Privacy policy.

Introduction

This privacy policy outlines the approach to personal data and privacy taken by Northstone Consulting. We take your privacy very seriously and treat all clients’ data in compliance with privacy regulations.

 This privacy notice relates to our website and provides the following information:

  • The details of our data controller

  • What personal information we collect

  • How we use any personal information you provide

  • The legal basis for processing your personal data

  • When we share you personal data

  • When and how we store your personal data

  • How we secure your data

  • How long we retain your data for

  • Your rights in relation to your data

  • How to contact us on data-related matters.

Please read this policy carefully and contact us via the details below with any questions or concerns about our privacy practices.

Who are we?

The data controller for this website is Northstone Consulting, contactable at dataprotection@northstone-consulting.com.

What information do we collect?

When you submit information to this website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

 This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Web pages you view while on this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, or device

  • Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it

  • Your IP address

How do we use your personal information?

We use your personal information for the purposes of responding and communicating to queries which have been raised through the website enquiries form.

What legal basis do we have for processing your personal data?

The legal basis under which we process your personal data is consent - we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

When do we share personal data?

We treat your personal data confidentially, and only disclose or share it as necessary for the purposes outlined above. We never share your data with any third parties other than those mentioned in this document and we never do so without your consent.

How long do we keep your personal data for?

We retain personal data only for the duration of our engagement with you, or for one year, whichever is the longer, after which date we securely delete it in line with data protection legislation.

Your rights in relation to personal data

Which lawful basis we rely on may affect your data protection rights which are in brief set out below:

  • Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information. You can request other information such as details about where we get personal information from and who we share personal information with. There are some exemptions which means you may not receive all the information you ask for.

  • Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to correct or delete personal information you think is inaccurate or incomplete.

  • Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to delete your personal information.

  • Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to limit how we can use your personal information.

  • Your right to object to processing - You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data.

  • 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.

  • Your right to withdraw consent – When we use consent as our lawful basis you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

If you make a request, we must respond to you without undue delay and in any event within one month.

To make a data protection rights request, please contact us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal data, you can make a complaint to us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.