Privacy Policy

Protecting the privacy and personal information of our visitors is of the utmost importance to us. This privacy notice sets out how we handle the information we learn about you when you visit this website, how we use it, and your rights in relation to how we hold and process this information.

Your Business Protection operates under Your Protection Specialist Ltd, registered in England & Wales with ICO no. ZB763732.  When you use this site you trust us with your information. By helping you understand our privacy practices, we want to show that we are committed to keeping that trust. This privacy notice (together with our Terms & Conditions and any other documents referred to in it), describes how we collect and use personal information about you in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).It is important that you read this notice in conjunction with any other privacy notice which we may provide on specific occasions so that you are aware of how we are collecting or processing information about you and why we are using such information.

Your Protection is a data controller for the purposes specified in this notice. Any information you provide on our site is controlled by Your Protection.

All personal details that you submit to us will be held in accordance with our responsibilities in compliance with European Data Protection Legislation; defined as, for the periods in which they are in force, the European Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC, all laws giving effect or purporting to give effect to the European Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC (such as the Data Protection Act 1998) or otherwise relating to data protection (to the extent the same applies) and, from 25 May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/670) or any equivalent legislation amending or replacing the GDPR.

You can contact us directly about how we use your personal information or to exercise your data subject rights via the email at the bottom of this privacy policy.

This privacy notice only covers our website and does not extend to other third-party websites accessed from this website. If you follow a link to a third-party website, please be aware that they will have their own privacy notices and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for third-party privacy notices. Please check all applicable third-party privacy notices before submitting any personal information.

Information we may collect about you

We may collect and process the following information about you (“your information” or “your data”):

• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site. This includes information you provide when registering for an account with us or applying for any of the products and other services we offer. We may also ask you for information if you report a problem with our site, or if you contact us and request assistance with using our site.
• The contents of any correspondence you send us.
• Details of products and services you have purchased, your visits to our site including but not limited to; traffic data, location data, web logs and other communication data, whether it is required for our own purposes or otherwise, as well as the resources that you access by using our website.
• Information obtained from you or third parties, when you register for an account with us or purchase any of our products, or other services which you or they give to us at any time.

We may collect information about your computer for system administration, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type. This information is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.

For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a Cookie file. Cookies are very small text files that are stored on your device/computer when you visit some websites. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your device’s storage that helps us to improve our website and to deliver a better and more personalized service. We use cookies to help identify your device, so we can tailor your user experience, additionally we use this information to track visitor use of the website and to compile statistical reports on website activity. You can disable any cookies already stored on your device, but these may stop our website from functioning properly. For more information on how cookies work, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

• To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.
• To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to You as a registered user.
• For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items or services You have purchased or of any other contract with Us through the Service.
• To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application’s push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
• To provide You with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information.
• To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.
• For business transfers: We may use Your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Us about our Service users is among the assets transferred.
• For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Service, products, services, marketing and your experience.

We will share Your personal information in the following situations:

• With 3rd Party Service Providers: We operate as an introducer appointed representative. We are not authorised to provide any financial advice and is exempt under section 39 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000. By using this website, You agree for your personal information to be shared with the relevant Service Providers.
• For business transfers: We may share or transfer Your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Introducer assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to another company.
• With Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honour this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that We control or that are under common control with Us.
• With business partners: We may share Your information with Our business partners to offer You certain products, services or promotions.
• With Your consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your consent.

We work with the following Service Providers:

• Qas Hussain on behalf of Spectrum Financial Advice Limited

When we process your data for marketing purposes so that you can receive communications from us, we will only do so when we have obtained a valid opt-in consent from you. You may revoke your consent at any time.

When we process your data for marketing purposes, it will be based on us having obtained opt-in consent from you to do so. You may remove your consent at any time by unsubscribing.

We take reasonable steps to keep your information accurate, complete and current, but you can also ask us to change any information we hold about you to keep it that way. Please remember that it is your responsibility to tell us about any updates to your information.

You can request a copy of the personal information that we hold about you. This is known as a ‘Data Subject Access Request’, and we normally have one month to respond to such a request. You can make a ‘Data Subject Access Request’ by using the contact information detailed above in this notice.

Any access request is free of charge although we may ask you to provide us with a form of approved identification in order for us to verify your identity.

In certain circumstances, you have the right to ask us to delete the personal information we hold about you, for example; if your personal information is no longer necessary for the purposes it was collected for, or your personal information has been processed unlawfully. There are legitimate reasons that we must retain some of your personal information after you have requested its deletion, including compliance with legal or regulatory obligations to which we are subject, or for any legal claims.

You can request that we restrict our processing of your personal information in specific circumstances. Where a restriction is in place, we can continue to store your information, but we will only process it with your consent or for legal, individuals’ rights or important public interest reasons. We will inform you prior to the lifting of any restriction.

When our processing of your information is performed on the basis of ‘legitimate business interest’ or ‘public interest’, you can request we stop the processing. We can continue to process your information for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims if we demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds which override your interests, rights or freedoms.

Right to complain to a supervisory authority

If you are dissatisfied with our use or management of your personal information, you have the right to complain to an EU Data Protection Supervisory Authority. That authority should be located where you live, where we are based, or where you feel the issue you wish to complain about took place. In the UK, the relevant Data Protection Supervisory Authority is the Information Commissioners Office (ICO). You can contact the ICO through their website: www.ico.org.uk.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us: info@yourbusinessprotection.co.uk