Privacy Policy

htec Limited Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Policy sets out how we will process the information that personally identifies any individual (‘Personal Data’) that we collect and receive from and about users of our website or subscribe to our newsletters.

In simple terms, our privacy pledges to you are:

  • We will only collect, keep, use and share Personal Data for legitimate business reasons that we explain in this document, or if we’re legally required to do so.
  • We will be as clear and open as we can with you on what Personal Data we collect and how it will be processed.
  • We will keep all Personal Data up to date and reflect your preferences. We will also keep all data safely and securely with appropriate measures to prevent abuse.

For Our Customers & Clients

Data collection

We collect the following Personal Data from or about you as a customer of htec Ltd:

  • Personal Data collected directly from you through business processes such as your name, phone number, postal address, email address. The legal basis for the collection and processing of this data is the provision to you of the services accessed by you.
  • Personal Data collected automatically from the use by you of the website. The data transmitted from your browser such as your IP address, the date and time of the visit the pages accessed, the access status/HTTP status code, your browser, your operating system and interface, as well as the language and version of the browser software. The legal basis for collecting and processing this personal data is to be able to operate the website and provide you with access to the pages you wish to access.
  • Personal Data received indirectly through our suppliers which enables us to create and store and record communications history. The legal basis for collecting and processing this personal data is our legitimate interests in knowing more about our customers.

Data Uses

We use your Personal Data:

  • For the administration of your account and to contact you about your account.
  • To contact you with marketing messages which you have requested or agreed to receive from us (for example via a email newsletter).
  • To contact you with surveys and feedback requests

Cookies

A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer to identify data traffic patterns, personalize contents, and support security. Cookies do not provide any information which might disclose the identity of a specific person but they may potentially identify your computer, your browser and your internet settings. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our services. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our services. For more information about our use of cookies, including details on how to opt-out of certain cookies, please see our Cookie Policy.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”) also places cookies on your computer, to enable Google to provide us with activity reports relating to the website. Google uses this data only to provide us with information on how users use the website and does not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. The information generated by Google cookies about your use of the platform (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Again, if you wish to stop this, you can stop these cookies being collected by changing the settings on your browser or by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB.

Data Sharing

htec Ltd will not sell your information. We will not share your information with any third party except as stated in this Privacy Notice or as required to operate the website, provide our services to you and administer your account.

Social Media

We will share your Personal Data with social media sites to enable them to provide marketing messages that you have agreed to receive from them. The social media sites we share your Personal Data with as at the date of this Privacy Policy and their respective privacy statements are:

1. Twitter, https://twitter.com/en/privacy

2. LinkedIn, https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

3. Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/policy.php

For Our Social Media Followers

Data Collection

If you follow one of our social media channels, htec Ltd will receive Personal Data about you such as your account name, gender, general interests, location, age. The legal basis for processing this data is our legitimate interest in providing social media and marketing content that is of interest to our followers on social media.

Data Uses

We use this Personal Data:

  • To provide bespoke social media content (for example by analysing your general interests).
  • To create targeted content across all our social media channels (for example by analysing responses to posts, events and videos).
  • To find out more about our digital community (for example by analysing the age ranges of our followers).

Data Sharing

htec Ltd will not sell your information. We will not share your information with any third party except as stated in this Privacy Notice or as required to operate the Sites, provide our services to you and administer your account.

For Our Website Visitors

Data Collection

By using our website, we collect Personal Data about you such as: site referrals, browsing pattern, browser type, location, general interests, gender, age. The data transmitted from your browser includes your IP address, the date and time of the visit the pages accessed, the access status/ HTTP status code, your browser, your operating system and interface, as well as the language and version of the browser software. The legal basis for collecting and processing this personal data is our legitimate interest in operating the sites, providing you with access to the pages you wish to access, understanding the interests of our potential customers and providing you with relevant information about our services.

Data Uses

We use this Personal Data:

  • To provide you with bespoke website content (for example by analysing our site visitors’ age ranges);
  • To gain insight into your behaviour and preferences (for example by analysing the website pages you visit);
  • To create bespoke marketing messages (for example by analysing the click throughs on our site);
  • To re-target our website visitors with relevant marketing messages (for example by using cookies hosted on our site);
  • To collect site statistics.

For more information please refer to the Cookie section above.

Data Sharing

htec Ltd will not sell your information. We will not share your information with any third party except as stated in this Privacy Notice or as required to operate our website, provide our services to you and administer your account or otherwise as required or permitted by law.

Our Data Processors

We use third party processors to collect, export, process and store Personal Data on our behalf. The processors we use currently are the following:

  1. Survey Tool: Survey Monkey, located in the U.S.. https://www.surveymonkey.com/mp/policy/privacy-policy/
  2. Google Analytics, located in the U.S. https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

International Data Transfers

We use data processors located outside the European Economic Area only after taking such steps as are required to ensure that Personal Data they process on our behalf receives protection equivalent to that provided in the UK. Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the UK, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:

  • We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data; or
  • If we transfer your personal data out of the UK to a county that is not deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data, we may use specific contracts known as model clauses approved for use in the UK which give personal data the same protection it has in the UK.

Data Security

We use a variety of technical and physical safeguards which exist to protect the security and integrity of your Personal Data. This helps protect it from accidental or unauthorised access, use, alteration or disclosure to unauthorised third parties. These measures include device encryption, firewalls and virus checking procedures.

Where we keep Personal Data files on local devices these devices are protected and accessible only to authorised htec Ltd employees.

As a matter of course, we undertake periodic reviews of our security systems to ensure that they remain fit for purpose and that your Personal Data remains safe and secure.

Duration of Storage

We will maintain records of your Personal Data for as long as you remain:

  • A registered subscriber to our mailing list;
  • Have completed a purchase with HTEC Ltd in the last 36 months; or
  • For as long as is necessary to provide our services to you.

If you have not opened any email communication from a htec Ltd brand or interacted in any other way with our brands for 36 months we will regard you as an inactive subscriber and delete your details from our records except where retention is necessary to enable us to enforce our legal rights, or to protect the rights, property or safety of our employees.

Your Rights In Relation To Personal Data

You can update your subscription preferences or unsubscribe from our marketing communications at any time by following the link in the footer of the last email you received from us (“Update your subscription preferences” or “Unsubscribe”).

You have the right to update and correct the personal information on your account. You also have the right to request from us all personal information that we hold that relates to you, to request restriction of the processing of that data and to request that we delete that data. Where allowed by applicable law there may be an administrative charge for supply of copies of data and we may also require you to provide us with appropriate identification before we comply with this request. You also have the right to object to our continued processing of your personal data. You may also have the right to data portability. If you have a complaint about the way in which we use your personal information you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner www.ico.gov.uk.

Changes To Our Privacy Notice

We will update this Privacy Notice from time to time to reflect changes in our business. All such changes will be posted to the website and where necessary, we will also contact our subscribers by email.

Contacting us

htec Ltd is the Data Controller in respect of any Personal Data that you submit to us or that we collect from or about you. We are a limited company registered in England and Wales (registered no.1486255) with registered offices at George Curl Way, Southampton, SO18 2RX.

If you would like to know what information we hold about you or if you have any other queries or complaints in relation to this Privacy Notice, or our Sites, our contact details are as follows:

htec Ltd, George Curl Way, Southampton, United Kingdom, SO18 2RX
HTEC.DPO@pditechnologies.com
023 8068 9200