Privacy and cookies policy

The policy: This privacy policy is for this website www.alanekland.com, Alan Ekland Limited – served by Alan Ekland Limited and governs the privacy of its users who choose to use it.

Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, this notice is provided explaining the information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used by Alan Ekland Limited. We will never sell, rent or otherwise distribute or make public your personal information unless to the extent that we are required to do so by law.

This policy will explain areas of this website that may affect your privacy and personal details, how we process, collect, manage and store those details and how your rights are adhere to under the rules set in place by the General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 1998. Additionally it will explain the use of cookies or software, advertising or commercial sponsorship from third parties and the download of any documents, files or software made available to you on this website. Further explanations may be provided for specific pages or features of this website in order to help you understand how we, this website and its third parties interact with you and your computer / device in order to serve it to you. Our contact information is provided if you have any questions, or by sending us an email.

The DPA & GDPR

We and this website complie to the DPA (Data Protection Act 1998) and complies to the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation).

The information collected

This notice applies to all information collected by Alan Ekland Limited. The types of personal information collected are: name, company, address, telephone number, email address, or any information deemed necessary to complete the service we action on your behalf.

AlanEkland.com website utilises cookies, web server logs and statistical programs to collect information about how the site is used as a whole. Information gathered via these methods typically includes dates and times of visits, pages viewed and time spent browsing this website.

A cookie is a small file, which contains letters and numbers, that is placed on your computers hard disk. Cookies implemented by AlanEkland.com will not harm your computer. Cookies used on this site allow us to distinguish you from other visitors on the website, which then helps us to implement improvements to provide you with a better user experience.

First party cookies

Cookies set by the AlanEkland.com website

Name Purpose Typical content Expires
PHPSESSID Authentication session to enable data storage for application form. Hashed data of form status and content Expires on exit

Personal information is only gathered via the contact form, which are used for completing the process for which you have asked, i.e. a request to hire. The cookies set from us here are called session cookies.

These cookies are required in order to enable this website to work properly. These cookies expire at the end of the session i.e. when you leave the website, the cookie expires and is no longer active and thus will not store any information from when you leave our site. The cookie will be deleted from your computer when you close your browser. The cookie set is call PHPSESSID. The cookies set will not store, save or collect personal information.

Session cookies information at http://www.allaboutcookies.org/cookies/session-cookies-used-for.html

Site visitation tracking and third party cookies

Google Analytics

Like most websites, this site uses Google Analytics (GA) to track user interaction. We use analytical cookies to help us improve user experience, which are set by Google. Google Analytics stores visitor information about pages that have been visited on our site, for how long the visitor was on each page, from where they came to where they are clicking. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example the speed our website loads, how easy the website is to navigate and find what you are looking for. How good the overall experience was whilst viewing our website. Although Google Analytics records data such as your geographical location, device, internet browser and operating system, none of this information personally identifies you to us. Google Analytics also records your computer’s IP address which could be used to personally identify you but Google does not grant us access to this. We consider Google to be a third party data processor. Google Privacy Policy.

Google Analytics makes use of cookies, details of which can be found on Google’s developer guides. This website user and event data is held on Google servers and user and event data retention is set for 26 months. You can read more about Google Analytics Data Retention here.

Disabling cookies on your browser will stop Google Analutocs from tracking any part of your visit to pages within this website.

Social buttons

On most of the sites pages you will see social buttons, Linkedin, Twitter, Google +1 and Pinterest, the purpose of these buttons is to share web pages with family and friends. Please be aware that to implement these buttons to connect to the relevant social network, there are scripts and cookies from these networks. You should see the policies for each of these social networks on their domain and the information they gather. We cannot be responsible for the content of external websites.

You can find useful information about cookies at http://www.aboutcookies.org/

We never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above.

Or to the extent that we are required to do so by law:

– in connection with any legal proceedings 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 which 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.

The links below explain how you can control cookies via your browser, remember that if you turn off cookies in your browser then these settings apply to all websites not just this one:

Internet Explorer

Chrome

Safari

Firefox

Android

Downloads and media files

Any downloadable documents, files or media made available on this website are provided to users at their own risk. While all precautions have been undertaken to ensure only genuine downloads are available users are advised to verify their authenticity using third party anti virus software or similar applications.

We accept no responsibility for third party downloads and downloads provided by external third party websites and advise users to verify their authenticity using third party anti virus software or similar applications.

How you can access, correct or remove your information

You can access all personally identifiable data information that we collect and maintain by sending us an email. You can correct factual errors in personally identifiable information by sending us a request that credibly shows error. To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.

We may update this privacy policy from time-to-time by posting a new version on this website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes.

You can ask us to withdraw, object, or make a complaint by sending us an email or completing our online form.

Contact and communication with us

If you contact us via one of our email addresses or on our contact page form, the data you supply will be securely stored on our servers behind a Firewall.

Users contacting Alan Ekland Limited through this website or via email do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your data is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use. Data submitted is kept for a period of 24 months before a data audit.

If we do not hear back from people to whom we send quotations, proposals or other information, we will send a follow-up email to ascertain whether you would like to continue communication regarding your enquiry.

Where we have clearly stated and made you aware of the fact, and only where you have given your express permission, we may use your details to send you products/services information through a mailing list system. This is done in accordance with the regulations named in ‘The policy’ above.

External website links and third parties

Although we only look to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised to adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website. Users should take caution before clicking on shortened URL links and verify their authenticity before proceeding.

We cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite our best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and we cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Social media policy and usage

We adopt a social media policy to ensure our business and our staff conduct themselves accordingly online. While we may have official profiles on social media platforms users are advised to verify authenticity of such profiles before engaging with, or sharing information with such profiles. We will never ask for user passwords or personal details on social media platforms. Users are advised to conduct themselves appropriately when engaging with us on social media.

There may be instances where our website features social sharing buttons, which help share web content directly from web pages to the respective social media platforms. You use social sharing buttons at your own discretion and accept that doing so may publish content to your social media profile feed or page. You can find further information about some social media privacy and usage policies in the resources section below.

Resources and further information

Overview of the GDPR – General Data Protection Regulation

Data Protection Act 1998

Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003

The Guide to the PECR 2003

Twitter Privacy Policy

Facebook Privacy Policy

Google Privacy Policy

Linkedin Privacy Policy

How to contact us

Should you have other questions or concerns about the above, please contact us using the contact form or by sending us an email.

Updated May 2018