The policy: This privacy policy is for this website; www.crockattgarage.co.uk and served by Crockatt Garage Ltd which is a Limited company registered in the United Kingdom and governs the privacy of its users who choose to use it. It explains how we comply with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), the DPA (Data Protection Act) [pre GDPR enforcement] and the PECR (Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations).

This policy will explain areas of this website that may affect your privacy and personal details, how we process, collect, manage and store those details and how your rights under the GDPR, DPA & PECR are adhered to. Additionally, it will explain the use of cookies or software, advertising or commercial sponsorship from third parties and the download of any documents, files or software made available to you (if any) on this website. Further explanations may be provided for specific pages or features of this website in order to help you understand how we, this website and its third parties (if any) interact with you and your computer or device in order to serve it to you. Our contact information is provided throughout the website if you have any questions.

We and this website complies with the DPA (Data Protection Act 1998) and already complies with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) which comes into effect from May 2018. We will update this policy accordingly after the completion of the UK’s exit from the European Union.

This website uses cookies to better the users experience while visiting the website. As required by legislation, where applicable this website uses a cookie control system, allowing the user to give explicit permission or to deny the use of /saving of cookies on their computer or device.

This website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. The software will save a cookie to your computers hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information unless you are a contracted client which is rarely more than business details we will need for tax and invoicing details.

We only use Cookies within Google Analytics software. We do not record your IP address for more than 90 days which is a default setting on our hosting provider which is Godaddy.com. We do not check or store IP addresses unless we feel the need, only if a data breach or hacking attempt ever takes place. We will automatically ban any IP address if any attempt is made. Google Analytics does not show us IP addresses. Our heatmapping will record IP Addresses, Town or City of a user and how long a user is on the website and what pages are visited. As from 24/4/2018, we will not record any IPs addresses on any heatmapping software.

We do not advertise any third party websites at all throughout this website. We may link to a third party website but money is never changed.

We rarely reference downloads or media files from a third party website. We do not promote any third party website but we may reference one if its relevant to the content a user is reading. We will never reference any website that requests any personal information from you at the time of uploading the relevant content, we cannot be held responsible if any website has made changes after submission date.

Users contacting us through this website do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use. We rarely store any personal information other than a name a user as has provided, along with a phone number or email address that a user has willfully provided. We do not add you to any mailing list unless you have willfully added your own details to our clearly labelled page marked as a marketing list subscription. Our direct communication via our contact forms or email address is not added to any marketings lists.  We will not contact you unless it is relevant to you.

We only store invoicing and payment details for the legal amount of time required for tax reasons. We use an online accounting software that is based in the UK. It is only our authorised emplyees who have access to this data which is willfully provided by our clients.

We sometimes operate an email mailing list program, used to inform subscribers about products, services and/or news we supply/publish. Users can subscribe to an online automated process where they have given their explicit permission. Subscriber personal details are collected, processed, managed and stored in accordance with the regulations named in ‘The policy’ above. Subscribers can unsubscribe at any time through an automated online service, or if not available, other means as detailed in the footer of sent marketing messages. The type and content of marketing messages subscribers receive, and if it may contain third party content, is clearly outlined at the point of subscription.

Email marketing messages may contain tracking beacons / tracked clickable links or similar server technologies in order to track subscriber activity within email marketing messages. Where used, such marketing messages may record a range of subscriber data relating to engagement, geographic, demographics and already stored subscriber data.

We often record website and contact data with the aim of helping our clients gain exposure in the form of marketing. We delete this information after a client has saved this data on their own devices or at the end of our contract. The information we provide for our clients is data that is provided by a website owner, publically.

We adopt a Social Media Policy to ensure our business and our staff conduct themselves accordingly online. While we may have official profiles on social media platforms users are advised to verify the authenticity of such profiles before engaging with, or sharing information with such profiles. We will never ask for user passwords or personal details on social media platforms. Users are advised to conduct themselves appropriately when engaging with us on social media. We will not liaise with anyone via our personal social media profiles about anything personal.

There may be instances where our website features social sharing buttons, which help share web content directly from web pages to the respective social media platforms. You use social sharing buttons at your own discretion and accept that doing so may publish content to your social media profile feed or page. You can find further information about some social media privacy and usage policies in the resources section below.