This Privacy Notice explains who we are, how we collect, share and use personal information about you, and how you can exercise your privacy rights. This Privacy Notice applies to users of our website as well as to customers that engage with us directly.
If you have any questions or concerns about our use of your personal information, then please see the Contact us section at the end of this Privacy Notice.
Who we are
Taceo Limited is a niche firm offering data protection, data privacy and commercial legal services. Taceo is a company registered in England and Wales with registration number 11059214 and registered office at Riverbank House, 2 Swan Lane, London EC4R 3TT.
Taceo Limited is a data controller is registered as a data controller with the Information Commissioner’s Office under registration number ZA294796.
What personal information do we collect and why?
The personal information that we may collect about you broadly falls into the following categories:
Identification data which may include your first name, maiden name, last name, marital status, title, date of birth and gender
Contact Data which may include your billing address, trading address, email address and telephone numbers
Financial Data which may include your bank account details and transaction details about payments between us
In general, we will use the personal information we collect from you only for the purposes of providing services to you. We may collect device data that may include your IP address, browser type, device type and similar technical information. We may collect this information for the rendering of our website only. We do not collect any analytics data.
Who do we share your personal information with?
We may disclose your personal information to the following categories of recipients:
Service providers which may include IT and system administration services providers, accountants and professional advisors
Third parties to whom we may sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets
Competent law enforcement body, regulatory body, government agency, court or other third parties where we believe disclosure is necessary (i) as a matter of applicable law or regulation, (ii) to exercise, establish or defend our legal rights, or (iii) to protect your vital interests or those of any other person
We require all third parties to whom we transfer your data, to process your personal data for the specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
Legal basis for processing personal information (EU, Switzerland & UK clients only)
If you are a client from the European Economic Area, Switzerland or the UK, our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described above will depend on the personal information concerned and the specific context in which we collect it.
However, we will normally collect personal information from you only where we need the personal information to perform a contract with you, or where the processing is in our legitimate interests and not overridden by your data protection interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. In some cases, we may also have a legal or regulatory obligation to collect personal information from you.
If we ask you to provide personal information to comply with a legal or regulatory requirement or to perform a contract with you, we will make this clear at the relevant time and advise you whether the provision of your personal information is mandatory or not (as well as of the possible consequences if you do not provide your personal information).
If you have questions about or need further information concerning the legal basis on which we collect and use your personal information, please get in touch via the Contact us section below.
How do we keep your personal information secure?
We use appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect the personal information that we collect and process about you. The measures we use are designed to provide a level of security appropriate to the risk of processing your personal information.
In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know such data. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
Data retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any regulatory requirements.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements. By law we have to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity and Financial Data) for six years after they cease being customers for tax purposes.
Your data protection rights
You have the following data protection rights:
If you wish to access, correct, update or request deletion of your personal information, you can do so at any time by contacting us using the contact details provided under the “Contact us” heading below.
In addition, if you are a resident of the European Union, Switzerland or the UK, you can object to processing of your personal information, ask us to restrict processing of your personal information or request portability of your personal information. Again, you can exercise these rights by contacting us using the contact details provided under the Contact us heading below.
Similarly, if we have collected and process your personal information with your consent, then you can withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your personal information. The U.K.’s data protection authority, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) can be contacted via their website at https://ico.org.uk.
We respond to all requests we receive from individuals wishing to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
Cookies
We only set cookies or similar tracking technologies through our website that are strictly necessary to deliver our website. However, you can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of the website may become inaccessible or not function properly.
Updates to this Privacy Notice
We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time in response to changing legal, technical or business developments. When we update our Privacy Notice, we will post changes on our website or take appropriate measures to inform you, consistent with the significance of the changes we make.
Contact us
If you have any concerns about how we handle your personal data, you can contact us at inform@taceo.co.uk.
Updated 20th June 2024