Website Privacy Policy for www.kent-health-safety.co.uk
Published 28 August 2010.
Your privacy is important.
Adam Cowper-Smith Consultant trading as Positive Health and Safety are committed to protecting your privacy.
Positive Health and Safety are committed to protecting and preserving the privacy of visitors to our website; this policy together with our terms of use explains how we will treat your personal information when visiting our website or communicating electronically with us
The Data Protection Act
Under the Data Protection Act, Positive Health and Safety have a legal duty to protect any information collected from you. We do not pass on your details to any third party unless you give us permission to do so.
For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 our data controller responsible for the information collected on this website is Adam Cowper-Smith MBICSc.
Information Collected by Positive Health and Safety
Adam Cowper-Smith Consultant trading as Positive Health and Safety does not sell, trade or rent your personal information to others. Your personal information will not be disclosed to third parties without your consent unless it is required by law.
What information do we collect?
In operating our website Positive Health and Safety might collect and process the following data about you:
Feedback (through visitors emailing us or registering for updates) and site usage information, from a cookie, log files and page tagging.
Information that you provide by filling in forms on our website, such as when you register for information.
Information relating to any transactions carried out between you and us on or in relation to this website, including information relating to any purchases you make of our goods or services.
Information about the use of the Positive Health and Safety website
Use of Cookies
A cookie is a very small text file that is placed on your hard drive by the server of a web page you visit.
The information collected will not identify you personally, it is statistical data about our visitors and their use of our site and does not identify any personal details whatsoever.
Where used, these cookies are downloaded to your computer automatically.
In the future, Positive Health and Safety might use cookie files to help personalise our website and help improve your experience when you are visiting it
Every computer has the ability to decline cookies, which can be done by activating the setting on your browser that enables you to decline cookies. If you do choose to decline cookies, you might be unable to access certain areas of our website.
Using your personal information
The information that Positive Health and Safety collect via this website and store relating to you is primarily used to help us to provide our services to you. It will be used for the purposes specified in this privacy policy and as we develop our website we might use your personal information to:
- Administer the website.
- Improve your browsing experience by personalising the website.
- To allow us to meet our contractual commitments to you and enable your use of the services available on the website.
- Send goods to you and/or services that you might purchase via the website.
- So that we can provide you with information requested from us, relating to our products or services.
- Send statements or invoices to you, and collect payments from you.
- Send to you our company blog, newsletter and other marketing communications relating to our business which we think might be of interest to you by post or, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications).
- Deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website
We might contact existing customers with information about goods and/or services of a similar nature to those which were previously supplied or provided to them.
New customers will only be contacted by Positive Health and Safety and we will only allow third parties to contact them when you have given consent and only by the means that you gave consent for.
Positive Health and Safety or the third party might contact you about these goods and/or services by any of the methods that you consented to at the time your information was collected.
Where you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the license you grant to us.
Disclosing Your Information
So that we are able to provide the quality of service that you would expect, on occasions we might disclose information about you to any of our employees, officers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors for the purposes as set out in this privacy policy.
Security of your personal information
Data that is provided to us is stored on secure computers and servers in the UK however in the future we might transfer data that we collect from you to locations outside of the European Economic Area for processing and storing. In submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. Positive Health and Safety will take all reasonable steps to make sure that your data is treated securely and in agreement with this Privacy Policy.
Since transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure we cannot guarantee the security of data sent to Positive Health and Safety electronically therefore transmission of data is entirely at your own risk. Where Positive Health and Safety have given you (or where you have chosen) a password to access certain areas of our website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential.
We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
We will only disclose your personal information:
When we are required to do so by law.
In connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings.
So that we can establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk). To assist fraud protection and minimise credit risk
To a third party buyer (or prospective buyer) of this business or any asset if we sell (or are considering) selling.
We will not provide your information to any third party except as stated in this privacy policy.
Updating information
Please let us know if the personal information which we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated
What happens when I use a link to or from a third party website?
Positive Health and Safety do not pass on any personal information you have given us to any other website.
The Positive Health and Safety website contains links to other websites owned by third parties. This privacy policy applies only to our site; therefore you should always be aware when you are moving to another site that you will need to read the privacy statement of that website which collects your personal information.
We do not pass on any personal information you have given us to any other site.
Links to the Positive Health and Safety website.
If you have followed a link from another website to our website you could be supplying information to a third party yourself
Storing Your Personal Data
Data that is provided to us is stored on secure computers and servers in the UK however in the future we might transfer data that we collect from you to locations outside of the European Economic Area for processing and storing. In submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. Positive Health and Safety will take all reasonable steps to make sure that your data is treated securely and in agreement with this Privacy Policy.
Access to Information
The Data Protection Act allows you to have access to any information held about you where appropriate you can ask to have it corrected or deleted.
There is a charge for providing you with the information requested of a minimum payment of £10 to cover our costs along with evidence of your identity (usually photocopy of your passport certified by a solicitor or bank plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address).
If you would like to see our records of any correspondence you have sent to us, or if you have a query or complaint about this privacy policy or about the site then please contact us by email or write to us at the address below.
Feedback
While we welcome your feedback, if you post comments on our blog, or other interactive features on our web-site your message will be visible to any web-site visitor subject to our comment policy. Your email address or personal information however will not be visible (unless you include that information in the message itself).
Contacting Adam Cowper-Smith Consultant trading as Positive Health and Safety
Positive Health and Safety welcome any questions, , comments, requests or queries about our treatment of your personal information that you might have regarding this Privacy Policy. Please contact us by e-mail or at our office address.
Particulars of Ownership
This Website is owned and managed by Adam Cowper-Smith Consultant trading as Positive Health and Safety (“the Company)
9 Clare Road Whitstable Kent CT5 2EL.All information on this site is Copyright ©2010, Adam Cowper-Smith Consultant trading as Positive Health and Safety unless otherwise noted.
Policy amendments
Positive Health and Safety might update this privacy policy from time-to-time by posting a new version on our website. To stay up to date with it you should check this page occasionally to make sure you are aware of any changes that we have made.
Terms of Use of this Site
The following terms and conditions govern your use of the information contained in or available through this website. By accessing this website you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions, and acknowledge that we might change these conditions at any time by posting a revised version here.
Positive Health and Safety does not warrant or represent that the information and data contained in this website is accurate, current, complete or suitable for your purpose. Considering the fact that all information on this site is provided without charge, Positive Health and Safety will not be liable to users of this website for any losses or damages, whether direct, indirect, special or consequential wherein contract, tort or otherwise arising from this website or any linked websites for whatever reason.
Your use of this website is governed by English law and the English courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any disputes arising from or in connection with the use, misuse or inability to use this website.
Positive Health and Safety do not charge VAT for products, services, and prices are quoted, which will be supplied subject to Adam Cowper-Smith Consultant trading as Positive Health and Safety Terms and Conditions.