Privacy Policy

Along with our business and internal computer systems, this website is designed to comply with the following national and international legislation with regards to data protection and user privacy:

• UK Data Protection Act 1988 (DPA)
• EU Data Protection Directive 1995 (DPD)
• EU General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR)

What information is being collected and why?

This website collects and uses personal information for the following reasons:

Contact forms and email links

Should you choose to contact us using the contact form on our Contact us page or by corresponding with us by phone or e-mail, none of the data that you supply will be stored by this website or passed to / be processed by any of the third party data processors. Instead the data will be collated into an email and sent to us over the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). Our SMTP servers are protected by TLS (sometimes known as SSL) meaning that the email content is encrypted using SHA-2, 256-bit cryptography before being sent across the internet. The email content is then decrypted by our local computers and devices.

The personal information you provide may include your name, e-mail address and telephone number as well as other information about yourself to enable us to provide you with our service.

How will we use the information about you?

We receive and store any information you enter on our website or provide us via email or telephone.

We use the information that you provide for such purposes as:

• To contact you.
• To provide our service to you.
• To alert you to special offers.
• To disclose the information if required by law.

We will only ever use your personal information to respond to information requests and provide our services to you.

Who will it be shared with?

We will never sell, rent or otherwise distribute or make public your personal information.

We will not share your information with any external organisations other than for the above purposes.

We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

Your Rights

You may exercise your right to have your personal data removed from our records at any time by contacting us at william@meetnicepeople.co.uk.

You have a right to ask for a copy of your information and to correct any inaccuracies.

Links to other websites

Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware of this when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information.

Data Breaches

We will report any unlawful data breach of this website’s database or the database(s) of any of our third party data processors to any and all relevant persons and authorities within 72 hours of the breach if it is apparent that personal data stored in an identifiable manner has been stolen.

Data Controller

The data controller of this website is:

William Knight Hamilton

Tel: +44 (0)207 649 9794 or 0044 7973 112 586

Email: william@meetnicepeople.co.uk

Changes to our privacy policy

This privacy policy may change from time to time inline with legislation or industry developments. We will not explicitly inform our clients or website users of these changes. Instead, we recommend that you check this page occasionally for any policy changes.

Last updated 11th March 2022

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Our cookies help us:

• Make our website work as you'd expect
• Improve the speed/security of the site
• Continuously improve our website for you
• Make our marketing more efficient

We do not use cookies to:

• Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
• Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
• Pass data to advertising networks
• Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
• Pay sales commissions

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