This Privacy Policy was last updated on 16 November 2021. Our Privacy Policy is a legal statement that explains how we may collect information from you, how we may share your information, and how you can limit our sharing of your information.
The Waterpoint (West of Scotland) Limited (or “we”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy, following all legal requirements to do so. We recognise user privacy and data protection as human rights and we have a duty of care to those whose data we handle. We understand that data should only be collected and processed when absolutely necessary. We will never sell, rent or otherwise distribute or make public your personal data.
Along with our internal computer systems, this website is designed to comply with the following national and international legislation with regards to data protection and user privacy:
This site’s compliance with the above legislation, all of which are stringent in nature, means that this site is likely compliant with the data protection and user privacy legislation set out by many other countries and territories as well. If you are unsure about whether this site is compliant with your own country of residences’ specific data protection and user privacy legislation you should contact our data protection officer for clarification.
This website collects and uses personal information for the following reasons:
Site visitation tracking
Like most websites, this site uses Google Analytics (GA) to track user interaction. We use this data to determine the number of people using our site, to better understand how they find and use our web pages and to see their journey through the website. Although GA records data such as your geographical location, device, internet browser and operating system, none of this information personally identifies you to us. GA does also record your computer’s IP address – which could be used to personally identify you – but Google do not grant us access to this. We consider Google to be a third party data processor (see below). GA makes use of cookies, details of which can be found on Google’s developer guides. Disabling cookies on your internet browser will stop GA from tracking any part of your visit to pages within this website.
Email links
Should you choose to contact us using an email link, the data you provide:
No personal information is stored within the database of this website.
This website is hosted by Prostack within a data centre in the UK. All traffic (transferral of files) between this website and your browser is encrypted and delivered over HTTPS.
As detailed in section 3.0 the only third party that processes data on our behalf is Google. They comply with the legislation set out in section 2.0. They are based in the USA and are EU-U.S Privacy Shield compliant. You can read Google's privacy policy here.
We would report any unlawful data breach of this website’s database or the database of any of our third party data processors to any and all relevant persons and authorities within 72 hours of the breach if it is apparent that personal data stored in an identifiable manner has been stolen.
The data controller of this website is The Waterpoint (West of Scotland) Limited, a UK private limited company with company number SC387238. The data controller’s registered office is 29 Portland Road, Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, KA1 2BY.
Iain Maclean
Tel: 0800 5200 731
Email: info@thewaterpoint.com