Ray West Builders Ltd Data Privacy Statement

Terminology

Personal data is any information that could identify a person (data subject).  Personal sensitive data relates to information concerning a data subject’s racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, trade union activities, physical or mental health, sexual life, or details of criminal offences.

A data subject is any identified or identifiable person whose personal data is processed by the data controller.

A data controller determines the purposes for data processing and the way personal data is processed.

Processing is any action or actions performed on personal data such as collection, organisation, storage, erasure or destruction.

Data Collection

Ray West Builders Ltd collects personal data that is required for services.  Ray West Builders Ltd may be required to contact data subjects in support of services and therefore may collect contact details such as name, email address, telephone number and address.  Ray West Builders Ltd collects any additional data received by email, letter, telephone, through raywest-builders.co.uk or by any other means of correspondence.  Personal data is not sourced externally or from third parties.

Ray West Builders Ltd does not retain bank details belonging to data subjects.

Ray West Builders Ltd can store personal data obtained from social media interactions outside of social media platforms if service requests or enquiries are received; the information is then covered as outlined in this policy.

Ability to provide products and services may be affected if data subjects choose not to provide some or all of the aforementioned information to Ray West Builders Ltd.

Data Protection and Retention

Ray West Builders Ltd has security measures in place to protect personal data and access to personal data is restricted to authority figures within Ray West Builders Ltd.  There is also a Firewall (security software) in place to protect internal information from the internet.  Ray West Builders Ltd does not share personal data with third parties.

Ray West Builders Ltd retains personal data for no longer than it is necessary for the purpose(s) for which it was provided; what this means in practice will vary between different types of data.  Personal data retained by Ray West Builders Ltd can be reviewed at any time to determine whether it is still needed which can result in the destruction or archiving of personal data.  Please be aware that companies can keep personal data for longer if kept for public interest archiving or statistical purposes.

Other Data Processing

Ray West Builders Ltd acts as a data controller by processing personal data.  Processing must be with legitimate interest and compatible with the reason the data was originally collected.

Ray West Builders Ltd may use personal data to provide data subjects with requested products and services; this can be in the form of contacting data subjects however Ray West Builders Ltd does not contact data subjects with marketing information.

Ray West Builders Ltd may be required to process personal data for investigating, detecting and reporting crime; to demonstrate compliance and to actively comply with industry standards and any laws and acts that may apply.

Google Analytics

When raywest-builders.co.uk is visited, a third party service called Google Analytics is used to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns.  This is to discover factors such as the number of visitors to various parts of the site.  This information is processed in a way that does not identify anyone; Ray West Builders Ltd does not make, and does not allow Google to make, any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting raywest-builders.co.uk.

Cookies

Data may be obtained from cookies through raywest-builders.co.uk.  These are small text files that are placed on a computer by visited websites; they are widely used to make websites work or work more efficiently.  Cookies also enable delivery of more personalised content.  Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings.  Please note that in a few cases some website features may not function if cookies are removed from the browser.

External Websites

Raywest-builders.co.uk may contain links to external websites.  Ray West Builders Ltd is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites and encourages visitors to read the privacy statements of every website that collects personal data.

Rights

Data subjects have the following rights regarding their personal data:

The right to be informed

Data subjects have the right to clear, transparent and understandable information regarding their rights and how Ray West Builders Ltd uses their personal data.  This is the purpose of providing data subjects and visitors to raywest-builders.co.uk with a privacy policy.

The right of access

Data subjects have the right to access the personal data that is being processed by Ray West Builders Ltd.

The right to rectification

Data subjects are entitled to correct their personal data if it is inaccurate.

The right to be forgotten / erasure

Data subjects are entitled to request the deletion of their personal data where there is no exigent reason for Ray West Builders Ltd to continue processing it.  There are exceptions to erasure.

The right to restrict processing

Data subjects have the right to put an end to the processing of their personal data in certain circumstances.  Ray West Builders Ltd can continue to store personal data when processing is restricted but may not further process it.

The right of data portability

Data subjects have the right to acquire and reuse their personal data in certain circumstances as well as the right to have their personal data directly transferred to third parties in certain circumstances.

The right to object

Data subjects have the right to object to Ray West Builders Ltd processing their personal data for business interests, marketing purposes and related profiling.

The right to withdraw consent

Data subjects who have given consent to Ray West Builders Ltd to process their personal data have the right to withdraw their consent at any time.  Any processing of the data subject’s personal data up to that point is not unlawful.

The right to complain

Data subjects have the right to make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office (the data protection authorities) if they believe their personal data has not been processed in compliance with data protection law.

Ray West Builders Ltd may occasionally update this policy therefore data subjects and visitors to raywest-builders.co.uk may want to check it each time personal data is provided.  Please contact Ray West at Ray West Builders Ltd to discuss personal data and the practise of rights.  Contact details can be found at raywest-builders.co.uk/contact.