We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors; this policy sets out how we will treat your personal information.
(1) What information may we collect from you?
We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal information:
- Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site, emailing us, posting material or subscribing to our newsletter.
- Information relating to any transactions carried out between you and us on or in relation to this website, including information relating to any purchases you make of our goods or services.
- If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
- We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
- We use IP Address tracking technology to identify businesses visiting our site and the pages that are being used.
- Any other information that you choose to send to us.
(2) Cookies
Our website uses cookies. By continuing to use our website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.
(a) About cookies
Cookies are small text files stored on your device by a web browser that hold information about your visits to our site. Cookies perform many different tasks within our website, which we will outline below. But their key purpose is to help us provide you with a good experience when you browse our website, and allow us to improve our site. For more information on cookies, visit the official ICO website at www.ico.gov.uk
Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies. A persistent cookie consists of a text file sent by a web server to a web browser, which will be stored by the browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date (unless deleted by the user before the expiry date). A session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.
(b) How we use cookies
There are four types of cookies we use on our site. Here’s how and why we use them.
| Type of cookies | Purpose | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Site functionality cookies | These cookies allow you to navigate the site and use our features. These are session cookies. | – None present |
| Site analytics cookies | These cookies allow us to measure and analyse how our customers use the site, to improve both its functionality and your user experience. This includes persistent cookies. | – Google Tag Manager – Google Analytics |
| Customer preference cookies | When you are browsing our site, these cookies will remember your preferences, so we can make your website experience more personal to you. These are persistent cookies. | – Google Tag Manager |
| Marketing cookies | These cookies are used to deliver ads relevant to you. They also limit the number of times that you see an ad and help us measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. These are persistent cookies. | – Google Tag Manager – Google AdWords – Google Doubleclick |
(e) Blocking cookies
Most browsers will allow you to refuse to accept cookies. In order to do this please refer to your browser vendor’s help documentation.
Blocking all cookies will, however, have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you may not be able to use some of the functionality on this website.
(f) Deleting cookies
Most browsers will allow you to refuse to delete cookies stored on your computer. In order to do this please refer to your browser vendor’s help documentation.
Obviously, doing this may have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.
(3) Using your personal information
Personal information submitted to us via this website will be used for the purposes specified in this privacy policy or in relevant parts of the website.
We may use your personal information to:
- administer the website;
- improve your browsing experience by personalising the website;
- enable your use of the services available on the website;
- send to you goods purchased via the website, and supply to you services purchased via the website;
- send statements and invoices to you, and collect payments from you;
- send you general (non-marketing) commercial communications;
- send you email notifications which you have specifically requested;
- send you our newsletter and other marketing communications relating to our business (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications);
- provide third parties with statistical information about our users – but this information will not be used to identify any individual user;
- deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to the website.
(4) Disclosures
We may disclose information about you to any of our employees, officers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes as set out in this privacy policy.
In addition, we may disclose your personal information:
- to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
- in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings;
- 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);
- to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset which we are (or are contemplating) selling;
- 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.
Except as provided in this privacy policy, we will not provide your information to third parties.
(5) International data transfers
Information that we collect may be processed by staff operating outside the EEA (Europeon Economic Area) who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff maybe engaged in, for example, the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
(6) Security of your personal information
We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
Of course, data transmission over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
(7) Policy amendments
We may update this privacy policy from time-to-time by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes.
(8) Your rights
You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you. Provision of such information will be subject to:
- the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity (for this purpose, we will usually accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a solicitor or bank plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address).
We may withhold such personal information to the extent permitted by law.
You may instruct us not to process your personal information for marketing purposes by email at any time. 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
The website contains links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of third party websites.
(10) Updating information
Please let us know if the personal information which we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
(11) Contact
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our treatment of your personal information, please write to us by email to hello@creedcomms.co.uk or by post to Creed Communications Ltd, 3 Tabley Court, Victoria Street, Altrincham, WA14 1EZ.
