Introduction
This website has been provided for information purposes regarding us and our services offered. We are fully committed to protecting your privacy. The following information describes how the data collected via our website is secured, stored and transferred. Please read this document carefully as use of this site is legally bound accordingly.
What Information do we collect
When visiting our website there are several services requiring the supply of personal information. In order to contact us, certain personal contact details must be given. These include your name, email address and contact telephone number. Registering with us to receive our monthly newsletter requires personal data such as your name and email address to be provided.
Access to the Information Collected
We retain all information collected from the website and in no circumstances is data divulged to third parties outside of our company without prior consent from the persons concerned.
Securing and Storing Your Data
We follow strict policies when dealing with your personal information, adhering to the highest standards of security in the process. Our computer systems are installed with various firewall applications in order to protect your details so that no documents are damaged, destroyed or disclosed to third parties without necessary permission. All information received via the website is stored in my company’s restricted office with no access to unauthorised persons.
We do not store credit card details nor do we share customer details with any 3rd parties.
What we collect:
We may collect the following information through contact forms, call back requests and newsletter sign-ups.
– name and job title
– website details
– contact information including email address and phone number
demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers
What we do with the information
We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular, we may use the information for the following reasons:
– for internal record keeping
– to improve my products and services
to periodically send promotional emails (using the email address which you have provided) about new products, special offers or other information that may be of interest to you to customise the website according to your interests
How I use cookies
A cookie is a small file that asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once the file has been added, the cookie helps analyse web traffic or identify when you visit a particular site, unless you turn them off. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
Please visit: http://www.aboutcookies.org for more information on cookies.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website, tailoring it to our customer’s needs. We only use this information for the purpose of statistical analysis.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful. In no way do cookies give us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data that you choose to share with us. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept them, but you can usually modify your browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer. However, this may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
Analytics Cookie
The Google Analytics cookie allows us to see information on user website activities including, but not limited to page views, source and time spent on website. The information is depersonalised and is displayed as numbers, meaning it cannot be tracked back to individuals. This will help to protect your privacy. Using Google Analytics we can see what content is popular on our website, and strive to give you more of the things you enjoy reading and watching.
Civic Cookie Control
To help you better understand cookies, we use the Civic cookie control plugin. To remember your choices with this tool, we store a cookie. This means you only have to choose your preferences once.
Conversion tracking codes
Using Google AdWords code we are able to see which pages helped lead to contact form submissions. This allows us to make better use of our paid search budget.
Social sharing codes
We use social sharing buttons for services including Twitter, Share This, Google+ and Facebook. These allow you to share pages with your friends via those networks. Whilst you will be asked to login to use these services, this process is handled directly with the social sharing providers and their databases and servers. These sites may also monitor your usage of the buttons, through the use of external tracking codes that are required to run the buttons on this website.
Email codes
If you have opted in to receive our opt-in, then this may include tracking codes that help us understand who, as well as how many people have opened or clicked on each email. This data helps us to create better emails in the future, and provide you with a better service. This data is stored on the servers of my email partners and covered under their security measures.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over the other websites. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Affiliate links
This website may contain affiliate links. If you click on these affiliate links and visit the resulting site, a cookie may be set in your web browser. As a result of your clicking on the affiliate link, if you were to purchase a product or service, we will receive commission for the purchase. This is a legitimate way to monetize and pay for the operation of the website. We will gladly reveal our affiliate relationships to you if you require more information.
In addition, hyperlinks on this site may be shortened. The purpose of which is to hide long links for functionality and tracking
purposes.
We do not receive physical products or cash directly in exchange for any reviews or posts. No one has paid us for reviews or posts, and these are not influenced by our affiliate relationships and will not create a conflict of interest, but you must decide by considering the affiliate relationships. We avoid any such conflict by only promoting the products and services that we trust. We always aim to give our honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on topics or products that we write about and promote.
Controlling your personal information
You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:
If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may opt-out at any time by writing to or emailing us via the contact page We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties that may be relevant to your indicated needs.
You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held then please write to us.
If you believe that any information we are holding about you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible at the address detailed below. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.
Variations to the Policy
We reserve the right to alter and change information provided in this document at our own discretion and therefore this document should be regularly referred to for updates and variations.
If you have any questions regarding this policy, our contact details are as follows:
Duke Brothers Ltd.
30th Floor,
Leadenhall Building
London EC3V 4AB
Tel: 0207 5161 001