We are committed to safeguarding your privacy. This Policy explains how we collect and use personal information.

Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. By visiting aecprotection.co.uk you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy.

For the purpose of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) (GDPR), the Data Controller is Aidan Cooper.

To contact the Data Protection Officer, you should email [email protected].

References to ‘we’, ‘our’ and ‘us’ within this Privacy Policy are to AEC Protection.

THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

This Policy applies to information you give us, through our website or by corresponding with us and information collected by us as you visit or interact with our website.

The data you provide may include:

• Your name
• Your email
• Your contact details

The data we collect about you may include, but is not limited to:

• Your IP address
• Information about your browser and operating system
• Information about your visit, this may include, but is not limited to, pages looked at, visit duration, errors encountered and interaction with the pages.

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

Any personal information we collect from this website is used in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679) and other applicable laws.

The information you provide allows us to do the following:

• If you have made an enquiry then we will use your contact details to respond to your enquiry.
• If you opted in to our newsletter then we send you our newsletter.
• To provide you with the information, products and services that you request from us.
• To provide you with the information about other goods and services we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about.
• To notify you about changes to our services.
• To protect keep our website safe and secure.
• To improve our website and personalise it for you and your computer.
• To provide an efficient service, certain functions such as hosting, storage and disaster recovery are provided by third parties.
• To provide interactive features.
• To measure the effectiveness of our advertising.

It is our policy to ensure that your personal data is not made accessible to unauthorised individuals. We have taken reasonable steps to protect both the digital and physical storage of data.

We strive to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk.

Your data may be kept if it is required for legal or accounting reasons.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

Analytics and search engines providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our site may collect data about your IP and computer set up.

HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR DATA

If legally required or if it is reasonably necessary to meet regulatory requirements, resolve disputes, prevent fraud and abuse, or enforce our Terms and Conditions, we may also retain some of your information for a limited period of time as required, even after it is no longer needed to provide services to you.

COOKIE Policy

In this policy, unless it is obvious that they have some other meaning, the words “we”, “our” and “us” refers to aecprotection.co.uk and its owner AEC Protection.

To contact the data protection officer you should email [email protected].

This Cookie Policy outlines to you what “cookies” are, why they are used, how we use them and how you can disable them in your browser if desired. Please be aware that if you disable cookies in your browser there may be areas and aspects of our website which will not work as expected.

This Cookie Policy should be read alongside our Privacy Policy (above) so you fully understand how and why we use cookies and the additional information we may collect from you. If you do not fully understand and agree with our cookie and privacy policies you must cease use of our website immediately.

If you require any clarification about our cookie policy please email the Data Protection Officer.

COOKIES – WHAT ARE THEY?

Cookies are small text files which are stored on your computer’s hard drive. They can be used by websites to track the user, remember preferences, allow the user to login to secure areas of websites, store items in virtual shopping baskets and a whole host of other tasks.

WHY AND HOW DO WE USE COOKIES?

We use cookies to allow for a greater browsing experience for our users. As illustrated above, Cookies can perform a number of very useful tasks which allow this. We may also use Cookies to help us better understand our users, how they use our website and their preferences to further enhance our website and business.

The Cookies we may use tend to fit into three main categories. A list of the three categories follows, along with an explanation of how and why we use Cookies in each instance.

ANALYTICAL COOKIES

We may use anonymous analytics Cookies to track the number of users we have, the pages they visit, the duration of the visit, and a whole host of other useful information about how our users browse and engage our website.

Knowing this information allows us to understand our audience reach, audience demographics, the success our marketing campaigns, which areas of our website are most popular, and clearer picture of how to design and implement new changes to our website and business going forward.

We are not able to identify you as an individual using analytics Cookies.

FUNCTIONALITY COOKIES

We may use Cookies as a method of storing information which allows you to browse and use our website efficiently.

We may use such Cookies to perform tasks such as storing the items you have added to your online shopping cart, the information you filled into a form, your credentials to keep you logged into a secure area of the website, and to remember various other preferences.

COOKIES FROM THIRD-PARTIES

The Web is an integrated place. Like most other websites, we may have third-party applications, programs, widgets and material on our website. Some of these may use Cookies to track various metrics, store preferences and customise their material to you.

An example of this which is widely used across the Web is social media buttons which allow users to like, share and comment about what they find on websites and may result in Cookies being set.

We cannot view or change third-party cookies, in the same way third-parties cannot view or change cookies set by us.

TURNING COOKIES OFF IN YOUR BROWSER

If you decide to turn Cookies off in your browser you should be aware that certain areas and features of our website may not work as expected.

The majority of mainstream, up-to-date browsers allow you to disabled Cookies. Usually you can find where to do this by going to the options or preference tab within your browser. We offer some links below which may help you:

Firefox: Enable and disable cookies that websites use to track your preferences

Internet Explorer: Block or allow cookies

Google Chrome: Enable or disable cookies

For users worried about Cookies used by advertisers, you can learn much more about them and how to disable them by visit the Your Online Choices.

You can email the data protection officer if you require any further information about Cookies.

ACCESS TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

If you would like to update or remove the data we have about you please submit a request to the Data Protection Officer.

If you wish to unsubscribe from our email newsletter you should use the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email. Should this not work please contact the Data Protection Officer, using the details at the start of this policy.

If you would like to request access to the data we have about you please submit a request to the data protection officer.If an access request is deemed by us to be unfounded or excessive we may charge a reasonable fee. If you request further copies of your data then we may charge for administrative fees.

COMPLAINTS

If you wish to make a complaint about our use of your data please contact the Data Protection Officer.

UPDATES TO THIS POLICY

This Policy was last updated on 14th March 2024.