Weldon Beesly LLP is a firm of Rural Practice Chartered Surveyors providing property related services.
We are a Limited Liability Partnership registered in England and Wales No OC417840. Our registered office is 100 South Street, Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire CM23 3BG.
Our main trading address is 100 South Street, Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire CM23 3BG.
Our VAT number is 273 6131 11.
We are regulated by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). Some or our Partners are also members of the Central Association of Agricultural Valuers, Compulsory Purchase Association, Agricultural Law Association and the Residential Letting Association.
We operate the website www.weldonbeesly.com (the “website”).
Weldon Beesly is a data controller under data protection legislation. Contact details are shown at the end of this notice.
Weldon Beesly is committed to protecting your personal information. In this notice, references to ‘we’, ‘us’ or ‘our’ mean Weldon Beesly LLP. This notice explains how we collect, hold and use the personal information about you (unless you consent for us to use data in any other way). It also explains your rights under the law relating to your personal data.
Personal data is defined by the General Data Protection Regulation (EU Regulation 2016/679) (the “GDPR”) as ‘any information relating to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified in particular by reference to an identifier’.
Personal data is, in simpler terms, any information about you that enables you to be identified. Personal data covers obvious information such as your name and contact details, but it may also cover less obvious information such as identification numbers, electronic location data, and other online identifiers.
Under the GDPR, you have the following rights, which we will always work to uphold:
For more information about our use of your personal data or exercising your rights as outlined above, please contact us using the details provided [at the end of this notice].
Further information about your rights can also be obtained from the Information Commissioner’s Office or your local Citizens Advice Bureau.
If you have any cause for complaint about our use of your personal data, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office.
We collect your information and store it on our CRM databases; Accelo, Dropboxand Xero. Only members of the Weldon Beesly team listed on our Website have access to the CRM databases and are permitted to make alterations to any information held on those databases. Those listed on our Website as Consultants do not have access to our CRM databases but in matters where they are advising our clients we will pass on such information to them as is necessary in order to provide the services required.
The information about you we hold may include:
Your information is collected from:
We will use your information to:
We will respond to your queries and investigate your concerns via email, phone and/or post. If you do not wish to be contacted by Weldon Beesly by any particular means, please contact us to change your preferences.
Under the GDPR, we must always have a lawful basis for using personal data. This may be because the data is necessary for our performance of a contract with you, because you have consented to our use of your personal data, or because it is in ourlegitimate business interests to use it. Your personal data may be used for one of the following purposes:
With your permission and/or where permitted by law, we may also use your personal data for marketing purposes, which may include contacting you by email, telephone and post with information, news, and offers on our services. You will not be sent any unlawful marketing or spam. We will always work to fully protect your rights and comply with our obligations under the GDPR and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, and you will always have the opportunity to opt-out.
Weuse the following automated systemsfor carrying out certain kinds of decision-making. If at any point you wish to query any action that wetake on the basis of this or wish to request ‘human intervention’ (i.e. have someone review the action themselves, rather than relying only on the automated method), the GDPR gives you the right to do so. Please contact us to find out more using the details at the end of this [Privacy Notice].
The legal basis of processing your data is ‘contract’ as defined by Article 6 of the General Data Protection Regulations where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party, in this case our terms of engagement. In other instances, we may rely on the ‘legitimate interest’, ‘legal obligation’ or ‘consent’ basis for lawful processing.
We may share your information with your other professional advisers where appropriate and necessary. We may also share your information with third parties and data processors who may need to process your data for the purposes specified above.
We sometimes outsource some of the services set out above, to reputable third parties, including the purpose of ensuring the security of your data. We require third parties to comply strictly with our instructions and data protection laws and we will make sure that appropriate controls are in place where third parties have access to personal data. We enter into contracts with all of our data processors and regularly monitor their activities to ensure they are complying with Weldon Beesly’s policies and procedures.
We take reasonable organisational and technical measures to protect your information against unauthorised access, modification or misuse. We use services provided by reputable security providers and your information is accessed on a needs-only basis.
In the absence of any legal requirements, your personal data will be retained for as long as necessary for the purposes of processing listed above. This means your data will be deleted if you withdraw consent to processing or the data is no longer required or inaccurate.
We would like you to keep us updated if the personal data we hold on you is inaccurate or incomplete.
All requests to update your personal data must be sent in writing to Weldon Beesly and the third parties above will be informed, where possible. You can keep us updated with any changes by writing to us or sending an email.
Failing to keep us updated with your personal data and contact details may mean you are not sent mailings, publications and newsletters.
You have the right to:
Please contact us if you have any enquiries arising from this privacy notice. Where possible, please raise all enquiries in writing.
If you are unhappy with our handling of your data or something that we have done or failed to do, please inform us in writing. We will acknowledge receipt of all complaints and will endeavour to investigate the complaint as soon as reasonably practicable.
All complaints should be sent to:
Weldon Beesly
100 South Street
Bishop’s Stortford
Hertfordshire
CM23 3BG
Tel: 01279 798866
Email: info@weldonbeesly.com
Website: www.weldonbeesly.com
You may also complain directly to the Information Commissioner’s Office if you are concerned with how we are handling your personal information. Their contact details are shown below:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Tel: 0303 123 1113 or 01625 545745
Website: www.ico.gov.uk
This Notice was last reviewed in May 2018. The content of the policy may be reviewed and changed without prior notice, please visit the notice on our website for any changes. We may update the terms of this privacy notice at any time, so please do check it from time to time.
