1. Introduction
Contracting Made Easy has a statutory duty to ensure that all personal information relating to you is kept confidential under the Data Protection Act 1998. Contracting Made Easy is committed to respecting the privacy of the users of our website users and customers. In accordance with the principles of Data Protection Legislation this Privacy Policy explains type of the personal data collected by Contracting Made Easy via our website and the purposes for which that information is held.
“Contracting Made Easy”, “we”, “us” and “our” shall refer to Contracting Made Easy.
“You” and “your” shall refer to you, the user of our website.
“Website”, “site” shall refer to our website www.contractingme.com
2. The Personal Data we collect
We may collect, store and use some of the following of your personal data:
- name
- personal address
- personal, business and mobile telephone number
- personal or business email address
By using this website or by sending your details to us by email or otherwise, you consent to the collection, use and transfer of your information under the terms of our Privacy Policy.
You must only submit to us or our website information which is accurate and not misleading and you must keep it up to date and inform us of any changes.
If you contact us we may keep a record of that correspondence and your activities on our website or your postings on this website, we may collect such information in a file specific to you.
3. Use and Protection of Personal Data
We use your personal information collected via our website to:
- improve the services we offer
- for marketing purposes
- manage our website
- notify you occasionally about important changes or developments to our products and services
- provide you with the information or services that you have requested
- send you information about our business or the selected third party businesses which we think may prove interesting to you
- contact you for your feedback on our products and services
- provide other companies with statistical information about our users (this information will not be used to identify any individual user(s))
By providing your personal information to us you agree to its use for the above mentioned purposes. Except as provided for in this privacy policy, we will not pass information about you to any third party without your prior consent. If you do not wish your details to be used in this way, please email us at admin@contractingme.com
4. Security of Personal Data
We will take all reasonable steps to prevent access to your personal data by unauthorised persons and to prevent the accidental loss, destruction, damage, disclosure, misuse or modification of your personal information. To protect your data the best way we can we use firewalls and antivirus software. We have physical, electronic as well as procedural measures in place in connection with the collection, storage and disclosure of your personal data.
All members of staff are subject to confidentiality clauses in their employment contracts and access to personal data is restricted to authorised employees only.
However, due to the Internet nature, Contracting Made Easy cannot guarantee the privacy of any information provided online and will be not responsible for any breach of security.
5. Disclosures
We will not pass any of your personal data we may hold about you to any third party except in the following circumstances:
- if we are required to disclose such personal data by law
- in connection with any legal proceedings or potential legal proceedings
- if we merge with or enter into a joint venture with another business your personal data may be passed to the new business owners or partners
6. Third Parties and Links On Our Websites
Other than as set out in our Privacy Policy, we shall not sell or disclose your personal data to third parties without obtaining your prior consent unless this is necessary for the purposes set out in paragraph 5.
Our website may contain third parties advertising and links to other websites or frames of other websites. We shall not be responsible for the content of those third parties or another websites and their privacy policies, nor for any third party to whom we transfer your data in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
7. Cookies
Cookies are files identifying your computer to our server as a unique user and they are stored by your Internet browser on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies do not identify the individual user but the computer used. We only use cookies for your convenience in using our website and not for obtaining or using any other information about you. You may set your browser not to accept cookies, but you may then not be able to use certain features on our website.
Our website uses cookies to provide you with a personalised service. We use cookies to measure traffic patterns in order to understand how our users’ habits are similar or different from one another so that we can make each experience of your visit to our website a better one.
8. Access to Personal Data
Under the Data Protection Act 1998 you are entitled to know what personal data we hold about you in your personal file, the purposes for which the data are being processed and the persons to whom the data may be disclosed. You have the right to access the personal data held by us and to request that any inaccuracies be amended or updated. If you wish to make such a request, it should be made in writing to Contracting Made Easy enclosing the appropriate fee of £10.00
9. Accuracy of Data
Contracting Made Easy shall take reasonable steps at reasonable intervals to ensure the accuracy and relevance of the data held on its files.
10. Changes To This Policy
Our Privacy Policy may from time to time be updated by posting a new version on our website. Any changes to the way in which we use your data will be described in future versions of this Privacy Policy. Each time you enter our website, you agree that the Privacy Policy current at that time shall apply to all information which we hold about you.
11. Contact Us
We welcome all comments, questions and requests relating to our use of your personal data. You can email us at admin@contractingme.com
