1.  Bargate Advisory Limited (“Bargate”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) is committed to protecting your personal data.  This Privacy Statement& Cookie Policy describes why and how we collect and use personal data and provides information about your rights. We may use personal data provided to us for any of the purposes described in this Privacy statement& Cookie Policy or as otherwise stated at the point of collection.

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2.  Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable living person e.g. name, employer name, business name, phone number, email address and other contact details.

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3.  Data collection and use: Bargate collects and uses details for our clients, prospective clients and other business contacts in order to manage and maintain our relationship with those individuals. These details may include "contact details; business activities, investments, financial interests and functional job titles". We may collect information via our website when you complete our contact form. We also collect and store information when you interact with us directly via social media or email:

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• Clients: We collect only the personal data necessary for agreed purposes and we ask our clients to only share personal data where it is strictly needed for those purposes. Certain services we provide may require the collection of personal data in other to carry out our services. We may also use personal data in order to maintain our relationship with the client and to develop our business and service offerings.

• Prospects & other business contacts: We may collect and use personal data in managing and developing our businesses and to provide information about us and our services.

• Other uses: We may use information that we receive in the course of providing professional services for other lawful purposes, including analysis to better understand a particular issue, industry or sector, provide insights back to our clients, to improve our business, service delivery and offerings and to develop new Bargate technologies and offerings.  To the extent that the information that we receive in the course of providing professional services contains personal data, we will remove the personal data prior to using the information for these purposes.

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4.  Data Storage: Our website is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Your form data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.

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5.  Data Retention

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• Clients: In the absence of specific legal, regulatory or contractual requirements, our baseline retention period for records and other documentary evidence created in the provision of services is 6 years.

• Prospects & other business contacts: Bargate retains the personal data for as long as is considered necessary for the purpose for which it was collected (e.g. for as long as we have, or need to keep a record of, a relationship with a business contact).

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6.  Cookies

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• What are Cookies: They are small text files with pieces of data used to identify your computer when you visit websites. The data does not directly identify you but can be used to improve and personalise your web browsing experience.

• Cookies we use: Broadly speaking, there are two categories of Cookies. Essential cookies are automatically placed on yourcomputer or device as they are necessary for certain actions to take place on our website. Without these cookies being used, you will be unable to benefit from some of the services our site may offer.Non-Essential cookies are any cookies that do not fall within the definition of Essential. These include, but are not limited to, cookies used to analyse user behaviour or display personalized ads.

• In general, the cookies we use may be categorized as essential cookies. However, from time to time, we may introduce applications on our website which may include other types of cookies.In this case, we will update this Privacy Statement & Cookie Policy

• For more information on cookies, you can visit All About Cookies

• The following links explain how to access cookie settings in various browsers:

  • Cookie settings in Firefox

  • Cookie settings in Internet Explorer

  • Cookie settings in Google Chrome

  • Cookie settings in Safari (OS X)

  • Cookie settings in Safari (iOS)

  • Cookie settings in Android

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7. Changes to this Privacy Statement& Cookie Policy: We recognise that transparency is an ongoing responsibility so we will keep this privacy statement under regular review. This privacy statement was last updated on 20th October 2020.

8.  Getting in touch: Our address and email contact details are:

Bargate Advisory Limited:
167-169 Great Portland Street

Fifth Floor, London, England, W1W 5PF
E-mail: info@bargateadvisory.com

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