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Harvey Silver Hodgkinson are committed to maintaining the trust and confidence of our clients and visitors to our website. In particular, we want you to know that HARVEY SILVER HODGKINSON will not sell rent or trade email lists with other companies and businesses for marketing purposes. In this Privacy Policy we do however provide detailed information on when and why we collect your personal information, how we use it, the limited conditions under which we may disclose it to others and how we keep it secure.

Any questions regarding this policy and our privacy practices should be sent to info@hsh.co.uk. Alternatively, you can contact us on 0161 233 9090.

 

WHO WE ARE?

We are HARVEY SILVER HODGKINSON, a UK based firm of Business Transfer Agents. We are recognised as one of the North-West leading business sales agents & commercial letting agents and have been trading since 1979.

 

THE TYPES OF DATA WE COLLECT

The personal information we collect from you might include your name, email address, address, telephone numbers, social media handle, your job title, website browsing behaviour and property preferences.

Additional personal information is legally required and held if you instruct us to sell your business and if you are purchasing a business or entering into a lease of a premises.

Cookies

The HARVEY SILVER HODGKINSON website (www.hsh.co.uk) uses cookies. Cookies are small data files on your computer or handheld device. The use of cookies is standard practice for all websites and allows our website to recognise you when you visit. The cookies are essential for helping us deliver a high quality website. Some cookies collect statistical information about your browsing behaviour. You can switch off cookies by setting your browser preferences – but this may result in a loss of functionality when using our website.

Google Analytics

When someone visits www.hsh.co.uk we use a third party service, Google Analytics and Lead Forensics to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out such things as the number of visitors to the various parts of our website. This information is only processed in a way that does not identify anyone.

Mailing lists

When we electronically send marketing material or a newsletter we will often use a third-party provider, Constant Contact, to deliver the email. We gather statistics around email opening and clicks using industry standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our newsletter. Constant Contact is fully GDPR compliant and for more information please review Endurance trading as Constant Contact privacy notice read here. You can unsubscribe to any of our general mailings by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the emails. 

Third Parties

We will not sell or rent your information to third parties.

We will not share your information with third parties for marketing purposes.

When buying or selling a business your details will be provided to the parties involved in the transaction of sale, namely solicitors and/or landlord.

Anti money laundering

In order to comply with the requirements of the Anti-Money Laundering regulations in force, For any person selling a business or buying a business we will be required to obtain evidence to verify your identity. The required evidence may include sight of passport or other identification documents. We will retain this information for the duration of any negotiation and for 7 years post completion of the last transaction.

HOW IS YOUR INFORMATION USED?

We may use your information to:

•Send you information regarding property sales and lettings

•Provide information about HARVEY SILVER HODGKINSON, including our latest sales and general news.

ACCESS TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

The accuracy of your information is important to us. You are entitled to view, amend or delete the personal information that we hold. If you change email address, or any of the other information we hold is inaccurate or out of date, please email your request to info@hsh.co.uk or write to us at HARVEY SILVER HODGKINSON, Westgate, 44 Hale Road, Hale, Cheshire WA14 2EX. Alternatively, you can contact us on 0161 233 9090. You have the right to ask for the information that we hold about you. Please use the contact details above to do so.

TRANSFERRING YOUR INFORMATION OUTSIDE OF EUROPE

As part of the services offered to you through our website, the information which you provide to us may be transferred to countries outside the European Union. By way of example, this may happen if any of our servers are from time to time located in a country outside of the EU. These countries may not have similar data protection laws to the UK. By submitting your personal data, you’re agreeing to this transfer, storing or processing. If we transfer your information outside of the EU in this way, we will take steps to ensure that appropriate security measures are taken with the aim of ensuring that your privacy rights continue to be protected, as outlined in this policy.

If you use our services while you are outside the EU, your information may be transferred outside the EU in order to provide you with those services.

 

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE

We keep this Policy under regular review. This Policy was last updated in November 2018.