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Pivot Place Associates (PPA) is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information. This privacy notice describes how we collect and use personal information about you in accordance with the general data protection regulation (GDPR).

PPA is a “data controller”. This means that we are responsible for deciding how we hold and use personal data which relates to you. We are required under data protection legislation to notify you of the information contained in this privacy notice. PPA take your privacy very seriously and our aim is to be as transparent as possible; please read the following carefully to understand how we collect, use and protect your personal data

It is important that you read and retain this notice, together with any other privacy notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal information about you, so that you are aware of how and why we are using such information and what your rights are under the GDPR and other data protection legislation.

If you choose to provide us with personal information, it will only be used in support of the intended purposes stated at which point the information was collected, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If we need to use your personal information for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so. We may also receive your data from external sources such as other online portals. Please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies.

Personal Information Collection

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).

We collect personal information about you when providing our services to you.

We will collect, store, and use the following categories of personal information about you:: – name, postal address, telephone number and email address. We will also collect contact form responses when you use the website or make contact with us via; email, telephone number, post etc.

If you choose to provide us with personal information, it will only be used in support of the intended purposes stated at which point the information was collected, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If we need to use your personal information for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so. We may also receive your data from external sources such as other online property portals. 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. Please note that we may process your personal information without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.

How Do we use your personal data?

We will only use your personal information when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal information in the following circumstances.

. Where we need to perform the contract we have entered into with you

. Where we need to comply with a legal obligation

. Where it is necessary for legitimate interests pursued by us or a third party and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests

. Where we need to protect your interests (or someone else’s interests).

. Where it is needed in the public interest

We will use the information collected to provide and tailor our services, this will include dealing with your enquiries both online and offline.

We need all the categories of information in the list above primarily to allow us to perform our contract with you and to enable us to comply with our legal obligations. In some cases we may use your personal information to pursue legitimate interests, provided your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests. The situations in which we will process your personal information are listed below. You will not be subject to decisions that will have a significant impact on you based solely on automated decision-making, unless we have a lawful basis for doing so and we have notified you

We do not envisage that any decisions will be taken about you using automated means, however, we will notify you in writing if this position changes

The data that we collect from you will be stored within the EU. We will take steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely. All data collected will be stored securely in hosted facilities by Microsoft dynamics.

Information will only be passed to third parties for the purposes of dealing with an enquiry in which a third party may need to be involved, where required by law, where it is necessary to administer the working relationship with you or where we have another legitimate interest in doing so. When we do this, we will ensure that we contact you to request this information and act in accordance with this privacy notice.

All our third-party service providers and other entities in the group are required to take appropriate security measures to protect your personal information in line with our policies. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes. We only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

We may share your personal information with other third parties, for example in the context of the possible sale or restructuring of the business. In this situation we will, so far as possible, share anonymised data with the other parties before the transaction completes. Once the transaction is completed, we will share your personal data with the other parties if and to the extent required under the terms of the transaction.

We may also receive your data from external sources such as other online companies. 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.

We won’t share your personal data with any other organisations for commercial gain, market research, other websites or marketing.

If you are an existing client, joined our mailing list or submitted an enquiry we may occasionally update you on our latest services via email, post & telephone or you may receive one of our publications.

Access to information and correction.

You have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you at any point. We want to make sure that your personal information is accurate and up to date. It is important that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal information changes during your working relationship with us.

If you wish to access the personal information that PPA holds about you or verify this information, please write to us outlining your request using the contact details set out at the end of this privacy notice.

How long do we keep your personal details for?

We only hold on to information for as long as we actually need it for the purpose we acquired it for in the first place, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

In the majority of cases we will keep your personal data for as long as you continue to use PPA’s services, and for a reasonable time afterwards to see if you require additional services, following that we will delete it other than where we can lawfully keep information for audit or legal reasons.

Your rights in connection with personal information

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Under certain circumstances, by law you have the right to:

. Request access to your personal information (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.

. Request correction of the personal information that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected.

. Request erasure of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal information where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal information where you have exercised your right to object to processing (see below).

. Object to processing of your personal information where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground. You also have the right to object where we are:

Processing your personal information for direct marketing purposes

. Request the restriction of processing of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of personal information about you, for example if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it

. Request the transfer of your personal information to another party.

If you want to review, verify, correct or request erasure of your personal information, object to the processing of your personal data, or request that we transfer a copy of your personal information to another party, please contact info@pivotplaceassociates.com

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal information (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request for access is clearly unfounded or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with the request in such circumstances.

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access the information (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is another appropriate security measure to ensure that personal information is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it.

Your right to withdraw consent

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In the limited circumstances where you may have provided your consent to the collection, processing and transfer of your personal information for a specific purpose, you have the right to withdraw your consent for that specific processing at any time.

To withdraw your consent, please contact right to withdraw consent in the limited circumstances where you may have provided your consent to the collection, processing and transfer of your personal information for a specific purpose, you have the right to withdraw your consent for that specific processing at any time.

To withdraw your consent, please contact PPA.

Once we have received notification that you have withdrawn your consent, we will no longer process your information for the purpose or purposes you originally agreed to, unless we have another legitimate basis for doing so in law.

Once we have received notification that you have withdrawn your consent, we will no longer process your information for the purpose or purposes you originally agreed to, unless we have another legitimate basis for doing so in law. Once we have received notification that you have withdrawn your consent, we will no longer process your information for the purpose or purposes you originally agreed to, unless we have another legitimate basis for doing so in law.

Data Security

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We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition we limit access to your personal information to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal information on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality. We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected data security breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected breach where we are legally required to do so.

External links

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Our website does not contain links to other websites.

Changes to this privacy notice.

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We reserve the right to update this privacy notice at any time, and we will provide you with a new privacy notice when we make any substantial updates. We may also notify you in other ways from time to time about the processing of your personal information. Contact if you have any queries or comments about the PPA privacy notice or if you wish to unsubscribe from our emails, please contact us using the contact details below.

Email: info@pivotplaceassociates.com