Privacy Notice
Harris Shields Collection is a trading style of:
Harris Bell Associates Ltd
and
Harris Bell Associates (Scarborough) Ltd
What information do we collect about you?
We collect information about you when:
- You engage us for selling your property or business.
- You engage us to Let or manage a property owned by you.
- You engage us to undertake Block Management services.
- You wish to make an offer to purchase a property or business we are marketing.
- You wish to view or make an application to rent a property or business we have To Let.
This information will relate to your personal circumstances.
We may also collect information when you voluntarily complete client surveys or provide feedback to us.
Information relating to usage of our website is collected using cookies. These are text files placed on your computer to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information. We’ll use your information collected from the website to personalise your repeat visits to the site.
We try at all times to keep at all personal data collected and processed accurate and up-to-date. We check the accuracy of data when it is collected and at regular intervals thereafter. Where any inaccurate or out-of-date data is found, all reasonable steps will be taken to amend or erase that data, as appropriate.
Information about connected individuals
We may need to gather personal information about your close family members and dependants in order to provide our service to you effectively. In such cases it will be your responsibility to ensure that you have the consent of the people concerned to pass their information on to us. We’ll provide a copy of this privacy notice for them or, where appropriate, ask you to pass the privacy information to them.
Why do we need to collect and use your personal data?
The primary legal basis that we intend to use for the processing of your data is for the performance of our contract with you. The information that we collect about you is essential for us to be able to carry out the services that you require from us effectively. Without collecting your personal data we’d also be unable to fulfil our legal and regulatory obligations.
How will we use the information about you?
We collect information about you in order to provide you with the services for which you engage us.
Who might we share your information with?
In order to deliver our services to you effectively we may also send your details to third parties such as those that we or you engage for professional services such as legal, accountancy, financial advisers or surveying services as well as trades people.
Where third parties are involved in processing your data, they must ensure that the nature and purpose of the processing is clear, that they are subject to a duty of confidence in processing your data and that they’ll only act in accordance with your instructions.
Where it’s necessary for your personal data to be forwarded to a third party we’ll use appropriate measures to protect your personal data in transit.
To fulfil our obligations in respect of prevention of money-laundering and other financial crime we may send your details to third party agencies for identity verification purposes.
If you agree, we may email you about other products or services that we think may be of interest to you.
We won’t share your information for marketing purposes with companies outside our group of companies/other companies.
How long do we keep hold of your information?
During the course of our relationship with you we’ll retain personal data which is necessary to provide services to you. We’ll take all reasonable steps to keep your personal data up to date throughout our relationship.
We reserve the right to retain data for as long as we believe it's in our legitimate interests to do so.
When determining the appropriate retention period, we consider the risks of the processing, our contractual, legal and regulatory obligations, internal retention policies and our legitimate business interests as described in this privacy notice.
You have the right to request deletion of your personal data. We’ll comply with this request, subject to the restrictions of our regulatory obligations and legitimate interests as noted above.
How can I access the information you hold about me?
You have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you. If you’d like a copy of some or all of your personal information please email or write to us using the contact details noted below.
You may make a subject access request (“SAR”) at any time to find out more about the personal data which we hold about you. We are usually required to respond to SARs within one month of receipt (this can be extended by up to two months in the case of complex and/or numerous requests, and in such cases the data subject shall be informed of the need for the extension).
All subject access requests must be sent to our Data Protection Officer.
We do not charge a fee for the handling of normal SARs. We reserve the right to charge reasonable fees for additional copies of information that has already been supplied to a data subject, and for requests that are manifestly unfounded or excessive, particularly where such requests are repetitive.
You also have the following rights in respect of your personal data:
- The right to be informed of the processing;
- The right to rectification;
- The right of erasure;
- The right to restrict processing;
- The right of data portability;
- The right to object to processing;
- The right to understand automated decision making and profiling.
For more details on how to exercise these rights please contact us.
When your personal data is processed by automated means you have the right to ask us to move your personal data to another organisation for their use.
We have an obligation to ensure that your personal information is accurate and up to date. Please ask us to correct or remove any information that you think is incorrect.
Marketing
We’d like to send you information about our products and services which may be of interest to you. If you’ve agreed to receive marketing information, you may opt out at a later date.
You have a right at any time to stop us from contacting you for marketing purposes. If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, please contact us by email or post.
Cookies
We use cookies to track visitor use of the website and to compile statistical reports on website activity.
For further information visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/
You can set your browser not to accept cookies and the above website tells you how to remove cookies from your browser. However in a few cases some of our website features may not function as a result.
Other websites
Our website contains links to other websites. This privacy policy only applies to our website so when you link to other websites you should read their own privacy policies.
What can you do if you are unhappy with how your personal data is processed?
You also have a right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority for data protection. In the UK this is:
Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Tel: 0303 123 1113
Changes to our privacy policy
We keep our privacy policy under regular review, and we’ll place any updates on this web page (and/or) inform you of any changes when they occur.
How to contact us
Please contact us if you have any questions about our privacy policy or information we hold about you to Peter Slack (Data Protection Officer) by email at peter.slack@burlington-financial.uk
Or write to us at Harris Shields Collection, 14 Promenade, Bridlington, East Yorkshire, YO15 2PX.