Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

Welcome to Beckenham Business Centre (“we,” “our,” “us”). We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors and service users. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your personal information in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.

2. Information We Collect

We may collect and process the following personal data:

  • Contact Information: Name, email address, phone number, and postal address.
  • Business Details: Company name, position, and industry.
  • Communication Data: Records of your correspondence with us.
  • Technical Data: IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
  • Usage Data: Information about how you use our website and services.

3. How We Collect Your Information

We collect personal data through:

  • Direct Interactions: Filling in forms or corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise.
  • Automated Technologies: As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies and other similar technologies.

4. Use of Your Information

We use your personal data to:

  • Respond to your enquiries and provide information about our services.
  • Manage our relationship with you, including notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy.
  • Administer and protect our business and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting, and hosting of data).
  • Use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships, and experiences.

5. Legal Basis for Processing

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we rely on the following legal bases:

  • Consent: Where you have given clear consent for us to process your personal data for a specific purpose.
  • Legitimate Interests: Processing is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party), provided your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
  • Legal Obligation: Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

6. Disclosure of Your Information

We may share your personal data with:

  • Service Providers: Third parties who provide IT and system administration services.
  • Professional Advisers: Including lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance, and accounting services.
  • Regulatory Authorities: HM Revenue & Customs, regulators, and other authorities who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law.

7. International Transfers

We do not transfer your personal data outside the UK.

8. Data Security

We have implemented appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know.

9. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

10. Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including the right to:

  • Request access to your personal data.
  • Request correction of your personal data.
  • Request erasure of your personal data.
  • Object to processing of your personal data.
  • Request restriction of processing your personal data.
  • Request transfer of your personal data.
  • Right to withdraw consent.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us.

11. Cookies

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. For detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them, please see our Cookie Policy.

12. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes we make will be posted on this page, and, where appropriate, notified to you by email. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our Privacy Policy.