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1. SCOPE
This website is operated by Primetals Technologies Limited (hereinafter referred to as "Primetals", "we", "us" and "our"). Primetals is responsible for the protection of personal data that you supply to us either using this website or by other means.
We comply with data protection legislation including the Data Protection Act 1998. This regulates the processing of personal data relating to you and grants you various rights in respect of your personal data.
The aim of this statement is to tell you how we will use any personal data you provide through this website. Please read it carefully before you proceed.
2. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECTω
You do not have to give us any personal data in order to use our website.
However, if you wish to interact with us by, for example, sending us an enquiry, subscribing to our newsletter or magazine or subscribing to marketing, we will collect some or all of the following personal data from you:
Name;
Address;
Email address;
Mobile phone number;
Telephone number;
Company;
Position/function;
Website;
Marketing preferences and interests.
You may also choose to provide your personal data to us by submitting a curriculum vitae to us or by participating in a survey.
In addition, we may automatically collect information about which pages of our website you visit, IP addresses, the type of browser you use and the times you access our website. However, this information is aggregated and is not used to identify you.
3. HOW WILL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU BE USED AND SHAREDω
The information we collect allows us to:
Administer our website and provide customer services;
Meet legal, regulatory and compliance requirements;
Gather management information to form statistical and trend analysis;
Deal with your enquiries and communicate with you;
Provide you with relevant marketing materials;
Investigate any complaints about the website;
Personalise your experience of the website; and
We may share your personal data with other companies within the Primetals Group in order to manage your enquiries or your application for employment.
We may also employ third party service providers to support our operation of this website, for example in relation to website hosting, maintenance, call centre operation, identity checking. This means that third party service providers may handle your information on our behalf. However, at all times, we will control and be responsible for the use of your information. We may use aggregated information so we can administer and improve our website, analyse trends, gather broad demographic information and detect suspicious or fraudulent transactions. We may pass this information to third parties.
4. TRANSFER OF YOUR INFORMATION OUTSIDE THE EU
We may transfer some of your information to other companies within the Primetals Group for the purpose of managing any application you may make for employment or other opportunities. Some of these companies are based outside the European Economic Area where arrangements for the protection of your data may not be equivalent to the arrangements that apply within the EEA. If we do transfer your data to a country outside the EEA we will do so only as permitted by the Data Protection Act.
5. MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS
With your consent, we may contact you with information and updates about Primetal's products and services which may be of interest to you. If you no longer wish to receive such information, please contact contact@primetals.com or Primetals Technologies Limited, Building 11, Chiswick Park, 566 Chiswick High Road, London, W4 5YA, United Kingdom.
6. COOKIES AND RELATED TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
6.1 Use of Cookies on our website
We use cookies to collect information about your online preference. Cookies are small pieces of information sent by a web server to a web browser which allows the server to uniquely identify the browser on each page.
We use the following categories of cookies on our website:
Category 1: Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, such as remembering your login details, cannot be provided.
Category 2: Performance Cookies
These cookies collect anonymous information on how people use our Website. For example, we use Google Analytics cookies to help us understand how customers arrive at our site, browse or use our site and highlight areas where we can improve areas such as navigation, shopping experience and marketing campaigns. The data stored by these cookies never shows personal details from which your individual identity can be established.
Category 3: Functionality Cookies
These cookies remember choices you make such as the country you visit our website from, language and search parameters such as size, colour or product line. These can then be used to provide you with an experience more appropriate to your selections and to make the visits more tailored and pleasant. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
Category 4: Targeting cookies or advertising cookies
These cookies collect information about your browsing habits in order to make advertising more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advert as well as help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign. The cookies are usually placed by third party advertising networks. They remember the websites you visit and that information is shared with other parties such as advertisers.
Category 5: Social Media Cookies
This website uses social media plug-ins. Social media cookies allow you to share what you've been doing on the website on social media such as Facebook and Twitter. These cookies are deactivated by default and there is no data exchange without your participation. These cookies are not within our control; please refer to the respective privacy policies for how their cookies work.
If you want to delete any cookies that are already on your computer, please refer to the help and support area on your internet browser for instructions on how to locate the file or directory that stores cookies.
Please note that by deleting all cookies or disabling all future cookies you may not be able to access certain areas or features of our site.
To find out more about cookies please visit: www.allaboutcookies.org or see www.youronlinechoices.eu which contains further information about behavioural advertising and online privacy.
7. LINKS
Our site contains links to other web sites over which we have no control. We are not responsible for privacy policies or practices of other websites to which you choose to link from this site. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of those other web sites so you can understand how they collect, use and share your information.
8. SECURITY
We have implemented reasonable technical and organisational measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorised access, use, alteration or disclosure. However, the Internet is an open system and we cannot guarantee that unauthorised third parties will never be able to defeat those measures or use your personal information for improper purposes.
9. SALE OF THE BUSINESS
In the event that the business is sold or integrated with another business, your details will be disclosed to our advisers and any prospective purchaser's adviser and will be passed to the new owners of the business.
10. ACCESS TO YOUR INFORMATION
You are entitled to see the information held about you. If you wish to do this, please contact us at contact@primetals.com or by writing to Primetals Technologies Limited, Building 11, Chiswick Park, 566 Chiswick High Road, London, W4 5YA, United Kingdom. To the extent permitted by local law, we may require you to provide verification of your identity and to pay a reasonable fee to provide a copy of the information we hold. Please note that in certain circumstances we may withhold access to your information where we have the right to do so under current data protection legislation.
11. UPDATING YOUR INFORMATION
You may review, correct, update or change your personal information at any time by contacting contact@primetals.com.
If you opt to receive newsletters and/or magazines from Primetals or third parties at the time you register on this website but subsequently change your mind, you may opt-out via the opt-out option in the newsletter itself, or by contacting us at contact@primetals.com or Primetals Technologies Limited, Building 11, Chiswick Park, 566 Chiswick High Road, London, W4 5YA, United Kingdom [postal address].
12. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
Our policy was last modified on 11th September ,2015. If our privacy policy changes in any way, we will place an updated version on this page. Regularly reviewing this page ensures that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we will share it with other parties.
13. HOW TO CONTACT US
If you have any questions about this statement or your personal information, please contact us at contact@primetals.com.