Crest Corporate Finance – Privacy Policy

Who we are

Crest Corporate Finance Ltd,

Our website address is: https://crestcf.com

Introduction

At Crest Corporate Finance, we are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This policy sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed.

Scope

This policy applies to all personal data processed by Crest Corporate Finance, regardless of where that data is stored or whether it relates to our past or present employees, clients, service providers, or any other individuals.

Data Protection Principles

We adhere to the principles of data protection set out in the UK GDPR:

Lawfulness, fairness, and transparency: We process personal data lawfully, fairly, and in a transparent manner.

Purpose limitation: We collect personal data for specified, explicit, and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes.

Data minimization: We ensure that the personal data we process is adequate, relevant, and limited to what is necessary.

Accuracy: We take reasonable steps to keep personal data accurate and up to date.

Storage limitation: We retain personal data for no longer than is necessary.

Integrity and confidentiality: We process personal data in a manner that ensures appropriate security of the personal data, including protection against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction, or damage, using appropriate technical or organisational measures.

Rights of the Data Subject

Under the UK GDPR, individuals have the following rights:

Right to Access: You have the right to request access to your personal data.

Right to Rectification: You have the right to correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal data.

Right to Erasure: You have the right to request that personal data be erased under certain circumstances.

Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request restriction of the processing of your personal data under certain circumstances.

Right to Data Portability: You have the right to receive, transfer, or have transferred on your behalf, your personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format.

Right to Object: You have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to processing of personal data concerning you.

Data Security

In the event of a data breach, we will notify the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and affected individuals where we are legally required to do so, in accordance with the UK GDPR.

Data Breaches

We have implemented appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk and protect personal data against unauthorised or unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction, or damage.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://crestcf.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

Your data will be shared internally, and with potential purchasers, and service providers helping in the sale of your business, or your business acquisition.

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

Your data will be kept on our secure servers for ten years following a successful fulfilment of your requirements. This is to facilitate any financial investigation, tax,

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Changes to this Policy

We may update this policy from time to time. We will notify you of any significant changes by appropriate means.

Contact Information

If you have any questions about this policy or our data practices, please contact our Data Protection Officer at confidential@crestcf.com.