Privacy Policy

Introduction We at Access Engineering PLC (AEL) are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors; in this policy we explain how we will treat your personal information. By using our website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.

Collecting Personal Information
  • We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal information:
    • Information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website (including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths)
    • Information that you provide to us when registering with our website including your email address
    • Information that you provide to us when using the services on our website, or that is generated in the course of the use of those services (including the timing, frequency and pattern of service use)
    • Information contained in or relating to any communications that you send to us or send through enquiry forms or otherwise on our website (including the communication content and meta data associated with the communication)
    • Any other personal information that you choose to send to us.
  • Before you disclose to us the personal information of another person, you must obtain that person’s consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.
Using Your Personal Information
  • Personal information submitted to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website
  • We may use your personal information to:
    • Administer our website and business
    • Enable your use of the services available on our website
    • Deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website
Disclosing Personal Information
  • We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, advisers, agents, insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy
  • We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (this means our affiliates and subsidiaries,) insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy
  • We may disclose your personal information:
    • To the extent that we are required to do so by law
    • In order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk)
    • To the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling; and
    • To any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information
  • Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties
  Retaining Personal Information
  • This Section sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal information
  • Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes
  • Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
    • To the extent that we are required to do so by law;
    • If we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; and
    • In order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).
  Security of your Personal Information
  • We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information
  • We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure (password- and firewall-protected) servers
  • You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet
  Third Party Websites
  • Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third party websites
  • We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties
  Cookies
  • Our website uses cookies
  • A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.
This Privacy Policy may be amended and updated periodically and without prior notice to you to reflect changes in our online information practices. We also encourage users to periodically check this Policy to understand how we protect and use your information.