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Privacy Notice

 

1) INTRODUCTION

This privacy notice provides you with details of how we collect, process and protect your personal data through your use of our site www.carassaliniconsulting.com

This privacy notice is effective from 25th May 2018.  Any future updates to our privacy notice will be available to review on this page.

By providing us with your data, you warrant to us that you are over 13 years of age.

For the purpose of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Carassalini Consulting Ltd. id the data controller and we are responsible for your personal data (referred to as "we", "us" or "our" in this privacy notice.)

 

Our full contact details are as follows:

Full name of legal entity: Carassalini Consulting Ltd.

Email address: [email protected]

Postal address: 25 Cherry Hill, Chiswell Green, St. Albans, Herts, AL2 3AT

 

2) WHAT DATA DO WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU, FOR WHAT PURPOSE AND ON WHAT GROUNDS WE PROCESS IT

Personal data means any information capable of identifying an indivdual.  It does not include anonymised data.

We may process the following categories of personal data about you:

. Communication Data - that includes any communication that you send to us whether that be through the contact form on our website (disclosure of name, email, phone number), through email, or any other communication that you send us.  We process this data for the purposes of communicating with you, for record keeping and for the establishment, pursuance or defence of legal claims.  Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests which in this case are to reply to communications sent to us, to keep records and to establish, pursue or defend legal claims.

. Technical Data - that includes anonymous data about the use of our website and online services;details may include your IP address, browser, length of visit to pages on our websire, page views and navigation paths, details about the number of times you use our webste, time zone settings and other technology on the devices you use to access our website.  The source of this data is from our analytics tracking system.  We are not able to identify individual users from this data. We process this data to analyse use of our website and other online services, to administer and protect our business and website, and to deliver relevant website content to you.  Our lawful ground for ths processing is our legitimate interests, which in this case are to enable us to properly administer and grow our website and our business.


Sensitive Data

We do not collect any "sensitive data" about you. We will only use your personal data for a purpose it was collected for or a reasonably compatible purpose if necessary. Please email us at [email protected] if you require more information on this. In case we need to use your details for an unrelated new purpose we will let you know and explain the legal grounds for processing.

We do not carry out automated decision making or any type of automated profiling. 

 

3.  HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA 

 We may collect data about you by you providing the data directly to us (for example by filling in forms on our site or by sending us emails). We may automatically collect certain data from you as you use our website by using cookies and similar technologies. Please see our cookie policy at the end of this document for more details about this.

 

 4. MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS 

 We do not use any of your personal data collected (be it through the contact form on our website, through email, or any other communication that you send us) for direct or indirect marketing purposes.  We do not share your personal data with any third party for their own marketing purposes.  You will not receive any marketing communications from us as a result of you contacting us.

 

5.  DATA SECURITY  

 We have put in place security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, altered, disclosed, or accessed without authorisation. We also allow access to your personal data only to those employees who have a business need to know such data. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they must keep it confidential.

We have procedures in place to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach if we are legally required to.

 

6.  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.

 When deciding what the correct time is to keep the data for we look at its amount, nature and sensitivity, potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure, the processing purposes, if these can be achieved by other means and legal requirements.

 

7.  YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS  

 Under data protection laws you have rights in relation to your personal data that include the right to request access, correction, erasure, restriction, transfer, to object to processing, to portability of data and (where the lawful ground of processing is consent) to withdraw consent.

You can see more about these rights at: 

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/individual-rights/

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please email us at [email protected] 

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

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and 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. 

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within two weeks. Occasionally it may take us longer than two weeks if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you.

 

 8. THIRD-PARTY LINKS  

This website may include links to third-party websites. 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.

 

 9. COOKIES  

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about the cookies we use, please see our Cookie Policy outlined below.

 

 

 



COOKIE POLICY

What's a cookie?

•A "cookie" is a piece of information that is stored on your computer's hard drive and which records how you move your way around a website so that, when you revisit that website, it can present tailored options based on the information stored about your last visit. Cookies can also be used to analyse website traffic. 

•Cookies are used by nearly all websites and do not harm your system. 

If you want to check or change what types of cookies you accept, this can usually be altered within your browser settings. You can block cookies at any time by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

 

How do we use cookies?

•We use cookies to track your use of our website. This enables us to understand and track any patterns with regards how you are using our website. This helps us to develop and improve our website. 

•Cookies are either: 

- Session cookies: these are only stored on your computer during your web session and are automatically deleted when you close your browser – they usually store an anonymous session ID allowing you to browse a website without having to log in to each page but they do not collect any personal data from your computer; or

- Persistent cookies: a persistent cookie is stored as a file on your computer and it remains there when you close your web browser. The cookie can be read by the website that created it when you visit that website again. We use persistent cookies for Google Analytics.

 

•Cookies can also be categorised as follows: 

- Strictly necessary cookies: These cookies are essential to enable you to use the website effectively, and therefore cannot be turned off. Without these cookies, the services available to you on our website cannot be provided. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you have been on the internet.

- Performance cookies: These cookies enable us to monitor and improve the performance of our website. For example, they allow us to count visits, identify traffic sources and see which parts of the site are most popular.