This privacy policy sets out how Pulsar Consulting Ltd uses and protects your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide when you register with us and/or sign up to our newsletter. This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.
Controller
Pulsar Consulting Ltd (referred to as the “Company”, “we”, “us”, or “our” in this privacy policy) is the controller and are responsible for your personal data.
The types of personal data we collect about you:
Personal data means any information about an individual from which the person can be identified.
- Identity Data includes first names, last names, any previous names, username or similar identifier, marital status, date of birth and gender.
- Contact Data includes billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers.
- Transaction Data means internet protocol address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, device ID and other technology and devices you use to access this website.
- Profile Data includes your preferences, feedback and any survey responses.
- Usage Data includes information about you interact with and use our website.
- 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 which is not personal data as it does not directly (or indirectly) reveal your identity.
1. How is your personal data collected?
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
- Your interactions with us. You may give us your personal data by filing in online forms or by corresponding with us. This includes personal data you provide when you request marketing to be sent to you.
- Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we may still automatically collect data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We may collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies.
- Third parties or publicly available sources. We will receive personal data about your from various third parties as set out below:
- Analytics providers such as Google and Microsoft;
- Advertising networks; and
- Search information providers.
- Identity Data and Contact Data is collected from publicly available sources such as Companies House.
2. How we use your personal data
Legal basis
The law requires us to have a legal basis for collecting and using your personal data. We rely on one or more of the following legal bases:
- Performance of a contract with you: where we need to perform a contract we will or have entered into you with.
- Legitimate interests: we may use your personal data where it is necessary to conduct our business and pursue our legitimate interests.
- Legal obligation: We may use your personal data where it is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation that we are subject to. We will identify the relevant legal obligation when we rely on the this legal basis.
- Consent: we rely on consent only where we have obtained your active agreement to use your personal data for a specific purpose, for example if you subscribe to an email newsletter.
3. Marketing
Direct Marketing
During any process on our website when your personal data is collected, you will be asked to indicate your preferences for receiving direct marketing communications from the Company.
We may also analyse your Identity Data, Contact Data, Usage Data and Profile Data to form a view of which services may be of interest to you so that we can then send you relevant marketing communications.
Opting Out of Marketing
You can ask us to stop sending you marketing communication at any time. If you opt out of receiving marketing communications, you will still receive service-related communications that are essential for administrative or customer service purposes.
4. International Transfers
We may share your personal data within the Company. This may involve your data being transferred outside the UK to any overseas offices we may have from time to time.If we transfer your personal data out of the UK to countries which have laws that do not provide the same level of data protection to the UK law, we will aim to ensure that a similar degree of protection is afforded to it.
5. Data Security
We will store all personal data on our secure password and cloud-based servers. You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
6. Third-party links
This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third-parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control those third -party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.
7. How long will you use my personal data for?
We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe that there is a prospect of litigation in respect of our relationship with you.
8. Your legal rights
You have a number of rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data.
You have the right to:
- Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a “subject access request”).
- Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you.
- Request erasure of your personal data in certain circumstances.
- You have the absolute right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes.
- You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we could refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
9. What we may need from you
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it.
10. Complaints
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or about the use of your personal data or want to exercise your privacy rights, please contact us via the website.
You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we used your data.
11. Changes to this privacy policy and your duty to inform us of changes
We keep our privacy policy under regular review. It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.