The BoardRoom Website Privacy Policy
The Policy
This privacy policy is for this website; www.the-boardroom.co.uk and is served by Chris Quigley Education Ltd Sandy View Buildings Front Street Burnopfield Newcastle upon Tyne NE16 6PU and governs the privacy of its users who choose to use it. It explains how we comply with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), the DPA (Data Protection Act) (pre GDPR enforcement) and the PECR (Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations).
Chris Quigley Education Ltd is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement. This policy will explain areas of the website that may affect your privacy and personal details, how we process, collect, manage and store those details and how your rights under the GDPR, DPA & PECR are adhered to. Additionally, it will explain the use of cookies or software, advertising or commercial sponsorship from third parties and the download of any documents, files or software made available to you (if any) on this website. Further explanations may be provided for specific pages or features of this website in order to help you understand how we, this website and its third parties (if any) interact with you and your computer/device in order to serve it to you. Our contact information is provided if you have any questions.
The DPA & GDPR May 2018
We and this website complies to the DPA (Data Protection Act 1998) and to the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) which comes into effect from May 2018. We will update this policy accordingly after the completion of the UK's exit from the European Union. This policy is effective from 19.2.18.
ICO
Chris Quigley Education Ltd is registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office under registration reference ZA308235. Registration expiry date is 29.01.2019 although automatic renewal is in place. Please see the link at the end of this policy for further ICO guidance.
SSL Certificate
The website; www.the-boardroom.co.uk has an SSL certificate installed, further enhancing the security of the site. SSL certificates are small data files that digitally bind a cryptographic key to an organisation’s details. When installed on a web server, it activates the padlock and the https protocol and allows secure connections from a web server to a browser. SSL Certificates bind together: A domain name, server name or hostname and an organisational identity (i.e. company name) and location. An organisation needs to install the SSL Certificate onto its web server to initiate a secure session with browsers. Once a secure connection is established, all web traffic between the web server and the web browser will be secure. When a certificate is successfully installed, the application protocol (also known as HTTP) will change to HTTPs, where the ‘S’ stands for ‘secure’. Depending on the type of certificate purchased and the browser used, a browser will show a padlock or green bar in the browser when you visit a website that has an SSL Certificate installed.
What We Collect
We may collect the following information: name and job title, contact information including email address and demographic information such as postcode. We will not collect any personal data from you we do not need in order to provide and oversee the service we offer you.
What We Do With The Information We Gather
We require this information to understand your needs and to create a customer history/profile. We also use it to provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons: internal record keeping, to improve our products and services, to send promotional emails about new products, updates about products you have purchased, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.
Controlling Your Personal Information
You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways: whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do want the information you give to be used for direct marketing purposes. If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by unsubscribing using the unsubscribe link provided at the bottom of the e mail.
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. If you would like a copy of the information held please write to us at the address below. Data will be supplied electronically and in a commonly used format and within one month of receipt of the request.
In addition, you have the right to ask us to erase, suspend the processing of or transfer personal data.
We want to make sure that the information we hold about you is up to date. If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.
Use of Cookies
This website does not use cookies
Website Visitor Tracking
This website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. The software will save a cookie to your computers hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information.
Downloads & Media Files
Any downloadable documents, files or media made available on this website are provided to users at their own risk. While all precautions have been undertaken to ensure only genuine downloads are available users are advised to verify their authenticity using third party anti-virus software or similar applications. We accept no responsibility for third party downloads and downloads provided by external third party websites and advise users to verify their authenticity using third party anti-virus software or similar applications.
Contact & Communication with Us
Users contacting us through this website users do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored on our website server securely in the EU until a time it is no longer required or has no use. We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purpose we collected it for, including for the purpose of satisfying any legal, accounting or reporting requirements.
Email Mailing List & Marketing Messages
We operate an email mailing list program, used to inform subscribers about products, services and/or news we supply/publish. Users can subscribe through an online automated process where they have given their explicit permission. Subscriber personal details are collected, processed, managed and stored in accordance with the regulations named in this policy above. Subscribers can unsubscribe at any time through an automated online service (Mail Chimp). The type and content of marketing messages subscribers receive, and if it may contain third party content, is outlined at the point of subscription. Email marketing messages may contain tracking beacons / tracked clickable links or similar server technologies in order to track subscriber activity within email marketing messages. Where used, such marketing messages may record a range of subscriber data relating to engagement, geographic, demographics and already stored subscriber data.
Our EMS (email marketing service) provider is Mail Chimp and you can read their privacy policy in the resources section.
External Website Links & Third Parties
Although we only look to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised to adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website. (External links are clickable text / banner / image links to other websites)
Shortened URL's; URL shortening is a technique used on the web to shorten URL's (Uniform Resource Locators) to something substantially shorter. This technique is especially used in social media and looks similar to this (example: http://bit.ly/zyVUBo). Users should take caution before clicking on shortened URL links and verify their authenticity before proceeding.
We cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite our best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and we cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.
Social Media Policy & Usage
We adopt a Social Media Policy to ensure our business and our staff conduct themselves accordingly online. While we may have official profiles on social media platforms users are advised to verify authenticity of such profiles before engaging with, or sharing information with such profiles. We will never ask for user passwords or personal details on social media platforms. Users are advised to conduct themselves appropriately when engaging with us on social media.
There may be instances where our website features social sharing buttons, which help share web content directly from web pages to the respective social media platforms. You use social sharing buttons at your own discretion and accept that doing so may publish content to your social media profile feed or page. You can find further information about some social media privacy and usage policies in the resources section below.
Resources & Further Information
The BoardRoom
c/o Chris Quigley Education Ltd
Sandy View Buildings
Front Street
Burnopfield
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE16 6PU
t: 01207 279 500
e: enquiries@chrisquigley.co.uk
19.2.18