Protect Canopies Limited Privacy Policy

Introduction

This policy describes how we collect and process your personal data that we acquire or that you provide us. Protect Canopies Ltd (we) are the data controller and we are responsible for the
processing of your personal data. This Privacy Policy only relates to personal data collected by Protect Canopies Ltd via the company’s website, membership forms, survey responses, emails, phone calls and other platforms we communicate with you on.

What data do we collect on you and how will we process it?

Contact information : We collect data such as name, email, phone number. We process this data to communicate with you. The basis for processing this data is legitimate interest.

Product / Service data : We collect data on any purchases, or enquiries relating to the products and services we sell, including contact information, shows details, payment details. Our legal basis for processing this data is the performance of contract. If you choose not to provide us with the required information, we may not be able to provide the product to you or may have to cancel your order.

Website / Online data / Social Media data : We collect information on how you use our website, including IP addresses, content you view and your activity on our site. This helps us to provide relevant content, a secure website and administer our website. We also collect data on any activity you have on our social media channels and use this to inform further social media activity. We process this data on the basis of legitimate interest to enable us to administer our website and business and inform our marketing strategy to grow the business.

Marketing Data : This will include data on your marketing preferences and responses to previous marketing activity. This data is processed to inform future marketing activities. We process this data on the basis of legitimate interest to inform our marketing strategy to grow the business. We do not process any sensitive data. We will take the upmost care to prevent loss or unintentional disclosure of your personal data. We will only use your data for a purpose it was collected or something reasonably compatible if necessary.

How do we collect your personal data?

You may provide personal data directly to us. Alternatively, your personal data can be acquired through external list purchase and personal data available in the public domain such as LinkedIn,
exhibition websites and Companies House. We may receive data from third party providers such as Google and Facebook who are not based in the EU. We may also automatically collect your data when you send us emails, fill out forms or visit our website (via cookies).

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, smartphone or other device when you access the internet. Why are cookies essential? This website, along with many others, uses cookies. Cookies let users navigate around sites and (where appropriate) let us tailor the content to fit the needs of our site’s visitors. Without cookies enabled we can’t guarantee that the website and your experience of it are as we intended it to be.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Using your data for Marketing

We will use your data for marketing purposes and to inform future marketing activities. We process this data on the basis of legitimate interest to inform our marketing strategy to grow the business. We do not sell your data to any third party for the purposes of their own marketing. Under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations we can send you marketing if you have made a purchase or enquired about our products and services or you have provided consent for us to do so. If you have subsequently opted out, we will not send you marketing. If you are a Limited company we can marketing via text and email without your consent, but we’ll give the opportunity to opt out every time.

Sharing your data

We will share your data with 3rd parties :

To fulfil and deliver products and services to you
To administer our IT
To administer our banking, insurance, legal requirements
Other parties who we sell or transfer our assets or who we merge with

Your Rights Under the General Data Protection Regulations

You have the following rights :

The right to be informed
The right of access
The right to rectification
The right to erasure
The right to restrict processing
The right to data portability
The right to object
Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling.

For more information, please visit the Information Commisoner’s Website. You have the right to ask us in writing, for a copy of all the personal data held about you. This is known
as a ‘data subject access request’. We will collate the data requested and send it to you within the maximum period as stipulated by the General Data Protection Regulations 2018. Please apply in writing to: Toby Milan, Director, Protect Canopies Ltd, 62 Bridge Road East, Welwyn Garden City, Herts AL7 1JU UK.

Verifying, updating and amending your personal information

We aim to keep your records as up-to-date as possible. If, at any time, you want to verify, update or amend your personal data or preferences please contact us. This also relates to opting-out of future communication such as e-mail post etc for items other than those related strictly to your purchases and transactions with us. Please provide your surname, company and postcode to help us track your information. You can contact us by post : Toby Milan, Director, Protect Canopies Ltd, 62 Bridge Road East, Welwyn Garden City, Herts AL7 1JU UK or by email: [email protected]

3 rd Party Links

Our websites contains links to websites owned and operated by third parties. If you use these links you leave our website. These links are provided for your information and convenience only and are not an endorsement by us of the content of such linked websites or third party services. We have no control of the content of any linked website and is not responsible for these websites or their content or availability. We therefore makes no warranties or representations, express or implied about such linked websites, the third parties they are owned and operated by, the information contained on them or the suitability of quality of their products or services. If you decide to access any third party websites and make use of the information contained on them and/or enter into any contract for the supply of goods or services from such third party and/or make any donations to such third party, you do so entirely at your own risk. We accept no liability for damage or loss, however caused in the connection with the use of or reliance on any information, material, products or services contained on or accessed through any such linked website

Notification of Changes

If Protect Canopies Ltd decides to change its privacy policy, it will post such changes on its website under the section entitled ‘Privacy Policy’