1. Introduction
Smit Advisory Limited respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy notice informs you about how Smit Advisory Limited looks after your personal data when you visit smitadvisory.com, engage our services, or interact with us, and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
2. Important Information
This privacy notice aims to give you information on how Smit Advisory Limited collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide through this site and other interactions by post, phone, email, or otherwise.
3. The Data Collected About You
Smit Advisory Limited may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you, which are grouped together as follows:
- Identity Data includes first name, last name, username, or similar identifier.
- Contact Data includes billing address, delivery address, email address, and telephone numbers.
- Financial Data includes bank account details.
- Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
- Usage Data includes information about how you use our website.
4. How Is Your Personal Data Collected?
Smit Advisory Limited uses different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
- Direct interactions: You may provide your Identity Data, Contact Data, 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 this website, Smit Advisory Limited may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. This personal data is collected by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies.
5. Cookies and Analytics
Our website uses cookies to optimize your browsing experience. In accordance with the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, low-risk statistical and analytics cookies (such as Google Analytics) may be deployed by default when you land on our site to help us measure performance and improve our services. You maintain a continuous right to opt-out of these cookies at any time via our visual cookie banner or by clicking the “Cookie Settings” link in our website footer.
6. How Is Your Personal Data Used?
Smit Advisory Limited will only use your personal data when the law allows it to. Most commonly, your personal data will be used in the following circumstances:
- To perform the contract you and Smit Advisory Limited have entered into or are about to enter into.
- Where it is necessary for Smit Advisory Limited’s legitimate interests and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
- Where Smit Advisory Limited needs to comply with a legal obligation.
7. Data Security
Smit Advisory Limited has put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed.
8. Data Retention
Smit Advisory Limited will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it has been collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or reporting requirements.
9. Your Legal Rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including the right to request access, correction, erasure, restriction, transfer, to object to processing, to portability of data, and (where the lawful ground of processing is consent) to withdraw consent.
10. Data Protection Complaints Procedure
Under the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, you have a statutory right to lodge a formal data protection complaint directly with us if you believe we have infringed data protection laws in the handling of your personal data.
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- How to lodge a complaint: Please contact us using the details provided in Section 11, clearly marking your communication as a “Data Protection Complaint.”
- Our procedure: We will formally acknowledge your complaint within 30 days of receipt. We will launch an internal investigation into your concerns without undue delay and keep you reasonably informed of our progress.
- Outcome: We will notify you of the final outcome and any remedial actions taken without undue delay. Lewis Silkin LLP
- Escalation: Please note that under the 2025 Act, you are generally expected to raise and attempt to resolve your complaint directly with us first before escalating the matter to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). Privacy Helper
11. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this privacy notice, our privacy practices, or if you wish to exercise your legal rights or lodge a data protection complaint, please contact us at: complaints@smitadvisory.co.uk