Privacy Policy

WHAT IS THIS PRIVACY POLICY FOR?

This privacy policy is for this website www.jonbakerconsulting.co.uk and served by Jon Baker Consulting and governs the privacy of its users who choose to use it.

The policy sets out the different areas where user privacy is concerned and outlines the obligations & requirements of the users, the website and website owners. Furthermore, the way this website processes, stores and protects user data and information will also be detailed within this policy.

THE WEBSITE

This website and its owners take a proactive approach to user privacy and ensure the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its users throughout their visiting experience. This website complies to all UK national laws and requirements for user privacy.

USE OF COOKIES

This website uses cookies to better the users experience while visiting the website. Where applicable this website uses a cookie control system allowing the user on their first visit to the website to allow or disallow the use of cookies on their computer / device. This complies with recent legislation requirements for websites to obtain explicit consent from users before leaving behind or reading files such as cookies on a user’s computer / device.

Cookies are small files saved to the user’s computer’s hard drive that track, save and store information about the user’s interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.

Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computers hard drive, they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors.

This website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. This software is provided by Google Analytics which uses cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computer’s hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information. You can read Google’s privacy policy here for further information.

Other cookies may be stored to your computer’s hard drive by external vendors when this website uses referral programs, sponsored links or adverts. Such cookies are used for conversion and referral tracking and typically expire after 30 days, though some may take longer. No personal information is stored, saved or collected.

CONTACT & COMMUNICATION

Users contacting this website and/or its owners 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 securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use, as detailed in the Data Protection Act 1998. Every effort has been made to ensure a safe and secure form to email submission process but advise users using such form to email processes that they do so at their own risk.

This website and its owners use any information submitted to provide you with further information about the products / services they offer or to assist you in answering any questions or queries you may have submitted. This includes using your details to subscribe you to any email newsletter program the website operates but only if this was made clear to you and your express permission was granted when submitting any form to email process. Or whereby you the consumer have previously purchased from or enquired about purchasing from the company a product or service that the email newsletter relates to. This is by no means an entire list of your user rights in regard to receiving email marketing material. Your details are not passed on to any third parties without prior consent.

EXTERNAL LINKS

Although this website only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised 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).

The owners of this website cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS

Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and its owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.

Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate / engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. This website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.

This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.

SHORTENED LINKS IN SOCIAL MEDIA

This website and its owners through their social media platform accounts may share web links to relevant web pages. By default some social media platforms shorten lengthy urls [web addresses] (this is an example: http://bit.ly/2pIEq7v). Users are advised to take caution and good judgement before clicking any shortened urls published on social media platforms by this website and its owners. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine urls are published many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.

GDPR

Keeping your data safe and secure is a top priority for Jon Baker Consulting, and we are committed to both respecting and protecting your privacy whilst giving you control of your data at all times.

The introduction of the new data protection law on 25th May 2018 isn’t changing what we use your personal information for but it makes life more transparent in knowing how we use and protect your information.

The data controller of your data is Jon Baker Consulting, 7 Cumbria Close, Thornbury, Bristol BS35 2YE.

We collect and securely store the following data in order for us to undertake our core business activity.

Contact details

All contact details are stored securely, and consent is acquired upon becoming a contact of Jon Baker Consulting.

3rd party Supplier contacts required to support our business

Jon Baker Consulting would not share your data with any third party without prior consent. We require third parties to respect the security of your data and to treat it in accordance with the law. All our third-party service providers are required to take appropriate security measures to protect your personal information. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes.

Active and prospective client and customer contacts

If we hold your business contact details such as an email address, we will rely on legitimate interests of the business to send you occasional and relevant email or marketing communications. If you wish to opt out of emails simply reply Unsubscribe. Any email will always provide you with an option to opt out from future communications of this kind. By signing a contractual agreement with Jon Baker Consulting you are opting in to us retaining your company data as a customer for a period of three years. 

What we will do:

· Keep your data secure and protected at all times.

· Give you the option to unsubscribe to all or any specific contact from Jon Baker Consulting.

· Always gain your prior consent if we are processing your data or sharing it with any third party

· Give you the right to be forgotten. Please email jon@jonbakerconsulting.co.uk with any requests.

· Delete your data if there is no longer a legitimate interest in us holding it. (Our process is to remove any data stored which we have not engaged with in the last three years.)

· Alert you of any data breaches.

What we won’t do:

· Put your data at risk.

· Share your data to any third party without prior consent.