We are committed to keeping your information secure and private. This policy tells you what information we collect on our website and why, how we keep it safe, how we use that information, who we share that information with and what your rights are.

The information we collect

Purchasing

When you purchase our services we collect your name, email, address and phone details. Your details are stored in a secure database on our site. They are used to enable us to provide our services and communicate with you. We never share, use or process your details for any form of marketing with any third parties.

All payment details are processed by third parties and are not accessible to us. To see how these third parties process your data you should visit the website of your chosen payment gateway. Paypal Privacy. Stripe Privacy.

Browsing

If you simply wish to browse our website, no personal data is directly collected by us. Some cookies are used to to remember your preferences, speed up browsing and enable basic website functions. Details are here.

With all cookies on this site personal information is not contained in the cookies, however, it may be possible to use the information in combination with other data to build a personal profile. This is why we secure our site to prevent malicious access.

Social Sharing

If you use social sharing buttons on our blog, some information will be collected by the social platform and their cookies will remain on our website. We use encryption on our website to help prevent access to these cookies.

In order to share, you will need to have an account with the social platform you use, and therefore will have already agreed to their terms for privacy and the use of cookies. Privacy and cookie information for the sites we connect to is here.

Contact Forms

When you submit information through the contact form it is stored securely on our site and sent directly to us. This email is only accessed by us. After responding to the email and resolving the enquiry, the email will be deleted unless we shall be providing services for you.

You are not added to any list or marketing campaign and your data is not retained unless this is explicitly requested by yourself in writing. Information is used for legitimate business purposes only.

Who can see this information

Website

Boundary Checker Staff.

Digital Smithy – our web developer. Details below.

Contact Form – Emails

Boundary Checker Staff.

How we keep your information secure

Our website uses encryption so that cookies and information entered on forms is secure. This is through an SSL certificate. You can see that our site is secure through your web browser, which will have a padlock or a green ‘SECURE’ message, and will show HTTPS at the beginning of our website address.

Admin account holders for our website must use strong passwords so that their accounts are secure.

Your data is never stored by or shared with anyone except where detailed in ‘Who Can See This Information’ above.

You are entitled to view, amend, or have deleted the personal information that we hold. To do so contact us using the details below.

Sharing your information

We do not share your information with or sell it to third parties for the purposes of marketing. It may be required in the course of our services to share information with other legal or invested parties. Any such parties will be subject to maintaining confidentiality and must process this data solely for the purposes of delivering our legal service to you.

We will not disclose your information to any third party unless we are required to do so by law. In such cases we will ensure due diligence in releasing only required information, and this only to recognised official parties entitled to require this information under law.

Your Rights

To act upon these rights contact us using the detail below.

To be informed

This policy gives a clear guide to what data we collect and why.

The right of access

You may request a copy of the information we hold about you at any time.

Rectification

You may ask us to correct information held about you if it is incorrect or incomplete.

The right to be forgotten

We will remove all data held about you on request.

The right to restrict processing

We do not currently process your data – that is – we do not use it for marketing, sell or otherwise share it with third parties or act upon your data except to use it to communicate through our newsletter. You may opt-out of our newsletter at any time.

Your right to retain and reuse your data

We do not collect sensitive personal data nor claim any rights of ownership over your data that we do hold.

The right to object

We do not use your personal data for the purpose of direct marketing, scientific and historical research, for the performance of a task in the public interest or any similar purpose. Should we do so in future you will be notified at least one month beforehand and may request for your data not to be included in any such purpose.

Your rights regarding automated processes

We do not use automatic processing of data. Should we do so in future you will be notified at least one month beforehand and may request for your data not to be included in any such purpose.

Contact Details

For any of the above you may contact us through our standard contact form, by email, by phone or in writing using the following details.

Our contact form: CONTACT

Our email: enquiries@boundarychecker.co.uk

Our phone: 020 7175 6804

Our address: Ashford road, Charing, Kent, TN27 0WX

We will deal with any requests within 28 days except where reasonable impediment prevents us from doing so.

Mike Smith is our website developer through Digital Smithy. He provides website, security and social media support to Boundary Checker. As the developer of our site he has access to all data on the site. As host of our website, Digital Smithy acts as a “data sub-processor”. This is a term used by the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulations). This means that Digital Smithy provides our hosting, the space where our website is stored, and therefor has access to all website data. Upon contracting Digital Smithy to host our website, both parties signed an agreement stating that Digital Smithy will not access or act upon any data relating to Boundary Checker without our explicit consent. We have ensured that Digital Smithy abides by the GDPR and treats all our data and that of website users in strict confidence.

For enquiries you may contact Digital Smithy directly through his website: digitalsmithy.co.uk