Terms and Conditions

Welcome to our website. Beaufort Major Limited is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. We are registered as a data controller with the Information Commissioner’s Office, registration number ZA090431. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website or when doing business with us, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

If you continue to browse and use this website you are agreeing to comply with and be bound by the following terms and conditions of use, which together with our privacy policy govern Beaufort Major Limited’s relationship with you in relation to this website.

Beaufort Major Limited. Registered in England and Wales company number: 9263894.

Registered office: The Old Barn, Gibbs Lane, Offenham, Evesham, WR11 8RR.

The term “Beaufort Major Limited” or “BML” or “us” or “we” refers to the owner of the website. The term “you” refers to the user or viewer of our website.

The use of this website is subject to the following terms of use:

Topics:

  • Accessing our site
  • What information do we collect about you
  • Privacy Policy
  • Cookies
  • Google Analytics
  • Changes to our privacy policy
  • Disclaimer
  • How to contact us

Accessing our site

Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the services we provide on our site without notice (see below). We will not be liable if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period. If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any third party. We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use. You may use our site only for lawful purposes. You may not use our site in any way that breaches any applicable laws or regulations or is fraudulent or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect. You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our site.

You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms, and that they comply with them.

What information do we collect about you

We will only collect personal information which you knowingly and willingly provide, for example by sending emails or completing online forms. Your email address will only be used for the purpose for which you have provided it and it will not be added to a mailing list or used for any other purpose without your consent.

When anyone visits www.beaufortmajor.com we automatically gather and store the following information in order to track the use of our website:

  • The IP address from which the website is accessed
  • The name of the domain from which our visitors access the internet
  • The type of browser and operating system used to access the website
  • The date and time of your visit to our site
  • The pages, files, documents and links accessed during your visit
  • The internet address of the website from which you linked to our site

(i.e. the previous site you visited, which referred you to www.beaufortmajor.com)

Privacy Policy

Introduction

This privacy policy (“Policy”) describes the types of personal data you provide Beaufort Major Limited (Beaufort) for the purposes of marketing or servicing our agreement with you and what we may do with that personal data and your rights.

Beaufort are Data Controllers of personal data collected by, or which you provide through, the website, contractual agreement or information sharing and for the purpose of the GDPR (“Data Protection Law”).

The data Controllers are Beaufort Major Limited.

We submit to ensuring that the data we hold on individuals is:

*           Lawful, Fair and Transparent

*           We limit the purposes of its use

*           We only hold the minimum amount of data necessary

*           We ensure with your support that the data we hold is accurate

*           We hold and maintain data for the minimum period necessary

*           We will always look to maintain the integrity and confidentiality of your information

References to “we”, “us” and “our” in this policy are all references to Beaufort.

‘Personal data’ is defined in the GDPR and is essentially information from which an individual person can be identified (Personal Identifiable Information – PII). By submitting information and/or continuing to use the website, contractual agreement or information sharing, you signify your consent to us using your personal data in accordance with the below.

We may need to change the terms of this Policy from time to time and changes will be posted on this page (and/or where appropriate, otherwise notified to you). Your continued use of the Website will be deemed to be acceptance of amendments we make. This Policy was last updated on 24 May 2018.

How we use your personal data

Use of services accessed through the website, contractual agreement or information sharing may require you to provide specific types of information.

We request that the information you provide is as accurate as possible as this allows us to secure your privacy in relation to registered services. Periodically we may send you an email asking you to “Update your Details”.

We use information about you for the following purposes:

To maintain a database of approved and vetted consultants and service providers.

We may also supplement the information that you provide with other information that we obtain from our dealings with you.

In addition, we reserve the right to perform statistical analysis of user behaviour and characteristics to measure interest in and use of the various areas of the website and to ascertain the number of users that have visited particular web pages.

Marketing Information

We do not sell, rent, or otherwise provide personally identifiable information to third-parties without your consent.

Children and Young People

We realise and understand that children and young people, including those under 18 years of age (“minors”) may visit the website, or otherwise interact with us and our commercial partners.

It is our policy:

  1. To encourage all minors to consult with their parents or legal guardian before submitting or requesting any content or information to/from us or other third parties. Users of the website, who indicate they are a minor may be asked to provide a valid email address for their parent or guardian so that we may (providing they have their parent or guardian’s permission) verify parental consent, where required;
  1. Not to make a minor’s participation in our activity contingent on the child disclosing any more personal information than is necessary in order to do so;
  1. Not use (or pass to any third party) personal information on persons known to be minors for any commercial purposes.

Parents or legal guardians should supervise minors when online and we recommend parental control tools be put in place. Any minor using the website and services offered is confirming that they have received the consent of their parent or a guardian to do so.

Storing and retaining your personal data

We do not sell, rent, or otherwise provide personally identifiable information to third-parties without your consent.

We are committed to protecting the security of your personal data, which is held in secure data centres in the European Union in accordance with current legislative requirements, industry standards and technology. We will keep the personal data you have provided for as long as we have a relationship with you. Once that relationship has ended we will retain it in accordance with this Policy only for as long as we reasonably require and it will then be deleted and destroyed.

If, at any time after registering your details with us, you would like to change your preference and opt-in or opt-out from receiving communications from us or third-parties you can do this at any time by contacting us at office@beaufortmajor.comadvising your wish to opt in or opt out of communications.

Security

Once it is received we store your personal data as set out in this Policy. If you are required to provide any financial information you are advised to encrypt this before sending it to us and send us the details via separate means to allow us access.

We cannot guarantee the complete security of our databases, nor that information you supply may not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the internet.

If we have given you a password to access certain parts of the website, you are solely responsible for keeping the password safe and make sure you use a secure browser.

Disclosure (sharing) of your information

We have already described in the ‘Marketing Information’ section of this Policy under what circumstances your personal information may be shared with our commercial and official partners, if you have agreed.

In addition, there are some other reasons why we may disclose your personal information to third parties and these are as follows:

  • To appoint other organisations to carry out some data processing activities on our behalf. For example, payment processing, hosting service providers, other relevant partners used to help us deliver the website to you
  • With your agreement to third parties where you may be being considered by our clients or partners for the provision of services
  • If we or substantially all of our assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by us about customers will be one of the transferred assets
  • If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data to comply with any legal obligation, or to enforce or apply any of our other applicable terms and conditions for products, services, content or access provided by us (for example our ground regulations) and other agreements; and/or
  • To protect the rights, property, or safety of us, our commercial partners, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Where we share your personal information with third parties we will take reasonable steps to ensure that it is properly protected and processed in accordance with this Policy.

YOUR RIGHTS

 Right to be Informed:

This policy details the personal information that we hold and process for you. All requests set out in this section or other queries relating to this Policy should be addressed to either Julie Young or Mary Jones at the following email address: office@beaufortmajor.com

Please include your name, address, and/or email address when you contact us.

Right of Access:

You have the right to see a copy of the information that we hold about you. We may charge a small fee towards the cost of administering any request you make which is manifestly unfounded, excessive or repetitive.

Right to Rectification:

You have the right to ask that the information we hold about you by contacting us as above. We encourage you to update your personal information promptly if it changes.

Right to Erasure:

You (and any parent/guardian of a minor) have the right to request that we close your account and/or delete your personal information from our database. We will make all reasonable efforts to comply with this request. However, it may not be possible to delete an entry without some delay and without retaining some residual personal information necessary for our legitimate interests, such as backups and records of deletions (including to ensure we no-longer communicate with you) or because we are required or permitted to retain personal information for other lawful requirements or as part of the servicing of any contractual agreement.

If you are dissatisfied with our response to any of your data privacy concerns you have the right to raise this with the Office of the Information Commissioner at Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF (https://ico.org.uk).

Right to Restrict Processing:

You may request that we stop processing your personal information. We may still store the data just not process it. We will restrict processing of personal data if its accuracy is contested and until its accuracy is verified or if you object to the processing and we are assessing whether there are legitimate grounds.  Where personal data is disclosed to third parties, we will also notify them of the restriction to processing.

Right to Data Portability:

You can ask for your personal information in machine readable format or to have it sent to another organisation. This allows you to move, duplicate, or transfer your personal data easily from one IT environment to another in a safe and secure way, without hindrance to usability. The right of data portability only applies to personal data that you have provided to us, for data sets where consent has been given or for the performance of a contract and when processing is carried out by automated means. Data will be provided in an organised, frequently used and machine-readable form and will be provided for free.

Right to Object:

You can object to us processing your personal information. You have the right to object to processing unless the reason for use is “legitimate interests”, “the performance of a task in the public interest” or “exercise of official authority, including profiling, for marketing or for scientific / historical research or statistical analysis”. You can object to us processing your data using the following contact details:-

Contact either Julie Young or Mary Jones at the following email address: office@beaufortmajor.com

We will respond to an objection within 30 days.  In some cases we will process you personal information for Direct Marketing purposes using the “Legitimate Interest” basis of lawful processing.  In this case, as soon as an objection is received the processing of your personal data will cease immediately with no exceptions or arguments. You cannot object to processing of your information for the purposes of research unless there are “grounds relating to his or her particular situation”.

Rights regarding Automated Decision Making and Profiling:

Automated decision making and profiling – Protection against targeted marketing and decision making. Individuals have the right not to be subject to an agreement when it is focussed on automated processing or results in a legal or equally important impact on the individual. You must provide suitable safeguards when processing personal data for the purposes of profiling. There must be a specified reason for the process and a breakdown of the possible consequences to guarantee fair and transparent processing. Suitable statistical / mathematical procedures should be in place. There should also be suitable administrative and technical actions for the purpose of minimising risk and correcting errors. Individuals must be able to acquire human intervention, articulate their opinion and receive an explanation of the arrangement and be able to challenge it. Automated decisions must not involve or implicate a child, or be based on special categories of data processing unless explicit consent of the individual or their guardian has been given or the processing is needed for the purpose of public concern on the basis of EU / member state law. The right does not apply if the decision is needed to enter into a contract between yourself and the individual, is sanctioned by law or is based around explicit consent.

Cookies

This Cookies Policy applies to the website and should be read alongside our Privacy Policy which explains who we are, the type of information we may hold about you and how we use it.

The website uses cookies. A cookie is a small file containing an identity code. With your consent, your device accepts the cookie and stores it. When you next visit the website, the code is retrieved, allowing an individual visitor or device to be recognised.

Cookies are used for a variety of purposes and do not cause harm to your device, but, if you wish to stop your computer accepting cookies, go to the help section of your internet browser (for example, Internet Explorer or Firefox) where you will find information on how to do this.

For further information about cookies and how to control their use, please visit the following third party educational resources: www.allaboutcookies.org  and www.youronlinechoices.eu

Google Analytics

Google Analytics uses traffic log cookies to gain information about the use that is made of pages on the website. We use the information from these cookies to generate reports on the usage of the website which are used for evaluation and analysis. The purpose is to improve the website by tailoring them to the needs of users.

In such cases, no data which is itself specific to any identifiable user is retained.

In addition to standard analytics parameters, we receive data via Google Analytics Advertising Features including information about ‘Demographics and Interest Reporting’ which gives us greater insight into the types of visitors we receive. As a user you can opt out of this process of collecting traffic log data. To do so please visit the following site which provides a browser add-on that enables a user to opt out –

http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites. This privacy policy only applies to this website and when you link to other websites you should read their own privacy policies.

Changes to our privacy policy

We keep our privacy policy under review. This policy was last updated on 24 May 2018.

Disclaimer

www.beaufortmajor.com is maintained for your personal use and viewing. Access and use by you of this site constitutes acceptance by you of these Terms and Conditions, which take effect from the date of first use. Although care has been taken in preparing the information contained on this site, we do not guarantee its accuracy, and BML is not responsible for any errors or omissions or for any loss or damage suffered by users of any of the information published on these pages.

If you believe any content on these pages to be inaccurate or out of date, please contact the Website Manager at office@beaufortmajor.com

All information on this site is provided ‘as is’, with no guarantee of completeness, accuracy or timeliness or of the results obtained from the use of this information, and without warranty of any kind whether express or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy.

We do not warrant that the functions contained in the material within this site will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that this site or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or represent the full functionality, accuracy, reliability of the materials. In no event will we be liable for any loss or damage including, without limitation, indirect or consequential loss or damage, or any loss or damages whatsoever arising from use or loss of use of, data or profits arising out of or in connection with the use of the www.beaufortmajor.com

These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. Any dispute arising under these Terms and Conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

How to contact us

If you would like to contact us about any of the material, which appears on our site, please contact office@beaufortmajor.com