DIRECTOR GROUP
Privacy Policy
Director Group’s Privacy Policy only applies to Director Group and does not apply to the practises of companies that Director Group does not own or control, or to people that Director Group does not employ or manage.
The Data Protection Principles
Anyone processing personal data must comply with principles of good practice and be:
- fairly and lawfully processed
- processed for limited purposes
- adequate, relevant and not excessive
- accurate
- not kept longer than necessary
- processed in accordance with the data subject’s rights
- secure
- not transferred to countries without adequate protection.
With processing, the definition is far wider than before. For example, it incorporates the concepts of ‘obtaining’, holding’ and ‘disclosing’.
Use of Personal Information
- We will not disclose information regarding our clients to third parties unless the client has first given their consent.
- Information collected about the client is used only for the provision of our services to the client and for improving our website and marketing. This information is not used for any other purpose.
- If clients have any concerns about privacy matters they can contact us using our contact page or email to enquiries@director-group.com
- This privacy policy only covers the Director Group website, other links within this site to other websites are not covered by this policy.
- Our website CMS system automatically collects IP addresses. This information is stored in our database log and may be referred to in case of any dispute.
- You can review the Data Protection Principles at www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk
What information do we collect?
- Personal information including a clients’ name, email address, telephone number and any other information which they provide to us freely when submitting an enquiry via our contact page
- Information that does not identify a client, but which relates to their use of the Website such as the pages visited on our website and the dates and times of their visit. We use cookies (for more information about cookies see our Cookies Policy below).
- Client contact through the normal course of business.
What do we use information for?
Any of the information we collect may be used in one or more of the following ways:
- to respond via supplied contact details regarding an enquiry (email, telephone or post)
- to personalise client experience (information helps us to better respond to individual needs)
- to improve our website user experience by monitoring visitor traffic and conducting analysis on the performance of our website.
How do we protect information provided via our Website?
Submitted enquires (from our contact page): Data is not stored on this website. The recipient computer/ device email client is protected by password encryption.
Do we disclose any information to outside parties?
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties any personally identifiable information. We may release information when we believe release is required to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property, or safety.
Third party links
Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or provide links to third party services on our website. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites.
GDPR & Client’s rights
Under GDPR clients have a number of important rights, free of charge.
Further information about these rights can be found on the Information Commissioners Website www.ico.org.uk/for-the-public/.
To exercise any of these rights clients can:
- email, call or write to us
- let us have enough information to identify you
- let us know the information to which the request relates.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
When we decide to change our privacy policy, we will update the Privacy Policy modification date below.
This policy was last modified on February 9th, 2022
Cookies
This site uses cookies to store information on your computer.
Some of these cookies are essential for the functionality of our website and are set when you submit a form, login or interact with the site by doing something that goes beyond clicking some simple links.
We also use some performance cookies to anonymously track visitors which help us to improve by giving us some insight into how the site is being used, so that we can enhance your experience.
By using our site, you accept the terms of our Privacy Policy as set out above.
Cookies and how they benefit you
Declaration
Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites.
Our cookies help us to:
- Make our website function as you would expect
- Improve the speed and security of the site
- Continuously improve our website for you
- Improve the efficiency of our marketing
We do not use cookies to:
- Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
- Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
- Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
- Pay sales commissions
You can learn more about all the cookies we use below.
Granting us permission to use cookies
If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (i.e. your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies, we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you accept this. Should you wish to not accept cookies, you can learn how to do this below.
Anonymous visitor statistics cookies
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics including the number of visitors to our site, technology used to visit our site (e.g. operating systems, helping to identify specific problems), time spent on the site, popular pages, etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. Analytics programmes also tell us, anonymously, how visitors found our site (e.g. through a search engine) and whether they have been here before, helping us to invest in the development of our services instead of marketing.
Remarketing cookies
You may notice that sometimes after visiting a site you see increased numbers of adverts from the site you visited. This is because advertisers, including ourselves pay for these adverts. The technology to do this is made possible by cookies and as such we may place a so called “remarketing cookie” during your visit. We use these adverts to offer special offers etc to encourage you to come back to our site. Don’t worry we are unable to proactively reach out to you as the whole process is entirely anonymised. You can opt-out of these advertising cookies at any time.
Turning cookies off
You can disable non-essential cookies by adjusting your browser settings (learn how here). Doing so, however, will likely limit the functionality as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites.
It may be that your concerns around cookies relate to spyware. Rather than switching off cookies in your browser, you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive. Learn more about managing cookies with antispyware software.
The cookie information text on this site was derived from content provided by Attacat Internet Marketing, a marketing agency based in Edinburgh. If you need similar information for your own website you can use their free cookie guide.
WORKTECH Academy x Director Group Workplace Innovation Research Programme
This section of our policy applies only to individuals who complete the sign up form opting in to the WORKTECH Academy x Director Group Workplace Innovation Research Programme.
Your personal data, provided via our website, will be stored and used solely for the purpose of this research programme. Your data will only be shared with the third parties necessary to conduct this research, including WORKTECH Academy and an external marketing agency. You can opt-out at any time by clicking ‘Unsubscribe’ on any email received following sign up, or by emailing enquiries@director-group.com.
