PRIVACY STATEMENT

PRIVACY POLICY

The following statement explains our policy regarding the personal information we collect about you.

1. Statement of intent

2. Use and storage of your personal information

3. Access to your personal information

4. Information o­n visitors

5. What is a cookie?

6. How to find and control your cookies

7. How do you know which websites use cookies?

8. How to see your cookie code

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1. Statement of intent

From time to time, you will be asked to submit personal information about yourself (e.g. name and email address etc) in order to receive or use services from GCS and/or our website. Such services may include searching for or announcing job vacancies and/or subscribing for newsletters.

By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable GCS Construction and its service providers to provide you with the services you select. Whenever you provide such personal information, we will treat that information in accordance with this policy. Our services are designed to give you the information that you want to receive. GCS Construction will act in accordance with current legislation and aim to meet current Internet best practice.

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2. Use and storage of your personal information

When you supply any personal information to GCS Construction, we have legal obligations towards you in the way we deal with that data. We must collect the information fairly, that is, we must explain how we will use it (see the notices o­n particular web pages that let you know why we are requesting the information) and tell you if we want to pass the information o­n to anyone else. In general, any information you provide to GCS Construction will o­nly be used within GCS Construction and by its service providers. It will never be supplied to anyone outside GCS Construction without first obtaining your consent, unless we are obliged or permitted by law to disclose it. Also, if you post or send offensive or inappropriate content anywhere o­n or to GCS Construction and we consider such behaviour to be serious and/or repeated, we can use whatever information that is available to it about you to stop such behaviour. This may include informing relevant third parties such as your employer or e-mail provider about the content and your behaviour.

We will hold your personal information o­n our systems for as long as you use the service you have requested and for a minimum period of six months after your last use of the service. For safety reasons, GCS Construction may store messaging transcript data (including message content, member names, times and dates) arising from the use of website services for a minimum period of six months.

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3. Access to your personal information

You have the right to request a copy of the personal information GCS Construction holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected (we charge £10 for information requests.) Please address requests to: GCS Construction, Synergy House, 298 Wellingborough Road, Northampton, NN1 4EP (email info@gcsconstruction.co.uk ).

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4. Information o­n visitors

During the course of any visit to the GCS Construction website, the pages you see, along with something called a cookie, are downloaded to your computer (see point 5 for more o­n this). Most, if not all, websites do this, because cookies allow the website publisher to do useful things like find out whether the computer (and probably its user) has visited the website before. This is done o­n a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there o­n the last visit.

Any information that is supplied by cookies can help us to provide you with a better service and assists us to analyse the profile of our visitors. For example: if o­n a previous visit you went to, say, the Clients Area, then we might find this out from your cookie and highlight relevant information o­n a second visit.

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5. What is a cookie?

When you enter a website your computer will automatically be issued with a cookie. Cookies are text files that identify your computer to our server. Cookies in themselves do not identify the individual user, just the computer used. Many websites do this whenever a user visits their website in order to track traffic flows.

Cookies themselves o­nly record those areas of the website that have been visited by the computer in question, and for how long.

Users have the opportunity to set their computers to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The last of these, of course, means that certain personalised services cannot then be provided to that user.

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6. How to find and control your cookies

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7. How do you know which of the sites you've visited use cookies?

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8. How to see your cookie code

Just click o­n a cookie to open it. You'll see a short string of text and numbers. The numbers are your identification card, which can o­nly be seen by the server that gave you the cookie