1. Introduction
The following text has been provided for information pertaining to Broadscope and their services. The below information sets out how Broadscope uses and protects the data collected via our website. When using this site, you are legally bound to the following privacy policy, so please read carefully. Privacy protection is something that Broadscope is fully committed towards.
2. What information do we collect?
We have several services that require the supply of personal information. For example, when contacting us, we will ask for contact details such as your name, email address and telephone number. When registering for content, we will require personal information including your name and email address.
3. What do we do with the information we gather?
All of the information collected from the website is retained by Broadscope. We do not divulge any information to third parties outside of the company without prior consent from the website visitor.
4. Securing your data
Broadscope is committed to ensuring that your personal information is secure. We follow strict policies and adhere to high standards of security when gathering personal information. Various firewall applications have been installed on our website to protect your personal information from being stolen, destroyed or divulged to third parties unless you have given us permission for the latter. Your personal details are stored at our restricted offices which have no unauthorised access.
5. What do we collect?
Through the use of contact forms, call back requests and content sign-ups, we may collect, but are not limited to, the following information:
• Name and job title
• Website details
• Contact information including email address and phone number
• Demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests
• Other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers
6. What do we do with the information?
In order to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, we will require the aforementioned information. We may use the information for the following reasons:
• To discuss the nature of your requirements and our products and services
• The improvement of our products and services
• To customise the website according to your interest
7. How do we use cookies?
Cookies are files which can be placed onto your computer’s hard drive, once permission has been given. There are numerous benefits to having cookies placed on your hard drive. If you have accepted, cookies are used to identify when you visit a particular site, as well as analyse web traffic. Cookies also facilitate a more personal web experience, allowing web applications to gather information about your personal preferences, and respond to you as an individual.
At Broadscope, traffic log cookies are used to identify the pages that are being used. From the data provided by these cookies, we can analyse web page traffic and tailor our website to our customers’ needs. This information is only used for the purpose of statistical analysis.
You have the choice of whether or not to accept cookies through the majority of web browsers. You can decline cookies within your web browser settings if necessary. However, doing so will not give you full functionality of the website. If you accept cookies, we are able to monitor which pages our visitors find useful. This provides us with information to be used for better user experience. We do not have access to your computer or any other information about you through the use of cookies.
8. Cookies
This website uses the following cookies:
Google Analytics: This cookie allows us to see information on user website activities including, but not limited to page views, source and time spent on the website. The information is depersonalised and is displayed as numbers, meaning it cannot be tracked back to individuals. This will help to protect your privacy. Using Google Analytics we can see what content is popular on our website, and strive to give you more of the things you enjoy reading and watching.
Google AdWords: Using Google AdWords code we are able to see which pages helped lead to contact form submissions. This allows us to make better use of our paid search budget.
Please see below for details on how to turn off cookies
9. Control your cookies
Almost every website you visit will store a piece of data on your machine. This can be anything from helping you complete shopping cart purchases to monitoring which pages you view. This is called a cookie.
The vast majority of cookies are designed to give you a better experience of a website or to help the website owner understand how you browse their website so they can better serve you in the future.
Cookies are helpful to website owners and save you time in the future. As cookies can contain personal information, it is possible to block them entirely through your browser settings. By doing this, you may find that you are unable to access certain features on some websites.
If you do still wish to block cookies, please choose your browser from the selection, and follow the steps that open in a new window.
10. Social sharing cookies
On our blog we may use social sharing buttons for services including, but not limited to, Twitter, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, Share This, Google+ and Facebook. These allow you to share pages with your friends via those networks. Whilst you will be asked to log in to use these services, this process is handled directly with the social sharing providers and their databases and servers. These sites may also monitor your usage of these buttons, through the use of external tracking codes that are required to run the buttons on this website.
11. Links to other websites
This website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over the other websites. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
12. Links
Hyperlinks on this site may be shortened. The purpose of which is to hide long links for functionality and tracking purposes.
13. Controlling your personal information
You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:
If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may opt-out at any time by writing to or emailing us via the contact page.
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to contact you with promotional information about third parties that may be relevant to your indicated needs.
You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 2018. If you would like a copy of the information held then please contact us.
If you believe that any information we are holding about you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible at the address detailed below. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.
14. Variations to the policy
We reserve the right to alter and change the information provided in this document at our own discretion and therefore this document should be regularly referred to for updates and variations. If you have any questions regarding this policy, our contact details are as follows:
Broadscope Finance, Egerton House, 55 Hoole Road, Chester, Cheshire, CH2 3NJ
