PRIVACY POLICY

1.0 OUR CORE BELIEFS REGARDING USER PRIVACY AND DATA PROTECTION

User privacy and data protection are human rights
We have a duty of care to the people whose data we hold
Data is a liability, it should only be collected and processed when absolutely necessary
We dislike spam as much as you do, so do not contribute to it
We will never sell, rent, or otherwise distribute or make public your personal information

2.0 RELEVANT LEGISLATION

Along with our business and internal computer systems, this website is designed to comply with the following national and international legislation with regards to data protection and user privacy:

UK Data Protection Act 1988 (DPA)

EU Data Protection Directive 1995 (DPD)

EU General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR)

Our site’s compliance with the above legislation, all of which are stringent in nature, means that it is likely compliant with the data protection and user privacy legislation set out by many other countries and territories as well. If you are unsure about whether this site is compliant with your own country of residences’ specific data protection and user privacy legislation, you should contact our data protection officer (details of whom can be found in section 9.0) for clarification.

3.0 PERSONAL INFORMATION THAT THIS WEBSITE COLLECTS AND WHY WE COLLECT IT

This website collects and uses personal information for the following reasons:

3.1 Site visitation tracking

Like most websites, this site uses Google Analytics (GA) to track user interaction. We use this data to determine the number of people using our site, to better understand how they find and use our web pages, and to see their journey through the website.

Although GA records data such as your geographical location, device, internet browser and operating system, none of this information personally identifies you to us. GA also records your computer’s IP address which could be used to personally identify you, but Google does not grant us access to this. We consider Google to be a third-party data processor.

GA makes use of cookies, details of which can be found on Google’s developer guides. FYI our website uses the analytics.js implementation of GA.

Disabling cookies on your internet browser will stop GA from tracking any part of your visit to pages within this website.

3.2 Our blog

Should you choose to add a comment to any posts that we have published on our blog, the name and email address you enter with your comment will be saved to this website’s database, along with your computer’s IP address, and the time and date that you submitted the comment.

This information is only used to identify you as a contributor to the comment section of the respective blog post and is not passed on to any of the third-party data processors detailed below. Only your name will be shown on the public-facing website. Your comment and its associated personal data will remain on this site until we see fit to either:

1.) remove the comment or;

2.) remove the blog post.

Should you wish to have the comment and its associated personal data deleted, please email us at social@commerceconsultancy.co.uk.

If you are under 16 years of age you MUST obtain parental consent before posting a comment on our blog.

NOTE: You should avoid entering personally identifiable information to the actual comment field of any blog post comments that you submit on this website.

3.3 Contact forms and email links

Should you choose to contact us using the contact form on our ‘Contact’ page or to any of the supplied email links, none of the data that you supply will be stored by this website or passed to / be processed by any of the third-party data processors defined in section 6.0.

3.4 Email newsletter

If you choose to join our email newsletter, the email address that you submit to us will be used for email marketing services. We may choose to use a third-party service for this if so they will be considered to be a third-party data processor (see section 6.0 below). The email address that you submit will not be stored within this website’s own database or in any of our internal computer systems.

You can unsubscribe at any time using the unsubscribe links contained in any email newsletters that we send you or by requesting removal via email. When requesting removal via email, please send your email to us using the email account that is subscribed to the mailing list.

If you are under 16 years of age you MUST obtain parental consent before joining our email newsletter.

While your email address remains within the MailChimp database, you will receive periodic newsletter-style emails from us.

3.5 Submitted CVs

Following the placement of a role, all copies of CVs to be sent to the Business Manager for central storing. Any local copies are to be deleted inboxes/personal drives.

4.0 HOW WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

As detailed in section 3.2 above, if you submit a comment to a blog post published on this website some personal information will be stored within this website’s database. This is currently the only occasion where personal data will be stored on this website. This data is currently stored in a pseudonymous fashion, meaning that the data requires additional processing using a separately stored ‘key’ before it could be used to identify an individual.

Pseudonymisation is a recent requirement of the GDPR which many web application developers are currently working to fully implement. We are committed to keeping your data secure, therefore have driven this requirement as our highest priority.

5.0 ABOUT THIS WEBSITE’S SERVER

This website is hosted by Wix.com

Full details of Wix's Internet’s data centre can be found at www.wix.com

All traffic (transferral of files) between this website and your browser is encrypted and delivered over HTTPS.

6.0 OUR THIRD-PARTY DATA PROCESSORS

We use a limited number of third parties to process personal data on our behalf. These third parties have been carefully chosen and all of them comply with the legislation set out in section 2.0. These third parties are based in the USA and are EU-US Privacy Shield compliant.

Google (Privacy policy)

Mailchimp (Privacy policy)

7.0 DATA BREACHES

We will report any unlawful data breach of this website’s database, or the database(s) of any of our third-party data processors to all relevant persons and authorities within 72 hours of the breach, if it is apparent that personal data stored in an identifiable manner has been stolen.

8.0 DATA CONTROLLER

The data controller of this website is, Commerce Consultancy Ltd, a UK Private company.

Whose registered office is:

The Coach House, 77a Marlowes,

Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, HP1 1LF

9.0 DATA PROTECTION OFFICER

Mr Matthew Purt
Director, CommerceConsultancy Ltd.
Telephone: +44 (0)7538 222628
Email: matt@commerce consultancy.co.uk

10.0 CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

This privacy policy may change from time to time in-line with legislation or industry developments. We will not explicitly inform our clients or website users of these changes. Instead, we recommend that you check this page occasionally for any policy changes.

Specific policy changes and updates are mentioned in the changelog below.

10.1 Change log

11/01/2019