Privacy Notice

Here at PGOPM Consulting Limited we believe your privacy is important to you and understand you care about how your personal data is used.

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Your personal data – what is it?

Personal data relates to a living individual who can be identified from that data. Identification can be by the information alone or in conjunction with any other information in the data controller’s possession or likely to come into such possession. The processing of personal data is governed by the General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”) and some other UK legislation.

Who are we?

PGOPM Consulting Limited (PGO Product) is the data controller. This means we decides how your personal data is processed and for what purposes. PGO Product is a private company limited by shares incorporated and registered in England and Wales with company number 12077606 and our registered office is 4th Floor Radius House, 51 Clarendon Road, Watford, Hertfordshire WD17 1HP.  

What information do we collect about you?

When you do business with us, become a client of our company, register interest or subscribe to our blog or other publications we may collect some or all of the following personal information from you:

  • Your name
  • Your postal address, email address and telephone number
  • Any information relevant to the services may be providing to you

When you visit our website we may collect non-personal identification information about you. Non-personal identification information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about visitor’s means of connection to our website, such as their operating system, their IP address, ISP, date stamp and other similar information.

How do we process your personal data?

PGO Product takes your privacy very seriously complies with its obligations under the “GDPR” by keeping personal data up to date; by storing and destroying it securely; by not collecting or retaining excessive amounts of data; by protecting personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorised access and disclosure and by ensuring that appropriate organisational and technical measures are in place to protect personal data.

We use personal data for the following purposes:

  • To enable us to provide you with consultancy, information or other services that you have asked us to provide.
  • To maintain our own accounts and records.
  • To manage our employees and associates.
  • To inform you, with your consent (see below), about our products and services or information that is likely be relevant to you or your organisation, such as blog posts, articles and newsletters.

Our website, cookies and other information-gathering technologies

Our website uses cookies and similar technologies. Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behaviour information. These cookies allow a website to distinguish you from other users of the website which helps the site provide you with a good experience when you browse and also enables improvement of the site. 

We currently don’t use any cookies on our website. However when we do they will be explained here. If you do not want a cookie to be stored in your computer, most internet browsers have functions to erase cookies from the computer’s hard drive or to block all cookies or to receive a warning before a cookie is stored. You are welcome to use such tools and options to prevent the installation of any cookie but you may find your experience is impacted.

When you visit our website, we use Google Cloud Platform to collect standard internet log and visitor behaviour information, e.g. to understand the number of visitors to the site. This information is only processed in ways that do not identify anyone. We do not attempt, and do not allow Google to attempt, to find out the identity of anyone visiting our site.

Our website contains links to other websites. This Privacy Notice applies only to our website so when you access links to or visit other websites you should read their own privacy notices/policies.

What is the legal basis for processing your personal data?

Where personal data is collected in the course of fulfilling our contractual and legal obligations to you or when you have asked us to provide services to you, only necessary data is collected, and it is securely stored and access restricted only to staff who need it.

This data is processed to fulfil our contractual obligations to you, to comply with other legal obligations or in our and your legitimate interests (e.g. to provide you with information and services requested by, or promised to you, to ensure continuity of services and manage repeat business effectively and/or to defend any legal claims). The other considerations set out elsewhere in this policy also apply.

Where required we seek your explicit consent so that we can keep you informed about information that is likely be relevant to you or your organisation, including new information available from us (such as blog posts) and other information about our products and services.  

You can withdraw your consent at any time by emailing hello@pgoproductconsulting.co.uk.

Processing of personal data relating to employees and associates of PGO Product is necessary for carrying out obligations under employment, health and safety, social security or social protection law, or a collective agreement. It is processed to fulfil our contractual obligations and legal obligations only.

Sharing your personal data

We will only share your data with third parties outside PGO Product with your explicit consent, unless we are legally or contractually required to do so, or:

  • for the purposes of securely storing the data, for example on cloud-based servers managed by third party providers (such as Apple, Dropbox, Google, Microsoft, MailChimp etc.) 
  • in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings;
  • in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);
  • to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.

We will not be transferring the information you provide to countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA).

How long do we keep your personal data?

We retain data in accordance with the GDPR and only for as long as necessary. For example, to keep you informed about information that is likely be relevant to you or your organisation including new information available from us and other information about our products and services or to comply with the record keeping requirements of HMRC or other regulators.

Generally we will retain your data for 2 years after our last contact you. We may retain some data for longer periods for reasons of continuity or service delivery, to ensure availability of relevant information about repeat clients, to defend legal claims or protection or legal rights or where we are contractually or legally required to do so.  

Your rights and your personal data

Unless subject to an exemption under the GDPR, you have the following rights with respect to your personal data:

  • The right to request a copy of the personal data PGO Product holds about you.
  • The right to request that PGO Product corrects any personal data if it is found to be inaccurate or out of date.
  • The right to request your personal data is erased where it is no longer necessary or required for PGO Product to retain such data.  This right does not apply where we have a legal obligation to retain your data.
  • The right to withdraw your consent to the processing at any time (if we are processing on the basis of your consent).
  • The right to request that we provide you with your personal data and where possible, to transmit that data directly to another data controller, (known as the right to data portability) .  This right only applies where we are processing your personal data based on consent or for the performance of a contract with you and in either case we are processing the data by automated means.
  • The right, where there is a dispute in relation to the accuracy or processing of your personal data, to request a restriction is placed on further processing.
  • The right to object to the processing of personal data.  This right only applies where we are processing your personal data based on legitimate interests.
  • The right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioners Office.

Further processing

If we wish to use your personal data for a new purpose, not covered by this Privacy Notice, then we will publish a new notice explaining this new use prior to commencing the processing and setting out the relevant purposes and processing conditions. Where and whenever necessary, we will seek your prior consent to the new processing.

Contact Details

To exercise your relevant rights, queries or complaints please in the first instance contact our Director, Phil Osmond on hello@pgoproductconsulting.co.uk

You can contact the Information Commissioners Office on 0303 123 1113 or via email https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/email/ or at the Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire. SK9 5AF.

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