Privacy Policy | Structural Engineers UK

Our Privacy Policy:

The security of your data is priority at Qube Design LTD, and (“we”) Qube Design LTD are committed to respecting your privacy rights. This policy (together with our terms and conditions and any other documents referred to, 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 visiting https://qubedesign.co.uk you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy.

This policy, provides you with information about:

What type of information do we collect?

We receive, collect and store any information you enter on our website or provide us in any other way. In addition, we collect the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; computer and connection information. We may collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page. The type of personal information we may hold is your title, name, company, email address and telephone number. We will collect and store your personal information if you:

· Subscribe to marketing communications via our website https://qubedesign.co.uk

· You request information, provide feedback and comment on blog posts

How do we store, share and disclose our site visitors' personal information?

Your data may be stored through our hosting company’s data storage, databases and their general applications. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. Qube Design LTD will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. 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. Our hosting company provides us with the online platform that allows us to sell our services to you. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall. We also use Google Analytics which sets cookies to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to help us improve the website and your overall experience. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to our website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Aside from our service providers mentioned above, we will not disclose your personal data to any third party. We will never sell or rent our customer data to other organisations for marketing purposes.

We use information held about you in the following ways:

Information you give to us. We will use this information:

· 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;

· to provide you with information about other services we offer which are similar to those you have already purchased or enquired about;

· to ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.

Information we collect about you. We will use this information:

· to administer our site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;

· to improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;

· to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so;

· as part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure;

Information we receive from other sources. We may combine this information with information you give to us and information we collect about you. We may us this information and the combined information for the purposes set out above (depending on the types of information we receive).

Our hosting company and Third Party Services:

Our hosting company has partnered with a number of selected service providers, whose services and solutions complement, facilitate and enhance their own. These include hosting and server co-location services, communications and content delivery networks (CDNs), data and cyber security services, domain name registrars, fraud detection and prevention services, web analytics, e-mail distribution and monitoring services, session recording and remote access services, performance measurement, data optimisation and marketing services, content providers, and their legal and financial advisors (collectively, “Third Party Service(s)”). Such Third Party Services may receive or otherwise have access to our Visitors’ and Users’ Personal Information and/or Users-of-Users’ Personal Information, in its entirety or in part – depending on each of their particular roles and purposes in facilitating and enhancing our Services and business, and may only use it for such purposes.

Law Enforcement, Legal Requests and Duties:

Where permitted by local data protection laws, our hosting company may disclose or otherwise allow others access to your Personal Information pursuant to a legal request, such as legal proceedings, search warrant or court order, or in compliance with applicable laws, if we have good faith belief that the law requires us to do so, with or without notice to you.

Protecting Rights and Safety:

Our hosting company may share your Personal Information with others if they believe in good faith that this will help protect the rights, property or personal safety of their company, any of their Users, any Users-of-Users, or any member of the general public, with or without notice to you.

Social Media Features and Framed Pages:

This/our website https://qubedesign.co.uk includes certain Social Media features and widgets. These Social Media Features may collect information such as your IP address or which page you are visiting on our Website, and may set a cookie to enable them to function properly. Social Media Features are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our hosting company’s Services. Your interactions with these third parties’ Social Media Features are governed by their policies and not ours.

In addition, our Services may enable you to share your Personal Information with third parties directly, such as via page framing techniques to serve content to or from Third Party Services or other parties, while preserving the look and feel of our Website and Services (“Frames”). Please be aware that if you choose to interact or share any Personal Information via such Frames, you are in fact providing it to these third parties and not to us, and such interactions and sharing too are governed by such third parties’ policies and not ours.

Our hosting company’s Subsidiaries and Affiliated Companies:

They may share Personal Information internally within their family of companies, for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. In addition, should our hosting company or any of its affiliates undergo any change in control, including by means of merger, acquisition or purchase of substantially all of its assets, your Personal Information may be shared with the parties involved in such event. If they have good faith that such change in control might materially affect your Personal Information stored with them, we will notify you via e-mail and/or prominent notice on our Website of this event and certain choices you may have regarding your Personal Information.

To clarify, our hosting company may share your Personal Information in manners other than as described above, pursuant to your explicit approval, or if they are legally obligated to do so. Moreover, they may transfer, share, disclose or otherwise use Non-personal Information in its sole discretion and without the need for further approval.

Blog:

Our website provides a publicly accessible blog. Please be aware that any information you provide in any such areas may be read, collected, and used by others who access them. To request removal of your Personal Information from our blog, feel free to contact us at: info@qubedesign.co.uk. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your Personal Information from such areas. For example, if you use a third party application to post a comment (e.g., the Facebook social plugin application) while logged in to your related profile with such third party, you must login into such application or contact its provider if you want to remove the Personal Information you posted on that platform. In any event, we advise against posting any information (or use any posting means to post information) you don’t wish to publicise on these platforms.

What cookies do we use on this website?

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.

What cookies do we use on this website?

First Party Cookies - cookies our hosting company place on our site which are strictly necessary and for functionality purposes and third party cookies. Please email us for a list of cookies we use at info@qubedesign.co.uk.

How do we use cookies and other tracking tools?

Cookies are small pieces of data stored on a site visitor's browser, used to keep track of their movements and actions on a site. They are used to remember when your computer or device accesses our website. Cookies are essential for the effective operation of our website.

How do I disable cookies?

If you want to disable cookies you need to change your website browser settings to reject cookies. How you can do this will depend on the browser you use.

What happens if I disable cookies?

This depends on which cookies you disable. Our website may not operate properly if cookies are turned off.

Your rights:

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 info@qubedesign.co.uk.

How can you withdraw your consent?

If you don’t want us to process your data anymore, please contact us at info@qubedesign.co.uk or send us mail to: Qube Design LTD, 657 Liverpool Road, Irlam, Manchester, M44 5XD, UK.

Email, post and SMS marketing:

From time to time, we may contact you by email, post or SMS with information about services we believe you may be interested in. We will only send marketing messages to you in accordance with the marketing preferences you set when you sign up to our mailing list via our website.
You can then let us know at any time that you do not wish to receive marketing messages by changing your preferences, sending an email to info@qubedesign.co.uk or writing to us at the address above. You can also unsubscribe from our marketing by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the emails we send to you.

Confidentiality:

We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to be privy to that information to provide products and services to you and to do their jobs.

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.

Questions and your contact information:

If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, you are invited to contact us at info@qubedesign.co.uk or send us mail to Qube Design LTD, 657 Liverpool Road, Irlam, Manchester, M44 5XD, UK.