Kings & Co is totally committed to the privacy of personal information provided by those visiting and interacting with us.  Our Privacy Policy is split into two sections:

  • Personal information communicated via this website  (Website Privacy)
  • Personal  information communicated to Kings & Co via post, telephone (mobile/landline/word) and email (Communication Privacy).

Website Privacy

1.0 User Privacy and Data Protection

Kings & Co created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm and continuing commitment to the privacy of personal information provided by those visiting and interacting with us. We hold the privacy of your personal information in the highest regard. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website.

2.0 Relevant Legislation

This website is designed to comply with the following legislation with regards to data protection and user privacy:

  • UK Data Protection Act 1988 (DPA)
  • EU Data Protection Directive 1995 (DPD)
  • EU General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR)

This site’s compliance with the above legislation, all of which are stringent in nature, means that this site is likely compliant with the data protection and user privacy legislation set out by many other countries and territories as well. If you are unsure about whether this site is compliant with your own country of residences’ specific data protection and user privacy legislation you should contact our data protection officer (details of whom can be found in section 9.0) for clarification.

3.0 Personal information that this website collects and why we collect it

This website collects and uses personal information for the following reasons:

3.1 Site visitation tracking

Like most websites, this site uses Google Analytics (GA) to track user interaction. We use this data to determine the number of people using our site, to better understand how they find and use our web pages and to see their journey through the website.

Although GA records data such as your geographical location, device, internet browser and operating system, none of this information personally identifies you to us. GA also records your computer’s IP address which could be used to personally identify you but Google do not grant us access to this. We consider Google to be a third party data processor (see section 6.0 below).

GA makes use of cookies, details of which can be found on Google’s developer guides.

Disabling cookies on your internet browser will stop GA from tracking any part of your visit to pages within this website. Please bear in mind however that this may impact on overall usage of the website.

3.2 Contact forms and email links

Should you choose to contact us using the contact form on our Contact page or via an email link, none of the data that you supply will be stored by this website or be processed by any of the third party data processors defined in section 6.0. Instead the data will be collated into an email and sent directly to us. Our SMTP servers are protected by TLS meaning that the email content is encrypted before being sent across the internet. The email content is then decrypted by our local computers and devices.

4.0 How we store your personal information

Currently there are no occasions where personal data will be stored on this website. All data is sent directly to us as defined in section 3.2.

5.0 About this website’s server

This website is hosted in a UK data centre located in Gloucester.

All traffic (transferral of files) between this website and your browser is delivered over HTTP protocol.

6.0 Our third party data processors

We use only one third party, Google, to process data on our behalf in respect of site visitation as mentioned in 3.1 above. This supplier has been carefully chosen and complies with the legislation set out in section 2.0. They are based in the USA and are EU-U.S Privacy Shield compliant and in this instance the data involved is not personally identifiable.

7.0 Data Breaches

We will report any unlawful data breach of this website’s database or the database(s) of any third party data processors to any and all relevant persons and authorities within 72 hours of the breach if it is apparent that personal data stored in an identifiable manner has been stolen.

8.0 Data Controller

The data controller of this website is: Wiremanor, a UK Limited Company with company number: 07028965

Whose registered office is at:

Towlers Court
30a Elm Hill
Norwich, Norfolk,
NR1 1WS
United Kingdom

9.0 Data Protection Officer

Sally White
Tel: +44 1603 666689
Email: [email protected]

10.0 Changes to our privacy policy

This privacy policy may change from time to time inline with legislation or industry developments. We will not explicitly inform our clients or website users of these changes. Instead, we recommend that you check this page occasionally for any policy changes. Specific policy changes and updates are mentioned in the change log below.

10.1 Change log

  • 14/12/2017: Website Privacy policy instigated

Communication Privacy

1.0 User Privacy and Data Protection

Kings & Co created this communication privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm and continuing commitment to the privacy of personal information provided by those visiting and interacting with us. We hold the privacy of your personal information in the highest regard. The following sets out how any personal information you supply via post, telephone (mobile/landline/word) or email is held and how this information is processed.

2.0 Relevant Legislation

Our interactions comply with the following legislation with regards to data protection and personal privacy:

  • UK Data Protection Act 1988 (DPA)
  • EU Data Protection Directive 1995 (DPD)
  • EU General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR)

3.0 Personal information we collect and why we collect it

3.1  Tenants

Personal information about tenants and possible new tenants is processed so that residential accommodation can be provided.

This includes:

  • Dealing with lettings
  • Managing property
  • Collecting rent
  • Maintaining accounts and records
  • Dealing with tenancy deposits

Relevant information may include personal and financial details.

3.2  Landlords

Personal information about Landlords is processed in order that our property management services may be rendered.

This includes:

  • Dealing with lettings
  • Managing property
  • Collection and distribution of rent
  • Maintaining accounts and records
  • Dealing with tenancy deposits

Relevant information may include personal and financial details.

4.0 How we store your personal information

In accordance with data the protection legislation described above.

5.0 When and why might your information be shared with others

Personal information may be shared with others in order to prevent fraud, for accounting and auditing and for the delivery of the business services of property management and provision of rental accommodation.  If this is necessary data protection legislation will be followed.

Information might be shared with:

  • Service providers, e.g. gas, electricity, water companies
  • Financial institutions
  • Tenancy deposit schemes
  • Debt collection and tracing agencies
  • Public and government bodies
  • Contractors and repairers
  • Relevant Council bodies and associated services
  • Letting and managing agents

This does not mean that information will be shared with all the above but may be shared if necessary.

6.0 Right to information

You have the right to ask for a copy of the information held about you.  There may be a small charge for this.  It is important that your personal information is accurate and up to date.  You can ask for the information to be corrected or removed if it is not accurate.

7.0 Changes to our privacy policy

This privacy policy may change from time to time inline with legislation or industry developments. We will not explicitly inform our clients of these changes. Instead, we recommend that you check this page occasionally for any policy changes. Specific policy changes and updates are mentioned in the change log below.

8.0 Data Protection Officer

Sally White
Tel: +44 1603 666689
Email: [email protected]

8.1 Change log

  • 18/05/2018: Communication Privacy policy instigated