AS Consultants (UK) Ltd – https://www.asconsultants.co.uk

Website Privacy Policy

The policy:
This Privacy Policy is for this website: www.asconsultants.co.uk which is owned by AS Consultants (UK) Ltd. This policy governs the privacy of its users and explains how we comply with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), the DPA (Data Protection Act) [pre GDPR enforcement] and the PECR (Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations).

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This policy will explain areas of this website that may affect your privacy and personal details, how we process, collect, manage and store those details and how your rights under the GDPR, DPA & PECR are adhered to. Additionally, it will explain the use of cookies or software, advertising or commercial sponsorship from third parties and the download of any documents, files or software made available to you (if any) on this website. Further explanations may be provided for specific pages or features of this website in order to help you understand how we, this website and its third parties (if any) interact with you and your computer / device in order to serve it to you. Our contact information is provided if you have any questions.

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The DPA and GDPR May 2018
We and this website comply with the DPA (Data Protection Act 1998) and with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) which came into effect in May 2018.

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Use of Cookies
This website may use cookies to improve the user experience while visiting the website. As required by legislation, where applicable this website uses a cookie control system, allowing the user to give explicit permission or to deny the use of or saving of cookies on their computer / device.

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What are cookies?

Cookies are small files saved to the user's device, that track, save and store information about the user's interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server to provide users with a tailored experience within this website.

Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their devices, they should take necessary steps within the security settings of their web browser and/or other device settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors; or use the cookie control system if available upon their first visit.

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Website Visitor Tracking
This website may use tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. The software will save a cookie to your device in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information.

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Downloads and Media Files
Any downloadable documents, files or media made available on this website are provided to users at their own risk. While all precautions have been undertaken to ensure only genuine downloads are available, users are advised to verify their authenticity using third party anti-virus software or similar applications.

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We accept no responsibility for third party downloads and downloads provided by external third party websites and advise users to verify their authenticity using third party anti-virus software or similar applications.

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Contact and Communication With Us
Users contacting us through this website do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until such time that it is no longer required or has no use.

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Where we have clearly stated and made you aware of the fact, and where you have given your express permission, we may use your details to send you products/services information through a mailing list system. This is done in accordance with the

regulations named in 'The policy' above.

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External Website Links and Third Parties
Although we only look to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised to adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website. (External links are clickable text / banner / image links to other websites).

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Shortened URLs; URL shortening is a technique used on the Internet to shorten URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) to something substantially shorter. This technique is especially used in social media and looks similar to this (example: http://bit.ly/zyVUBo). Users should take caution before clicking on shortened URL links and verify their authenticity before proceeding.