What is this Privacy Policy for?
This privacy policy is for this website, ellisheritage.builders, served by Ellis & Co. and governs the privacy of its users who choose to use it.
The policy sets out the different areas where user privacy is concerned and outlines the obligations & requirements of the users, the website and website owners. Furthermore, the way this website processes, stores and protects user data and information will also be detailed within this policy.
The Website
This website and its owners take a proactive approach to user privacy and ensure the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its users throughout their visiting experience. This website complies with all UK national laws and requirements for user privacy.
Use of Cookies
This website uses cookies to better the user’s experience while visiting the website. Where applicable, this website uses a cookie control system allowing the user to allow or disallow cookies on their computer/device on their first visit to the website. This complies with recent legislation requirements that websites obtain user consent before leaving behind or reading files such as cookies on a user’s computer/device.
Cookies are small files saved to the user’s computer’s hard drive that track, save and store information about the user’s interactions and website usage. This allows the website, through its server, to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.
Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website onto their computer’s hard drive, they should take necessary steps within their web browser’s security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors.
This website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to understand better how they use it. Google Analytics provides this software, which uses cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computer’s hard drive to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but it will not store, save, or collect personal information. You can read Google’s privacy policy here for further information: http://www.google.com/privacy.html.
External vendors may store other cookies on your computer’s hard drive when this website uses referral programs, sponsored links or adverts. Such cookies are used for conversion and referral tracking and typically expire after 30 days, though some may take longer. No personal information is stored, saved or collected.
Contact & Communication
Users contacting this website and its owners do so at their discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until it is no longer required or has no use, as detailed in the Data Protection Act 1998. Every effort has been made to ensure a safe and secure form of the email submission process, but users using such forms for email processes are advised to do so at their own risk.
This website and its owners use any information submitted to provide further information about the products/services they offer or to assist you in answering any questions or queries you may have submitted. This includes using your details to subscribe to any email newsletter program the website operates, but only if this was made clear to you and your express permission was granted when submitting any form to the email process. Or whereby you, the consumer, have previously purchased from or enquired about purchasing a product or service from the company that the email newsletter relates to. This is not an entire list of your user rights regarding receiving email marketing material. Your details are not passed on to any third parties.
Email Newsletter
This website operates an email newsletter program used to inform subscribers about products and services supplied by this website. Users can subscribe through an online automated process should they wish to do so, but do so at their discretion. Some subscriptions may be manually processed through a prior written agreement with the user.
Subscriptions are taken in compliance with UK Spam Laws detailed in the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003. All personal details relating to subscriptions are held securely by the Data Protection Act 1998. No personal details are passed on to third parties nor shared with companies/people outside of the company that operates this website. Under the Data Protection Act 1998, you may request a copy of personal information held about you by this website’s email newsletter program. A small fee will be payable. If you want a copy of the data, please write to the business address at the bottom of this policy.
Email marketing campaigns published by this website or its owners may contain tracking facilities within the email. Subscriber activity is tracked and stored in a database for future analysis and evaluation. Such tracked activity may include the opening of emails, forwarding of emails, clicking links within the email content, times, dates, and frequency of activity [this is by no means a comprehensive list]. This information is used to refine future email campaigns and supply users with more relevant content based on their activity.
In compliance with UK Spam Laws and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003, subscribers can unsubscribe anytime through an automated system. This process is detailed at the footer of each email campaign. If an automated un-subscription system is unavailable, clear instructions on un-subscribing will be detailed instead.
External Links
Although this website only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised to adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external links mentioned throughout this website. (External links are clickable text/banner/image links to other websites)
The owners of this website cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their best efforts. Users should, therefore, note they click on external links at their own risk, and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.
Adverts and Sponsored Links
This website may contain sponsored links and adverts. These will typically be served through our advertising partners, who may have detailed privacy policies relating directly to the adverts they serve.
Clicking on any such adverts will send you to the advertiser’s website through a referral program, which may use cookies and will track the number of referrals sent from this website. This may include the use of cookies, which may, in turn, be saved on your computer’s hard drive. Users should, therefore, note they click on sponsored external links at their own risk, and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.
Social Media Platforms
Communication, engagement, and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and its owners participate in are custom to the terms and conditions and the privacy policies held with each social media platform.
Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate/engage with due care and caution regarding privacy and personal details. Neither this website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as telephone or email.
This website may use social sharing buttons that help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform. Before using such social sharing buttons, users are advised to do so at their discretion. Note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page through your account.
Shortened Links in Social Media
Through their social media platform accounts, this website and its owners may share links to relevant web pages. Some social media platforms shorten lengthy URLs [web addresses] by default.
Users are advised to use caution and good judgment before clicking any shortened URLs published by this website and its owners on social media platforms. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine URLs are published, many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking. Therefore, this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting shortened links.