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Privacy Policy

At Oxford Safety Components Ltd, we’re committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This Policy explains when and why we collect personal information about people who visit our website, how we use it, the conditions under
which we may disclose it to others and how we keep it secure.We may change this policy from time to time so please check this page occasionally to ensure that you’re happy with any changes. By using our
website, you’re agreeing to be bound by this Policy.

Any questions regarding this policy and our privacy practices should be sent by email to info@oxfordsafety.com or by writing to Oxford Safety
Components Ltd, 3 Longlands Road, Launton, Bicester OX26 5AH. Alternatively, you can telephone 01869 323282.
WHO ARE WE?
Oxford Safety Components Ltd is a leading supplier of safety systems. Our vision is to strive for continuous innovation and technical
development in workplace safety. We aim for our range of patented products to continue to grow and improve the safety of workplaces
everywhere.
HOW DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM YOU?
We obtain information about you when you use our website, for example, when you complete the contact form or engage with other forms
within our site.
WHAT TYPE OF INFORMATION IS COLLECTED FROM YOU?
The personal information we collect might include your name, address, email address, IP address, and information regarding what pages are
accessed and when.
WEBSITE RECORDING AND USE OF ‘COOKIES’
Like many other websites, the Oxford Safety Components Ltd website uses cookies.
‘Cookies’ are small pieces of information sent by an organisation to your computer and stored on your hard drive to allow that website to
recognise you when you visit. They collect statistical data about your browsing actions and patterns and do not identify you as an individual.
For example, we use cookies to store your country preference. This helps us to improve our website and deliver a better more personalised
service.
It is possible to switch off cookies by setting your browser preferences. For more information on how to switch off cookies on your computer,
visit our full cookies policy. Turning cookies off may result in a loss of functionality when using our website.
MAIN COOKIES USED ON OUR SITE
GOOGLE ANALYTICS
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us
improve the site.
The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from
and the pages they visited.
For more information on Google Analytics’ privacy policy, visit the Resources and Further Information section below.
GOOGLE MAPS
These are Google Maps third party cookies, which are unique identifiers to allow traffic analysis to Google Maps.
HOW IS YOUR INFORMATION USED?
We may use your information to:
• Contact you regarding queries raised in the contact form;
• Carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into by you and us;
• Seek your views or comments on the products and services we provide;
• Notify you of changes to our products and services;
• Send you communications which you have requested and that may be of interest to you.
• These may include information about the business, new products and services, and promotions of our products and services;
• Process a job application.
We review our retention periods for personal information on a regular basis. We are legally required to hold some types of information to fulfil
our statutory obligations. We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant activity, or as long
as is set out in any relevant contract you hold with us.
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WHO HAS ACCESS TO YOUR INFORMATION?
We will not sell or rent your information to third parties.
We will not share your information with third parties for marketing purposes.
Third Party Service Providers working on our behalf: We may pass your information to our third-party service providers, agents, subcontractors
and other associated organisations for the purposes of completing tasks and providing services to you on our behalf (for example to send you
mailings).
However, when we use third-party service providers, we disclose only the personal information that is necessary to deliver the service and we
have a contract in place that requires them to keep your information secure and not to use it for their own direct marketing purposes. Please
be reassured that we will not release your information to third parties beyond the company for them to use for their own direct marketing
purposes, unless you have requested us to do so, or we are required to do so by law, for example, by a court order or for the purposes of
prevention of fraud or other crime.
We may transfer your personal information to a third party as part of a sale of some or all of our business and assets to any third party or as
part of any business restructuring or reorganisation, or if we’re under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with
any legal obligation or to enforce or apply our terms of use or to protect the rights, property or safety of our staff and customers. However, we
will take steps with the aim of ensuring that your privacy rights continue to be protected.
YOUR CHOICES
You have a choice about whether or not you wish to receive information from us. If you do not want to receive direct marketing
communications from us about our products and services, then you can select your choices by ticking the relevant boxes situated on the form
on which we collect your information.
We will not contact you for marketing purposes by email, phone or text message unless you have given your prior consent. We will not contact
you for marketing purposes by post if you have indicated that you do not wish to be contacted.
You can change your marketing preferences at any time by updating your preferences or unsubscribing via our mailers, contacting us by email:
info@oxfordsafety.com : or telephone us on: 01869 323282.
HOW YOU CAN ACCESS AND UPDATE YOUR INFORMATION
The accuracy of your information is important to us. You have the right to request a copy of the information we hold about you so that you can
ensure its accuracy. You can do this by the following methods:
Send an email to our office manager at info@oxfordsafety.com and request the information held about you;
Telephone us on: 01869 323282
Write to us at: Oxford Safety Components Ltd, 3 Longlands Road, Launton, Bicester OX26 5AH
RIGHT TO ERASURE
Users of this site may request erasure of data held by Oxford Safety Components Ltd where there is no legitimate reason for us to retain the
data. Contact us via email: info@oxfordsafety.com to begin this process.
SECURITY PRECAUTIONS IN PLACE TO PROTECT THE LOSS, MISUSE OR ALTERATION OF YOUR INFORMATION
When you give us personal information, we take steps to ensure that it’s treated securely.
Any sensitive information (such as credit or debit card details) is encrypted and protected with the following software 128 Bit encryption on
SSL. When you are on a secure page, a lock icon will appear on the bottom of web browsers such as Google, Bing, Edge, Safari etc.
Non-sensitive details (your email address etc.) are transmitted normally over the internet, and this can never be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us, and
you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your information, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems. Where we have
given (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our websites, you are responsible for keeping this
password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.
PROFILING
We may analyse your personal information to create a profile of your interests and preferences so that we can contact you with information
relevant to you. We may make use of additional information about you when it is available from external sources to help us do this effectively.
We may also use your personal information to detect and reduce fraud and credit risk.
PRIVACY POLICY
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LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
Our website may contain links to other websites run by other organisations. This privacy policy applies only to our website‚ so we encourage
you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit. We cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other
sites even if you access them using links from our website.
In addition, if you linked to our website from a third party site, we cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of the owners
and operators of that third party site and recommend that you check the policy of that third party site.
16 OR UNDER
We are concerned to protect the privacy of children aged 16 or under. If you are aged 16 or under‚ please get your parent/guardian’s
permission beforehand whenever you provide us with personal information.
TRANSFERRING YOUR INFORMATION OUTSIDE OF EUROPE
As part of the services offered to you through this website, the information which you provide to us may be transferred to countries outside
the European Union (“EU”). By way of example, this may happen if any of our servers are from time to time located in a country outside of
the EU. These countries may not have similar data protection laws to the UK. By submitting your personal data, you’re agreeing to this transfer,
storing or processing. If we transfer your information outside of the EU in this way, we will take steps to ensure that appropriate security
measures are taken with the aim of ensuring that your privacy rights continue to be protected as outlined in this Policy.
If you use our services while you are outside the EU, your information may be transferred outside the EU in order to provide you with those
services.
REVIEW OF THIS POLICY
We keep this Policy under regular review. This Policy was last updated in March 2020.
RESOURCES AND FURTHER INFORMATION
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Data Protection Act 1998
Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003
Twitter Privacy Policy
Facebook Privacy Policy
Google Privacy Policy
Mailchimp Privacy Policy
LinkedIn Privacy Policy
PRIVACY POLICY
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Who we are

Our website address is: https://oxfordsafety.co.uk.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

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.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

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.

Analytics

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

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

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.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your contact information

Additional information

How we protect your data

What data breach procedures we have in place

What third parties we receive data from

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements

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