Who we are
Our website address is: https://www.go-businessfinance.com.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
This website is run by Go-Businessfinance.com, the data controller, who is committed to the protection of your privacy.
We collect, use and are responsible for certain personal information about you. When we do so we are regulated under the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) which applies across the European Union (including in the United Kingdom) and under any local legislation which implements or supplements the GDPR (including, in the UK, the Data Protection Act 2018) and we are responsible as “controller” of that personal information for the purposes of those laws.
We are committed to the protection of your privacy and you can find out more about your privacy rights and how we gather, use and share your personal information (being the personal information we already hold about you and the further personal information we might collect about you, either from you or from a third party) in this Privacy Notice.
This policy, in conjunction with our Website Terms and Conditions, sets out what we may do with any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us.
Information we collect and store
We will not collect any personal information about you except where it is specifically and knowingly provided by you, for instance if you request information from us, fill in an online form or contact us by email.
We will keep any personal information for as long as is necessary in conducting our business with you.
What do we do with the information?
We may use the information we hold about you:
– To provide you with information, products or services that you ask for
– To let you know about other products and services that we think you might be interested in (if you have said that you are happy to be contacted in this way)
If you do not want your data to be used by us or selected third parties for marketing purposes, please ensure that you select the appropriate option on any of our online forms.
If you do not select the appropriate option, but wish to do so subsequently, please contact funding@go-businessfinance.com and we shall change your preference for you.
Disclosure of your information
We may disclose your personal information to third parties:
– Where you have permitted us to do so.
– We use a third party to host, manage and support our website. They therefore have access to any data that you submit via this website. We will ensure that they respect and handle your data to the same standards that we do.
Your rights
Under the GDPR you have a number of important rights which you can exercise, free of charge. In summary, those include rights to:
Object, in certain circumstances, to how we use your personal information. If you wish to exercise this right, please contact our DPO, providing details of your objection;
Request access to a copy of your personal information which we hold, along with details of what personal information we use, why we use it, who we share it with, how long we keep it for and whether it has been used for any automated decision making. You can make a request for access free of charge by contacting our DPO. Please make all requests for access in writing, and provide us with evidence of your identity;
Ask us to correct inaccuracies, to complete any incomplete personal information, to delete or restrict personal information or to ask for some of your personal information to be provided to someone else;
Withdraw your consent (if you have given us your consent to use your personal information) and update your marketing preferences;
Ask us to delete your personal information where it is no longer necessary for us to use it, where you have withdrawn consent, or where we have no lawful basis for keeping it;
Ask us to provide you or a third party with some of the personal information that we hold about you in a structured, commonly used, electronic form, so it can be easily transferred; and
Ask us to restrict the personal information we use about you where you have asked for it to be erased or where you have objected to our use of it.
For further information in relation to these rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, please see the guidance from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) on individuals’ rights under the GDPR (https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/individual-rights/).
You can also make a complaint to the ICO at https://ico.org.uk.
If at any time, you wish to change any of the data we hold about you, or that you do not wish for your data to be used for marketing purposes, then please contact us at funding@go-businessfinance.com with your instructions.
Information Security
Information that is transmitted via the internet is never completely secure.
We have put suitable protection in place, however any transmission is at your own risk.
Encryption technology
Where necessary we use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol to protect the integrity of data during submission.
We also employ similar technologies and access control methods to keep any stored data secure.
Cookies
Please see our Cookie Policy page for details.
Policy Changes
Any changes to this policy will be posted here and will take immediate effect.
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://automattic.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.
Contact forms
Whilst made in good faith, please note that all calculations and quotations supplied through this website are intended as being indicative only. They are based on the limited information submitted and are not binding. Actual levels of funding and details of all applicable charges will be confirmed to you on completion of the underwriting process by the funders. Go-Business Finance will not charge you any fee for this service as we may receive payment from the lender upon successful completion. By clicking the contact forms you are agreeing to our terms and conditions.
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.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
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.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.