When visiting the Oxford Lasers Ltd website or contacting Oxford Lasers Ltd we will:

• Respect your privacy and confidentiality.
• Only record your personal details in the manner and for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy;
• Keep your personal details secure from unauthorised access, use or disclosure; and
• Not sell, rent, trade or otherwise knowingly share or provide your personal information to any third party except insofar as legally obliged to do so.
• Only use your information in accordance with the terms of the Data Protection Act 2018.

INDIRECT COLLECTION

• The Oxford Lasers Ltd web server automatically collects standard information such as browser type, operating system, access times, etc
• The Oxford Lasers Ltd websites use cookies. Cookies are small electronic files which a website can transfer to a user’s hard drive to identify a user and personalise their use of that website.
• The Oxford Lasers website uses cookies to provide the mechanisms for online browsing and to monitor traffic.
• Any information that is collected indirectly is used by Oxford Lasers Ltd only to monitor the volume, type and pattern of traffic towards, and usage of the Oxford Lasers Ltd websites and to develop the design and layout of the website.
• The current list of all cookies and preference options can be accessed in the cookiebot included on the Oxford Lasers Ltd website.

DIRECT COLLECTION

Oxford Lasers Ltd may collect and store the following limited personal information:

• Information about your computer and your visits to our website.
• Information you provide to us when; making an enquiry, signing up/subscribing to our newsletter or completing specific contact forms.
• Information you send to us through our website relating to any communication between you the user and us.
• Any other information you would send to us as part of using our website or services.

If you contact us (either online, by email, in person, via telephone, fax or letter) and provide any personal data (as per the definition by the information commissioner: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/key-definitions/what-is-personal-data/) then this information will only be used in the context of responding to your enquiry and providing products or services to you. Please note Information about companies or public authorities is not personal data.  The Personal information that you submit to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified within this policy or on the relevant web pages of the website.

WE MAY USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION TO:

• Administer and personalise our website and business for you.
• Enable you to use the services available on our website
• Communicate with you (via method specified) in relation to your enquiry
• Send you emails that you have requested or that are automatically sent by an action you undertook on our website.
• Send any marketing material or newsletters that you have specifically requested (you can either unsubscribe from this or contact us at any time if you change your mind and no longer want to be sent these). We will not send marketing communications or newsletters unless you have expressly requested us to do so.
• Send you communications relating to our business, that may be of legitimate interest to you, this can be via post or any other technology that you the user has agreed to. (you can contact us at any time if you do not want to be sent these communications)

We will not share, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless it is necessary to facilitate the delivery of products or services to you, or we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We will never sell your personal data.

We will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data: With the extent we are required to do so by law; If we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; or

In order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).

We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.

Storage of personal information you provide will be either on our secure server which is Password and firewall protected. Or on our Secure internal Network which is also secured by a Password and firewall.

You the user will acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is and can be inherently insecure, and that we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation.

Oxford Lasers Ltd can provide you with a copy of any information that Oxford Lasers Ltd maintains about you writing to us via our registered office address.

You can contact us to update any personal information we hold about you that would need updating.

This website contains hypertext links to external websites. Oxford Lasers Ltd is not responsible for the privacy policies operated by the owners of those sites and does not accept responsibility for any information obtained by third parties as a result of use by you of such hypertext links.