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.
This website collects and uses personal information for the following reasons:
Like most websites, this site uses Google Analytics (GA) to track user interaction. We use this data to determine the number of people using our site, to better understand how they find and use our web pages and to see their journey through the website.
Although GA records data such as your geographical location, device, internet browser and operating system, none of this information personally identifies you to us. GA also records your computer’s IP address which could be used to personally identify you but Google do not grant us access to this. We consider Google to be a third party data processor. Google comply with the legislation set out in section 1.0. They are based in the USA and are EU-U.S Privacy Shield compliant.
GA makes use of cookies, details of which can be found on Google’s developer guides.
Disabling cookies on your internet browser will stop GA from tracking any part of your visit to pages within this website.
Should you choose to contact us using the register or enquiry forms, or email us using any email address provided on this website, your data will be stored on our database, and emailed to Harding Homes us over Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP).
As detailed in section 2.2, any personal information sent via contact forms will be stored within the website’s database. All information will also be sent via email to our chosen estate agents, who are marketing the specific property/development. This third-party may contact you to respond to queries, or provide requested marketing information.
We will report any unlawful data breach of this website’s database or the database(s) of any of our third party data processors 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.
The data controller of this website is: Harding Homes, company number: 04215681.
Whose registered office is: Middleborough House, 16 Middleborough, Colchester, Essex, CO1 1QT
All users of this site submitting personal information have the Right to Erasure (‘right to be forgotten’), and may request their personal information be deleted from both our systems, and the systems of any third parties that the data may have been provided to.
The data protection officer for this website can be contacted using the details provided below.
Mark Harding
111 Crouch Street, Colchester, Essex CO3 3HA
info@hardinggroup.co.uk
This privacy policy may change from time to time inline with legislation or industry developments. We will not explicitly inform our clients or website users of these changes. Instead, we recommend that you check this page occasionally for any policy changes. Specific policy changes and updates are mentioned in the change log below.
23/08/2022 – Privacy policy instigated