Privacy Policy

PRIVACY NOTICE

This is the privacy notice of Ali Stewart & Co. In this document, “we”, “our”, or “us” refer to Ali Stewart & Co.

We are company number 08622414 registered in the United Kingdom

Our registered office is at 35 Chequers Court, Brown Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP1 2AS

Introduction:

  1. This is a notice to inform you of our policy about all information that we record about you. It sets out the conditions under which we may process any information that we collect from you, or that you provide to us. It covers information that could identify you (“personal information”) and information that could not. In the context of the law and this notice, “process” means collect, store, transfer, use or otherwise act on information.

  2. We regret that if there are one or more points below with which you are not happy, your best recourse is to leave our website immediately.

  3. We take seriously the protection of your privacy and confidentiality. We understand that all visitors to our website are entitled to know that their personal data will not be used for any purpose unintended by them, and will not accidentally fall into the hands of a third party.

  4. We undertake to preserve the confidentiality of all information you provide to us, and hope that you reciprocate.

  5. Our policy complies with UK law accordingly implemented, including that required by the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

  6. The law requires us to tell you about your rights and our obligations to you in regards to the processing and control of your personal data. We do this now, by requesting that you read the information provided at knowyourprivacyrights.org

  7. Except as set out below, we do not share, or sell, or disclose to a third party, any information collected through our website. A contracted marketing agency will have access to the data for the purposes of responding or acting on our behalf.

 

THE BASES ON WHICH WE PROCESS INFORMATION ABOUT YOU

The law requires us to determine under which of six defined bases we process different categories of your personal information, and to notify you of the basis for each category.

If a basis on which we process your personal information is no longer relevant then we shall immediately stop processing your data.

If the basis changes then if required by law we shall notify you of the change and of any new basis under which we have determined that we can continue to process your information.

Our Data Protection Officer is Caroline Scallan.

1. INFORMATION WE PROCESS BECAUSE WE HAVE A CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATION WITH YOU

When you create an account on our website, buy a product or service from us, or otherwise agree to our terms and conditions, a contract is formed between you and us.

In order to carry out our obligations under that contract we must process the information you give us. Some of this information may be personal information.

We may use it in order to:

  • Verify your identity for security purposes

  • Sell products to you

  • Provide you with our services

  • Provide you with suggestions and advice on products, services and how to obtain the most from using our website

We process this information on the basis there is a contract between us, or that you have requested we use the information before we enter into a legal contract.

Additionally, we may aggregate this information in a general way and use it to provide class information, for example to monitor our performance with respect to a particular service we provide. If we use it for this purpose, you as an individual will not be personally identifiable.

We shall continue to process this information until the contract between us ends or is terminated by either party under the terms of the contract.

2. INFORMATION WE PROCESS WITH YOUR CONSENT

Through certain actions when otherwise there is no contractual relationship between us, such as when you browse our website or ask us to provide you more information about our business, including our products and services, you provide your consent to us to process information that may be personal information.

Wherever possible, we aim to obtain your explicit consent to process this information, for example, by asking you to agree to our use of cookies.

Sometimes you might give your consent implicitly, such as when you send us a message by e-mail to which you would reasonably expect us to reply.

Except where you have consented to our use of your information for a specific purpose, we do not use your information in any way that would identify you personally. We may aggregate it in a general way and use it to provide class information, for example to monitor the performance of a particular page on our website.

If you have given us explicit permission to do so, we may from time to time pass your name and contact information to selected associates whom we consider may provide services or products you would find useful.

We continue to process your information on this basis until you withdraw your consent or it can be reasonably assumed that your consent no longer exists.

You may withdraw your consent at any time by instructing us info@alistewartandco.com.

We are subject to the law like everyone else. Sometimes, we must process your information in order to comply with a statutory obligation.

For example, we may be required to give information to legal authorities if they so request or if they have the proper authorisation such as a search warrant or court order.

This may include your personal information.

 

SPECIFIC USES OF INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE TO US

3. INFORMATION PROVIDED ON THE UNDERSTANDING THAT IT WILL BE SHARED WITH A THIRD PARTY

From time to time we may include blogs or material which you can comment on. These areas of the website will allow you to post information with a view to that information being read, copied, downloaded, or used by other people.

Examples include:

  • Posting a message on a forum

  • Tagging an image

  • Clicking on an icon next to another visitor’s message to convey your agreement, disagreement or thanks

In posting personal information, it is up to you to satisfy yourself about the privacy level of every person who might use it.

We do not specifically use this information however, we may allow it to be displayed or shared.

We do store it, and we reserve a right to use it in the future in any way we decide.

Once your information enters the public domain, we have no control over what any individual third party may do with it. We accept no responsibility for their actions at any time.

Provided your request is reasonable and there is no legal basis for us to retain it, then at our discretion we will delete personal information that you have posted. You can make a request by contacting us at info@alistewartandco.com

4. COMPLAINTS REGARDING CONTENT ON OUR WEBSITE

If we choose to use user generated content on our website, we will attempt to moderate it, but we are not always able to do so as soon as that content is published.

If you complain about any of the content on our website, we shall investigate your complaint.

If we feel it is justified or if we believe the law requires us to do so, we shall remove the content while we investigate.

Free speech is a fundamental right, so we have to make a judgment as to whose right will be obstructed: yours, or that of the person who posted the content that offends you.

If we think your complaint is vexatious or without any basis, we shall not correspond with you about it.

5. INFORMATION RELATING TO YOUR METHOD OF PAYMENT

We store information about your debit or credit card or other means of payment when you first provide it to us.

We also store it to help us prevent fraud.

We take the following measures to protect your payment information:

  • We will keep your payment information encrypted on our servers.

  • We do not keep all your payment information so as:

  • to prevent the possibility of our duplicating a transaction without a new instruction from you;

  • to prevent any other third party from carrying out a transaction without your consent

  • Access to your payment information is restricted to authorised staff only.

  • If we ask you questions about your payment information, we only show [partial detail OR the first four OR the last four digits of the debit or credit card number], so that you can identify the means of payment to which we refer.

We automatically delete your payment information [after 30 days OR when a credit or debit card expires].

6. SENDING A MESSAGE TO OUR SUPPORT TEAM

When you contact us, whether by telephone, through our website or by e-mail, we collect the data you have given to us in order to reply with the information you need.

We record your request and our reply in order to increase the efficiency of our business.

We keep personally identifiable information associated with your message, such as your name and email address so as to be able to track our communications with you to provide a high quality service.

7. COMPLAINT HANDLING

When we receive a complaint, we record all the information you have given to us.

We use that information to resolve your complaint.

If your complaint reasonably requires us to contact some other person, we may decide to give to that other person some of the information contained in your complaint. We do this as infrequently as possible, but it is a matter for our sole discretion as to whether we do give information, and if we do, what that information is.

We may also compile statistics showing information obtained from this source to assess the level of service we provide, but not in a way that could identify you or any other person.

 

USE OF INFORMATION WE COLLECT THROUGH AUTOMATED SYSTEMS WHEN YOU VISIT OUR WEBSITE

8. COOKIES

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer’s hard drive by your web browser when you visit any website. They allow information gathered on one web page to be stored until it is needed for use on another, allowing a website to provide you with a personalised experience and the website owner with statistics about how you use the website so that it can be improved.

Some cookies may last for a defined period of time, such as one day or until you close your browser. Others last indefinitely.

Your web browser should allow you to delete any you choose. It also should allow you to prevent or limit their use.

Our website uses cookies. They are placed by software that operates on our servers, and by software operated by third parties whose services we use.

When you first visit our website, you are reminded of the option to disable cookies in your browser. If you choose not to accept them, we shall not use them for your visit except to record that you have not consented to their use for any other purpose.

We use cookies in the following ways:

  • To track how you use our website

  • To record whether you have seen specific messages we display on our website

  • To keep you signed in our site

  • To record your answers to any surveys or questionnaires on our site while you complete them

9. PERSONAL IDENTIFIERS FROM YOUR BROWSING ACTIVITY

Requests by your web browser to our servers for web pages and other content on our website are recorded.

We record information such as your geographical location, your Internet service provider and your IP address. We may also record information about the software you are using to browse our website, such as the type of computer or device and the screen resolution.

We use this information in aggregate to assess the popularity of the webpages on our website and how we perform in providing content to you.

If combined with other information we know about you from previous visits, the data possibly could be used to identify you personally, even if you are not signed in to our website.

10. OUR USE OF RE-MARKETING

Re-marketing involves placing a cookie on your computer when you browse our website in order to be able to serve to you an advert for our products or services when you visit some other website.

We may use a third party to provide us with re-marketing services from time to time. If so, then if you have consented to our use of cookies, you may see advertisements for our products and services on other websites.

 

DISCLOSURE AND SHARING OF YOUR INFORMATION

11. INFORMATION WE OBTAIN FROM THIRD PARTIES

Although we do not disclose your personal information to any third party, with the exception of our contracted marketing agency that acts on our behalf and does not pass on your data to any other third parties, we sometimes receive data that is indirectly made up from your personal information from third parties whose services we use.

12. THIRD PARTY ADVERTISING ON OUR WEBSITE

Third parties may advertise on our website whilst this is not the case at present, this may be something which happens in the future. In doing so, those parties, their agents or other companies working for them may use technology that automatically collects information about you when their advertisement is displayed on our website.

They may also use other technology such as cookies or JavaScript to personalise the content of, and to measure the performance of their adverts.

We do not have control over these technologies or the data that these parties obtain. Accordingly, this privacy notice does not cover the information practices of these third parties.

13. DATA MAY BE PROCESSED OUTSIDE THE EUROPEAN UNION

Our websites are hosted in the UK. Spreadsheet server is hosted in Sweden.

We may also use outsourced services in countries outside the European Union from time to time in other aspects of our business.

Accordingly data obtained within the UK or any other country could be processed outside the European Union.

We use the following safeguards with respect to data transferred outside the European Union:

  • The data protection clauses in our contracts with data processors require them to abide by the GDPR rules. Once established a transfer clauses written by or approved by a supervisory authority in the European Union specifically that in the UK will also be used.

  • We comply with a code of conduct approved by a supervisory authority in the European Union and specifically that of the UK. In the UK we follow the guidance of the Information Commissioners Office.

  • when a suitable certification mechanism is in place for the relevant industry in Training and Education, Ali Stewart & Co will comply to these standards

 

ACCESS TO YOUR OWN INFORMATION

14. ACCESS TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

  • At any time you may review or update personally identifiable information that we hold about you, by requesting this information via email at data@alistewartandco.com

  • After receiving the request, we will tell you when we expect to provide you with the information, and whether we require any fee for providing it to you. We would expect to supply the information within a 14 day period. However, if the request involves a complex enquiry with multiple contact names, we will need to ensure we follow the rules of GDPR and by contacting individuals to confirm they are have agreed for their information to be accessed.

15. REMOVAL OF YOUR INFORMATION

If you wish us to remove personally identifiable information from our website, you may contact us at data@alistewartandco.com

This may limit the service we can provide to you.

16. VERIFICATION OF YOUR INFORMATION

When we receive any request to access, edit or delete personal identifiable information we shall first take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting you access or otherwise taking any action. This is important to safeguard your information.

 

OTHER MATTERS

17. USE OF SITE BY CHILDREN

  • We do not sell products or provide services for purchase by children, nor do we market to children.

  • If you are under 18, you may use our website only with consent from a parent or guardian

  • We collect data about all users of and visitors to these areas regardless of age, and we anticipate that some of those users and visitors will be children.

  • Such child users and visitors will inevitably visit other parts of the site and will be subject to whatever on-site marketing they find, wherever they visit.

18. ENCRYPTION OF DATA SENT BETWEEN US

We will in the future use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates to verify our identity to your browser and to encrypt any data you give us.

Whenever information is transferred between us, you can check that it is done so using SSL by looking for a closed padlock symbol or other trust mark in your browser’s URL bar or toolbar.

19. HOW YOU CAN COMPLAIN

  • If you are not happy with our privacy policy or if have any complaint then you should tell us by email. Our address is data@alistewartandco.com

  • If a dispute is not settled then we hope you will agree to attempt to resolve it by engaging in good faith with us in a process of mediation or arbitration.

  • If you are in any way dissatisfied about how we process your personal information, you have a right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office. This can be done at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/

20. RETENTION PERIOD FOR PERSONAL DATA

Except as otherwise mentioned in this privacy notice, we keep your personal information only for as long as required by us:

  • To provide you with the services you have requested;

  • To comply with other law, including for the period demanded by our tax authorities;

  • To support a claim or defence in court.

21. COMPLIANCE WITH THE LAW

Our privacy policy has been compiled so as to comply with the law of every country or legal jurisdiction in which we aim to do business. If you think it fails to satisfy the law of your jurisdiction, we should like to hear from you.

However, ultimately it is your choice as to whether you wish to use our website.

22. REVIEW OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may update this privacy notice from time to time as necessary. The terms that apply to you are those posted here on our website on the day you use our website. We advise you to print a copy for your records.

If you have any question regarding our privacy policy, please contact us.

 

EXPLANATORY NOTES

GENERAL NOTES

The EU Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC), implemented as the General Data Protection Regulation, or the GDPR, comes into force from May 2018.

In the UK, the Data Protection Bill enshrines the law in the GDPR, making it applicable even after the UK leaves the European Union.

The requirements under the new law are similar in extent to existing data protection law in the UK. If your business complies with existing law, then the changes you need to make are likely to be small.

The possible implications for non-compliance are now much more severe. In theory, the Information Commissioner’s Office (the ICO) has the power to fine a business 4% of its annual worldwide turnover.

However, as with other EU law regarding selling to consumers we believe that the ICO in practice is unlikely to fine many small businesses and organisations without having first given a warning. Having a privacy notice that shows some effort to comply with the law is likely, in our opinion, to generate enough goodwill with the ICO to avoid a fine in the first instance.

Updating your website privacy notice is not the only requirement for compliance with the GDPR. You are also likely to need to change how customers and visitors can access personal data held about them, and create new procedures for obtaining compliance to collect and use personal data.

 

CONTACT US

If you have any questions, or you would like to find out more about this privacy notice you can contact us at:

Ali Stewart & Co., Ashburn, Bridge House Gardens, Salisbury SP5 3FD

T:  +44 (0) 1725 511 916
E: info@alistewartandco.com