Privacy Policy, Cookies and GDPR

We have made some changes to our Privacy Policy to help enable us to comply with the GDPR guidelines.

We provide this Privacy Policy explaining our online information practices and the way your information is collected and used.

If you are currently a client receiving web design, hosting, domain or other services from STORM your contact information and payment information is kept private for the sole use of STORM for business purposes only. You are entitled to ask us to remove personal information from our records and if you wish to do this then please contact us so that we may process your request

We are committed to safeguarding privacy and personal data.

Storm Scotland Limited have taken a number of steps to strengthen and enhance our privacy practices in readiness for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

We are committed to providing customers with services that are ready to use in accordance with GDPR, and operate a very transparent practice every step of the way. We also welcome any feedback, if you feel there is any areas that could be improved in terms of privacy and any of your data.

We have also contacted all of our suppliers, and have been told they will all be GDPR compliant by 25th of May 2018.

Visitors to www.stormwebsitedesign.com

All information collected or submitted via the STORM website including: information request, estimate requests, logo design, web design, graphic design, hosting and feedback etc is kept private and will not be passed on to third parties without prior permission. We only take this information to allow us to respond to your enquiry. Should you not wish to proceed with any enquiry, then all details are completely removed. At any time, you are free to ask us what data we hold on you, and it can be shown or removed at any time. At no point to we pass on this data to 3rd parties, and after a period of time data is also removed from our system.

If you have any questions or complaints about our use of your Personal Data and its privacy, please write or call us.

The type of personal information collected on these pages may include:

Name

Address

Email address

Phone number

Mailing Address

E-mail messages you send us

IP addresses of computers that connect to our web site

Browser Information your using (Like Internet Explorer or Netscape)

General information or requests of services.

We use the information collected from our website to determine how we can help you and what services we can provide you. When you fill out a form on our website, STORM may contact you to follow up on your request.

Cookies

A cookie is a text file downloaded to your computer when you access websites. They contain information which includes: a site name and unique user ID, the duration and a random number. Cookies cannot be used to reveal your identity or personal information. When visiting a website that uses cookies, a cookie is downloaded onto your computer. The next time you visit the same website, your computer checks to see if it has a cookie that is relevant and sends the information contained in the cookie back to the website.

The website then notes that you have been there before, and in some cases, alters what is shown on screen. They also might record how long you spend on each page on a site, what links you click, even your preferences for page layouts and colours. Generally cookies are of benefit, and improve the users browsing experience on the website.. Some websites can’t function properly without cookies, a shopping website for instance, which passes information from one web page to the shopping cart, and is remembered when you check out.

We use cookies simply to improve your experience on our websites and for functionality purposes.

Google Analytics also makes use of a cookie, however you can opt out from allowing this cookie to be active from our home page. We only use Google Analytics to help us view general activity on our website, and enable us to further improve the website. For instance, if there is a broken link.

You can stop cookies from being deployed on your computer by configuring your browser not to accept them. However, in order to get the best use out of our website, you will need to have cookies enabled.

Please refer to your browser’s ‘help’ facility for information on how to enable and disable cookies.

If cookies are already on your system, you can delete them – For more information on cookies and deletion of cookies please visit: http://www.aboutcookies.org.uk/managing-cookies

Please be aware that deleting certain cookies can result in difficulties when navigating around sites.

Further information can be found at the following websites:

http://www.ico.gov.uk/for_organisations/privacy_an…

http://www.ico.gov.uk/news/blog/2012/updated-ico-a…

http://www.allaboutcookies.org/

http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/may/26/c…

This website also uses Google Analytics to allow us to monitor how users use our website. As part of this activity, if you have a Google account and have allowed Google to associate your web and app browsing history so that you may receive personalised ads then Google may collect a Google identifier which allows them to identify your Google account when you are using this website. If you require further information or wish to opt out of Google Analytics Remarketing and Advertising Reporting Features then please visit Google’s currently available opt-outs.