1. Introduction
Welcome to the Westby Group website. We are committed to protecting your personal data and respecting your privacy. This privacy policy informs you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
2. Important Information and Who We Are
Data Controller: Westby Group is the data controller and is responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy policy).
Contact Details: If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:
- Full name of legal entity: Westby Projects Limited
- Email address: callum@westbyprojects.co.uk
- Postal address: Muskers Building, 1 Stanley Street, Liverpool, United Kingdom, L1 6AA
3. The Data We Collect About You
Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. Through our website, specifically via our communication channels and Contact Form 7, we may collect, use, store, and transfer the following types of personal data:
- Identity Data: Includes your first name and last name.
- Contact Data: Includes your email address and telephone number.
- Technical Data: Includes your internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
- Usage Data: Includes information about how you use our website, products, and services.
4. How Your Personal Data is Collected
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
- Direct Interactions: You give us your Identity and Contact Data by filling in forms on our website (specifically using Contact Form 7) or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise.
- Automated Technologies or Interactions: As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies.
5. Contact Form 7 Data Processing
Our website utilizes the Contact Form 7 plugin to process inquiries sent through our contact pages. When you submit a form:
- The data you input (Name, Email, Subject, and Message) is captured and transmitted to our secure administrative email address to enable us to respond to your query.
- Storage: Contact Form 7 does not inherently store submission data in the WordPress database. However, if we use database-storing extensions (like Flamingo), your messages will be securely stored on our web server in accordance with standard data protection protocols.
- Retention: We retain contact form submissions for a maximum period of [e.g., 6 months / 1 year] for customer service purposes, but we do not use the information submitted through them for marketing purposes unless explicitly consented to.
6. How We Use Your Personal Data
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
- Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
- Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
- Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
7. Data Security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
8. Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
9. Your Legal Rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. These include the right to:
- Request access to your personal data.
- Request correction of your personal data.
- Request erasure of your personal data.
- Object to processing of your personal data.
- Request restriction of processing your personal data.
- Request transfer of your personal data.
- Right to withdraw consent.
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us at our email address provided in Section 2.
10. Third-Party Links
This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.