This privacy policy sets out how FHA (Franchising) Ltd uses and protects any information that you give us when you use this website. It contains important information on who we are, how and why we collect, store, use and share personal data, your rights in relation to your personal data and on how to contact us and supervisory authorities in the event you have a complaint.
In using personal data, we are regulated by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which applies across the European Union (including the UK). We are responsible as the controller of your personal data.
Under GDPR, personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person by which such person can be identified. FHA (Franchising) Ltd is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
FHA (Franchising) Ltd 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 was last published in April 2018.
Read moreFHA (Franchising) Ltd is a limited company registered under company number 11659272 whose registered office is 7 Shepherds Fold, Holmer Green, High Wycombe, HP15 6XZ.
FHA (Franchising) Ltd collects, uses and is responsible for certain personal data about you.
We may collect the following personal data:
We require this personal data to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular, for the following reasons:
In relation to the general use of this website including marketing, advertising and promoting our services, we rely on your consent to the processing of personal data at Article 6.1(a) of the GDPR.
In relation to the performance of the contract or taking steps towards performance of a contract, we rely on Article 6.1(b) of the GDPR to justify the use of your personal data.
During and after the performance of your contract, we rely upon Article 6.1(c) of the GDPR as processing is necessary for us to comply with the legal obligation.
We will share personal data with law enforcement or other authorities if required by applicable law.
We will not share your personal data with any other third party.
We will hold personal data for 12 months. We will hold invoices and receipts for a period of 10 years as we are required to retain this information by applicable UK tax law. Where we have obtained data by consent, we will hold data until you withdraw consent.
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site.
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.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about webpage traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system. We do not do this to track individual users or to identify them, but to gain useful and generic knowledge about how the site is used so that we can keep improving it for our users. Without the knowledge, we gain from the systems that use these cookies we would not be able to provide the service we do. We use Google Analytics, a popular web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics uses cookies to help us to analyse how users use the site. It counts the number of visitors and tells us things about their behaviour overall – such as the typical length of stay on the site or the average number of pages a user views. The information generated by the cookie about your use of our website will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any personal data which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Under the GDPR you have a number of important rights free of charge. In summary, those include rights to:
You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal data in the following ways:
We are committed to ensuring that your personal data is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the personal data we collect online. We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal data from being accidentally lost or used or accessed in an unauthorised way. We limit access to your personal data to those who have a genuine business need to know it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.
We hope that we can resolve any query or concern you raise about our use of your information.
The GDPR also gives you right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the European Union (or European Economic Area) state where you work, normally live or where any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred. The supervisory authority in the UK is the Information Commissioner who may be contacted at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/ or telephone: 0303 123 1113.
Please contact us if you have any questions about this privacy notice or personal data we hold about you.
If you wish to contact us, please send an email to hello@fhafranchise.co.uk or write to Data Controller, FHA (Franchising) Ltd, 1 Twyford Place, Lincoln’s Inn Office Village, Lincoln Road, High Wycombe, HP12 3RE.