PRIVACY

Trevor Davis & Associates Ltd is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website or via research or surveys, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

What we collect

Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you so we can communicate. With your consent, we may collect the following information: name and job title contact information, including email address, telephone numbers and basic demographic information, such as an address.

We also receive personal information indirectly, in the following scenarios:

• when conducting contract research and surveys for 3rd parties (such as Universities) who are deciding how that personal data is processed; and
• through contact on social media.

What we do with the information we gather

Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the lawful bases for processing this information are:

• understanding your needs and to provide you with a better service;
• business record keeping and contact management, where we have a legitimate interest in doing so (e.g. invoicing); and
• for analysis purposes when conducting research and surveys for 3rd parties. If we have your permission, we may share this information with 3rd parties with whom we have a contractual obligation.

Contract research and surveys

In this context, Trevor Davis & Associates Ltd usually acts as a data processor for a 3rd party data controller (they have decided to collect personal data in the first place, decided the purpose or purposes the data are to be used for, etc). Our responsibilities typically cover:

• overseeing the logistics of data processing (e.g. loading the survey into SurveyMonkey or similar);
• determining how to store the collected information (e.g. databases);
• ensuring that the information is secure, and determining how to transfer personal data to the 3rd party; and
• ensuring that a retention schedule is adhered to.

Security and storage

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and business procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online (e.g. in password protected repositories).

We keep name, job title contact information (including email address, telephone numbers and basic demographic information, such as an address) for one year after last contact. We will then dispose of your information by appropriate secure deletion techniques where available (this may include shredding of printouts, or operating system specific secure remove commands).

Cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

Currently, we operate an ‘implied consent’ policy which means that we assume you are happy with our use of cookies. If you are not happy, then you should either not use this site, or you should delete our cookies once you have visited the site, or you should browse the site using your browser’s anonymous usage setting (often referred to as “Private Browsing”).

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about webpage traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

If you don’t want to receive cookies, you can modify your browser so that it notifies you when cookies are sent to it or you can refuse cookies altogether. You can also delete cookies that have already been set.

If you wish to restrict or block web browser cookies which are set on your device then you can do this through your browser settings; the Help function within your browser should tell you how. Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org, which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of desktop browsers.

Cookies on the Trevor Davis & Associates Ltd site

Google Analytics – we use this service to understand how the Trevor Davis & Associates Ltd site is being used in order to improve the user experience. Your user data is all anonymous. You can find out more about Google’s position on privacy as regards its analytics service at http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html

How do I change my cookie settings?

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Other information we collect

Social buttons: on many of the pages of the Trevor Davis & Associates Ltd site you will see ‘social buttons’. These enable users to share or bookmark the web pages. There are buttons for: Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. In order to implement these buttons, and connect them to the relevant social networks and external sites, there are scripts from domains outside of Trevor Davis & Associates Ltd. You should be aware that these sites are likely to be collecting information about what you are doing all around the internet, including on Trevor Davis & Associates Ltd’s site. So if you click on any of these buttons, these sites will be registering that action and may use that information. In some cases these sites will be registering the fact that you are visiting Trevor Davis & Associates Ltd, and the specific pages you are on, even if you don’t click on the button if you are logged into their services, like Google and Facebook. You should check the respective policies of each of these sites to see how exactly they use your information and to find out how to opt out, or delete, such information.

External web services: we use a number of external web services on the Trevor Davis & Associates Ltd, mostly to display content within our web pages. As with the social buttons we cannot prevent these sites, or external domains, from collecting information on your usage of this embedded content. If you are not logged in to these external services then they will not know who you are but are likely to gather anonymous usage information e.g. number of views, plays, loads etc.

Email tracking: all emails that we send directly to you have no tracking in at all (for example personal correspondence or emails with invoices attached).

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Your data protection rights

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

Your right of access – You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.

Your right to rectification – You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.

Your right to erasure – You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to object to processing – You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to data portability – You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

Controlling your personal information

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so.

You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to Trevor Davis & Associates Ltd, 3 Wood Row, Throop Road, Bournemouth BH8 0DN or contact us at admin@curiousdemon.com.

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

How to complain if you are not satisfied

You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.

The ICO’s address:

Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113

ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk

Disclaimer

The material on our site is given for general information only, and does not constitute professional advice. You should take specific advice before taking a course of action as we do not accept directly or indirectly any responsibility for loss arising directly or indirectly from reliance on information on this site.

Given that the Internet uses an open system we cannot warrant that the site and downloads reach you virus-free. You must, therefore, take all appropriate precautions for your own safety.

Policy last updated: 1st February 2022

 

Company Information

Trevor Davis & Associates Ltd is incorporated under the Companies Act 2006 as a private company, that the company is limited by shares, and the situation of its registered office is in England and Wales.

Company number 11775732

Registered office address: 3 Wood Row, Throop Road, Bournemouth, United Kingdom, BH8 0DN

Contact email: admin@curiousdemon.com

Nature of business (SIC)

74909 – Other professional, scientific and technical activities not elsewhere classified