Privacy Policy & Other Terms of Use

Who we are

We are Project Technologies (UK) Ltd a company registered in England & Wales. Registration number 3474020

Our website address is:

• projecttech.uk
• projecttechnologies.co.uk

You can contact us using the form here or call us on +44 1905 888435

We are the data controller for data that we capture. We take data protection very seriously. The information below sets out how we will handle your data. We want you to be confident that we will handle your data correctly. Please contact us if you have any concerns or wish to uphold your data protection rights and freedoms.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Legal Basis

The legal basis for collection and retention of data is legitimate interest. If you complete a contact form it is assumed you wish to be contacted, we also wish to operate our web services effectively to the benefit or ourselves and our customers.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

Our contact form data is used to contact you from your request. We keep contact data for the time we work with you as it helps us to work with you. If we do not work with you we destroy the contact form data after approximately 6 months. Where you work with us we keep data gathered during that period. Where needed we keep your data after any work with you is concluded for further contact or legal need. We never share the data you provide in a contact form for use by third parties.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

We have no control over those sites.

Analytics

Where we collect analytics data we strive to ensure it is anonymised as far as possible. We collect this data to improve our website and understand the needs of our customers. We do not actively sell or share this data. However, in some cases providers of services may use some of the analytics data for their own purposes in the provision and improvement of their services to us.

Who we share your data with

When we collect data from you it is for the operation of this website and in relation to our business or prospective business with you. We will not share your data with third parties except as required to by law. We will share your data with our data processors where they agree to conform to the requirements of the data protection regulations relating to data processors or sub processors. We may share your data with our legal and professional advisors under strictly controlled conditions of confidentiality.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, have left comments or completed a form here, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. You can find more information on your data protection rights at the ICO The Information Commissioners Office.

Where we send your data

Data on our web servers is held at rest in the United Kingdom.

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Where we store your data or it is processed outside of the United Kingdom we take appropriate steps to ensure the supplier conforms with the requirements of the Data Protection Act (GDPR- UK). In general we apply the standard modal clauses to ensure an equivalent level of protection is provided compared to the United Kingdom.

Additional information

How we protect your data

We follow broadly accepted good practise in the management of data we collect. We take appropriate administrative and technical measures to provide an appropriate level of security, availability and integrity in relation to the data we collect and store.

What data breach procedures we have in place

If you report or we discover a breach we will investigate the cause and attempt to prevent further breach.

We will follow guidelines as set out by the Information Commissioners Office.

What third parties we receive data from

We do not collect or combine your personal data with data from third parties.

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

We do not use automatic decision making or profiling when we gather your data through this website.