Privacy Policy
At Chiplime Group of Companies, we are committed to protecting and preserving the privacy of our visitors when visiting our site or communicating electronically with us.
This Privacy Policy applies as between you, the user of this Website and Chiplime Group of Companies, the owner and provider of this Website. It contains an explanation of what happens to personal data that you choose to provide to us, or that we collect from you whilst you visit this site. Our Privacy Policy should be read in conjunction with our terms of website use.
1 DEFINITIONS & INTERPRETATIONS
In this Policy the following terms will have the following meaning:
DATA : means collectively all information that you submit to Chiplime Group of Companies via the Website
COOKIE: means a small text file placed on your computer via this Website to enable use of certain features of the Website.
UK & EU COOKIE LAW: means the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 as amended by the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) Regulations 2011.
USER: means you or any third party that accesses the Website and is not employed by Chiplime Group of Companies and acting in the course of their employment.
WEBSITE: means the Website you are currently using www.chiplime.com and any sub-domains of this website unless expressly excluded by their own terms and conditions,
2 DATA COLLECTED
In running and operating this website we may collect and process certain data and information relating to you and your use of this site. This data and information is detailed below:
1 Details of visits to our website and the pages and resources that are accessed, including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data and other communication data that may assist us in understanding how visitors use this website.
2 Information that visitors provide to us as a result of filling in forms on our website, such as when a visitor registers interest in a lot or makes an enquiry.
3 Information provided to us when our visitors communicate with us electronically for any reason.
3 USE OF DATA
The information we collect is used for our own use in developing our website and in addition, we may use the information for the following purposes:
1. To provide you with information relating to our website, products or our services that you request from us.
2. To provide you with information on other products that we feel may be of interest to you.
3. To meet our contractual obligations to you.
4. To notify you about any changes to our website, including improvements, and service or product changes that may affect our website.
If you are an existing customer, we may contact you with information about goods and services similar to those that you have expressed an interest in previously via our website.
Finally, we may use your data, or allow carefully selected third parties to use your data, so that you can be provided with information about unrelated goods and services which we consider are likely to be of interest to you. We or they may contact you about these goods and services by any of the methods that you consented to at the time your information was collected.
If you are a new customer, we will only contact you or allow third parties to contact you only when you have provided consent and, only by those means you provided consent for.
If you do not want us to use your data for our or third parties use then you will always have the option to object to such use.
4. STORING DATA
Data that is provided to us is stored on our secure servers. Details relating to any transactions entered into on our site will be encrypted to ensure its safety.
The transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure and therefore we cannot guarantee the security of data sent to us electronically and transmission of such data is therefore entirely at your own risk. If and where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password so that you can access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential.
5. DISCLOSING YOUR INFORMATION
Where applicable, we may disclose your personal information to any member of our group. This includes, where applicable, our subsidiaries, our holding company and its other subsidiaries (if any).
We may also disclose your personal information to third parties:
i. Where we sell any or all of our business and/or our assets to a third party.
ii. Where we are legally required to disclose your information.
iii. To assist fraud reduction and minimise credit risks.
6 THIRD PARTY WEBSITES
You may find links to third party websites on our website. These websites should have their own privacy policies which you should check. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for their policies whatsoever as we have no control over them.
7 ACCESS TO YOUR DATA
The Data Protection Act 1998 gives all individuals the right to access personal information that is held about them. You can request a copy of any information that we hold about you. Please note that any request for this information may be subject to payment of £10 which covers our administrative costs. Please contact us if you wish to make such a request.
8 COOKIES
Cookies are sometimes used to improve the website experience of a visitor to a website. We may sometimes use cookies on this website to record aggregate statistical information about the visitors to our site and the use that our visitors make of the website. When collected this information is used by us to improve our website and further enhance the visitor experience and, may be shared with advertisers. Please note that no personally identifiable information is recorded.
We may also use the cookies to gather information about your general internet use to further assist us in developing or website. Where used, these cookies are downloaded to your computer automatically. This cookie file is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive and then stored there and transferred to us where appropriate to help us to improve our website and the service that we provide to you.
All computers have the ability to decline cookies. You can easily decline or remove cookies from your computer using the settings within the Internet Options section in your computer control panel.
Our advertisers may also use cookies on their website. We have no control over this and you should review the privacy policy of any advertiser that you visit as a result of an advert or link on this website.
9 CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
Chiplime Group of Companies reserve the right to change the scope of this Policy as necessary or as may be required by law. Any revisions and alterations will be posted on the Website immediately and the user will deemed to have subsequently accepted the terms on use.
10 CONTACTING US
If you have any questions or queries relating to this Privacy Policy then please contact us or write to us the following address:
Chiplime House, Beddow Way, Aylesford, Kent, ME20 7BT
