Privacy Policy

Privacy protection is something that Engmark
are fully committed towards.

Introduction

This website provides information pertaining to Engmark and our services. The information below sets out how Engmark uses and protects the data collected via our website. When using this site, you are legally bound to the following privacy policy, so please read carefully. Privacy protection is something that Engmark are fully committed towards.

Our core beliefs regarding user privacy and data protection

* User privacy and data protection are human rights
* We have a duty of care to the people within our data
* Data is a liability, it should only be collected and processed when absolutely necessary
* We dislike spam as much as you do!
* We will never sell, rent or otherwise distribute or make public, your personal information.

Relevant legislation

This website is designed to comply with the following national and international legislation with regards to data protection and user privacy:

UK Data Protection Act 1988 (DPA)
EU Data Protection Directive 1995 (DPD)
EU General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR)

This site’s compliance with the above legislation, all of which are stringent in nature, means that this site is likely compliant with the data protection and user privacy legislation set out by many other countries and territories as well. If you are unsure about whether this site is compliant with your own country of residences’ specific data protection and user privacy legislation you should contact our data protection officer for clarification.

Personal information that this website collects and why we collect it.

This website collects and uses personal information for the following reasons:

Website visitor tracking

This website uses Google Analytics to track visitor interaction. Engmark use this data to determine the number of people using our site, to better understand how they find and use our web pages and to understand their journey through the website.

Although Google Analytics records data such as your geographical location, device, internet browser and operating system, none of this information personally identifies you to us. Google Analytics also records your computer’s IP address which could be used to personally identify you but Google do not grant us access to this. We consider Google to be a third party data processor (see section 6.0 below).

Google Analytics also makes use of cookies, details of which can be found on Google’s developer guides.

Disabling cookies on your internet browser will stop Google Analytics from tracking any part of your visit to pages within this website.

In addition to Google Analytics, this website may collect information (held in the public domain) attributed to the IP address of the computer or device that is being used to access it. The information is supplied to us from LeadFeeder. The LeadFeeder system uses data already gathered by Google Analytics to determine the IP address off visitors to the Engmark website and does not use your IP address to identify you, the individual, in any way. No cookies are used by the LeadFeeder system.

More information about how LeadFeeder uses IP addresses.

Website Cookies

Website cookies and link tracking cookies allow us to provide important site functionality. Cookies also allow us to remember what links and pages have been clicked or viewed during a session. If you have provided us with personal data, completing a contact form for example, we may associate this personal data with other information. This will allow us to identify and record what is most relevant to you.

By using your browser controls, you change how cookies are stored and accessed on your computer.

Our blog

Currently, Engmark do not allow comments to our blog post because of abuse by spammers.  In the event that Engmark. re-establish blog comments for website visitors in future, we would implement the following policy.

Should you choose to add a comment to any posts that we have published on our blog, the name and email address you enter with your comment will be saved to this website’s database, along with your computer’s IP address and the time and date that you submitted the comment. This information is only used to identify you as a contributor to the comment section of the respective blog post and is not passed on to any of the third party data processors detailed below. Only your name will be shown on the public-facing website although if the supplied email address is linked to a Gravatar account, your Gravatar photo will also be displayed.

Your comment and it’s associated personal data will remain on this site until we see fit to either 1.) remove the comment or 2.) remove the blog post. Should you wish to have the comment and it’s associated personal data deleted, please email us here using the email address that you commented with.

If you are under 16 years of age you MUST obtain parental consent before posting a comment on our blog.

NOTE: You should avoid entering personally identifiable information to the actual comment field of any blog post comments that you submit on this website.

Contact forms and email links

Should you choose to contact us using the contact form on our website’s Contact page or an email link on any one of  the pages or pop ups on the Engmark website, none of the data that you supply will be stored by this website or passed to / be processed by any third party data processors unless specifically referenced in this privacy policy. The data will be collated into an email and sent to us over the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). Our SMTP servers are protected by TLS (sometimes known as SSL) meaning that the email content is encrypted using SHA-2, 256-bit cryptography before being sent across the internet. The email content is then decrypted by our local computers and devices.

Email newsletter

If you choose to join our email newsletter, the email address that you submit to us will be forwarded to MailChimp who provide us with email marketing services. We consider MailChimp to be a third party data processor. The email address that you submit will not be stored within this website’s own database.

Your email address will remain within MailChimp’s database for as long as we continue to use MailChimp’s services for email marketing or until you specifically request removal from the list. You can do this by unsubscribing using the unsubscribe links contained in any email newsletters that we send you or by requesting removal via email. When requesting removal via email, please send your email to us using the email account that is subscribed to the mailing list.

If you are under 16 years of age you MUST obtain parental consent before joining our email newsletter.

While your email address remains within the MailChimp database, you will receive periodic newsletter-style emails from us.

 

How do we collect information from you?

We obtain information about you when you use our website, for example, when you contact us about products and services, or if you register to receive our newsletters.

What type of information is collected from you?

The personal information we collect might include your name, address, email address, IP address, and information regarding what pages are accessed and when.

 

How is your information used?

We may use your information to:

* process orders that you have submitted;
* to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into by you and us;
* seek your views or comments on the services we provide;
* notify you of changes to our services;
* send you communications which you have requested and that may be of interest to you.

We review our retention periods for personal information on a regular basis. We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant activity, or as long as is set out in any relevant contract you hold with us.

 

How we store your personal information

If you submit a comment to a blog post published on this website some personal information will be stored within this website’s database. This is currently the only occasion where personal data will be stored on this website. This data is currently stored in an identifiable fashion; a limitation of the content management system that this website is built on (WordPress).

 

About this website’s server

This website is hosted by EasySpace within a UK data centre located in the UK.

Full details of Easy Space Hosting’s data centre can be found here. https://www.easyspace.com/

All traffic (transferral of files) between this website and your browser is encrypted and delivered over HTTPS.

 

Our third party data processors

We use a number of third parties to process personal data on our behalf. These third parties have been carefully chosen and all of them comply with the legislation set out in section 2.0. All 3 of these third parties are based in the USA and are EU-U.S Privacy Shield compliant.

Google
Mailchimp

 

Data Breaches

We will report any unlawful data breach of this website’s database or the database(s) of any of our third-party data processors to any and all relevant persons and authorities within 72 hours of the breach if it is apparent that personal data stored in an identifiable manner has been stolen.

 

Data Controller

The data controller of this website is: Expect More Creative, a UK Private Limited Company with company number: 14429897

Whose registered office is:

Woods Russell
Loddon Business Centre,
Unit S, Roentgen Rd,
Basingstoke RG24 8NG
And whose operating office is:
Engmark Ltd.
14 Devonshire Business Park
Knights Park Road
Basingstoke RG21 6XN.

 

Data Protection Officer

Debra Young
Expect More Creative
Telephone: 01256 263 264
Email:  debbi@expect-more.co.uk

 

Changes to our privacy policy

This privacy policy may change from time to time in line with legislation. We will not explicitly inform our clients or website users of these changes. Instead, we recommend that you check this page occasionally for any policy changes.