Privacy Policy
General
Cotswold Independent Financial Services Ltd is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
We are the Data Controller and will process your personal data in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018 as updated to enact the General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR) into UK Law and any national laws which relate to the processing of personal data (“data protection legislation”).
Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding information we collect about visitors to our website.
Visitors to our Website
We may collect and process personal data about you in the following circumstances:
- whenever you provide information to us when reporting a problem with our website, making a complaint, making an enquiry or contacting us for any other reason. If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence
- when you visit our website, we will retain details such as traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, and the resources that you access (see our separate Cookie policy); and
- whenever you disclose your information to us, or we collect information from you in any other way, through our website.
We may also collect data in the following ways:
IP Address
We may collect information about your device, including where available your Internet Protocol address, for reasons of fraud protection. We may also collect information about your device’s operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns and does not identify any individual.
Website Links
Our website may contain links to and from the websites of third parties. Please note that if you follow a link to any of these websites, such websites will apply different terms to the collection and privacy of your personal data, and we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check before you submit your information to these websites.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to update this privacy policy at any time, and any changes we make to our privacy policy will be posted on this page. We will notify you if there are any changes to this policy that materially affect how we collect, store or process your personal data.
If we would like to use your previously collected personal data for different purposes than those we notified you about at the time of collection, we will provide you with notice and, where required by law, seek your consent, before using your personal data for a new or unrelated purpose. We may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent where required by applicable law or regulation.
Contact Us
We have appointed a Privacy Officer to oversee compliance with this privacy policy. If you have any questions, comments or requests regarding this policy or how we use your personal data please contact our Privacy Officer, Stuart Startup, by emailing Stuart Startup at stuart@cotswoldfs.co.uk, telephone 02476 920029 or write to The Privacy Officer, Cotswold Independent Financial Services Ltd, Stanley House, 1 Warwick Street, Earlsdon, Coventry, CV5 6ET
This is in addition to your right to contact the Information Commissioners Office if you are unsatisfied with our response to any issues you raise at ICO