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Privacy Notice
As a responsible organisation, Lighthouse Marketing Communications respects your privacy and seeks to comply with our obligations under data protection laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This privacy notice describes how we collect and use client information either through this website or
Who we are
For the purposes of GDPR, Lighthouse Marketing Communications should be regarded as a data controller, managing, storing and using data from business to business clients.
If you have any questions about this privacy notice or the way Lighthouse Marketing Communications uses your information please get in touch. Our full details
The business is registered with HM Revenue and Customs as a sole trader, in the name of Paul Grahamslaw and in the field of PR and marketing consultancy services.
The information we collect
Lighthouse Marketing Communications may collect and use information gathered when you visit this website,
What we do with your information
- We use your contact details to communicate with you, provide information and advice and to send you information about our products and services. Broadly speaking, Lighthouse Marketing Communications will only use your data for the following purposes:
• To analyse visitor behaviour on our website
• To send marketing information about our services, where applicable
• To comply with any legal action or proceedings.
We may contact you by post, email, or telephone for marketing purposes. If you do not want to receive such communication, you can opt-out by contacting us. We do not share data with any other third parties.
Justifications
Legitimate interest
We may process your personal information to pursue our legitimate interests in a way which might reasonably be expected as part of running our business, including:
- using your email or address details to send you direct marketing information for services that we think might interest you
- using your email or address to communicate with you in relation to the services you receive from us
- keeping you updated with company news and events
- seeking your views or comments on the services we provide;
- using
information to make improvements to our service - recovering money that is owed to us for the services that we supply
- preventing fraud and crime
- managing our business.
Consent
In specific situations, and where processing your personal information is not covered by any of the above lawful purposes, we can collect and process your data with your consent. Examples may include:
- when you tick a box to receive email newsletters.
- where we obtain your consent to use your photo on our website or on promotional material.
Third-party marketing
We may use the following third-party service provider to process and store your data:
- Mailchimp (The Rocket Science Group, LLC), which we use to manage email marketing subscriber lists and send emails to our subscribers.
[Read their privacy policy https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/ ]. If you receive marketing material from Lighthouse Marketing Communications but do not wish to, you can opt out at any time by clicking Unsubscribe on any email marketing material that we may send you.
Our website
When someone visits www.lighthousemarcomms.co.uk we use ‘Cookies’ – small text files that record information on your computer about your behaviour on our website. This helps us to collect information to find out things such as the number of visitors to the pages on our site, which pages are successful with visitors, which pages are not and to analyse our website visitors’ behaviour. We do not identify anyone through the processing of this information, only trends in the use of our site.
If we wish to collect information via our website – via a newsletter sign-up for example, we will be clear on how the visitor can do this, what they are signing up for and what their information will be used for.
Security
Lighthouse Marketing Communications takes reasonable precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of personal data that we have.
Updating this notice
Lighthouse Marketing Communications gives notice that we may update this privacy notice from time to time, via a new version on this website.
Other countries
We may process or store your information overseas using web services that are hosted outside the European Union (EU). We will seek appropriate safeguards when doing so to protect your privacy rights.
How long do we keep your information for?
External websites
Where this website contains links to other websites, Lighthouse Marketing Communications accepts no responsibility for the privacy notices or data processes of these third parties.