Privacy Policy

Shrieve Products International Ltd (We), our holding company Shrieve Chemical Company, and all of its other subsidiaries (together with us, the Shrieve Group) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This policy (together with our terms of use and any other pages referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us.  Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

Please note that the other members of the Shrieve Group may have their own privacy policies which will be accessible via their own websites.  If you visit their websites, they may process your personal data differently from us, taking into account the applicable laws of their relevant jurisdictions.  We do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies so please check them before you submit any personal data to these websites.

For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998, the data controller is Shrieve Products International Ltd whose registered office is at 27 New Dover Road, Canterbury, Kent CT1 3DN, United Kingdom and whose trading address is Suite 39, 40 Churchill Square, Kings Hill, West Malling, Kent ME19 4YU, United Kingdom.


Information we may collect from you

We may collect and process the following data about you:

  • Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site or contacting us by email www.shrieve.co.uk (our site).
  • If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
  • We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
  • Detials of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for your own purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access. 

IP addresses and cookies
We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.

For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised service. They enable us:

  • To estimate our audience size and usage pattern.
  • To store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site according to your individual interests.
  • To speed up your searches
  • To recognise you when you return to our site

You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site.

In acknowledgement of advice received from the United Kingdom Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) we are working towards providing an explicit ‘opt-in’ to acceptance of these cookies and to have a satisfactory user experience for visitors who wish to ‘opt-out’. Subject to any further changes in legislation, these changes will be in place prior to May 2012. For further information please refer to our Cookie Policy.


Where we store your personal data
We currently store data collected from visitors to our site on a password protected server located within an out-of-office hours locked office within the UK. A back-up is made each evening and stored offsite.

In the future, the data that we collect may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (EEA). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers.

By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.


Uses made of the information
We use information held about you in the following ways:

  • To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
  • To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
  • To notify you about changes to our products and services.
  • To act upon your requests, provide services, support and develop our relationship with you

We will not sell your details on to third parties for marketing purposes.


Disclosure of your information
We may disclose your personal information to any member of the Shrieve Group.

We may also disclose your personal information to third parties:

  • In order to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us (e.g. to third party suppliers and other contractors).
  • Who provide hosting services to us or maintain our computer systems.
  • In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
  • If all of our assets or substantially all of our assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by us about you will be one of the transferred assets.
  • In order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Shrieve Group, its customers or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
  • If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation.


Your rights
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by informing us when we collect your data.  You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at info@shrieve.co.uk.

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from other third party websites.  If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites may or may not have their own privacy policies.  We do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies or the absence of them.  Please check carefully before you submit any personal data to these websites.


Changes to our privacy policy
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page.

 
Contact
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to info@shrieve.co.uk.