Legal Notice

Legal Advice

Reserved Legal Activities under the Legal Services Act 2007 (“LSA 2007”), make it a criminal offence for us to provide legal advice. Any advice we give must not be construed as being legal advice and we always recommend that you seek legal counsel where it is warranted.

RICS Regulation and Complaints

We are regulated members of the RICS and adhere to its code of conduct and complaint-handling service. Should you have any complaint concerning our engagement please contact your main contact at Brennan Associates who will advise you of our complaint procedure.

Company Details

Our registered company details are as follows:

  • Company Name: Brennan & Associates Ltd
  • Company Number: 7463372
  • VAT Registration Number: 998451261
  • Registered Office: 40 Foregate Street, Worcester, WR1 1EE

Terms and Conditions

See separate attachment.

Privacy

1. OUR CORE BELIEFS REGARDING USER PRIVACY AND DATA PROTECTION

  • User privacy and data protection are human rights
  • We have a duty of care to the people within our data
  • Data is a liability, it should only be collected and processed when necessary
  • We will never sell, rent or otherwise distribute or make public your personal information

2. RELEVANT LEGISLATION

Along with our business and internal computer systems, this website is designed to comply with the following national and international legislation with regards to data protection and user privacy:

UK Data Protection Act 2018

EU General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR)

This site’s compliance with the above legislation, all of which are stringent in nature, means that this site is likely compliant with the data protection and user privacy legislation set out by many other countries and territories as well. If you are unsure about whether this site is compliant with your own country of residences’ specific data protection and user privacy legislation you should contact our data protection officer (details of whom can be found in section 9.0) for clarification.

3. PERSONAL INFORMATION THAT THIS WEBSITE COLLECTS AND WHY WE COLLECT IT

This website collects and uses personal information for the following reasons:

a. Site visitation tracking

Like most websites, this site uses Google Analytics (GA) to track user interaction. We use this data to determine the number of people using our site, to better understand how they find and use our web pages and to see their journey through the website.

Although GA records data such as your geographical location, device, internet browser and operating system, none of this information personally identifies you to us. GA also records your computer’s IP address which could be used to personally identify you but Google does not grant us access to this. We consider Google to be a third party data processor (see section 6.0 below).

GA makes use of cookies, details of which can be found on Google’s developer guides. FYI our website uses the analytics.js implementation of GA.

Disabling cookies on your internet browser will stop GA from tracking any part of your visit to pages within this website.

b. Contact forms and email links

Should you choose to contact us using the contact form on our Contact page or an email link like this one, none of the data that you supply will be stored by this website or passed to / be processed by any of the third party data processors defined in section 6.0. Instead, the data will be collated into an email and sent to us over the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). Our SMTP servers are protected by TLS(sometimes known as SSL) meaning that the email content is encrypted using SHA-2, 256-bit cryptography before being sent across the internet. The email content is then decrypted by our local computers and devices.

Although GA records data such as your geographical location, device, internet browser and operating system, none of this information personally identifies you to us. GA also records your computer’s IP address which could be used to personally identify you but Google does not grant us access to this. We consider Google to be a third party data processor (see section 6.0 below).

GA makes use of cookies, details of which can be found on Google’s developer guides. FYI our website uses the analytics.js implementation of GA.

Disabling cookies on your internet browser will stop GA from tracking any part of your visit to pages within this website.

4. HOW WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

All the data we collect from your given consent will be stored in an encrypted manner on our internal server/cloud server. We do not store data directly on our website, in our WordPress CMS or within any third party apps.

5. ABOUT THIS WEBSITE’S SERVER

This website is hosted by Ionos.

All traffic (transferral of files) between this website and your browser is encrypted.

6. OUR THIRD PARTY DATA PROCESSORS

We use a number of third parties to process personal data on our behalf. These third parties have been carefully chosen and all of them comply with the legislation set out in section 2.0. Both of these third parties are based in the USA and are EU-U.S Privacy Shield compliant.

7. DATA BREACHES

We will report any unlawful data breach of this website’s database or the databases of any of our third party data processors to any and all relevant persons and authorities within 72 hours of the breach if it is apparent that personal data stored in an identifiable manner has been stolen.

8. DATA CONTROLLER

The data controller of this website is: Brennan & Associates Ltd, a UK limited company with company number: 07463372

Our registered office is:

40 Foregate Street, Worcester, WR1 1EE

9. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

This website privacy policy may change from time to time in line with legislation or industry developments. We will not explicitly inform our clients or website users of these changes. Instead, we recommend that you check this page occasionally for any policy changes. Specific policy changes and updates are mentioned in the change log below.

Change log

14/05/2022 - Privacy policy instigated