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Privacy Policy & Cookies

The Goldschmidt & Howland group is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected and our use of your personal information is governed by this Privacy Notice.

Goldschmidt & Howland is a controller for the personal information that it collects and uses about you. We will treat your personal information as confidential and in accordance with this Privacy Notice.
If there are any changes to the way in which your personal information is used, this Privacy Notice will be updated.


The collection of personal information:

Personal information will be collected directly from you when:


As well as obtaining information directly from you, we will also collect personal information from:


We will collect your name, title and contact details (including postal address, telephone numbers and email addresses) from you whenever you engage with us.

In addition, if we are providing a service to you and where we are required to do so by law, we will collect information relating to your identity. This will be at least one form of photographic identification (such as a passport or a driving licence) and one form of documentation with proof of your residence (such as a council tax or utility bill).

Depending on the service that we provide to you we may also collect additional personal information such as:

Selling or Letting

If you are selling or letting a property;


Buying or Renting

If you wish rent a property;

If you wish to purchase a property;


Property Management

If you ask us to manage property on your behalf we may ask for additional information about the property or building and additional contact information in case we need to get in touch with you in an urgent or emergency situation.

How your personal information is used:

Under data protection legislation we can only use your personal information if we have a
legal basis for doing so. We rely on the following legal bases to use your information;


How your personal information is used and who we share your personal information with depends on the service you have requested from us:

If you are Selling, Letting, Buying or Renting


Property Management


Other uses or the sharing of your personal information include


We keep your information secure

The security of your information is important to us and so we do our best to have measures in place which are designed to prevent unauthorised access to your personal information.

How long we keep your personal information depends on the service you have sought from us. The retention period may be longer than the period for which we are providing the service to you where we have statutory or regulatory obligations to retain personal information.


Your rights in relation to your personal information

You have the following rights relating to the information we hold on you


You can ask us to correct your personal information if you believe it is inaccurate or to restrict our data processing activity. If you have any comments about the way we use your personal information please contact us at privacy@g-h.co.uk so we can try our best to resolve the issue for you.


Cookies

Visiting our website with your browser settings adjusted to accept cookies tells us that you wish to make use of our website information and website features and that you therefore consent to our use of cookies and other digital technologies to provide them to you as described in this Privacy Notice. See “Cookies and Browser Settings” below for information on how to modify the settings in your browser so as to notify you when you receive a new cookie and disable cookies altogether.


How we use them

A cookie, also known as an HTTP cookie, web cookie, or browser cookie, is a piece of data stored by a website such as ours within your browser, and then subsequently sent back to the same website by your browser in order that our systems are able to recognise your browser and to provide services, such as remembering your name or what you have selected as your favourite items, for the next time you visit the website.


Cookies we use

Cookie: SESSIONID
Expiry: Browser session only
Purpose: Is an ID to maintain a reference for the users’ connection to our servers so we can maintain a state for the user and provide them with a seamless user experience between page refreshes and reload information they have previously requested.


Website Personalisation

Our website displays information you make available to us when you interact with our sites, content, or services. Products and services are displayed to you based on information from activities such as using any search, bookmarking or adding to favourites facility on our websites, interacting with order forms or terms and conditions.

Like other online ad networks, we use cookies, web beacons (also known as action tags or single-pixel gifs), and other technologies (collectively, "cookies"). Cookies enable us to learn about what hyperlink items you see, what hyperlink items you click, and other actions you take on our website. This allows us to provide you with more useful and relevant info, text
or graphics relating to the reason you are using our website. For example, if we know what information you prefer to see we can be careful not to show you irrelevant information.

We do not show third party adverts on our site and we do not provide any personal information to advertisers. Further, we do not provide any personal information to third party sites that advertise our properties.


Cookies and Browser Settings

The Help menu located on the menu bar of most internet browsers will inform you how to restrict your browser from accepting new cookies from websites, how to set the browser to notify you when you receive a new cookie and how to disable cookies altogether. In addition, you may disable or delete related data used by browser add-ons, such as Flash cookies, by changing the add-on's settings or visiting the website of its manufacturer for further help


Complaints

If you have any complaints about the way we use your personal information please contact us at privacy@g-h.co.uk so we can try our best to resolve the issue for you.  If we cannot resolve any issue, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) who is the regulator for data protection in the United Kingdom.  If you need more information about how to contact the ICO please email us at privacy@g-h.co.uk

You can visit www.allaboutcookies.org which provides general information about cookies and how you can manage cookies on your computer.

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