Privacy

AJS Services Yorkshire Ltd (”We”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This policy (together with our terms of use and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. By reading this & visiting our site you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy.

For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 and General Data Protection Regulation (the Acts), the data controller is AJS Services Yorkshire Ltd of Equinox House, Clifton Park Avenue, Shipton Road, York, North Yorkshire, YO30 5PA.

Information We Collect From You

We will collect and process the following data about you:

1. Information you give us. This is information about you that you give us by filling in forms on our site or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise. It includes information you provide when you register to use our site, search for and/or subscribe to our service and when you report a problem with our site. The information you give us may include your name, address, e-mail address and phone number, financial and credit card information, personal description and photograph.
2. Information we collect about you. With regard to each of your visits to our site we will automatically collect the following information:
3. technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform;
4. information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL), clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time), products and services you viewed or searched for’ page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), methods used to browse away from the page, and any phone number used to call our customer service number.
5. Information we receive from other sources. This is information we receive about you if you use any of the other websites we operate or the other services we provide. We are working closely with third parties (including, for example, business partners, sub-contractors in technical, payment and delivery services, advertising networks, analytics providers, search information providers, credit reference agencies). We will process data we receive from other sources in accordance with this policy.

Cookies

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

Please note that we may have a company with a pixel on our website which enables cookies to be dropped onto your machine. These cookies may be used to target you on third party websites within the network. Should you wish to find out more information about behavioural targeting please following this link: www.youronlinechoices.com, , and this will allow you to opt-out of being targeted for any behavioural advertising by any member of the Internet Advertising Bureau.

For detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them see our Cookie policy.

Uses Made Of The Information

We use information held about you in the following ways:

1. Information you give to us. We will use this information:
   1. to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us and to provide you with the information, products and services that you request from us;
   2. to provide you with information about other goods and services we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about;
   3. to provide you, or permit selected third parties to provide you, with information about goods or services we feel may interest you. If you are an existing customer, we will only contact you by electronic means (e-mail or SMS) with information about goods and services similar to those which were the subject of a previous sale or negotiations of a sale to you. If you are a new customer, and where we permit selected third parties to use your data, we (or they) will contact you by electronic means only if you have consented to this. If you do not want us to use your data in this way, or to pass your details on to third ties for marketing purposes, please tick the relevant box situated on the form on which we collect your data;
   4. to notify you about changes to our service;
   5. to ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
2. Information we collect about you. We will use this information:
   1. to administer our site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;
   2. to improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
   3. to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so;
   4. as part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure;
   5. to measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you;
   6. to make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of our site about goods or services that may interest you or them.
3. Information we receive from other sources. We will combine this information with information you give to us and information we collect about you. We will use this information and the combined information for the purposes set out above (depending on the types of information we receive).

Disclosure Of Your Information

You agree that we have the right to share your personal information with:

1. Any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 1159 of the UK Companies Act 2006.
2. Any of our Brands.
3. Selected third parties including:
   1. business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors for the performance of any contract we enter into with them or you;
   2. Advertisers and advertising networks that require the data to select and serve relevant adverts to you and others. We do not disclose information about identifiable individuals to our advertisers, but we will provide them with aggregate information about our users (for example, we may inform them that 500 men aged under 30 have clicked on their advertisement on any given day). We may also use such aggregate information to help advertisers reach the kind of audience they want to target (for example, women in SW1). We may make use of the personal data we have collected from you to enable us to comply with our advertisers’ wishes by displaying their advertisement to that target audience;
   3. analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our site;
   4. credit reference agencies for the purpose of assessing your credit score where this is a condition of us entering into a contract with you.

We will disclose your personal information to third parties:

1. In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we will disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
2. If AJS Services Yorkshire Limited or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.
3. If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of AJS Services Yorkshire Limited, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Where We Store Your Personal Data

All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers or those servers of select third parties. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

Your Rights

Under the Acts, you have the following rights:

• The right to be informed
• The right of access
• The right to rectification
• The right to erase
• The right to restrict processing
• The right to data portability
• The right to object
• Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling.

You can find out more information about your rights on the Information Commission’s Office (ICO) website or by following this link: https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/ . The ICO are the Supervising Authority for Data Protection in the UK and you have the right to complain to them should you wish to do so.

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at sales@ajsservicesltd.co.uk

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

Access To Information

The Acts gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Acts.

Data Retention

We will only retain your information for as long as is necessary. We do this by taking into account various factors including, but not limited to, the purpose for which we have your information, whether we have a legal obligation to continue to process this and the guidelines as stated in our retention policy.

If you have requested to receive information from us and/or signed up to one our mailing lists, we will retain this information for as long as you remain subscribed or in the event that we cancel our mailing lists.

Changes To Our Privacy Policy

Any changes we make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.

Contact

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to Marketing, AJS Services Yorkshire Ltd, 1 Kirkfield Way, Royston, Barnsley, S71 4NN or sales@ajsservicesltd.co.uk