Privacy notice

Privacy notice – Purple Crocus Limited

Activities of the company: planning and providing accountability for business projects; planning and providing accountability and inspiration for personal creative projects; coaching.

Our contact details

Name: Purple Crocus Limited, 3 Heynes Green, Maidenhead, SL6 3NA

Company Registration Number: 08730822

E-mail: [email protected]

What type of information we have

We collect and process the following information:

Clients and potential clients (owners of small businesses, freelancers, private individuals)

  • Company
  • Name
  • Email
  • Phone
  • Address
  • Job role
  • Voice/image

Contacts needed to manage projects – suppliers, collaborators

  • Company
  • Name
  • Email
  • Phone
  • Address
  • Job role
  • cv

How we get the information and why we have it

Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you for one of the following reasons:

  • To negotiate for opportunities to work with you
  • To deliver projects or courses
  • To provide coaching services

Personal data may be obtained during online networking eg via LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X (was Twitter), face to face networking, when you supply contact details to enable a discussion of a project opportunity or obtain details about a course.  It may also be supplied in order to sign up for our mailing list.

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are:

We have a contractual obligation

  • If you have contracted with us for a project, course or coaching, or we are discussing a project, course or coaching, then we will need to process your personal data to do this.
  • If you have provided us with personal data that we need to use in order to fulfil our contractual obligations to you.

We have a legitimate interest

  • If we are reaching out to businesses to discuss potential new work, we will use legitimate interest as our lawful basis for this.

What we do with the information we have

We use the information that you have given us in order to:

  • Respond to enquiries
  • Conduct marketing for our services
  • Deliver contracted services

We do not share this information with any third parties for their use, only with authorised individuals contracted by you or us to assist us in delivering our commitments to you. Where we use processors in this way GDPR compliant data processor agreements are in place to protect your rights and privacy.

How we store your information and how long we keep it for

We do not keep your personal data for any longer than is necessary in light of the reason(s) for which it was first collected. Data will therefore be retained for the following periods (or its retention will be determined on the following bases):

i.            We will retain your contact details for as long as we contract with you and for 72 months thereafter;

ii.           We will retain your contact details for 24 months if you have enquired about our services thereafter, it will be deleted;

iii.          If you sign up to Our mailing list or subscribe to anything on Our Site, We will retain your Personal Data for as long as you consent to receive emails and marketing material from us. You can unsubscribe at any time and We will remove you from Our mailing list and thereafter We will delete your details; and

iv.          We will retain your financial information, which could include your name, address and email address, for as long as we contract with you and, thereafter, for the permitted period of time required by law.

We only keep your personal data for as long as we need to in order to use it as described above and/or for as long as we have your permission to keep it.

We will store some of your personal data in the UK. This means that it will be fully protected under the UK’s data protection legislation.

We will store some of your personal data within the European Economic Area (the “EEA”). The EEA consists of all EU member states, plus Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein. This means that your personal data will be fully protected under the EU GDPR and/or to equivalent standards by law. Transfers of personal data to the EEA from the UK are permitted without additional safeguards.

We may store some or all of your personal data in countries outside of the UK and EEA. These are known as “third countries”. We will take additional steps in order to ensure that your personal data is treated just as safely and securely as it would be within the UK and under the data protection legislation. Data security is very important to us, and to protect your data we have taken suitable measures to safeguard and secure data collected by us and through our website.

We use the following third-party software and some of your data may be stored on their servers:

  • Microsoft (email and OneDrive folders);
  • Dropbox (sharing files);
  • Mailchimp (mailing list);
  • FreeAgent (invoicing software).

Your data protection rights

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

Your right of access – You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.

Your right to rectification – You have the right to ask us to rectify information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.

Your right to erasure – You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your information in certain circumstances.

Your right to object to processing – You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.

Your right to data portability – You have the right to ask that we transfer the information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.

Please contact us at [email protected] if you wish to make a request.

How to complain

Complaints should be addressed to [email protected] in the first instance.

However, if you are not satisfied with the response you receive then you can contact the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data. Purple Crocus Limited is registered with the ICO.

The ICO’s address: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF. Helpline number: 0303 123 1113

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