Our privacy policy
Introduction
The Falconbury group of companies (including IPI Academy, which is a trading name of both Falconbury and Management Forum) makes a commitment to protecting and respecting your privacy. This notice will outline what personal information we collect from you when visiting our websites, as well as how we use the information, how we share it with third parties and how we keep it secure. By using our websites, you are agreeing to the terms set out in this notice.
The Falconbury group of companies includes:
- Falconbury Ltd (falconbury.co.uk)
- Management Forum Ltd (management-forum.co.uk)
- Thorogood Publishing Ltd (thorogoodpublishing.co.uk)
- IPI academy (ipi.academy)
The Falconbury group of companies will be known as the ‘controller’ of the personal data that you provide us with unless otherwise specified.
For ease throughout this notice, ‘we’ and ‘us’ refers to Falconbury and its subsidiary businesses (as outlined above).
Contact Details
Our full details are:
Full name of legal entity: Falconbury Ltd
Email address: info@falconbury.co.uk
Postal address: Falconbury Ltd, 10-12 Rivington Street, London EC2A 3DU
Telephone number: 020 7729 6677
What data we collect about you and for what purpose and what grounds we process it
We may process the following categories of personal data about you:
- Communication data that includes any communication that you send to us whether that be through the contact form on our websites, through email, text, social media messaging, social media posting or any other communication that you send us. We process this data for the purposes of communicating with you, for record keeping and for the establishment, pursuance or defence of legal claims. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests which in this case are to reply to communications sent to us, to keep records and to establish, pursue or defend legal claims.
- Customer data that includes data relating to any purchases of goods and/or services such as your name, title, billing address, delivery address, email address, phone number, contact details, purchase details and your card details. We process this data to supply the goods and/or services you have purchased and to keep records of such transactions. Our lawful ground for this processing is the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps at your request to enter into such a contract.
- User data that includes data about how you use our website(s) and any online services together with any data that you post for publication on our website or through other online services. We process this data to operate our websites and ensure relevant content is provided to you, to ensure the security of our websites, to maintain back-ups of our websites and/or databases and to enable publication and administration of our websites, other online services and business. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests which in this case are to enable us to properly administer our websites and our business.
- Technical data that includes data about your use of our website(s) and online services such as your IP address, your login data, details about your browser, length of visit to pages on our websites, page views and navigation paths, details about the number of times you use our websites, time zone settings and other technology on the devices you use to access our websites. The source of this data is from our analytics tracking system. We process this data to analyse your use of our websites and other online services, to administer and protect our business and websites, to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and to understand the effectiveness of our advertising. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests which in this case are to enable us to properly administer our websites and our business and to grow our business and to decide our marketing strategy.
- Marketing data that includes data about your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences. We process this data to enable you to partake in our promotions, to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of this advertising. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests which in this case are to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to decide our marketing strategy.
We may use customer data, user data, technical data and marketing data to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you (including social media and/or other display advertisements) and to measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve you. Our lawful ground for this processing is legitimate interests which is to grow our business. We may also use such data to send other marketing communications to you. Our lawful ground for this processing is either consent or legitimate interests (namely to grow our business).
Sensitive data
We may need to collect the following sensitive data about you in order to deliver our services:
We request that you notify us of any special dietary requirements prior to attending one of our courses. This information is stored on our system and shared with the relevant third party provider in order to fulfil our contractual obligations with you.
We do not collect any other sensitive data about you. Sensitive data refers to data that includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data. We do not collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.
Where we are required to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of the contract between us, and you do not provide us with that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract (for example, to deliver goods or services to you). If you don’t provide us with the requested data, we may have to cancel a product or service you have ordered, but if we do, we will notify you at the time.
We will only use your personal data for a purpose it was collected for, or a reasonably compatible purpose if necessary. In case we need to use your details for an unrelated new purpose we will let you know and explain the legal grounds for processing.
We may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent where this is required or permitted by law.
How we collect your personal data
We may collect data about you by you providing the data directly to us (for example by filling in forms on our site or by sending us emails). We may automatically collect certain data from you as you use our website(s) by using cookies and similar technologies. Please see our cookie policy for more details about this.
We may receive data from third parties such as:
- Analytics providers e.g. Google based outside the EU.
- Advertising networks, including social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin) based outside the EU.
- Search information providers such as Google based outside the EU.
- Providers of technical, payment and delivery services, such as data brokers or aggregators.
- Publicly availably sources such as Companies House and the Electoral Register based inside the EU.
Marketing communications
Our lawful ground of processing your personal data to send you marketing communications is either your consent or our legitimate interests (namely to grow our business).
Under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, we may send you marketing communications from us if (i) you made a purchase or asked for information from us about our goods or services or (ii) you agreed to receive marketing communications and in each case you have not opted out of receiving such communications since. Under these regulations, if you are a limited company, we may send you marketing emails or direct mail without your consent. However, you can still opt out of receiving marketing communication from us at any time.
You can unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time clicking the ‘unsubscribe’ link in an email you have received. Alternatively, contact us to be removed from email and/or postal marketing material.
If you opt out of receiving marketing communications this opt-out does not apply to personal data provided as a result of other transactions, such as purchases.
Disclosures of your personal data
We may share your personal data with the parties set out below:
- Other companies in our group as outlined in the introduction.
- Service providers who provide IT and system administration services.
- Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers.
- Government bodies that require us to report processing activities.
- Speakers, authors and suppliers that we work with to fulfil our contractual obligations.
- Third parties to whom we sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets.
We require all third parties to whom we transfer your data to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We only allow such third parties to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
International transfers
Data you submit to us will be stored within the UK. As of 28 June 2021, the EU Commission announced on 28 June 2021 that adequacy decisions for the UK have been approved.
We may share your personal data within our group of companies which involves transferring your data outside the UK and European Economic Area (EEA).
Countries outside of the UK and EEA do not always offer the same levels of protection to your personal data, so European law has prohibited transfers of personal data outside of the EEA unless the transfer meets certain criteria.
A select few of our third party service providers are based outside the UK and European EEA so their processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data outside the EEA.
Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we do our best to ensure a similar degree of security of data by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is in place:
- We will only transfer your personal data to countries that the ICO and/or European Commission have approved as providing an adequate level of protection for personal data by; or
- Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts, codes of conduct or certification mechanisms approved by the ICO and/or European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe; or
- If we use US-based providers that are part of EU-US Privacy Shield, we may transfer data to them, as they have equivalent safeguards in place.
If none of the above safeguards is available, we may request your explicit consent to the specific transfer. You will have the right to withdraw this consent at any time.
Data security
We have put in place security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, altered, disclosed, or accessed without authorisation. We also allow access to your personal data only to those employees and partners who have a business need to know such data. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they must keep it confidential.
We have procedures in place to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach if we are legally required to.
Data retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
When deciding what the correct time is to keep the data for we look at its amount, nature and sensitivity, potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure, the processing purposes, if these can be achieved by other means and legal requirements.
For tax purposes the law requires us to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for six years after they stop being customers.
In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
Your legal rights
Under data protection laws you have rights in relation to your personal data that include the right to request access, correction, erasure, restriction, transfer, to object to processing, to portability of data and (where the lawful ground of processing is consent) to withdraw consent.
You can see more about these rights at https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/individual-rights
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please email us at datacontroller@falconbury.co.uk. You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive or we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you.
If you are not happy with any aspect of how we collect and use your data, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We should be grateful if you would contact us first if you do have a complaint so that we can try to resolve it for you.
Third-party links
Our websites may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.
Cookies
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of our websites may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about the cookies we use, please see our cookie policy.
Review of this notice
We will regularly review this notice and update it when necessary. This notice was last updated in July 2021.