Welcome to Electromech Assemblies Limited privacy policy. Electromech Assemblies Limited respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you how Electromech Assemblies Limited collects and processes your personal data when you visit our website and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
Our website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.
It is important that you read this privacy policy together with any other privacy policy or fair processing policy we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. We keep our privacy policy under regular review. This privacy policy supplements other notices and privacy policies and is not intended to override them.
Who we are and how to contact us
Electromech Assemblies Limited is the controller and responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy policy).
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact us at Electromech Assemblies Limited, 2 Wilton Road, Haine Ind Est, Ramsgate, Kent CT10 2ER or by email using the contact form.
The data we collect about you
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you, which we have grouped together as follows:
How is your personal data collected?
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
How we use your personal data
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
Generally, we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data although we will get your consent before sending third party direct marketing communications to you via email or text message. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us or by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you.
We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.
Purpose / Activity | Type of data | Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest |
To register you as a user of our website | (a) Identity (b) Contact | Performance of a contract with you |
To manage our relationship with you which will include: (a) Notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy (b) Asking you about your use of our products/services (c) Asking you to leave a review or take a survey | (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Marketing and Communications | (a) Performance of a contract with you (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation (c) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products / services) |
To enable you to partake in a prize draw, competition or complete a survey | (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Usage (e) Marketing and Communications | (a) Performance of a contract with you (b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our website, to develop our website and grow our business) |
To administer and protect our business and our website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data) | (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Technical | (a) Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganisation or group restructuring exercise) (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation |
To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you | (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Usage (e) Marketing and Communications (f) Technical | Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our website, to develop our website, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy) |
To use data analytics to improve our website, marketing, customer relationships and experiences | (a) Technical (b) Usage | Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our website updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy) |
We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us.
If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.
Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.
Disclosures of your personal data
We may share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table above.
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law.
We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
International transfers
We are based in the UK, and we will access and use your personal data from here.
However, we may also send personal data elsewhere in the world, for example, where we use cloud-based technology or a data centre or back up facility overseas. In such instances, people in other countries may also need to access that personal data for purposes such as technical support or system development and testing.
Whenever we transfer your personal data outside the UK, we ensure that a similar degree of protection is afforded to it to that applicable in the UK, by ensuring that at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:
Please contact us if you want further information on the safeguards used by us when transferring personal data outside the UK.
Data retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.
Your duty to inform us of changes
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.
Third-party links
Our website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.
Your legal rights
Under certain circumstances, you have the rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data to:
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we could refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it could take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.