Privacy Policy

​Calvin Niles Consulting is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy policy.

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Data Protection Principles

Personal Data means any information that enables us to identify you or the beneficiary of your transaction with us, directly or indirectly, such as name, email, address, telephone number, any form of identification number or one or more factors specific to your or your beneficiary’s identity.

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  • We are committed to complying with applicable data protection laws and will ensure that personal data is:

  • Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way;

  • Collected only for valid purposes that we have clearly explained to you and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes;

  • Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes;

  • Accurate and kept up to date;

  • Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about; and

  • Kept securely.

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What we collect

We may collect the following information:

  • name 

  • email address and phone number

  • details relating to suitability for our trainings and courses

 

What we do with the information we gather

  • We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

  • We will have them for internal record keeping.

  • ·We may periodically send promotional emails about new upcoming courses using the email address which you have provided.  

  • From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email or phone. We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests.

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Legal basis for processing your data

  • ·When applying for a specific course, our basis for collecting your data is to take steps prior to entering a contract with you.

  • When you are accepted on the course, we will keep your data on the basis of performing a contract with you. The information you provide will be used mainly by the facilitator/s for the purposes of knowing requirements you may have and if the course is suitable for you at the time the information was given. 

 

Security

  • We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. This means that the information you provide will be kept securely using password-protected documents, password-protected equipment and/or padlocked physical spaces. Information will be regarded as strictly confidential and destroyed 14 months after the course.

  • The forms that we may use on our site are from squarespace.com or from typeform.com. For more information about the GDPR compliance of Squarespace see Squarespace privacy policy here and the Typeform Policies here.

 

Cookies

When you use our Website, we collect information via cookies. Cookies are small files which are stored on a user's computer. They are designed to hold a modest amount of data specific to a particular client and website, and can be accessed either by the web server or the client computer. We may use this data for the following purposes:

  • To measure the use of our Website and services, including number of visits, average time spent on a website, pages viewed, page interaction data (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), etc., and to improve the content we offer;

  • As part of our efforts to keep the Website safe and secure;

Due to their core role of enhancing or enabling usability or site processes, disabling cookies may prevent you from using certain parts of our Website. It will also mean that some features on our Website will not function if you do not allow cookies. For more information please read our cookie policy below.

 

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

 

Controlling your personal information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

·        whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the tick box that you can click to indicate that you do not want your contact details to be used by anybody for the purposes of sending news, insights and information on upcoming events. 

·        if you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by clicking “Unsubscribe” at the bottom of any newsletter or by emailing subject “Unsubscribe me” to calvin@calvinniles.com.

·        When applying for a specific course, the information you provide will be kept securely, regarded as strictly confidential and destroyed a year after the course. It will be used mainly by the facilitator/s for the purposes of knowing requirements you may have and if the course is suitable for you at this time. Please do not fill in the pre-course questionnaire if there is no specific course available to apply for. We will take no responsibility for the information you send and will delete it from our records.

 

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. 

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You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. A small administration fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you, please contact calvin@calvinniles.com.

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If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please email us as soon as possible. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

 

Calvin Niles Consulting may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from the 24th November 2019.

Cookie Policy

This is the Cookie Policy for Calvin Niles, accessible from www.calvinniles.com

What Are Cookies

As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or 'break' certain elements of the sites functionality.

For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

The Cookies We Set

  • Email newsletters related cookies

    This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.

  • Orders processing related cookies

    This site offers e-commerce or payment facilities and some cookies are essential to ensure that your order is remembered between pages so that we can process it properly.

  • Surveys related cookies

    From time to time we offer user surveys and questionnaires to provide you with interesting insights, helpful tools, or to understand our user base more accurately. These surveys may use cookies to remember who has already taken part in a survey or to provide you with accurate results after you change pages.

  • Forms related cookies

    When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.

Third Party Cookies

In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

  • This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.

    For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.

  • From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most.

  • The Google AdSense service we use to serve advertising uses a DoubleClick cookie to serve more relevant ads across the web and limit the number of times that a given ad is shown to you.

    For more information on Google AdSense see the official Google AdSense privacy FAQ.

  • We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including; {List the social networks whose features you have integrated with your site?:12}, will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.

More Information

Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren't sure whether you need or not it's usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site. This Cookies Policy was created with the help of the Cookies Policy Template Generator and the WebTerms Generator.

However if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods:

  • By visiting this link: https://calvinniles.com/contact-me