GSP Terms and Privacy Statements

Introduction

Welcome to Gerald Shenstone & Partner’s (GSP) privacy policy. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy informs you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website - regardless of where you visit it from.

Important Information and who we are

This privacy note aims to give you assurance on how GSP collects and processes your personal data through your use of our website.

Our website is not intended for children (under the age of 18 years) and we never knowingly collect  any data relating to children.

It is important that you read this privacy note

The Partners are responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this privacy note. If you have any questions about this privacy note, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact us addressed to ‘The Partner : data Protection’ at shenstoneandpartners@gmail.com.

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk), to whom we are licenced. We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with any concerns that you may have before you approach the ICO so please contact us first.

It is important that any personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data that you wish us to be made aware of changes during your relationship with us by emailing us at shenstoneandpartners@gmail.com.

Third Party Websites

Our website may include links to third-party websites, and their plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.

The data we collect about you

Personal data, or personal information:   means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include

data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data). We may collect, use, store

and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together follows:

* Identity Data :   your name and/or business name. We do not request sensitive personal data such as date of birth, mother’s maiden name etc.

* Contact Data :   your address, email address or telephone number (although you may specify how you wish to be contacted)

No Financial Data, past transaction data, technical data (eg login details, browser type etc.), Profile data (eg usernames or passwords) or marketing data is collected or stored from the website, which is essentially a static site with a 'contact us' facility.

We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you. For details about this category please visit the ICO website and search for ‘Special Category Data’.

If you fail to provide the data required

Should you be unable to fill in the contact us page with all of the relevant, and basic details requested any such request shall be made void.

How is your personal data collected?

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

Direct interactions: You may give us your information by filling in our ‘Contact Us’ form on the website or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes data you are required to provide when you:

·        apply for our services;

·        request marketing or other information (relevant to your enquiry) to be sent to you;

·        give us some feedback.

How we use your personal data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

·        Where we need to follow up on contact initiated by you

·        Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

·        Where you have specifically requested additional information about us or to be kept informed about our services.

Generally, we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data other than in relation to our ‘Contact Us’ page.

The GSP website is not used as a mechanism to garner information for marketing purposes and no data is stored in this regard.

If GSP does retain some of your personal data you have the right to withdraw consent at any time by contacting us.

Please note that some parts of our website apps may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about the cookies the website uses to function, please see the 123.Reg Cookie Policy. The website does not use tracking cookies and no information is extracted, stored or passed on to any others for marketing or any other purpose.

We will only use your personal data while necessary for the purposes for which we collected it unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason, and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.

Disclosures of your personal data

In the rare event that we may have to share your personal data, and only as required by law, we will do so only if summonsed.

Data Security

We have in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those team members within GSP who have a business need to know. They will only use your personal data in relation to the initial contact made by you or any subsequent action arising therefrom. They are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data 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.

Your legal rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, to include the right to:

·        Request access to your personal data.

·        Request correction of your personal data.

·        Request erasure of your personal data.

·        Object to processing of your personal data.

·        Request restriction of processing your personal data.

·        Request transfer of your personal data.

·        Right to withdraw consent.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please address emails or letters to 'The Partner' or contact shenstoneandpartners@gmail.com

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights) but if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive we may refuse to comply with your request.

What we may need from you.

In following up an initial contact made by you or to take matters further we may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity.

In some cases requesting references be provided, and to ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights).

This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it.