Nigel French & Associates Limited Privacy and Cookies Policy


Nigel French & Associates Limited is committed to respecting your privacy and the privacy of every visitor to our web site, and every person using our contact form or signing up to our newsletter service. The information we collect about you will be used to fulfill the required services and enable us to improve how, as an organisation, we communicate with you.


Should you have a question about the data we store, our contact details are:


Nigel French & Associates Limited
Lodge Park
Lodge Lane
Langham 
Colchester
Essex 
CO4 5NE
01206233158
lydia@nigelfrench.co.uk 
 
The information that we collect about you will only be used lawfully (in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and the General Data Protection Regulation 2018). All data is retained exclusively within the United Kingdom, or transferred only to ‘third countries’ where ‘adequacy of protection’ or specific certification as defined by The GDPR has been confirmed.
This information will only be disclosed to associated companies, partners, and other companies with which Nigel French & Associates has arranged services on your behalf. You will be provided with a data protection and privacy notice ahead of any of your personal information being shared. 


We expect the information we hold to be accurate and up to date. You have the right as an individual to find out what information we hold about you and make changes if necessary; you also have the right, assuming we are not obligated by law to refuse, to ask us to stop using the information. To have your information removed or rectified, please contact lydia@nigelfrench.co.uk 


The type of information that we will collect on you, and you voluntarily provide to us on our website forms are: 


For newsletter subscription: 
  • Email address


Contact Form:
  • Your First Name
  • Your Last Name
  • Email Address
  • Telephone Number
  • Your Message 


You are under no statutory or contractual requirement or obligation to provide us with your personal information; however we require at least the information above in order for us to deal with you as a service user in an efficient and effective manner.


The legal basis for processing your data is based on your consent that we will have requested at the point the information was initially provided, therefore we will not store, process or transfer your data outside our Company above unless we have an appropriate lawful reason to do so. Unless we are precluded from doing so by law, you have the right to remove your consent at any time via the unsubscribe link included on all marketing emails we send, or by contacting us and requesting that processing of your details be restricted or deleted at lydia@nigelfrench.co.uk 


Unless otherwise required by law, your data will be stored for a period of 2 years after our last contact with you, at which point it will be deleted.


Protection of Personal Information:


Nigel French & Associates takes precautions, including administrative, technical, and physical measures, to safeguard your data against loss, theft, and misuse, as well as against unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction.


Nigel French & Associates uses industry-standard efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of Data. We have implemented reasonable administrative, technical, and physical security controls to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of your Data.


Cookies:


This site – http://www.nigelfrench.co.uk  - uses essential performance cookies. These are small text files that are placed on your device to help this website to provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser and by not selecting the ‘Accept Cookies’ option on our webpage. We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser or taking a look at the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers.


Information about cookies


A cookie, also known as an HTTP cookie, web cookie, or browser cookie, is usually a small piece of data sent from a website and stored in a user's web browser while a user is browsing a website. When the user browses the same website in the future, the data stored in the cookie can be retrieved by the website to notify the website of the user's previous activity.


How we use cookies


We may use the information we obtain from your use of our cookies for the following purposes:          
to recognise your computer when you visit our website 
to improve the website's usability 
to analyse the use of our website


List of Cookies:

Below is a list of the cookies we use on this site, which is dynamically updated by Nigel French & Associates whenever new cookies are encountered and classified. 
Last updated 21st May 2018.  


Strictly necessary cookies:


These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site may not work then.


These cookies are used to make sure visitor page requests are routed to the same server in all browsing sessions and to maintain an anonymised user session by the server.

Performance and third party cookies:


These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources, so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies, we will not know when you have visited our site.


This website sets “first party” cookies through its use of Google Analytics. We use Google Analytics to provide us with non-personal site analytics, which in turn help us improve this website. Google Analytics tracking uses cookies in order to provide meaningful reports about web site visitors’ but they do not collect personal data about you. Google Analytics sets or updates cookies only to collect data required for the reports. Additionally, Google Analytics only uses first-party cookies. This means that all cookies set by Google Analytics cannot be altered or retrieved by any service on any domain other than http://www.nigelfrench.co.uk Further detailed information on Google Analytics cookies can be found here.


Cookie preferences:


Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies. For example:            
  • in Internet Explorer you can refuse all cookies by clicking "Tools", "Internet Options", "Privacy", and selecting "Block all cookies" using the sliding selector 
  • in Firefox you can block all cookies by clicking "Tools", "Options", and un-checking "Accept cookies from sites" in the "Privacy" box


Blocking all cookies may, however, affect the usability of this website and is not recommended.


Deleting cookies:


You can also delete cookies already stored on your computer:

  • in Internet Explorer, you must manually delete cookie files (you can find instructions for doing so at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835)   
  • in Firefox, you can delete cookies by first ensuring that cookies are to be deleted when you "clear private data" (this setting can be changed by clicking "Tools", "Options" and "Settings" in the "Private Data" box) and then clicking "Clear private data" in the "Tools" menu.


Again this may temporarily affect the usability of this website. Please also note that if cookies have not been disabled in your browser they will be recreated upon your next visit to this website.