Privacy Policy

Website Privacy Policy

The policy:
This privacy policy is for this website; www.dataprivacyservices.co.uk and served by DMPC Ltd, Westdene, Murray Road, Ottershaw, Surrey, KT16 0HS (a private limited company, incorporated in the United Kingdom, company number 9463273) and governs the privacy of its users who choose to use it. It explains how we comply with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) and the PECR (Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations).

This policy will explain areas of this website that may affect your privacy and personal details, how we process, collect, manage and store those details and how your rights under the GDPR & PECR are adhered to. Additionally, it may explain the use of cookies or software, advertising or commercial sponsorship from third parties and the download of any documents, files or software made available to you (if any) on this website. Further explanations may be provided for specific pages or features of this website in order to help you understand how we, this website and its third parties (if any) interact with you and your computer / device in order to serve it to you. Our contact information is provided if you have any questions.

Contacting You

We may occasionally need to contact you to enable us to fulfill your inquiry or services correctly.  You may opt out of future communications should you no longer wish to communicate with us.

Security Policy

As a company that does business over the Internet, we understand the importance of security. We have highly secure facilities to give you confidence when using your payment card, and when you give us personal information, such as your address or telephone number. Please note, however, that although we use technology and systems designed to ensure security, we cannot guarantee the security of your information.

Website Privacy Policy

Your payment details, credit card numbers etc. are not processed or stored on any of our systems.  We use Paypal for the payment processing of GDPR Toolkit payments and Go Cardless for our DPO Services subscriptions.  In both of these cases your payment information is not given directly to us or stored by us.

External Website Links and Third Parties

Although we only look to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised to adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website. (External links are clickable text / banner / image links to other websites, similar to; , the BBC News Homepage or http://www.bbc.co.uk/news).

Shortened URL’s; URL shortening is a technique used on the web to shorten URL’s (Uniform Resource Locators) to something substantially shorter. This technique is especially used in social media and looks similar to this (example: http://bit.ly/zyVUBo). Users should take caution before clicking on shortened URL links and verify their authenticity before proceeding.

We cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite our best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and we cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Social Media Policy and Usage

We adopt a Social Media Policy to ensure our business and our staff conduct themselves accordingly online. While we may have official profiles on social media platforms, users are advised to verify authenticity of such profiles before engaging with, or sharing information with such profiles. We will never ask for user passwords or personal details on social media platforms. Users are advised to conduct themselves appropriately when engaging with us on social media.

There may be instances where our website features social sharing buttons, which help share web content directly from web pages to the respective social media platforms. You use social sharing buttons at your own discretion and accept that doing so may publish content to your social media profile feed or page. You can find further information about some social media privacy and usage policies in the resources section below.

Your Rights

We are registered under GDPR and comply with the Regulation in our dealings with your personal data. The Regulation protects your personal data by providing, amongst other things, that the data we hold about you should be processed lawfully and fairly. It should be accurate, relevant and not excessive. The information should, where necessary, be kept up to date and not retained for longer than is necessary. It should be kept securely to prevent unauthorised access by other people. You have the right to see what is held about you and correct any inaccuracies, including the right to ‘erasure’.

Changes to this Statement

From time to time it may be necessary for us to update this Privacy Policy. We will highlight any such changes by posting them on our  website.