Privacy Policy

Privacy and Cookies Policy

At Bluseal Limited we are committed to safeguarding and preserving the privacy of our customers.
This privacy policy sets out how Bluseal uses and protects any information that you provide Bluseal.
Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified, then you can be
assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
Bluseal may update this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page
regularly to ensure that you are happy with any changes.

Information that we collect:

• Contact information (including name, work email address, telephone number and job position)
  that you provide when getting in touch.
• Information about the use of our site, including details of your visits such as pages viewed and
  the resources that you access. This includes traffic data and if you choose to share it, location
  data.

What we do with the information we gather:

• To provide information to you that you request relating to products or services.
• To perform our contract with you and provide you with the services you require.
• To prevent and detect fraud against either you or Bluseal Ltd.
• To maintain our accounts and financial system.
• To improve our services.
• To send you information regarding new products if you have consented to receiving marketing
  information.
• You do not have to give us any personal information but if you do not, we will be unable to provide a
  service or set up a contract with you.

Security:
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. To prevent unauthorised access or
disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to
safeguard and secure the information we collect.
It may sometimes be necessary to transfer personal information overseas. When this is needed
information is only shared within the European Economic Area (EEA). Any transfers made will be in
full compliance with all aspects of data protection legislation.
Unfortunately, the sending of information via the internet is not totally secure and on occasion such
information can be intercepted. We cannot guarantee the security of data that you choose to send
us electronically, sending such information is entirely at your own risk.

How we use cookies:
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you
agree, the file is added, and the cookie helps analyse web traffic and may gather information about
your general internet use. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The
web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and
remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about
web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this
information for statistical analysis purposes. We also use cookies to ensure the contact form works
correctly.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages
you find useful and which you do not and ensuring certain features work correctly. A cookie in no
way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose
to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies when using our website. If you decline the use of
cookies, this may prevent you from taking full advantage of our website.
Our advertisers may also use cookies, over which we have no control. Such cookies (if used) would
be downloaded once you click on advertisements on our website.

Links to other websites:
On occasion, we include links to third parties on this website. Where we provide a link, it does not
mean we endorse or approve that site’s policy towards visitor privacy. You should exercise caution
and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question before sending them any
personal data.

Social Media Platforms:
Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this
website and its owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy
policies held with each social media platform respectively.
Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate / engage upon them with
due care and caution regarding their own privacy and personal details. 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 by telephone or email.

This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages
to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons
that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save
your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.

Shortened Links in Social Media:
This website and its owners through their social media platform accounts may share web links to
relevant web pages. By default, some social media platforms shorten lengthy URLs [web addresses]
(this is an example: http://bit.ly/zyVUBo).

Users are advised to take caution and good judgement before clicking any shortened URLs published
on social media platforms by this website and its owners. Despite the best efforts to ensure only
genuine URLs are published many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and
therefore this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused
by visiting any shortened links.

Sharing your Information:
We have a legal duty to protect any information we collect form you. We will ensure that any
information we obtain, and use, will be held in the strictest confidence and used in compliance with
current data protection legislation.

A limited number of people at Bluseal Ltd and our external web development agency (Lloyd&Co
Limited) have access to data.

We will not pass on your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are
required by law to do so.

If you consent to receive marketing information, we use Mail Chimp as an email marketing platform.
If you want to opt out of receiving these emails at any time, follow the unsubscribe link in an email
or contact us via email at sales@bluseal.co.uk.

Keeping your Information:
We will keep your information for as long as you have a contract with us, or as long as is needed to
be able to provide the service to you.
If reasonably necessary or required to meet legal or regulatory requirements, resolve disputes or
enforce our terms and conditions, we may also keep hold of some of your information as required,
even after we no longer have contract with you or provide a service to you.
If you consent to receive marketing information, we will keep your contact information until you opt
out of receiving these emails.

Your Rights:

• The right to be informed about how your personal information is used (like this policy).
•  The right to access the personal information we hold about you.
• The right to request the correction of inaccurate personal information we hold about you.
• The right to request that we delete your data.
• The right to stop direct marketing messages and to withdraw consent for other consent-based
  processing at any time.
• The right to request that we transfer or port elements of your data either to you or another service provider.
• The right to complain to your data protection regulator – in the UK, the Information Commissioner’s Office.

If you want to exercise your rights, have a complaint, or just have questions, please contact us via
email at sales@bluseal.co.uk.

This statement was last updated on 4th December 2023.