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Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://buyashippingcontainer.co.uk.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Privacy Policy

At Container Cabins Limited, we understand that your privacy is important. We will treat any personal information you provide us with strict confidentiality and it will be used and recorded in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 1998. We promise to look after your personal information, and we will not sell any information about you to any other party.

This privacy policy establishes the terms and conditions under which Container Cabins Ltd, with registered address at 1 Junction Lane, St. Helens, Merseyside, WA9 3JN, England processes the personal data that you provide us when using our website.

Please refer also to our Cookie Policy, which forms part of our Privacy Policy.

This Policy covers the following:

  1. Personal Information we collect about you
  2. How we use your personal information
  3. Disclosure of your personal information
  4. Storage and security of your personal information
  5. Links to other websites
  6. Access to your information and correction
  7. Controlling your personal information
  8. Changes to our privacy policy
  9. How to contact us

  1. 1. Personal information we collect about you

Container Cabins will only collect information about you if you willingly provide it. We collect information when you fill out our online contact form or our online quote form. We take this as your genuine interest in our products and services. The information collected will include: your name, your email address, your phone number, your address and your comments of why you are reaching out to us, or with your enquiry.

We may ask for your name and job title, this helps us to fulfil any enquiries that come through and ensure there is permission for a container on your site. We will also ask for your demographic information, such as your address as mentioned above, along with your product preferences and interests.

Container Cabins also collects information from you from our customer surveys and offers. This is of course only when you have given us permission to do so.

Website usage information is also collected by using cookies – please see our cookie policy for more information on what cookies we use, and what we use them for.

  1. How we use your personal information

Container Cabins collects your information so we can fulfill and answer your enquiry which you have made to us. We will use your information that you have supplied us with to get back to you, this may include us giving you a call or sending you an email.

We focus on fulfilling your request, so we may come back to you with more questions about your needs or get back to you with a price.

Therefore, any personal details you provide us with will only be used to contact you or to satisfy the purpose for which it was collected. This means that we can provide you with a better service. We will also use the statistical information collected through cookies to improve the content of our website, and to analyse what pages people visit, and how long they spend there – we cannot identify you by this information.

Other uses we have for gathering your personal information includes:

  • Internal record keeping
  • We may use the information to improve our products and services
  • If you have opted in to us, we may periodically send you emails about new products, special offers or other information which is relevant to you, and you may find interesting. We will use the email address you have provided us with, and will only email you if you have given us permission to do so.
  • Again, if you have given us permission to do so, we may from time-to-time use your information to contact you for market research purposes – we may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail.
  • We may also the information to customise the website according to your interests.

  1. Disclosure of your personal information

Container Cabins Ltd will not share your information for marketing purposes to other companies and we will not sell or disclose your information to third parties for use in mailing lists or databases.

We use your personal information internally, and we will only share it with third parties who need to know as it is part of working with us in our normal business activities – an example of this is sharing an address with a delivery company.

We do not share your personal information with others except under these conditions.

Also, please be advised that we do not reveal information about identifiable individuals to our advertisers but we may, on occasion send a third party with aggregate statistical information about our visitors for analysis.

  1. Storage and security of your personal information

Container Cabins Limited complies with the standard procedures and requirements as laid down by applicable law to ensure that your personal information is kept secure. We use the latest in Secure Server Technology (SSL and HTTPS Encryptions) to ensure that all of your information is protected to the highest standards.

Your personal information will be stored until we no longer have a legitimate use for it. We cannot put a specific time frame on this, as every customer will have varied needs.

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.

If you require more information about how your personal data is stored, please contact our Data Controller at Container Cabins Ltd. 1 Junction Lane, St. Helens, Merseyside, WA9 3JN, England

  1. Links to other websites

Our website contains links to other websites owned and run by Container Cabins – these fall under this Privacy Policy and our Cookie Policy. Also, we have links to our social media platforms, if you follow one of these links you are leaving our website. Please note that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these websites’ protection and privacy policies and procedures.

Please check the websites’ in question privacy policies before you submit any personal information to the linked websites.

  1. Access to your information and correction

You have the right to access the personal information we hold about you at any time. You also have the right to ask us to update or correct any incomplete, inaccurate or out-of-date personal information that we hold about you. Please note that any demand for access may be subject to payment of a fee of £10 which covers our costs in providing you the information requested.

Please note, that before we are able to provide you with, or to correct any personal information we hold about you, we may ask you to verify your identity and to provide other details to help us fulfill your request. We will only use this information to confirm your identity.

If you would like to request details of personal information which we hold about you under the General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 1988, please write to our Data Controller at 25 Vandries Street, Liverpool, L3 7BJ,  England.

  1. 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 or emailing us at info@containercabins.co.uk

  1. Changes to our privacy policy

Container Cabins may change this policy from time-to-time by posting a new version on this page. You should check this page regularly to ensure that you are happy with any changes.

This policy is effective from 23rd May 2018.

  1. Contact Us

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or personal information we may hold about you:

  • Email us on: info@containercabins.co.uk
  • Write to us: Container Cabins Ltd, 1 Junction Lane, St. Helens, Merseyside, WA9 3JN, England.