We ask that you read this website privacy policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are; how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information; your rights in relation to your personal information and how to contact us and supervisory authorities in the event you have a complaint.
This privacy policy is divided into the following sections:
- Who we are
- Our website
- Our collection and use of your personal information
- Our legal basis for processing your personal information
- The data we collect about you
- Purposes for which we will use your data
- Who we share your personal information with
- International transfer
- Cookies and other tracking technologies
- Marketing
- Data retention
- Your legal rights
- Keeping your personal information secure
- How to complain
- Changes to this privacy policy
- How to contact us
- Do you need extra help?
This website is operated by Independent Audit Limited a company registered in England and Wales under company registration number 04373559. Our registered office is at One Glass Wharf, Bristol, BS2 0ZX.
Independent Audit Limited is the controller and responsible for your personal information, collectively referred to as “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy policy. We are Board Evaluation and Board Governance Consultants, for more information about us, please see our story.
This privacy policy relates to your use of our website www.independentaudit.com only.
Throughout our website we may link to other websites owned and operated by certain trusted third parties (e.g. to make additional products and services available to you). These other third-party websites may also gather information about you in accordance with their own separate privacy policies. For privacy information relating to these other third-party websites, please consult their privacy policies as appropriate.
Our collection and use of your personal information
We collect personal information about you directly when you access our website, register with us, contact us and send us feedback. We collect this personal information from you either directly (such as when you subscribe to our bulletins, contact us via our website, download articles) or indirectly (such as your browsing activity when you visit our website: see ‘Cookies’ below).
The personal information we collect about you depends on the particular activities carried out through our website. This information includes:
- your first and second name, email address and contact details
- details of any feedback or comments you give us
- information about the services we provide to you
We use this personal information to:
- verify your identity
- provide services to you
- customise our website and its content to your particular preferences
- notify you of any changes to our website or to our services that may affect you
- improve our services
- send articles, bulletins and other marketing
This website is not intended for use by children and we do not knowingly collect or use personal information relating to children.
Our legal basis for processing your personal information
When we use your personal information we are required to have a legal basis for doing so. There are various different legal bases on which we may rely, depending on what personal information we process and why.
The legal bases we may rely on include:
- consent: where you have given us clear consent for us to process your personal information for a specific purpose
- contract: where our use of your personal information is necessary for a contract we have with you, or because you have asked us to take specific steps before entering into a contract
- legal obligation: where our use of your personal information is necessary for us to comply with the law (not including contractual obligations)
- legitimate interests: where our use of your personal information is necessary for our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party (unless there is a good reason to protect your personal information, which overrides our legitimate interests)
Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:
- Identity Data includes first name, maiden name, last name, job title, marital status, title, date of birth and gender.
- Contact Data includes billing address, email address and telephone numbers.
- Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
- Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, products and services.
- Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data could be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data will not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this privacy policy.
We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health, and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.
Purposes for which we will use your personal data
Including:
- When you register your details with us as a new client
- To manage our relationship with you
- To administer and protect our business and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data)
- To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you
- To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences
- To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you
See the document below for more. Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data.
Cookies and other tracking technologies
A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your device (e.g. computer, smartphone or other electronic device) when you use our website. These help us recognise you and your device and store some information about your preferences or past actions.
For further information on cookies, our use of cookies and how to disable them, please see our Cookies Policy.
Marketing
We would like to send you information about our services, which may be of interest to you. Where we have your consent or it is in our legitimate interests to do so, we may do this by email or telephone.
We will only ask whether you would like us and other businesses to send you marketing messages when you tick the relevant boxes when you provide us with your details.
We may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage and Profile Data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which products, services and offers may be relevant for you (we call this marketing).
You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us or purchased services from us and you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.
If you have previously agreed to being contacted in this way, you can unsubscribe at any time by:
contacting us at info@independentaudit.com
using the ‘unsubscribe’ link in emails
writing to as at 107 Cheapside, London, EC2V 6DN
It may take up to 7 days for this to take place
NOTE: THIS IS ONLY A PORTION OF THE FULL POLICY. CLICK THE LINK BELOW TO VIEW THE POLICY IN ITS ENTIRETY.
Published March 2021