Introduction
We are committed to ensuring that your privacy and any personal data you share with us are secure. This notice describes how we collect, store, transfer and use personal data. It tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
In the context of the law and this notice, ‘personal data’ is information that clearly identifies you as an individual or which could be used to identify you if combined with other information. Acting in any way on personal data is referred to as ‘processing’.
Except as set out below, we do not share, or sell, or disclose to a third party, any information collected through our website.
Privacy Notice
This is the privacy notice of Pettitt Safety Engineering Ltd, Company Number 13799901 (‘we’, ‘our’, or ‘us’). Our registered office is at 320 Garratt Lane, Wandsworth, London SW184EJ
Personal data we process
The information we process about you is what you have directly provided to us. This includes; personal identifiers, such as your first and last names and your title, contact information, such as your email address, your telephone number.
We do not aggregate anonymous information such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose.
We do not collect or process any special personal about you, such as your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions or trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data.
We do not share or disclose to a third party, any information collected through our website.
Payment information is never requested through our website.
Information about you is collected if we have a contractual obligation with you. However if there is no contractual relationship, such as you contacting us for more information about our business, you provide your consent to us to process information that may be personal data.
If you have given us explicit permission to do so, we may from time to time pass your name and contact information to selected associates whom we consider may provide services or products you would find useful.
We continue to process your information on this basis until you withdraw your consent or it can be reasonably assumed that your consent no longer exists. You may withdraw your consent at any time by instructing us info@pettittsafety.co.uk.
Information we process for the purposes of legitimate interests
We may process information on the basis there is a legitimate interest, either to you or to us, of doing so.
Where we process your information on this basis, we do after having given careful consideration to whether the same objective could be achieved through other means and whether you would consider it reasonable to do so
For example, we may process your data on this basis for the purposes of:
· record-keeping for the proper and necessary administration of our business
· responding to unsolicited communication from you to which we believe you would expect a response
· preventing fraudulent use of our services
· exercising our legal rights, including to detect and prevent fraud and to protect our intellectual property
· insuring against or obtaining professional advice that is required to manage business risk
· protecting your interests where we believe we have a duty to do so
Sometimes, we must process your information in order to comply with a statutory obligation. For example, we may be required to give information to legal authorities if they so request or if they have the proper authorisation such as a search warrant or court order.
Referral partners
If you give us personal information in your capacity as an affiliate of us or as a referral partner, this is not used for any other purpose.
We undertake to preserve the confidentiality of the information and of the terms of our relationship. We expect any affiliate or partner to agree to reciprocate this policy.
Except as otherwise mentioned in this privacy notice, we keep your personal data only for as long as required by us.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer's hard drive by your web browser when you visit a website that uses them. They allow information gathered on one web page to be stored until it is needed for use at a later date. We do not use any cookies that are not strictly necessary for the operation of this website.
Your rights
The law requires us to tell you about your rights and our obligations to you in regard to the processing and control of your personal data. We do this now, by requesting that you read the information provided at http://www.knowyourprivacyrights.org
Control over your own information
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and up to date. Please inform us if your personal data changes.
Complaining
If you are not happy with our privacy policy, or if you have any complaint, then you should tell us by emailing info@pettittsafety.co.uk
If you are in any way dissatisfied about how we process your personal data, you have a right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). This can be done at https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/. We would, however, appreciate the opportunity to talk to you about your concern before you approach the ICO.
Compliance with the law
Our privacy policy complies with the law in the United Kingdom, specifically with the Data Protection Act 2018 (the ‘Act’) accordingly incorporating the EU General Data Protection Regulation (‘GDPR’) and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (‘PECR’).
Review of this privacy policy
We shall update this privacy notice from time to time as necessary.