iGriff Limited Privacy Notice

What you need to know.


(Version 1.1 last updated on 14th April 2020).

iGriff Ltd respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data.

This notice lays out how we collect, process, and look after your personal data.

  1. iGriff Ltd is the controller and responsible for your personal data.
  2. It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.
  3. If you have any questions about this privacy notice, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact: Clive Griffiths, iGriff Ltd, Field House, Salem, Long Buckby, Northampton, NN6 7QD, UK. Telephone: +44 7801 106 061.
  4. You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk).
  5. This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of the websites you visit.
  6. iGriff Ltd operates exclusively as a business to business (B2B) company. Personal data we collect is for individuals who work for our clients, prospects, and other business contacts. We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data.
  7. Identity and contact data: We collect, process, store, and transfer (digital) contact details including, but not limited to, your name, email address, telephone numbers, Skype address, and business name. We may also collect, process, and store (analogue) notes from meetings and conversations.
  8. Technical data: We may collect your internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
  9. This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.
  10. We collect data from and about you through direct interactions. Identity and contact by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, telephone, email, or otherwise. We may also collect this data from third parties or publicly available sources, such as our other contacts, or social media such as LinkedIn.
  11. Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies.We may also receive Technical Data about you if you visit other websites employing our cookies. Please see our cookie policy for further details.
  12. We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:- Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you
    – Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
    – Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
  13. Generally we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data other than to respond to an enquiry you make to us via our website where by making the enquiry you consent to us using any personal data provided for the purposes of dealing with and responding to that enquiry, or in relation to sending third party direct marketing communications to you via email or text message.
  14. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us.
  15. We use identity and contact data to provide clients, prospects, and other business contacts with information about relevant industry issues and know-how (we call this marketing promotion). Where you have opted-in for a mailing list this will be automated via ConvertKit, otherwise all communication is sent personally.
  16. We do not share identity and contact data with third-parties for them to use for marketing purposes.
  17. You may ask us to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by contacting us.
  18. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.
  19. We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose.
  20. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us.
  21. If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.
  22. Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.
  23. We will get your consent before we share your personal data with any company outside of iGriff Ltd for marketing purposes. For example where we believe one of out extended network may be a useful contact for you.
  24. We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions. For example our emails, calendar, and contacts are held in Fastmail and ConvertKit.
  25. Fastmail and ConvertKit provides robust privacy and security protections. This might involve transferring your data outside the European Economic Area (EEA). We ensure your personal data is protected by requiring all our 3rd parties to follow the same rules when processing your personal data.
  26. We have appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
  27. We retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
  28. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
  29. By law we have to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for [six] years after they cease being customers for tax purposes.
  30. Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. These include:- Request access to your personal data.
    – Request correction of your personal data.
    – Request erasure of your personal data.
    – Object to processing of your personal data.
    – Request restriction of processing your personal data.
    – Request transfer of your personal data.
    – Right to withdraw consent.
  31. If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us. You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
  32. We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
    We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

Terminology

Legal Basis

Legitimate Interest means the interest of our business in conducting and managing our business to enable us to give you the best service/product and the best and most secure experience. We make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you (both positive and negative) and your rights before we process your personal data for our legitimate interests. We do not use your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law). You can obtain further information about how we assess our legitimate interests against any potential impact on you in respect of specific activities by contacting us.

Performance of Contract means processing your data where it is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request before entering into such a contract.

Comply with a legal or regulatory obligation means processing your personal data where it is necessary for compliance with a legal or regulatory obligation that we are subject to.

External Third Parties

Service providers acting as processors who provide IT and system administration services.

Professional advisers acting as processors or joint controllers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers based who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance and accounting services.

HM Revenue & Customs, regulators and other authorities acting as processors or joint controllers based in the United Kingdom who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.

External third parties who provide electronic / computing services, as listed below:

Your legal rights

You have the right to:

Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.

Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.

Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.

Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.

Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios: (a) if you want us to establish the data’s accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c) where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.

Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.

Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.