Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies between you, the User of this Website and McManus Consulting, the owner and provider of this Website. McManus Consulting takes the privacy of your information very seriously. This Privacy Policy applies to our use of any and all Data collected by us or provided by you in relation to your use of the Website.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully.

Definitions and interpretation

Data
Collectively all information that you submit to McManus Consulting via the Website. This definition incorporates, where applicable, the definitions provided in the Data Protection Laws.

Cookies
A small text file placed on your computer by this Website when you visit certain parts of the Website and/or when you use certain features of the Website. Details of the cookies used by this Website are set out in the clause below (Cookies).

Data Protection Laws
Any applicable law relating to the processing of personal Data, including but not limited to the Directive 96/46/EC (Data Protection Directive) or the GDPR, and any national implementing laws, regulations and secondary legislation, for as long as the GDPR is effective in the UK.

GDPR
The General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679.

McManus Consulting, or us
McManus Consulting, a company incorporated in England and Wales whose registered office is at Rotherham.

UK and EU Cookie Law
The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 as amended by the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) Regulations 2011.

User or you
Any third party that accesses the Website and is not either (i) employed by McManus Consulting and acting in the course of their employment or (ii) engaged as a consultant or otherwise providing services to McManus Consulting and accessing the Website in connection with the provision of such services.

Website
The Website that you are currently using, https://mcmanusconsulting.co.uk/, and any sub-domains of this site unless expressly excluded by their own terms and conditions.

Scope of this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies only to the actions of McManus Consulting and Users with respect to this Website. It does not extend to any Websites that can be accessed from this Website including, but not limited to, any links we may provide to social media Websites.

For purposes of the applicable Data Protection Laws, McManus Consulting is the “data controller”. This means that McManus Consulting determines the purposes for which, and the manner in which, your Data is processed.

Data collected

We may collect the following Data, which includes personal Data, from you:

Name
Contact information such as email addresses and telephone numbers
Demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests
IP address (automatically collected)
Web browser type and version (automatically collected)
Operating system (automatically collected)

How we collect Data

We collect Data in the following ways:

Data is given to us by you
Data is received from other sources
Data is collected automatically

Data that is given to us by you
McManus Consulting will collect your Data in a number of ways, for example:

When you contact us through the Website, by telephone, post, e-mail or through any other means
When you use our services

Data that is received from third parties
McManus Consulting will receive Data about you from the following third parties:

Website tracking application

Data that is received from publicly available third party sources
We will receive Data about you from the following publicly available third party sources:

Facebook & Twitter

Data that is collected automatically
To the extent that you access the Website, we will collect your Data automatically, for example:

We automatically collect some information about your visit to the Website. This information helps us to make improvements to Website content and navigation, and includes your IP address, the date, times and frequency with which you access the Website and the way you use and interact with its content.
We will collect your Data automatically via cookies, in line with the cookie settings on your browser. For more information about cookies, and how we use them on the Website, see the section below, headed “Cookies”.

Our use of Data

Any or all of the above Data may be required by us from time to time in order to provide you with the best possible service and experience when using our Website. Specifically, Data may be used by us for the following reasons:

Internal record keeping
Improvement of our products / services
Transmission by email of marketing materials that may be of interest to you
Contact for market research purposes which may be done using email, telephone, fax or mail. Such information may be used to customise or update the Website

In each case, in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Who we share Data with

We may share your Data with the following groups of people for the following reasons:

Our employees, agents and/or professional advisors – for contact, admin and marketing purposes.

In each case, in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Keeping Data secure

We will use technical and organisational measures to safeguard your Data, for example:

Access to your account is controlled by a password and a user name that is unique to you.
We store your Data on secure servers.

Technical and organisational measures include measures to deal with any suspected data breach. If you suspect any misuse or loss or unauthorised access to your Data, please let us know immediately by contacting us via this e-mail address: [email protected].

If you want detailed information from Get Safe Online on how to protect your information and your computers and devices against fraud, identity theft, viruses and many other online problems, please visit www.getsafeonline.org. Get Safe Online is supported by HM Government and leading businesses.

Data retention

Unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law, we will only hold your Data on our systems for the period necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy or until you request that the Data be deleted.

Even if we delete your Data, it may persist on backup or archival media for legal, tax or regulatory purposes.

Your rights

You have the following rights in relation to your Data:

Right to access
Right to correct
Right to erase
Right to restrict our use of your Data
Right to data portability
Right to object

To make enquiries or exercise any of your rights set out above, please contact us via [email protected].

If you are not satisfied with the way a complaint you make in relation to your Data is handled by us, you may refer your complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) at https://ico.org.uk/.

Transfers outside the European Economic Area

Data which we collect from you may be stored and processed in and transferred to countries outside of the European Economic Area (EEA). For example, this could occur if our servers or service providers are located outside the EEA.

We will only transfer Data outside the EEA where it complies with data protection legislation and provides adequate safeguards.

Links to other Websites

This Website may, from time to time, provide links to other Websites. We have no control over such Websites and are not responsible for their content. This Privacy Policy does not extend to your use of such Websites. You are advised to read their Privacy Policies before use.

Changes of business and control

McManus Consulting may, from time to time, expand or reduce our business and this may involve the sale and/or transfer of control of all or part of McManus Consulting. Data provided by Users will, where it is relevant, be transferred along with that part and the new owner will be permitted to use the Data under the terms of this Privacy Policy.

We may also disclose Data to a prospective purchaser of our business or any part of it.

Cookies

This Website may place and access certain Cookies on your computer. McManus Consulting uses Cookies to improve your experience. All Cookies used are in accordance with current UK and EU Cookie Law.

Before the Website places Cookies on your computer, you will be presented with a message bar requesting your consent. You may, if you wish, deny consent to the placing of Cookies; however, certain features of the Website may not function fully or as intended.

This cookie policy has been created and updated by Consent Management – CookieFirst.

Consent to the use of cookies.

For our website to function properly we use cookies. To obtain your valid consent for the use and storage of cookies in the browser you use to access our website and to properly document this we use a consent management platform: CookieFirst. This technology is provided by Digital Data Solutions BV, Plantage Middenlaan 42a, 1018 DH, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Website: https://cookiefirst.com referred to as CookieFirst.

When you access our website, a connection is established with CookieFirst’s server to give us the possibility to obtain valid consent from you to the use of certain cookies. CookieFirst then stores a cookie in your browser in order to be able to activate only those cookies to which you have consented and to properly document this. The data processed is stored until the predefined storage period expires or you request to delete the data. Certain mandatory legal storage periods may apply notwithstanding the aforementioned.

CookieFirst is used to obtain the legally required consent for the use of cookies. The legal basis for this is article 6(1)(c) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Data processing agreement

We have concluded a data processing agreement with CookieFirst. This is a contract required by data protection law, which ensures that data of our website visitors is only processed in accordance with our instructions and in compliance with the GDPR.

Server log files

Our website and CookieFirst automatically collect and store information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. The following data is collected:

Your consent status or the withdrawal of consent
Your anonymised IP address
Information about your Browser
Information about your Device
The date and time you have visited our website
The webpage url where you saved or updated your consent preferences
The approximate location of the user that saved their consent preference
A universally unique identifier (UUID) of the website visitor that clicked the cookie banner

General

You may not transfer any of your rights under this Privacy Policy to any other person. We may transfer our rights under this Privacy Policy where we reasonably believe your rights will not be affected.

If any court finds any provision of this Privacy Policy invalid, illegal or unenforceable, that provision will be deemed deleted, and the validity of the rest will not be affected.

This Agreement will be governed by the law of England and Wales. All disputes will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English and Welsh courts.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

McManus Consulting reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time or as required by law. Any changes will be posted on the Website.

You may contact McManus Consulting by email at [email protected] or by phone on 07900 096343.

01 May 2018