Cookies & Privacy Policy
The policy: This privacy policy is for this website;
www.berryelec.co.uk and served by Berry Electrical Services UK Ltd
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 adhere 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 / device in order to serve
it to you. Our contact information is provided if you have any
questions.
The DPA & GDPR May 2018
We and this website complies to the DPA (Data Protection Act
1998) and already complies to the GDPR (General Data Protection
Regulation) which comes into affect from May 2018. We will
update this policy accordingly after the completion of the UK’s
exit from the European Union.
Use of Cookies
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 / device.
What are cookies? Cookies are small files saved to the user’s
computers hard drive that track, save and store information
about the user’s interactions and usage of the website. This
allows the website, through its server to provide the users with
a tailored experience within this website.
Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving
of cookies from this website on to their computers hard drive
they should take necessary steps within their web browsers
security settings to block all cookies from this website and its
external serving vendors or use the cookie control system if
available upon their first visit.
This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on
your machine to help the site provide a better user experience.
In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store
information for things like shopping carts, and provide
anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google
Analytics. As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience
better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site
and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable
cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the Help section
of your browser or taking a look at the About Cookies website
(https://www.aboutcookies.org/) which offers guidance for all
modern browsers
Website Visitor Tracking
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.
Adverts and Sponsored Links
This website may contain sponsored links and adverts. These will
typically be served through our advertising partners, to whom
may have detailed privacy policies relating directly to the
adverts they serve.
Clicking on any such adverts will send you to the advertisers
website through a referral program which may use cookies and
will track the number of referrals sent from this website. This
may include the use of cookies which may in turn be saved on
your computers hard drive. Users should therefore note they
click on sponsored external links at their own risk and we
cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by
visiting any external links mentioned.
Downloads & Media Files
Any downloadable documents, files or media made available on
this website are provided to users at their own risk. While all
precautions have been undertaken to ensure only genuine
downloads are available users are advised to verify their
authenticity using third party anti virus software or similar
applications.
We accept no responsibility for third party downloads and
downloads provided by external third party websites and advise
users to verify their authenticity using third party anti virus
software or similar applications.
Contact & Communication With us
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.
Where we have clearly stated and made you aware of the fact, and
where you have given your express permission, we may use your
details to send you products / services information through a
mailing list system. This is done in accordance with the
regulations named in ‘The policy’ above.
Email Mailing List & Marketing Messages
We operate an email mailing list program, used to inform
subscribers about products, services and / or news we supply /
publish. Users can subscribe through 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 (or unsubscribe from all
Mailchimp lists). 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.
External Website Links & Third Parties
Although we only look to include quality, safe and relevant
external links, users are advised to adopt a policy of caution
before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this
website.
We cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally
linked website despite our best efforts. Users should therefore
note they click on external links at their own risk and we
cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by
visiting any external links mentioned.
Social Media Policy & Usage
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 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.
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.