Privacy Statement

Introduction

This website www.maisonfinancialservices.com (the "Site") is operated by Maison Financial Services, whose registered office is at Unit 3, 5 Murray Road, Edgerton, Huddersfield, HD2 2AD also referred to in this Privacy Statement as "we" or "us". Maison Financial Services is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This Privacy Statement should be read together with our Cookie Statement and Terms of Use and sets out how we will treat any personal information that you provide us or that we collect from you.

Please read the following carefully to understand how we will treat your personal information.

Information we may collect from you through the site

We may collect information from you online in a number of ways, such as through your use of this Site and through our use of Cookies (see the Internet Cookies section below). Some sections of the Site may invite you to request information, or to contact us with enquiries and comments. If you do so, we may collect and process personal information about you such as:

Your name, address, email address and other contact details;
Records of your correspondence with us, if you have contacted us; and
Details of your visit to our Site and the resources that you access;

Our use of your perosnal information collected through the site

We may use personal information collected from you through the Site in the following ways:

To ensure that the Site is presented to you in an effective manner;
To provide you with information that you have requested from us; and
Where you have registered to do so, to send you electronic and/or paper form marketing and other materials relating to our services, unless you would prefer us not to do so (see Your Rights below).

Internet Cookies

We may also obtain information about your general internet usage through the use of Cookies which enable us to make certain parts of the Site easier to use and to improve the Site. Please see our Cookies Statement for more information.

When you enter the Site, we may also collect information, where available, about your computer for system administration purposes such as your IP address, operating system and browser type. This information is statistical data about our users' browsing patterns, and generally does not individually identify our users.

How we process your offline personal data

As well as information collected from you through the Site, we may also obtain personal information in other ways, such as by telephone, email or in paper form.

We may receive personal information from our clients (about themselves or about other individuals) which is provided to us in confidence for use in the provision of advice to our clients. Our handling of that information is subject to our client's instructions.

We will also receive personal information from our clients, or from others, about themselves or about other individuals (such as our corporate clients' employees) which is provided to us for use for the purpose of carrying out our business. We will handle that information in accordance with this Privacy Statement.

This information could include:

Your name, email address and other contact details;
Records of your correspondence with us; and/or
Your bank account details and/or other billing details.

Our use of your personal information

We may use personal information collected otherwise than through the Site in the following ways:

To provide you (or the company on behalf of which you instruct us) with advice or other information that you have requested from us;
To invoice you for services we have provided to you (or the company on behalf of which you instruct us);
To keep records of the work we have carried out for you (or the company on behalf of which you instruct us); and
To send you electronic and/or paper form marketing materials relating to our services, unless you would prefer us not to do (see Your Rights below).

Disclosing your personal information

We will not share personal information with any third party except where:

You have expressly consented for us to share your personal information with third parties;
We are under a legal, regulatory or professional obligation to disclose your personal information, or in order to enforce or apply our Terms of Use; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of our company, our clients or others;
Our company, or substantially all our company’s assets are merged or acquired by a third party, in which case your personal information may form part of the transferred or merged assets;
To provide anonymous statistical information about users of the Site and related usage information to reputable third parties; or
We are using a third party service provider to provide services that involve data processing.

Where we store your personal information

In order to provide our services and the Site, any personal information that we collect from you may be transferred to and stored by a third party at a destination inside or outside the European Economic Area, including in a country where the law provides less protection for personal information. By continuing to use our services or the Site and by providing any personal information, you are consenting to such transfers, storing or processing of your personal information. If we engage a third party to process personal information on our behalf we contractually require them to apply appropriate safeguards for personal information.

Links to third party websites

The Site may contain links to third party websites. If you follow a link to any third party website, please be aware that these websites have their own privacy policy, and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for their policies.

Your rights

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal information for marketing purposes, which can be exercised by checking the relevant boxes when you complete an online form or by contacting us at any time at info@maisonfinancialservices.com

Please note that by continuing to use our services or the Site and by providing any personal information to us offline or via the Site or email addresses provided on the Site, you are consenting to our use of your personal information as set out in this Privacy Statement. Please do not provide us any personal information if you do not want that information to be used by us in this manner

This Privacy Statement, Cookie Statement and/or the Terms of Use may be amended by us at any time. Please check this page periodically to inform yourself of any changes. It was last amended on 1 August 2012

If you have any questions, need further information about our privacy practices, or would like to let us know that your details require updating, please contact us at info@maisonfinancialservices.com or write to us at Maison Financial Services, Unit 3, 5 Murray Road, Edgerton, Huddersfield, HD2 2AD.

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