At Birchwood Investment Management we are committed to ensuring that the data you share with us is treated responsibly.  This data enables us to provide you with the best service we can and helps us keep you informed with research and information you may be interested in. We will not share this information with any third party outside of Birchwood Investment Management, unless you have given us permission, and your data will always be managed with reference to all relevant laws and regulations.

We do not collect any personal information from a visitor to our site unless that visitor explicitly and intentionally provides it. If you are simply browsing our site, we do not gather any personal information about you.

What information do we collect about you?

If you choose to contact us concerning any general comment or enquiry concerning Birchwood Investment Management or its website, we will request certain information from you. You will be asked to provide your name, your telephone number, your email address and any comments you may have. If we provide you with advice the additional information gathered will be extensive and will include the following categories of data:-

• Details of income and expenditure
• Employment details
• Details of assets and liabilities
• Details of dependants
• Details of professional advisers
• Without the full disclosure of data as required we may not be able to fulfil our contractual obligations with you.

Your rights

You have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you. If you would like a copy of this information then please contact us using the details below.

We want to make sure that your personal information is accurate and up to date. You may ask us to correct or remove information that you think is inaccurate.

You have the right to request to erasure of your information if we no longer need it for the purpose that it was originally requested, all legal obligations has been fulfilled, have been unlawfully processed or incompliance with a legal obligation.

You have the right to restrict the processing of your data.

You have the right to information you provided to us, returned to you or sent directly to another company, in a structured, commonly used and machine­ readable format where technically feasible (Data Portability).

Data Retention

Your personal data will not be kept for longer than is necessary for the purposes for which it was collected and processed and for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

Changes to our privacy policy

We keep this policy under regular review and we will place any updates on this website.

Contacting Us

We are not required to appoint a formal data protection officer under data protection laws. However, our Compliance Manager is responsible for data protection at Birchwood Investment Management.

If you have any questions about our privacy policy or your information, or to exercise any of your rights as described in this privacy policy or under data protection laws, you can contact us:

Birchwood Investment Management Limited

8 Prospect Place

Welwyn

Hertfordshire

AL6 9EN

Email: info@birchwoodinvestmentmanagement.com

Tel: 01438 84088

External Links

We will in some places provide links to external websites.  Birchwood Investment Management is not responsible for the content of external websites.

Cookie Policy

‘Cookies’ are used on almost every website. They are small text files that are saved on your computer to help the site perform a number of functions. We use cookies for several reasons. For example, they allow us to keep you secure when you log in to your online account, provide online account application forms, monitor the number of people using our website and help us understand more about the way in which people use our website.

By using our website you are agreeing to the placement of cookies on your computer.

Cookies used by www.Birchwood.co.uk:

Strictly necessary Cookies

Generally, these cookies will be essential first-party session cookies. Not all first-party session cookies will fall into the strictly necessary category for the purposes of the Cookie legislation. Strictly necessary cookies will generally be used to store a unique identifier to manage and identify the user as unique to other users currently viewing the website, in order to provide a consistent and accurate service to the user.

Essential Cookies

These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as signing-up to receive emails from us.

Performance Cookies

These cookies generally collect information about how visitors use our website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and the pages that they don’t. This helps us to understand and improve the site so it is easy to use and includes helpful content. They allow us to fix bugs or glitches on the website. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies visitors, so we can’t identify you. For example, we use “Google Analytics” cookies (a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc).

Functionality Cookies

These cookies allow our website to remember the choices you make as you browse the site. They provide more enhanced and personal features. The information collected is anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other sites once you leave our site.

Following is a table of our use of cookies with the duration we have set.

Youtube Cookies

How to turn off Cookies

You can turn off cookies at any time, by going into your browser settings, however this may have a detrimental effect on your user experience. If you are happy to continue letting us use cookies in the ways set out in this policy, to help us guide our work, then you need not do anything.

For more information go to http://www.allaboutcookies.org/

Use of Google Fonts Web API

Our website utilises Google Fonts API to provide a unified and visually pleasing textual experience for our users. Google Fonts is a service offered by Google LLC (“Google”) that allows websites to utilise high-quality fonts.

By using Google Fonts, some information may be transferred to Google servers, which may be located in other countries. This section outlines how Google collects and uses data in relation to the Google Fonts Web API.

Data Collection by Google

When you visit a page on our website that uses Google Fonts, your web browser automatically sends a request to Google’s servers. This request may include the following information:

• IP Address
• Browser type and version
• Operating System
• Referrer URL
• The time of the request

This data is primarily used by Google to serve the font files to your browser and to improve the overall service quality.

Google may also use this data for the purposes of analytics and to enhance user experience. The data is processed in accordance with Google’s Privacy Policy, which you can review for further details: Google’s Privacy Policy.

If you are concerned about the data collection practices associated with Google Fonts, you may choose to disable the Google Fonts service through browser settings or use browser extensions designed to block such features. However, doing so may affect the appearance and functionality of our website.

Updates to this Section

We reserve the right to update or amend this section at any time to reflect changes in our practices or amendments to Google’s terms of service or privacy policy. We recommend reviewing this section periodically for the latest information on our use of Google Fonts.