Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy & GDPR Data Compliance

West Midland Glazing Ltd is committed to preserving the privacy of all clients, prospects, suppliers and visitors to our website at www.wmglazing.co.uk

We recognise the need to protect the personal information that might be gathered from our customers, potential customers and visitors to our website. We will only use the information that we collect about you lawfully, in accordance with GDPR. You can access and browse this website without disclosing personal information.

Please read the following Privacy Policy to understand how we use and protect the information we have about you.

INFORMATION THAT WE COLLECT

We collect information about you for two reasons: firstly, to provide you with information about our services, and to deliver our services to you. All information is gathered and used solely as part of the service we offer you and is processed and stored in accordance with the requirements of GDPR.

We collect personally identifiable information about you if you subscribe or register for information on our site; if you contact us with comments or specific requests or if you provide a business card or other details to a member of our team.

We also have a legitimate interest to process personal data relating to decision makers and budget holders in organisations in the UK. The data is gathered from publicly available sources and directly from the companies concerned.

We may also collect anonymous information which is not unique to you such as:

IP address

Browser Type

Access times

Referring URL

USE OF YOUR INFORMATION

We use your data for the following purposes: to process enquiries, to provide you with information about our products and services, to inform you about developments in the marketing world that we believe may be of interest to you.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

Unless required to do so by law we do not share your details with any third party.

COOKIES

We use cookies to help make it easier for you to access our website. Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to your computer’s hard disk so that the website can remember who you are. Most websites use cookies. Cookies cannot be used by themselves to identify you. Cookies are also used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. By using our website you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your computer. You may prevent us from storing a cookie on your computer by setting your browser so that it will not accept cookies.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

SECURITY AND DATA RETENTION

We employ security measures to protect your information from access by unauthorised persons and against unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction and damage.

ACCESSING AND UPDATING

You are entitled to see the information held about you and you may ask us to make any necessary changes to ensure that it is accurate and kept up to date. If you wish to do this, please contact us at enquires@wmglazing.co.uk

WHAT ARE COOKIES?

A cookie, also known as a HTTP cookie, web cookie or browser cookie, is a piece of data stored by a website. Cookies were designed to be reliable mechanisms for websites to remember things that a browser had done there in the past which can include having clicked particular buttons, logging in, or having read pages on that sites months or years ago. They are generally used to save you time filling in forms and re-entering data and are stored on YOUR computer. Source: “HTTP cookie” Wikipedia

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you.

COOKIES CAN BE CATEGORISED INTO THREE MAIN TYPES:

Performance cookies collect anonymous data from visitors. This data cannot track individual users but is useful in cataloguing how a user interacts with a website and is used to improve the functionality of a website and how it works.

Functionality cookies allow users to customise the aesthetics of a website. These cookies remember usernames and user preferences such as location and languages to help websites provide targeted information like local weather and traffic reports.

Advertising and targeting cookies. These cookies help companies target advertisements that are relevant to users based on information and habits they gather.

WHAT SORT OF COOKIES DO WEST MIDLAND GLAZING USE?

West Midland Glazing use only “performance cookies” on this website to anonymously monitor visitor usage of the site to help us maintain and improve our website. No personal data can be collected using this type of cookie, only aggregated statistics about the general use of our site.

DOES ANYONE ELSE USE COOKIES ON THE WEST MIDLAND GLAZING SITE?

Like the majority of websites, we use Google Analytics to anonymously monitor our website traffic and how our website is used to help us improve our site’s content and functionality for our visitors.

HOW CAN A WEBSITE USER BLOCK COOKIES?

Cookies are generally used to enhance the experience of using a website, however if you wish to block cookies this can be applied in your web browser’s settings.