Privacy Policy
A Douglas Construction has created this privacy policy to demonstrate our commitment to the privacy of the users of our websites. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy, and how we treat personally identifiable information collected from our visitors and users.
What this Privacy Policy Covers
This privacy policy covers A Douglas Construction’s treatment of personally identifiable information collected by A Douglas Construction through a website owned and operated by A Douglas Construction.
This privacy policy does not apply to the practices of companies that A Douglas Construction do not own or control, or of persons that A Douglas Construction do not employ or manage, including any third-party content contributors bound by contract and any third-party websites to which the A Douglas Construction website links.
Collection and Use of Personal Information
You can visit the website of A Douglas Construction without revealing any personal information. However, A Douglas Construction needs certain personal information if you wish to use the contact form and other parts of the site. Where required, this information may include your personal contact information. A Douglas Construction will use this information to reply to your enquiries, to provide you with requested information and to contact you regarding new services.
By accessing the services of A Douglas Construction and voluntarily providing us with the requested personal information, you consent to the collection and use of the information in accordance with this privacy policy.
Collection and Use of Non-Personal Information
A Douglas Construction automatically receives and records non-personal information on our server logs from your browser including your IP address, cookie information and the page you requested. A Douglas Construction may use this information to customise the advertising and content you see and to fulfil your requests for certain products and services. However, A Douglas Construction does not connect this non-personal data to any personal information collected from you.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
A Douglas Construction may disclose your personal information to third parties who work on behalf of A Douglas Construction to provide services requested by you. We will share personal information for these purposes only with third parties whose privacy policies are consistent with ours or who agree to abide by our policies with respect to personal information.
A Douglas Construction may otherwise disclose your personal information when:
1. We have your express consent to share the information for a specified purpose;
2. We need to respond to subpoenas, court orders or such other legal process;
3. We need to protect the personal safety of the users of our websites or defend the rights or property of A Douglas Construction;
2. We find that your actions on our websites violate the A Douglas Construction Terms of Use document or any of our usage guidelines for specific products or services.
Consent
If you do not consent to the collection, use or disclosure of your personal information as outlined in this policy, please do not provide any personal information to A Douglas Construction. If you have provided personal information to A Douglas Construction and no longer consent to its use or disclosure as outlined herein, please notify A Douglas Construction at adouglasconstruction@btinternet.com.
Security
Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be considered 100% secure. However, your A Douglas Construction information is protected for your privacy and security. In certain areas of our websites, as identified on the site.
We also safeguard your personal information from unauthorised access, through access control procedures, network firewalls and physical security measures.
Further, A Douglas Construction retains your personal information only as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes identified above or as required by law.
Payment Information
A Douglas Construction collects payment information (such as a credit card number) for the purpose of completing transactions. A Douglas Construction does not store your credit card information beyond completion of the transaction, nor do we disclose credit card or other financial information to any other individual or organisation.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
A Douglas Construction may at any time, without notice to you and in its sole discretion, amend this policy from time to time. Please review this policy periodically. Your continued use of A Douglas Construction after any such amendments signifies your acceptance thereof.
Questions or Suggestions
If you have any questions or suggestions about this privacy policy, or your own personal information, please e-mail us at adouglasconstruction@btinternet.com.
Cookies In Use on This Site
Cookies and how they Benefit You
Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can.
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites
Our cookies help us:
- Make our website work as you’d expect
- Save you having to login every time you visit the site
- Improve the speed/security of the site
- Continuously improve our website for you
- Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to offer the service we do at the price we do)
We do not use cookies to:
- Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
- Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
- Pass data to advertising networks
- Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
- Pay sales commissions
You can learn more about all the cookies we use below
Granting us permission to use cookies
If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.
More about our Cookies
Website Function Cookies
Our own cookies
We use cookies to make our website work including:
- Determining if you are logged in or not
There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.
Third party functions
Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video. Our site includes the following which use cookies:
- Vimeo
Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties
Site Improvement Cookies
We regularly test new designs or site features on our site. We do this by showing slightly different versions of our website to different people and anonymously monitoring how our site visitors respond to these different versions. Ultimately this helps us to offer you a better website.
We use:
- A/B split testing
Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called “analytics” programs also tell us if , on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.
We use:
- Google Analytics
Turning Cookies Off
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies. Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of our’s and a large proportion of the world’s websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites
It may be that you concerns around cookies relate to so called “spyware”. Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive.
FMB
The FMB is a trade association established over 60 years ago to protect the interests of small and medium-sized building firms. Today it is the largest trade association in the UK building industry.
CHAS
(The Contractors Health and Safety Assessment Scheme) was created by experienced health and safety professionals in 1997 to improve health and safety standards across the UK.
Construction Line
Originally created as a Government department, for over 20 years we have been supporting thousands of businesses across the public and private sectors.