We are Verndale Systems Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales on 27 April 1989, with company number: 02376672 We provide an assortment of services related to IT, along with professional development courses. The company website address is: http://www.verndalesystems.com What personal data we collect and why we collect it
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor's IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included.
Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
For those booking courses through the website:
We will not share your personal information with anyone else without your permission. Your personal details are only held
until the course you have booked on has been completed, unless you give permission for us to retain your contact details
after the course (delegates will be asked for their permission at the course).
Invoices that we issue to you and records of payment made by you will be retained for a minimum of seven years on our
accounting systems to comply with HMRC's requirements.
We use the secure payment service provided by Paypal to collect payment for courses and do not store your card details
or any of your personal financial information on Verndale Systems Ltd's servers or computers.
Data entered on contact forms will be retained only as long as required to satisfy business requirements. We will not pass your details on to any third party without your permission.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies.
These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment.
These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts
cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices.
Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select "Remember Me", your login
will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal
data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other
websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your
interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an
account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with:
We will not share your personal data with anyone without your express permission.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and
approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user
profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username).
Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal
data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data
we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data:
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Your contact information
Your contact data will only be retained as long as needed to satisfy business requirements. We will not pass your details
on to any third party without your permission. If you have elected to receive a newsletter we will keep your details to
allow us to send this information. There will always be a opportunity to opt out of email marketing from us.
Verndale Systems Ltd is registered with the Information Commissioner's Office.