Our updated guide to the new privacy policy that’s more in line with the requirements set out by the GDPR. Any questions, feel free to reach out.
Privacy Policy
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which is enforceable from 25 May 2018, provides new rights to individuals and requires organisations to provide information about their processing in a clear and transparent way. We have published this updated Privacy Statement to take into account new requirements and to explain how we collect, store and use personal data. When we refer to “we”, “us” or “our” in this Statement we mean Vagrants, Vagabonds, and Villains LTD.
Vagrants, Vagabonds, and Villains LTD is the parent company of Growth Models and is a marketing, information and education company that helps either individuals or organisations improve their marketing and increase revenue. Our company registration number is 11350119.
Growth Models and PJBoyle.com are trading names for Vagrants, Vagabonds and Villains LTD.
This Privacy Statement applies to personal data collected by Vagrants, Vagabonds and Villains LTD. We endeavour to comply with the Data Protection Act 1998, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 (amended) and other relevant legislation.
How to contact us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement or would like to contact us about any other matter, please use the following contact information:
Email: pjb (at) have-a-word.com
Address: Unit 16535, 13 Freeland Park, Wareham Road, Poole, BH16 6FA
How we collect your personal data
We collect personal data in the following ways:
- When you provide your contact details to us when requesting information about our products or services, either via the telephone, our online enquiry forms or face-to-face.
- When you register as a member on one of our courses
- When you sign up for our Have-a-word or PJBoyle email newsletters
- When you register to attend one of our events or webinars
- Via openly available public sources (e.g. LinkedIn or company websites).
- Through social media engagement with our accounts
- When you engage with or view our websites in any way
The types of personal data we collect
The personal data we routinely collect includes:
- Full name
- Email address
- Postal address
- Job Title
- Company name
- User name (for course users)
- Contact details
- Anonymised website actions
We do not collect any special categories of personal data, as defined under the GDPR. Our products and services are not aimed at children.
We may use your personal data for the following purposes:
| Purpose | Lawful basis for processing |
|---|---|
| To fulfil a query, request for services and/or to administer our services | For the performance of a contract or agreement |
| To facilitate your attendance at one of our events or webinars | For the performance of a contract or agreement |
| To maintain records of prospective, current and past clients and our suppliers | Our Legitimate Interests, which we have balanced with the interests of our clients, suppliers and business contacts |
| To contact you to ask if you might be interested in being a guest speaker/writer, your interest in a course, or to notify you of products that may be of use | Our Legitimate Interests, which we have balanced with the interests of our clients, suppliers and business contacts |
| To track your use of our websites and interaction with our newsletters. For example, to understand which newsletter content is most popular with our email audience. (Please also see our Cookie Notice below). | Our Legitimate Interests, which we have balanced with the interests of our clients, suppliers and business contacts |
| To send email newsletters to you, if you have signed up via have-a-word or PJBoyle | Your consent |
About our email newsletters
On the Vagrants, Vagabonds and Villains websites we invite you to opt-in and give your Consent to receive our newsletters. You can unsubscribe from these at any point by clicking on the unsubscribe link on any email you receive from us. Alternatively, you can unsubscribe by emailing Pete Boyle: pjb (at) have-a-word.com. About our email newsletters
Your rights regarding your personal data
Under the GDPR Regulations, Vagrants, vagabonds and Villains is classified as a data controller. We do not process your private information, we only control the use of that information within our own marketing efforts.
Whilst we do not process your data, we are your principle contact for issues relating to that data.
You have a number of rights under data protection law, which have been strengthened under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR):
- Access: You have the right to access the personal data we may hold about you and the purposes for which we are using it. We may ask for proof of your identity. On receipt of such a request we will endeavour to respond to you as soon as possible, at most within one calendar month.
- Rectification: You have the right to request that we amend any personal data which is incorrect or requires updating.
- Erasure: You have the right to request that we delete any personal information pertaining to you. We will assess any deletion request on a case by case basis and will endeavour to respond to you as soon as possible, at most within one calendar month. If you have authored any content on the DPN and would like this to be deleted, please let us know.
If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please use the following contact details:
Email: pete (at) pjboyle.com
Address: Unit 16535, 13 Freeland Park, Wareham Road, Poole, BH16 6FA
If you are concerned about the manner in which we have collected and used your personal data, please contact us using the contact details above – we will do our best to help. If you are unhappy with the way in which we have handled your personal data you have the right to contact the Information Commissioner’s Office.
Where we store your personal data
We do not store your personal data. Your data is stores on the servers of the marketing services we use from the below companies/services:
- Google (Analytics)
- Drip (email marketing)
Sharing of your personal data
We will not share your personal information with any third parties for them to use for their own marketing purposes. We may disclose your personal data if required to do so by law.
How long we store your personal data for
We will only retain personal data for as long as is necessary for the purposes we are using it for. How long we retain data will vary depending on the purposes it is used for. We routinely update our email newsletter lists to ensure those who are not engaged are removed.
External Links
Please remember that if you use a link to go from our websites to another website, or you request a service from a third party, this Privacy Statement will no longer apply once you have left this website. Your browsing and interaction on any other website is subject to that website’s own rules and policies.
Updates to this Statement
We review and update this Statement regularly to take account of changes to our processing and regulatory changes. We encourage you to review it from time to time. If we make any significant changes to this Statement, we will endeavour to communicate this to you where possible.
Cookie Notice
We use cookies to operate our websites, to understand how visitors use our websites and to track your interaction with our newsletters. We will update this Notice if change the cookies we use.
What is a cookie?
Cookies are text files which contain information about your internet usage that is held in your browser or on your computer’s hard drive. There are different types of cookie: some are essential for the site to operate properly, whereas others are aimed at enhancing and personalising your user experience. Cookies can help us to understand how consumers are interacting with our website, which helps us to improve our site and to deliver a better service to you.
What types of cookies do we use?
- Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential to enable you to move around the website and use its features. Without these cookies, we cannot provide some of the basic functionalities of our website. - Performance Cookies
These cookies generally collect information about how visitors use our website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and the pages that they don’t. This helps us to understand and improve the site, so it is easy to use and includes helpful content. They also allow us to fix bugs or glitches on the website. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies visitors, so we can’t identify you individually.We use Google Analytics to track usage of our websites and interaction with our newsletters. For example, to see what content you click on, so we can analyse what content is of most interest to our audience. - Functionality Cookies
These cookies allow our website to remember the choices you make as you browse the site. They provide more enhanced and personal features. The information collected is anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other sites once you leave our site.
How to turn off cookies
You can turn cookies off at any time, by going into your browser settings, however this may have a detrimental effect on your user experience. If you are happy to continue letting us use cookies in the ways set out in this Notice, to help us guide our work, then you need not do anything