Privacy Policy

Apposite ("We") are committed to protecting and preserving the privacy of our visitors when visiting our site or communicating electronically with us.

Introduction

This policy sets out how we process any personal data we collect from you or that you provide to us through our website.

We confirm that we will keep your information secure and that we will comply fully with all applicable United Kingdom and European Union Data Protection legislation and regulations. Please read the following carefully to understand what happens to personal data that you choose to provide to us, or that we collect from you when you visit this site. By visiting our website, you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy.

When we collect your personal data?

The personal data we collect, may include your:

Cookies: This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. We collect the following cookies:

Necessary cookies that enable us to operate this website. For example, these cookies let us recognise that you have an account and are logged in; and
Functionality cookies which let us operate the site in accordance with the choices you make. For example, we will recognise your username and remember how you customised the website during your future visits.

If you want to restrict or block the cookies that are set by our website, you can do so through your browser settings. Alternatively, you can visit www.internetcookies.org, which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers and devices. You will find general information about cookies and details on how to delete cookies from your device.

Images: We may collect any images that you upload to the website.

Payment information: We may collect transaction data when you pay consultants for appointments.

Scheduling information: We may collect and store any personal information disclosed in your messages and/or scheduled appointments with other users of this website.

Analytics information: This website is hosted by Vercel. We collect the following information when you visit this website, this may include:

Information about your browser, network and device
Your IP address
Clicks
Pages visited

We need the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services.

Who we share your information with?

We will never sell your information to any third party.

As the information we collect about you will be stored on our IT infrastructure, it may also be shared for operational reasons with data processors Superbase (email, database management, and storage services), Stripe (payment processor), and Zoom (video conferencing platform). The servers containing this information are located in the UK / EEA.

In some circumstances, we may share limited personal information about you with other organisations that we engage with. This is to maintain and/or improve the website and services that we offer you. Where these third parties are not in the UK or European Economic Area, we make sure that it is safe to share your information with them, for example by including the ICO's International Data Transfer Agreement, or the European Union's Standard Contractual Clauses in our agreements with such third parties.

How we may use the information we collect

We use the information in the following ways:

Information you supply to us. We will use this information:

to provide you with information and/or services that you request from us;

Information we automatically collect about you. We may use this information:

to administer our site including troubleshooting and statistical purposes;
to improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
security and debugging as part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure.

Security

We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure that the information disclosed to us is kept secure, accurate, and up-to-date, and that it is kept only for as long as it is needed in order to fulfil the purpose or purposes for which it is used.

We will use all reasonable efforts to ensure that your personal data is not disclosed to regional/national institutions and authorities, unless required by law or other regulations.

You should be aware that the use of the internet is not entirely secure, and although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security or integrity of any personal information that is transferred from you or to you via the internet. Any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features such as encryption to try to prevent unauthorised access.

Third-party links

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from third-party websites. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

How long do we retain information?

We do not keep your information for any longer than we need to in order to fulfil the purpose or purposes for which it was collected, or for any longer than is required by law, if that is longer.

You may request that we erase your personal data at any time.

Note, in some cases where there is a relevant or legal reason that requires us to keep the data, we may opt to restrict the amount of processing to what is absolutely necessary. This will be in line with your legal rights in order to minimise the impact the processing will have and we will explain to you the reasons for our decision.

Your rights -- access to your personal data

Under data protection law you have the right to:

Access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
Rectification - You have the right to ask us to rectify information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
Erasure - You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances. We will honour this request unless deleting that information prevents us from fulfilling our legal obligations; or carrying out necessary business functions, like billing for our services, calculating taxes, or conducting required audits.
Restrict processing - You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your information in certain circumstances.
Object to processing - You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.
Data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

Changes to our privacy policy

Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.

Contact

To talk to us about your personal information, please contact us.

Last updated 04 September 2024