Longacres Consulting Ltd (registered number 6574155), T/A VUIT.Online, whose registered office is at 25 Roe Lane, Clayton, Staffordshire ST5 3PH, knows that you care how information about you is used and shared and we appreciate your trust in us to do that carefully and sensibly. This notice describes our privacy policy and forms part of our website terms and conditions.
By accepting our Website Terms or by visiting www.vuit.online (“the Website”) you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this Privacy Policy. This Website is brought to you by VUIT Online and we believe it is important to protect your Personal Data (as defined in the Data Protection Act 1998) and we are committed to giving you a personalised service that meets your needs in a way that also protects your privacy. This policy explains how we may collect Personal Data about you. It also explains some of the security measures we take to protect your Personal Data, and tells you certain things we will do and not do. You should read this policy in conjunction with the Website Terms.
When we first obtain Personal Data from you, or when you take a new service or product from us, we will give you the opportunity to tell us if you do or do not want to receive information from us about other services or products (as applicable). You can normally do this by ticking a box on an application form or contract. You may change your mind at any time by emailing us at the address below.
Collecting Information – We may collect Personal Data from you register to use our free resource or when you agree to buy a product from us, in which case this may include your contact details, and how you will pay for the product.
Using Your Personal Information
Personal Data about our customers is an important to us and we shall only use your Personal Data for the following purposes and shall not keep such Personal Data longer than is necessary to fulfill these purposes:
To help us to identify you when you contact us.
To help us to identify products which you could have from us from time to time.
To help us to administer and to contact you about improved products we have provided before, provide now, or may provide in the future.
To help to prevent and detect fraud or loss.
To allow us to contact you in any way (including mail, email, telephone, text or multimedia messages) about products offered by us unless you have previously asked us not to do so.
We may monitor and record communications with you (including emails) for quality assurance and compliance.
We may check your details with fraud prevention agencies. If you provide false or inaccurate information and we suspect fraud, we will record this.
If we, or substantially all of our assets, are acquired or are in the process of being acquired by a third party, in which case Personal Data held by us, about our customers, will be one of the transferred assets.
If we have been legitimately asked to provide information for legal or regulatory purposes or as part of legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings.
We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your Personal Data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which comes into effect on 25th May 2018.
If you provide false or inaccurate information to us and we suspect fraud, we will record this and may share it with other people and organisations. We, and other credit organisations, may also use technology to detect and prevent fraud.
Protecting Information – We have strict security measures to protect Personal Data.
We work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input.
Our normal payment method is through Paypal. If this changes and where applicable we reveal only the last five digits of your credit card numbers when confirming an order. Of course, we transmit the entire credit card number to the appropriate credit card company during order processing.
We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards in connection with the collection, storage and disclosure of personally identifiable customer information. Our security procedures mean that we may occasionally request proof of identity before we disclose personal information to you.
It is important for you to protect against unauthorised access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when you finish using a shared computer.
The internet
If you communicate with us using the internet, we may occasionally email you about our latest products. When you first give us Personal Data through the Website, we will normally give you the opportunity to say whether you would prefer us not to contact you by email. You can also always send us an email (at the address set out below) at any time if you change your mind.
Please remember that communications over the internet, such as emails and webmails (messages sent through a website), are not secure unless they have been encrypted. Your communications may go through a number of countries before they are delivered – this is the nature of the internet. We cannot accept responsibility for any unauthorised access or loss of Personal Data that is beyond our control.
We never Share your personal data.
Our Website does not include third-party advertising or links to other websites. We never share your personally identifiable customer data with third party companies or websites.
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to understand how our website is being used so that we can improve it. All of the information passed to Google Analytics through our website host, WordPress, is anonymous but does include cookies, ip address and geographical location (city) .
Further Information
If you would like access to the Personal Data that we hold about you, wish to update or delete this data, or you have any comments about our Privacy Policy, please either write to us at Data Protection Manager, 25 Roe Lane, Clayton, Staffordshire ST5 3PH
Please note:
We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time without notice to you, in which case, we will publish the amended version on the Website. It is your responsibility to check regularly to determine whether this Privacy Policy has changed.