” cookies can remain on your PC for a period of time.

Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improve the user experience. They can also help to ensure that adverts you see online are more relevant to you and your interests. They cannot be used to identify you personally.

To decline the use of cookies, you will need to adjust your browser’s settings to prohibit the acceptance of cookies. Please be aware that some nice features of this website may then no longer function as expected. To do this, we suggest consulting the help section of your browser or take a look at www.aboutcookies.org which offers guidance for all modern browsers.

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. You can find more information about cookies at: www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu

For your information, cookies that may be used in this site can be put into 4 categories, as laid out in the ICC UK Cookie guide.

Category 1: strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. Without these cookies services you have asked for, like shopping baskets or e-billing, cannot be provided.

TIP: These cookies enable services you have specifically asked for.

Category 2: performance cookies

These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works.

TIP: These cookies collect anonymous information on the pages visited.

Category 3: functionality cookies

These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. For instance, a website may be able to provide you with local weather reports or traffic news by storing in a cookie the region in which you are currently located. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customise. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for such as watching a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.

TIP: These cookies remember choices you make to improve your experience.

Category 4: targeting cookies

These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. They remember you visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organisation.

TIP: These cookies collect information about your browsing habits in order to make advertising relevant to you and your interests.

Contact us

If you have any questions about how we treat your personal data and protect your privacy, or if you have any comments or wish to seek to exercise any of your rights as outlined above or to complain about our use of your personal data, please write to us at our Registered Office at Get Consultants Ltd, Old Town Hall, 56 East Street, Havant PO9 1BS or email info@get-consultants.co.uk or call +44 (0)1243 200062.