Privacy & Cookies Policy

This Privacy Policy sets out the data processing practices carried out through the use of the Internet and any other electronic communications networks Colehouse Communications Ltd. If you have any requests concerning your personal information or any queries with regard to these practices please contact us at [email protected]. Please note that all data thus captured will be used and held in accordance with the requirements of the Data Protection Act 1998 and the subsequent legislation the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk) if you have any concerns about the way we collect or handle your personal information. We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance at [email protected] or via the address or telephone number given below.

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INFORMATION COLLECTED


We collect information from visitors to this website through the use of online forms / email hyperlinks and every time you email us your details.

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together follows:

Identity Data includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier, title, date of birth and gender.
Contact Data includes email address and telephone numbers.
Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, products and services.
Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
We also collect additional information automatically about your visit to our website.

USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. We process personal information collected via this website for the purposes of:

Providing and personalising our services
Dealing with your enquiries and requests
Crime prevention and prosecution of offenders
Carrying out market research campaigns
Providing you with information about products and services
Complying with a legal or regulatory obligation
Managing our relationship with you which includes notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy and status of job applications if applied online.
To administer and protect our business and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data)
To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences.

DATA CAPTURE FORMS

We will send you information according to the data you have submitted via our data capture form. If you would like to change this information or the manner in which we contact you at any time, please email us at [email protected], or call us on (01642) 917333. Alternatively you can also write to us at, Colehouse Communications, Commerce House, 1 Exchange Square, Middlesbrough, TS1 1DE.

MARKETING

Please note that your information may be used for our legitimate interest to send you details of those similar products or services that we offer that we have identified as likely to be of interest to you if you are an existing client. This will be in accordance with the data that you indicated when you completed your order form/data capture form.

If at any point you would like to opt-out of receiving communications from us, or would like to change the channels (such as email or post) that we use to contact you, please contact us at [email protected] or write to us at, Colehouse Communications, Commerce House, 1 Exchange Square, Middlesbrough, TS1 1DE.

Please note that the information you have provided us will never be passed to third parties for marketing purposes.

DISCLOSURES

We will not share your data with third parties except as required to do so to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation by government bodies and law enforcement agents.

OTHER WEBSITES

Our website may contain links to other websites that are outside our control and are not covered by this Privacy Policy. If you access other sites using the links provided, the operators of these sites may collect information from you that will be used by them in accordance with their privacy policy, which may differ from ours. We strongly advise that you check the privacy policy of these third party websites, especially when you are providing them with personal information.

YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. These rights include the right to;

Request access to your personal data
Request correction of your personal data.
Request erasure of your personal data.
Object to processing of your personal data.
Request restriction of processing your personal data.
Request transfer of your personal data.
Right to withdraw consent.You have the right to see what personal data we hold about you. To obtain a copy of the personal information we hold about you or to exercise any of the rights noted above, please write to us at [email protected], Colehouse Communications, Commerce House, 1 Exchange Square, Middlesbrough, TS1 1DE.

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may be entitled to refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS

We will always hold your data securely and in line with the requirements of UK data protection legislation. We do not currently transfer any of the personal data collected via our website outside the EEA.

In the unlikely event a transfer outside of the EEA were to become necessary, we will only make such transfer where it is legal to do so and where we can ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to your personal data in the recipient country. We will always ensure at least one of the following safeguards is implemented prior to any transfer of personal data outside the EEA:

We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the European Commission.
Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe.
Where we use providers based in the US, we may transfer data to them if they are part of the Privacy Shield which requires them to provide similar protection to personal data shared between the Europe and the US.

DATA SECURITY

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator (the Information Commissioners Office) of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

DATA RETENTION

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we originally collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements. If you require further information about how long we retain your personal data please contact us at [email protected].

AMENDMENTS

Please note that this privacy policy is subject to change from time to time. Please check back regularly for any changes.

COOKIES

To enhance your experience on ours, and client websites, many of our websites use “cookies”. Cookies are small text files that we place in your computer’s browser to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your email address or other personal information unless you choose to provide this information to us by, for example, registering at one of our sites. Once you choose to provide a website with personal information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie. A cookie is like an identification card. It is unique to your computer and can only be read by the server that gave it to you.

We use cookies to understand site usage and to improve the content and offerings on our sites. For example, we may use cookies to personalise your experience on our websites (e.g. to recognise you by name when you return to our site). We also may use cookies to offer you products and services which we believe you will like and welcome.

Cookies save you time as they help us to remember who you are. Cookies help us to be more efficient. We can learn about what content is important to you and what is not. We can revise or remove websites that are not of interest and focus our energies on content you want.

If you want to control which cookies you accept. You can configure your browser to accept all cookies or to alert you every time a cookie is offered by a website’s server. Most browsers automatically accept cookies. You can set your browser option so that you will not receive cookies and you can also delete existing cookies from your browser. You may find that some parts of the site will not function properly if you have refused cookies.

Please be aware that if you do not configure your browser you will accept cookies provided by our websites.

How to see cookies that you have accepted. You can configure your browser to accept all cookies or to alert you every time a cookie is offered by a website’s server.

We may also use small pieces of software code called “web beacons” or “clear gifs” to collect anonymous and aggregate advertising matrix, such as counting page views, promotion views, or advertising responses. A web beacon is an electronic image, called a single-pixel or clear GIF. Web beacons can recognise certain types of information on users computer, such as a user’s Cookie number, time and date of a page view, and description of the page where the web beacon is placed. You may render some web beacons unusable if you choose to reject their associated cookies. These web beacons may be used to deliver cookies that conform the our Cookie Policy.

Many of our search engine optimisation (SEO), Google Adwords or Pay Per Click (PPC) and web design customers utilise this page to provide details of the cookie policy of their business. This is an example of how we support our clients – allowing us to centrally, and without taking their valuable time, update policy text on their website.

For more information on the use of cookies, our services or a specific company’s policy – please contact us on (01642) 917333.

ESTABLISHED 2013

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