Platinum Emergency Services Ltd Privacy Policy

 

 

Platinum Emergency Services Ltd (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates 

 

https://www.platinumemergency.com (“the Site”).  This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal information we receive from users of either the Site, telephone, site and or home visit, including and all electronic communications.

 

 

We are company number 08197487.  Our registered office location: 6 Salop Road, Walthamstow, London E17 7HT.

 

 

We use your Personal Information only when you make contact with us via our website, email or telephone in order to make an enquiry.  By using the Site and our services, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

 

 

Introduction

 

This privacy policy aims to inform you about how we collect and process any information that we collect from you, or that you provide to us.  It covers information that could identify you (“personal information”).

 

 

Our policy complies with the Data Protection Act 2018 (the Act).  The law requires us to tell you about your rights and our obligation to you in regards to the processing and control of your personal data.  We do this now, by requesting that you read all the information provided below.

 

 

Except as set our below, we do not share, or sell, or disclose to any third party your personal information.

 

 

1. Data Protection Officer

 

      

 

      We have appointed a data protection officer (DPO) who is responsible for the storing of 

 

      of your personal information.

 

 

      If you have any Questions about this privacy policy, including any requests to exercise

 

      your legal rights, please contact our DPO on 0208 521 9518 or alternatively you can

 

      email on info@platinumemergency.com.

 

 

2. Data we process

 

      

 

      While using our Site and services, we may take or ask you to provide us with certain    

 

      personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you.  

 

      Personally identifiable information may include but not limited to your name, email

 

      address, telephone number and full postcode (“personal information”).  When you 

 

      contact us to book a job via the telephone, you will be asked to provide us with the

 

      same information, however, during this conversation, you will also be asked your

 

      full home address as well as payment information.  We are committed to protecting

 

      your privacy and the confidentiality of your personal information.  We undertake to

 

      preserve the confidentiality of all information you provide to us whether via the 

 

      telephone, email, face to face or via the internet. 

 

 

 

3.   Cookies

 

     

 

      Platinum Emergency Services Ltd. website may use cookies.  

 

      

 

      What are cookies

 

      

 

      Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information, which computers or                     

 

      mobile device downloads when you visit a website.  When you return to websites – or                                

 

      visit websites that use the same cookies – they recognise these cookies and therefore

 

      your browsing device can often give the user a faster and better experience.

 

 

      Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: 

 

 

      Persistent cookie 

 

 

      Will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless    

 

      deleted by the user before then.

 

 

      Session cookie

 

 

      On the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is  

 

      closed.

 

 

      Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but         

 

      personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored

 

      in and obtained from cookies.

 

 

      These cookies also help us better understand user behaviour as well and can identify         

 

      to ourselves which parts of our websites people have visited and for how long their

 

      engagement with our site was.  They may also be sued to help us to display

 

      advertisements relevant to you and to help us analyse the use and performance of

 

      our website and services. 

 

 

      Our service providers, such as Google Analytics and Google Adsense, use cookies   

 

      that may be stored on your compute when you visit our website.

 

 

      We treat information collected by cookies as non-personal information, however, to the   

 

      extent that Internet Protocol (IP) addresses or similar identifiers are considered

 

      personal information by law, we also treat these identifiers as personal information.

 

      Similarly, to the extent that non-personal information is combined with personal

 

      information, we treat the combined information as personal information for the 

 

      purposes of this Privacy Policy.

 

 

      Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete them. The methods  

 

      for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version.  You can

 

      however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these

 

      links:

 

(a)  https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome) ; or

 

 

 

(b)  https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-

 

      preferences (Firefox); or

 

 

(c)  http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/ (Opera); or

 

 

 

(d)   https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer- delete-  

 

      manage-cookies (Internet Explorer): or

 

 

(e)  https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411 (Safari); or

 

 

(f)   https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-

 

       privacy (Edge).

 

 

      Please do note using the ability to block our site cookies may mean you may not be  

 

      able to use all the feature on our website.   

 

 

      Cookies we have no control over

 

 

      Accessing websites is mostly carried out through browsers such as Google Chrome,         

 

      Safari etc.  In most instances these browsers collect and collate information about your

 

      use of their browsers which often includes but is not limited to website pages you visit,

 

      time spent on such website, IP addresses, etc.

 

 

      As such, Platinum Emergency Services Ltd has no control whatsoever over the use

 

      of your data and personal information through browsers and therefore has no liability   

 

      for the collection, storage or use of this information in any capacity.

 

 

      In these instances, if you are concerned about what information maybe outside our

 

      control, you should direct your concerns to your appropriate browser provider.

 

 

      Third party websites  

 

      

 

      Our website includes hyperlinks to third party websites.  We have no control over, and      

 

      are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of third parties or their 

 

      websites.  You are therefore advised to read any third party websites privacy policy 

 

      that you have accessed through the use of our site or services.

 

     

 

4.   If you do not provide personal information we need

 

      

 

      Where we need to collect personal data, or under the terms of a contract we have 

 

      with you, and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to

 

      perform that contract.  In that case, this privacy policy will not be applicable to you

 

      because we will not have collected any of your personal information.

 

 

5.   Communicating with us via telephone

 

      

 

      When you contact us via telephone to book a job request, we record your request.

 

      This recording is held for a period of 90 days.  We keep personally identifiable 

 

      information that is associated with your message.

 

 

6.  Communicating with our staff members and record keeping

 

 

     Site Photos

 

 

Whilst our engineers are attending your works request at your home. They are          required in all instances to take photographs whilst completing your job and associated reports. 

 

In some instances, photographs can hold personal information or contain people and places of which can at times be identifiable. 

 

All photographs taken from all works request are held on our systems indefinitely and are always shared with our customer(s) via our digital job reports. 

 

 

     Site video & Audio

 

In accordance with the protection of our lone workers and record-keeping. We reserve the right to monitor our staff for the purpose of their and our customer(s) safety.

 

https://platinumemergency.com/terms-conditions/

 

At times video, audio and photographs may be used on our Youtube TV channel. At no times will this information contain any type of personally identifiable information about our customer(s) or their location.

 

 

7.  Making A Complaint

 

      

 

     When we receive a complaint, the recorded information may be used to resolve your

 

     complaint.  All complaints must be received in writing within 28 days upon receipt of

 

     or requesting our services or within 7 days of the issue becoming know to the 

 

     complainant.

 

 

     Please do note in some instances where information is only stored by ourselves for a  

 

     limited time period.  A complaint may not be possible to resolve if we no longer hold

 

     some or all of the information required to investigate a complaint.  In these instances

 

     you will be notified in writing that we are unable to progress with the issues raised.

 

 

     Control over your own information

 

 

8.  Your duty to inform us of changes

 

      

 

      You are personally responsible to inform us of any changes relating to your 

 

      personal information that we may hold for you.

 

 

9.   Removal of your information

 

      

 

      If you no longer wish to use our services, you can inform us and your personal 

 

      information will be removed within 14 days from all of our systems.

 

 

      If you are in any way dissatisfied about how we process your personal information, you  

 

      have a right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

 

      This can be done at https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/.  We would, however,

 

      appreciate the opportunity to talk to you about your concern before you approach the

 

      ICO.

 

 

10. Review of this privacy policy

 

      

 

      At Platinum Emergency Services Ltd, your privacy is of paramount importance to us

 

      and we aim to review our privacy policy on a yearly basis.