Privacy Policy
High-Tech Engineering Ltd ( from now on referred to a “us”, “we”, or “our”) operates https://www.high-tech-eng.co.uk/ (the “website or site”) to bring you information about our products and services.
This privacy policy page answers your questions about the collection, use and disclosure of any Personal Information you provide when using our website.
We only use your personal information to communicate with you regarding your purchase, improve your experience of the website and to manage the processing of your order. We are committed to holding your data securely, never sharing it unless you agree to this and putting you in control of how you update, delete and access your data.
The information we collect from you
While using our website, we may ask you to provide us with certain information which is personally identifiable. This may include, but is not limited to, your name and email address, mobile phone number and address (“Personal Information”).
We process your data under contract to provide you with the product you have ordered.
If you have only registered to hear more from us then we are processing your data under consent as you have opted in to our newsletter.
We will never sell, distribute or lease your personal information to anyone.
How long is information stored?
Your personal information is stored for set periods. We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:
- Where the information is necessary for the adequate performance of the contract between you and us for us to provide our services.
- For customer service and resolution purposes.
- Internal record keeping.
- We may use the information to improve our products and services.
- We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided and we may personalise such content based on what we believe may be of interest to you.
- We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests.
- We may use the information to send you relevant, personalised communications by post in relation to updates, offers, services and products.
- We’ll do this on the basis of our legitimate business interest. You are free to opt out of hearing from us by post at any time by writing to or emailing us
- We may use the information for the purposes of fraud detection and prevention and enhancing safety on our website.
We also store Log Data
As with the majority of websites we store information on the visits people make to our website. This is done by collecting information that your browser sends whenever you visit our website (“Log Data”) using Google Analytics.
This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics.
We use the information provided by Google Analytics and Log Data to see how effective our website is and how to make changes to improve your experience. Google Analytics provides options to limit the amount of time data is retained and these are currently set to 26 months.
The legal basis for holding your details
We hold information about your order for 7 years in accordance with requirements to keep legitimate business records. We will only contact you about your order or if you have given your permission to receive further marketing information.
All of your details are stored with password protection and managed by a designated data controller. You have a right (see below) to ask for your details to be deleted and forgotten and can do this by contacting us.
Your data and your right to access Personal Information
It’s very important to us that you feel comfortable with the way in which your data is used and stored by us.
You have the right, under the GDPR, to:
- Request access to your personal information (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
- Request a correction of the personal information that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected.
- Request erasure of your personal information, ensuring your ‘right to be forgotten’. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal information where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal information where you have exercised your right to object to processing (see below). You should be aware that, for legal reasons, we may be unable to erase certain information.
- Object to processing of your personal information where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal information for direct marketing purposes.
- Request the restriction of processing of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of personal information about you, for example if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it.
- Request the transfer of your personal information to another party.
If you would like to make a request, please contact us and we will endeavour to answer and deal with your request as speedily as possible. You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal information. However, we may have to charge a reasonable fee if your request for access is deemed unfounded or excessive.
Security
The security of your Personal Information is vitally important to us. All users of the internet should feel safe in accessing and sharing information online and so ensuring that we store your information safely and responsibly is of high priority to us.
However we all need to understand that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. We have set up a series of safeguards and complied with current regulations to protect your Personal Information, but we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
In the event of a breach of security we pledge to notify you within three days of its discovery with a plan of action to help you to take any necessary steps if your data has been compromised.
Communicating with you
We promise that we will only use your Personal Information to contact you with emails, newsletters and information which is of legitimate interest to you.
Changes To This Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is effective as of 28 Sept 2023. If we make any changes in its provisions in the future, these will be updated with the date they are changed and will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page.
We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time so we recommend checking this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Service after we post any modifications on this page is taken as an acknowledgment of the changes and that you consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.
If we do make any material – significant – changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you either through the email address you have provided us, or by placing a prominent notice on our website.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us. You can also contact us if you have any queries about your personal data. We will endeavour to answer your query as soon as possible.