In this document, the words “we”, “our”, and “us” refer to founderdocuments.co.uk.
This is a notice to inform you of our policy about all information that we record about you. It covers information that could identify you, and information that could not.
The protection of your privacy and confidentiality is important. Our policy is both specific and strict. It complies with UK law and meets the additional guidelines set out by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office.
We regret that if there are one or more points below with which you are not happy, your only recourse is to leave our site immediately.
Except as set out below, we do not share, or sell, or disclose to a third party, any personally identifiable information collected at this site.
Business and personal information
This includes basic identification and contact information, such as your name and contact details and also includes all information given to us. We undertake to preserve the confidentiality of the information and not use it for any other purpose.
This information is used:
- for marketing our services and products
- information which does not identify any individual may be used in a general way by us or third parties, to provide class information, for example relating to demographics or usage of a particular page or service
We keep information for a minimum of six years. That is because we may need it in some way to support a claim or defence in court.
Information you post on our website
Information you send to us by posting on our site is stored on our servers. We do not specifically use that information except to allow it to be read, but we reserve a right to use it in any way we decide.
Personally identifiable information
You may review or update or request removal of personally identifiable information that we hold about you, by contacting us. To better safeguard your information, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections to your information.
Website usage information
We may use software embedded in our website (such as JavaScript) to collect information about pages you view and how you have reached them, what you do when you visit a page, the length of time you remain on the page, and how we perform in providing content to you. We do not presently associate such information with an identifiable person.
Third party advertising
Third parties may advertise on our web site. In doing so, those parties, their agents or other companies working for them may use technology that automatically collects your IP address when they send an advertisement that appears on our site to your browser. They may also use other technology such as cookies or JavaScript to personalise the content of, and to measure the performance of their adverts. We do not have control over these technologies or the data that these parties obtain. Accordingly, this privacy notice does not cover the information practices of these third parties.
Third party content
If you complain about any of the content on our web site, we shall investigate your complaint. If we feel, it may be justified, we shall remove it while we investigate. If we think, your complaint is vexatious or without any basis, we shall not correspond with you about it.
Information we obtain from third parties
Although we do not disclose your personal information to any third party (except as set out in this notice), we do receive data which is indirectly made up from your personal information, from software services such as Google Analytics and others. No such information is identifiable to you.
Content you provide to us with a view to be used by third party
If you provide information to us with a view to it being read, copied, downloaded, or used by other people, we accept no responsibility for what that third party may do with it. It is up to you to satisfy yourself about the privacy level of every person who might see your information.
Cookies
Cookies are text files that are placed on your computer, tablet or telephone through your web browser when you visit any web site. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
Like all other users of cookies, we may request the return of information when your browser requests a web page from our server. Cookies enable our web server to identify you to us, and to track your actions and the pages you visit while you use our website. The cookies we use may last for a single visit to our site (they are deleted from your computer when you close your browser), or may remain on your computer until you delete them or until a defined period of time has passed.
Although your browser lets you to disable cookies, we recommend that you allow the use of cookies in order to take advantage of the features of our website that rely on their use. If you prevent their use, you will not be able to use all the functionality of our website. We use cookies:
- to record whether you have accepted the use of cookies on our web site. This is solely to comply with the law. If you have chosen not to accept cookies, we will not use cookies for your visit, but unfortunately, our site will not work well for you.
- to allow essential parts of our web site to operate for you.
- to operate our content management system.
- to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to improve your experience of our site and enable us to increase sales. This cookie collects information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from, and the pages they visited.
Using our website to contact us
When you send a message through our site, we collect the data you have given to us in that message in order to obtain confirmation that you are entitled to receive the information and to provide to you the information you need. We record your request and our reply. We do not keep any personally identifiable information associated with your message, such as your name or email address.
Complaining
When we receive a complaint, we record all the information you have given to us. We use that information to resolve your complaint. If your complaint reasonably requires us to contact some other person, we may decide to give to that other person some of the information contained in your complaint. We do this as infrequently as possible, but it is a matter for our sole discretion as to whether we do give information, and if we do, what that information is.
We may also compile statistics showing information obtained from this source to assess the level of service we provide, but not in a way that could identify you or any other person.
Marketing information
With your permission we pass your email address and name to selected associates whom we consider may provide services or products you would find useful.
We may use re-marketing from time to time. This involves a supplier placing a tag or marker on your browser in order to be able to serve you an advert for our site when you visit some other website.
Use of site by children
We do provide information for end use by children. If you are under 18, you may use our site only with consent from a parent or guardian.
Compliance with the law
This privacy policy has been compiled so as to comply with the law of the United Kingdom. If you think it fails to satisfy the law of your country, it is your choice as to whether you wish to use our website.
We may be required to give information about you to legal authorities if they so request or if they have the proper authorisation such as a search warrant or court order.
Data may be “processed” outside the UK
Our web sites are hosted in the United Kingdom. We also use outsourced services in countries outside the EU from time to time in other aspects of our business.
Accordingly data obtained within the UK may be “processed” outside the UK and data obtained in any other country may be processed within or outside that country.
If you have any question regarding this privacy policy, please contact us.