Outsourcing and procurement | Privacy policy from Optimum Business Solutions

Personal Information

OBS Group Limited (“Optimum”) is committed to protecting and respecting the privacy of any personal information you may submit to this site. This Privacy Statement together with our terms of use sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us will be processed by us.

OBS Group Limited of The Cottages, Regent Road, Altrincham, Cheshire, WA14 1RX shall act as the data controller of all personal data submitted for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998("DPA").

Information We May Collect From You

Generally, you can visit this site without revealing who you are, or disclosing any personal information about yourself. However we may collect and process the following data about you:

- information that you provide by filling in forms on our site, this includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site, subscribing to our service, posting material or requesting further services;
- details of your visits to our site and the resources that you access and if you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence. We may also require information about you when you report a problem with our site.

Such information is obtained only when voluntarily submitted by you and is subject to the provisions set out in this Privacy Statement.

Cookies

"Cookie" technology is used on this site to track non-personal information of users, including information about your preferences and browsing actions and patterns. Cookies are stored on your hard drive and contain information that is transferred to your computer. They help us to improve our site and deliver a better service and may be used for statistical and market research purposes. Personal information may also be tracked to ease the connectivity of your computer with our site. You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser, however unless you have adjusted your browser setting to do this, our system will issue cookies to your computer when you log on to our site. If you want to delete any cookies that are already on your computer, please refer to the instructions for your file management software to locate the file or directory that stores cookies. If you want to stop cookies being stored on your computer in future, or if you want to be notified when a cookie is please refer to your browser manufacturer's instructions by clicking "Help" in your browser menu. Please note that by deleting our cookies or disabling future cookies you may not be able to access certain areas or features of our site.

Uses Made of This Information

We may use information held about you for registration purposes for courses, seminars or white papers, for e-mail purposes, for targeted marketing purposes on our products and services and to notify you of any changes in our services, to carry out any of our obligations from any contracts entered into between you and us and to better serve you and improve our site and the way it is presented to you.

By providing us with your address, fax number, telephone numbers you consent to being contacted by these methods for these purposes. If you do not wish to receive such information from us please email us at info@optimumgroup.uk.com. You may also wish to submit personal information in respect of employment positions. The receipt, processing of, and access to such information shall be limited only to those of our employees who require this information to do their jobs. We may keep your information for a reasonable period for these purposes.

If you are an existing customer, we will only contact you by electronic means for targeted marketing purposes and with information on services similar to those which were the subject of a previous contract with you, unless you give us your consent to contact you for other purposes. If you are a new customer, we will contact you by electronic means only if you have consented to this.

If you do not wish us to use your data in this way, please tick the relevant box on the form on which we use to collect your data.

Storage of Your Data

If you choose to provide us with personal information over the Internet, you should be aware that data transmission via this medium can not be guaranteed to be 100% secure. The data we collect from you may be transferred to and stored outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”) but will in all cases endeavor to maintain the same levels of security in protecting your data as if it was being stored in the UK. By providing your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all reasonable efforts to ensure your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Statement and do our best to protect your personal data you acknowledge that we cannot guarantee the security of the data provided to our site and any data provided is at your own risk. Once received, we have stringent security procedures covering the storage and disclosure of your personal information in order to prevent unauthorised access and to comply with the DPA. If, despite our security precautions, personal information is inadvertently disclosed, we shall use all reasonable endeavours to limit and remedy the disclosure but, to the extent permitted by law, we accept no liability disclosure.

Save as set out herein, we will not sell, trade, rent or otherwise disclose your personal information. We may share your personal information with other parties where you expressly authorise us to or for any of the uses described above.

We reserve the right to access and disclose personal information to comply with applicable laws and lawful government requests or requests by the police investigating suspected illegal activities, to operate our systems properly or to protect ourselves or other users. We also reserve the right to disclose personal information to third parties where a complaint arises concerning your use of the site and that use is deemed by us inconsistent with the conditions of use of the site.

We will endeavour to keep any personal information so submitted accurate and complete, but it is your responsibility to advise us if your personal information so submitted becomes untrue, inaccurate or incomplete. If you wish to update your personal details please email us at info@optimumgroup.uk.com. You are entitled to ask for a copy of the information we hold about you (for which we may charge a small fee) and to have any inaccuracies in your information corrected.

You should not provide us with information about another person, they must provide this information directly and consent to the processing of their personal data including sensitive personal data (where provided).

External Links

This Privacy Statement applies only to information collected on this site. Other web sites to which our site may be linked may or may not contain privacy policies and /or cookies. We have no influence or control over such other sites. The use of such other sites, or the submission of information to them, is therefore at your own risk and subject to their privacy statements.

By using our site, you acknowledge your acceptance of the provisions in this Privacy Statement. Any changes to this Privacy Statement will be made on this page. Your continued use of the site after the posting of such changes shall signify your acceptance of such changes.