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Privacy Statement for Autism Behaviour Consultancy (ABConsultancy)

Who We Are:

The personal information we collect and how we use it:

• If you have submitted a contact form, or made an enquiry, we ask for details such as your name, email address and the reason for contacting us. 
• We only store and process this information so that we can respond directly to your enquiry.
• We use further information that you have given us in order to contact and work with you related to the delivery of our services.
• We may share this information with relevant local authorities, medical or care providers that share a duty of care for clients.

How we get the personal information: 

• You are making an enquiry about our services
• You are receiving services
• You are making a general enquiry

We may also process information received indirectly from one of the following sources in the following scenarios:

• Information related to clients or organisations on behalf of a client, individual or organisation as part of a service agreement between ABConsultancy and their clients, where we have a lawful basis for using that information.
• A client, individual or organisation responsible for delivering care services may, through a service agreement, provide personal data of the individuals in their care.

Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are:

• (a) Your consent. You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting us.
• (b) We have a contractual obligation.
• (c) We have a legal obligation.
• (d) We have a vital interest.
• (e) We need it to perform a public task.
• (f) We have a legitimate interest.

How we store your personal information:

• Your information is securely stored.
• We keep personal information and information related to clients for as long as we have a lawful basis to. 
• We may hold personal information related to the delivery of agreed services, including information related to clients for up to three months unless consent is explicitly withdrawn. After which we will then destroy your information.

Your data protection rights

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

• Your right of access – You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
• Your right to rectification – You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
• Your right to erasure – You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
• Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
• Your right to object to processing – You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
• 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, in certain circumstances.

Links to other websites:

• Our website contains links to other websites. We do not have any control over these websites and are not responsible for them in any way.

Cookie Policy for ABConsultancy

This is the Cookie Policy for ABConsultancy, accessible from https://autismconsultancy.co.uk

What Are Cookies

As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the sites functionality.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies. This Cookies Policy was created with the help of the Cookies Policy Generator.

The Cookies We Set

• Site preferences cookies

  In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.

Third Party Cookies

In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

• This site may use Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.

  For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.

• We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including Instagram, will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.

More Information

Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren’t sure whether you need or not it’s usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site.

For more general information on cookies, please read the Cookies Policy article.

However if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods:

• Email: becky@autismconsultancy.co.uk