Privacy Policy
Glasslite
Consulting Limited (“we” or “us”) are committed to protecting and respecting
your privacy.
This
policy sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from an
individual “you”, or that you provide to us, will be processed by
us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and
practices regarding your personal data and how we treat it.
For the
purposes of the Data Protection Act 2018 and the General Data Protection
Regulation (together “Data Laws”), the data controller is Glasslite Consulting Limited
of 20-22 Wenlock Road, London, England, N1 7GU.
Information we may collect from you
We may
collect and process the following data about you:
- Information
that you provide filling in forms on our website at https://glassliteconsulting.com/.
This includes information provided at the time of registering interest for
a posted job, to obtain access to materials or for the purpose of
contacting us for more information.
- Information
that you provide to us or which we ascertain after meeting with you with
respect to our consulting business,
for example as a client or prospective client or in relation to our manager assessment and monitoring
activities on behalf of our clients or prospective clients and with whom
we may share such data. Please note that you must only provide us with
personal information in relation to or on behalf of another person if you
have their permission or it is public information, and we reserve the
right to assume that any such information you provide has the necessary
permissions.
- Information
that you have provided to third party directory and electronic database
providers, for example those specialising in pension fund business.
- Information
that has been collated from our email marketing through third party email
distributors such as MailChimp®, which reports on recipients who have
unsubscribed or opened the email sent from us.
- We
may keep a record of any contact you have with us and such contact may be
subject to monitoring to ensure compliance with regulation or internal
compliance policies.
It is in
your sole discretion to provide personal information to us. If you do not
provide us with all or some of the personal information we request we may not
be able to send you any information which we believe would be of interest to
you.
Where we store your personal data
All
information you provide to us is stored on our secured servers to protect it to
our reasonable ability against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against
accidental loss, destruction or damage. Information may be transferred outside
the UK/EEA, for example to a jurisdiction where email marketing distribution
servers are located, however we will always ensure that there is a legal basis
and a relevant safeguard method for such data transfer so that any of your
personal information is managed in a manner that is consistent with applicable
laws and regulations on data protection. At the present time we use MailChimp and
HubSpot to store your details for marketing purposes. You can find out
more about MailChimp’s privacy policy and the steps the company has taken to
comply with GDPR here: https://mailchimp.com/legal/data-processing-addendum
HubSpot’s
privacy policy is available here: https://legal.hubspot.com/data-privacy
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 receive your information, we will use strict procedures and
safety features to try to prevent unauthorised access and in accordance with
the Data Laws.
Disclosure of your information
We will
not disclose your information to any third parties other than as said below.
We may
disclose your information to our clients and other third parties if it is
directly or indirectly relevant to the establishment or continuation of a
commercial relationship with them. In an consulting context this could be, for
example, in relation to our manager
assessment and monitoring activities pursuant to our consulting activities for such
clients or other third parties. Such a duty would include but is not limited
to, the provision of personal and other information that is
pertinent to our advice or opinion in relation to either an manager recommendation or our ongoing
monitoring responsibilities. We may also disclose your information to
third parties who assist us in preparing marketing mailings or if we are under
duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any other
legal, including a contractual obligation, or in order to protect the rights,
property, or safety of Glasslite Consulting Limited, our customers, or others.
This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for
the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Legal basis for processing personal data
We will
only process the information we have about you to the extent that applicable
law provides a lawful basis to do so. We will therefore only process your
personal information if you have consented to us to do so, if we need it to
comply with a legal obligation or if we (or a third party) have a legitimate interest
which is not overrriden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms.
Your rights
Notwithstanding
the foregoing you have the right to ask us to restrict our use of your personal
data or otherwise not to process it for the purposes set out herein.
For example, you may no longer wish to receive marketing information from us or
receive invitations to our events or information on our services and/or
with respect to our client driven consulting activities, you may ask us not to
disclose personal information to a client or prospective client or to cease
using information you supply to us to provide you with news and other
information we believe may be of interest to you. We will usually inform you
(before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for the purposes
set out above and we will give you an “unsubscribe” option at the end of
marketing emails. You can also exercise your right to prevent such processing
by contacting privacy@glassliteconsulting.com, by letter to our office
address at 20-22 Wenlock Road, London, England, N1 7GU. We will then
cease to process your data under the right of erasure where the law allows as
soon as possible but in any event within 30 days. You may also contact us if
you wish to check the accuracy of your information, to update it or to make
sure that it remains relevant for the purpose for which it was collected; we
will also perform such checks periodically.
Our site
may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner
networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these
websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and
that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies.
Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these
websites.
Access to information
The Data
Laws give you the right to access personal data held about you in a useable
format (an access request). Your right of access can be exercised in accordance
with the Data Laws.
Duration
We store
your data for no longer than we consider necessary with respect to its purpose
and having regard to any relevant statute, including the Financial Services and
Markets Act 2000 and the Limitation Act 1980. For example, if you are a
portfolio manager we will retain your information, subject to any rights you
might otherwise wish to exercise, for as long as we consider it relevant in
relation to the manager assessment and
monitoring activities we undertake or might undertake for our clients or
prospective clients.
Cookies
If you
wish to restrict, block or delete the cookies which are set by this website,
you can generally do this through your browser settings. The “Help” function
within your browser should tell you how. In some systems this could be through
“Delete Browsing History” under “Internet Options” in the Control Panel.
Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.allaboutcookies.org which contains
information on how to block cookies from a wide variety of browsers. You will
also find details on how to delete cookies from your computer as well as more
general information about cookies. Please note that by deleting or blocking
cookies, our websites may not function correctly and you may not be able to
access certain areas.
There are
two kinds of cookies in use on this website:
Essential Cookies
These
cookies are essential to the functionality of the site. They enable navigation
around the site, and to return to previous pages. It is possible to disable
essential cookies in your browser, but the site (and most sites) will not be
able to function fully without them. These cookies do not collect information
about site visitors.
Google Analytics cookies
These
cookies collect information about the way the site is used, in order for us to
monitor its performance and make improvements to it where necessary. This
information includes the browsers used by our visitors, which pages are most
visited, and which pages visitors may have problems with. These cookies are not
able to identify users personally.
Glasslite
Consulting does not share any of the information collected in its cookies with
any other party, nor use it for any other reason than monitoring and improving
site performance.
Your use
of the site is taken to mean you have consented to such use of cookies as set
out above.
Changes to our privacy policy
We
reserve the right to change this statement at any time by posting revisions on
the site. This privacy policy is not intended to, and does not, create any
contractual or other legal rights. We keep our privacy notice under regular
review and last updated it in May 2018.
Contact
Questions,
comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be
addressed to privacy@glassliteconsulting.com or by letter to: Data
Protection Officer, 20-22 Wenlock Road, London, England, N1 7GU.
For
further information on data protection (or to report a concern) you may wish to
contact the Information Commissioner’s Office: https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/