Privacy Policy

Your use of our website at www.ask-birt.com (the "Website") indicates your acceptance of the terms of our privacy policy set out below. If you do not agree to these terms you must not use this website.

1. The Website is operated by Nstar Corporate Finance Limited (trading as NStar Finance and Business) ("we") a company incorporated in England and Wales under number 057716703 with our registered office at Ground Floor, 1 St James Gate, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear, NE1 4AD. Our VAT registration number is 847702705. Please visit our contact us page for our contact details.

2. We are committed to protecting the privacy of the information we may obtain as a result of your use of the Website. We will treat any personal information (which means data from which you can be identified, including your name, address and e mail address) that you provide to us, or that we obtain from you, in accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998.

3. We will collect personal information from you when you register to use this Website including your name and contact details. We will collect information from you if you use our Fund Finder service and this will include details of your business, age, employment status and whether you are registered disabled. (You need not inform us if you are registered disabled, but if you do not then relevant sources of funding may be excluded from the results). We will collect information about you and your business if you use our BIRT software tool. We may collect information you submit via our other online enquiry forms or via any other online forms or interactive areas which are available on our website from time to time. We will collect information from you if you book a course via our website. This website logs the user's IP address which is automatically recognised by the web server and we may collect information about your usage of this Website. We may also collect information about you if you contact us offline, for example by telephone, fax, email or post.

4. We may use 'cookies', to enable our website to remember who you are when you log in to the registered areas of our website and to allow us to improve the experience of visitors to our website. You should, if you wish, be able to prevent the use of this software or 'cookies' by changing the setting on your browser, however if you do so, some functionality may be lost.

5. We will use your personal information to provide you with access to the Website and to supply you with any content and information you have requested. If you use our Fund Finder service we will use your information to assess which sources of funding may be available to you. If you use our BIRT software tool we will use your information to generate outputs indicating whether you have considered issues of potential interest to investors. If you book a course via the Website will use your information to process your booking. If you have consented when you register with us we may use your information for marketing purposes. We may use your information to contact you for feedback on your use of our Website and services. We may also use and analyse the information we collect for statistical, reporting and audit purposes and so that we administer, improve and develop our Website and the services we offer.

6. If you use our Tailored Advice Services we will pass your information to our appointed mentors and partners (as appropriate) so that they can provide you with any information or services you have requested. We may share your information with our group companies (who include NStar Limited and NStar Fund Management Limited) for administrative and reporting purposes and so they can provide you with any information or services you have requested. We may share information submitted via this website with One North East and other organisations who fund the finance and business programme operated by us, for audit and reporting purposes although this information will not usually identify you or your business by name. We may allow third party providers and contractors who supply services to us or who process information on our behalf (such as our website hosts) incidental access to your information, but we will ensure that they keep your information secure and do not use if for their own purposes. We may share your information with another organisation which acquires our business or our assets or to whom we transfer the finance and business programme or our agreement with you and in the course of negotiations which may or may not lead to such a transfer. Unless permitted or required to do so by law, we will not otherwise share or sell or distribute any of the information you provide to us without your consent.

7. If you attend our training courses or related events we may pass basic registration details onto to third parties who may be involved in delivery so that they can assess the audience and adjust content as necessary. This information will be supplied with express instructions that this cannot be used for marketing purposes.

8. You have the right to see any information we hold about you on payment of a statutory fee, which is currently £10. You have the right to correct any errors in the information we hold about you. You have the right to opt out of receiving any marketing material from us or any third party at any time. You can update your details and marketing preferences by visiting your registration Profile page or by contacting us at admin@nstarfinance.com or 0191 230 6370.

9. We have appropriate systems in place and will use all reasonable endeavours to keep your personal information secure against misuse and loss and to maintain its integrity. However you will be responsible for any password or other identifiers that we have provided to you for your use in respect of this website and the interactive services.

10. We will from time to time update and make changes to his policy. We recommend that you revisit this privacy policy frequently and ideally each time you visit our Website.

11. If you follow a link from our Website to another site, this policy will no longer apply. We are not responsible for the information handling practices of third party sites and we encourage you to read the privacy policies appearing on those sites.

12. If you have any queries about the information we hold on you, or would like to exercise your rights set out above, please contact us at the address below. Further information about data protection issues including the online Register of Data Controllers can be found on the Information Commissioner’s site at www.ico.gov.uk

NStar Finance & Business
16-18 Hood Street
Newcastle NE1 6JQ

0191 230 6373
admin@nstarfinance.com