Cheshire Business Solutions Ltd

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This is the Privacy Policy of Cheshire Business Solutions Ltd a company registered in England and Wales under company number 12476634

Cheshire Business Solutions Ltd takes the protection of your privacy very seriously. We will only use your personal information to deliver the services you have requested from us, and to meet our legal responsibilities.

How do we collect information from you?

We obtain information about you when you engage us to deliver our services and/or when you use our website, for example, when you contact us about our services.

What type of information do we collect from you?

The personal information we collect from you will vary depending on which services you engage us to deliver. The personal information we collect might include your name, address, telephone number, email address, bank account details, your IP address, which pages you may have visited on our website and when you accessed them.

How is your information used?

In general terms, and depending on which services you engage us to deliver, as part of providing our agreed services we may use your information to:

contact you by post, email or telephone
verify your identity where this is required
understand your needs and how they may be met
maintain our records in accordance with applicable legal and regulatory obligations
process financial transactions
prevent and detect crime, fraud or corruption

How long we keep your data

Under the GDPR, we’re required to ensure any personal data we hold is accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date, but also that we keep it no longer than is necessary for the purposes we use it for. We may also be required by law to retain certain types of data for a longer period.

All telecommunications data is kept in line with the European Union’s Data Retention Directive, for a minimum of one year and a maximum of two years. A copy is archived for the minimum period, after which time all archived data is purged and erased.

Who has access to your information?

We will not sell or rent your information to third parties
We will not share your information with third parties for marketing purposes.
Any staff with access to your information have a duty of confidentiality under the ethical standards that this company is required to follow
Third Party Service Providers working on our behalf
We may pass your information to our third party service providers, agents, subcontractors and other associated organisations for the purposes of completing tasks and providing services to you on our behalf, for example to process payroll or basic bookkeeping. However, when we use third party service providers, we disclose only the personal information that is necessary to deliver the service and we have a contract in place that requires them to keep your information secure and not to use it for their own purposes
Please note that some of our third party service providers may be located outside of the European Economic Area (EEA). We will only disclose personal data to a third party including a third party outside of the EEA provided that the transfer is undertaken in compliance with the data protection legislation
Please be assured that we will not release your information to third parties unless you have requested that we do so, or we are required to do so by law, for example, by a court order or for the purposes of prevention and detection of crime, fraud or corruption

How you can update your information

Keeping your information up to date and accurate is important to us. We commit to regularly review and correct where necessary, the information that we hold about you. If any of your information changes, please email or write to us, or call us using the ‘Contact information’ noted below

Security precautions in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of your information

Whilst we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk

Once we receive your information, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems

Your data will usually be processed in our offices in the UK. However, to allow us to operate efficient digital processes, we sometimes need to store information in servers located outside the UK, but within the EEA. We take the security of your data seriously and so all our systems have appropriate security in place that complies with all applicable legislative and regulatory requirements.

Your choices

We may occasionally contact you by post, email or telephone with details of any changes in legal and regulatory requirements or other developments that may be relevant to your affairs and, where applicable, how we may assist you further.

Your rights

Access to your information: You have the right to request a copy of the personal information about you that we hold.

Correcting your information: We want to make sure that your personal information is accurate, complete and up to date, and you may ask us to correct any personal information about you that you believe does not meet these standards.

Deletion of your information: You have the right to ask us to delete personal information about you where:

you consider that we no longer require the information for the purposes for which it was obtained
you have validly objected to our use of your personal information - see ‘Objecting to how we may use your information’ below
our use of your personal information is contrary to law or our other legal obligations.

We will archive your data on request and will arrange for this to be deleted as soon as possible.

Restricting how we may use your information: In some cases, you may ask us to restrict how we use your personal information. This right might apply, for example, where we are checking the accuracy of personal information about you that we hold or assessing the validity of any objection you have made to our use of your information. The right might also apply where there is no longer a basis for using your personal information, but you do not want us to delete the data. Where this right is validly exercised, we may only use the relevant personal information with your consent, for legal claims or where there are other public interest grounds to do so.

Objecting to how we may use your information: Where we use your personal information to perform tasks carried out in the public interest then, if you ask us to, we will stop using that personal information unless there are overriding legitimate grounds to continue.

Changes to our privacy notice

We reserve the right to update our Privacy Policy at any time. We will take reasonable steps to draw your attention to any changes in our Policy. However, to be on the safe side, we suggest that you read this document each time you use the website to ensure that it still meets with your approval. Should you disagree with any changes made, you may withdraw your consent at any time using the methods outlined

This privacy notice was last updated on 28/09/2021.

Contact information

Nicky Cheshire
Tel: 03301 334 694
Email: Nicky@cheshire-business.co.uk