Privacy policy

 
 

Your privacy is important to us. C Martin Consulting Limited is committed to maintaining the confidence and trust of individuals who engage with our services and visit our website www.carolinemartin.co.uk.

This privacy policy provides you with details of how C Martin Consulting Limited collects and processes your personal information, including through your use of our website.

The policy applies to information we collect from:

  • Clients

  • Prospective clients

  • Former clients

  • People who subscribe to our newsletters

  • Visitors to our website

Collection and Use of Personal Information

Personal information means any information that relates to an individual that may be used – either directly or indirectly – to identify them.

C Martin Consulting Limited may collect and store the following types of personal information about individuals with whom we are in contact:

  • General contact information (e.g. names, email addresses, telephone numbers) provided by individuals, with their consent.

  • Sensitive personal data that may arise in the course of delivering our services to you, including client notes and personal content provided by individuals with their consent.

C Martin Consulting Limited may collect an individual’s personal information in order to undertake its business activities for reasons including:

  • Marketing and information

  • Appointment scheduling

  • Consultation forms

  • Client notes

Storing and processing personal information

C Martin Consulting Limited may store personal information electronically or on paper. We will protect all personal information, within commercially acceptable means, to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorised access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.

C Martin Consulting Limited will only retain collected information for as long as is necessary to provide you with your requested service(s).

Access to personal information

We do not share any personally identifying information publicly or with third-parties unless it is at the request of the individual or except when legally required to do so.

We do not sell, rent or trade email lists with other organisations and companies.

Our website

In addition to the collection and use of personal information already outlined in this privacy policy, we may also process technical data about your use of our website www.carolinemartin.co.uk.

In general, you can browse our website without giving us any personal information. When you explicitly give us your personal information through the website, we use this information for the purpose specified when you make contact. We may use it to get in touch with you to ensure we have your correct details, to provide additional information, or to contact you with general or personalised service-related notices and promotional messages. 

We also analyse traffic to our website in order to understand our visitors’ needs and to improve our site for them. We collect anonymous, aggregate statistics as well as user specific details. This may include association to social media accounts or identification of IP address.

Use of Cookies

A cookie is a small text file containing information that a website transfers to your computer’s hard disk for record-keeping purposes. Cookies allow us to analyse our site traffic patterns. A cookie cannot give us access to your computer or information beyond what you provide to us, or cause harm to your computer system. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies; consult your browser’s manual or online help if you would like information on restricting or disabling the browser’s handling of cookies. If you disable cookies, you can still view the publicly available information on our website.

We use cookies to help to run the website and to analyse traffic. We do not use cookies for advertising.

Links to Other Websites

Our website may contain links to external websites that are not owned or operated by us. Please be aware that we do not control the content and practices of these websites and, therefore, we cannot accept responsibility or liability for the protection and privacy of any information that you provide while visiting those sites. To be certain of how an external website may use your personal information, we encourage you to read their privacy notice. 

Your legal rights and consent

You may request access to the personal information C Martin Consulting Limited currently holds about you.

You may withdraw your previously given consent for us to process and store personal information about you. You may request that we delete or destroy personal information we currently hold about you.

C Martin Consulting Limited will update/amend any contact or personal information that we know to be incorrect.

You are free to refuse our request for personal information. However, this may mean that C Martin Consulting Limited can no longer provide you with certain services.

To find out more about your personal data rights, please visit the Information Commissioner’s Office website.

Your continued use of our website will be regarded as acceptance of our practices around privacy and personal information. If you have any questions about how we handle user data and personal information, please contact us.