We are Guild Commercial Limited company number 70827, whose registered office is at Ground Floor, Dorey Court, Admiral Park, St Peter Port, Guernsey, GY1 2HT.
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We are committed to ensuring that personal data is kept private and secure and only used in accordance with our data protection policy.
This privacy notice summarises how we gather, use, disclose, store and dispose of personal information.
We may amend this notice by updating this page from time to time.
You can contact us by phone or by using the Contact Us tab on this website.
Why We Collect Data
Like any business, we need to collect some data in order to provide our services, in particular to ensure compliance with tax and employment laws.
We may also need to collect data to allow us to respond to questions you have, to protect our business and yours, to defend a legal claim, or as part of a contractual or legal obligation or legitimate interest.
With your permission, we may also like to use your data to send you updates from time to time, such as our newsletter or invites to our seminars. You can ask us to stop this kind of contact at any time.
Data We Collect
We aim to collect only the data that we need to fulfil our contractual and legal obligations, and potentially any legitimate interest where one has been identified. We collect data in respect of clients, advisers, suppliers, employees and sole traders. We may also track some limited data, including traffic and analytics if you visit this site, subject to the cookies settings.
The data we collect may include your, name, contact and other basic details, copies of forms and other documents you send us, emails or letters you send to us and data within them and other information that may be necessary for statutory reports.
How We Secure Data
We have technical and organisational measures in place to keep data as secure as we can. We are continually monitoring and upgrading our systems.
How Long We Keep Data
By law, different kinds of data have to be kept for different periods of time. We aim to keep only the data we need, and only for as long as we need to in order to safeguard our clients, ourselves and you.
Who We Share Data With
We share limited data with third parties, including government organisations, in circumstances where we’re contractually or legally bound to do so, or where we have identified a legitimate interest in doing so and where it is necessary to share data to perform the specific task. This may include sharing data with the police or tax authorities where, for example, where we suspect fraud.
Alternatively, where we are processing information based on consent, where we have the consent to share information.
If You Register With Us
If you register with us, you will receive an additional privacy notice.
Your Data Rights
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) confirms your legal rights. Detailed information about these rights can easily be found online.
As a data subject, you have the right to ask us to:
- Give you access to the data we hold about you
- Give you your data in a standard format, such as a PDF file
- Correct data that is inaccurate, incomplete or out of date
- Delete your data where it is possible for us to do so
- Restrict or stop processing your data
- Stop sending you marketing materials
You also have the right to object to data processing.
We will always try to accommodate your requests as best we can, but it may not always be possible. For example, the law may require us to use or keep some data for some purposes. In these situations, we will try to give you a clear explanation.
Complaints
If you have a complaint about how we’ve handled your data, or anything you’ve asked us to do in respect of it, please call or write to us. You can easily do so using the Contact Us tab on this website.
If you are still unsatisfied, you also have the right to direct complaints to the appropriate supervisory authority, such as the Bailiwick of Guernsey’s Office of the Data Protection Authority.