This privacy policy contains our cookie policy for this website (our site) at our primary address contractcomparison.co.uk but also to the addresses www.contractcomparison.co.uk, contractcomparison.com, www.contractcomparison.com and any pages contained therein. For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act), ContractComparison.co.uk is the data controller.
We may collect and process the following data about you:
- Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site www.contractcomparison.co.uk (our site). This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site (if applicable), subscribing to our service, posting material or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our site.
- Information contained in your supplier contract if you choose to upload them. Normally your supplier contract descriptions will not contain personal data except unless you explicitly type it into text, notes or title fields.
- If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
- We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
- 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 purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access.
We store your personal data inside the European Economic Area
The data that we collect from you is kept inside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). It is not processed by staff operating outside the EEA. We will take reasonable steps to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.
Access to information
The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.
What do we use your information for?
Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:
To improve our website and services based on the information and feedback we receive from you and to promote our services, process transactions and monitor usage.
Your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent, other than for the express purpose of delivering the purchased product or service requested.
If you sign up for service the email address you provide for order processing may be used to send you information relating to use of the service only.
IP addresses
ContractComparison.co.uk own web analytics collects where available your IP address, operating system and browser type but not personal identifiers in order to produce aggregate traffic reports to help us manage, scale and market the service. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.
Cookie Policy
Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computers hard drive through your Web browser that enables the sites or service providers systems to recognise your browser and capture and remember certain information. They help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.
A cookie called PHPSESSID allows the website software to provide a tailored experience while you are on the website. It does not persist once you have left the website.
This website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. This software is provided by Google Analytics which uses cookies called _ga and _gat to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computers hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website. These cookies persist after you have left the website but they do not store, save or collect personal information. For an overview of how Google uses data see www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ ContractComparison.co.uk plans to implement re-marketing, which may include the Remarketing with Google Analytics feature, which makes use of the Google advertising cookies. Users can opt-out of this feature and manage their settings for this cookie using Google’s Ads Settings. ContractComparison.co.uk does not send names, email addresses, phone numbers or billing information to Google.
ContractComparison.co.uk users that don’t want their data reported by the Google Analytics JavaScript can install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. This add-on instructs the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) to prohibit sending information to Google Analytics. The browser add-on is available for most modern browsers. Learn more about the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.
The Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on does not prevent information from being collected as described in “IP addresses” paragraph above.
Other cookies may be stored to your computers hard drive by external vendors when you click through an advert on an external site and arrive at ContractComparison.co.uk . In this case we may be using a referral program, sponsored link or advert. Such cookies are used for conversion and referral tracking and typically expire after 30 days, though some may take longer. No personal information is stored, saved or collected by this cookie process.
If you decide to subscribe to our service we will use cookies to help us remember and process the subscription options in your cart.
We may contract with other third-party service analytics processors to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use any of the above listed information collected on our behalf, except to help us conduct and improve our business.
Users wishing to deny the use and saving of any cookies from this website on to their computers hard drive may take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors.
Contact & Communication
Users contacting this website and/or its owners do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use, in compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998.
ContractComparson.co.uk may use any information submitted to inform you about the products and services we offer or to assist you in answering any questions or queries you may have submitted. Your details are not passed on to any third parties.
External Links
Although this website only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website. External links are clickable text, banner, image links to other websites.
The owners of this website make an initial review of externally linked websites but do not guarantee or verify the contents subsequently as they may change. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any externally linked content.
Adverts and Sponsored Links on our site
Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our website. These will typically be served through advertising partners, to whom may have detailed privacy policies relating directly to the adverts they serve. Clicking on any such adverts will send you to the advertisers website through a referral program which may use cookies and will track the number of referrals sent from this website. This may include the use of cookies which may in turn be saved on your computers hard drive. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no control, responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the reputation of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.
Do we disclose any information to outside parties?
We do not sell, trade, to outside parties your personally identifiable information.
We may transfer anonymous data to trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website and conducting our business so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential.
We use aggregated data over many customers to calculate and publish statistics for the market we operate in. This would not identify a person or customer.
If our site’s business or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, the customer base including personal information held about its subscribers will be one of the transferred assets.
To comply with UK law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety we may also release your information to UK law enforcement or regulatory bodies when we believe release is appropriate.
Social Media Platforms
Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and its owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.
This website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.
This website may use social sharing buttons or social follow buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. If using such social sharing buttons note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.
Shortened Links in Social Media
This website and its owners through their social media platform accounts may share web links to relevant web pages. By default some social media platforms shorten lengthy urls (web addresses) to domains other than contractcomparison.co.uk
Users are advised to take caution and good judgement before clicking any shortened urls published on social media platforms at domains other than contractcomparison.co.uk. Social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links at domains other than contractcomparison.co.uk
Your Consent
This policy (together with our terms of use and any other documents referred to on it) sets out our practices for processing personal data. By visiting our site you are accepting and consenting to these practices.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page, giving 7 days notice. If you are a paying subscriber to our service you will also be notified by email at the service email address we have stored for your account.