PRIVACY POLICY
Tradesman4u's Privacy Policy
Our privacy policy aims to set out how Tradesman4u.com Ltd collects, uses, secures and protects your data and any information you supply us when using any of our services.
As a diligent and professional company we are committed to ensuring your private information is kept exactly that and is protected at all times. In the unlikely event of us requesting information from you additional to the usual registration process you can be assured this will information will only be used in accordance with this privacy policy.
Tradesman4u does withhold the right to change its privacy policy from time to time and we will ensure it is always linked to the homepage to enable you to be able to check this policy whenver you like. We do not have to notify you of any changes although should a change occur it is likely for your enhanced protection. If ever we do make any changes that you are unhappy with please notify us here.
What information do we collect/use?
The type of information we need from you consists of:-
- Your Name
- Your Company or Business name (if applicable)
- Your email address and contact numbers
- Your demographic region/distance you are prepared to travel for work (based on a straight line from your postcode)
- Your address and post code
- A description of your Job (if applicable)
What we do with the information we collect
The reason we gather the above information is to enable us to provide you with the best possible service, accurate information is the cornerstone of being able to achieve our goal in sourcing you a rated tradesmen or generating your business more customers. We have to maintain records of our business and may from time to time use specific feedback from yourself to improve our website or business model. We will not sell or pass your information to third parties for the purposes of sales. The only time we may have to share your specific information would be if we had been legally obliged to provide this information due to it being requested by a legal body such as the police or fraud office.
Security
We take pride in ensuring your information is secure and therefore to prevent any unauthorised access to your data we have in place adequate physical, managerial and electronic procedures to keep your information safe and secure. Your account password is fully encrypted meaning even we do not have access to it. This ensures maximum security and should you forget your password you will be provided with a randomly generated password from which you will need to then reselect a password of your choice.
Cookies
A cookies is a very small file which sits in your cookie folder on your computers hard drive. Cookies are common place and allow websites or applications to respond to you as an individual and remember certain pieces of information when you revisit a site to make your experience with that particular site more streamlined. It also helps websites to analyse traffic to their site and which inturn enables the site administrators to optimise performance to help improve your experience within a site. Cookies are regarded as harmless and low risk and will not be detected by virus detection software. They will be picked up in certain software and you can delete them manually, you can also choose to decline cookies if this is something you are concerned about. Please refer to your operating system instructions to see how to do this. At tradesman4u we use your cookie information purely for the benefit of improving our website environment and it is completely safe for it to remain in your cookie folder.
Links to other Websites
From time to time we may provide links to other websites that might be of interest to you. Naturally we cannot guarantee the privacy controls within those sites and we recommend you check the Privacy policy of those websites directly.
Data Protection Act
Under the Data Protection Act 1998 you can request for copies of any information we hold on you. A small fee is applicable to this to cover the administration costs involved. If you would like a copy of the information held please email us at enquiries@tradesman4u.com with the title Copy of Information Request.
If you think any information we have may be incorrect please notify us or change this in the Account area.
