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1. Who We Are Use

Our website address is: http://contactpointconsultancy.co.uk.

2. Information We Collect

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

3. Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

4. Cookies

4.1 Comments

If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

4.2 Login

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

4.3 Editing/Publishing:

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after one day.

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Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

6. Who We Share Your Data With

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

7. How Long We Retain Your Data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

8. What Rights You Have Over Your Data

If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

9. Where We Send Your Data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

10. Data Protection

We adhere to the principles relating to processing of personal data set out in the GDPR which require Personal Data to be:
– Processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner.
– Collected only for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes.
– Adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which it is processed.
– Accurate and where necessary kept up to date.
– Not kept in a form which permits identification of Data Subjects for longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the data is processed.
– Processed in a manner that ensures its security.

11. Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data

We process personal data under the following legal bases:
– Consent: You have given clear consent for us to process your personal data for a specific purpose.
– Contract: The processing is necessary for a contract we have with you, or because you have asked us to take specific steps before entering into a contract.
– Legal Obligation: The processing is necessary for us to comply with the law (not including contractual obligations).
– Legitimate Interests: The processing is necessary for our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party unless there is a good reason to protect your personal data which overrides those legitimate interests.

12. Data Subject Rights

Under the GDPR, you have the following rights in relation to your personal data:
– The right to be informed – you have the right to be informed about the collection and use of your personal data.
– The right of access – you have the right to access your personal data and supplementary information.
– The right to rectification – you have the right to have inaccurate personal data rectified, or completed if it is incomplete.
– The right to erasure – you have the right to have personal data erased (also known as the ‘right to be forgotten’).
– The right to restrict processing – you have the right to request the restriction or suppression of your personal data.
– The right to data portability – you have the right to obtain and reuse your personal data for your own purposes across different services.
– The right to object – you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.

13. 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.

14. Security Measures

We have put 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 employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know.

15. International Data Transfers

Your personal data may be transferred to, and processed in, countries other than the country in which you are resident. These countries may have data protection laws that are different to the laws of your country. This means that when we collect your personal data we may process it in any of these countries.

16. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page. You are advised to review this privacy policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this privacy policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

17. Contact Information

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us:
– By email: info@contactpointconsultancy.co.uk
– By visiting this page on our website: https://contactpointconsultancy-co-uk.stackstaging.com/contact/
– By mail: International House, 36-38 Cornhill, London, England, EC3V 3NG