Privacy Policy
Bluestone Sales and Lettings is committed to protecting and processing your personal data in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulations and the Data Protection Act 2018 (the legislation). For the purpose of the legislation and your personal data, Bluestone Sales and Lettings is the Data Controller, Dean Ahmed is the person responsible for data protection and can be contacted at 193 Caerleon Road, Newport, South Wales, NP19 7HA, 01633 841805.
The General Data Protection Regulations are to safeguard your personally identifiable information or personal data. This privacy notice will be regularly reviewed and updated.
Information held
The personal data we process may include the information in column A of the Bluestone Appendix – GDPR and sensitive data including health if applicable. We may also hold copies of certificates or other evidence of membership of a professional body or trade organisation. Where the provision of data is a statutory, a contractual requirement or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract, a refusal to provide the data may mean that we are unable to engage with your service.
To ensure that we provide the best service possible we will need to collect and retain certain personal data. The data may be collected and processed by those listed in columns B and F. How we source the data is identified in column C. We may source data from 3rd parties or via third parties e.g. trade bodies.
Lawful basis of processing
Your personal data will be used for the activities in column D. There are 6 lawful basis of processing your data including consent, a legitimate interest, contract fulfilment, a legal obligation and a vital interest. For each usage of the date the lawful basis of the processing of your data will be identified in column E. A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to process your personal data which needs to be balanced with your interests i.e. what is right and best for you.
Where we state that we have a legitimate interest, the fact that we have a legitimate interest and what that legitimate interest is, will be stated in column E, e.g. to keep in touch with you when we need it to contact you; fulfilling our legal and contractual duties.
Online identifiers, IP addresses & cookie identifiers
Where you visit our website we may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns.
We may obtain information by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised service. They enable us:
To estimate our audience size and usage pattern.
To store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customize our site according to your individual interests.
To speed up your searches.
To recognize you when you return to our site.
You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site. You can find more information about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org
This policy only applies to our site. If you leave our site via a link or otherwise, you will be subject to the privacy policy of that website provider. We have no control over that privacy policy or the terms of the website and you should check their privacy policy before continuing to access the site.
Google Services
This website uses services from Google for analytics and advertising. Some information will automatically be shared with Google to enable Google to deliver those services. Google services that are used include Google Analytics, Google Ads, and YouTube.
Google uses the information shared by our website to deliver its services, maintain and improve them, develop new services, measure the effectiveness of advertising, protect against fraud and abuse, and personalise content and ads you see on Google and on Google’s partners’ sites and apps.
For more information about how Google processes your data for these purposes, see their Privacy Policy. For more information about how your information is used in connection with Google Ads and in the context of advertising, see Google’s Advertising page.
Google Analytics Advertising Features have been enabled to enable Google advertising features to be used by us. Such advertising features may include Remarketing with Google Analytics, Google Display Network Impression Reporting, Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting, and Integrated services that require Google Analytics to collect data for advertising purposes. Google Analytics Advertising Features collects data about our website traffic via Google advertising cookies and identifiers, in addition to data collected through a standard Google Analytics implementation.
This website has Google Signals activated. This allows Google Analytics to associate the visitation information it collects from this site with Google information from accounts of signed-in users who have consented to this association for the purpose of ads personalisation. This Google information may include end user location, search history, YouTube history, and data from sites that partner with Google—and is used to provide aggregated and anonymized insights into your users' cross device behaviours.
You can see and control what information Google uses to show you ads by visiting your Ad Settings. You can also opt-out of the Google Analytics Advertising Features that we use by using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Recipients of personal data
It will be necessary for us to process or share all or some of your personal data with a range of individuals, businesses and organisations and these are listed in column F.
Where is the data stored?
Your personal data is stored in the way described in column G and the data is always stored within the European Union or outside of the European Union but with an organisation operating under the General Data Protection Regulations.
Retention period and criteria used to determine the retention period
We will retain some elements of your personal data for up to the time defined in column H after we cease engaging you as a contractor. What information can be anonymized will be when no longer required for either contractual fulfilment or a legitimate interest. If the lawful basis for processing your data was consent then you may withdraw consent at any time.
Your rights
You have a right of access to check your personal data to verify the lawful basis of processing. We are obliged to respond to an access request within 30 days and may not charge a fee unless the request is unfounded, excessive or repetitive. If a fee is charged it is to be a reasonable fee based upon the administrative cost of providing the information.
You have a right to rectification if the data we hold is either inaccurate or incomplete. If your data has been disclosed to third parties then we must inform them of the rectification, where possible.
You have a right to erasure of your data when consent is our basis of processing (the right to be forgotten). You may request that your personal data be erased, for example, where there is no compelling reason for its continued processing or where you withdraw consent. We will comply with your request unless we have another basis of processing justifying our retaining the data (for example a legal requirement or the defense of a legal claim).
You have some rights to ask us to restrict processing i.e. to block or suppress processing where, for example, the data may be incorrect and whilst the accuracy is verified. We are permitted to store the data.
Your right to object
You do have a right to object to further processing of your personal data. We may be required to stop processing unless there is some other legitimate basis of processing such as a legitimate interest or a requirement for the exercise or defense of a legal claim.
Withdrawal of consent
Where the lawful basis for processing is your consent, you may withdraw consent at any time by writing to, Dean Ahmed, Bluestone Sales and Lettings at 193 Caerleon Road, Newport, South Wales, NP19 7HA or emailing da@bluestone-property.co.uk
How to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority?
The supervisory authority responsible for data protection is the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) to whom concerns may be reported by phone on 0303 123 1113 or +44 1625 545 745 if calling from outside the UK, by email using the form on the website ico.org.uk or the live chat function.
