This Privacy Notice provides information about the way we hold, collect and use your personal
information (data) in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA) and General Data
Protection Regulations (GDPR). We are committed to maintaining the trust and confidence of
visitors to our website and the protection of your personal information is very important to us.
Angela Vodden Associates Consulting Ltd (trading as AVAC) is a Company registered in
England and Wales under Company Number 08225802. The Registered Office is 9 Bartle Court
Business Centre, Rosemary Lane, Bartle, Preston, PR4 0HF. Angela Vodden Associates
Consulting Ltd is a data controller and registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office
under Registration Number ZA690665. Our Data Protection contact is Dr Angela Vodden,
AVAC, 9 Bartle Court Business Centre, Rosemary Lane, Bartle, Preston, PR4 0HF. Telephone:
Most pages on our website can be accessed without giving us your personal information.
However, you may choose to provide us with your personal information such as your name,
address, email details to confirm you wish us to contact you to receive further information
about us and our services. This may be through an enquiry form, requesting marketing
literature, telephoning us or calling into our office with an enquiry, expressing an interest at a
seminar or event. We may also monitor telephone calls or emails to provide services and
manage our clients’ matters, for internal training purposes and to improve client service. We
will hold your personal data securely and retain this only for as long as is necessary. Please
note we may be required to hold some data for longer periods to comply with our legal or
regulatory obligations. By submitting your personal information you consent to our use of the
information as set out in this Privacy Notice. We may also contact you to follow up about
enquiries you have made with us. If you engage us to carry out work on your behalf, you will
be provided with a copy of our Privacy Notice for clients. If you do not agree to our use of
your personal information in this way, please refrain from using our website, or contacting us
with an enquiry.
We will only use your personal information were the law allows us to. Generally this will be for
one or more of the following circumstances:
• To enable us to perform the contract you have engaged us for
• For compliance with a legal or regulatory obligation we are subject to
• Where you have provided your consent
• For our legitimate interests, such as facilitating the provision of services to you,
business analysis to help improve the management of our practice, governance and
good practice and notify you about changes to our services
Personal information provided by you when contacting us about our services, will be disclosed
to our personnel to facilitate any enquiries you have, or for the provision of services to you. It
may also be disclosed to companies we work with who support us in providing those services
(where applicable), such as IT hosting companies. Where we use external companies to
process your personal information, 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 our
policies and procedures.
In the course of carrying out the activities referred to above, we may transfer your personal
information to other countries, which may not have the same legal protections as your
personal information in the UK.
Where personal information is being transferred outside of the European Economic Area we will
take steps to ensure that your personal information is adequately protected in accordance with
UK legal requirements.
It is important that the information we hold about you is accurate and up to date. Please keep
us informed if there are changes to the personal information we hold about you.
By law you have the right to:
• Request access to your personal data, which is referred to as a “data subject access
request”. This allows you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and
check we are processing it lawfully
• Request the correction of personal data we hold about you. This enables you to correct
any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you
• Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to remove or erase your
personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. Please
note we may be unable to erase personal data where we have an ongoing legal
obligation to process it. Where we do erase your personal data, we will retain a record
of your name, the date of your request and the date the data was erased.
• Object to processing your personal data (where we rely on legitimate interest or those
of a third party) and there is a particular reason regarding your situation for you to
object. Where we process your personal data for direct marketing, you also have a
right to object.
• Request a restriction of processing your personal data. This enables you to request a
suspension in processing your personal data.
• Request the transfer of your personal information to another party.
If you wish to inform us of any changes, object, withdraw consent for us processing your
personal data or access the information we hold about you, please contact Dr Angela Vodden.
Please note in some cases we may not be able to delete, correct, restrict or grant an objection
to processing your personal data if we have a legal obligation, legitimate interest or
contractual reason to process it. If we refuse such a request, we will advise you, together with
your right of appeal.
If you are requesting access to personal information, please also let us have sufficient
information to identity you (including proof of your identity and address – e.g. a copy of your
passport, driving licence and a recent utility bill or bank or credit card statement). You should
also let us know the information to which your request relates, including any matter or
reference numbers if you have them. This request is free of charge unless the request is
manifestly unfounded or excessive.
We hope that we can resolve any query or concern your raise about our use of your personal
information. If you are unsatisfied with our response to any issues you raise you have the
right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner, who is the supervisory authority
for data protection in the UK.
They may be contacted at
www.ico.org.uk or telephone 0303 123 1113.
Further information about your rights can also be found on their website.
We are concerned to protect the privacy of children aged 16 or under. If you are aged 16 or
under‚ please get your parent/guardian’s permission beforehand whenever you provide us with
personal information.
We may change this privacy notice from time to time. If you use our website regularly, please
visit this page from time to time to check this notice.
