Privacy Policy

Who are aask us?

aask us Limited is a manufacturing company, registered in England and Wales under company number 5113667. Our registered office is Launton Business Centre Murdock Rd, Bicester OX26 4PP. aask us Ltd VAT number is GB 844593693.

aask us hold and process a significant amount of information and data through our day to day activities. This policy (together with our terms and any other documents referred to within) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us.

aask us requests you to read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. We encourage you to bring to our attention whether you think our collection or use of information is unfair, misleading or inappropriate.

What information do we collect?

Sometimes we will collect personal information directly from you and sometimes it will be from third parties who may hold information about you. We may collect and process the following data about you:

Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site, in connection with your enquiry or relationship with us. This includes information provided at the time of making an enquiry with us, posting material, downloading content or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our site. Details of your visits to our site (including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise) and the resources that you access. If you contact us for any reason, we may keep a record of that correspondence.

Examples of the types of in of information we collect may be (without limitation):

  • Your name
  • Your postal address
  • Your job title
  • Your contact telephone number(s)
  • Your email address
  • Your preferences
  • Your employment history and/or employment/personal references

We will always advise you of the reasons why the information is needed and obtain your permission before hand, unless we are required otherwise by law.

What do we do with your information?

We may use your personal information for a number of purposes depending on who you are, what your needs are and your relationship with us, but at all times we will abide by the rules set out by the Data Commissioner and the Data Protection Act to which we subscribe. If at any time we are required to use your personal information for other purposes than we originally tell you, we shall seek your consent before doing so.

Job applicants, current and former employees

From the point that an individual submits an application to be an employee of aask us, we may use their personal information to:

  • Aid the job application process
  • Enable you to submit your CV or to apply for specific jobs.
  • Process your employment file whilst employed by us e.g. health referrals, disclosure of details
  • to Accountants for tax and payroll purposes, third party partners such as our IFA for pension purposes
  • Answer any queries you may have connected with your employment with us
  • Monitor recruitment and other HR related statistics
  • Contact you using the contact details provided to us by you to advise you of relevant news, information and updates or to request further information
  • Aid any investigation or process connected with your employment - Create and maintain an internal employment file to be used only in connection with your employment.

We will not pass on your data to third parties unless required to do so by law.

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online and hard copy formats.

Given that the Internet is a global environment, using the Internet to collect and process personal data necessarily involves the transmission of data on an international basis. Therefore, by browsing our website and communicating electronically with us, you acknowledge and agree to our processing of personal data in this way.

Storage of your personal data

Please be assured that we will not store personal information that we hold about you for longer than is necessary or required by law.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

Access to your information

The Data Protection Act gives you rights relating to your personal information held by an organisation.

To find out if aask us holds information about you, or to make a request to access the information you know we hold about you, please put the request in writing to aask us Ltd, 1a Launton Business Centre, Murdock Road, Bicester, OX26 4PP clearly marking the envelope ‘Data Access Request’ so we can deal with your request as quickly as possible.

Any access request is be subject to a fee of £10, which is used to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.

You also have the right to correct any personal information that we hold about you that you believe to be incorrect.

At aask us we take every step we can to ensure that the information we hold about you is correct, but if you feel that aask us holds incorrect information about you, please write or email us as soon as possible and we will promptly correct any information found to be inaccurate.

If you feel that there are any problems in connection with how we collect or use your personal information please do not hesitate to contact us.

About this privacy notice

This privacy notice does not cover the links on our website to other websites. We strongly recommend that you also read the privacy notices on other websites you visit.

We keep our privacy notice under regular review and any changes we make will be posted on this page and where appropriate sent to you directly by post or email. This privacy notice was last updated in September 2014.

This notice is only a brief overview of aask us Ltd’s responsibilities in holding and processing personal information so for more information about your rights under the Data Protection Act please do not hesitate to contact us.

 

Cookie Policy

This is the Cookie Policy for BeadMaster, accessible from www.beadmaster.co.uk

What are cookies

As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or 'break' certain elements of the sites functionality.

For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.

How we use cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

Disabling cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

The cookies we set

Forms related cookies

When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.

Third party cookies

In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.

For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.

We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including; Twitter and LinkedIn will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.

More information

Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren't sure whether you need or not it's usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site.

However if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods:

Email: sales@beadmaster.co.uk
By visiting this link: www.beadmaster.co.uk/contact.html