Privacy Policy
Guts & Glory Consulting Limited ("We") are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This policy (together with our terms of use and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. By visiting www.gutsandgloryconsulting.com you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy.
Data Protection
Collecting information and protecting your privacy
Our aim is to offer advice that helps you to protect and maintain your reputation. To provide such advice, we need to know about your personal situation and we may request sensitive and private information about you, for example, your income, current financial arrangements, health, family commitments and any legal proceedings you may be involved in. Much of the information you provide, as part of our process, will be passed to our legal advisers who work alongside us. Details of how they use your information are included in their data protection literature.
If you are unable or unwilling to provide some, or all, of this information your adviser will be unable to provide you with advice suitable for your circumstances. We do not collect personal information from third parties.
We are committed to protecting your privacy. As we would like you to be a lifetime client, we need to earn your trust and assure you that we will keep your personal information confidential and secure and only for as long as is necessary. The criteria we use to determine how long this period is can be obtained from Claire Holt at the address below.
We will use it with care and it will only be shared in the ways explained here, or if we are required to by Law including by the Police.
Your personal information will only be held for as long as necessary and collected for the purposes of providing advice in respect of the range of products and services outlined in the Client Proposition Brochure provided by your Adviser. In addition, we will make every effort to ensure that the information you provide is recorded accurately and that it is only passed to companies who comply with the Data Protection Act (DPA) 2018. If it is required to send your information abroad, we will only do so to countries within the European Union (EU) or to a third country that the EU has determined provides an adequate level of protection and where you are able to exercise your rights to access your personal information under the DPA 2018.
Controlling and using your personal information
A Data Controller is someone who determines the purposes for and the manner in which your personal data should be processed. Guts & Glory Consulting Limited and the companies whose products you buy are all Data Controllers.
We use your information in a variety of ways:
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To introduce you to a range of services offered by the companies we are associated with (or may be associated with in the future).
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To help with administration.
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To contact you with details of reputational advice.
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For business analysis and research.
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For marketing products and services we think may be suitable for you (unless you ask us not to send you this information).
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To comply with the Law.
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To verify your identity by searching publicly available records held by credit reference agencies.
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To prevent fraud and money laundering we may pass your details to other companies, public bodies including the police or to an insurer’s database. Insurance companies can search databases for any relevant information that exists about you.
We therefore process your data because it is necessary for:
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the performance of a contract to which you are a party.
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compliance with legal obligations to which we as the controller are subject.
None of the information gathered about you will be used in automatic decision making.
Marketing and sharing your information
The information you give us will be added to any other details we hold about you. Calm Storm Advisory Limited will never sell your details to a third party, but we may share your information with carefully selected companies we are associated with. Therefore, we (or they) may contact you (by post, email, telephone or other appropriate means) to tell you about products, services or offers we believe may interest you. The products and services may not be related to our core offering. You can ask us not to contact you for this reason, at any time, by writing to us at our Head Office. This will not affect your relationship with your Adviser.
We may have to pass your details to another Adviser if, for example your Adviser is ill or you need advice in a different area. If your Adviser leaves we may pass your details to another Adviser so that we can continue to provide you with a high standard of service.
We may send your information to third parties that are carrying out work on our behalf.
Your Data Protection rights
You have certain rights under the DPA 2018. These include the right to:
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Ask for a free copy of your personal information in a portable format.
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Stop us sending you marketing material about products and services.
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Have any incorrect information we hold about you corrected.
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Ask us to restrict processing of your personal data.
As the processing of your personal information is necessary for us to provide you with comprehensive personal or corporate counsel, and it may also be required for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, we will not be able to permanently delete your personal information until the end of the period we have deemed necessary.
How to get more information
If you would like further details on how we use your personal information or if you have any data protection queries, please write to:
Calm Storm Advisory Limited
International House, 2nd Floor, 6 South Molton Street. London. W1K 5QG. United Kingdom.
We may record telephone calls so we can check we have acted on your instructions correctly and to ensure we are giving you appropriate service. We may also monitor calls for security and training purposes.
If you have any complaints about the way we have handled your personal data please email us at:
info@gutsandgloryconsulting.com
You also have the right to refer any complaint about the way we have handled your personal information to the Information Commissioner.