Privacy Statement
This notice is issued by Bespoke Computing Limited (Company) a company registered in England and Wales under company number 04778624 whose registered office is at 1 Bank Farm Cottages, Shrewsbury, SY3 9DQ, United Kingdom and whose VAT registration number is 815 9065 20.
The Company is committed to preserving the privacy of all visitors to www.bespokecomputing.com (Website). Please read the following privacy policy to understand how we use and protect the information that you provide to us.
By registering or placing an order on this site, you consent to the collection, use and transfer of your information under the terms of this policy.
1. INFORMATION THAT WE COLLECT FROM YOU
When you visit, register or order products or services on the Website you may be asked to provide certain information about yourself including your name, company name and position, contact details and credit or debit card information, bank details and age. We may also collect information about your usage of our Website as well as information about you from messages you post to the Website and e-mails or letters you send to us.
Every time you connect to the Website, we store a log of your visit that shows the unique number your machine uses when it is connected to the Internet - its IP address. This tells us what your machine has looked at, whether the page request was successful or not and which browser your machine used to view the pages. The use of this data is primarily for statistical purposes. This helps us to understand which areas of the Website are of particular interest and also which pages are not being requested. It also tells how many people are visiting the Website in total. We may attempt to contact you through these details if necessary, including, without limitation, when you are using the wrong paths to access the Website or are breaching restrictions on the use of the Website. We may also use this information to block IP addresses where there is a breach of the Terms and Conditions for use of the Website.
2. USE OF YOUR INFORMATION
Your information will enable us to provide you with access to all parts of our site and to supply the goods or services you have requested. It will also enable us to bill you and to contact you where necessary concerning your orders. We will also use and analyse the information we collect so that we can administer, support, improve and develop our business.
In particular, we may use your information to contact you for your views on our services and to notify you occasionally about important changes or developments to the site or our services. Further, where you have consented, we might also use your information to let you know about other products and services which we offer which may be of interest to and we may contact you by post, telephone or fax, as well as by e-mail. If you change your mind about being contacted in the future, please let us know.
If you are making a job application or inquiry, you may provide us with a copy of your CV or other relevant information. We may use this information throughout the Company for the purpose of considering your application or inquiry. Except when you explicitly request otherwise, we may keep this information on file for future reference.
We may also use your personal data to carry out research that will enable us to better understand our users' demographics, interests and behaviour. This research is compiled and analysed on an aggregated basis, without identifying any user individually.
Partners of the Company may visit a specially allocated website. We may use information provided on that site to administer and develop our business relationship including the sharing of certain information (where permitted to do so) with associate companies other business partners, customers or prospects.
3. DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
The information you provide to us will be held on our computers in the UK and may be accessed by or given to our staff working outside the UK and third parties including companies within the Company group who act for us for the purposes set out in this policy or for other purposes approved by you. Those parties process information, fulfil and deliver orders, process credit and debit card and bank payments and provide support services on our behalf. We may also pass aggregate information on the usage of our Website to third parties but this will not include information that can be used to identify you.
Where you have consented when providing us with your details, we may also allow carefully selected third parties, including other companies in our group, to contact you occasionally about products and services which may be of interest to you. They may contact you by post, telephone or fax, as well as by e-mail. If you change your mind about being contacted by these companies in the future, please let us know.
Finally, if our business enters into a joint venture with or is sold to or merged with another business entity, your information may be disclosed to our new business partners or owners.
Countries outside the European Economic Area do not always have strong data protection laws. However, we will always take steps to ensure that your information is used by third parties in accordance with this policy.
Unless required to do so by law, we will not otherwise share, sell or distribute any of the information you provide to us without your consent.
4. COOKIES
Cookies are small amounts of information which we store on your computer. Unless you have indicated your objection when disclosing your details to us, our system may issue cookies to your computer when you log on to the Website. Cookies make it easier for you to log on to and use the Website during future visits. They also allow us to monitor Website traffic and to personalise the content of the Website for you. You may set up your computer to reject cookies although, in that case, you may not be able to use certain features on our Website. If you do not wish to receive cookies in the future, please let us know.
5. LINKS
The Website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our Website, and to read the privacy policy of other sites that collect personal data. This privacy policy applies to personal data collected by the Company and our associated companies. The Company is not responsible for the content on any other site outside the Website and the sites of our associated companies ("Associated Sites").
6. SECURITY AND DATA RETENTION
We employ security measures to protect your information from access by unauthorised persons and against unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction and damage. We will retain your information for a reasonable period or as long as the law requires.
7. ACCESSING AND UPDATING
You are entitled to see the information held about you and you may ask us to make any necessary changes to ensure that it is accurate and kept up to date. If you wish to do this, please contact us. We are entitled by law to charge a fee of 10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.
8. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right to amend or vary this policy at any time and the revised policy will apply from the date posted on the Site. You accept that by doing this, the Company has provided you with sufficient notice of the amendment or variation.
9. CONTACT
All comments, queries and requests relating to our use of your information are welcomed and should be addressed to the Company at: Bespoke Computing Ltd, Unit 28 BDC, Stafford Park 4, Telford, Shropshire, TF3 3BA, UK.
Issue Date: 17th July 2006