General data privacy regulations (GDPR)
The Big Ideas Collective Ltd (BIG ‘our’, ‘us’ or ‘we’), including Principles of Profit and the Big Ideas Library – Privacy Policy
We are committed to ensuring the protection of your privacy and it’s important for you to know and understand how we will use and protect any information you give us through the use of our website, our social media, emails, documentation, letters and eNewsletter. Our privacy policy seeks to follow the current Privacy and Electronics Communications Regulation (PECR), or ePrivacy Directive, and the General Data Privacy Regulations (GDPR).
Effective from 1st May 2018, and through subsequent updates, your information will only be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to alter this Policy without notice and therefore suggest that you check back from time to time to ensure you are up to date and happy with any changes made.
We may collect the following information
- name and job title
- contact information including email, website and social media contacts, including but not confined to, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google + and Facebook. plus user’s IP address
- demographic information such as post code, preferences and interests
- other information relevant to customer requirements via our surveys and/or offers
How we collect information
We collect information via our website contact form, our eNewsletter sign up form, our customer survey form and via our social media channels, including, but not limited to, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. We may also collect it face-to-face at meetings, events and seminars from people who show interest in our work.
We will keep any information you provide confidential and will not share with any third parties unless legally obliged. We keep all business cards provided to us by interested parties. Any information shared with us digitally may be kept for up to 90 days, after which it will be deleted unless we are/have been or are about to be part of a joint collaborative project, for example, you are/were/become a client or a professional associate/supplier, we will retain your information indefinitely unless you ask us to remove it from our database.
You may, at any time, request to see what information of yours we hold and request its deletion. There is no charge and we will supply the information to you within 30 days.
Why do we collect this information and what do we do with it?
Transparent and responsible
We gather client and associates’ information to better understand our clients’, suppliers’ and associates’ needs and provide the best service possible, more specifically for:
- our internal records, so that we can keep in touch with clients, suppliers, associates and interested parties
- improvement of our products and services
- the tailoring of this website according to clients’ interests
- quotation and project work with clients and professional associates
eNewsletters
We use a third party provider, MailChimp to deliver our eNewsletters.
If you choose to ‘opt in’ and sign up to receive our e-newsletter you will periodically receive information we believe you may find useful, valuable, timely and of interest to you about us, our services and the marketing, publishing, advertising and digital sector.
Through MailChimp we gather statistics around email opening and clicks using industry standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our e-newsletter. For more information, please see MailChimp Privacy Policy
It will be clear that our eNewsletters are from us and you may unsubscribe at any time, which will remove your contact details from our eNewsletter database. You may also re subscribe whenever you wish via our website.
Social Media
We use a third party provider Hootsuite to manage many of our social media interactions. If you send us a private or direct message via social media the message will be stored by Hootsuite for three months. It will not be shared with any other organisations.
We also use Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube. You’ll find their privacy policies here:
Links to external websites
Our website contains links to other third party websites, which we feel may be of interest or use to you. Please be aware, however, that once you have left our website we do not have any control over these third party websites and cannot be held responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites as they are not governed by this privacy statement. Please take care and ensure you check the privacy policy or statement applicable to the website you’re visiting.
Safe and secure
This website has an SSL Certificate this shows trusted, secure and encrypted information exchange between browsers and webservers, websites and networks.
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure and to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
Invoicing
We use Quickbooks, a trading name of Intuit.com, for our digital invoicing. Dedicated to customer privacy, Intuit are a TRUSTe certified company.
Controlling your personal information
We will not lease, sell or distribute your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law.
We may also stream our video content from the third party supplier You Tube. Please view their privacy and cookie policy at: http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/policies/privacy/
Google Analytics data retention is 38 months. You’ll find Google’s Analytics Privacy Policy here.
You can opt-out of Google Analytics cookies altogether by linking to this Google Analytics Opt-Out Add-on.
Further information on Google analytics cookies can be found via:
Other cookies that MAY be set by this site are detailed as follows:
- yourCookieStatus – this stores the setting whether non-essential cookies can be set. This cookie is set for a period of 6 months.
- PHPSESSID – this maintains your status as a visitor of the site. This cookie expires at the when the browser is closed.
Privacy queries, data removal and complaints
Please contact jacky@thebigideascollective.com if you have a query, wish to remove your data from our systems or have a complaint about something you think we have done that affects your data privacy. In respect of a complaint, please do let us know and allow us to remedy the situation. You are also free, at any time, to contact the Information Commissioner’s Office via the https://ico.org.uk.
This is a statement of our Privacy Policy and is not a contract. For further information on data protection and the requirements of GDPR we encourage you to visit the ePrivacy Regulation and the ICO Guide to General Data Protection Regulation.
Thank you.
Cookie Policy
About this cookie policy.
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are and how we use them. You should read this policy to understand what cookies are, how we use them, the types of cookies we use i.e, the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used and how to control the cookie preferences. For further information on how we use, store and keep your personal data secure, see our Privacy Policy.
You can at any time change or withdraw your consent from the Cookie Declaration on our website.
Learn more about who we are, how you can contact us and how we process personal data in our Privacy Policy.
Your consent applies to the following domains: thebigideascollectivehosting.co.uk
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What are cookies ?
Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. The cookies are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make the website more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyze what works and where it needs improvement.
How do we use cookies ?
As most of the online services, our website uses cookies first-party and third-party cookies for a number of purposes. The first-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.
The third-party cookies used on our websites are used mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.
What types of cookies do we use ?
The cookies used on our website are grouped into the following categories.
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The below list details the cookies used in our website.
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How can I control the cookie preferences ?
You can manage your cookies preferences by clicking on the “Settings” button and enabling or disabling the cookie categories on the popup according to your preferences.
Should you decide to change your preferences later through your browsing session, you can click on the “Manage consent” tab on your screen. This will display the consent notice again enabling you to change your preferences or withdraw your consent entirely.
In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. To find out more out more on how to manage and delete cookies, visit wikipedia.org, www.allaboutcookies.org.