We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of physical and digital personal data about our visitors, customers, suppliers and workforce; this privacy policy tells you what to expect and how we process your data.
The legal basis that we rely on for processing your data will depend upon the circumstances in which it is being collected and used, but will in most cases fall into one of the following categories:
We may disclose information about our employees, officers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors in the following circumstances:
We use service providers such as Information Technology who help us provide you with our services. We may give relevant persons within these service providers access to your personal information, but only to allow them to perform their services for us. We carry out data protection checks to make sure that the processing of your data is subject to appropriate security measures.
This Privacy Policy sets our arrangements to inform you of what to expect from our business in how we collect, control and process personal information. The ways in which we collect information is listed below:
When someone visits our website we collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site and we collect this information in a way which does not identify anyone.
We do not make any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our site and we will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally identifying information from any source.
Most websites you visit will use cookies to help customise your experience. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
If you wish to restrict, block or delete cookies from our website - or any other website - you can use your browser to do this. Each browser is different so check the 'Help' menu of your particular browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences. Please bear in mind that if you do this, certain personalised features of this website cannot be provided to you.
Third Party Websites - The D.W.Clark & Sons Ltd website may contain links to other connected industry related websites, please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of third party websites.
Social Media - We do not operate any social media but should we in the future we will not collect any type of personal data from any social media stream. If we become aware of a complaint through social media, we will address the complaint in accordance with the company’s complaints process set out in this policy.
Your rights are important to us, if you wish to; access, update, restrict, remove, object to or no longer want to hear from us please contact us by e-mail or in writing to the address below and we will take action within 28 days to make sure the appropriate steps are taken to ensure we fulfil your request.
When we receive a complaint from a person regarding GDPR we will make up a file containing the details of the complaint. This normally contains the identity of the complainant and any other individuals involved in the complaint.
We will only use the personal information we collect to process the complaint and to check on the level of service we provide. We will keep personal information contained in complaint files in line with our company retention policy. This means that information relating to a complaint will be retained in accordance with our retention policy from closure. It will be retained in a secure environment and access to it will be restricted according to the 'need to know' principle.
If you have a complaint or require further details of our data protection arrangements, these can be obtained by writing to our Data Protection Officer by contacting us at: -
Darren Clark
D.W.Clark & Sons Ltd
Unit F1 Beckingham Business Park
Beckingham Street
Tolleshunt Major
Maldon
Essex
CM9 8LZ
