Privacy Policy

1.0 Our core beliefs regarding user privacy and data protection

• User privacy and data protection are human rights
• We have a duty of care to the people within our data
• Data is a liability, it should only be collected and processed when absolutely necessary
• We loathe spam as much as you do!
• We will never sell, rent or otherwise distribute or make public your personal information
• Hastingwood Securities Ltd's Privacy Policy can be requested in person or is available here

2.0 Relevant legislation Along with our business and internal computer systems, this website is designed to comply with the following national and international legislation with regards to data protection and user privacy:

• UK Data Protection Act 1988 (DPA)
• EU Data Protection Directive 1995 (DPD)
• EU General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR)

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.

3.0 Personal information that this website collects and why we collect it
This website collects and uses personal information for the following reasons:

3.1 Site visitation tracking
This website may collect information (already held in the public domain) attributed to the IP address of the computer or device that is being used to access it. The information is supplied to us from AWStats. The AWStats system does not use your IP address to identify you, the individual, in any way. No cookies are used by the AWStats system.

3.2 Contact forms and email links
Should you choose to contact us using the contact form on our Contact us page or an email link like this one, none of the data that you supply will be stored by this website or passed to / be processed by any of the third party data processors defined in section 6.0. Instead the data will be collated into an email and sent to us over the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). Our own SMTP servers are protected by TLS (sometimes known as SSL) meaning that the email content is encrypted using SHA-2, 256-bit cryptography before being sent across the internet. The email content is then decrypted by our local computers and devices. However, not all mail servers are secured in such a way. Therefore, we would suggest that you always consider email as an insecure medium and not include personal, confidential or otherwise sensitive information within an email.

4.0 About this website's server
This website is hosted by Hastingwood Securities within our own UK data centre located in Docklands, London. Some of the data centre's more notable security features are as follows:

• Card access locks on all external and internal doors
• All doors and windows reinforced against entry
• Server cabinets have locked doors (no open racks)
• Perimeter and internal IP CCTV system monitored 24×7
• Only authorised security cleared staff are allowed into the facility

5.0 Data Breaches
We will report any unlawful data breach 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.

6.0 Data Controller
The data controller of this website is: Hastingwood Securities limited, a UK Private limited Company with company number: 01917205

Whose registered office is:
Estate Office Hastingwood Trading Estate
Harbet Road
Edmonton
London
N18 3HT