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Joshua Bulbeck Proofreading (“We” or “Us”) respect your privacy and are committed to maintaining your trust and protecting your Personal Data, which is any information that is capable of identifying you as an individual person. This Privacy Policy describes how we handle and protect Personal Data in connection with all our business processes.

 

Part 1

of this Privacy Policy applies to the Personal Data of clients, prospects, website visitors and other external contacts corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise, in our capacity as Data Controller.

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Part 2

of this Privacy Policy relates to our Cookie Policy.

 

We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to modify, alter or update our Privacy Policy at any time. Such modifications, alterations, and updates shall be effective immediately upon posting. Your continued use of this website following the posting of a modified, altered, or updated Privacy Policy will mean you accept those modifications, alterations or updates.

 

Data Controller

1. How We Collect your data

We collect your Personal Data as this Privacy Policy further describes when:

1. Clients: when you subscribe to a service we provide;

2. Website visitors and other external contacts: when you use this site, register as a user or when we collect information from you with your consent when you are corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise.

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How your information will be used.
Purposes and legal basis of processing

We might need to keep and process information about you for normal contractual or business-related purposes. The information we hold and process will be used for legal, administrative, management and operational purposes only, to run the business and manage our relationship with you effectively, lawfully and appropriately.

Customers: We will use it to fulfil our contractual obligations with you or your employer and for our legitimate business interests. More specifically: to perform internal business processes (such as billing and accounting functions), to provide you or your organization with the information and services that you request from us, to send notices, such as communications about products and services and changes to our terms, conditions and policies.

Website visitors and other external contacts: We will use it to respond to your enquiries or follow up our own enquiries.

 

We processes your Personal Data for the purposes described above:

(I) All: when necessary for us to comply with a legal obligation;

(II) All: when necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests e.g. for administrative and marketing purposes, to protect the security and integrity of the website and our services; to prevent and detect fraud or other prohibited or illegal activity; to establish or exercise legal rights; in response to a court order, request for cooperation from a law enforcement or other government agency; for responsible corporate governance or as otherwise required or permitted by applicable laws and/or regulations; to protect and defend our rights, property or safety.

Or (III) when we need to protect our legal position in the event of legal proceedings.

 

If and in so far as (i) to (iii) do not provide a lawful basis for processing and controlling your Personal Data, we shall obtain your consent to do so. If you do not provide this data, we may be unable in some circumstances to comply with our obligations and we will tell you about the implications of that decision.

 

Website users. We may use your Personal Data to: Personalize your experience; Improve our website and make the website easier for you to use; to respond to your enquiries or comments submitted through our website. Also, we may keep track of what portions of the website and app users are visiting and other user statistics, and aggregate this information to help us create a better experience for users of our website. This is all done in order to describe our products and services to prospective partners, advertisers, and other third parties, and for other lawful purposes; create statistical reporting regarding our web activities. Our Cookie Policy applies.

 

Categories of personal information

The type of personal information we hold includes (without limitation):

Customers: we may collect personal information such as your name, e-mail address and telephone number;

Website visitors and other external contacts: we will keep a record of our correspondence with you and your contact details.

 

Non-personal information

We may collect information about your visit to and use of this site, including sales data, traffic data and related site information. We may also collect anonymised information during the course of services which we provide. This information helps us to evaluate and improve our site and services and may also be used for investment analysis purposes. As Non-Personal Data does not personally identify you, we may use it for any purpose.

 

Transfer of Personal Data to third parties

We will not share your personal information with anyone, except where we are required to do so to comply with the law, to protect our rights, to improve and expand our products and services or to efficiently operate our business.

We may transfer information about you to other group companies for purposes connected with the administration and management of our business. We will always ensure that these organisations are obligated by written agreement to equivalent obligations in relation to the security of data processing as are imposed on us under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Third parties we might share your information with include:

Outsourced IT providers

Professional advisers, such as accountants and solicitors

Document Storage and Knowledge Base application

 

Retention periods

We retain Personal Data, as necessary, for the duration of the relevant business relationship. We may also retain Personal Data for longer than the duration of the business relationship should we need to retain it to protect ourselves against legal claims, use it for analysis or historical record-keeping, or comply with our retention policies and schedules. The criteria used to determine our retention periods include:

The length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you;

Whether there is a legal obligation to which we are subject;

Whether retention is advisable in light of our legal position (such as in regard to applicable statutes of limitations, litigation or regulatory investigations).

For more information on where and how long your Personal Data is stored, and for more information on your rights of erasure and portability, please contact us via email.

 

Security of your Personal Data

To help protect the privacy of data and personally identifiable information processed by us, we maintain physical, technical and administrative safeguards. We update and test our security technology on an ongoing basis.

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Your rights

1. Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and The Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA) you have a number of rights with regard to your Personal Data. These include: the right to request from us access to and rectification or erasure of your Personal Data, the right to restrict processing, object to processing as well as in certain circumstances the right to data portability:

   1. The right to be informed. If you would like to be informed as to what we do with your information. This includes but is not limited to the right to know what information we gather, process and store, what we do with it, who we share it with and how long we keep it for. This information is set out in this policy;

   2. The right of access. If you would like to make a request to access, review, or correct the Personal Data we have collected about you, or to discuss how we process your Personal Data, please contact us;

   3. The right to restrict processing and the right to object. If you have provided consent for the processing of your data you have the right (in certain circumstances) to withdraw that consent at any time which will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before your consent was withdrawn;

   4. The right to rectification. We will correct or erase inaccuracies in the information we hold about you when we learn of the inaccuracy;

   5. The right to data portability. In certain circumstances, you have the right to request the information we hold on you in a machine readable format so that you can transfer it to other services;

   6. The right to erasure. Personal Data may be erased if we do not have a contractual or legitimate reason for retaining the information

2. You have the right to lodge a complaint to the Information Commissioners’ Office if you believe that we have not complied with the requirements of the GDPR or DPA 18 with regard to your Personal Data. (www.ico.org.uk) Please copy any such communication to us so that we can work to resolve any outstanding issues promptly.

We retain the right to use reasonable measures to authenticate the identity of any individual who requests access to their personal information or otherwise raises any questions.

 

Identity and contact details of controller

1. Joshua Bulbeck is the controller of data for the purposes of the DPA 18 and GDPR (prospective and contracted personnel).

2. If you have any concerns as to how your data is processed you can contact us at: joshua.bulbeck@hotmail.com

We retain the right to use reasonable measures to authenticate the identity of any individual who requests access to their personal information or otherwise raises any questions.

 

Cookie Policy

When you first use this site, once you take any action at all, you will consent to the cookies being enabled. You will receive notification to this effect.

We respects the privacy of all visitors to our website. This Cookie Policy outlines our policy concerning the use of cookies on this website. We may update our Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect any changes in technology or legislation which may affect the way in which cookies are used by us and how you as a user, can manage them and we will publish any updates on this website.

Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the sites or service providers systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. Cookies make web-surfing easier for you by saving your preferences so that we can use the saved information to facilitate your use of our website when you return to the website. The use of cookies is an industry standard, and as such, you will find that most major websites use them.

We use cookies to compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. Most cookies expire after a defined period of time, or you can delete your cookie file at any time. Most web browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your web browser to disable cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, note that some parts of our Service may not function properly or may be considerably slower if you refuse cookies. Additional information about cookies, including opting-out of certain cookies, please visit: www.aboutcookies.org.

When you use this website the following types of cookies can be set on your device:

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies enable Services that you have specifically asked for. These cookies do not usually contain any personally identifiable information and are typically set by websites to provide services such as eCommerce and log in facilities. For example, these cookies identify you as being signed in to websites and enable you to remain logged in throughout your visit;

Our content management system (CMS) uses session cookies that cannot be disabled.

 

Performance Cookies

These cookies are used to collect statistical information about visitors of the website and the pages they view.

These cookies do not collect information that identifies a visitor. The information these cookies collects is aggregated and used anonymously. We use these cookies to understand what content is popular which helps us to improve our website.

 

Functional Cookies

These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced and more personal features. Some examples of such features include:

• Remembering your preferences and settings such as redirect to mobile version of the site when you are browsing with a smartphone

• Remembering your favourites when browsing particular websites

If you have an account on a particular website, a cookie on your computer lets the website remember your user name and email address so you don't have to enter it again when you are commenting or writing a review

 

Other Third Party Cookies

Some cookies that have been set on our websites are not related to us. When you visit a page with content embedded from, for example, YouTube or Facebook, these service providers may set their own cookies on your web browser. We do not control the use of these cookies and cannot access them due to the way that cookies work, as cookies can only be accessed by the party who originally set them. You should check the third party websites for more information about these cookies.