Privacy Statement

When you visit or use a website of M J Whiteside Limited (the “Company”) the Company may require certain details including, personal data (as defined in the Data Protection Act 1998 (the “Act”)) from you, including without limitation your name, family details, business details, your address and email address. This policy is in relation to these details and any other personal data that the Company subsequently collect from you or about you or any other third party (collectively "the Information").

The Company considers your privacy to be very important and this policy sets out the reasons for requesting and using the Information.

The Company will use the Information in a variety of ways, some of which will assist and enable the Company to provide its services to you. This may include for example the Company contacting you directly to confirm registration monitor progress and to inform you of the Company services, providing details that you have requested and ensuring you are happy with the services provided by using and publishing certain Information (e.g. your name and email address or method of payment) on certain pages of the Company websites. The personal details the Company requests may allow the Company to contact you by letter, telephone, text, fax, email or other form of communication. Other details requested are for the purposes of calculating the costs and relevance of the services required.

The Company reserves the right to report any activity which the Company suspects violates any relevant laws or regulations to the appropriate authority. If the Company is requested by such authority for the Information the Company reserves the right to disclose it to them including requests under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

You represent, warrant and undertake to the Company that: -

• 1. You have fully complied with the Act in all respects in relation to the Information;
• 2. In providing the Information to the Company for the purposes detailed above you will not in any way be in breach of the Act;
• 3. You are entitled to provide the Information.

You shall indemnify and keep the Company’s directors, officers, employees and agents fully indemnified against all actions, claims, proceedings, costs and damages (including without limitation any damages or compensation paid by the Company on the advice of its legal advisors to compromise or settle any claim) and all legal costs or other expenses arising out of any breach of the above representations, warranties and undertakings or out of any claims by a third party based on any facts which if substantiated would constitute such a breach.

The Company aims to keep all Information it holds as accurate and up to date as possible. If you would like to review or change the Information you have supplied to the Company, please contact the Company as set out below. The Company will store the Information in accordance with its obligations under the Act.

All Information will be kept as confidential and as secure as possible through the use of the Company secure server software. This means that Information can only be exchanged between you, the Company and any third party to whom the Company decides to transfer the Information to for the purposes detailed in the Company website or the Company documents. Furthermore as required by the Act the Company follows strict security procedures in the storage and disclosure of the Information which you have given to the Company so as to prevent unauthorised access.

The Company uses industry standard practices to safeguard the confidentiality of the Information. The Company treats the Information as an asset that must be protected against loss and unauthorised access. The Company employees use different security techniques to protect the Information from unauthorised access by users inside and outside the Company. However, "perfect security" does not exist on the Internet.

Cookies are small text files that are stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive allowing websites to recognise one user from another when using the Company website. Cookies can be deleted from your hard drive if you want to. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but your web browser can be altered so as to prevent acceptance.

All websites operated by the Company may use cookies, however these cookies do not contain any personal data. Any use of the Company websites, shall be subject to cookies unless you reject them.

Under the Act you are entitled, on the payment of a fee and following clear written instructions, to be given by the Company a description of all personal data the Company holds about you, the purposes for which this is being processed and the recipients to whom this may be disclosed. You also have the right to have communicated to you in an intelligible form the information constituting the personal data and any information available to the Company as to the source of that personal data. If you require any further information on this point please contact the Company as detailed below.