Privacy policy

Thomas Solomon is the sole owner of Blazon Scientific and operates the http://www.blazon-scientific.com website (“Site“). Throughout this document, the terms “he”, “him”, “his”, “I”, “my”, and “me” refer to Thomas Solomon. The term “Blazon Scientific” refers to the company name under which Thomas Solomon provides consulting services (“Services“). The terms “client”, “user”, “you“, and “your” refer to the user who is bound by these terms. The use of the word “including” shall mean “including without limitation.”

By visiting or accessing the http://www.blazon-scientific.com website (“Site“) or by using Thomas Solomon’s consulting services (“Services“), you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions, policies, and notices (“Terms”) on this page. If you do not agree to these Terms, you must not visit the Site or use any Services.

The privacy of my client’s data is extremely important to me. I encourage all my clients to read this page because it contains important information about:
– Who I am,
– How and why I collect, store, use, and share personal information,
– Your rights in relation to your personal information; and,
– How to contact me in the event that you have a complaint.

Thomas Solomon (referred to as “he”, “him”, “his”, “I”, “my”, and “me”) is the sole owner of Blazon Scientific, operates the http://www.blazon-scientific.com website (“Site“), and collects, uses, and is responsible for storing certain personal information about you, the user (referred to as “client”, “user”, “you“, and “your“) who is bound by these terms.

Personal information is information from which you can be identified and does not include any anonymized forms of information.

I may process the following types of personal information in relation to you:
– Your contact details, such as your name, email address and telephone number.
– Other personal information will be collected through the use of cookies and similar technologies. This will include:

(i) Your device’s IP address.
(ii) Information about how you use the site.
(ii) Your device’s advertising identifier or other device identifiers.
(iii) Advertising data, such as advertisements you have seen and clicked on.
(iv) Interaction information, such as how much time you spend on the Site and how you interact with it, The uniform resource locators (URLs) of other websites that you click to and from this Site (including the date and time clicked), length of visits to the Site, Site interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the Site.

This section describes how I collect the above types of personal information. Your personal information will be collected as follows:

I will sometimes obtain information from you directly, including when you:
– Contact me via email through email links from the site.
– Subscribe to my mailing list or newsletter.

I will sometimes obtain information via automated technology. This shall be by use of cookies and other similar technology. A cookie is a small text file which is placed on your computer or electronic device when you access a website. Similar technologies include web beacons, action tags, local shared objects (flash cookies), and single-pixel gifs. Such technologies can be used to track user’s actions and activities and to store information about them. Usually, this will be in order to monitor and obtain information regarding:
– Your device’s IP address.
– Your device’s location.
– Your device’s advertising identifier or other device identifiers.
– Advertising data, such as advertisements you have seen and clicked on.
– Interaction information, such as how much time you spend on the Site and how you interact with it, the uniform resource locators (URLs) of other websites that you click to and from this Site (including the date and time clicked), length of visits to the Site, Site interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the Site.

On the first occasion that you use this site, we will ask whether you consent to the use of cookies and/or other similar processing technologies. If you do not consent, such technologies will not be used. Thereafter, you can opt out of using cookies at any time, or you can set your browser not to accept cookies. However, some of our website features may not function as a result.

For further information on my use of cookies and other similar technologies, please see the information below or read my cookies policy document.

In the event that I need to obtain personal information in relation to you from any other source than those described above, I shall notify you of this.

In general, your personal information will be processed for the following purposes:
– To provide and maintain my services.
– To notify you about changes to my services.
– To provide customer support.
– Together analysis or valuable information so that I can improve my services.
– To monitor the usage of the Site.
– To detect, prevent, and address technical issues on the Site.
– To provide you with news, special offers, and general information about my services, unless you have opted not to receive such information.

The purposes for which I may process your personal information have been described above. These purposes will at all times be justified by UK data protection law.

The lawful basis upon which I am able to process your personal data is:
(i) where I have your consent to use your data for a specific purpose;
(ii) where it is necessary to enter into a legal contract with you or to perform obligations under a legal contract with you;
(iii) where it is necessary to enable me to comply with a legal obligation;
(iv) where it is necessary to ensure my own legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party (provided that your own interests and rights do not override those interests). Wherever I rely upon this basis, details of the legitimate interests concerned shall be provided to you;
(v) where I need to protect your own vital interests (or the vital interests of another person); and/or,
(vi) where it is needed in the public interest (or where I am acting in my own official functions), provided that the task or function has a clear basis in law.

In general, in order to meet the purposes I have described above, I will process your personal information where it is necessary to comply with legal obligations that I am required to adhere to.

On any occasion where any of your personal information is shared with a third party, we shall only permit them to process such information for our required purposes, under our specific instruction, and not for their own purposes. We are required to enter into a formal legal agreement to enable such sharing to take place.

I do not anticipate that I will need to share your personal information with any third party. I will notify you should this position change.

Certain personal information is necessary to collect in order for me to provide my services. I will inform you at the point of collecting such information from you, whether you are required to provide the information to me. The information that is necessary for me to provide my services is as follows:
– Your name,
– your location and company of employment; and,
– your email address,

Failing to provide this information when it is requested from you will prevent me from providing my services to you.

Your personal information will only be kept for the period of time that is necessary for me to fulfil the above purposes.

I envisage that your personal data shall be retained by me for as long as I need it for the purpose for which it was collected.

After this period, your information shall be properly deleted or anonymized.

I will ensure the proper safety and security of your personal information and have measures in place to do so. I will also use technological and organization measures to keep your information secure. These measures are as follows:
– All data is stored on secured servers protected by passwords and two-step authentication protocols.
– The servers are accessible only to me.

I have proper procedures in place to deal with any data security breach, which shall be reported and dealt with in accordance with data protection laws and regulations. You shall be notified of any suspected data breach concerning your personal information.

Neither my website nor my services are intended for children (anybody under the age of 18). I do not intend to collect data from children.

Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) you have a number of important rights free of charge. In summary, those include rights to:
(i) Fair processing of information and transparency over how I use your personal information;
(ii) access to your personal information and to certain other supplementary information that this Private Statement is already designed to address;
(iii) require me to correct any mistakes in your information which I hold.;
(iv) require the erasure of personal information concerning you in certain situations;
(v) receive the personal information concerning you, which you have provided to me, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, and have the right to transmit this information to a third party in certain situations;
(vi) objects at any time to the processing of personal information concerning you for direct marketing;
(vii) objective decisions being taken by automated means which produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affecting you;
(viii) objecting certain other situations to my continued processing of your personal information, Or ask me to suspend the processing procedure in order for you to confirm its assurance or my reasoning for processing it;
(ix) object to processing your personal information where I am doing so in reliance upon a legitimate interest of my own or of a third party and where you wish to raise an objection to this particular ground;
(x) otherwise restrict my processing of your personal information in certain circumstances;
(xi) claim compensation for damages caused by my breach of any data protection laws; and/or,
(xii) in any circumstance where I rely upon your consent for processing personal information, you may withdraw this consent at any time.

For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, see the guidance from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on your rights under the general data protection regulations.

If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact Thomas Solomon via email.

I reserve the right to change this privacy policy at any time. If changes are made to this policy, I will notify you of any changes by:
– Email, if you have opted to receive emails from me, or
– notification in a banner on the website home page.

The relevant person to contact regarding your personal information is Thomas Solomon.

Any requests or questions regarding the use of your personal information should be made to the above-named person via email.

This policy provides key information to you regarding the processing of your information. For certain areas of my information processing, I have further comprehensive details contained in other documentation. This information can be located as follows:
– My “Cookies Policy”, which describes the use of cookies and other similar technologies, is available at www.blazon-scientific.com/cookies-policy.