Privacy Policy

Our contact details

Name: The Curve Consulting

Address: 4 Joiner Street, OXO House, Sheffield, S3 8GW

Phone Number: +44 (0) 114 303 4070

E-mail: info@thecurve.io

We are committed to protecting your privacy and the confidentiality of your personal information. Our policy is not just an exercise in complying with the law, but a continuation of our respect for you and your personal information.

Except as set out below, we do not share, or sell, or disclose to a third party, any information collected through our website.

The type of personal information we collect

We currently collect and process the following information:

• Personal identifiers, contacts and characteristics (for example, name and contact details)
• When / If visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor's IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
• An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Cookies

When you first visit our website, we ask you whether you wish us to use cookies. If you choose not to accept them, we shall not use them for your visit except to record that you have not consented to their use for any other purpose.

We may use cookies in the following ways:

• to track how you use our website
• to record whether you have seen specific messages we display on our website
• to keep you signed in our site
• to record your answers to surveys and questionnaires on our site while you complete them to record the conversation thread during a live chat with our support team

If you choose not to use cookies or you prevent their use through your browser settings, you will not be able to use all the functionality of our website.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

How we get the personal 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:

• Completing Contact Forms
• Commenting on blogs / news articles
• Provided to us in order for us to contact you

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

• Contact you regarding any questions or comments you may have left on our website
• Or by completing any of the contact forms that are present

We do not share this information with any third party organisations.

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

1. Your consent. You are able to remove your consent at any time.
   You can do this by contacting Phone Number: +44 (0) 114 303 4070, E-mail: info@thecurve.io
2. We have a contractual obligation.
3. We have a legal obligation.
4. We have a vital interest.
5. We need it to perform a public task.
6. We have a legitimate interest.

How we store your personal information

Your information is securely stored.

We keep names, emails and phone numbers for an indefinite period of time. We will then dispose of your information securely through our providers.

How we protect your data

We have data protection managers who are responsible for ensuring that our policy is followed.

If you have any questions about this privacy notice, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact us.

We use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates to verify our identity to your browser and to encrypt any data you give us.

Whenever information is transferred between us, you can check that it is done so using SSL by looking for a closed padlock symbol or other trust mark in your browser's URL bar or toolbar.

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 personal 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 personal information in certain circumstances.
• Your right to object to processing - You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
• Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal 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:

• Address: 4 Joiner Street, OXO House, Sheffield, S3 8GW
• Phone Number: +44 (0) 114 303 4070
• E-mail: info@thecurve.io

if you wish to make a request.

How to complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at info@thecurve.io.

You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.

The ICO's address:

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

ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk