At McColl Associates, we are committed to maintaining the trust and confidence of our clients and visitors to our website and ensuring that we comply with the GDPR legislation which came in to force on 25 May 2018. Here you’ll find information on how we treat data that we collect from our clients and also from visitors to our website.

All client data and records kept on paper file, are held securely on site at our premises at McColl Associates, 1 Meadowbank Place, Edinburgh, EH8 7AW. These records are safeguarded and maintained by McColl Associates and cannot be accessed by any third parties. We are required to hold and store project data for twelve years and after this period paper copies are treated as confidential waste and securely removed and shredded off site by a third party provider, Shred-It Limited.

McColl Associates only collect basic personal data about you which does not include any special types of information. It does however include name, address, email address and contact telephone number. We store this information on our client database which is held securely on our servers and we use a third party, Eurobusiness Limited, to ensure that the data held on our servers is kept safe. All the data we process is processed within the UK however for purposes of IT hosting and maintenance this information may be located on servers within the European Union.

When someone visits http://www.mccollassoc.co.uk/ we use a third party service, Hibu (UK) Ltd, to host our site and collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. This information is only processed in a way which does not identify anyone. We do not make, and do not allow Hibu to make, any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website. If we do want to collect personally identifiable information through our website, we will be up front about this. We will make it clear when we collect personal information and will explain what we intend to do with it. If you choose to complete the contact form on our website we will receive an email enquiry with your details enabling us to respond. As we host our website through a third party, Hibu have their own Privacy and Cookie Policies which can be viewed in full from our website.

This privacy policy does not cover the links within our website linking to other websites. Those sites are not governed by this Privacy Policy, and if you have questions about how a site uses your information, you’ll need to check that site’s privacy statement.

We use a third party provider, Facebook to promote our social media interactions.

We keep our privacy policy under regular review. This policy was last updated on 25 April 2018.