Privacy and cookie policy

Your privacy

ABOUT US
We CORT Business Services UK Limited (“CORT”, “We”, “Us” and “Our”), are a registered company in England (Company no. 06448915 ) and are committed to protecting your privacy and complying with applicable data protection and privacy laws. This Privacy Notice (“Notice”) is aimed at complying with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) and is designed to help you to understand what kind of information we collect in connection with our products and services and how we process and use such information. It also sets out your legal rights under GDPR. In this respect, we are the data controller of data we hold about you.

This Policy describes how CORT collects, uses, shares, retains and safeguards information.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU
In providing you with the services and when responding to your requests for information, we will collect information about you that is considered to be personal data under the United Kingdom’s Data Protection Act 2018 and the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation 2018.

Personal data is information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. Examples include your name, address, contact details, driving licence and national insurance number.

Personal information may also contain information which is called special categories of personal information. This may be information relating to an individual’s racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade-union membership, health, sex life or genetic make-up.

We also collect personal data about you when you visit our website where we will collect your unique online electronic identifier. This identifier is commonly known as an IP address. We also collect electronic personal data when you first visit our website where we will place a small text file commonly known as a cookie on your computer. Cookies are used to identify visitors and to simplify accessibility, and to monitor visitor behaviour when accessing content, navigating the website and when using features.

If you object to the collection and use of your personal data, we may be unable to provide you with our services.

If you require further information on the personal data we collect, please contact our data privacy representative – Amanda Long, Customer Services Manager via privacy@roomservicebycort.com

WHY WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
We collect information, including your personal data for the purpose of providing you with our services. We will also collect information when you contact us requesting details on our services and we may collect personal data should you make a complaint or you wish to discuss the services you receive.

We also use your personal data to administer our business, for forecasting and financial planning purposes and to identify other services that you may be interested in.

In purchasing our services you should understand that you are forming a contract with us. When discussing potential services we provide we will maintain a legitimate interest to provide you with further information on the services we provide.

We also maintain a legitimate interest to retain your personal data at the end of any contractual agreement for a period of 7 years. This is necessary to administer our business and for statistical analysis (profiling) and marketing purposes. In some certain occasions we may be required to retain your data for longer for example if we were in legal dispute with yourselves or as required by law. If you have made enquiries about our services but have not entered into a rental contractual agreement with us, your personal data will be retained for 3 years

Please contact our data privacy representative if you object to the use of or you have any questions relating to the use and retention of your personal data. You can opt out of receiving marketing services by emailing privacy@roomservicebycort.com

INFORMATION WE SHARE AND RECEIVE
You should understand we will share and receive personal data relating to you from / with affiliated companies and other third parties. The sharing of information allows us to process client requests, to market our services, to research and analyse our client base, to process payments and to administer our business.

When purchasing our services and depending on your payment method, we may share your personal data with credit reference agencies. This is necessary to safeguard our commercial interests. These checks may use automated decision making technologies that will confirm financial status, place of residence, county court judgements and solvency.

Please contact our data protection representative, Amanda Long at privacy@roomservicebycort.com if you object to the use of automated decision making technologies or you have encountered problems during previous credit searches.

If you require further information on the data we share, with whom we share it and the reasons why we share personal data, please contact our data protection representative, Amanda Long at privacy@roomservicebycort.com

INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS
We will transfer your data to countries outside the European Economic Area. This is necessary for administrative purposes and to facilitate the relocation of clients from one country to another. As is required by law, CORT has undertaken appropriate activities to ensure your data is protected against unauthorised disclosure and use. Our data privacy representative can provide a list of those countries and organisations your personal data is transferred to and information on the measures undertaken to safeguard your data.

YOUR RIGHTS
You are provided with legal rights governing the use of your personal data. These rights grant individuals the ability to gain an understanding on what personal data relating to them is being held, for what purpose, how it is collected and used, with whom it is shared, where it is located, to object to its processing, to take copies of the data and to place restrictions on its processing. You may also request the deletion of your personal data.

These rights are known as Access Rights under the United Kingdom’s Data Protection Act 2018 and the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation 2018. The following list details these rights:

  • The right to be informed on the personal data being processed
  • The right of access to your personal data
  • The right to object to the processing of your personal data
  • The right to restrict the processing of your personal data
  • The right to rectification of your personal data
  • The right to erasure of your personal data
  • The right to data portability (to receive an electronic copy of your personal data)
  • Rights related to automated decision making including profiling

You also have the right to complain to the United Kingdom’s data protection supervisory authority, the Information Commissioner, on any aspect of the processing of your personal data or if dissatisfied with the response you received from us when exercising your Access Rights.

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
We keep our privacy notice under periodic review. This Policy was last updated in March 2018.

HOW TO CONTACT US
If you have any questions about this Policy, the use of your data and your Access Rights, please contact our data protection representative:

Amanda Long
E: privacy@roomservicebycort.com
T: 020 8397 9344

28 Barwell Business Park,
Leatherhead Road,
Chessington,
Surrey
KT9 2NY,
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Cookies

The information which you may provide on this website, along with other information relating to you, will be held by CORT Business Services London UK and used for general business purposes. We may contact you, including by telephone, fax and email (using the numbers which you have provided), to inform you of future services organised by or in conjunction with CORT Business Services London UK which may be of interest. This information will not be passed to third parties. By sending information to CORT Business Services London UK, you consent to all of the above uses.

Cookies and how they benefit you

Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites

Our cookies help us:

  • Make our website work as you’d expect
  • Remember your settings during and between visits
  • Improve the speed/security of the site
  • Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook
  • Personalise our site to you to help you get what you need faster
  • Continuously improve our website for you
  • Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to offer the service we do at the price we do)

We do not use cookies to

  • Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
  • Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
  • Pass data to advertising networks
  • Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
  • Pay sales commissions
  • You can learn more about all the cookies we use below

Granting us permission to use cookies

If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.

More about our Cookies

Website function cookies – our own cookies

We use cookies to make our website work including:

  • Remembering your search settings
  • Tailoring content to your needs
  • There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.

Third party functions

Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video. Our site includes the following which use cookies:

Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties.

Social Website Cookies

So you can easily ‘Like’ or share our content on the likes of Facebook and Twitter we have included sharing buttons on our site.

Cookies are set by:

  • Facebook – Privacy Policy(link is external)
  • ShareThis – Privacy Policy(link is external) provide us with lots of sharing buttons all in one neat package
  • The privacy implications on this will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.

Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies

We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called ‘analytics’ programmes also tell us if, on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.

Turning Cookies Off

You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies (Learn how here(link is external)). Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of our’s and a large proportion of the world’s websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites

It may be that you concerns around cookies relate to so called “spyware”. Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive. Learn more about managing cookies with antispyware software(link is external).

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