Our website address is varyah.com

Varyah Ltd is committed to protecting your privacy and will only use your personal information in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA), Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR), General Data Protection Regulation 25 May 2018 (GDPR) and other relevant legislation.

Data Security and Storage

We collect and store personal and non-personal data that you may volunteer through signing up on our website, asking to join a mailing list or in connection with a specific project or event. Personal Data information we collect and store may include:

• Your full name and title

• Your contact and communication preferences

Non-personal information we collect includes:

• Anonymised IP addresses (location of the computer on the internet); web pages accessed; and files downloaded. This helps us to determine how many people use our website, how regularly they visit, and how popular our webpages are. This information does not tell us anything about who you are or where you live, but it does help us monitor and improve our service.

By disclosing your personal information to us via this website, by phone or in writing, you are giving us your consent to collect, store and process your personal information in the manner described in this Notice. The information we hold will be accurate and up-to-date within our knowledge.

While we cannot ensure or guarantee that loss, misuse or alteration of data will not occur when it is under our control, we use our best efforts to try to prevent this.

Unfortunately, the transmission of data across the internet is not completely secure and while we do our best to try to protect the security of your information we cannot ensure or guarantee that loss, misuse or alteration of data will not occur while data is being transferred.

If you have any questions, please contact hello@varyah.com

We will use the information you provide to:

• Communicate with you and fulfil any requests

• Record contact / interactions

• Prevent or detect fraud or abuses of our website and enable third parties to perform technical, logistical, or other functions on our behalf

• Carry out research on the demographics, interests, and behaviour of our users to better understand engagement, usage and to enable us to improve our services

Access To and Deletion of your Personal Data

You have the right to ask for a free copy of the personal information that we hold about you (to be supplied within one month of receiving request) to correct any inaccuracies in that information (to be corrected within 72 hours of receiving request) or to ask us to delete such records. Please direct all requests to hello@varyah.com

You have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office if we have not been able to satisfactorily resolve a problem about our handling of your personal information. For more information about your Data Protection rights, please visit the website of the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk

Changes to our Privacy Notice

If our Privacy Notice changes in any way, we will place an updated version on the What Next? website. Regularly reviewing this page ensures that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we will share it with other parties.

Last revised August 2022

Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites. You can learn more about the cookies we use below.

Our cookies help us:

• Make our website work as you would expect it to

• Improve the speed/security of the site

• Allow you to share pages with social media networks

• Continuously improve our website for you

We do not use cookies to:

• Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)

• Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)

• Pass data to advertising networks

• Pass personally identifiable data to third parties

Third party cookies

Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video. Some third-party services embedded within this website set their own cookies. These are known as third party cookies because they are not set by our website. We have no control over the cookies that are set by third party services. Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties.

Granting permissions to use cookies

If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below. You can learn more about all the cookies set by our website above.

Turning cookies off

You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies.

External Links

Our website contains links to other sites whose information practice may be different to ours. You should consult other sites’ privacy notices as we have no control over information that is submitted to or collected by third parties. We cannot guarantee the privacy of personal information you transmit over the web or that may be collectable in transit by others.

Last revised August 2022