Privacy Policy
Purpose of this policy
This privacy policy (‘Privacy Policy‘) explains our approach to any personal information that we might collect from you or which we have obtained about you from a third party and the purposes for which we process your personal information. The Privacy Policy sets out your rights in respect of our processing of your personal information.
This Privacy Policy will inform you of the nature of the personal information about you that we hold and process, and how you can request that we delete, update, transfer it and/or provide you with access to it.
Please note that this Privacy Policy only applies to the use of your personal information obtained by us, it does not apply to your personal information collected during your communications with other companies or third parties.
Trauma Informed Consultancy Services - TICS Ltd
The Website and our Services are operated by Lisa Cherry and TICS Ltd, (“TICS Ltd“ "Trauma Informed Consultancy Services Ltd", “we“, “us” or “our“).
Trauma Informed Consultancy Ltd is a Limited Company registered in England and Wales.
Lisa Cherry is the data controller responsible for your personal information within this Website and Services.
Contact us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or want to exercise your rights set out in this Privacy Policy, please contact us by:
lisa@lisacherry.co.uk
What personal data do we collect and how do we use it?
We may collect the following types of personal data from you, depending on how you interact with us:
name and contact information (such as email address, postal address and telephone number)
order and payment information online account username/display name and password IP address and information about your browsing habits, social media handles, requests, reviews and opinions, any other personal data you may submit to us.
Our primary goal in collecting personal information from you is to:
- Verify your identity
- Help us improve our products and services and develop new services
- Carry out requests made by you on the Website
- Investigate or settle inquiries or disputes
- Comply with any applicable law, court order, other judicial process, or the requirements of a regulator enforce our agreements with you
- Protect the rights, property or safety of us or third parties, including our other customers
- Provide support for the provision of our Services; and use as otherwise required or permitted by law.
- In particular, we use your personal information for the following purposes:
- Fulfilment of products and services
- We collect and maintain personal information that you voluntarily submit to us during your use of the Website and/or our Services, including registering on our Website.
- We will use the contact and payment details you have provided to us so that we can fulfil the supply of products and services you have ordered from our Website. This includes your purchase of products, your attendance at events hosted by us or our third party partners and the processing of returns and refunds.
Who do we share your personal information with for this purpose?
We will share your personal information with the following categories of third parties:
To verify card payments and process refunds – credit card companies and other payment providers;
To deliver products and process returns – delivery and courier companies;
Events – any applicable third party hosting the event; and third party ticketing companies such as Eventbrite.
Competitions, promotions and prize draws – any applicable third party co-promoter (for example, a book publisher), prize supplier, facilitator or publicity platform.
What is our legal basis?
It is necessary for us to use your personal information to perform our obligations in accordance with any contract that we may have with you.
Customer support
Our Website has an electronic enquiry form to allow you to request information about our products and services. Your contact information may be requested in each case, together with details of other personal information that is relevant to your enquiry. This information is used in order to enable us to respond to your requests.
Who do we share your personal information with for this purpose?
We do not share your personal information for this purpose.
What is our legal basis?
It is in our legitimate interest to use your personal information in such a way to ensure that we provide the very best personal service we can to you.
Customer insight and analysis
We analyse your contact details and other personal information that we collect about you such as your interests and demographic information together with personal information that we obtain from observing your interactions with our Website, our email communications to you and/or your interactions with our products and services.
Where you have given your consent (where lawfully required), we use cookies, log files and other similar technologies to collect personal information from the computer hardware and software you use to access the Website, or from your mobile.
This includes the following:
an IP address to monitor Website traffic and volume
a session ID to track usage statistics on our Website
information regarding your personal or professional interests, demographics, buying habits, experiences with our products and contact preferences.
Our web pages and e-mails may contain cookies or pixel tags (“Tags“). Tags allow us to track receipt of an e-mail to you, to count users that have visited a web page, opened an e-mail and to collect other types of aggregate information. Once you click on an e-mail that contains a Tag, your contact information may subsequently be cross-referenced to the source e-mail and the relevant Tag.
In some of our e-mail messages, we use a click-through URL linked to certain websites administered by us (or on our behalf) and/or to certain third party websites (including certain event partner websites). If you decide to click through to the relevant URL, we or the relevant third party website operator (as applicable) may through the use of a Cookie track click-through data to assist in determining interest in particular topics and measure the effectiveness of these communications. Please note that to the extent that you click through to a third party website from our email, use of your data by the relevant third party will be subject to their own rules and policies.
Please note that any emails you receive from us may contain Cookies to help us to see if recipients have opened an email and understand how recipients have interacted with it. If you have enabled images, Cookies may also be set on your computer or mobile device.
If you do not wish to accept Cookies from any one of our emails, simply close the email before downloading any images or refrain from clicking on any URL links. You can also set your browser to restrict Cookies or to reject them entirely. These settings will apply to all Cookies whether included on websites or in emails.
In some instances, depending on your email or browser settings, Cookies in an email may be automatically accepted (for example, when you’ve added an email address to your address book or safe senders list). Please refer to your email browser or device instructions for more information on this.
The personal information described in this section is used to create profiles and insights about you and our other customers. By using this information, we are able to measure the effectiveness of our content and how visitors use our Sites and our Services. This allows us to learn what pages of our Sites are most attractive to our visitors, which parts of our Sites are the most interesting and what kind of content our users like to see.
We use this information to help us with the design of our Webite and Services. We also use this information for marketing purposes (see the marketing section below for further details).
Who do we share your personal information with for these purposes
We may share your personal information with third party service providers to assist us with customer insight analytics.
What is our legal basis?
Where your personal information is completely anonymised, we do not require a legal basis to use it as the information will no longer constitute personal information that is regulated under data protection laws. However, our collection and use of such anonymised personal information may be subject to other laws where your consent is required.
Where your personal information is not in an anonymous form, it is in our legitimate interest to use your personal information in such a way to ensure that we provide the very best products and services to you and all our customers.
Marketing communications
We may carry out the following marketing activities using your personal information:
Email marketing
We use information that we observe about you from your interactions with our Website, and our email communications to send you marketing communications by email, where you have consented to receive such marketing communications.
Who do we share your personal information with for these purposes?
Typically, we do not share your personal information for this purpose, but from time to time we may share your personal information with event third parties with your consent.
What is our legal basis?
Where your personal information is completely anonymised, we do not require a legal basis to use it for marketing analysis as the personal information will no longer constitute personal information that is regulated under applicable data protection laws. However, our collection and/or use of such anonymised personal information may be subject to other laws where your consent is required.
Where your personal information is not in an anonymous form, it is in our legitimate interest to use your personal information for personalised marketing purposes.
We will send you marketing communications via email where you have consented to receive such marketing communications. You can opt out at anytime from these emails.
Business administration and legal compliance
We use your personal information for the following business administration and legal compliance purposes:
to comply with our legal obligations, to enforce our legal rights, protect rights of third parties
Who do we share your personal information with for these purposes?
We will share your personal information with professional advisers such as lawyers and accountants and/or governmental or regulatory authorities.
What is our legal basis?
Where we use your personal information in connection with a business transition, enforce our legal rights, or to protect the rights of third parties it is in our legitimate interest to do so. For all other purposes described in this section, it is our legal obligation to use your personal information to comply with any legal obligations imposed upon us such as a court order.
Where we share your sensitive personal information, we shall obtain your consent to do so.
Any other purposes for which we wish to use your personal information that are not listed above, or any other changes we propose to make to the existing purposes will be notified to you using your contact details.
How do we obtain your consent?
Where our use of your personal information requires your consent, you can provide such consent:
at the time we collect your personal information following the instructions provided; or
by informing us by e-mail or post using the contact details set out in this Privacy Policy.
Use of cookies and similar technologies
Our Webite uses certain cookies, pixels, log files and other technologies of which you should be aware.
Third party links and services
Our Website contains links to third party websites and services. Please remember that when you use a link to go from our Website to another website or you request a service from a third party, this Privacy Policy no longer applies.
Your browsing and interaction on any other websites, or your dealings with any other third party service provider, is subject to that website’s or third party service provider’s own rules and policies.
We do not monitor, control, or endorse the privacy practices of any third parties.
We encourage you to become familiar with the privacy practices of every website you visit or third party service provider that you deal with and to contact them if you have any questions about their respective privacy policies and practices.
This Privacy Policy applies solely to personal information collected by us through our Service and does not apply to these third party websites and third party service providers.
How long do we keep your information for?
We will keep your personal information for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy and in accordance with the law and relevant regulations. We will never retain your personal information for longer than is necessary.
Confidentiality and security of your personal information
We are committed to keeping the personal information you provide to us secure and we will take reasonable precautions to protect your personal information from loss, misuse or alteration.
We have implemented information security policies, rules and technical measures to protect the personal information that we have under our control from:
- Unauthorised access
- Improper use or disclosure
- Unauthorised modification; and
- Unlawful destruction or accidental loss.
All of our employees and data processors (i.e. those who process your personal information on our behalf, for the purposes listed above), who have access to, and are associated with the processing of personal information, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of the personal information of all users of our Services.
How to access your information and your rights
You have the following rights in relation to the personal information we hold about you:
Your right of access
If you ask us, we’ll confirm whether we’re processing your personal information and, if so, provide you with a copy of that personal information.
Your right to rectification
If the personal information we hold about you is inaccurate or incomplete, you’re entitled to have it rectified. If we’ve shared your personal information with others, we’ll let them know about the rectification where possible. If you ask us, where possible and lawful to do so, we’ll also tell you who we’ve shared your personal information with so that you can contact them directly.
Your right to erasure
You can ask us to delete or remove your personal information in some circumstances such as where we no longer need it or if you withdraw your consent (where applicable). If we’ve shared your personal information with others, we’ll let them know about the erasure where possible. If you ask us, where it is possible and lawful for us to do so, we’ll also tell you who we’ve shared your personal information with so that you can contact them directly.
Your right to restrict processing
You can ask us to ‘block’ or suppress the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances such as where you contest the accuracy of that personal information or you object to us processing it. It won’t stop us from storing your personal information though. We’ll tell you before we lift any restriction. If we’ve shared your personal information with others, we’ll let them know about the restriction where it is possible for us to do so. If you ask us, where it is possible and lawful for us to do so, we’ll also tell you who we’ve shared your personal information with so that you can contact them directly.
Your right to withdraw consent
If we rely on your consent as our legal basis for processing your personal information, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time.
Your right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority
If you have a concern about any aspect of our privacy practices, including the way we’ve handled your personal information, you can report it to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
Changes to the Privacy Policy
We may make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time.
To ensure that you are always aware of how we use your personal information we will update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect any changes to our use of your personal information. We may also make changes as required to comply with changes in applicable law or regulatory requirements. We will notify you by e-mail of any significant changes. However, we encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to be informed of how we use your personal information.