Privacy & Cookies
Who are we and how to contact us
Chequered Leopard, owned by Dr Helena Boschi, brings the world of neuroscience to the business environment. You can get in touch with us in the following ways:
By email: helena@chequeredleopard.com
Through this website: www.chequeredleopard.com
About this privacy policy
This policy sets out how we will use and share the information that you give us. This privacy policy relates to personal data collected by us via:
Our website
Email correspondence
Telephone calls
Social media
Enquiring about contracting our services
Providing products or services to us
You should be aware that if you go to third party websites (including those of our Affiliates), using links provided on our websites, these websites are outside our control and have their own privacy policies. Please take time to read those when you visit a site. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies.
What information we collect about you
We collect information about you when you contact us. This information may include:
Your name, contact details and the organisation/ business you work for
Information generated by the work, service or relationship we have with you: your bank and financial details, communication and correspondence
Information generated by visiting our website or engaging with us on social media.
How we collect information about you and how we will use it
We may collect and process information that you provide during your correspondence with us. This could be, but not limited to, one of the following ways:
Giving information directly to us by methods including filling in the contact form on our website or via other media
Requesting any of our services or information
Communicating with us through e-mail and telephone.
We only use your personal information when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we use your personal information in the following circumstances:
Where you have given consent for us to process your information
Where we need to perform the contractual obligations we have entered into with you personally or with the business you are working for or with.
And for one or more of the following purposes:
To manage our relationship and administer our business as part of our contract with you
To carry out a request
Sending you marketing and information about our business and services via email if you consented to it.
Sharing your information
We will not share your information with anyone who is not contracted to work on your project other than with the relevant authorities if we have reason to believe that you may be involved in activity that may be illegal under English law.
International Transfer of Data
We may send your data outside European Economic Area (EEA), which comprises of the European Union and Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, particularly to the USA.
We only transfer information where necessary for the performance of a contract between us or for pre-contractual steps to be taken at your request.
Where your personal information is transferred or accessed outside of the EEA, we require that appropriate safeguards are in place. Any information is always limited to “need to know”.
Our website is built on a platform developed, and hosted, by Squarespace, a US-based company. Please see below for more information about them and the steps they take to protect personal information.
Your choices in relation to personal information
It is important that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal information changes during your relationship with us. You also have the rights and choices which you can exercise on the data we hold on you.
You have the right to:
Obtain access to your personal information
Withdraw consent, including opting out of our email marketing at any time
Ask us to correct any errors or delete the information we hold
Object to or restrict our processing of your information.
For more information or to action these rights, please contact us on helena@chequeredleopard.com
Retention and destruction of personal information
We will take reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy of the information we hold about you. We will not use your personal information unless it is (to the best of our knowledge) accurate and up to date.
We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, and to comply with legal obligations including UK tax accounting requirements. Our current retention schedules are as follows:
Client/ supplier records, including contact details and email correspondence – 2 years after our last contact from you
Enquiry records (people who did not subsequently become clients) – 6 months after our last contact from you
Where we have an ongoing working relationship with you and/or you have consented to receiving information from us, we will retain information beyond these timescales for the effective management of our contract and communication.
Other issues we want to make you aware of
We take the security of your information and your privacy seriously. We use certain programmes to help us manage our business effectively and efficiently. We have chosen each of these carefully and work only with those we are satisfied have the same high standards and commitment to security as we do; we are satisfied that each of them take proactive steps to meet the required international privacy laws, including GDPR. We share details of these below.
Visitors to our website
Our website is built on a software platform called Squarespace. It is also hosted by them. You can read more about the way they ensure site users’ privacy is protected under EU Data Protection laws here:
When someone visits our website we use Google Analytics and Squarespace Analytics to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. This information is only processed in a way which does not identify anyone. We do not make, and do not allow Google to make, any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website. You can find out more about all of this here:
Google Analytics and Squarespace
Use of cookies
We use cookies, small pieces of data that websites store on a device, to help our website run effectively and to provide the best experience for our site visitors. Some of these are functional and required cookies that allow visitors to navigate around the website. Others are analytical and performance cookies. You can find more information here about the cookies in use on our website.
You are in control of cookies and so this article also describes how you can change your settings. You can also find out more about cookies on these two websites www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org
Invoicing
We track, manage and account for all our outgoing client invoices using EasyBooks. You can find their privacy policy here.
Dropbox
We use Dropbox to share information with clients, suppliers and internally. You can find their privacy policy here.
Client information
We use Apple to store clients contact details. You can find their privacy policy here.
Age of Consent
By using this site, you represent that you are at least the age of majority in your country, state or province of residence, or that you are the age of majority in your country, state or province of residence and you have given us your consent to allow any of your minor dependents to use this site.
Complaints
You have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office if you believe we have not acted within data protection and privacy laws.
Changes to this policy
We may change the terms of this privacy policy from time to time. We will keep it under annual review to make necessary and reasonable changes. We will make changes outside of this in the event of a significant change in the law.
Last updated: 5 January 2022