Introduction

We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our clients and partners personal data; in this policy we explain how we will treat your personal information.

We have revised this policy to include the most recent GDPR requirements which aims to protect the privacy rights of an individual, but not a business.

 

Collecting personal information

We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal information:

1. information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website (including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths);
2. information that you provide to us when registering with our website (including your email address);
3. information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our email notifications and/or newsletters (including your name, company and email address);
4. information that you post to our website for publication on the internet (including your user name, and the content of your posts);
5. information contained in or relating to any communication that you send to us or send through our website (including the communication content and metadata associated with the communication);
6. any other personal information that you choose to send to us either electronically or verbally;

Before you disclose to us the personal information of another person, you must obtain that person’s consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.

 

Using personal information

Personal information submitted to us will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website.

Personal data must be adequate, relevant and not excessive. We collect the minimum amount of information that we need to carry out our business. This would be names, phone numbers, invoice and shipping addresses, email addresses, job roles, website address, business sector and where applicable existing software and related hardware products needed to provide the services that we provide.

We may use your personal information to:

1. administer our website and business;
   personalise our website for you;
   enable your use of the services available on our website;
2. supply to you services purchased through our website;
3. send quotations, invoices, statements and payment reminders to you, and collect payments from you;
4. send you non-marketing commercial communications;
5. send you email notifications that you have specifically requested;
6. send you our email newsletter, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter);
7. send you marketing communications relating to our business [or the businesses of carefully-selected third parties] which we think may be of interest to you, by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications);
8. deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website;
9. keep our website secure and prevent fraud;
10. verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our website private messaging service).

If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the licence you grant to us.

We will not, without your express consent, supply your personal information to any third party for the purpose of their or any other third party’s direct marketing.

As the Data Owners we are fully aware of our responsibilities under the Data Protection Act and GDPR legislation and are registered accordingly with the ICO and follow their procedures and protocol. ICO Registration Number: A8327105

 

Disclosing personal information

We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information:

1. to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
   in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
2. in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);
3. to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling; and
4. to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.

Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.

 

International data transfers

Information that we collect may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.

Information that we collect may be transferred to the following countries which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area: [the United States of America, Russia, Japan, China and India].

Should the case arise that your information needs to be transferred outside of the EEA for a specific enquiry you have made with us we will make you aware of this beforehand.

Personal information that you publish on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.

You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this Section 5.

 

Retaining personal information

This Section 6 sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal information.

Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.

Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 6, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:

1. to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
   if we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; and
2. in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).

Personal data must be kept accurate and up to date. We aim to hold the most factually and up to date data, based on information given to us initially or by further communications and research. Individuals can easily rectify this via phone calls or email.

 

Security of personal information

We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.

We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure (password- and firewall-protected) servers.

All electronic financial transactions entered into through our website will be protected by encryption technology.

You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.

 

Amendments

We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.

You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.

We may notify you of changes to this policy [by email or through the private messaging system on our website].

 

Your rights

You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; provision of such information will be subject to:

1. the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity (for this purpose, we will usually accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a solicitor or bank plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address).

We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.

You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.

In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.

 

Third party websites

Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third party websites.

We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.

 

Updating information

Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

 

About cookies

A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

Cookies can be used by web servers to identify and track users as they navigate different pages on a website and identify users returning to a website.

 

Our cookies

A temporary cookie will be held containing information entered on our enquiry form. This is not persisted

We do embed Youtube videos on the site. Youtube may well create cookies for its own purposes but we do not use or persist them

 

Blocking cookies

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies; for example:

in Internet Explorer (version 11) you can block cookies using the cookie handling override settings available by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy” and then “Advanced”;
in Firefox (version 39) you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options”, “Privacy”, selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the drop-down menu, and unticking “Accept cookies from sites”; and
in Chrome (version 44), you can block all cookies by accessing the “Customise and control” menu, and clicking “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Content settings”, and then selecting “Block sites from setting any data” under the “Cookies” heading.
Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.

If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.

Deleting cookies
You can delete cookies already stored on your computer; for example:

in Internet Explorer (version 11), you must manually delete cookie files (you can find instructions for doing so at http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/internet-explorer/delete-manage-cookies#ie=ie-11);
in Firefox (version 39), you can delete cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options” and “Privacy”, then selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the drop-down menu, clicking “Show Cookies”, and then clicking “Remove All Cookies”; and
in Chrome (version 44), you can delete all cookies by accessing the “Customise and control” menu, and clicking “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Clear browsing data”, and then selecting “Cookies and other site and plug-in data” before clicking “Clear browsing data”.

Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.

 

Our details

This website is owned and operated by Cindercone Limited.

Registered in England & Wales no. 4532325

You can contact us using the details on our Contact Us page