This privacy policy sets out how Geoffrey Hand uses and protects any information that you give him when you use this website. Geoffrey Hand is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected.

This policy applies where Geoffrey Hand is acting as a data controller with respect to the personal data of his website visitors and service users; in other words, where he determines the purposes and means of processing that personal data.

Geoffrey Hand will ask you to consent to his use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit his website, subsequently by using his website, and in agreeing to this policy, you consent to his use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.

Personal data that Geoffrey Hand stores or transmits is protected by security and access controls, including username and password authentication, two- factor authentication, and data encryption where appropriate.

The term ‘Geoffrey Hand’ or ‘me’ or ‘I’ refers to the owner of the website, Geoffrey Hand, whose office is 8 Gladstone Street London SE1 6EY. The term ‘you’ refers to the user or viewer of our website.

You can contact Geoffrey Hand by the various means listed on our Contact Page – please click here

Geoffrey Hand may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 07 March 2022.

How Geoffrey Hand uses your personal data

In this section Geoffrey Hand will set out:
– the general categories of personal data that he may process
– in the case of personal data that he did not obtain directly from you, the
source and specific categories of that data
– the purposes for which he may process personal data – the legal basis of the processing

Usage data. Geoffrey Hand may process data about your use of our website and services. The usage data may include your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths, as well as information about the timing, frequency and pattern of your service use. The source of the usage data is the analytics tracking system. This usage data may be processed for the purposes of analysing the use of the website and services. The legal basis for this processing is his legitimate interests, namely monitoring and improving our website and services.

Notification Data. Geoffrey Hand may process information that you provide to him for the purpose of subscribing to his email notifications and/or newsletters. The notification data may be processed for the purposes of sending you the relevant notifications and/or newsletters. The legal basis for this processing is consent or the performance of a contract between you and him and/or taking steps, at your request, to enter into such a contract.

Correspondence Data. Geoffrey Hand may process information contained in or relating to any communication that you send to him. The correspondence data may include the communication content and metadata associated with the communication. His website will generate the metadata associated with communications made using the website contact form. The correspondence data may be processed for the purposes of communicating with you and record-keeping. The legal basis for this processing is his legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of his website and business and communications with users.

Geoffrey Hand may process any of your personal data identified in this policy where necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure. The legal basis for this processing is his legitimate interests, namely the protection and assertion of his legal rights, your legal rights and the legal rights of others.

Geoffrey Hand may process any of your personal data identified in this policy where necessary for the purposes of obtaining or maintaining insurance coverage, managing risks, or obtaining professional advice. The legal basis for this processing is his legitimate interests, namely the proper protection of his business against risks.

In addition to the specific purposes for which Geoffrey Hand may process your personal data set out in this section, he may also process any of your personal data where such processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which he is subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.

Please do not supply any other person’s personal data to Geoffrey Hand, unless he prompts you to do so.

Providing your personal data to others

Geoffrey Hand will not disclose your personal data to any person, company or organisation except as detailed below:

Geoffrey Hand may disclose your personal data to his insurers and/or professional advisers insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes of obtaining or maintaining insurance coverage, managing risks, obtaining professional advice, or the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.

In addition to the specific disclosures of personal data set out in this section, Geoffrey Hand may disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which he is subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person. He may also disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.

International transfers of your personal data

In this section, Geoffrey Hand provides information about the circumstances in which your personal data may be transferred to countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA).

He does not knowingly transfer any personal data to countries outside the EEA.

The hosting facilities for his website are situated in the United Kingdom

You acknowledge that personal data that you submit for publication through his website may be available, via the internet, around the world. He cannot prevent the use (or misuse) of such personal data by others.

Retaining and deleting personal data

This section sets out Geoffrey Hand’s data retention policies and procedures which are designed to help ensure that he complies with his legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal data.

Personal data that he process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.

Geoffrey Hand will retain your personal data as follows:

Usage Data, Notification Data and Correspondence Data will be retained for a minimum period of 1 year following its date of receipt. In some cases it is not possible for him to specify in advance the periods for which your personal data will be retained. In such cases, he will shall determine the period of retention based on the following criteria: the period of retention of Usage, Notification and Correspondence Data will be determined based on his legitimate interests, the proper administration of his website and communication with users.

Notwithstanding the other provisions of this section, Geoffrey Hand may retain your personal data where such retention is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which he is subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.

Your rights

Your principal rights under data protection law are: – the right to access
– the right to rectification
– the right to erasure
– the right to restrict processing
– the right to object to processing
– the right to data portability
– the right to complain to a supervisory authority
– the right to withdraw consent

You have the right to confirmation as to whether or not GeoffreyHand processes your personal data and, where he does, access to the personal data, together with certain additional information. That additional information includes details of the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data concerned and the recipients of the personal data. Providing the rights and freedoms of others are not affected, he will supply to you a copy of your personal data. The first copy will be provided free of charge, but additional copies may be subject to a reasonable fee.

You have the right to have any inaccurate personal data about you rectified and taking into account the purposes of the processing, to have any incomplete personal data about you completed.

In some circumstances you have the right to the erasure of your personal data without undue delay. Those circumstances include: the personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed; you withdraw consent to consent-based processing; you object to the processing under certain rules of applicable data protection law; the processing is for direct marketing purposes; and the personal data have been unlawfully processed. However, there are exclusions of the right to erasure. The general exclusions include where processing is necessary: for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information; for compliance with a legal obligation; or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

In some circumstances you have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data. Those circumstances are: you contest the accuracy of the personal data; processing is unlawful but you oppose erasure; he no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of his processing, but you require personal data for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; and you have objected to processing, pending the verification of that objection. Where processing has been restricted on this basis, Geoffrey Hand may continue to store your personal data. However, he will only otherwise process it: with your consent; for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person; or for reasons of important public interest.

You have the right to object to his processing of your personal data on grounds relating to your particular situation, but only to the extent that the legal basis for the processing is that the processing is necessary for: the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of any official authority vested in us; or the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party. If you make such an objection, Geoffrey Hand will cease to process the personal information unless he can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing is for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

You have the right to object to Geoffrey Hand processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes (including profiling for direct marketing purposes). If you make such an objection, he will cease to process your personal data for this purpose.

To the extent that the legal basis for his processing of your personal data is: consent; or that the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract, and such processing is carried out by automated means, you have the right to receive your personal data from Geoffrey Hand in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. However, this right does not apply where it would adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.

If you consider that Geoffrey Hand’s processing of your personal information infringes data protection laws, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection. You may do so in the country of your habitual residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement.

To the extent that the legal basis for my processing of your personal information is consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of processing before the withdrawal.

You may exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal data by written notice to him in addition to the other methods specified above.

About cookies

Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies. A persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date unless deleted by the user before the expiry date. A session cookie will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences. Overall, cookies help Geoffrey Hand to provide you with a better website, by enabling him to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives him access to your computer or any information about you other than the data you choose to share with him.

Cookies Geoffrey hand uses

He uses cookies for the following purposes:

Analysis – Geoffrey Hand uses cookies to help him to analyse the use and performance of our website and services. Cookies used for this purpose are:
gadwp_wg_default_metric – used by Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress to view Google analytics in WordPress. Expires: session
gadwp_wg_default_dimension – used by Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress to view Google analytics in WordPress. Expires: session
gadwp_wg_default_swmetric – used by Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress to view Google analytics in WordPress. Expires: session

Cookie consent – Geoffrey Hand uses cookies to store your preferences in relation to the use of cookies more generally.
Cookies used for this purpose are:
catAccCookies Cookie set by the Cookie Consent. Cookie is used to store the acceptance of the cookie policy on the website. Strictly necessary. Expires: 30 days

Cookies used by Geoffrey Hand’s service providers

Geoffrey Hand’s service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit my website.

Geoffrey Hand uses Google Analytics to analyse the use of his website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to his website is used to create reports about the use of his website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https:// www.google.com/policies/privacy/
The relevant cookies are:
_ga A unique ID used for Google analytics to help him improve the website. Expires 2 years.
_gid A unique ID for a page and is used for Google analytics to help him improve the website. Expires 24 hours
_gat Used by Google Analytics to monitor requests rate toward their servers and helps him to improve the website. Expires: 1 minute

Geoffrey Hand uses Twitter to provide a social media service and serve a Twitter feed. This service ups cookies to identify and track visitors. He has no control over cookies set by Twitter. You can view the privacy policy of this service provider at https://twitter.com/en/privacy
The relevant cookies are:
guest_id Collects anonymous data related to the user’s visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and which have been loaded with the purpose of personalising and improving the Twitter service. Expires 2 years.

Managing cookies

Please note: Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.

Links to other websites

Geoffrey Hand’s website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leaves site, you should note that he does not have any control over that other website. Therefore, he cannot be 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. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy policy applicable to the website in question.

If you continue to browse and use this website you are agreeing to comply with and be bound by the following terms and conditions of use, which together with Geoffrey Hand’s Privacy Policy govern Geoffrey Hand’s relationship with you in relation to this website.

The term ‘Geoffrey Hand or ‘me’ refers to the owner of the website who is Geoffrey Hand of 8 Gladstone Street London SE1 6EY. The term ‘you’ refers to the user or viewer of our web site.

The use of this website is subject to the following terms of use:
The content of the pages of this website is for your general information and use only. It is subject to change without notice.

Neither we nor any third parties provide any warranty or guarantee as to the accuracy, timeliness, performance, completeness or suitability of the information and materials found or offered on this website for any particular purpose. You acknowledge that such information and materials may contain inaccuracies or errors and we expressly exclude liability for any such inaccuracies or errors to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Your use of any information or materials on this website is entirely at your own risk, for which we shall not be liable. It shall be your own responsibility to ensure that any products, services or information available through this website meet your specific requirements.

This website contains material which is owned by or licensed to us. This material includes, but is not limited to, the design, layout, look, appearance and graphics. Reproduction is prohibited other than in accordance with the copyright notice, which forms part of these terms and conditions.

All trademarks reproduced in this website, which are not the property of, or licensed to the operator, are acknowledged on the website.

Unauthorised use of this website may give rise to a claim for damages and/or be a criminal offence.

From time to time this website may also include links to other websites. These links are provided for your convenience to provide further information. They do not signify that Geoffrey Hand endorse the website(s). He has no responsibility for the content of the linked website(s).

You may not create a link to this website from another website or document without Geoffrey Hand’s prior written consent.

Your use of this website and any dispute arising out of such use of the website is subject to the laws of England and Wales.

Disclaimer

The information contained in this website is for general information purposes only. The information is provided by Geoffrey Hand and while he endeavours to keep the information up to date and correct, he makes no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability, suitability or availability with respect to the website or the information, products, services, or related graphics contained on the website for any purpose. Any reliance you place on such information is therefore strictly at your own risk.

In no event will Geoffrey Hand be liable for any loss or damage including without limitation, indirect or consequential loss or damage, or any loss or damage whatsoever arising from loss of data or profits arising out of, or in connection with, the use of this website.

Through this website you are able to link to other websites which are not under Geoffrey Hand’s control. He have no control over the nature, content and availability of those sites. The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.

Every effort is made to keep the website up and running smoothly. However, Geoffrey Hand takes no responsibility for, and will not be liable for, the website being temporarily unavailable due to technical issues beyond his control.

This website and its content is copyright of Geoffrey Hand © Geoffrey Hand 2022. All rights reserved.

Any redistribution or reproduction of part or all of the contents in any form is prohibited other than the following:
– you may print or download to a local hard disk extracts for your personal and non-commercial use only;
– you may copy the content to individual third parties for their personal use, but only if you acknowledge the website as the source of the material;
– you may not, except with Geoffrey Hand’s express written permission, distribute or commercially exploit the content; nor may you transmit it or store it in any other website or other form of electronic retrieval system.