1.       Introduction

Silver Startups is a sole trader business. We provide information and inspiration to people in or approaching retirement who are considering setting up in business.

Silver Startups is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected, and this privacy policy explains how we collect, manage, use and protect any information that we collect about you. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified, you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy policy.

Silver Startups may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should occasionally check this page to ensure that you are happy with any changes.

2.       whose data do we collect?

We collect data on people who visit our website and those that leave their contact details when leaving comments or asking questions.

3.       How we Collect your data

All the information we hold about you has been provided directly to us by you, when you subscribe to our newsletter, post comments or ask questions. Our site also uses cookies: please see our Cookies Policy for details.

4.       What we collect

Silver Startups is the ‘controller’ of the personal data you (the ‘data subject’) provide to us. We will usually collect basic personal data about you like your name and email address.

5.       what we do with the information we gather

Under GDPR there are a number of lawful reasons businesses can use your personal information. One of these lawful reasons is called ‘legitimate interests’, which means that we can process your personal information if we have a genuine and legitimate reason and we are not harming any of your rights and interests. So, for example, when you provide your personal details to us, we use your information for our legitimate business interests to carry out our work, for example when answering questions, publishing comments on our site, for data analytics, for enhancing, modifying or improving our services and for sending you our newsletter that you have subscribed to.

6.       who we share your data with and protecting your data

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. We do not share your data with anyone else or any other organisation unless it is necessary for the purpose for which you give us the data.

 7.       Data security

Data is stored on a secure computer with access restricted to the data manager (Viv Poole). Electronic data is stored in a secure cloud server (Microsoft One Drive) in the United Kingdom.

8.       Retention

We will not retain your information for longer than is necessary. Once your questions or comments have been fully responded to, or after no longer than one year from when you last contacted us, your contact details will be deleted.

9.       Links to other websites

Our website contains 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 information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy policy.

10.   Controlling your personal information

We want to ensure you remain in control of your personal data. The General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) give everyone a number of very important rights. These include

a.       Right of access – You have the right at any time to ask us for a copy of the personal information that we hold about you, and to check that we are lawfully processing it.

b.       Right of rectification – If personal information that we hold about you is not accurate or is out of date and requires amendment or correction you have a right to have the data rectified or completed.

c.       Right of erasure – In certain circumstances, you have the right to request that personal information we hold about you is erased (e.g. if the information is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or processed).

d.       Right to object to or restrict processing – In certain circumstances, you have the right to object to our processing of your personal information.  For example, if we are processing your information on the basis of our legitimate interests, and there are no compelling legitimate grounds for our processing which override your rights and interests.

e.       Right of data portability – In certain instances, you have a right to receive any personal information that we hold about you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format.

f.        Right to withdraw consent – In the limited circumstances where you may have provided your consent to the collection, processing and transfer of your personal information for a specific purpose, you have the right to withdraw your consent for that specific processing at any time.

Exercising your rights

If you wish to exercise any of your rights under the GDPR, please email us at viv@silverstartups.co.uk. 

Our lead supervisory authority for the processing set out in this notice is the UK ICO.  If you are unhappy with how we have processed your data, you have the right to make a complaint to the ICO.

·         You may choose to restrict use of your personal information by leaving comments or questions as a guest.

·         Electronic communications will contain an ‘unsubscribe’ link.

·         You can ask us to remove you from our database at any time by contacting Viv Poole on 07813707273.

 We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so.

11.   Any questions?

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact Viv Poole at: viv@silverstartups.co.uk.