Cookies & Privacy Policy

Take more control: data protection is getting more personal

What is GDPR?

GDPR stands for General Data Protection Regulation. It’s the biggest change to UK data privacy law for 20 years and creates a single set of rules that better protects personal information for people across the EU. All organisations must review how they manage all personal data, such as customer addresses and staff details, to ensure they meet GDPR requirements.
At Whitman Gowdridge Ltd

  • We do: respect your privacy and work hard to meet strict regulatory requirements.
  • We do: go the extra mile to protect your data.
  • We don’t: sell your personal data to third parties.

You’re better protected – The new rules make sure that all organisations are set up to protect any personal data they hold, and to act appropriately if something goes wrong. We regularly review our privacy notice. It tells you how we use your data and what your options are. You have more control – The new regulation supports your right to have your privacy respected and your data protected. It gives you easier access to the personal information organisations hold about you, if you wish to check or change it. It is designed to give you confidence that this information is accurate, up to date and well managed.

You can choose who can contact you, and how – In the coming months, organisations may be asking for your consent to contact you with offers, rewards or information about new products. You can control if and how you want to be contacted, for example by email or phone. At Whitman Gowdridge we will contact you with information via email, if this is not your preference then please let us know by return email.

You can change your mind – Remember, every organisation must provide you with the opportunity to change your mind about the choices you have made.

Protecting your personal data – Whitman Gowdridge Ltd privacy policy

This privacy policy sets out how Whitman Gowdridge Ltd uses and protects any information that you give Whitman Gowdridge Ltd either via the website, directly or in any other manner.

Whitman Gowdridge Ltd is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

Whitman Gowdridge Ltd may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 25th May 2018.

What we collect

We may collect the following information:

  • name and job title
  • contact information including email address
  • demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests
  • other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers

What we do with the information we gather

We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

  • Internal record keeping.
  • We may use the information to improve our products and services.
  • We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.
  • From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail. We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests.

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.

Cookies Policy Last updated: 8th March 2018

Whitman Gowdridge Ltd (“us”, “we”, or “our”) uses cookies on our Website (the “Service”). By using the Service, you consent to the use of cookies. Our Cookies Policy explains what cookies are, how we use cookies, how third-parties we may partner with may use cookies on the Service, your choices regarding cookies and further information about cookies.

What are cookies – Cookies are small pieces of text sent by your web browser by a website you visit. A cookie file is stored in your web browser and allows the Service or a third-party to recognize you and make your next visit easier and the Service more useful to you. Cookies can be “persistent” or “session” cookies.

How Whitman Gowdridge Ltd uses cookies – When you use and access the Service, we may place a number of cookies files in your web browser. We use cookies for the following purposes: We do not currently make use of these cookies to enable certain functions of the Service but may in the future use them, to provide analytics, to store your preferences, to enable advertisements delivery, including behavioural advertising. We use session cookies on the Service and we use different types of cookies to run the Service. We may use essential cookies to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts.

Third-party cookies

In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-parties cookies to report usage statistics of the Service, deliver advertisements on and through the Service, and so on.

What are your choices regarding cookies

If you’d like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser.

Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to use all of the features we offer, you may not be able to store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly.

Controlling your personal information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

  • whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes
  • if you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at insurances@whitmangowdridge.co.uk

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 send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to Cambridge House, 54 Blaby Road, South Wigston LE18 4SD. If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.