Privacy Policy

Sinclair Collis Limited (“SCL”, “we” or “us”) is committed to protecting your privacy online. We use the information we collect about you to provide a personalised service to you when you visit our web site. At SCL, we appreciate that you do not want the personal information you provide to us distributed indiscriminately and here, we explain how we collect information, what we do with it and what controls you have.

What data do we collect

So that we can provide a personalised service we may ask you to submit information such as your name, email address, postal address and telephone number. There is also the option to provide your location. You are under no obligation to provide such information. However, if you should choose to withhold requested information, we may not be able to provide you with certain goods and services.

If you post content on the SCL web site, this may include personal information.

How is the information used?

SCL will use the information you provide to:

• Identify visitors.
• Allow us to communicate with you for daily operational and business reasons.
• Improve the content of our web page, and populate certain ‘widgets’; with information relevant to you.
• Carry out research on our customers’ demographics, interests and behaviour.
• Send you information we think you may find useful, including information about new products and services.

You can tell us not to contact at any point including through updates or amendments to your personal information. We may occasionally send you direct mail about products and services we feel may be of interest to you. This will only come from us (or our agents) and only if you have indicated that you do not object to these offers.

With whom is the information shared?

SCL may share your personal details with any other member of the group of companies of which SCL is a member. SCL may also disclose personal information if required to do so by law or if it believes that such action is necessary to protect and defend the rights, property or personal safety of SCL, the SCL web site or its visitors.

The SCL web site contains links to other sites. SCL is not responsible for the privacy policies or the content of such web sites.

Security

SCL places a great importance on the security of all personally identifiable information associated with our customers. We have security measures in place to attempt to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of customer data under our control.

All communication with the SCL web site is encrypted using the industry standard SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) protocol (see https://www.verisign.co.uk/ssl/ssl-information-center/how-ssl-security-works/index.html). This encryption secures all data communicated over the Internet between your browser and our web server including any data you enter into forms on the site and also just information about which pages you are visiting. In addition to this our server presented your browser with a digital certificate of authenticity when you first arrived at this site. This certificate is digitally signed by VeriSign to verify the authenticity of the SCL web site. Before issuing SCL with this certificate, VeriSign ensured that the domain name for the SCL web site was fully owned by us. This stops bogus companies from setting up a web site that looks similar to the SCL web site, with a similar domain name.

Most browsers display a small locked padlock icon at the bottom of the screen when a visitor views a secure document. Double clicking this icon will bring up details of the certificate including who issued it, the date and the company it was issued to.

Internet Protocol (IP) Addresses

An IP address is the unique number assigned to your computer by your Internet Service Provider; they generally do not identify you personally. SCL keeps track of the IP address you are using to access the SCL web site. SCL will track IP address in order to investigate reports of Internet abuse. Although IPs generally do not identify an individual, they can be used to track down an individual in cases of Internet abuse with the cooperation of the ISP owning that IP.

Cookies

SCL uses “Cookie” technology to obtain provide online visitors with a personalised online experience. This helps keep the SCL web site fresh and interesting. It also means that your personalised settings, such as content ‘widgets’, colours, themes, and your location, will be remembered for your next visit. In order to achieve this, we may store some information on your computer. This information will be in the form of a Cookie or similar file. You may disable Cookies set your browser to alert you when cookies are being sent. Please refer to your browser help files for information about these functions. If you disable Cookies, we may be unable to optimise your visit to our site and your settings will not be remembered.

Data Quality

SCL does not guarantee the accuracy of any information obtained from visitors to its Web site.

Changing your personal information

You can change or modify your personal information by emailing us at the details set out on the About Us page.

Your acceptance of these terms

By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by SCL and to the terms of this privacy policy. If we change our privacy policy in any way, we will post these changes on this page.

Your rights

You have a legal right to a copy of all the personal information about you held by us. You also have a right to correct any errors in that information. As mentioned above, you have a right to prevent us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes.

If you have any questions, concerns or comments about these policies you should contact us using the details on the About Us page.