Brightsourcing privacy policy

Brightsourcing Ltd is committed to respecting and protecting the privacy of anyone using our site and the confidentiality of any information that you provide us with. The purpose of this statement is to set out how we use any personal information that we may obtain from you.

Use and collection of personal information

In general you can visit our website without telling us who you are and without revealing any information about yourself. If, however, you use our site you will need to register and you will be asked to provide certain information such as your contact details. We will store this data and hold it on computer or otherwise.

We may use information that you provide:

  • To register you with our website and to administer it.
  • For assessment and analysis, e.g. marketing, customer and product analysis, to enable us to review, develop and improve our services.

We may disclose your personal information to third parties:

  • In the event we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we might disclose your personal data to the prospective buyer or seller.
  • If we are under a legal duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with or meet any legal obligation.

Cookies

We collect information directly from you in a number of ways. One way is through our use of ‘cookies’. Most websites use cookies in order to make them work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the website. They help us to understand how our customers and potential customers use our website so we can develop and improve the design, layout, content and function of the site. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer’s hard drive by websites that you visit. They save and retrieve pieces of information about your visit to the website – for example, how you entered the site, how you navigated through the site and what information and documentation was of interest to you. This means that when you go back to a website, it can give you tailored options based on the information it has stored about you on your last visit.

Some of our cookies are used to simply collect information about how visitors use our website and these types of cookies collect the information in an anonymous form.

Where there is a login process relating to buying products or services from us we also use cookies to store personal registration information so that you do not have to provide it to us again on subsequent visits.

If you are uncomfortable with the use of cookies, you can disable cookies on your computer by changing the settings in the Cookie Control panel – select the green panel on the bottom left of you screen. You can also set your browser to reject or block cookies or to tell you when a website tries to put a cookie on your computer. You can also delete any cookies that are already stored on your computer’s hard drive. However, please be aware that if you do delete and block all cookies from our website, parts of the site will not then work. This is because some of the cookies we use are essential for parts of our website to operate. Likewise, you may not be able to use some products and services on other websites without cookies.

For further general information about cookies you may wish to visit the BBC online webwise guide

In particular we use two types of cookies on our website:

1. WordPress cookies

We use WordPress to manage the content on this website and WordPress uses cookies to enhance your experience when you visit our website

In particular the website uses the following cookies:

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  • wp-test-cookie
  • wordpress-logged-in
  • civicAllowCookie

All these cookies are required by WordPress. You can read more about WordPress cookies on the WordPress website

2. Google Analytics cookies

We use Google Analytics and Google Analytics’ cookies to see how many visitors we are getting. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.

In particular the website uses the following cookies:

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You can find out more about Google Analytics’ Cookies on Google’s website 

If you do not wish to accept cookies from our website, we recommend you leave this site immediately and then delete and block all cookies from this site.

Security

We endeavour to take all reasonable steps to protect your personal information. However, we cannot guarantee the security of any data that you disclose online and we will not be responsible for any breach of security unless this is due to our negligence or wilful default.

Your rights

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will aim to inform you before collecting your data if we intend to use your data for such purposes or we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purpose.

General

You have the right to see personal data (as defined under the Data Protection Act) that we keep about you upon receipt of a written request and payment of a fee of ÂŁ10. Any request should be sent to:

The Company Secretary
Brightsourcing Ltd
Kestrel Court
Harbour Road
Portishead
Bristol
BS20 7AN

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