Who we are
This Privacy and Cookie Policy explains how Primo Paint Protection collects, holds, transfers, processes and discloses your Personal Data. This Policy also explains your rights under the laws relating to Personal Data.
Our website address is: https://www.ppfwoking.co.uk.
The company offers paint protection film, vehicle wrapping and window tinting.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
This Privacy Policy applies to Data that we process about you in connection with your use of our Site. The types of Data we process depend on how you use our Site.
By using our Site and by disclosing your Data to us, you consent to the collection, storage, processing, use and disclosure of your Data by us as described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree any aspect of this Privacy Policy, you shall discontinue using our Site.
The content of this Policy applies to you when you interact with the Company in centre, online, via social media, telephone, text, websites and any other form of correspondence.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
If you choose to message us through the contact form located on our site, we may collect and process your name, email, company name and country of origin.
Social Media
The Company’s websites contain links and sharing buttons to third party social media websites e.g. Facebook and Twitter. These third parties may in turn serve you cookies. The Company is not responsible for the placement of these cookies. Please check the data privacy policy for the respective third party social media website for more information.
When you make contact with the Company via social media channels certain Personal Data may be shared with the Company about your online activities such as gender, interests and marital status depending on your profile settings. The Company is not responsible for the Personal Data you share on your social media profiles and you are encouraged to familiarise yourself with the privacy settings of these sites.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
We do not share your personal data with third-parties who intend to use the data for marketing purposes if you have not given your consent to this.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Your contact information
Transactional: The Company will communicate with you in order to complete any transactional commitments.
Marketing Purposes: The Company will only contact you for marketing purposes where you have given consent to do so. The Company may personalise the message content based upon information you have previously provided and your use of any linked websites.
Social Media: Social Media communications such as: Facebook, Google, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter etc. will be responded to based upon the data you have previously provided.
How we protect your data
We use a third party service to help maintain the security and performance of its websites. To do this it processes the IP addresses of website visitors.
What data breach procedures we have in place
The Company protects your Personal Data from unauthorised access, disclosure or amendments by using:
- Two factor authentication;
- Secure storage locations;
- Regular review of data storage and processing practices including physical safety procedures to guard against unlawful access;
Access to your Personal Data is restricted to employees on a need to know basis, suppliers and authorised representatives who are subject to contractual responsibilities.
Unfortunately, the transmission of data via the internet is not completely secure. Although the Company does its best to protect your Personal Data, it cannot guarantee the security whilst it is transmitted to its site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once in receipt of your Personal Data, the Company will use procedures and security measures to prevent unauthorised access.
What third parties we receive data from
In certain circumstances, we may share or be obliged to share your Data with third parties for the purposes described above and in accordance with GDPR.
These third parties may include:
- regulatory authorities,
- financial institutions,
- public authorities such as police and public prosecutors,
- auditors,
- external professional advisors and
- others, where it is permitted by law, or where we have your consent.
Above-mentioned parties may also use your Data as a ‘data controller’ in the meaning stated by Article 4 section 7 of GDPR. What that mean is they will have their own privacy notices which you should read, and they have their own responsibilities to comply with applicable data protection legislation such as GDPR.
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
We do not use automated decision-making. Regarding profiling, we use the tracking tool Google Analytics.
Google Analytics, a web analysis service from Google Inc. to collect information about how visitors use the websites. Google Analytics employs cookies that are stored on your computer in order to facilitate the analysis of your use of the websites. This in turn enables the Company to make improvements to the websites based on your browsing activity. The anonymised data generated by these cookies is transmitted to Google’s location in the US and stored there. This information includes pages visited, frequency of visits and where visits have come to the site from. The cookies collect information in an anonymous format and also store the IP address of your computer which may be used to provide an approximate location of the visitor. For more information on the specific cookies placed on your device to facilitate the use of Google Analytics and what each individual cookie does, please view the Cookie Policy.
The Company uses Google Adwords, an online advertising/remarketing tool from Google Inc. to place ads in Google search results and other websites which you may find of interest. To help the Company track sales and other conversions from our advertisements, the Company uses the conversion tracking feature provided by Google Adwords which places a cookie on your device when you click on one of the advertisements. The Company is not responsible for the placement of these cookies. Google uses the information obtained from conversion cookies to compile statistics including the number of users who clicked on the ad and the pages then accessed by each user. Conversion cookies are only active for 30 days and cannot be used to identify any Personal Data.
Your Rights under GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018
You have the right to obtain a copy of your Personal Data that is processed by the Company and know the reasons why it processes your data. Upon receipt of a written request made to the Company Data Protection Officer you can normally expect a response within one month of the request. (Should there be a requirement for an extension of the original one month limit you will be written to with the reasons for any delay). Please note confirmation of a requester’s identity will be essential prior to any release of Personal Data.
If the Company holds Personal Data about you, it will:
- Provide a description of the data held;
- Inform you why the data is being held;
- Inform you who the data is disclosed to;
- Provide a copy of the data in a machine readable format (or hard copy).
Depending upon the nature of the request the Company will try to manage the search informally in the first instance e.g. if you are seeking specific data, this may be resolved via a telephone call.
