This notice provides you with information concerning our collection and use of personal data. If you have any queries regarding this statement, please do not hesitate to contact us. We are registered with the ICO in the UK and operate under the UK jurisdiction of the Data Protection Act 2018.
We collect, control and process your personal information because this is necessary to provide you with information, answer any queries you may have and for the provision of our services to you. Contractual necessity is therefore the lawful basis for collecting, controlling and processing your personal details and those of your employees and service providers other than sensitive or special category personal data for which we require individual consent. We do not normally request or process any sensitive personal data, however, if we are handling certain FCA applications, notifications or reports for you, we need to have information concerning criminal records and you need to consent to our processing of this.
Sensitive or Special Category personal data:
None of the above type of information is normally necessary or collected by us nor is it normally required by the regulator.
We would discuss with you the need for the provision of any sensitive, criminal or other highly confidential data before you provide this information. The subsequent provision of personal data will be taken as consent to this processing.
Where you have disclosed sensitive personal data about a client, we will assume that you have obtained informed consent to such sharing or obtained it for the lawful purpose of insurance underwriting consideration.
Where you share data about your staff you must ensure that your terms of employment or engagement include the sharing of data for regulatory compliance purposes.
It is entirely up to you as to whether or not you choose to provide us with any personal information. If you choose not to, we simply may not be able to assist you.
We do not use your personal data for marketing purposes nor will we share your data with any other organisation for marketing purposes.
Completing our initial enquiry form.
If you contact us via the web form on our website your data will be protected by a secure socket layer. This site is hosted at WordPress.com, which is run by Automattic Inc. We use a standard WordPress service to collect anonymous information about users’ activity on the site, for example the number of users viewing pages on the site, to monitor and report on the effectiveness of the site and help to improve it. For more information about how WordPress processes data, please see Automattic’s privacy notice. If you enter details into our webform these will be transmitted to us via email and temporarily stored on a Microsoft Hosted Exchange. The site is secured by UKFast.
Calling our business line 0330 111 6161
This number will take you to our answering service provided by 08Direct, a service run by Core Telecom Ltd. Your message will be temporarily stored by Core Telecom Ltd in the UK. Their terms can be found here. Your message will then be transmitted to us via email and will be temporarily stored on a Microsoft Hosted Exchange.
What we will do with your enquiry
Once we have responded to your enquiry your data will be transferred to our local encrypted server located in the UK. Email details are also stored within our Apple Inc. iCloud account.
Doing business with us
In order to provide compliance support services we will require your contact details including personal email addresses. Your name and email and information relating to the work we undertake for you will be stored on our encrypted devices.
Wherever possible we will communicate and liaise with you on projects using end to end encrypted services on which we have done due diligence.
Esupport updates
We will store your name and email address with a data processor to enable us to communicate regulatory and service updates to you. Mailchimp.
All support services
We collect and use information about your firm, which may include personal data to keep you informed and to have dialogue with you around regulatory compliance matters.
Additional information is needed to process applications to regulators, for example FCA Connect, FCA Gabriel or RegData and LSE.
Most of the information we hold about you is publicly available information and most of our processing involves electronic communications with you at your request.
The information we collect about you is used solely for the purposes for which it was provided. We will never use your data or share it for marketing purposes. If recommend a product to you it will be for your benefit and not by way of marketing. We do not receive any remuneration from third party product providers for presenting their product information.
Under data protection law you have the right to ask us for a copy of the information we hold about you, and to have any inaccuracies corrected or removed. You may also ask us to delete all personal data held by us or any controller or processor with which we have shared your data.
To do this, please either contact us in writing, by telephone or electronically.
For any queries about data protection please contact:
| Contact name | Karen Malin |
| Address | 60 Cookridge Drive, Leeds LS16 7HW |
| Telephone | 0330 111 6161 |
| Web | thegiconsultant.com |
All the data that we collect is stored on our encrypted server or back up drives in the UK or with our listed processors under contract.
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Performance cookies
Performance cookies, which collect information about website usage to enhance the web experience. Examples of these include website analytics (i.e. Google Analytics) and ad-response rates (where data is collected exclusively for calculating click-through rates). They don’t collect information that can identify a particular visitor. These cookies are usually persistent and have fairly long expiry rates.
Functionality cookies
These remember the choices that users make within a web page, such as usernames, language or region to provide an enhanced, more personalised web experience. They cannot track your activity on other websites and are anonymous.
Advertising cookies
Targeting or advertising cookies collect information about your browsing habits to tailor third-party advertising to meet your interests. They are usually placed by advertisers with website operators’ permission. We do not use this type of cookie.
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on our websites where appropriate or may be notified to you by post or e-mail.
