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Last updated: 2 August 2012
This document should be read in conjunction with our Terms of Use, a copy of which can be found at https://www.beckandco.co.uk/terms/ Words and phrases defined in the Terms of Use have the same meaning where used in this Privacy Policy.
This Website, the homepage for which is located: https://www.beckandco.co.uk/ and the services (the “Services”) made available on or through it (the “Website”) is controlled and operated by operated by BECK AND CO CONSULTANTS LIMITED (referred to in these Terms of Use as “Beck&Co”, “we”, “us” or “our”). Beck&Co is a company registered in England and Wales with company registration number 05334431. Our registered office address is: BECK AND CO CONSULTANTS LIMITED, 6 Strawberry Vale, Twickenham TW1 4RU.
This Privacy Policy explains what personally identifiable information is collected and recorded about you during your visit to the Website and what we do with that information. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully because by using the Website and/or Services made available on or through the Website you are deemed to have consented to this Privacy Policy.
Beck&Co take your privacy very seriously. We are management consultants that use bespoke software and web services to provide our clients with modern web-enabled systems to connect, share and analyse information. Whilst we will keep your information confidential, by using our Services and sharing your data on this Website or through our related tools, you may choose to make your private information available to other people. How confidential it remains is then up to them – so make sure you trust them. If you have any doubt about how your information will be further disseminated, you should treat the information that you share as though it were being made public information.
Every time that you communicate information or images on this Website you should ensure that you:
Access to the Website is restricted to registered Users.
In order to become a registered User you will have to provide us with certain personally identifiable information, such as your name, email address and age. If you inform us that you are under sixteen (16) years old, we will not allow you to register and use the Website.
The data we collect is email addresses and user names.
In order to have the full benefit of the Website you understand that you will be uploading and sharing information with other registered Users, and that in order to facilitate that, we will store it in our servers and will provide access to in accordance with our Terms of Use, this Privacy Policy, the Cookies Policy and your chosen settings.
You will upload information regarding your business, competing businesses and other companies, much of which may be confidential, together with personal information, all of which we must store and which may be shared, your personal information may without limitation include personal data and even sensitive personal data (as defined by the Data Protection Act 1998), such as: your name, gender, date of birth, your business, videos and/or pictures, private messages or other personal statements. You accept that such information will be personal data and (though we do not intend to collect sensitive personal information) you accept it may be sensitive personal data and by registering to use the Website you consent to our controlling and/or processing that data and that you provide it to us at your sole discretion.
Beck&Co may also capture additional information regarding your other activity on the Website. This may include, without limitation, surveys, competitions, or providing us with feedback or other suggestions or the provision of other services. In addition, you accept that in order to improve the service we provide you we may collect data like your IP address, aggregate user data, and browser type which will be used to improve the Website, track your usage on it and optimise and improve it.
Any submissions that you submit or transmit to the Website, including any data, questions, comments, suggestions or such like shall be governed by our Terms of Use, this Privacy Policy, and our Cookies Policy and will be treated as, non-confidential and non-proprietary, and you hereby permit us to store any and/or all of the personal data and sensitive personal data that there may be within a submission in perpetuity.
You should assume that your posts and everything that you upload are being made in a public forum and that you share your submissions and other information, on a voluntary and non-confidential basis and in the knowledge that we collect the information in order to provide you the Services. Such information will be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Please note, however, that the Services may be made accessible to third parties and we cannot be responsible for other parties’ use of the information which you make available to such third parties through our Website.
We collect and process information so we are able to:
Beck&Co promises never to contact you for marketing purposes, or to promote new services, activities or other online content to you unless you specifically agree to be contacted for these purposes.
If you have asked that we contact you with such materials and you decide that you do not wish to be contacted any more, you may request that we and/or our selected third parties stop sending marketing information to you at any time. If you ever want to change your preferences regarding our use of your information to market to you, you may contact us at info@beckandco.co.uk or change your contact settings in your Account settings.
It is Beck&Co’s promise to you that we will NEVER sell, rent, or otherwise provide your personally identifiable information or data to third parties except in the very limited circumstances expressly described in this policy. We may use third parties to perform functions on our behalf in relation to the Website and the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. Examples include credit/debit card payment services and Website hosting. Such third parties may be provided with access to your information if needed to perform their specific functions, but may not use such information for any other purpose.
You agree that we may disclose your information to third-parties where necessary to comply with applicable laws and regulations, where there is a complaint relating your use of the Website, to enforce the Terms of Use and/or for the purposes of obtaining professional advice (for example, to obtain legal advice).
It is possible that Beck&Co could merge with or be acquired by another business or that the operation of the Website will be transferred or sub-contracted to another legal entity. To the extent legally permissible, you permit us to share with, or otherwise transfer your information to, the resulting legal entity.
The Website may contain links to or from other websites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for, and have no control over, the privacy practices of other websites. This Privacy Policy only applies to the information that we collect via this Website.
In addition, other registered users may provide links to content that is sponsored by, or co-branded with third parties (for example, prize draws or competitions). Depending on the circumstances, your participation in any such sponsored and/or co-branded activities may involve you volunteering your personal information to the relevant third party. We are not responsible for the collection and/or use of your personal information by any such third parties, and if they have terms that you must agree before entering – we encourage you to read them carefully.
We have taken technical and organisational measures to protect the personal information that we collect via the Website against unauthorised or unlawful processing as well as against accidental loss, destruction or damage. We will continue to maintain and improve these measures over time in line with legal and technological developments. Please note, however, that we do not encrypt your data and no data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed as totally secure. It is therefore possible that information or data that you submit to this Website may be accessed, altered, disclosed, or destroyed by breach of any of our technical and organisational security measures. We therefore advise you not to communicate any confidential information through the Website or any of its messaging services.
The data that we collect from you (including any personal data and sensitive personal date) or which you submit to us may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). It may also be processed by staff or computers operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff or computers maybe engaged in, among other things, data storage, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Your information will not be stored for longer than is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.
If you cancel your registration as a user of the Website and your account is deleted a note is made on our database and your account will no longer be active. However, it will stay on the Beck&Co database for administration purposes. Beck&Co will not use your personal information for the duration of that time unless required by law.
If you would like to access the personally identifiable information we have collected about you via the Website, or if you would like to cancel, correct or update your information, you may email us at info@beckandco.co.uk. To protect your privacy and security we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making any such cancellations, corrections or updates.
Please note that registered Users are able to amend their profiles on the Website at any time.
If we decide to change this Privacy Policy, we will post the revised policy at https://www.beckandco.co.uk/
Where we consider that the changes are significant, we may also choose to email all our registered users with the new details.
The Data Protection Act 1998 provides you with the right to request a copy of all of the personal information the Beck&Co holds about you. If you wish to make such a request we will happily fulfill it for you, we charge you the statutory £10 fee, and to protect our registered users, we ask that you prove your identity with two (2) pieces of identification, but on so doing we will provide you with a copy of all of the personal information that we have regarding you. Should you find that any of it is false then you are entitled to request that we change it.
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy please feel free to contact us by email at info@beckandco.co.uk or by post to The Privacy Officer, BECK AND CO CONSULTANTS LIMITED, 6 Strawberry Vale, Twickenham TW1 4RU.
