T & C’s

Information you give to us or we collect about you

This is information about you that you give us by filling in forms on our site  http://brightblueconsulting.co.uk/ or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise. It includes information you provide when you register to use our site, send us CVs, download resources, to enter our database, subscribe to our services, attend our events, participate in discussion boards or other social media functions on our site, enter a competition, promotion or survey, and when you report a problem with our site.

The information you give us or we collect about you may include your name, address, private and corporate e-mail address and phone number, curriculum vitae, links to your professional profiles available in the public domain e.g. LinkedIn, Twitter, business Facebook or corporate website.

Information we obtain from other sources

This is information we obtain about you from other sources such as LinkedIn, corporate websites, your business card, personal recommendations, and referrals.

In this case we will inform you we are holding your data and for what purpose we intend to retain and process it, by sending you this privacy notice, within a reasonable time. This is the earliest of;

  • The first communication with you; or
  • If the personal data is to be disclosed to someone else, before it is disclosed; or
  • One calendar month from the date you obtained the data

We may receive information about you third parties for the purposes of our services.

Purposes of the processing and the legal basis for the processing

We use information held about you in the following ways:

  • To keep you updated through our monthly newsletter “out of the blue”
  • To provide you with information about other goods and services we offer that are similar to those that you have already used, been provided with or enquired about
  • Our legal basis for the processing of personal data is our legitimate business interests, described in more detail below, although we will also rely on contract, legal obligation and consent for specific uses of data
  • We will in some circumstances rely on consent for particular uses of your data and you will be asked for your express consent, if legally required.

Our Legitimate Business Interests

Our legitimate interests in collecting and retaining your personal data is described below:

As a Marketing Analytics Services business we maintain an active database of clients, analytical peers and marketing enthusiasts who we keep up to date about recent developments in the industry and also changes in Brightblue’s business services.

To maintain, expand and develop our business we need to record the personal data of prospective clients. Your personal data may be used for email marketing purposes to keep you informed about related industry news and articles, career advice, events, surveys, activities and services.

Consent

Should we want or need to rely on consent to lawfully process your data we will request your consent orally, by email or by an online process for the specific activity we require consent for and record your response on our system.

Where consent is the lawful basis for our processing you have the right to withdraw your consent to this particular processing at any time.

Other Uses we will make of your data:

  • Use of our website;
  • to notify you about changes to our service;
  • to ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.

We will use this information:

  • to administer our site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;
  • to improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
  • to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so;
  • as part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure;
  • to make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of our site about goods or services that may interest you or them.

We do not undertake automated decision making or profiling. We do use our computer systems to search and identify personal data in accordance with parameters set by a person. A person will always be involved in the decision-making process.

Where we store and process your personal data

The data that we collect from you may/will be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (”EEA”). It may/will also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. This includes staff engaged in, among other things, our provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy notice.

All information you provide to us is stored internally on our secure servers; any information that is stored on our CRM (Customer Relationship Management) software is also secured by a third party.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

Retention of your data

We understand our legal duty to retain accurate data and only retain personal data for as long as we need it for our legitimate business interests and that you are happy for us to do so.  Accordingly, we have a data retention notice and will hold your personal data for a reasonable period after your last contact. We run data routines to remove data that we no longer have a legitimate business interest in maintaining.

We do the following to try to ensure our data is accurate:

  • Provide an option to unsubscribe from marketing activity

We segregate our data so that we keep different types of data for different time periods. The criteria we use to determine whether we should retain your personal data includes:

  • the nature of the personal data;
  • its perceived accuracy;
  • our legal obligations;

We may archive part or all of your personal data or retain it on our financial systems only, deleting all or part of it from our main Customer Relationship Manager (CRM) system.

Your rights  

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes.

You can exercise your right to accept or prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data.

The GDPR provides you with the following rights. To:

  • Request correction of the personal information that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected.
  • Request erasure of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal information 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 information where you have exercised your right to object to processing (see below).
  • Object to processing of your personal information 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. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal information for direct marketing purposes.
  • Request the restriction of processing of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of personal information about you, for example if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it.
  • Request the transfer of your personal information to another party in certain formats, if practicable.
  • Make a complaint to a supervisory body which in the United Kingdom is the Information Commissioner’s Office. The ICO can be contacted through this link:  https://ico.org.uk/concerns/

Right to withdraw consent

If you do grant consent, please note you can withdraw your consent to all or any one of the above purposes at any time by contacting Brightblue Consulting.

Please note that all processing of your personal data will cease once you have withdrawn consent but this will not affect any personal data that has already been processed prior to this point. Please allow up to 7 days to process.

Access to information  

The Data Protection Act 1998 and the GDPR give you the right to access information held about you by contacting Brightblue Consulting.

Changes to our privacy notice  

Any changes we make to our privacy notice in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy notice.


Contact  

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy notice are welcomed and should be addressed by contacting Brightblue Consulting.

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