At Aberdeenshire Leasing, we are committed to maintaining the trust and confidence of our customers, suppliers, and visitors. In particular, we want you to know that Aberdeenshire Leasing is not in the business of selling, renting or trading email lists with other companies and businesses for marketing purposes.
In order to be transparent with you about the information we do process, in this Privacy Notice we’ve provided lots of detailed information on when and why we collect personal information, how we use it, the limited conditions under which we may disclose it to others and how we keep it secure.
Who Are We
Aberdeenshire Leasing is an innovative, semi web based, leasing company serving the Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire area. We are independent of any other organisation and strive to offer a professional, efficient and informative service to both Landlords and Tenants at all times with set values and absolutely no hidden costs. We are associated with;
Scottish Association of Landlords
Council of Letting Agents
Chartered Institute of Housing
What Information We Collect
Everyone who uses our services will have some element of personal information about them collected, stored and processed. However, we don’t collect more information than we need. We only hold information required in order to provide a professional service and may include name, address and email address. We may sometimes collect additional information from referees in relation to third party services or in order to perform other background checks.
We will comply with data protection law ensuring that the information we hold is:
Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way.
Collected only for valid purposes that we have clearly explained to you and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes.
Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes.
Accurate and kept up to date.
Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about.
Kept securely.
How We Use Personal Information
We only use your information where you’ve given us your consent, where its necessary to deliver the services you’ve requested, where it’s necessary to exercise or comply with legal rights (such as health & safety regulations) or obligations, or for normal business purposes as set out in this policy.
Aberdeenshire Leasing’s website uses cookies, which is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Our website uses cookies to help us identify and track visitors and their website access preferences. Website visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before visiting Aberdeenshire Leasing’s website.
Where Do We Store Personal Information
Information we store is done so securely, ensuring that we do not have unnecessary duplicates of personal data, and by utilising third party databases to support our business (their details can be found here: https://www.smeprofessional.co.uk/privacy-statement).
How Long we Store Personal Information
We only keep personal data for as long as we need it, or are required to for legal reasons. We’ll then either delete it or anonymise it so it doesn’t identify individuals. We treat data differently depending on what it’s used for, but you can ask us to delete your personal data at any time. Information required for financial records such as invoices shall be retained for 7 years, as required by the IRS (Internal Revenue Service).
Access to your Personal Information
You are entitled to view, amend, or delete the personal information that we hold. Email your request to our data protection officer
Website Visitors
No personal information has to be given in order to navigate around Aberdeenshire Leasing’s website.
Google Analytics
When someone visits www.aberdeenshireleasing.co.uk we use a third party service, Google Analytics, to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. This information is only processed in a way which does not identify anyone. We do not make, and do not allow Google to make, any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website.
Passing Details to Third Parties
We will not disclose the information we receive from you to unconnected third parties.
Changes to Privacy Policy
We recognise the importance of privacy to our users, and will keep this policy under review. Any changes made from time to time will be posted on our web site. The last update being June 2018.
Consent
By disclosing your personal information to us, or by continuing as a customer or client of Aberdeenshire Leasing you indicate your consent to the collection, storage, processing and use of your personal information by Aberdeenshire Leasing as laid out in this privacy policy.
Comments and Questions
If you have any comments or questions please do not hesitate to contact us at info@aberdeenshireleasing.co.uk