Privacy Policy

This privacy notice governs the collection, storage, use, disclosure and disposal of personal information collected by us, 1910 Consulting It provides details about the personal information that we collect from you, how we use your personal information, your rights regarding the personal information that we hold about you and how to contact us or make a complaint.

For any questions relating to 1910 Consulting’s  Privacy Notice:

Please contact [email protected]

About us

Our full name is 1910 Marketing Consulting Limited and we are a company registered in England and Wales, company number 13480660. Our registered office is 3rd Floor
86-90 Paul Street, London EC2A 4NE

We are an independent marketing consultancy.

1910 Consulting is a ‘data controller’ in respect of the limited personal information that it processes.

What personal information do we collect about you?

We only collect a minimal amount of personal information about individuals who are (or are employed by) clients, prospective clients, journalists, stakeholders, suppliers and contacts including name, job title, organisation, and contact information (e-mail, phone number, address and postcode).

We collect this information by a number of means including:

  • directly from the individuals themselves
  • Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site 1910consulting.com (our site). This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site, subscribing to our service or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our site
  • our personal contacts and connections
  • If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence
  • from desk-based research into stakeholders with an interest in topics relevant to our clients

Why do we process personal information?

We process your personal information to communicate with you for the following purposes:

  • the provision of goods and services
  • organising events
  • communicating with current and prospective customers
  • communicating with current and prospective suppliers
  • communicating with the media

What is the legal basis for the processing?

We process personal information for the purposes described on the basis that it is in their legitimate interests, that they would reasonably expect this processing and that it does not materially impact their rights, freedoms or interests.

Where we have a contractual relationship with you, we may process your personal information as necessary for the performance of that contract or prior to entering into it. 

What do we do with your data?

We only collect personal information for the purposes described. We believe in and carry out a policy of data minimisation. 1910 Consulting holds no sensitive personal data of stakeholders.

All the personal data that we handle is processed by our staff, who are all based in the UK. We do not carry out any automated decision making which is likely to have a legal or similar effect on you. All our staff are subject to an obligation of confidentiality and are aware of our data protection obligations.

We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to safeguard the personal information that you provide to us.

Our cloud storage company is located in the U.S. and is certified under the EU-U.S Privacy Shield Framework. This protects the fundamental rights of anyone in the EU whose personal data is transferred to the United States for commercial purposes and has been the subject of an adequacy decision by the European Commission.

Cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, like and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to the user’s needs. We only use this information for statistical purposes the then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other that the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

How long do we keep your data?

We check annually to ensure that stakeholders are still working at the organisations and in relevant roles within those organisations to justify inclusion on our data-base. If not, their personal information is deleted.

Where we have a contractual relationship with you and/or hold financial information, we are required to retain this information for seven years.

What are your rights in relation to the personal information that we hold?

Under data protection laws you have a number of important rights free of charge. In summary, those include the right to:

  • access to your personal information and to certain other supplementary information this Privacy notice is designed to address
  • require us to correct any mistakes in your information which we hold
  • require the erasure of personal information concerning you in certain situations
  • receive the personal information concerning you which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit that information to a third party in certain situations
  • object at any time to processing of personal information concerning you for direct marketing
  • otherwise restrict our processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
  • For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, see the Guidance from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on individuals rights under the General Data Protection Regulation.

If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please:

  • write to us (either by post or email) at 1910 Consulting 3rd Floor
    86-90 Paul Street, London EC2A 4NE or [email protected]
  • let us have enough information to identify you
  • let us have proof of your identity and address (a copy of your driving licence or passport and a recent utility or credit card bill
  • let us know the information to which your request relates and
  • we will aim to respond to you within a one-month period.
  • If you would like to unsubscribe from any marketing material you receive from us you can do so by clicking unsubscribe on those emails or writing to us (either by post or email) at 1910 Consulting 3rd Floor 86-90 Paul Street, London EC2A 4NE  or [email protected] It may take up to 10 working days from receipt of your request for this to take place.

If you wish to raise a complaint on how we have handled your personal data, you can contact us to have the matter investigated. Please contact us at [email protected]

If you are not satisfied with our response or believe we are not processing your personal information in accordance with the law you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (https://ico.org.uk/) or seek to remedy through local courts if you believe your rights have been breached.

ACCESS TO INFORMATION

The Data Protection Act 1998 gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. However, we advise that you check this page regularly to keep up to date with any necessary changes.

CONTACT

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed. Please contact us.