At Alliance (CS) Limited, we’re serious about protecting your data. The below policy explains how we collect and use your personal information, your rights and who we are.
Please take your time to read through it thoroughly. By using our website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.
Collecting your data.
When you visit our website and use our services,
we may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal information:
- Device information and usage data: this could include you IP address, your browser, geographical location, operation system, page views and navigation paths.
- Contact information: information that you provide to us when registering with our website or subscribing to marketing communications (such as name, email, job title, company).
- Professional information: any information you enter when completing forms on our website, such as job title, industry, company name, company size.
- Transaction information: relating to any purchases you make of our goods or any other transactions that you enter into through our website (including your name, address, telephone number, email address and card details);
- Additional information: includes anything posted to our website for publication on the internet (including your user name, and the content of your posts); information contained in or relating to any communications that you send to us or send through our website (including the communication content and meta data associated with the communication); and any other personal information that you choose to send to us.
- To note: before you disclose to us the personal information of another person, you must obtain that person’s consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.
Using your data.
There are many ways in which we can use your personal information in connection with any events, sales and marketing activities.
- To provide, operate, maintain and optimise the Alliance (CS) Limited website.
- To keep our website secure and prevent fraud.
- To send you goods purchased through our website.
- To send you marketing communications relating to our business which we think may be of interest to you, by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology email notifications. This may include, newsletters, product recommendations, telemarketing calls, SMS, and push notifications.
- To send statements, invoices and payment reminders to you, and collect payments from you.
- To provide third parties with statistical information about our users (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information);
- To deal with enquiries and complaints made by you relating to our website;
- To verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website
- If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the licence you grant to us.
- Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and can be adjusted using privacy controls on the website.
- We will not supply your personal information to any third party for the purpose of their or any other third party’s direct marketing.
Disclosing personal information.
We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors, or member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries) insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy:
- to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
- to act as “data processors” on our behalf in order to provide you with our services. These functions include direct marketing, administration, customer care, website hosting and the re-organisation/structuring/sale of our business.
- in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
- in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).
- to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling; and
- to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.
- Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.
- We will not sell your information.
We would like to pass your contact information (name, address and email address) to our sister companies (Trinity Create Ltd, Alliance (CS) Limited and White Lion Cheshire Ltd). They would like to use that information to send information to you about carefully selected products and services which we think may be of interest to you. You will be given the opportunity to opt in to having your information shared in this way for marketing purpose when we collect that information from you.
International data transfers.
Information that we collect may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy. These countries
may include those which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area: United States of America, Russia, Japan, China and India.
Personal information that you publish on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others. You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information outlined above.
Retaining personal information.
This section outlines our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal information.
- Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
- We may keep documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
- to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
- if we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; and
- in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).
Security of Your Personal Information
- We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
- We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure (password- and firewall-protected) servers.
- All electronic financial transactions entered into through our website will be protected by encryption technology.
- You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
Amendments
- We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.
- You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.
- We may notify you of changes to this policy by email.
Your Rights
- You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; provision of such information will be subject to:
- the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity (for this purpose, we will usually accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a solicitor or bank plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address).
- You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.
- In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.
Third Party Websites.
Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third party websites. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.
Updating Information.
Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
Cookies.
Our website uses cookies. Please refer to our Cookie Policy for further information.
Our Details
1. This website is owned and operated by Alliance (CS) Limited.
2. We are registered in England and Wales under registration number 15001927 , and our registered office is at Suite 3, Edwin Foden Business Centre, Sandbach, Cheshire East, CW11 3AE
3. Our principal place of business is at Suite 3, Edwin Foden Business Centre, Sandbach, Cheshire East, CW11 3AE
4. You can contact us by writing to the business address given above, by using our website contact form, by email to
[email protected] or by telephone on 020 3962 4212
