PRIVACY POLICY

This privacy policy is for this website, www.vsparx.co.uk and is provided by Vsparx Electrical and refers to the privacy of its users who choose to use it. It details how we comply with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), the DPA (Data Protection Act).

This policy will explain areas of this website that may affect your privacy and personal details, how we process, collect, manage and store those details and how your rights under the GDPR & DPA are adhered to. Additionally, it will explain the use of cookies or software, advertising or commercial sponsorship from third parties and the download of any documents, files or software made available to you (if any) on this website. Further explanations may be provided for specific pages or features of this website in order to help you understand how we, this website and its third parties (if any) interact with you and your computer/device in order to serve it to you. Our contact information is provided if you have any questions.

The DPA & GDPR May 2018

We and this website complies with the DPA (Data Protection Act 1998) and already complies with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) which comes into effect from May 2018.

How We May Collect Your Personal Data

We obtain personal data about you, for example, when:

You have entered your personal details in any of the forms that may appear on our website.

You have contacted us via other methods, such as telephone, text, direct mail or in-person.

Your details have been collated from 3rd parties such as employer/publicly available resources.

The Type Of Information Held About You

The information we hold about you may include:

Your personal details (such as your name/address/contact information);

Details of services/products we have provided;

Our correspondence and communications with you.

How Your Data May Be Used

We will keep your personal information:

For as long as required by law.

Until we no longer have a valid reason for keeping it.

Until you request us to stop using it.

Your data will also be used to notify you of any changes to our services/products.

Data retention

Your data will only be held for as long as necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it was initially collected.

Is Your Data Secure

We maintain reasonable physical, electronic, standard security practices surrounding all data stored. Access to all data is limited to authorised access only. We will make reasonable efforts to ensure that your privacy interests are protected.

Right To Withdraw Consent

If you have given us your consent to process your data but change your mind later, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. If you want to withdraw your consent, please contact us directly at info@vsparx.co.uk.

Use of Cookies

This website uses cookies to provide an enhanced user experience while visiting the website. As required by legislation, the cookies used on this site do not store any personal data but instead make use of anonymous tracking data.

What are cookies? Cookies are small files saved to the user’s computers hard drive that track, save and store information about the user’s interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.

Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website onto their computers hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors or use the cookie control system if available upon their first visit.

Types of Cookies that we may use

Strictly necessary cookies:

These cookies are required to enable your visit to the site and to navigate between pages and use the features of our website.

Performance cookies:

These cookies do not collect any personal information; they are anonymous and record statistical information about how visitors navigate our website. They help us to improve how our website functions and will allow us to make future improvements to visitor experience.

By using our website, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device. All browsers have the functionality to allow users to block cookies from specific sites or to block cookies from all sites, as well as allowing the user to delete all cookies from their hard drive. Please refer to your browser’s help facility.

Disclosing Your Information to Third Parties

We do not pass on your details to third parties without prior consent. In the event that we need to share your data with a third party, we will request your permission prior to this.

Website Visitor Tracking

This website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. The software will save a cookie to your device’s hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information.

Downloads & Media Files

Any downloadable documents, files or media made available on this website are provided to users at their own risk. While all precautions have been undertaken to ensure only genuine downloads are available users are advised to verify their authenticity using third party anti-virus software or similar applications.

We accept no responsibility for third party downloads and downloads provided by external third party websites and advise users to verify their authenticity using third party anti-virus software or similar applications.

Contact & Communication With us

Users contacting us through this website do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use.

Where we have clearly stated and made you aware of the fact, and where you have given your express permission, we may use your details to send you products/services information through a mailing list system. This is done in accordance with the regulations named in ‘The policy’ above.

External Website Links & Third Parties

Although we only look to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised to adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website. (External links are clickable text/banner/image links to other websites.)

Shortened URL’s; URL shortening is a technique used on the web to shorten URL’s (Uniform Resource Locators) to something substantially shorter. This technique is especially used in social media and looks similar to this (example: https://goo.gl/a46UYV). Users should take caution before clicking on shortened URL links and verify their authenticity before proceeding.

We cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite our best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and we cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Social Media Policy & Usage

We adopt a Social Media Policy to ensure our business and our staff conduct themselves accordingly online. While we may have official profiles on social media platforms, users are advised to verify authenticity of such profiles before engaging with, or sharing information with such profiles. We will never ask for user passwords or personal details on social media platforms. Users are advised to conduct themselves appropriately when engaging with us on social media.

There may be instances where our website features social sharing buttons, which help share web content directly from web pages to the respective social media platforms. You use social sharing buttons at your own discretion and accept that doing so may publish content to your social media profile feed or page.

Your Rights

You have the following rights under GDPR as follows:

Access – you have the right to be provided with a copy of your personal data.

Rectification – you have the right to require us to correct any mistakes in your personal data.

To be forgotten – you have the

 right to require us to delete your personal data—subject to certain exceptions.

Restriction of processing – you have the right to require us to restrict processing of your personal data.

Data portability – to the extent required by the General Data Protection Regulations (“GDPR”) where we are processing your personal data (i) under your consent, (ii) because such processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are party or to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract or (iii) by automated means, you may ask us to provide it to you – or another service provider – in a machine-readable format.

To object – to the extent required by GDPR you have the right to object to our processing of your personal data for (i) direct marketing purposes, (ii) scientific or historical research purposes, or (iii) statistical purposes unless such processing is necessary for performance of a task carried out for reasons of public interest.

Automated individual decision-making, including profiling – to the extent required by GDPR you have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing (including profiling) which produces legal effects concerning you, or similarly significantly affects you.

To withdraw consent – to the extent required by GDPR where we are processing your personal data with your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent. You can do this at any time by contacting us.

For further information on each of these rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, please contact us or see the Guidance from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on individuals’ rights under the General Data Protection Regulation.

If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please:

Email, call or write to us;

Let us have enough information to identify you;

Let us have proof of your identity and address (a copy of your driving licence or passport and a recent utility or credit card bill); and

Let us know the information to which your request relates.

How to Complain

We hope that we can resolve any query or concern you raise about our use of your information. If you are not satisfied with how we manage your personal data, you have the right to make a complaint at any time to the ICO (the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO, so please contact us in the first instance.

Other Websites

This website may contain links to other websites. This privacy policy only applies to this website, so when you link to other websites, you should read their own privacy policies.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We may change this privacy policy from time to time. You should check this policy occasionally to ensure you are aware of the most recent version that will apply each time you access this website.

Contact

Please contact us if you have any questions about our privacy policy or information we hold about you. By email: info@vsparx.co.uk

Review of this Policy

We keep this Policy under regular review. This Policy was last updated on 20th April 2022.