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Halo Consulting Limited

Privacy Policy

Last updated January 2024

  1. Our contact details 

Name: Data Protection Officer 

E-mail: dpo@apathnotchosen.com 

Please mark the subject line ‘Data Protection Officer’. 

  1. The type of personal information we collect 

We currently could collect and process the following information: 

  1. website visitor identifiers, 
  2. website browsing activity for website user statistics, and, 
  3. where you supply them: email addresses, and other contact information and/or characteristics (for example, your name).
  1. How we get the personal information and why we have it

Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you for one of the following reasons: to ensure the website and associated functionality works and performs as intended. 

We use the information that you have given us in order to communicate with you. 

We may share this information with book suppliers, for example, Amazon. We only do this when you request that we do so.

Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are: 

  1. Your consent. You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting The Data Protection Officer. 
  2. We have a legitimate interest. We have a legitimate interest in ensuring the website and associated functionality performs as intended for your use. We also have a legitimate interest in using your personal data, for example, in order to respond to you and/or your requests.
  3. How we store your personal information 

Your information is securely stored. 

We keep your personal data 1 year and 1 month. We will then dispose your information by purging data from our databases and systems via a pre-programmed running process to erase such personal data.

  1. Your data protection rights

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

  1. Your right of access – You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information. 
  2. Your right to rectification – You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete. 
  3. Your right to erasure – You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances. 
  4. Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances. 
  5. Your right to object to processing – You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
  6. Your right to data portability – You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

Please note that under the following lawful bases you have the following rights:

  1. Consent – you do not have the right to object to processing, but you do have the right to withdraw your consent to your personal data being processed
  2. Contract – you do not have the right to object to processing fro the purposes of the contract being performed;
  3. Legal obligation – you do not have the right to erasure, the right to portability nor the right object to processing; and,
  4. Legitimate interests – you do not have the right to data portability.

You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.

  1. How to complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us by:

  1. emailing dpo@apathnotchosen.com; or
  2. filing in the Contact form on our website https://apathnotchosen.com/contact/ 

We would like the opportunity to resolve your complaint before you approach the ICO.

However, you can also complain to the ICO directly if you are unhappy with how we have used your data. The ICO’s address:            

Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113

ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk