This Privacy Notice (the “Notice”) describes how LINAR Consulting Ltd collects, uses and shares the information you provide to us and the information we collect in the course of operating our business and our website.

Our registered office is at 22 Dean Road, Hounslow, TW3 2EZ.

We may revise this notice at any time and this page will always reflect the current version.

This Notice describes:

• The information that we collect
• How we use the information we collect
• How we share information with third parties
• Keeping your information and information security
• Your choices and rights
• How to contact us and other important information

The information that we collect and where we get it from

“Personal information” is any information that can be used to identify you or that we can link to you and which we have in our possession or control. We will collect and process the following personal information about you:

Information that you provide to us. We will process personal information that you give to us including when you email us or contact us through various channels as follows:

• Signing up for services on our site: when you sign up for newsletters, webinars, events or obtain services from us or when you contact us with queries or respond to our communications the personal information you provide may include your full name, title, telephone number, email address and content, date and time of your email correspondence and information about your employer or your business.
• In connection with our provision of consulting services: if you are a client of LINAR Consulting Ltd you will provide us with personal information when you or the company you represent becomes a client. If you are not a client we may collect or receive your personal information because you are involved in one of our client’s matters.
• Recruitment application: when you apply for a role with us you may need to provide us with your full name, date of birth, nationality, education and qualification details, your gender, your CV, photograph, passport details, marital status, home address and home telephone number, mobile telephone number and other details set out in your application.

Information we otherwise collect about you.

We will also collect information about when you use our services or when we otherwise interact or correspond with you. We may use various technologies to collect and store information when we send you emails that are not matter related or when you visit our websites. We, or our authorised third parties may, for example, collect information about the type of device you use to access the emails and websites, your IP address and your geographic location, the operating system and version, your browser type, the emails you open, the website content you view and features you access on our websites, the web pages and the search terms you enter on our websites.

Information we obtain from other sources.

• If you apply for a position with us we may collect personal information relating to past employment, qualifications and education, and (to the extent permitted by applicable law) confidential opinions from third parties about you, past employment history and other details about you including confidential references, which will be provided to us by a third party that provides background screening services to us.
• If you are a user of any of our products or services we may collect information you have allowed to be publicly available.

How we use the information we collect

We collect your personal information for the following purposes and may do the following with your personal information:

• use it to provide services to the relevant client;
• use it to engage in marketing and business development activity in relation to our services. This may include sending you newsletters, updates, marketing communications and other information that may be of interest to you;
• where you have applied for a position with us, to review and process your job application;
• to comply with legal and regulatory obligations that we have to discharge;
• use it to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights or for the purpose of legal proceedings;
• record and monitor your use of our websites or our other online services for our business purposes which may include analysis of usage, measurement of site performance and generation of marketing reports;
• use it for our legitimate business interests, such as undertaking business research and analysis, including understanding our relationships with the users of our services, managing the operation of our websites and the administration of our business;
• use it to look into any complaints or queries you may have; and
• use it to prevent and respond to actual or potential fraud or illegal activities.
• Also, we may collate, process and share any statistics based on an aggregation of information held by us provided that any individual is not identified from the resulting analysis and the collation, processing and dissemination of such information is permitted by law.

Grounds for using your personal information

Subject to applicable law and the purpose for which we collect your information, we rely on one or more of the following legal grounds to process your personal information, namely:

• Consent – we may (but usually do not) need your consent to use your personal information. You can withdraw your consent by contacting us (see below).
• Performance of a contract – we may need to collect and use your personal information to enter into a contract with you or to perform our obligations under a contract with you.
• Legitimate interest – we may use your personal information for our legitimate interests, some examples of which are given above.
• Compliance with law or regulation – we may use your personal information as necessary to comply with applicable law/regulation.
• Purposes of collection – we may use your personal information for the purposes described in this Notice or any other purposes of which we have otherwise notified you.

How we share information with third parties

We may share your personal information outside LINAR Consulting Ltd. This may include:

• third party agents/suppliers or contractors, bound by obligations of confidentiality, in connection with the processing of your personal information for the purposes described in this Policy. This may include, but is not limited to, IT and communications service providers; and
• to the extent required by law, regulation or court order, for example, if we are under a duty to disclose your personal information in order to comply with any legal obligation.

Where we transfer your personal information outside the UK or the EU/EEA, we will ensure that it is protected and transferred in a manner consistent with legal requirements applicable to the information. This can be done in a number of different ways, for instance:

• the country to which we send the personal information may be approved by the European Commission;
• the recipient may have signed a contract based on “model contractual clauses” approved by the European Commission, obliging them to protect your personal information; or
• In other circumstances, the law may permit us to otherwise transfer your personal information outside the UK or the EU/EEA or outside another relevant location (e.g. the location in which your personal information was collected). In all cases, however, any transfer of your personal information will be compliant with applicable data protection law.

You can obtain more details of the protection given to your personal information when it is transferred outside the UK or the EU/EEA (including a sample copy of the model contractual clauses) by contacting us using the details set out below.

Keeping your information and information security

How long we hold your personal information for will vary, the period of each type of data being determined by our internal policies and will depend principally on:

• the purpose for which we are using your personal information – we will need to keep the information for as long as is necessary for the relevant purpose; and
• legal obligations – laws or regulation may set a minimum period for which we have to keep your personal information.

We will ensure that the personal information that we hold is subject to appropriate security measures.

Your choices and rights

You have a number of legal rights in relation to the personal information that we hold about you and you can exercise your rights by contacting us using the details set out below.

Depending on applicable law, these rights may include:

• obtaining information regarding the processing of your personal information and access to the personal information which we hold about you (please note that there may be circumstances in which we are entitled to refuse requests for access to copies of personal information.;
• requesting that we correct your personal information if it is inaccurate or incomplete;
• requesting that we erase your personal information in certain circumstances. Please note that there may be circumstances where you ask us to erase your personal information but we are legally entitled to retain it;
• objecting to, and requesting that we restrict, our processing of your personal information in certain circumstances. Again, there may be circumstances where you object to, or ask us to restrict, our processing of your personal information but we are legally entitled to refuse that request;
• in some circumstances, receiving some personal information in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and/or requesting that we transmit that information to a third party where this is technically feasible. Please note that this right only applies to personal information which you have provided to us;
• withdrawing your consent, although in certain circumstances it may be lawful for us to continue processing without your consent if we have another legitimate reason (other than consent) for doing so; and
• lodging a complaint with the relevant data protection authority, if you think that any of your rights have been infringed by us.
• we can, on request, tell you which data protection authority is relevant to the processing of your personal information.
• in certain jurisdictions like France, you have the right to provide directives on the processing of your personal data after your death.

Social media plug-ins

We use social media plug-ins (LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram) to improve our website’s user experience, make our content more visible and thereby promote our business. We do not control the processing of personal data in the context of social media plug-ins and we do not have any access to the data collected and transferred by the social media plug-in to the social network provider.

How to contact us and other important information

If you would like further information on the collection, use, disclosure, transfer or processing of your personal information or the exercise of any of the rights listed above, please contact us. You can do this by writing to us at:

Generally – lee@linarconsulting.com or Lee Curtis, Managing Director, LINAR Consulting Ltd, 22 Dean Road, Hounslow, TW3 2EZ.