Privacy Policy for Clark Insights and Planning

Effective Date: [24 March 2025]

1. Introduction

Welcome to Clark Insights & Planning. We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring that your personal information is handled in a safe and responsible manner. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and protect your information when you visit our website, www.clarkinsightsandplanning.uk.

2. Information We Collect

We may collect and process the following data about you:

• Personal Identification Information: Name, email address, phone number, etc., when you voluntarily provide it through our contact forms or newsletter subscriptions.
• Technical Data: 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.

3. How We Collect Information

We collect information in the following ways:

• Direct Interactions: When you fill out forms on our website or correspond with us via email.
• Automated Technologies: As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect technical data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns using cookies and similar technologies.

4. Use of Your Information

We use the information we collect to:

• Provide, operate, and maintain our website and services.
• Improve, personalise, and expand our website and services.
• Communicate with you, including responding to inquiries and sending newsletters if you have subscribed.
• Comply with legal obligations.

5. Legal Basis for Processing

Our processing of your personal data is based on:

• Consent: Where you have given clear consent for us to process your personal data for a specific purpose.
• Legitimate Interests: Processing is necessary for our legitimate interests, provided your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.

6. Data Sharing and Disclosure

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personal data to outside parties unless we provide users with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential.

7. Data Retention

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

8. Your Data Protection Rights

Under data protection laws, you have rights including:

• Access: The right to request copies of your personal data.
• Rectification: The right to request correction of any inaccurate or incomplete data.
• Erasure: The right to request deletion of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• Restriction: The right to request restriction of processing your personal data, under certain conditions.
• Objection: The right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• Data Portability: The right to request transfer of your data to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at mrskmclark@outlook.com

9. Cookies

Our website may use cookies to enhance user experience. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies or alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, some parts of our website may become inaccessible or not function properly.

10. Third-Party Links

Our website may contain links to third-party websites. We do not control these websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. We encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

11. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Effective Date” and will be effective as soon as it is accessible. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to be informed of how we are protecting your information.

12. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at:

Clark Insights & Planning
Email: mrskmclark@outlook.com

13. Other

In line with the RTPI Code of Conduct, we hold professional indemnity insurance covering our work as a consultant. Details available upon request.

We are registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) . This means we comply with data protection regulations, ensuring your personal information is handled securely and responsibly.