The Agency Brand Consultancy Limited understands and respects individuals’ right to privacy and is committed to keeping your privacy and data secure.

How do we use your personal information?
We will only collect information about you, from which you could be identified, with your consent, such consent being indicated by you requesting information via our contact form about our products and services. We will request your name and email address and only use it for the purpose of contacting you in relation to your enquiry.

Our contact form will also ask whether you would like to receive information about our other products and services (email marketing). We will only send you such information if we have your explicit consent.

When you browse our website we automatically receive your computer’s internet protocol (IP) address and details of your web browser and operating system, in order to measure the popularity of individual pages and to improve usability and to help us improve the website.

How do you get my consent
When you provide us with personal information we ask you to explicitly consent to our collecting it and using it for that specific purpose only. If we ask to use your personal information for a secondary purpose, like email marketing, then we will clearly ask for your specific consent and explain how your information will be used.

How do I withdraw my consent?
If you change your mind you can withdraw your consent for us to contact you, for the continued collection, use or disclosure of your information at any time. To do this please use any of the methods available in the contact section of this website.

Will The Agency ever disclose my information to anyone else?
The Agency Brand Consultancy will not share your information with any other organisations for marketing, market research or commercial purposes and we don’t pass on your details to other websites.

We may however disclose your personal information if we are required by law to do so.

How do you store my data and is it secure?
Your data is stored securely on The Agency’s systems. We take all reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed.

Service Providers
We work in conjunction with other third parties to provide specific services. i.e hosting and domain name registration. When the user signs up for these particular services, we share names, or other contact information that is necessary for the third party to provide these services. These third parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable information except for the purpose of providing these services.

What about third party services and links?
This privacy statement applies solely to www.theagencyforeducation.co.uk and  www.theagencylimited.com. The Agency Brand consultancy is the sole owner of the information collected on www.theagencyforeducation.co.uk and www.theagencylimited.com. This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that The Agency is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information.

Do you use cookies?
This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, 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. 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

Will any changes be made to this privacy policy?
We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy we will notify you here that it has been updated. This is to ensure you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.

What if I have questions about this privacy policy?
If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, register a complaint, or simply want more information please get in touch using the contact section of this website.

GDPR compliance statement
The Agency Brand Consultancy Limited respects and complies with the EU General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). Some of the ways we comply are explained below.

Consent
We do not use legal jargon and explain what you are consenting to clearly. We always ask that you explicitly consent to contact from us.

Right of Access
Users can request confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning them is being processed or stored, by whom, and for what purpose. Such a request is known as a “Subject Access Request”. The Agency Brand Consultancy will provide details of any personal data, free of charge, in a common electronic format (such as MS Word or PDF).

Right to be forgotten
The Agency Brand Consultancy Limited will deal with any deletion requests as per the GDPR. This may involve deletion or anonymization of any relevant personal data where this has been requested.

Data Breach Notifications
In the event of a breach we will notify affected users, and the Information Commissioners Office (ICO), within 72 hours of first having become aware of the breach.

Update 22nd May 2018