Privacy Policy

Privacy and Cookies

Talking Typist is a registered brand for Top Class Computers (UK) Ltd, Company number 04243196 is the data controller (ICO registration number xxxxxxx) for personal data about clients, event/training attendees and newsletter subscribers.  Our registered address is 44 Charlbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6UX.

We do not trade personal data for commercial purposes and will only disclose it if required by law, if necessary to arrange your event/training attendance, or with your consent.

To contact us with a data protection query regarding the processing of your personal data, please use the contact us or email mail@talkingtypist.co.uk 

Details of our processing

We believe that all these purposes are justified on the basis of our legitimate interests in running and promoting the business, our contractual requirements to deliver the agreed services to you, and our legal obligations, the exception is for sending email marketing which we carry out on the basis of consent.  If you would like to know more, please read below:

  • Clients
  • Prospective Clients
  • Event Attendees
  • E-Newsletter / Blogs / Social Media

As a client, we will hold the following information about you:

  • Name and contact information.
  • Demographic information such as postcode.
  • Information and documents relating to the service we are providing, including communications with you.
  • Billing and payment information.

We use your Personal Data to meet our contractual requirements to support us in providing a data protection service to you. We also use your Personal Data as required by law, such as for tax purposes.  We also use your information to invoice you, and to keep track of payments that you make.

We currently use third-party online tools:

  • Easybooks to manage your billing and payment details. Easybooks uses servers that are based in the UK. For more information please view Easybooks privacy policy here https://easybooksapp.com/privacy-policy.
  • CJournal CRM to maintain contact details, project details and proposal details.  Journal CRM uses servers that are based in the US, therefore personal information is transferred outside of the EEA.  For more information please view CJournal’s see https://contactsjournal.uservoice.com/tos#privacy-policy.

We will retain information about you for the duration of our relationship with you, then 2 years.  We will retain financial records for 6 years, following the end of the current financial year.

Prospective Clients

As a prospective client, we will hold the following information about you:

  • Your name and contact information.
  • Information about your business activities.
  • Information and documents relating to the service we are providing, including communications with you.

If you make an enquiry to us via email, phone or the contact us page on our website, we will use this information to follow-up on this enquiry to see if we can help you. 

We currently use third-party online tools:

  • Quickbooks to manage your billing and payment details. Quickbook’s uses servers that are based in the US, therefore personal information is transferred outside of the EEA.  For more information please view Quickbook’s privacy policy.
  • MailChimp to manage your registration. MailChimp uses servers that are based in the US, therefore personal information is transferred outside of the EEA.  For more information please view MailChimp’s privacy policy.

Visitors to our Website

When you visit our website, we use a third-party service, Google Analytics, to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns.  We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to various parts of the website.  The information is only processed in a way which does not identify anyone.

To opt-out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit.  They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.  Unless you have set your browser to block cookies, this site will place the following cookies on your computer.

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings.  To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

Your Rights

As an individual whose personal data is processed by Databasix UK you have these rights

  • The right to be informed, which is what this privacy policy is for.
  • The right to access what data we hold about you.
  • The right to object to direct marketing – either use the unsubscribe option or contact us directly.
  • The right to object to processing carried out on the basis of legitimate interests.
  • The right to erasure (in some circumstances).
  • The right to data portability.
  • The right to have your data rectified if it is inaccurate.
  • The right to have your data restricted or blocked from processing.

If, at any time, you want to verify, update or amend your personal data please email mail@talkingtypist.co.uk 

You also have the right to lodge a complaint about our processing with the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (hyperlink https://ico.org.uk/).   

Changes to this privacy notice

We keep our privacy notice under regular review. This privacy notice was last updated on 07/03/2018.