Privacy Notice

 

Privacy Notice 2024
At The Founders Associates we are committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information.

 

This privacy policy gives you information about how The Founders Associates collects and uses your personal data in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation ((EU) 2016/679) (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018). Jack Sykes is the data controller and responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy policy). Jack Sykes is registered with the Information Commissioners Office under the DPA 2018.

 

This privacy notice applies to “You” as either a consumer, client, prospective client or business contact of Jack Sykes about whom we hold personal information. This notice is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.

We may update this notice at any time. We are required under data protection legislation to notify you of the information contained in this privacy notice. Our contact details can be found at the bottom the notice

 

What personal data about you may we collect?
We may collect, store, and use the following categories of personal information about you:

• Identity Data includes first name, last name, any previous names, username or similar identifier, marital status, title, date of birth and gender.

• Contact Data includes billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers.

• Financial Data includes bank account and payment card details.

• Transaction Data includes details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from us.

• Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

 

How do we collect personal data about you?
We will only ever start to collect, store and use personal information about you if you have provided it to us e.g. through our website and or through direct contact from you

 

How do we use personal data about you?
We will collect, store and use personal data about you in order to:

• perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you;

• respond to your enquiries, complaints or issues;

• Register you as a new customer;

• Manage your relationship with us;

• Improve our service, marketing or customer relationships;

• Recommend services, events or other opportunities which may be of interest to you.

 

Will your personal data be shared with third parties?
Privacy is important to us; therefore, it goes without saying that we would never sell, rent or give your personal information to any third party without your express consent. We may in the future use a third party marketing automation platform, in which case your name and email address (but no other personal information) may be stored on that third party’s servers within the UK.

Any such third-party service provider will be required to take appropriate security measures to protect your personal information in line with our policies. We would not allow any third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes. We would only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

Will we transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area?
Not without your knowledge and consent.

 

What choices do you have?
When we collect your information you can tell us how you would like to be contacted and for what purpose, if you wish to change these preferences at any time please email: contact@thefoundersassociates.com

 

How long will we keep your personal data?
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 there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax,
accounting or other requirements.By law we have to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for six years after they cease being customers for tax purposes. In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data.

 

What rights do you have?
It is important that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and current. Therefore we request that you keep us informed if your personal information changes. Under certain circumstances, by law you have the right to request: access to your personal information (commonly known as a “data subject access request”), correction of the personal information that we hold about you, the erasure of your personal information, the restriction of processing of your personal information, the transfer of your personal information to another party.

If you wish to review, verify, correct or request erasure of your personal information, object to the processing of your personal data, or request that we transfer a copy of your personal information to another party, or withdraw your consent at any time please contact: contact@thefoundersassociates.com We will respond and act upon any and all requests within 30 days from the date of your request you will not have to pay a fee to access your personal information (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request for access is clearly unfounded or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with the request in such circumstances.

 

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access the information (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is another appropriate security measure to ensure that personal information is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it.
 

It should be noted in the event you withdraw your consent we will no longer be able to assist you with business requests. If you have any questions about this privacy notice or how we handle your personal information, please contact: contact@thefoundersassociates.com

 

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues.

Changes to this privacy notice:
We reserve the right to update this privacy notice at any time.
Contact information: contact@thefoundersassociates.com