“Century Composites Ltd” is a company registered in England and Wales (referred to as “Century” “we” or “us” in this policy.) Maintaining the security of your data is a priority at Century and we are committed to respecting your privacy rights. Century is also dedicated to being transparent about what data we collect and how we use it.
This policy provides you with information on:
This policy will be regularly reviewed and was last updated in September 2023.
We currently collect and process the following information:
Most of the personal information we process is provided directly by you to us for one of the following reasons:
Century Composites Ltd shares and transfers your personal data as described here and only in accordance with all privacy practices and local privacy requirements. We may occasionally share non-personal, anonymized and statistical data with third parties for our own business purposes.
The following are the parties with whom we may share personal information and why:
Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the lawful basis we rely on for processing personal information are:
Century follows strict security procedures for the storage and disclosure of information which you have given us in order to prevent unauthorised access, loss or destruction of your personal data. These may include:
Century does not seek to collect sensitive personal data (also known as special categories of data). If we do so, we will always collect the data in accordance with local data privacy requirements. If you choose to provide us with unsolicited sensitive personal data, you will be asked to consent to our processing of such data on a case-by-case basis by using a specific express consent form.
Century does not knowingly collect or solicit personal data from anyone under the age of 16. If you are aged under 16, please speak to your parent/guardian to get their permission before you provide any personal information to Century because without this consent, you are not allowed to provide us with your personal data. If we learn that we have collected data from a person aged under 16, we reserve the right to delete such data with no prior notification or consent.
Century will retain your personal data for the time that is necessary to fulfil the original purposes for which it was collected. Please keep in mind that in certain cases a longer retention period may be required or permitted by law or to allow Century to pursue its business interests, conduct audits, comply with our legal obligations, enforce our agreements or resolve any dispute. Your data will be securely and safely deleted, destroyed and disposed of when we no longer need it.
The criteria used to determine our retention periods include:
Under data protection law, you have rights including:
Your right of access – You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
Your right to rectification – You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
Your right to erasure – You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to object to processing – You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to data portability – You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.
You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.
Please contact us in writing at Century Composites Ltd, 58-60 Hutton Close, Crowther, Washington, Tyne & Wear, NE38 0AH, United Kingdom if you wish to make a request.
If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can write to us at:
Century Composites Ltd, 58-60 Hutton Close, Crowther, Washington, Tyne & Wear, NE38 0AH, United Kingdom.
You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data at:
Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF
Helpline number: 0303 123 1113
ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk