Privacy Policy Notice

The policy: 
This privacy policy notice is served by City Financial Models Ltd, Lytchett House, 13 Freeland Park, Wareham Road, Lytchett Matravers, Poole, BH16 6FA under the websites; www.cityfinancialmodels.co.uk, www.cityfinancialmodels.uk, www.cityfinancialmodels.com. The purpose of this policy is to explain to you how we control, process, handle and protect your personal information through the business and while you browse or use this website. If you do not agree to the following policy you may wish to cease viewing / using this website, and or refrain from submitting your personal data to us.

Policy key definitions:
"I", "our", "us", or "we" refer to the business, [City Financial Models Ltd].
"you", "the user" refer to the person(s) using this website.
GDPR means General Data Protection Act.
PECR means Privacy & Electronic Communications Regulation.
ICO means Information Commissioner's Office.
Cookies mean small files stored on a users computer or device.

Key principles of GDPR:
Our privacy policy embodies the following key principles; (a) Lawfulness, fairness and transparency, (b) Purpose limitation, (c) Data minimisation, (d) Accuracy, (e) Storage limitation, (f) Integrity and confidence, (g) Accountability.

What information we collect:

Name, job title, business address, business phone number, business email address.

Processing of your personal data:
Under the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) we control and / or process any personal information about you electronically using the following lawful bases.

We are registered with the ICO under the Data Protection Register, our registration number is: ZA513598

Lawful basis: Legitimate interests
Where our purpose for processing is: Advertising and marketing.
Which is necessary: To promote our business, by contacting you with relevant products or services.
We process your information in the following ways: We will use your personal data to contact you with products or services.
Data retention period: We will continue to process your information under this basis until you withdraw consent or it is determined your consent no longer exists.
Sharing your information: We do not share your information with third parties.

Lawful basis: Contract
Where our purpose for processing is: To prepare contracts of work.
Which is necessary: To document our terms and conditions that govern our working relationship.
We process your information in the following ways: We only use your information to prepare documents necessary for our working relationship.
Data retention period: We will continue to process your information under this basis until you withdraw consent or it is determined your consent no longer exists.
Sharing your information: We do not share your information with third parties.

Lawful basis: Legal obligation
Where our purpose for processing is: To comply with our HMRC obligations, such as VAT,
Which is necessary because: To comply with our HMRC obligations, such as VAT.
We process your information in the following ways: To comply with our HMRC obligations, such as VAT.
Data retention period: We will continue to process your information under this basis until you withdraw consent or it is determined your consent no longer exists.
Sharing your information: We may receive requests from third parties with authority to obtain disclosure of personal data, such as to check that we are complying with applicable laws and regulation. We will only fulfil requests for personal data where we are permitted to do so in accordance with applicable laws or regulation.

Lawful basis: Criminal offence data
Where our purpose for processing is: To comply with relevant legislation.
Which is necessary: To fulfil our legal obligations.
We process your information in the following ways: To fulfil our legal obligations.
Data retention period: We will continue to process your information under this basis until you withdraw consent or it is determined your consent no longer exists.
Sharing your information: We may receive requests from third parties with authority to obtain disclosure of personal data, such as to check that we are complying with applicable laws and regulation. We will only fulfil requests for personal data where we are permitted to do so in accordance with applicable laws or regulation.

If, as determined by us, the lawful basis upon which we process your personal information changes, we will notify you about the change and any new lawful basis to be used if required. We shall stop processing your personal information if the lawful basis used is no longer relevant.

Your individual rights
Under the GDPR your rights are as follows.

the right to be informed;
the right of access;
the right to rectification;
the right to erasure;
the right to restrict processing;
the right to data portability;
the right to object; and
the right not to be subject to automated decision-making including profiling.

You also have the right to complain to the ICO [www.ico.org.uk] if you feel there is a problem with the way we are handling your data.

We handle subject access requests in accordance with the GDPR.

Internet cookies:

We may use cookies on this website to provide you with a better user experience. We do this by placing a small text file on your device / computer hard drive to track how you use the website, to record or log whether you have seen particular messages that we display, to keep you logged into the website where applicable, to display relevant adverts or content, referred you to a third party website.

Some cookies are required to enjoy and use the full functionality of this website.

We use a cookie control system which allows you to accept the use of cookies, and control which cookies are saved to your device / computer. Some cookies will be saved for specific time periods, where others may last indefinitely. Your web browser should provide you with the controls to manage and delete cookies from your device, please see your web browser options.

We use Google Analytics software to collect information about how you use cityfinancialmodels.co.uk

Google Analytics stores information about:

the pages you visit on cityfinancialmodels.co.uk
how long you spend on each cityfinancialmodels.co.uk page
how you got to the site
what you click on while you’re visiting the site
We do not collect or store your personal information through Google Analytics (for example your name or address) so this information cannot be used to identify who you are.

Data security and protection
We ensure the security of any personal information we hold by using secure data storage technologies and precise procedures in how we store, access and manage that information. Our methods meet the GDPR compliance requirement.

Fair & Transparent Privacy Explained
We have provided some further explanations about user privacy and the way we use this website to help promote a transparent and honest user privacy methodology.

Sponsored links, affiliate tracking & commissions
Our website does not contain adverts, sponsored and affiliate links.

Mail, email marketing messages
Under the GDPR we use the legitimate interests lawful basis for our mail and email marketing. We only collect certain data about you, as detailed in the "Processing of your personal data" above. We've conducted a comprehensive legitimate interests assessment to justify this which you can read here.

Your right to object to processing
You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data.

To object to our processing of your personal data, please email us at: info@cityfinancialmodels.co.uk