To be completely transparent about what personal details we hold about our e-newsletter subscribers, this Privacy Policy document has been prepared to let our e-newsletter subscribers know that we comply with data protection legislation.
We take the protection of your privacy seriously and take all reasonable steps within our power to make sure your information is safe.
Please read this policy carefully, to understand how we use and store your personal information.
By providing us with your personal information, you consent to the use of any information you provide in accordance with this privacy policy.
Who we are
Chartered Surveyors on the Property Surveying network provide house building surveys and other surveying services. These include full building surveys, homebuyers reports, house purchase surveys, major defects reports, matrimonial valuations and building reinstatement valuations (for your home insurance cover).
We produce a monthly e-newsletter in which we cover topics related to property. Our e-newsletter is emailed to tens of thousands of subscribers around the country every month. Anyone can subscribe, not just estate agents, solicitors and other property professionals. We welcome feedback on the content of our newsletter and suggestions for new articles – please let us know how we are doing so we can improve upon it.
Subscription to our e-newsletter is a two-part process that requires subscribers to respond to an email asking for confirmation. There is an unsubscribe message on every e-newsletter, so you can unsubscribe at any time if the content is no longer of interest to you.
All the Surveyors connected to Property Surveyors carry out residential house property surveys and building survey work for purchasers and some carry out commercial property surveys and other associated work. We have verified that all the Surveyors on this network are Independent Chartered Surveyors who are full members of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors at the time of joining the network.
What information we hold about you
We hold only the email and IP addresses you provided when you subscribed to this e-newsletter. We will never ask you for more information than your email address and do not hold any other information about you.
We do not keep records of individual visits to our web pages but we do log the number of visits our pages receive from each e-newsletter mail-out to see which articles have been of interest to our readers.
We will never sell or share your personal information with others for any reason and will not give this information to third party suppliers to enable them to contact you without first notifying you.
What we communicate with you about
At Property Surveying we try to keep you informed each month about interesting and informative news within the sphere of residential and commercial property and surveying. We do this by maintaining a newsletter website and by sending a monthly e-newsletter to our subscribers. The newsletter includes a factfile that draws information and statistics from a variety of sources, including the UK government and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, and other property professionals.
We hope you will find our monthly articles of interest and perhaps even be tempted to browse our newsletter archive for other articles.
How you can communicate with us
You can make comments that relate to our articles on our newsletter pages. If you wish to communicate privately, you can email us on newsletter@propertysurveying.co.uk.
You can request the details of the personal information we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998 and the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). To confirm matters, we do not hold any data other than your email address.
If you want to access your information, we will ask you to send a description of the information you want to see and proof of your identity by post. We do not accept this evidence by email.
Social media – Facebook, Twitter, etc.
Some of our articles are reproduced on social media, including Facebook and Twitter, and we welcome ‘followers’. We will not sell, rent or endeavour to make available to a third party any information you provide and we will take reasonable steps to safeguard this information, but we are not able to guarantee 100% the security of any information you disclose online as this aspect is operated by a third party.
How we keep your data safe
Your email address is held on a secure server and our service provider is currently located in the UK. We may in the future transfer our provider to the US or other country outside of the European Economic Area and, in doing so, your email address may be stored or otherwise processed outside of the EEA. If this happens, we will endeavour to ensure that the processing of your email address is subject to appropriate security measures and by continuing to receive our e-newsletters in such circumstances you agree to this transfer.
Our network is protected and routinely monitored. Within our offices only those trained in handling data securely will have access to your information.
Our website sometimes contain links to third party websites. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites will have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
Despite all of our precautions, no data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. So, whilst we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information which you disclose to us and so wish to draw your attention that you do so at your own risk.
Keeping your information up to date
You can update your email address at any time by visiting our e-newsletter subscription page.
How long we store your data for
We will continue to keep your email address until such time as you unsubscribe.
Remind you how to change the way we contact you
Our subscribers are given the option in every e-newsletter to ‘opt out’ of receiving future e‑newsletters. If you wish to unsubscribe, but wish to continue to see our articles, you can do so by visiting our website where all our newsletters and related articles are published.
What to do if you no longer want us to communicate with you
You can unsubscribe by following the link at the foot of the monthly e-newsletter, or email our admin team at: newsletter@propertysurveying.co.uk
Changes to this policy
This policy was last updated on 25th May 2018 and further revisions will be available to review on our website. We may update this policy from time to time without notice to you. We may amend or update this policy at any time to take account of any changes to data protection law or other legislation. When further updates to the policy are made they will be posted online, but rest assured we won’t ever make any other changes to the way we use your data without asking you first.
We will only email our e-newsletter to you if we believe you have consented for us to do so, so if you receive anything you haven’t asked for – please let us know.