We ask that you read this privacy notice carefully as it contains important information on who we are, how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information, your rights in relation to your personal information and on how to contact us and supervisory authorities in the event you have a complaint. This privacy notice only relates to how we collect and use information collected via our website, when you visit or arrange to visit our premises (“visitors”), and if you are a customer (including potential customers) or supplier (including potential suppliers). Where you provide personal information to us in a recruitment or employment context please contact us separately for details of how we process this information.
Chester Hall Precision Engineering Ltd (company number 1156177) collects, uses and is responsible for certain personal information about you. When we do so we are regulated under the General Data Protection Regulation which applies across the European Union (including in the United Kingdom) and we are responsible as ‘controller’ of that personal information for the purposes of those laws.
Our website
In the course of operating our website we collect the following personal information when you provide it to us:
Visitors to our premises
When you visit our premises we may collect all or some of the following personal information to the extent relevant to your visit
Customers
As a customer we may collect all or some of the following personal information to the extent relevant to our relationship with you
Suppliers
As a supplier we may collect all or some of the following personal information to the extent relevant to our relationship with you
We also obtain personal information from other sources as follows:
Visitors to our premises
Our staff may have collected information about you and your business prior to your visit or may do so later to follow up on your visit.
Customers
We may conduct credit reference checks and company and businesses searches. Also we may receive information about you from third party sources (e,g. in the relevant supply chain).
Suppliers
We may conduct credit reference checks and company and businesses searches. Also we may receive information about you from third party sources (e,g. in the relevant supply chain).
Website users
Visitors to our premises
Customers
Suppliers
We may share your information with third parties we deal with (e.g. in our supply chain) where this is necessary in order for us to perform any contractual obligations (e.g. for delivery or production) or where it is reasonable for us to do so in the context of our relationship with you. [We also outsource the operation of our website and other IT systems].
We may also share your personal information with third parties in the event of any transfer of our business to a third party or reorganisation of our business.
We do not as a matter of course transfer personal information outside the EEA other than where required in the context of us supplying products outside the EEA, to deal with enquiries from outside the EEA or where we procure materials components or products from outside the EEA. We will do so in compliance with applicable law including those provisions of the GDPR relevant to permitting such transfers depending on the data protection status of the third country involved as regards the UK and EEA (as applicable). For further information on how we do so please contact us (contact details below).
We will share personal information with law enforcement or other authorities if required by applicable law.
We will not share your personal information with any other third party.
We may require certain information from you to comply with security and health and safety requirements and to fulfil our contractual obligations. We will inform you at the point of collecting information from you, whether you are required to provide the information to us.
We retain your personal information only as long as is necessary for the purposes for which it was collected and processed, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal or reporting requirements.
We review our retention periods regularly – if you need more information please contact us (details below).
We rely on primarily rely on our legitimate interests in processing your personal information – we have a legitimate interest in using your personal information to carry on our business and to manage and develop our relationship with you.
We may also rely on your consent as the lawful basis processing where the law requires us to obtain consent (e.g. certain categories of electronic marketing).
We may also process your personal information where necessary to protect your vital interests or those of another person or where processing is necessary for us to comply with a legal obligation to which we are subject.
Under the General Data Protection Regulation you have a number of important rights free of charge. In summary, those include rights to:
For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, see the Guidance from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on individuals rights under the General Data Protection Regulation.
If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please:
We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost, or used or accessed in an unauthorised way. We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to know it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.
We hope that we can resolve any query or concern you raise about our use of your information.
The General Data Protection Regulation also gives you right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the European Union (or European Economic Area) state where you work, normally live or where any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred. The supervisory authority in the UK is the Information Commissioner who may be contacted at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/ or telephone:[0303 123 1113.
This privacy notice was published on 12/11/19 and last updated on 12/11/19.
We may change this privacy notice from time to time, when we do we will inform you via posting a new version on our website.
Please contact us if you have any questions about this privacy notice or the information we hold about you.
If you wish to contact us please send an email to enquiries@chester-hall.co.uk, write to: Chester Hall Precision Engineering Limited, Hurricane Way, Wickford Business Park, Wickford, Essex, SS11 8YB or call: +44 (0)1268 739100.
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