Britannia Fire and Security Limited Privacy Policy 2024

Britannia Fire and Security Limited Privacy Policy 2024

At Britannia Fire and Security Limited, we are updating our records under the new GDPR regulations to ensure our customer’s data is protected. We take your privacy seriously and want to inform you of how we use and look after the personal information that we collect from you.

We are the data controller, responsible for the processing of any personal data that you give to us. We take care to keep your information secure and to prevent any unauthorised access to or use of this data.

The personal data we hold on you, is the data that is any information about an individual from which that individual can be identified. We collect, use, store some personal data such as email addresses. We will only use your personal data for any purpose for which it has been specifically provided, and we do not share your personal data with any other organisation unless we are legally required to do so, or as part of our working business arrangements with you, when we are required to do so, for purposes such as accreditation.

As a business, we have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. We only hold personal data whilst it is needed for the purpose for which it was supplied.

As a data subject participant, you have the right at any time to request access to, rectification or erasure of your personal data; to restrict or object to certain kinds of processing of your personal data.

You may also, complain to the UK’s data protection supervisory authority, the Information Commissioner’s Office about the processing of your personal data. https://ico.org.uk/concerns or by telephone – 0303 123 1113

As a data subject, participants are not obliged to share their personal data. If you choose not to share your personal data with us, we may not be able to send Invoices or Statements or Customer related product data by email.

We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time and will inform you to any changes in how we handle personal data. If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice, or you do not wish to receive future emails from us, please contact us at info@britanniaalarms.co.uk, and we will remove your data from our mailing list. If we do not hear back from you we will assume you are happy to continue receiving our information.

Cookies

A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

Cookies used by our service providers

Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website.

We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/. The relevant cookies are: _utma, _utmb, _utmc, _utmz.

We use Google Maps on our website to provide detailed information on how to locate our facilities. We use Google’s interactive maps because we believe they provide a helpful way for our visitors to identify how best to travel to us. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/. The relevant cookies are: khcookie, NID, SNID and PREF.

Managing cookies

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:

Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en

Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences

Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies

Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411

Edge: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy

Our details

This website is owned and operated by Britannia Fire & Security Ltd

We are registered in England and Wales under registration numbers 3468268, our registered office is at Britannia House, Falcon Way, Eagle Business Park, Yaxley, Peterborough, PE7 3GR.