Privacy and cookies policy
1. Introduction
1.1 We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors; in this policy we explain how we will treat your personal information.
2. Collecting personal information
2.1 We may collect store and use the following kinds of personal information:
(a) information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website (including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths;
(b) information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our email notifications and/or newsletters (including your name, email address and contact details).
(c) information that you provide to us when using the services on our website, or that is generated in the course of the use of those services (including the timing, frequency and pattern of service use);
(d) information that you post to our website for publication on the internet (including [your user name, and the content of your posts);
(e) information contained in or relating to any communication that you send to us or send through our website (includingthe communication content and metadata associated with the communication);
(f) any other personal information that you choose to send to us
2. Using personal information
2.1 Personal information submitted to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website.
2.2 We may use your personal information to:
(a) administer our website and business;
(b) enable your use of the services available on our website;
(c) send statements, invoices and payment reminders to you, and collect payments from you;
(d) send you non-marketing commercial communications;
(e) send you email notifications that you have specifically requested;
(f) send you our email newsletter, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter);
(g) send you marketing communications relating to our business which we think may be of interest to you, by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications);
(h) provide third parties with statistical information about our users (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information)
(i) deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website;
(j) keep our website secure and prevent fraud;
(k) verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website.
2.3 If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the licence you grant to us.
2.4. We will not, without your express consent, supply your personal information to any third party for the purpose of their or any other third party's direct marketing.
3. Disclosing personal information
3.1 We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, professional advisers, insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
3.2. We may disclose your personal information:
(a) to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
(b) in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
(c) in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);
(d) to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling; and
(e) to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.
3.3 Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.
4. International data transfers
Any information you submit for publication on our website may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.
4.2. You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this Section 5.
5. Retaining personal information
5.1 Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
5.2. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 5, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
(a) to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
(b) if we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; and
(c) in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).
6. Security of personal information
6.1 We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
7. Amendments
7.1 We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.
8. Your rights
8.1 You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; provision of such information will be subject to:
(a) the payment of a fee (currently fixed at GBP 10); and
(b) the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity
8.1 We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.
8.2 You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.
8.3. In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.
9. Third party websites
9.1 Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third party websites.
9.2 We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.
10. Updating information
10.1 Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
11. About cookies
11.1 A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.
11.2 Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
11.3 Cookies can be used by web servers to identify and track users as they navigate different pages on a website and identify users returning to a website.
13. Analytics cookies
13.1 We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website.
13.2 Our analytics service provider generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies.
13.3 The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website.
13.4 Our analytics service provider's privacy policy is available at: [http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/].
14. Third party cookies
14.1 Our website also uses third party cookies.
14.2 Details of other third party cookies used by our website are set out below:
(a) Squarespace may use cookies which are necessary for the proper operation of our system. Use of these cookies doesn't require consent under current European Union legislation.
15. Blocking cookies
15.1 Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies; for example:
(a) in Internet Explorer (version 11) you can block cookies using the cookie handling override settings available by clicking "Tools", "Internet Options", "Privacy" and then "Advanced";
(b) in Firefox (version 39) you can block all cookies by clicking "Tools", "Options", "Privacy", selecting "Use custom settings for history" from the drop-down menu, and unticking "Accept cookies from sites"; and
(c) in Chrome (version 44), you can block all cookies by accessing the "Customise and control" menu, and clicking "Settings", "Show advanced settings" and "Content settings", and then selecting "Block sites from setting any data" under the "Cookies" heading.
15.2 Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.
15.3 If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.
16. Deleting cookies
16.1 You can delete cookies already stored on your computer; for example:
(a) in Internet Explorer (version 11), you must manually delete cookie files (you can find instructions for doing so at http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/internet-explorer/delete-manage-cookies#ie=ie-11);
(b) in Firefox (version 39), you can delete cookies by clicking "Tools", "Options" and "Privacy", then selecting "Use custom settings for history" from the drop-down menu, clicking "Show Cookies", and then clicking "Remove All Cookies"; and
(c) in Chrome (version 44), you can delete all cookies by accessing the "Customise and control" menu, and clicking "Settings", "Show advanced settings" and "Clear browsing data", and then selecting "Cookies and other site and plug-in data" before clicking "Clear browsing data".
16.2 Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.
17. Our details
17.1 This website is owned and operated by Cadworks UK. We are registered in England and Wales under registration number 5318495 and our registered office is at Unit 1, Woodhill Street, Bury, Lancashire, United Kingdom, BL8 1AT