Privacy Policy
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March 2021
The privacy of our website visitors and clients is very important to us, and we are committed to safeguarding it. In offering an international service we endeavour to adhere to applicable data protection regulations recognising that these vary between countries and regions by following the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) in place in the Europeran Union.
1.0 Collecting personal information
The following types of personal information may be collected, stored, and used as poart of
our services:
1. information about your computer including your IP address, geographical location,
browser type and version, and operating system;
2. information about your visits to and use of this website including the referral source,
length of visit, page views, and website navigation paths;
3. information, such as your email address, that you enter when you fill in a contact page
on our website;
4. information that you enter while using the services on our website;
5. information that is generated while using our website, including when, how often, and
under what circumstances you use it;
6. information relating to any services you use, through our website, which includes
your name, address, telephone number, email address, and credit card details;
7. information that you post to our website with the intention of publishing it on the
internet, which includes your username, profile pictures, and the content of your
posts;
8. information contained in any communications that you send to us by email or through
our website, including its communication content and metadata;
9. in using on-line video conferencing tools for coaching, our clients sometimes request
a recording of the session. Any video recordings will require specific consent which
can be confirmed at the start of the recording or through the completiuon of the
GDPR consent form at the attached Link
10. any other personal information that you give us.
Before you disclose to us the personal information of another person, you must obtain that
person’s consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in
accordance with this policy
2.0 Using your personal information
Personal information submitted to us through our website will be used for the purposes
specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal
information for the following:
1. administering our website and business;
2. enabling your use of the services available on our website;
3. supplying services described on our website;
4. sending statements, invoices, and payment reminders to you, and collecting payments
from you;
5. sending you non-marketing commercial communications;
6. sending you email notifications that you have specifically requested;
7. sending you email newsletters, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time
if you no longer require the newsletter);
8. sending you marketing communications relating to our business (you can inform us at
any time if you no longer require marketing communications);
9. dealing with inquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website;
10. keeping our website secure and prevent fraud;
11. verifying compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website
(including monitoring private messages sent through our website private messaging
service); and
12. other uses.
3.0 Disclosing personal information
We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers,
professional advisers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors as reasonably necessary for the
purposes set out in this policy.
We may disclose your personal information;
1. to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
2. in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
3. in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing
information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk)
and
4. to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent
authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion,
such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal
information.
Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third
parties.
4.0 International data transfers
1. Information that we collect may be stored, processed in, and transferred between any
of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use the information in
accordance with this policy.
2. Information that we collect may be transferred to the following countries which do
not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic
Area: the United States of America, Russia, Japan, China, Hong Kong SAR and India.
3. Personal information that you publish on our website or submit for publication on our
website may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the
use or misuse of such information by others.
4. Our coaching services are moslt offered as an on-line service using proprietary video
conferencing software like Zoom or Google Meet. These platforms will have their
own policies about data they track in offering these on-line facilities which can be
viewed at the respective service providers web sites. The link below is for Zoom
which is our most frequently used medium. https://zoom.us/terms
5.0 Retaining personal information
1. Our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed
to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and
deletion of personal information.
2. Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for
longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
3. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section G, we will retain documents
(including electronic documents) containing personal data:
- to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
- if we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective
legal proceedings; and
- in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing
information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit
risk).
6.0 Security of your personal information
1. We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss,
misuse, or alteration of your personal information.
2. We will store all the personal information you provide on our password protected
laptops.
3. You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently
insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
laptops.
7.0 Amendments
We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.
You should check this page occasionally to ensure you understand any changes to this
policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private
messaging system on our website.
8.0 Your rights
You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you;
provision of such information will be subject to the following:
- the payment of a fee to cover associated costs; and
- the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity. (we will usually accept a
photocopy of your passport certified by a notary plus an original copy of a utility bill
showing your current address).
We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.
You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for use in any case
studies or research. In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our
use of your personal information for case studies or research purposes.
9.0 Third party websites
Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third party websites. These links are
provided to deliver a better user experience and the relevant sites will have their own
cookie privacy policies. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy
policies and practices of third parties.
10.0 Updating information
Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected
or updated. We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in
either GDPR or to reflect other developments in data privacy practice. Any updates will be
notified to our current clients.
11.0 Cookies
Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and
numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The
identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the
server. Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie
will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted
by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end
of the user session, when the web browser is closed. Cookies do not typically contain any
information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you
may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. We use both session
and persistent cookies on our website.
1. This web site uses Google Analytics on our website to recognize a computer when a
user visits the website / track users as they navigate the website / analyze the use of
the website / administer the website / prevent fraud and improve the security of the
website.
2. Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies the steps to do this can be found
on your browser companies web site or a range of third party web sites. Blocking all
cookies could have a negative impact upon the usability of this website.
3. You can delete cookies already stored on your computer and information on the steps
to do this can be found on your browser companies web site or a range of third party
web sites. Deleting cookies may have a negative impact on the usability of the
websites.