BY VISITING FORCEMEASUREMENT.CO.UK YOU ARE CONSENTING TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY.

Trading as Force Measurement Systems Ltd (“we” or “us”) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. 

By using the Site or Service, you agree to this Privacy Policy, without modification, and acknowledge reading it..

This policy (together with our Terms of Website Use (and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. By submitting personal data to us, you agree to us using your data as follows.

For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act), the data controller is Iain Paterson, 3-5 Lister Road, Glasgow G52 4BH.

INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECTION FROM YOU

We may collect and process the following data about you:

  • Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site www.forcemeasurement.co.uk (our site). This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site, requesting a quote, using our services, posting material or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our site.
  • 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.
    • 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.

WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary 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.

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 un-authorised access.

USES MADE OF THE INFORMATION

We use information held about you in the following ways:

  • To send you our communications from time to time.
  • To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
  • To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us which we feel may interest you.
  • To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
  • To allow you to participate in our services, when you choose to do so.
  • To notify you about changes to our service.

 

We may record information relating to your use of the Site, such as the pages you view, your browser type, IP address, requested URL, referring URL, and timestamp information.  We use this type of information to administer the Site and provide the highest possible level of service to you.  We also use this information in the aggregate to perform statistical analyses of use behaviour and characteristics in order to measure interest in and use of the various areas of the Site.

We may send cookies (not the real thing unfortunately) to your computer in order to uniquely identify your browser and improve the quality of our service.  You have the ability to accept or decline cookies using your web browser settings.  If you choose to disable cookies, you may not be able to take full advantage of the Site and its features.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

We may disclose your personal information to third parties:

  • In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
  • If any company within our group or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case it may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such company or business or assets.
  • If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our Terms of Use or terms and conditions of membership and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of us or any of our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

YOUR RIGHTS

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by contacting us at: accounts@forcemeasurement.co.uk.

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page.

CONTACT

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to accounts@forcemeasurement.co.uk.