At HCE Catering, we strongly believe in protecting the privacy of your personal information. This statement describes the privacy practices we apply to the HCE Catering websites and microsites. As part of that, it also expresses our approach to complying with the data protection laws that apply in the United Kingdom. If we change this Privacy Policy, we will notify you of the changed document in the same way as we notify changes to the HCE Catering Website Terms and Conditions.
If you have any questions regarding this policy please contact us via channels outlined on the Contact Us page of our websites.
The following describes the possible information we collect
Cookies
Cookies are used on our site to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue without changing your settings, we’ll assume that you are happy to receive all cookies on our website.
Some cookies are essential so you can move around the website and use its features. Without these cookies, some services you’ve asked for can’t be provided. These cookies don’t gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you’ve been on the internet.
What are cookies and how do they work?
Cookies are small bits of text that are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Your browser sends these cookies back to the website every time you visit the site again, so it can recognise you and can then tailor what you see on the screen.
Some of the cookies we use:
Certain cookies are necessary in order for you to use our websites. These are used ‘in-session’ each time you visit and then expire when you leave the site. They are not stored on your computer and they do not contain any personal data. However, you can delete them via your browser if you wish to, but this will restrict the functions that you’re able to carry out on our sites.
Session cookies
These enable you to carry out some essential functions on our sites, such as maintaining sign in details for the session or a transaction. They also help by minimising the need to transfer information across the internet. They are not stored on your computer and they expire when you terminate your browser session or sign out of certain areas.
Secure cookie
A secure cookie is only used when a browser is visiting a server via HTTPS, ensuring that the cookie is always encrypted when transmitting from client to server. This makes the cookie less likely to be exposed to cookie theft via eavesdropping.
Persistent cookies
These are used to persist a user’s preference across e.g. setting items such as the open status of the carousel, and remain until the expiry date and time set by the web server (or otherwise manually deleted by the user).
Analytics
We like to keep track of what pages and links are popular and which ones don’t get used so much to help us keep our sites relevant and up to date. It’s also very useful to be able to identify trends of how people navigate (find their way through) our sites and help us provide a more friendly solution.
Third-party cookie
Google Analytics tracking (and most web tracking software) uses cookies in order to provide meaningful reports about site visitors. However, Google Analytics cookies do not collect personal data about website visitors.
Managing your cookies
You’ll find more information about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org, which gives details on how to delete cookies from your computer. For information on how to do this on your mobile phone browser, please see your handset manual.
Log files
Like most standard Web site servers we use log files. This includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks to analyse trends, administer the site, track user’s movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses, etc. are not linked to personally identifiable information.
Email addresses
Your email address may be stored to allow login to HCE Catering websites. In addition, your email address may be used to communicate information relevant to services provided.
Sharing and use of information
Advertising – HCE Catering website and its microsites may include interactive advertising for other businesses. We may use, and provide to third parties, anonymous demographic data to target this advertising more appropriately.
Newsletters – We have regular update newsletters and other occasional emails, which all HCE Catering clients and suppliers may receive. Personal information held may be used to make these newsletters more appropriate.
Changes in HCE Catering businesses – If the businesses of HCE Catering are transferred to other legal entities or are acquired by a third party, we may transfer personal data we then hold to that party.
Place of processing – All personal information is held on and processed on servers based in UK data centres.
Security
We have security measures in place to protect our systems and access is under strict guidelines.
However, it remains your responsibility:
• to protect against unauthorised access to your HCE Catering Client Portal / website access details;
• to ensure against use by anyone else of the HCE Catering websites and microsites through the machine you use while you are logged on to the HCE Catering websites and/or microsites;
• to log off or exit from the HCE Catering website and/or microsites when not using it; and
• to keep your password secret.
Opt-out policy
You may have your HCE Catering details removed from our systems at any time. To remove yourself please call us and we will tell you how we remove your Details.
Disclosure for legal reasons
We reserve the right to communicate personal information as we hold to third parties which seek the disclosure of it, and which make a legally-compliant request for its disclosure.
Contacting HCE Catering
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with HCE Catering, you should call HCE Catering in the first instance. You can also call our Office to get a copy of the personal data we hold about you or a description of that data. Please note that by English law we are entitled to charge you a small sum for providing this information.
If you change any of your personal details or you want us to correct any personally identifiable information you should call us and we will endeavour to make the changes you request.
Links to third party sites
Our site contains links to other sites. HCE Catering are not responsible for the privacy practices, or the content, of those web sites.
Data Protection Information
You can obtain further information about data protection laws by visiting the Information Commissioner’s website at www.ico.gov.uk. You can search for our Data Protection Notification there, should you so wish.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
If we change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to our Website and any other place we deem appropriate. After we have posted changes, if you use the HCE Catering websites or any microsite within them you will be bound by the terms of change to our new privacy policy.
Things to remember about Privacy?
Remember to close your browser when you have finished your user session. This is to ensure that others cannot access your personal information and correspondence if you share a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place like a library or Internet cafe. You as an individual are responsible for the security of, and access to, your own computer.
Please be aware that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information over the Internet that this information can be collected and used by others. In short, if you post personal information in publicly accessible online forums, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return. Please be careful and responsible whenever you are using the Internet.