Contracts Engineering Privacy Notice & Cookie Policy

11th December 2023

This Privacy Notice sets out how we, Contracts Engineering Ltd, process your personal data. We take the privacy of your personal data very seriously and all data captured is held in accordance with the requirements of data protection laws.

Contracts Engineering Ltd is the controller for personal data collected on this website. If you have any requests about your personal data, or queries about how we handle it, you can contact us by emailing enquiries@contractsengineering.com or by post at Unit 3/10 Trinity Trading Estate, Tribune Drive, Sittingbourne, Kent, ME10 2PH.

We process your personal data in accordance with the services we provide as follows:

  • Contract or agreement: Where the processing of your personal data is necessary for us to handle an enquiry, take the necessary steps in anticipation of a contracts or agreement, or to administer the contractual relationship between you and ourselves.
  • Consent: If you sign-up and check a box to give your consent to receive occasional marketing messages by email, phone or direct mail. We always make it clear what your data will be used for. You can unsubscribe from marketing messages at any time.
  • Legitimate interests:We have a legitimate interest in promoting relevant products and services. We also carry out marketing profiling and segmentation to ensure our communications are relevant and well targeted. But if you ask us not to send you marketing communications, we won’t send them. When we collect contact information that we would like to use for marketing, we will give you the opportunity at that time to tell us not to send it. If at any point you would like to opt-out of receiving marketing communications from us, or would like to change the channels (such as email, phone or post), please contact us.

Keeping your personal data safe

We take appropriate steps to ensure your personal data is stored in a secure environment to prevent loss or misuse of your personal data. In case of a data protection breach of a nature likely to result in a risk to the rights of the individual we will contact the supervisory body within 72 hours, and the individual(s) concerned without undue delay.

Who we may share personal data with

In carrying out our business including our obligations to you, we may use sub-contractors. These will be businesses such as supply chain partners or marketing agencies. We will endeavour to ensure that they respect your privacy and abide by all data protection laws.

We may share personal data with other organisations or public bodies for legal purposes, such the police, law enforcement agencies, fraud prevention agencies and other bodies where is necessary or appropriate for the prevention or detection of crime or to protect the rights, property, or safety of any person.

How long we keep personal data

We keep personal data in connection with the services for which it was collected for an appropriate period of time and in accordance with the law.

Links to third-party websites

There may be links on this site that take you to domains not under the direct control of Contracts Engineering Ltd – you are advised to read the specific Privacy Notices of those domain owners before sharing any personal data.

Use of cookies

This website uses cookies, which are text files placed on your device when you use a website. When you use our website we will ask you whether you agree to us using cookies for certain purposes. It’s up to you whether to agree to us using cookies.

You can manage these small files yourself and learn more about them through the Direct Gov website: browser cookies – what they are and how to manage them

We use Google Analytics on our website to keep a track of what pages our users are visiting most frequently cookies to help us accurately estimate the number of visitors to the website and volumes of usage. This is to ensure that the service is available when you want it and fast.

 

Your data rights

You have rights in respect of your personal data.

  • Right to be informed about how your personal data is being used
  • Right of access to the data we hold and how we’re processing it
  • Right to have any incorrect personal data corrected or completed if it is incomplete
  • Right to ask us to erase personal data where there is no valid reason for us to keep it
  • Right to restrict processing
  • Right to object to our processing of your personal data based on legitimate interests
  • Right to lodge a complaint to the supervisory authority. If you are unhappy with any aspect of our handling of your data have the right to make a complaint to the local regulator for data protection. The UK regulator for data protection is the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). However, we would like to help and we would appreciate it if you would give us the opportunity to resolve any concerns you may have.

We may make changes to this Privacy Notice over time and any changes will be published on this page.

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