WHAT THIS POLICY COVERS.
This Data Protection Policy governs our processing of all personal data provided to us via the oakfieldsadvisors website. You are asked to please read it carefully.
WHAT IF I DO NOT AGREE WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY?
If you do not agree to our processing of your data in the manner outlined below, please do not submit any personal data to us.
WHO IS THE CONTROLLER OF THE DATA THAT YOU PROVIDE TO US?
Oakfields Advisors Limited and its operating affiliates are registered as data controllers in the United Kingdom for the purposes of all data protection legislation. We ensure that the data you supply to us is processed fairly and lawfully, and with skill and care and used only for the purposes set out in this policy.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL WE COLLECT? HOW WILL OAKFIELDS ADVISORS USE IT?
We will collect data about you such as your name and contact details. The personal data will be stored, processed, used and disclosed by us in the following ways:
- to provide our services to you;
- to enable us to develop and market other products and services and to improve our customer service and
- to make our services
- to send you details of reports, networking and client events and general information about the industry sectors which we think might be of interest to you;
- to answer your questions and enquiries;
- to third parties where we have retained them to provide services;
- to third parties who perform functions on our behalf and who also provide services to us, such as professional advisors, IT consultants carrying out testing and development work on our business systems, research and mailing houses and outsourcing partners;
- to regulatory or law enforcement agencies if we believe in good faith that we are required by law to disclose it in connection with the detection of crime, the collection of taxes or duties, in order to comply with any applicable law or order of a court of competent jurisdiction, or in connection with legal proceedings.
From time to time we may seek your consent to process, use or disclose your information for any other purpose not listed above.
We reserve the right to transfer your information to a third party in the event of a sale, merger, liquidation, receivership or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of our company provided that the third party agrees to adhere to the terms of this Privacy Policy and provided that the third party only uses your Personal Data for the purposes that you provided it to us. You will be notified in the event of any such transfer and you will be afforded an opportunity to opt-out.
WHERE WILL MY INFORMATION BE HELD? WHERE WILL IT BE ACCESSIBLE FROM?
The personal information that you provide to us may be accessible by other Oakfields Advisors companies, clients, and the third parties specified above. Some of these Oakfields Advisors companies, clients and third parties may located outside of the European Economic Area. Accordingly your personal information will be sent to or be capable of being accessed from outside the European Economic Area. When we transfer your personal information outside the European Economic Area we will take steps with the aim of ensuring that your privacy rights continue to be protected as outlined in this Privacy Policy.
HOW LONG WILL YOU HOLD MY INFORMATION FOR?
We are required by law to hold your information for as long as is necessary to comply with our statutory and contractual obligations and in accordance with our legitimate interests as a data controller.
HOW DO I FIND OUT WHAT INFORMATION YOU HOLD? CAN I AMEND, MODIFY OR REQUIRE MY INFORMATION TO BE DELETED? CAN I UNSUBSCRIBE TO YOUR SERVICES?
You may request us to confirm what information we hold about you at any time and may request us to modify, update or delete such information. We may ask you to verify your identity and for more information about your request. We also have the right to charge an administrative fee for this service. Where we are legally permitted to do so, we may refuse your request and will give you reasons for doing so. We will seek to act on your request in the timescale required by applicable data protection laws. You may request to unsubscribe from job alerts and marketing material at any time. If you wish to contact us with respect to the above matters please email us at the address shown below.
COOKIES
A cookie is a small data file which is sent from a web server to a web browser when that browser visits the server’s site. Cookies are used on our website to remember your login to track web traffic on an aggregate basis (i.e. no individuals are identified), to track campaigns and to keep session information such as your last search. Most browsers allow you to turn off cookies. However, switching off cookies will likely restrict your use of our website. We will use reasonable endeavours to ensure that your Personal Data is maintained and up to date. However, you are under a duty to inform us of any and all changes to your Personal Data to ensure that it is up to date and we will update or delete your Personal Data accordingly.
SENDING US INFORMATION OVER THE INTERNET
Your information is held on servers hosted by us or our Internet Services Provider. The nature of the internet is such that we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us via the internet.
HOW WE COLLECT AND AGGREGATE INFORMATION ABOUT VISITORS TO OUR WEBSITES
We also collect information about the way visitors use this website in order to improve our services. We do not use information gained in this way in a way that any individual can be identified, and only use it to understand our users better, and to determine aggregate trends, most popular pages, etc, for all the website’s users. We may share this kind of aggregate data with selected third parties to assist with these purposes. We may also undertake marketing profiling to help us identify services or jobs which may be of interest to you.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
Please note that clicking on links and banner advertisements and RSS feeds may result in your transfer to another website, where data privacy practices may be different to this privacy policy. It is your responsibility to check other website privacy policies to ensure that you are happy for your personal information to be used in accordance with those third parties privacy policies. We accept no responsibility for and have no control over third party websites, links, adverts or RSS feeds or information that is submitted or collected by third parties.
CHANGE TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be posted on this website so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any time we decide to use Personal Data in a manner significantly different from that stated in this Privacy Policy, or otherwise disclosed to you at the time it was collected, we will notify you by email, and you will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in the new manner.
