PRIVACY POLICY
Your privacy is critically important to us at P&D
INVESTIGATIONS LIMITED and we have a few fundamental principles:
We don't ask you for personal information unless we
truly need it - we don't ask you for data like your gender or income level for
no apparent reason!
We do not share your personal information with
anyone, except to comply with the law or protect our rights.
We do not store personal information on our servers,
unless required for the on-going operation of one of our inquiries,
investigations, projects or services.
With our services we aim to make it as simple as
possible for you to control what is visible to the public, seen by search
engines, kept private and / or permanently deleted. Below is our privacy policy, which
incorporates these aims. This privacy policy covers all the Services of P&D
INVESTIGATIONS LIMITED.
If you have questions about accessing or
correcting your personal data, please contact us via email, phone or by any
other correspondence method.
It is P&D INVESTIGATIONS LIMITED Policy to
respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect, while operating
our websites.
WEBSITE
VISITORS
Like most website operators, P&D INVESTIGATIONS
LIMITED collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web
browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type,
language preference, referring site and the date and time of each visitor
request.
P&D INVESTIGATIONS LIMITED purpose in collecting
non-personally identifying information is to better understand how visitors use
our website. From time to time, P&D
INVESTIGATIONS LIMITED may release non-personally identifying information in
the aggregate, e.g. by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its
website.
GATHERING
OF PERSONALLY IDENTIFYING INFORMATION
Certain visitors to our website choose to interact
with P&D INVESTIGATIONS LIMITED in ways that require us to gather
personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that we gather
depends on the nature of the interaction. For example through our contact forms in some
cases, we may ask for an email address, name or telephone number. In each case,
P&D INVESTIGATIONS LIMITED collects such information only in so far as is
necessary or appropriate to fulfil the purpose of the visitor's interaction
with us.
P&D INVESTIGATIONS LIMITED does NOT disclose
personally-identifying information other than as described below. Our visitors can always refuse to supply
personally-identifying information with the caveat that it may prevent them
from engaging in certain website-related activities.
AGGREGATED
STATISTICS
P&D INVESTIGATIONS LIMITED may collect
statistics about the behaviour of visitors to its websites. For instance we may monitor the most popular
pages on the P&D INVESTIGATIONS LIMITED website or use spam screened by our
filters to help identify spam.
We may display this information publicly or provide
it to others. However P&D
INVESTIGATIONS LIMITED does not disclose personally-identifying information
other than as described below.
PROTECTION
OF CERTAIN PERSONALLY-IDENTIFYING INFORMATION
P&D INVESTIGATIONS LIMITED discloses potentially
personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of
its employees, contractors and affiliated organisations that
(i) Need to
know that information in order to process it on our behalf or to provide
services available at our websites.
(ii) Have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and
affiliated organisations may be located outside of your home country but by
using our websites you consent to the transfer of such information to them.
P&D INVESTIGATIONS LIMITED will not rent or sell
potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone,
other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organisations, as
described above.
P&D INVESTIGATIONS LIMITED discloses potentially
personally-identifying only when required to do so by law or when P&D
INVESTIGATIONS LIMITED believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably
necessary to protect the property or rights of us, third parties or the public
at large.
If you are a user of a P&D INVESTIGATIONS
LIMITED website and have supplied your email address, we will NEVER send you an email to tell you
about new features, solicit your feedback or just keep you up to date with
what's going on with P&D INVESTIGATIONS LIMITED and our products.
We may be required to disclose an individual's
personal information in response to a lawful request by public authorities,
including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.
P&D INVESTIGATIONS LIMITED acknowledges that all
individuals have the right to access the personal information/data that we
maintain about them. An individual who
seeks access, or who seeks to correct, amend or delete inaccurate data, should
direct his query to enquiries@johnbateman.co.uk. If requested to remove data, we will respond
within a reasonable time frame & not to exceed one week.
If we ever were to engage in any onward transfers of
your data with third parties for a purpose other than which it was originally
collected or subsequently authorized, we would provide you with an opt-out
choice to limit the use and disclosure of your personal data.
WHAT
ARE COOKIES?
Cookies are small text files, which are stored by
the browser on your computer. Only the
information that you provide, or the choices you make while visiting a website,
can be stored in a cookie. Allowing a
website to create a cookie does not give that or any other site access to the
rest of your computer and only the site that created the cookie can read it.
OUR
USE OF COOKIES AND HOW TO OPT OUT:
We use cookies to monitor how people use our site,
provide the services and features offered on our website, and to improve our
user experience. Some of the cookies
described above are stored on your device by third parties when you use our
website. We have no control over these
cookies or how the third parties use them. If you prefer not to use cookies, you can
choose to delete or disable cookies within your browser settings at any time.
For more information about these controls, visit
your browser or device's help material. All
modern browsers provide a setting that allows a user to block third-party
cookies. Please note that if you delete
or disable our cookies, this may impact functionality in certain areas of the
website
PURPOSE
OF COOKIES FOR THIS WEBSITE
Session cookies Often used for 'Shopping Cart' and to
remember, which pages you visited or for when you use the 'Back' button. Once you close your browser or log out, the
cookie will expire and be deleted.
Persistent cookies Can be used to store information or settings
about you to improve your experience on a website. For example, “Remember me” cookies which store
your username and password when you visit a site. This is not used to identify
you, only to make logging into a website faster and more convenient.
Third Party cookies These are cookies placed by another website
or service i.e. it has a different address to the one you see in your browser’s
address bar: in other words a third-party. They are used to allow that third party to
provide a service to us. Examples
include cookies created by Google's services (Google Analytics, Google Ad Sense),
cookies stored when you share content on social sites (such as
Facebook/Twitter) and those created by advertisements served from a different
website, which is very common.
THIRD
PARTY COOKIES POSSIBLY USED BY THIS WEBSITE
Provider:
Google
Purpose:
Enable Google functionalities such as
Google search, Maps, Analytics, YouTube
Policy:
http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/policies/privacy/
Provider:
Facebook
Purpose:
Enable social sharing and like
Policy:
http://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/
PRIVACY
POLICY CHANGES
Although most changes are likely to be minor, P&D
INVESTIGATIONS LIMITED may change its Privacy Policy from time to time and in our
sole discretion.
P&D INVESTIGATIONS LIMITED will notify clients
by email, when making changes.
