BlueDog Business Solutions Ltd Privacy Policy

Our contact details

Name: BlueDog Business Solutions Ltd  

Address: 85 Nickleby Road, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 4XG

Phone Number: 07718 985266

E-mail: hello@thebluedog.co.uk

 

The type of personal information we collect

We currently collect and process the following information:

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

If you complete our contact form, we will collect your name, email, phone number and postal address.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

How we get the personal information and why we have it

Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you for one of the following reasons:

• To maintain contact and provide information on the products and services of BlueDog Business Solutions Ltd.

• To deliver the products and services of BlueDog Business Solutions.

We use the information that you have given us to keep you up to date by sending email updates, inform of upcoming events, offers and relevant information.

We will not share this information with any other organisations or individuals without prior written consent.

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are: 

(a) Your consent. You can remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting info@thebluedog.co.uk

(b) We have a contractual obligation.

How we store your personal information

Your information is securely stored on our encrypted CRM system, Hubspot. We keep your data for 1 year. We will then dispose of your information by deleting your contact and company record.

Your data protection rights

Under data protection law, you have rights, including:

Your right of access – You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.

Your right to rectification – You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.

Your right to erasure – You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to object to processing – You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to data portability – You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or you, in certain circumstances.

You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.

Please contact us at info@thebluedog.co.uk, 07718 985266 or 85 Nickleby Road, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 4XG if you wish to make a request.

 How to complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at info@thebluedog.co.uk, 07718 985266 or 85 Nickleby Road, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 4XG.

You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.

The ICO’s address:           

Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113

ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk