Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

At Apex Nationwide, we are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect any information that you give us when you use this website.

We are dedicated to safeguarding your personal data and ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

2. Data We Collect

We may collect the following information:

• Personal Identification Information: Name, job title, contact information including email address
• Demographic Information: Postcode, preferences, and interests
• Technical Information: IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform
• Usage Data: Information about how you use our website, products, and services
• Marketing and Communications Data: Your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences

How We Collect Data

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

• Direct interactions: You may give us your identity, contact, and financial data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise.
• Automated technologies or interactions: As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect technical data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns.
• Third parties or publicly available sources: We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources.

3. How We Use Your Data

We use your personal data in the following ways:

• To provide and maintain our service
• To notify you about changes to our service
• To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service when you choose to do so
• To provide customer support
• To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our service
• To monitor the usage of our service
• To detect, prevent and address technical issues
• To provide you with news, special offers, and general information about other goods, services, and events which we offer

Legal Basis for Processing

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

• Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you
• Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests
• Where we need to comply with a legal obligation

4. Data Sharing

We may share your personal data with the following parties:

• Service Providers: We may share your personal information with service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our service, to contact you.
• Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
• Affiliates: We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy.
• Business Partners: We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services, or promotions.
• With Your Consent: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

5. Data Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Security Measures

We have implemented appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

6. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or reporting requirements.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or other requirements.

In some circumstances, we may anonymize your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes, in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

7. Your Rights

Under data protection laws, you have rights including:

• Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
• Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
• Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
• Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
• Your right to object to processing - You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
• Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organization, or to you, in certain circumstances.

You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.

Please contact us at info@apexnationwide.co.uk if you wish to make a request.

8. Cookies

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

What Are Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

How We Use Cookies

We use the following types of cookies:

• Strictly necessary cookies: These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website.
• Analytical/performance cookies: They allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it.
• Functionality cookies: These are used to recognize you when you return to our website.
• Targeting cookies: These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed.

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.

9. Third-Party Links

Our website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you.

We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

10. Policy Changes

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

• By email: info@apexnationwide.co.uk
• By visiting this page on our website: https://apexnationwide.co.uk/contact
• By phone: +44 (0) 123 456 7890
• By mail: Apex Nationwide, 123 Business Street, London, EC1A 1BB, United Kingdom