Our Privacy and Cookies Policy 

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Thor Safety Ltd is committed to respecting your privacy and the privacy of every visitor to our website. The information we collect about you will be used to fulfil the required services and enable us to improve how, as an organisation, we deal with you.

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How will we use the information about you?

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The information that we collect about you will only be used lawfully (in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and the General Data Protection Regulation 2018). All data is retained exclusively within the United Kingdom, or transferred only to ‘third countries’ where ‘adequacy of protection’ or specific certification as defined by The GDPR has been confirmed.

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Any information we collect will not be disclosed to anyone outside Thor Safety Ltd or its associated companies, partners, and other companies with which Thor Safety Ltd has arranged services for your benefit.

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Access to your information and correction

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We expect the information we hold to be accurate and up to date. You have the right as an individual to find out what information we hold about you and make changes if necessary; you also have the right, assuming we are not obligated by law to refuse, to ask us to stop using the information.  To request the personal information we hold about you click here. To request, we delete the personal information we hold about you click here. To instruct us to correct any errors please click here to email your new information to us.

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What information do we collect about you?

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The type of information that we will collect on you, and that you voluntarily provide to us on this website includes:

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For Site Visitors

• IP address

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For Job Applications

• Your name

• Email address

• Address

• Telephone number

• Other information for application

• IP address

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We may, in further dealings with you, extend this information to include your purchases, services used, specifications, tender documentation, subscriptions, other personal details relating to employment, records of conversations and agreements and payment transactions.

You are under no statutory or contractual requirement or obligation to provide us with your personal information; however we require at least the information above in order for us to deal with you as a customer/client or job applicant in an efficient and effective manner.

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On what legal basis do we collect your information?

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The legal basis for processing your data is based on the performance of a contract, or our legitimate interest when processing contracts that we will have requested/stated at the point the information was initially provided, therefore we will not store, process or transfer your data outside the parties detailed above unless we have an appropriate lawful reason to do so.  Unless we are precluded from doing so by law, you have the right to remove your consent at any time via the unsubscribe link included on all emails we send, or by contacting us and requesting that processing of your details be restricted or deleted.

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Cookies

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This site uses cookies – these are small text files that are placed on your device to help this website to 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 which offers guidance for all modern browsers.

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Google Analytics

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This website sets “first party” cookies through its use of Google Analytics. We use Google Analytics to provide us with non-personal site analytics, which in turn help us improve this website. Google Analytics tracking uses cookies in order to provide meaningful reports about web site visitors’ but they do not collect personal data about you. Google Analytics sets or updates cookies only to collect data required for the reports. Additionally, Google Analytics only uses first-party cookies. This means that all cookies set by Google Analytics cannot be altered or retrieved by any service on any domain other than Thorsafety.co.uk.  Further detailed information on Google Analytics cookies can be found here.

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Changes to our privacy policy

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We keep our privacy policy under regular review and we will place any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on the 04nd of January 2019.