Privacy policy
1. Introduction
1.1 I are committed to safeguarding the privacy of my website visitors; this policy sets out how I will treat your personal information.
1.2 I will ask you to consent to my use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit my website.
2. Collecting personal information
2.1 I may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal information:
(a) information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website (including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths);
(b) information that you provide to us when registering with my website (including your email address);
(c) information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to my email notifications and/or newsletters (including your name and email address);
(d) Information that you provide to us when using the services on my website, or that is generated in the course of the use of those services (including the timing, frequency and pattern of service use);
(e) Information relating to any purchases you make of my goods / services / goods and/or services or any other transactions that you enter into through my website (including your name, address, telephone number, email address and card details);
(f) information contained in or relating to any communications that you send to us or send through my website (including the communication content and meta data associated with the communication);
(g) any other personal information that you choose to send to us;
2.2 Before you disclose to us the personal information of another person, you must obtain that person's consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with the terms of this policy.
3. Using your personal information
3.1 Personal information submitted to us through my website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website.
3.2 I may use your personal information to:
(a) administer my website and business;
(b) personalise my website for you;
(c) enable your use of the services available on my website;
(d) send you goods purchased through my website;
(e) supply to you services purchased through my website;
(f) send statements, invoices and payment reminders to you, and collect payments from you;
(g) send you non-marketing commercial communications;
(h) send you email notifications that you have specifically requested;
(i) send you my email newsletter, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter);
(j) send you marketing communications relating to my business ;
(k) deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to my website;
(l) keep my website secure and prevent fraud;
(m) verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of my website.
3.3 If you submit personal information for publication on my website, I will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the licence you grant to us.
3.4 Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on my website, and can be adjusted using privacy controls on the website.
3.5 I will not, without your express consent, supply your personal information to any third party for the purpose of their or any other third party's direct marketing.
4. Disclosing personal information
4.1 I may disclose your personal information to any of my employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
4.2 I may disclose your personal information to any member of my group of companies (this means my subsidiaries, my ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries) insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
4.3 I may disclose your personal information:
(a) to the extent that I are required to do so by law;
(b) in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
(c) in order to establish, exercise or defend my legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);
(d) to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that I are (or are contemplating) selling; and
(e) to any person who I reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in my reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.
4.4 Except as provided in this policy, I will not provide your personal information to third parties.
5. International data transfers
5.1 Information that I collect may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which I operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.
5.2 Information that I collect may be transferred to the following countries which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area: the United States of America, Russia, Japan, China and India.
5.3 Personal information that you publish on my website or submit for publication on my website may be available, via the internet, around the world. I cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.
5.4 You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this Section 5.
6. Retaining personal information
6.1 This Section 6 sets out my data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that I comply with my legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal information.
6.2 Personal information that I process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
6.3 Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 6, I will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
(a) to the extent that I are required to do so by law;
(b) if I believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; and
(c) in order to establish, exercise or defend my legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).
7. Security of your personal information
7.1 I will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
7.2 I will store all the personal information you provide on my secure (password- and firewall-protected) servers.
7.3 You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and I cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
8. Amendments
8.1 I may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on my website.
8.2 You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.
9. Your rights
9.1 You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information I hold about you; provision of such information will be subject to:
(a) the payment of a fee (currently fixed at GBP 10); and
(b) the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity (for this purpose, I will usually accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a solicitor or bank plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address).
9.2 I may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.
9.3 You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.
9.4 In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to my use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or I will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.
10. Third party websites
10.1 Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third party websites.
10.2 I have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.
11. Updating information
11.1 Please let us know if the personal information that I hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
12. Cookies
12.1 Please refer to my cookie policy for information regarding cookies.
13. Our details
13.1 This website is maintained and operated by fyooz.
13.2 You can contact me by emailing roger@rogerfieldingconsultancy.com.
Cookie policy
1. Introduction
1.1 This website makes use of 'cookies'.
2. About cookies
2.1 A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.
2.2 Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.
2.3 Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that I store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
2.4 Cookies can be used by web servers to identity and track users as they navigate different pages on a website and identify users returning to a website.
3. My cookies
3.1 We use both session and persistent cookies on my website.
3.2 The names of the cookies that I use on my website, and the purposes for which they are used, are set out below:
(a) we use cookies on my website to recognise a computer when a user visits the website and improve the website's usability
4. Analytics cookies
4.1 I use Google Analytics to analyse the use of my website.
4.2 Our analytics service providers generate statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies.
4.3 The analytics cookies used by my website have the following names:
_utma, _utmb, _utmc and _utmz
4.4 The information generated relating to my website is used to create reports about the use of my website.
4.5 Our analytics service providers' privacy policies are available at:
http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
5. Third party cookies
5.1 Our website only uses 3rd party cookies outlined in the analytics section above.
6. Blocking cookies
6.1 Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies; for example:
(a) In Internet Explorer you can block cookies using the cookie handling override settings available by clicking "Tools", "Internet Options", "Privacy" and then "Advanced";
(b) In Firefox you can block all cookies by clicking "Tools", "Options", "Privacy", selecting "Use custom settings for history" from the drop-down menu, and unticking "Accept cookies from sites"; and
(c) In Chrome, you can block all cookies by accessing the "Customise and control" menu, and clicking "Settings", "Show advanced settings" and "Content settings", and then selecting "Block sites from setting any data" under the "Cookies" heading.
6.2 Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.
7. Deleting cookies
7.1 You can delete cookies already stored on your computer; for example:
(a) In Internet Explorer, you must manually delete cookie files (you can find instructions for doing so at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835
(b) In Firefox, you can delete cookies by clicking "Tools", "Options" and "Privacy", then selecting "Use custom settings for history", clicking "Show Cookies", and then clicking "Remove All Cookies"; and
(c) In Chrome, you can delete all cookies by accessing the "Customise and control" menu, and clicking "Settings", "Show advanced settings" and "Clear browsing data", and then selecting "Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data" before clicking "Clear browsing data".
7.2 Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.
8. Cookie preferences
8.1 You can manage your preferences relating to the use of cookies by visiting:
http://www.civicuk.com/cookie-law/browser-settings
9. Our details
9.1 This website is maintained by fyooz.
9.4 You can contact me by emailing roger@rogerfieldingconsultancy.com.
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