Privacy Policy

Beach and Quiet Limited respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy notice provides information on how Beach and Quiet Limited collects and processes your personal data. Our website and our services are not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.

The law on data protection provides that a company may collect and process personal data. There are a number of legal bases pursuant to which a company may collect and process your data. The bases on which we rely on and may collect and process your personal data are:-

• with your consent; or

• in specific situations where we need your personal data in order to comply with our contractual obligations in connection with the services we provide to clients; or

• if the law requires us to; or

• where we require your personal data to pursue our legitimate interest in a way which might reasonable be expected as part of running our business and it does not materially impact your rights, freedom or interests.

Beach and Quiet Limited is the controller and responsible for your personal data.

We have appointed a data privacy manager who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this privacy notice. If you have any questions about this privacy notice, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact the data privacy manager using the details set out below.

Name or title of data privacy manager: Jane Riley

Email address: hello@beachandquiet.co.uk

Postal address: Westmount, Station Road, Embleton, NE66 3XJ

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.

It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.

Our website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.

Personal data, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data. The data may include:

• Your name, marital status, title, date of birth and gender.

• Contact details such as your address, email address and telephone numbers.

• Financial information such as bank account and payment card details.

• Technical data which may include internet protocol (IP) address.        

• Profile Data includes your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses.

• Usage Date includes information about how you use our website, products and services.

• Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

We may on occasion collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this may include details about your religious beliefs).

If you fail to provide personal data

Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you to provide services. In this case, we may have to cancel a service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including:

• When you visit our website and enter information online.

• When you request that we provide a service to you.

• When you engage with us on social media.

• When you contact us by any means e.g. with queries, to report disrepair, or complaints.

• When you provide feedback to us on our services.

• When you fill in any forms.

• When you make payment of any sums due

• When you’ve given a third party permission to share with us the information they hold about you.

• When a previous agent, or Landlord at a property we manage passes this information to us.

• We collect data from publicly-available sources (such as Land Registry) when you have given your consent to share information or where the information is made public as a matter of law.

• 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, server logs and other similar technologies.

We will only use your "personal data" when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

• Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you or we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with one of our clients.

• Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.

• Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

• Where we have your explicit consent to do so.

Examples of how and when we may use are as follows:

• To respond to any reports of disrepair, queries or complaints concerning a property that we manage.

• To communicate with you about the services we are providing.

• To communicate with you concerning holiday rental due or paid.

• To protect our business and your account from fraud and other illegal activities.

• To process payments and to prevent fraudulent transactions.

• Where it is in our legitimate interest, we will use your personal data, preferences and details of your transactions to keep you informed by email, text, telephone about relevant products and services including tailored special offers, discounts, promotions, events, competitions and so on.

• To send you communications required by law or which are necessary to inform you about our changes to the services we provide you.

• To comply with our contractual or legal obligations to share data with law enforcement agencies.

• To book/arrange appointment requests (for example with a contractor attending the property).

We have a legitimate interest to use your personal data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which of our products and services may be relevant for you (we call this marketing).

You may receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us or purchased products or services from us or if you provided us with your details and, in each case, you have not opted out of receiving marketing from us.

We would like to keep you in touch with our business now and in the future to give you the opportunity to benefit from legal updates, and products and services that may be of interest to you. However, it is important to us that the content we share is relevant to our audience and we strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing.

You may contact us at any time to confirm or amend your preference details to ensure that you continue to receive the information that you’d like in the way you want to receive it.

We will never sell your information to third parties.

We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any company outside Beach and Quiet Limited for marketing purposes.

Cookies

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.

We may have to share your personal data with trusted third parties. Examples include:

. Service providers such as IT companies who support our website and other business systems.

. Contractors such builders, plumbers, gas engineers, electricians, pest controllers

. Regulators and other authorities or fraud prevention agencies who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances

. Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or divest parts of our business or its assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them or carry our internal corporate restructuring. If a change happens to our business, then the new business partners, owners or corporate entities may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy policy.

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

We only provide the information they need to perform their specific service, and require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

We have put in place 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. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

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.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data. In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, which include a right to request:

• access to your personal data.

• the correction of your personal data.

• restriction or erasure of your personal data.

• transfer of your personal data

• we cease using your personal data for marketing.

• that any consent previously given to data use be withdrawn.

We may need to update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We’ll notify you of any substantial changes that may affect the way that we collect, store, handle and keep safe your personal data. You will also always be able to view the most up to date version of our Privacy Policy on our website.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact our data privacy manager on the details at 2 above.