Watermiser is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring that your personal information is handled in a safe and responsible way. This policy outlines how we aim to achieve this and covers the information we may collect when you:
‘Personal Data’ refers to any data which relates to an identifiable person who can be directly/indirectly identified from that data. In this case, it means personal data that you give to us via our website.
By providing your personal data, you agree that we can use your personal data in accordance with this policy. We collect, use and retain Personal Data about you only to the extent that is reasonably required in order for us to conduct our business effectively.
Please take you time to read it and ensure that you understand this policy in its entirety.
When you provide us with personal information, we assume that you understand that your data must be collected to process your request, thereby you are giving consent. We will use your data for processing purposes only.
If we ask for your personal information for a secondary reason, like marketing, we will ask you directly for your expressed consent via a form checkbox.
WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM YOU:
Information gathered from the above is strictly confidential to Watermiser and will not be shared to third parties.
You will be asked to submit personal information about yourself when you fill in our contact form. We will collect this information so we can fulfil your request as required.
We typically collect all or some of the following information:
a nugatory amount of data, which is automatically collected by our web server to access log records. Access log records collect and store information based on IP addresses and access request date/time. We host our website on Namesco servers. Namesco is fully compliant with Data Protection laws, although the basic information they store is not user-specific and cannot be used to identify an individual. We have never had reason to access these logs as we use Google Analytics performance cookies to display more advanced access and usage data in a user-friendly dashboard which we (and our web agency) can more easily interpret.
We use Google Analytics cookies to gather and display information relating to
All data gathered, processed and displayed by Google Analytics cookies is randomised and can never be traced to an individual.
You may submit your CV if you’re interested in working for us to recruitment@watermiser.co.uk. This information may include:
We will use this information to assess your application. We may also keep it in our records for future reference. Please email recruitment@watermiser.co.uk if you’d prefer that we delete them.
Our use of your personal data will always have a lawful basis, either because you have consented to our use of your personal data (e.g. by subscribing to emails), or because it is in our legitimate interests.
We require the information outlined in the previous section to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:
We will not sell, distribute, or lease your personal information to third parties. Any personal information we request from you will be safeguarded under current legislation.
We will only share your information with companies if necessary to deliver services on our behalf. These service providers are limited to Names.co.uk to host our website and Ninja Forms to collect, process and store form data. We do not host any further third party website content such as imagery hosted on CDNs or embedded social or video content which could use their own cookies to gather data about you.
You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information at any point. Please refer to the Your Choices section of this Privacy Policy for details.
Our website agency has access to our Google Analytics Dashboard, but no other data.
We only keep your personal data for as long as we need to in order to use it as described in this Privacy Policy, and/or for as long as we have your permission to keep it.
Emails
When you send an email to the email address displayed on our website, we collect your email address and any other information you provide in that email (such as your name, telephone number and the information contained in any signature block in your email).
Namesco
A nugatory amount of data is automatically collected by our web server access log records. Access log records collect and store information based on IP addresses and access request date/time. We host our website with Namesco who are fully compliant with Data Protection laws, although the basic information they store is not user-specific and cannot be used to identify an individual. We have never had reason to access these logs as we use Google Analytics performance cookies to display more advanced access and usage data in a user-friendly dashboard which we can more easily interpret. Namesco is fully compliant with GDPR regulation – please access their Privacy Policy to learn more.
Ninja Forms
As discussed in this Privacy Policy we use third-party software, Ninja Forms, to process form data submitted via our website. Ninja Forms is fully compliant with GDPR regulation – please access their Privacy Policy to learn more.
We will not contact you for marketing purposes by email, phone or text message unless you have given your prior consent. We will not pass your details to any third parties for marketing purposes unless you have expressly permitted us to. Furthermore, you can change your marketing preferences at any time by contacting us by email at info@watermiser.co.uk.
You have a right to request a copy of the personal information that Watermiser holds about you and have any inaccuracies corrected. Any such requests should be made to this email address: info@watermiser.co.uk.
You have the right to withdraw your consent to us using your personal data at any time, and to request that we delete it.
We do not keep your personal data for any longer than is necessary in light of the reason(s) for which it was first collected. Data will, therefore, be retained for the following periods: 36 Months
Data security is very important to us, and to protect your data we have taken suitable measures to safeguard and secure data collected through our Site. If you provide us with your credit/debit card information, the information is encrypted using secure socket layer technology (SSL) and stored with an AES-256 encryption. Although no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, we follow all PCI-DSS requirements and implement generally accepted industry standards.
Like many other websites, we use cookies. We use them to help you personalise your online experience.
A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server which allows the website to recognise you when you visit. Cookies only collect data about browsing actions and patterns, and do not identify you as an individual.
We use cookies for the following purposes:
You can set your browser to not accept cookies, but this may limit your ability to use the third party services on our website.
We may, from time to time, expand or reduce our business and this may involve the sale and/or the transfer of control of all or part of our business. Any personal data that you have provided will, where it is relevant to any part of our business that is being transferred, be transferred along with that part. The new owner or newly controlling party will, under the terms of this Privacy Policy, be permitted to use that data only for the same purposes for which it was originally collected by us.
In the event that any of your data is to be transferred in such a manner, you will not be contacted in advance and informed of the changes.
We will occasionally update this Privacy Policy to reflect company and customer feedback. Watermiser encourages you to periodically review this statement to be informed of how we are protecting your information. This policy was last updated in April 2020.
Watermiser welcomes your comments regarding this Privacy Policy. If you believe that Watermiser has not adhered to this Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@watermiser.co.uk. We will aim to use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.