Privacy Notice

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Data protection principles

In this privacy notice 'Legislation' shall mean the UK General Data Protection Legislation (UK GDPR) , the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA), the Privacy & Electronic Communications Regulation (PECR) and any other data protection legislation as enacted or amended  from time to time.

All personal data obtained and held by us must be processed according to a set of core principles as laid down by the Legislation, as follows:

• processing must be fair, lawful and transparent;

• data must be collected for specific, explicit, and legitimate purposes;

• data collected must be adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary for the purposes of processing;

• data must be kept accurate and up to date. Data which are found to be inaccurate must be rectified or erased without delay;

• data must not be kept for longer than is necessary for its given purpose;

• data must be processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security of personal data including protection against unauthorised or unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction or damage by using appropriate technical or organisation measures;

• we must comply with the relevant data protection legislation procedures for international transferring of personal data.

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We take the privacy of your personal  seriously. This page explains how LAUDIS  use any information you give to us, and the way we protect your privacy. Protecting the privacy and your personal data is of the utmost importance to us.

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In accordance with the data Protection Act 2018 and the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) we have a legal duty to protect any information (personal data) we collect from you (any reference to the GDPR includes any subsequent data protection regulations). We will only use your data for the purpose as described and we will not pass on your details to any other agency, organisation or third party unless we have told you that we will do so, or if required, obtained your consent, or unless we are required to do so by law.

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We must process your data lawfully and fairly; that is, we must explain on what lawful basis we hold your data, how we will use it and tell you if we want to pass the information on to anyone else.

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LAUDIS process your data under the lawful basis of legitimate interest as laid out within current legislation. If you are a client of LAUDIS  then we further will use performance of a contract as a lawful basis for processing.

We will hold your personal information on our systems only for as long as you use the service you have requested or wish to continue receiving communications from us. We will ensure that all personal information supplied is held securely, in accordance with legislation.

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By entering your details in the fields requested on our website, you enable LAUDIS Business Advisors to provide you with the information that you request. Whenever you provide such personal data, we will treat those data in accordance with this policy.

If you no longer wish to hear from us or for any reason you wish us to delete your personal data, you have the right to ask us to delete your data, which we undertake to do quickly and in any case within one month of your request.

Your rights and how to exercise them

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As a data subject, you have a number of rights. You can:

• request access to all of your personal data. Much of your data may be accessible through your account in our portal but we may hold additional data on our own system, such as emails, notes of phone calls etc.

• obtain confirmation as to whether your personal data is being processed and where that is the case, gain access to your data;

• require us to rectify incorrect or incomplete data;

• require us to erase or stop processing your data, for example where the data is no longer necessary for the purposes of processing;

• object to the processing of your data where we are relying on its legitimate interests as the lawful ground for processing.

• move, copy or transfer your personal data from one IT environment to another, securely and without affecting its usability.

• Object to being subject to a decision that is based solely on automated processing and which significantly affects you

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If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us

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If you feel that any of the data we hold is incorrect we will correct it at your request.

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You have the right of access to your data, enabling you to be fully aware of what data we hold and to verify the lawfulness of processing

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Submitting Personal Information

Website Usage

When a visitor comes to our website, we may collect standard information about how visitors use our site. We do this to do a number of things, such as track how many people come to our site, and what areas of the site are viewed. The information is collected in such a way that is completely anonymous; we do not use this to collect personal data about yourself, and should we ever choose to do so, we would always tell you in advance.

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What is a Cookie?

Cookies are small text files sent to your device when you visit a website which are then sent back to the website on each subsequent visit. Cookies act as a memory for a website, allowing that website to remember your device when returning.

Cookies can also remember preferences and improve the user experience as well as tailor adverts to those most relevant to you.

We use session cookies (which exist only until you close your web browser) and persistent cookies (which exist for until their expiry date, or until removed by the user). Some cookies on our website are needed so you can move around the website and use it. These cookies don’t gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remember where you have been on the internet.

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Some cookies on our website collect information about how visitors use the website, e.g. which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies visitors. The information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is used only to improve how our website works.

Our website uses Google Analytics cookies. Information collected by these cookies will be transferred to and stored by Google on servers in the USA in accordance with its privacy practices.

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We may embed photos and videos from websites such as Vimeo and YouTube. Or feeds from organisations like Facebook and Twitter.

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When you visit a page containing these services, you may be presented with cookies from these websites. You may see embedded ‘share’ buttons on some of our pages. These allow you to share content through social networks. When you click these buttons, a cookie may be set by the service you have chosen to share content through. These third party cookies are not controlled by us. For further information about their use, please visit the relevant third party website.

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Please be aware: if you refuse or disable cookies, this website will not work as it should. Disabling a cookie or category of cookie does not delete the cookie from your browser, you will need to do this yourself from within your browser.

If you are using a recent version of Google Chrome, you can see the specific cookies that are being used by this site, and in fact any site, by clicking on the secure padlock to the left of the web address in the browser window, or if the site does not have a secure padlock, then the (i) information icon.

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Learn more about cookies

To find out more about cookies in general either search in Google or visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

A guide to behavioural advertising and online privacy has been produced by the internet advertising industry which can be found at www.youronlinechoices.eu. The guide contains an explanation of the Internet Advertising Bureau’s self-regulatory scheme to allow you greater control of the advertising you see.

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Complaints

You are entitled to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) if you are unhappy about the ways in which we process your personal data. The ICO can be contacted here:

Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Telephone: 0303 123 1113

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Changes to the Policy

If the privacy policy changes in any way, we will place an updated version on this page. Regularly reviewing the page ensures you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we will share it with other parties.

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Contacting Us

If you have any questions about this privacy notice or the practices of this site, you can contact us using the Contact page on this site or email enquiries@laudis.co.uk