Privacy Policy
Who we are
We are Alpha Polymers Limited, registered in England No. 1543079 Registered office: Canal Wharf, 1 Costain Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, L20 8QJ.
Our website address is: https://www.alpha-polymers.com.
This privacy statement applies to Alpha Polymers Limited, which control and make use of any visitor information collected via this site.
If as a visitor to this website, you choose to submit information, you agree to the use of such data in accordance with the terms set out in this privacy statement.
If you have any questions regarding this privacy statement or do not feel that your concerns have been addressed, please direct your questions to our website administrator via data.protection@alpha-polymers.com .
Data Protection Controller and Contact Details
In the context of this website, Alpha Polymers Limited is a “Data Controller” and as such it is required to notify you how your information is held and used pursuant to relevant data protection laws. Questions and queries about this privacy policy and or about or how we as an organisation use your personal data can be sent to our information security manager by email via data.protection@alpha-polymers.com .
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Information Collection
As a visitor, you do not have to submit any personal information in order to use the Website. The site collects and stores personally identifiable information that is specifically and voluntarily provided by visitors. Such information may consist of, but is not limited to, your name, company address, email address, telephone and fax numbers and we do not collect such personal information without your knowledge. This information is broadly termed as “personal data” or “personal information”.
In the event that you choose to supply personal information either through the website or by telephone we will collect, use, and store this personal data. We may collect this information when we speak to you on the telephone, from an online application/contact form made via our website and from documents, email or other correspondence that you send to us.
Where personal information relating to another person or your partner is supplied by you, you confirm that you have their consent or are otherwise entitled to provide this information to us and for us to use it.
We may also use cookies which are explained below.
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.
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.
Information Use
We will only use any personal information which you supply to us through this website or on the telephone when the law allows us to. The law states that we must identify the purpose and basis upon which we use your personal data. We rely on a number of lawful basis for processing your personal data:-
- Where you have given your informed, unambiguous and specific consent;
- Where we need to comply with a lawful obligation;
- Where we need to perform a contract that we have entered into with you; and
- Where it is necessary for us to use your personal information to pursue our legitimate interests (or those of a third party).
We have stated below the purposes for which we use your personal data
We will use your information to comply with our lawful obligations to prevent and detect fraud, money laundering and other crimes, carry out regulatory checks and meet our obligations to any relevant regulatory authority; to assist us in providing our services to you; and to improve and develop our services to you and other customers, using the information you have provided and we will ensure that any such marketing activities comply with applicable law, as well as ensuring that we implement procedures to obtain necessary consents before sending you emails containing information about Alpha Polymer and its service offerings so that we can pursue our legitimate interest in creating lasting relationships with our clients. You may at any time request that we discontinue sending you such materials.
In relation to the website only, the personal identifying information you submit is used to process your enquiry and the information gathered from telephone calls allows us to track the source of the call. The cookies information is used pursuant to your consent and to pursue our legitimate interest and to help us understand more about how our website is used and to improve our site.
How long we retain your data
We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose for which we collected it in line with statutory and professional rules of retention. In the majority of instances, the period for retaining your personal data shall be 6 years from the date of closure of contact which you may have with us. In the event that the basis on which we are holding your personal information requires this information to be kept for a reduced period of time then it shall be retained in accordance with our retention policies in place from time to time. Examples of this are:-
- Marketing information – the retention period shall be the period of our relationship with you and for a period of 6 years afterwards.
- Client/customer relationship/matters – 6 years from the date on which the matter has been closed or relationship has ended.
- Information required by law when commencing a client engagement – period of 6 years from the date on which the relevant matter has ended.
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
We are dedicated to providing reasonable access to visitors who wish to review the personal information retained, if any. In all cases we will treat requests to access information or change information in accordance with applicable legal requirements and a charge may be levied to cover the administration costs of such requests.
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.
Under certain circumstances, by law, you have the right to:-
- Request access to your personal information as stated above;
- Request correction of any personal information that we hold about you. We have an obligation to ensure that the information we hold about you is complete and accurate;
- Right to deletion – you have a right to ask us to delete or remove personal information where there is no good reason for us to continue to hold/process it;
- Object to processing – you can object to the processing of your personal information (where we are relying on a legitimate interest or those of a third party) and remove your right to consent in certain circumstances;
- Request for transfer – you may request for your data to be transferred to another party and/or put in place a restriction on the processing of such data;
- Withdrawal to consent – where you have provided your consent to the collection, processing and transfer of your personal information for a specific purpose you have the right to withdraw your consent for that specific processing.
Please contact data.protection@alpha-polymers.com should you wish to access your personal information or withdraw previously provided consents.
Information Security
We have in place reasonable commercial standards of technology and operational security to protect all information provided by visitors from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
Alpha Polymers Limited reserves the right to modify or amend this privacy statement at any time and for any reason. Nothing contained herein creates or is intended to create a contract or agreement between Alpha Polymers Limited and any user visiting the website or providing identifying information of any kind.
