Our Privacy Policy

1. Important Information and Who We Are

Purpose of This Privacy Policy

This privacy policy aims to give you information on how Highgate IT Solutions LTD collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide through this site when you sign up for a service, or purchase a product.

Controller

Highgate IT Solutions LTD is the controller and responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as “Highgate IT Solutions LTD”, “we”, “us”, or “our” in this privacy policy).

Contact Details

Our full details are:

Full name of legal entity: Highgate IT Solutions LTD

Email address: enquiries@highgate-it.co.uk

Postal address: 124 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the supervisory authority for data protection issues. We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the authority so please contact us in the first instance.

Changes to the Privacy Policy and Your Duty to Inform Us of Changes

This version was last updated on 09/04/2024. It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.

2. The Data We Collect About You

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

- Identity Data includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier.
- Contact Data includes email address and telephone numbers.
- Location Data includes your location.
- Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
- Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, products, and services.

We also collect, use, and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity.

3. How We Use Your Personal Data

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

- To register you as a new customer.
- To manage our relationship with you.
- To administer and protect our business and this website.
- To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you.
- To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships, and experiences.

4. Sharing Your Personal Data

We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in paragraph 3 above:

- External Third Parties such as service providers acting as processors who provide IT and system administration services.
- Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance, and accounting services.
- Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets.

5. International Transfers

We do not transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area (EEA).

6. Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

7. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there

8. Third-Party Websites

Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third-party websites. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties. Therefore, we cannot be held responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy policy. We encourage you to exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.