Last updated: September 2026

1. Who we are

AppriseHR Solutions is an independent HR consultancy providing practical HR support, guidance and resources to small businesses.

For the purposes of UK data protection law, the data controller is:

Barbara McAvoy trading as AppriseHR Solutions

Kettle Lane

Coalisland

Dungannon

BT71 4NR

Email: bmcavoy@apprisehr.co.uk

Website: www.apprisehr.co.uk

If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice or how your personal information is handled, please contact Barbara McAvoy using the details above.

2. Personal information we may collect

The personal information we collect depends on how you interact with AppriseHR Solutions.

This may include:

• Your name

• Email address

• Telephone number where provided

• Business or organisation name

• Job title or role

• Correspondence and information you provide when making an enquiry

• Information necessary to provide HR consultancy services

• Purchase and transaction information relating to digital products

• Records of products or services you have purchased

• Information you choose to provide when communicating with us

When you purchase a digital product through the AppriseHR Solutions Payhip store, Payhip and the relevant payment provider process information necessary to complete the transaction.

AppriseHR Solutions does not receive or store your full payment card details.

3. How we collect your information

We may receive personal information directly from you when you:

• Contact AppriseHR Solutions

• Make an enquiry about HR services

• Engage AppriseHR Solutions to provide HR consultancy services

• Purchase a digital product

• Contact us about a purchase

• Communicate with us by email, telephone or social media

• Otherwise provide information to us in connection with our services

Information relating to digital-product purchases may also be provided through Payhip as part of administering your order.

4. How we use your personal information

We may use your personal information to:

• Respond to enquiries

• Provide information or quotations you request

• Provide agreed HR consultancy services

• Manage our relationship with clients

• Process and administer purchases of digital products

• Provide customer support relating to purchases

• Maintain appropriate business, transaction and financial records

• Deal with complaints, queries or disputes

• Protect our legitimate business interests and establish, exercise or defend legal claims where necessary

• Comply with applicable legal and regulatory obligations

We will not sell your personal information.

5. Our lawful bases for using your information

Under UK data protection law, we must have a lawful basis for processing personal information.

Depending upon the circumstances, we may rely upon:

Contract – where processing your information is necessary to take steps at your request before entering into a contract or to provide products or services you have purchased or engaged us to provide.

Legal obligation – where processing is necessary for us to comply with a legal obligation, for example maintaining certain financial or transaction records.

Legitimate interests – where it is necessary for the legitimate operation and protection of AppriseHR Solutions, provided those interests are not overridden by your rights and interests. This may include responding to appropriate business enquiries, administering client relationships, maintaining appropriate business records and protecting or defending legal rights.

Consent – where we specifically ask for and rely upon your consent. Where consent is the lawful basis, you may withdraw it at any time.

6. HR consultancy information

As an HR consultancy, AppriseHR Solutions may sometimes receive personal information about employees, workers, job applicants or other individuals when providing services to a client.

The way in which this information is handled will depend upon the particular service being provided and the respective data-protection responsibilities of AppriseHR Solutions and the client.

Clients should only provide personal information that is reasonably necessary for the HR support being requested and should ensure that they have an appropriate basis for sharing that information.

Where appropriate, additional contractual or data-processing arrangements may apply.

7. Digital products and Payhip

AppriseHR Solutions uses Payhip to sell and deliver digital products.

When you purchase a digital product, information necessary to process and administer your order is handled through Payhip and the payment provider selected during checkout.

Your purchase information may be available to AppriseHR Solutions where necessary to administer your purchase, maintain appropriate records and provide customer support.

8. Marketing

AppriseHR Solutions currently promotes its services and resources through LinkedIn and Facebook.

If you interact with AppriseHR Solutions through a social-media platform, that platform will process information in accordance with its own privacy arrangements.

We do not currently operate an email marketing mailing list through the AppriseHR Solutions Payhip store.

If this changes in future, this Privacy Notice will be reviewed and updated as appropriate.

9. Sharing your personal information

We will only share personal information where there is an appropriate reason to do so.

This may include service providers necessary to operate our business or provide a service to you, professional advisers where necessary, payment and digital-product platforms involved in a transaction, and public authorities or other organisations where disclosure is required by law.

We do not sell or rent personal information to third parties for marketing purposes.

10. How long we keep your information

We keep personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, including where records need to be retained for legal, accounting, contractual or dispute-resolution purposes.

Different types of information may therefore be retained for different periods.

When information is no longer required, it will be securely deleted or disposed of where reasonably practicable.

11. Keeping your information secure

AppriseHR Solutions takes reasonable and proportionate steps to protect the personal information it holds against unauthorised access, loss, misuse, alteration or disclosure.

Where third-party services are used, we take reasonable steps to use reputable providers and appropriate safeguards.

No method of electronic storage or transmission can, however, be guaranteed to be completely secure.

12. International transfers

Some third-party platforms or service providers may process personal information outside the UK.

Where personal information is transferred internationally and UK data protection law requires safeguards to be in place, appropriate arrangements will be used to protect that information.

13. Your data protection rights

Depending upon the circumstances, UK data protection law gives you rights in relation to your personal information. These may include the right to:

• Be informed about how your information is used

• Request access to personal information held about you

• Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information

• Request deletion of your information in certain circumstances

• Request restriction of processing in certain circumstances

• Object to certain processing

• Request data portability where applicable

• Withdraw consent where processing is based upon consent

Not every right applies in every circumstance.

To exercise a right or ask a question about your personal information, contact:

bmcavoy@apprisehr.co.uk

14. Complaints

If you have concerns about how AppriseHR Solutions has handled your personal information, please contact us in the first instance so that we have an opportunity to address your concerns.

You also have the right to raise a concern with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK's data protection regulator.

Further information is available at: ico.org.uk

15. Changes to this Privacy Notice

We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time to reflect changes to our services, how we use personal information, the third-party services we use, or applicable data protection requirements.

The latest version will be made available through the AppriseHR Solutions website and/or online store, as appropriate.