Privacy

This privacy policy (hereinafter the “Privacy Policy”) is intended to inform you about how Architectural Steel Ltd. (hereafter “we”, “us”, “our” or “data controller”) processes the personal data of the users of its website (hereafter “you, “your”)  https://archsteel.co.uk/  (hereafter the “Website”).

We consider the protection of your personal data and the respect of your privacy to be of crucial. We attach particular attention to the processing, confidentiality and security of your personal data.

 

1. IDENTIFICATION OF THE DATA CONTROLLER

We, Architectural Steel Ltd. a UK company having its head offices at Lamont Business Park Lyons Road Trafford Park Manchester, M17 1RN, act as the data controller of the processing of your personal data.

 

2. PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT

When you use, access or otherwise interact with our Website, we use cookies, web beacons and similar tracking technologies to collect personal data from and store information on your device, including your IP address, connection data and data related to your use of the Website, pages accessed and the duration of the pages’ view, your browser type and settings, the date and time of your access, content viewed, features accessed, referring/exit pages and operating system.

For more information about how we use cookies and similar tracking technologies you can read our Cookie Policy available here.

We may also we may collect personal data voluntarily provided to us by you in contact forms, registration forms and surveys, including your (first and last) name, email address, postal address, telephone number and preferences and subscriptions to our newsletters.

 

3. USE OF PERSONAL DATA

We may use the personal data we collect for the following purposes:

• To provide, customise and improve our services, including responding to your inquiries and fulfilling your requests.

• To improve your overall experience when visiting the Website, adapt content and advertising according to your interests.
• To carry out commercial prospection actions related to our products and services (e.g. sending personalised communication as updates, newsletters, marketing communications, and promotional materials).
• To analyse trends, administer the Website, and gather demographic information for internal purposes.
•  To maintain a secured trusted environment.
• To comply with legal and regulatory obligations that may apply to us.

• To manage any potential or actual disputes with you or third parties.

 

4. LEGAL BASIS FOR THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA

In order to carry out the processing activities specified in this Privacy Policy, we rely on:

• Our legitimate interest, which consists in optimizing our tools and solutions and ensure the satisfaction of our Website’s users and prospects, ensuring compliance with applicable laws, prevent fraud, improve the security of the Website and ensure the proper performance of our services;
• Compliance with our legal obligations (e.g. to answer requests from the competent administrative or judicial authorities or data subjects’ requests or claims);
• Your consent.

 

5. DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

In the context of processing your personal data in accordance with this Privacy Policy, we may share your personal data to the following recipients, if necessary:

• Our affiliates in accordance with the Binding Corporate Rules as adopted by our Group;
• Our service providers, agents and contractors, to the extent that they assist us in carrying out the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy (e.g., we use IT service providers to host your personal data on our behalf). .
• To competent courts, public authorities, government agencies and law enforcement agencies (e.g. if required to do so by law or in response to comply with legal or regulatory requests or to protect our rights, property, or safety, or the rights, property, or safety of others).
• To third parties based on your consent, who may collect information about you on our Website via cookies, web beacons and similar technologies.

We only communicate your personal data to any recipient on a need-to-know basis and only when the processing by the recipient is strictly limited to the purposes identified in this Policy.

 

6. TRANSFER OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA OUTSIDE THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA

For the purpose of processing your personal data as described in this Policy, we may have to transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area ("EEA”).

In these cases, we implement appropriate transfer mechanism and safeguards to ensure that the personal data transferred benefit from the same level of protection as within the EEA.

In practice, this means that each of the envisaged transfer is at least based on one of the following mechanisms:

• the existence of an adequacy decision issued by the European Commission for the country to which your personal data is transferred; or, failing that
• the conclusion of standard contractual clauses as adopted by the European Commission; or, failing that
• the existence of an exemption linked to one of the specific situations exhaustively provided for by the General Data Protection Regulation n°2016/679 ("GDPR"). For example, where you have explicitly given your consent to the proposed transfer after having been informed of the absence of safeguards, where the transfer is necessary for the performance of a contract between you and us, where the transfer is necessary for the conclusion or performance of a contract concluded, in your interest, between us and a third party, or where the transfer is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of our legal claims, etc.
• the existence of Binding Corporate Rules as adopted by the Group;

You may request a copy of these documents by contacting our Group Data Protection Officer, please see Section 12 of this Policy.

 

7. DATA RETENTION

We will retain your personal information for as long as necessary for the purposes for which it it has been collected and in accordance with the applicable law. In case your personal data is no longer needed for processing purposes, we will immediately delete it.

1. YOUR RIGHTS

You have the right to access, rectify and erase personal data, as well as the right to restrict its processing, to data portability and to object to processing.   .

To exercise these rights, please contact our DPO at the email address mentioned below. In any case, please note that you can lodge a complaint with the competent data protection authority.

 

8. SECURITY MEASURES

We protect your personal data with physical, digital and administrative security measures to reduce the risk of loss, unauthorised access, disclosure or unauthorised modification in the collection, retention and communication of User personal data.

For this purpose, we also use personal data encryption protocols (SSL/TLS, HTTPS), network security measures (firewalls, WAF) and protection software (backups and replication).

 

9. LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES

Our Website may contain links to third-party websites that are not operated or controlled by us. This Privacy Policy does not apply to such third-party websites.

Please refer to their privacy policies before providing any personal information to them.

 

10. COOKIES

We use cookies on our Website. However, pursuant to the applicable data protection regulation on cookies and other tracking technologies, please note that we will ensure that we have obtained, where necessary, your prior consent before placing them on your equipment.

 

11. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to ensure its compliance with applicable data protection regulation. Any changes will be effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on the Website. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any updates.

For more information, please contact our DPO at the email address mentioned below.

 

12. CONTACT US

If you have any questions regarding the processing of your personal data under this Privacy Policy, including the exercise of your rights as detailed above, please contact us at:

 

Last updated: 30/11/2023