Privacy Policy

Privacy

Payne Spencer Harris take your privacy extremely seriously and are committed to ensuring that any data we hold on you is kept safely and securely.  We will not divulge your details to anybody who is not directly connected with our work for any purposes and we will never disclose your data to a third party without your express consent.

This privacy policy applies to Payne Spencer Harris and tells you how we collect, store and use any information on this website pshfinance.co.uk and what that could mean for you.

If you have any questions about how your data is handled, please contact us by email to [email protected].

Cookies

This site uses site specific, non personally identifiable cookies to help us improve our content. If this is a problem, you can click here to opt out, disable cookes, or stop browsing.

If you continue to use the site, we will assume you are happy to accept cookies.

For further information about our use of cookies please continue reading…

Personal Data

We promise that the information you give us will be treated in complete confidence by us and stored in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. It is kept only so we can provide you with the  information and services that best match your needs.

We will always respect your privacy and will never provide your details to third parties for marketing purposes.

What information we collect

We collect data from our website for a number of reasons, primarily to provide you with the most useful and relevant information and services from Payne Spencer Harris.  We do this through collecting and analysing both anonymous data, and personal data volunteered by you online.

In some areas of our website we might use response forms, emails etc. to collect personal data such as your name, address, telephone number and email address. We may use this personally identifiable information to customise the content on the Payne Spencer Harris website and analysis. We use this information only for the reason you have supplied it or any other reason for which you have given us permission to do so.

In some cases we may ask you to ‘opt-in’ to receive future communications including email newsletters or marketing. In other cases, when we ask you for information about yourself you may, by ticking the appropriate box provided, tell us that you do not want future communications from us.

We do not collect sensitive personal data, including but not limited to your racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or spiritual beliefs or your physical or mental health or condition, but should you supply such data to us, or in the event that we start to collect such data, you hereby consent to the use of such data.

In addition to information given explicitly by you, we also collect information about your visit to our website (for example, the date and time of your visit and the pages that you view). This information is anonymous and is not connected to you and does not identify you personally. This kind of data helps us to understand how our visitors use our site so that future website development can better meet your needs.

Our use of cookies

We use cookies to collect data on this web site. A cookie is a small text file that is sent from the site and stored on your computer’s hard drive by your web browser. Cookies allow a website to remember who you are, so that when you visit again, it recognises you as a visitor and can help you with personalised information when filling out forms or signing in. Most browsers allow you to turn off the cookie function.

Payne Spencer Harris website uses Google Analytics to help analyse how users use the site. This analytical tool uses ‘cookies’, which are text files placed on your computer, to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information in an anonymous form. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) is transmitted to Google. This information is then used to evaluate visitors use of our website and to compile statistical reports on website activity for Payne Spencer Harris.

We will not  (and will not allow any third party to) use the statistical analytics tool to track or to collect any personally identifiable information of visitors to our site. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally identifying information from any source as part of our use of the Google statistical analytics tool.  Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Neither Payne Spencer Harris nor Google will link, or seek to link, an IP address with the identity of a computer user.

We also use cookies in other parts of our site to enhance your browsing experience but not to store any form of personal information.

www.cookiecentral.com or www.aboutcookies.org are good places to look for more information about cookies.

Keeping up to date and  respecting your privacy

From time to time we will contact you with information about our work. We therefore want to make sure we’ve got all the info about you that we need and to ensure that it is up-to-date. If you spot any errors, if your contact details change, or if you do not wish to receive information about Payne Spencer Harris any longer, please just drop us a line and let us know.  You can contact us using our  contact form, or by email to: [email protected].

Changes to our privacy policy

From time to time, we will make changes to this policy to keep it up to date and relevant.  Please make sure you check regularly to see what we have changed. If you carry on visiting our site after an amendment has been made, this will constitute your acceptance of any amendments we have made to our privacy policy.