Your Privacy

Privacy Policy Statement
When you contact us with queries or register for mailings from our web site, you may be required to answer certain questions and provide certain personal information about yourself. In addition, such personal information may be disclosed to us during or as a consequence of our providing services to you.

The Data Protection Act 1998 sets out your rights as a consumer in respect of the information held about you by businesses such as ourselves.

This Privacy Policy is provided to set out clearly how we process personal data gathered through this web site. Clients of Appleyards and our subsidiary companies should also consult the relevant section of our standard terms and conditions which are sent to all new clients.

By supplying us with personal data and/or using this web site you consent to these terms and conditions. However, this shall not affect your rights in relation to your personal data which are explained below.

1 Who will hold your information
1.1 Your information will be held by Appleyards Ltd. Appleyards has its Head Office at Appleyards House, 72 Brighton Road, Horsham, West Sussex, RH13 5BU. Appleyards is named as the Data Controller because it has control over and responsibility for your personal information.
1.2 Appleyards Ltd is the owner of this web site (the Appleyards web site)
1.3 If the business of Appleyards is sold, transferred or integrated with any other business your details may be disclosed to our advisors and any prospective purchasers and their advisors and will be passed on to the new owners of the business.

2 The information we collect
2.1 The information we will collect via the Appleyards web site may include:
2.1.1 Personal contact details such as name, address, contact telephone numbers and e mail address; and
2.1.2 Details about any enquiries made and/or requests for information.
2.1.3 CVs and other information submitted to Appleyards either speculatively or in response to job vacancies promoted on the Appleyards web site.

3 Source of the information we hold about you
3.1 We may receive information about you directly from information submitted to us through the Appleyards web site. We may also receive information when submitted by you over the telephone, in person or in any other communication with Appleyards.

4 Purpose for which we hold and use your information
4.1 We may use your information for a number of purpose which are outlined below
4.1.1 The provision of our services to you
4.1.1.1 To administer and maintain our records;
4.1.1.2 To ensure that the service/s we offer you continue/s to be the most appropriate service/s to your needs;
4.1.1.3 To respond to any query that you may raise with us; and
4.1.1.4 To update our systems to provide an enhanced service to you
4.1.2 Marketing, selling, and trading in personal information purposes:
4.1.2.1 Your personal data may be used to keep you informed about products and services offered by Appleyards and our subsidiary companies. If you would rather not receive this information, please send an e mail to unsubscribe@appleyards.co.uk or write to the data controller at the address below.
4.1.2.2 We will not trade, sell or share personal information without your consent save as set out in this privacy policy
4.1.3 Other purposes:
4.1.3.1 Your information may be used by Appleyards for the purpose of research and statistical analysis;
4.1.3.2 Appleyards may use information about your registration/enquiry for our internal client service monitoring;
4.1.4 The period of use of the personal data supplied by you will not be longer than we deem necessary but may, subject to clause 7.1.3 be unlimited.

5 Keeping information up to date
5.1 In order to help the data controller to keep your information up to date, registered users may be asked to provide details of any changes in their information at regular intervals.
5.2 If any of the information you have provided to Appleyards changes, for example if you change your email address or other contact details, please let us know details by sending an email to datacontroller@appleyards.co.uk or by writing to us at the address below.

6 Security of your information
6.1 We have in place a level of security appropriate to the nature of the data and the harm that might result from a breach of security. However, all publicly accessible web sites are susceptible to malicious practices, and we accept no liability if security is breached
6.2 We further undertake that we will not hold information about you which is excessive in respect of the purposes for which it is processed.

7 Your rights
7.1 You have certain rights under the Data Protection Act in relation to the information that we hold about you. These rights include the rights set out below:
7.1.1 You are entitled to have access to your personal data. You may request in writing to Appleyards (at the address given in Clause 8 below), details of your information and the purposes for which it is held. We will provide this information within 40 days of your request, subject to any routine processing continuing between that time and the time of the response.
7.1.2 You are entitled by writing to Appleyards to require that Appleyards stop using the information about you for the purpose of direct marketing i.e. the communication to you (by whatever means) of any advertising or marketing material; and
7.1.3 If it is held by a court that the personal information held is inaccurate, you are entitled to apply to ask the court for an order that such inaccurate information be rectified, blocked, destroyed, or erased.

8 Your consent
By submitting your information you consent to the use of that information as set out in this policy. If we change our privacy policy we will post the changes on this page and may place notices on the other pages of the website, so that you may be aware of the information we collect and how we use it at all times.

9 Contact details for the data controller at Appleyards
If you would like to contact us with any queries or comments regarding our privacy policy, please send an email or write to:

datacontroller@appleyards.co.uk
Appleyards
Appleyards House
72 Brighton Road
Horsham
West Sussex
RH13 5BU