Privacy Policy

Our privacy notice

This privacy notice describes how Summit Group and its subsidiaries ('we', 'us') collects and processes personal information about you; how we use and protect this information, and your rights in relation to this information. This privacy notice applies to all personal information we collect about you. Personal information is information, or a combination of pieces of information that could reasonably allow you to be identified.

  1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We collect your personal information from a variety of sources, including information we collect from you directly (e.g. when you contact us and provide services to us or when we provide services to you), and information we collect about you from other sources, including commercially available sources, such as public databases (where permitted by law). Certain personal information is required as a consequence of any contractual relationship we have with you or your employer, to enable us to carry out our contractual obligations to you or your employer. Failure to provide this information may prevent or delay the fulfilment of these obligations.

1.1 Information we collect directly from you

The categories of information that we may collect directly from you include the following:

  • (a) personal details (eg. first and last name);
  • (b) contact details (e.g. phone number, email address, or mobile number);
  • (c) employment details (e.g. job title; employer name);

1.2 Information we collect from other sources

The following are examples of the categories of information we may collect from other sources (such as your company website or LinkedIn profiles):

  • (a) personal details (eg. first and last name);
  • (b) contact details (e.g. phone number, email address, or mobile number);
  • (c) employment details (e.g. job title; employer name)

2 HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION AND THE BASIS ON WHICH WE USE IT

We use your personal information to:

  • (a) contact you with questions and other information regarding the services we are providing to you;
  • (b) ensure that our records are kept accurate and up to date
  • (c) ensure we issue accurate invoices for our services;
  • (d) to send you messages about products and services which we think will be of interest to you;

We must have a legal basis to process your personal information. In most cases the legal basis will be one of the following:

  • (a) to meet our legitimate interests so that: we are able to provide the services you request; our services function correctly in relation to your business; any complaints or concerns can be promptly relayed to you; we can respond to any questions or concerns you might have; we may carry out research and analysis to ensure products and services we offer are relevant to you, and; our records are kept up to date and accurate;
  • (b) to fulfil our contractual obligations to you, for example to ensure that invoices are issued correctly, and for ensuring you are able to access our premises when required; and
  • (c) to send you direct electronic marketing messages to the extent you have consented to receiving such messages in accordance with applicable law.

3 YOUR RIGHTS OVER YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Please let us know if any of the personal information that we hold about you changes so that we can correct and update the information on our systems.

You can view, delete, correct or update the personal information you provide to us by contacting: accounts@acgallie.com.

In certain circumstances you may object to specific processing activities, require us to restrict how we process your personal information and ask us to share your personal information in a usable format with another company. Where you have given your consent to a particular type of processing, you may withdraw that consent at any time.

To exercise any of the above rights, please contact us using the contact: vicki@summit.je

4 INFORMATION SHARING

In general, we do not share your personal information with third parties (other than service providers acting on our behalf) unless we have a lawful basis for doing so.

We rely on third-party service providers to perform a variety of services on our behalf, including electronic message delivery and payment processing. This may mean that we have to share your personal information with these third parties. When we share your personal information in this way, we put in place appropriate measures to make sure that our service providers keep your personal information secure. We also ensure that any third-party provider has suitable privacy policies in place.

Other situations in which we may disclose your personal information to a third party, are:

  • During a sale or an acquisition;
  • Where permitted by law, to protect and defend our rights and property
  • When required by law, and/or public authorities;

5 WEBSITE ANALYTICS

To improve your experience on our site, we may use ‘cookies’. Cookies are an industry standard and most major web sites use them. A cookie is a small text file that our site may place on your computer as a tool to remember your preferences. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however, please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.

Our website uses Google Analytics, a service which transmits website traffic data to Google servers in the United States. Google Analytics does not identify individual users or associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. We use reports provided by Google Analytics to help us understand website traffic and webpage usage

6 INFORMATION SECURITY

We have implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security to protect personal information from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction. We require all employees and principals to keep personal information confidential and only authorised personnel have access to this information.

We will retain your personal information in accordance with our data retention policy.

7 INFORMATION TRANSFER

Summit Group and subsidiary companies use technology systems which may transfer your information to another jurisdiction and countries outside the EEA. These include POS and fulfilments systems, accounting systems and others. In these cases, we have ensured that these third-party providers adhere to the standards set by the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018. GDPR is a key consideration to us when selecting a service provider.

8 CONTACT US

If you have questions or concerns regarding the way in which your personal information has been used, please contact our Data Protection Representative, Vicki Coutanche by email to: vicki@summit.je who will log your enquiry and handover to the assigned Director within the company.

We are committed to working with you to obtain a fair resolution of any complaint or concern about privacy. If, however, you believe that we have not been able to assist with your complaint or concern, you have the right to make a complaint to the data protection authority of Jersey using the details below:

Information Commissioner Jersey

Website: www.oicjersey.org

Tel: +44 (0)1534 716530

Email: enquiries@oicjersey.org

9 CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY NOTICE

You may request a copy of this privacy notice from us using the contact details set out above. We may modify or update this privacy notice from time to time. Changes and additions to this privacy notice are effective from the date they are amended.