Privacy Policy – NB Marketing Ltd trading as NBM Business Growth

Privacy Policy

Data Controller: The Directors and Employees of NB Marketing Ltd

This Privacy Policy sets out the data processing practices carried out through the use of the Internet and any other electronic communications networks by NB Marketing Ltd. If you have any requests concerning your personal information or any queries with regard to these practices please contact NB Marketing at . Please note that all data captured will be held and used held in accordance with the requirements of the Data Protection Act 1998.

How we use your personal information

The Data Protection Act, or DPA, states that organisations must be open about what information they collect, and how they intend to use it. This ‘Fair Collection Notice’ also called a Privacy Policy explains how we obtain, collect, process and store information about you.

How do we obtain your information & why?

In 99% of cases you will volunteer your personal details to us. We will always tell you before we capture your information why we need the information and how we will use it.

We collect information from visitors to our website www.business-growth.net through the use of the on-line form. We may also collect details when you email us with an enquiry.

We may request and hold the following information

  • Name
  • Email address
  • Telephone number/s
  • Location – address city, postcode, country
  • Company/Place of business
  • Job role
  • Cookies
  • IP address
  • Website usage

We will send you information according to the preferences you submitted. If you would like to change these preferences at any point, please email us at . Alternatively you can also write to us at NB Marketing Ltd.

In the majority of cases we process personal information collected via this website for the purposes of:

  • Internal record keeping and reporting
  • Providing information about products and services
  • We may occasionally send marketing emails about new services, marketing and business advice, special offers, company news and events that we think you may find of interest
  • We may occasionally use your information to contact you for market research purposes and to improve our products and services
  • Dealing with your enquiries, orders and requests

We have never and will never sell or rent your personal data to a third party.

We will only send personally identifiable information about you to other companies when we have your consent to share the information, for example when we work with a contractor on your project

Business Contacts

If you have made contact with us, or us with you, whether that be through networking, business events, via social media or in person we shall add your name, company and contact details to our email marketing database.

We will ask you if you would like to receive regular communications from us, and we shall do this within any guidelines with the DPA or PECR Regulations. You can change your preferences at any time, and if you ask us to stop communicating with you, we shall action this request immediately.

How we store your information

All Personal Data information and files are retained on cloud servers hosted within the EU, any files containing commercially or personally sensitive information are encrypted before saving to the server. Only authorised members of the team have access to your personal information, and we back it up regularly to prevent against loss or damage.

Files are encrypted before they are backed up, but backups may be stored in the USA.

Who do we share with?

We will never sell your information, or share it with any third party unless we are obliged to disclose personal data by law, or the disclosure is ‘necessary’ for purposes of national security, taxation and criminal investigation, or we have your consent.

  • Our Banking agents for the collection and payment of goods and services
  • Our Accountants for bookkeeping purposes and recording of all credit and debit payments

However, if in the event that the NB Marketing Ltd is ever sold as a going concern, or enters into administration, the database of clients and prospects, shall be deemed an asset of the company, and the consents and permissions provided by the data subject shall be transferred to the new owners

We may from time to time sub-contract elements of our operation to data-processors, such as an email management platform, mailing-house, or market research company, but they will be working as a ‘Data-Processor’ on behalf of NB Marketing Ltd who shall at all times remain responsible for the confidentiality of the data. Any Data-Processor, will be vetted, and sufficient contracts will be in place to protect the integrity and privacy of your data.

Where possible data will remain on servers within the EEA, however, we may store data on servers within the United States if the company is GDPR compliant.

Your Rights

You have the right to see what personal data we hold about you. To obtain a copy of the personal information we hold about you, please contact us at . You can ask us to stop sending you direct mail, or emails, or ask us to stop processing your details, or change your email preferences.

Visitor to our websites

When someone visits www.business-growth.net we use a third party service, Google Analytics, to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. This information is processed in a way that does not identify anyone. We do not make, and do not allow Google to make, any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website. If we do want to collect personally identifiable information through our website, we will be up front about this. We will make it clear when we collect personal information and explain what we intend to do with this.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. See our full cookie policy

We do not store any personal data in the cookies that we use, and store the information anonymously to assist us in the running of the site, and also for monitoring the activity and traffic both to and through our website. To do this we use Google Analytics cookies. Depending on the browser you use you should be able to control what cookies are placed on your device through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Email Marketing

Please note that your information may be used to send you details of services that we offer that we have identified as likely to be of interest to you.

When you sign up to receive our newsletter through our website, we collect your email address and it is added to our mailing list. We use a third party provider to deliver our newsletters. We gather statistics around email opening and clicks using industry standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our email communication. For more information, see iContact privacy notice.

If at any point you would like to opt-out of receiving communications from us, or would like to change the channels (such as email or post) that we use to contact you, please contact us at . You can also write to us.

Security and performance

NB Marketing manages and maintains the security and performance of the company website.

Amendments

Please note that this privacy policy is subject to change from time to time. It was last updated on the 22nd May 2018.

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