PRIVACY POLICY
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Board Level Partners Limited (“BLP”) is a provider of external board effectiveness reviews and support to the board of directors of listed and private companies. BLP is committed to protecting and respectingyour privacy. This policy sets out the basis on which any personal data BLP collects from you, or that you provide to it (via this website, by email, by telephone or otherwise) and that will be processed by it. BLP will only collect and use personal data in the ways that are described here and in a manner that is consistent with its obligations and your rights under law. By visiting its website
(www.boardlevelpartners.com), you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this
policy.
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Disclosure of Data to Third Parties: BLP’s reputation for integrity and protecting its clients’ privacy
are important to it. BLP will not pass on or disclose any such information to any third parties (other
than its advisers, consultants and/or agents for the purposes of its business only; and potential
buyers of its company or business and their advisers, solely to assess its business), save as required
by law or regulation.
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The use of cookies: BLP uses cookies to track your use of its website in order to provide you with a
better service. Please refer to BLP’s cookie policy for more details.
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Disclosing personal data: You may visit this website without revealing any personal information. If
you request any information or provide feedback, however, you will be disclosing personal data to
BLP. This will be treated in accordance with the principles set out in the Data Protection Act 1998
and the General Data Protection Regulation ( “GDPR”). BLP will take all reasonable measures to
ensure your personal data is protected against unauthorised access and this data will not be
disclosed or sold to another company or organisation, unless this is required by law.
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BLP’s use of your personal data: BLP will only collect and use personal data that is necessary for it to
perform its services. BLP will use personal data that is voluntarily and openly provided by you to this
website, or to BLP in meetings, by telephone or by email. BLP may also gather information from
company documents and publicly available sources, such as websites and annual and interim
reports. BLP’s use of your personal data will always have a legal basis and will be used for the
specified purpose, enabling BLP to perform its services satisfactorily. In addition, BLP may use your
data to analyse your use of its website in order to improve the site and your user experience.
BLP will not send you any unsolicited marketing or spam, and will take all reasonable steps to ensure
that it fully protects your rights and complies with all legal obligations.
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How long will BLP keep your data? BLP will process and store securely all personal data for no
longer than is necessary for the completion of the services for which the data was originally
collected. Generally, this will be for no longer than 6 years.
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Your rights under the GDPR: You have the right to obtain access to your personal data, to be
informed about how BLP uses your data, to require BLP to correct any inaccuracies or to update your
data, to restrict its use of your data and to require BLP to erase any personal data relating to you
(except in certain circumstances, for example where BLP needs to use your personal data to comply
with a legal obligation).
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If you have questions, comments or requests about BLP’s data protection policy, please contact us at
contact@boardlevelpartners.com, or via the Data Protection Officer, Board Level Partners, Icomb Edge, Bledington, Chipping Norton, Oxon. OX7 6XL.
COOKIES
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BLP’s website uses cookies to gather certain information which allows us to develop and enhance
the site’s functions and the services it offers.
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“Cookies” are small text files, which are downloaded to and stored on your computer when you
access certain webpages. They cannot harm your computer, and at BLP we do not use any cookies
which store personally identifiable information. They are designed to hold a modest amount of data
specific to a particular person (visitor) and website, and can be accessed either by the web server or
via your computer.
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See below for a summary of those cookies found on our site, and information on why we use them:
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BLP cookies: We use a cookie to remember your member name for the duration of
a given session. This allows you to sign in to BLP (and/or not have to re-sign in when
you move pages).
Google analytics cookies: Google Analytics uses cookies to collect statistical information for
our site. Amongst other things, they track the source from which visitors enter the site,
record the time at which they entered and left the site, and monitor how many times visitors
return during the cookie’s lifetime.
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If you do not want to allow some or all of these files to be stored on your computer then you can
disable cookies, or otherwise adjust your cookie settings, on your browser. Information on adjusting cookie settings can be found on the All About Cookies website.
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If you browse our website and services without disabling cookies on your browser, you are
consenting to the presence and operation of all cookies. This is in line with the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulation 2003. Please do not useBLP’s website if you do not want to proceed on this basis.