Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://www.grit-consultancy.com

Our business address is GRIT Consultancy Ltd, The Annexe, 104 Monkswood Avenue, Waltham Abbey, Essex EN9 1LJ. Our company registration number is 13993858 (registered in England and Wales).

We provide IT Support, Consultancy, Office 365 services and cloud hosting.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

 

Contact forms

We collect personal data, such as name, email address, telephone number and location through contact forms on our website for the basis of:

Consent –

When using our contact forms, you are consenting to us making contact with you for the purposes of following up your enquiry.

Contract –

When using our contact forms, you are consenting to us making contact with you as part of initiating a contract for services that you require.

Legitimate interests –

When using our contact forms, you are consenting to us making contact with you in relation to our business interests.

Personal data submitted on our website forms are stored on our website database, and is not accessed by any third parties.

Email Marketing

Your data is used as part of our email marketing list to keep you updated with news and offers from GRIT Consultancy. If you wish to be removed from our mailing list, please contact webinfo@grit-consultancy.com

Cookies

This website uses strictly necessary cookies to help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.

This website is also subject to third-party cookies that allow our websites to remember information that changes the way this website behaves or looks, such as your preferred language or the region you are in. These cookies can also assist you in changing text size, font, and other parts of web pages that you can personalize. Some or all of the cookies identified below may be stored in your browser. You can view and manage cookies in your browser.

Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers.

Necessary Cookies

Cookie NameProviderTypeExpiry
local_storage_support_testtwitter.comHTMLPersistent

Marketing Cookies

Cookie NameProviderTypeExpiry
__widgetsettingstwitter.comHTMLPersistent
bcookielinkedin.comHTML2 years
bscookielinkedin.comHTML2 years
lidclinkedin.comHTML1 day
NIDGoogle.comHTTP6 months

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

The personal data that we receive via our contact forms is transferred to, and stored on our online systems solely for the purposes of processing your data in line with our business activities.

How long we retain your data

Any personal data that is submitted via our website is retained for 6 years.

What rights you have over your data

You can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. (Please note that we aim to respond within 48 hours of receiving your request).

Contact information

GRIT Consultancy Ltd is registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office as a data controller. To check the register, please visit https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/what-we-do/register-of-fee-payers/

We can also be contacted via email:
webinfo@grit-consultancy.com

How we protect your data

Your data security and safe use of our website is important to us. We have installed an SSL certificate as an encryption method so that your data is not compromised when using our website.

Our online storage systems are also protected using premium security software.

What data breach procedures we have in place

In the event of a data breach of our website, we aim to follow the guidance from the Information Commissioner’s Office, which broadly directs that:

– we are to inform of a notifable breach within 72 hours after becoming aware of it

– we are to inform affected individuals inform affected individuals about a breach when it is likely to result in a high risk to their rights and freedoms and do so with undue delay

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/personal-data-breaches/

Source: Lets Encrypt

Lets Encrypt s do not process any personal identifiable information, so the GDPR does not apply to these plugins or usage of these plugins on your website. You can find our privacy policy here.

Source: Akismet

We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).

Privacy Policy Updated: 8th August 2022