Cookies & Privacy Policy

PERSONAL DETAILS

ASTON & CO FINANCIAL SERVICES may require certain details and Personal Data from you, including without limitation your name and email address. This policy is in relation to these details and any other Personal Data which ASTON & CO FINANCIAL SERVICES subsequently collects from you or about you (collectively “the Information”).

USE AND DISCLOSURE OF THE INFORMATION AND CLIENT INFORMATION

ASTON & CO FINANCIAL SERVICES will use the Information in a variety of ways, some of which will assist and enable ASTON & CO FINANCIAL SERVICES to provide its services to its clients and prospective clients. This may include for example, ASTON & CO FINANCIAL SERVICES contacting you directly to monitor progress and to inform you of progress on specific projects and ASTON & CO FINANCIAL SERVICES publishing some Information (e.g. your name and email address) on certain pages of its websites.

ASTON & CO FINANCIAL SERVICES may also in its sole discretion retain the Information and use it for direct marketing services, e.g. ASTON & CO FINANCIAL SERVICES may send marketing information to you. Such marketing information may relate to the legal profession, to financial matters and to goods and/or services provided by ASTON & CO FINANCIAL SERVICES and/or third parties as well as goods and/or services provided by third parties which are entirely unrelated to your original requests.

ASTON & CO FINANCIAL SERVICES may in its sole discretion sell some Information to unrelated third parties who may use such Information for direct marketing purposes in relation to a wide range of goods and/or services which, for the avoidance of doubt, are entirely unrelated to your original request: If you do not wish to receive such information, please click on the box provided.

ASTON & CO FINANCIAL SERVICES reserves the right to report any activity which Aston & CO FINANCIAL SERVICES suspects violates any relevant laws or regulations to the appropriate authority. ASTON & CO FINANCIAL SERVICES is requested by such authority for the Information ASTON & CO FINANCIAL SERVICES reserves the right to disclose it to them.

You shall indemnify and keep ASTON & CO FINANCIAL SERVICES and ASTON & CO FINANCIAL SERVICES s directors, officers, employees and agents fully indemnified against all actions, claims, proceedings, costs and damages (including any damages or compensation paid by ASTON & CO FINANCIAL SERVICES on the advice of its legal advisors to compromise or settle any claim) and all legal costs or other expenses arising out of any breach of any representations, warranties and/or undertakings or out of any claims by a third party based on any facts which if substantiated would constitute such a breach.

SECURITY

All Information and will be kept as confidential and as secure as possible using ASTON & CO FINANCIAL SERVICES secure server software. This means that the Information and can only be exchanged between you, ASTON & CO FINANCIAL SERVICES and any third party to whom ASTON & CO FINANCIAL SERVICES decides to transfer the Information to for the purposes detailed above. Furthermore as required by the Act ASTON & CO FINANCIAL SERVICES follows strict security procedures in the storage and disclosure of the Information which you have given to ASTON & CO FINANCIAL SERVICES to prevent unauthorised access.

ASTON & CO FINANCIAL SERVICES uses industry standard practices to safeguard the confidentiality of the Information including “firewalls” and Secure Socket Layers. ASTON & CO FINANCIAL SERVICES treats the Information as an asset that must be protected against loss and unauthorised access. ASTON & CO FINANCIAL SERVICES employees use many different security techniques to protect the Information from unauthorised access by users inside and outside the company. However, “perfect security” does not exist on the Internet.

INDIVIDUAL’S RIGHTS

Under the Data Protection Act 1998 all individuals are entitled on the payment of a fee, to be given from ASTON & CO FINANCIAL SERVICES a description of all Personal Data ASTON & CO FINANCIAL SERVICES holds about the individual, the purposes for which this is being processed and the recipients to whom this may be disclosed. All such individuals also have the right to have communicated to them in an intelligible form the information constituting the Personal Data and any information available to ASTON & CO FINANCIAL SERVICES as to the source of that Personal Data. If you require any further information on this point, please contact ASTON & CO FINANCIAL SERVICES as detailed above.

GENERAL

ASTON & CO FINANCIAL SERVICES reserves the right to vary the terms and conditions of this Agreement from time to time. Such variations become effective immediately upon the posting of the varied Agreement on the Websites. By continuing to use the Websites after such posting you will be deemed to accept such variations. You should visit this page periodically to review the terms and conditions of this Agreement because they are binding on you.

In the event that any term of this Agreement is held to be invalid, unlawful, void or for any reason unenforceable, that term shall be deemed severable, and the remainder of this Agreement shall remain valid and enforceable. No waiver of any term of this Agreement shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or any other term.

Except as expressly provided in additional terms of use for areas of the Websites, this Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between you and ASTON & CO FINANCIAL SERVICES with respect to your use of the Websites. Where such areas are subject to additional terms of use, by using such areas or any part thereof, you agree to be bound by such additional terms applicable to such areas.

For the avoidance of doubt nothing in these terms and conditions shall confer on any third party any benefit or the right to enforce any terms contained herein.

Cookies

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we put on your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

The cookies we use are ‘analytical’ cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the site 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.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Name

Expiration

Description

_ga

2 years

Used to distinguish users.

_gat

10 minutes

Used to throttle request rate.

__utmat

2 years from set/update

Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utma cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

__utmt

10 minutes

Used to throttle request rate.

__utmb

30 mins from set/update

Used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utmb cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

__utmc

End of browser session

Not used in ga.js. Set for interoperability with urchin.js. Historically, this cookie operated in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine whether the user was in a new session/visit.

__utmz

6 months from set/update

Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

__utmv

2 years from set/update

Used to store visitor-level custom variable data. This cookie is created when a developer uses the _setCustomVar method with a visitor level custom variable. This cookie was also used for the deprecated _setVar method. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

eucookie

1 year

Used to record displayed cookie disclaimer notification

These cookies do not record any personally identifiable information (PII).

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY & COOKIES POLICY

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our Privacy and Cookies Policy.