1. Who are we
Chris Stewart Group (CSG) is the trading name of the group of companies under the control of Chris Stewart.
We are experts in real estate development, investment and property operations.
We will use information about you, called personal data, to provide you with our services and we collect that though this website. This notice sets out how we use that personal data.
2. Contact details
Address: Chris Stewart Group, The Tower, 7 Advocate’s Close, Edinburgh, EH1 1ND
Email: info@chrisstewartgroup.com
Phone: 0131 225 9567
3. What personal data we collect and why we collect it
We will primarily collect contact details from you online through our contact us web page and will use it to send you information as requested about our real estate offering.
We may send relevant updates in the form of emailed newsletters from time to time but you always be able to ask us to stop sending these is you no longer wish to hear from us.
Cookies
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
We use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
- Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
Some of our cookies are provided by third parties and information collected by the cookie will be shared with those third parties as well. For example, we use Google analytics cookies but we ask you to opt in before we use these.
4. Legal bases
We process the personal data that is necessary to allow us to provide our services.
We also process personal data because we have a business reason (legitimate interest) to do so and the impact of this on the individual whose data we have is limited.
Sometimes we rely on your consent to send you information about us. You always have the right to ask us to stop using your contact information in that way.
5. Sharing your data
We will share your contact details as necessary to provide our services. You will usually know is advance when this is going to happen.
6. Storage, security and retention
We will retain your contact details to keep in touch about the services we are providing which will include personal data until a time it is no longer required or has no us.
We will also retain your contact details to keep in touch.
7. Your data protection rights
Under data protection law, you have rights including:
- Right of access – You have the right to ask us for a copy of your personal information. You also have the right to information about how we use your data. This notice should answer most of your questions but you should contact us if you have further queries.
- Right to rectification – You have the right to ask us to rectify information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
- Right to erasure – You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
- Right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your information in certain circumstances.
- Right to object to processing – You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances. You have an absolute right to ask us to stop sending you marketing material and updates about our services.
There is no charge for exercising these rights unless your request is manifestly unfounded or excessive. If it is, we will charge a reasonable fee or refuse to comply with your request.
Once a request is made, it will be acknowledged and we may ask for confirmation of identification from you and/or seek clarification of your request.
We will do our best to respond without undue delay and within one month of receiving your request. However, if the request is complex, we can extend that by another two months but if we do need more time, we will let you know why.
Please make any requests using the contact details above.
8. How to complain
If you have any concerns about the way that we collect and use your data then please contact us using the details above and we will do our best to address these concerns.
However you can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data and their contact details can be found here.
9. Changes to our privacy notice
We keep our privacy notice under review and will require to make changes from time to time. We will highlight any substantial updates on our website.
This privacy notice was last updated on 19 August 2022.