WHO WE ARE
Business Measures gather and process your personal information in accordance with this privacy notice and in compliance with the relevant data protection regulation and laws. This notice provides you with the necessary information regarding your rights, our obligations and explains how, why and when we process your personal data when you are using the company’s website.
Our registered office is Charter House, Southdown Road, Harpenden, England AL5 1NL and we are a company registered in England and Wales under company number 13354237. Our designated Appointed Person for your consent and privacy related queries, is Alistair McGregor, who can be contacted at Business Measures Limited at the above address.
INFORMATION THAT WE COLLECT
We process your personal information to meet our legal, statutory and contractual obligations and to provide you with our products and services. We will never collect any unnecessary personal data from you and do not process your information in any way, other than as specified in this notice.
The personal data that we collect from you is: –
When interacting with our Site, data is automatically collected and shared with The Company by the technology platforms used. For example, your web browser or mobile device may share certain data with The Company as those devices interact with our Sites.
More information about these practices is included in the Cookies and Pixel Tags section below.
We collect information in the below ways: –
HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
Business Measures takes your privacy very seriously and will never disclose or share your data without your consent; unless required to do so by law. We only retain your data for as long as is necessary and for the purpose(s) specified in this notice. Where you have consented to us providing you with promotional offers and marketing, you are free to withdraw this consent at any time. The purposes and reasons for processing your personal data are detailed below: –
We will occasionally send you marketing information where we have assessed that it is beneficial to your business requirements. Such information will be non-intrusive and is processed on the grounds of legitimate interests.
YOUR RIGHTS
You have the right to access any personal information that we process about you and to request information about: –
You also have the right to request erasure of your personal data or to restrict processing (where applicable) in accordance with the data protection laws; as well as to object to any direct marketing from us. Where applicable, you have the right to data portability of your information and the right to be informed about any automated decision-making we may use.
If we receive a request from you to exercise any of the above rights, we may ask you to verify your identity before acting on the request; this is to ensure that your data is protected and kept secure.
SHARING AND DISCLOSING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We do not share or disclose any of your personal information without your consent, other than for the purposes specified in this notice or where there is a legal requirement.
SAFEGUARDING MEASURES
Business Measures takes your privacy seriously and takes every reasonable measure and precaution to protect and secure your personal data. We comply with UK data protection law.
We work hard to protect you and your information from unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure or destruction and have several layers of security measures in place, including: SSL, TLS encryptions when communicating between systems, restricted access, firewalls, anti-virus/malware, email encryption where required.
CONSEQUENCES OF NOT PROVIDING YOUR DATA
You are not obligated to provide your personal information to Business Measures, however, as this information is required for us to provide you with our services, we will not be able to offer all our services without it.
DATA MINIMISATION AND DATA RETENTION
We aim to never collect or store any information that is not required for the delivery of the services to which you subscribe. Any information that we do collect is and will always be explicitly accounted for in this Privacy policy. We will take reasonable steps to destroy or de-identify personal information we hold if it is no longer needed for the purposes set out above, or required for us to maintain a high level of care, in accordance with EU General Data Protection (GDPR) regulation and the ePrivacy regulation.
We retain your personal data for as long as we hold ‘legitimate interests’ to fulfil the purposes for which we collect it, until the interests cease to exist unless if otherwise required by law.
Where you have consented to us using your details for direct marketing, we will keep such data until you notify us otherwise and/or withdraw your consent.
HOW WE USE COOKIES
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
GOOGLE COOKIES
Business Measures uses Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users’ computers.
The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store and use this information. Google’s privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/