Data Protection Statement

By submitting this form you agree to Data Protection People Limited as data controller using the data provided for the purposes set out in the table below. The table also shows the lawful basis for processing your information.

Purpose	Lawful basis
To contact you about the things you request when you submit this form and to store the data submitted in a data base of enquiries.	The pursuit of a legitimate interest we have in responding to enquiries and maintaining high levels of customer service and information management.
To create and maintain a mailing list of people who have expressed an interest in receiving electronic marketing communications from us such as our newsletter.	The pursuit of a legitimate interest to create a marketing database to further our commercial interests.
To monitor the effectiveness of our marketing and communications programme including our website and email marketing program.	The pursuit of a legitimate interest in promoting the business through direct marketing including electronic direct marketing.

The information you provide will be stored in our computer systems until such time as either: a) you ask us to remove it; b) we believe that you are no longer interested in our business; or c) we no longer need it for the purposes it was collected. In general terms we would not anticipate retaining any information about enquiries for any more than 5 years.

You have the right to request access to, and the rectification or erasure of personal data that we hold about you as well as a right to object to and to a restriction of our processing of your personal data.

You may also lodge a complaint about us with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) at www.ico.org.uk. Where the processing of information about you is based on consent you may withdraw your consent at any time and will be provided with instructions on how to do that. We have appointed the following organisations to process data on our behalf:
— Mason Technologies Limited [hosting our website];
— Salesforce.com [hosing our database system];
— Microsoft [Office 365 to correspond via email].

Subscribing to our Newsletter

If you subscribe to our newsletter we will transfer personal data about you to our email broadcasting platform provided by the Benchmark Internet Group which is located in the U.S.A. and is certified under the US-EU Privacy Shield thereby providing adequate protection of your rights and freedoms.

Further information is available on the privacy shield web site. We will use the functionality of the email broadcast service to record how you interact with our emails noting opens, unopens, clicks and bounces. These statistics are collected automatically and analysed to monitor the effectiveness of our marketing program, but also to identify areas of interest expressed by recipients.

We will not process the information you have provided for any other purposes incompatible with those referred to in this statement. We have appointed a Privacy Officer, Philip Brining who can be contacted via email at privacyofficer@dataprotectionpeople.com for further information about our approach to privacy.

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