Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Fencing Quincy MA respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

Important Information and Who We Are

This privacy notice aims to give you information on how Fencing Quincy MA collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide when you sign up to our newsletter, purchase products or services, or take part in a competition.

Our website address is www.fencingquincyma.com.

Fencing Quincy MA is a fencing contractor located in Quincy, MA. For the purpose of applicable data protection laws, Fencing Quincy MA is the data controller responsible for your personal data collected on this website.

If you have any requests concerning your personal information or any queries about these practices please contact us.

The Data We Collect About You

We only collect personal data from you that we need for legitimate business purposes including delivering services you have requested and marketing. This may include:

• Identity Data such as your first name, last name, title.
• Contact Data such as billing address, email address and telephone numbers.
• Financial Data such as payment card information and account details.
• Transaction Data such as payments made for products and services.
• Technical Data including internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform.
• Profile Data including your username and password, purchases, orders and quotes.
• Usage Data including information about how you use our website and services.
• Marketing and Communications Data including your preferences for receiving marketing information.

We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health, and genetic and biometric data).

How is Your Personal Data Collected?

We may collect data from and about you in the following ways:

• Direct interactions: You may give us your personal data by filling in forms on our site, taking part in surveys, registering for services, posting comments or requesting further services. This includes personal data you provide when you:
• Create an account on our website
• Subscribe to our newsletter or request other marketing materials
• Request a quote for services
• Contact us with an inquiry or request
• Provide feedback
• Automated technologies or interactions: As you interact with our website, we will automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies. Please see our cookie policy for more details.
• Third parties or publicly available sources: We will receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources as necessary to deliver services at your request. For example, Technical Data from analytics providers or Identity and Contact Data from lead generators.

How We Use Your Personal Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

• Performance of a contract: Where we need to perform the services you have requested, such as providing a quote or installing fencing products at your property.
• Legitimate Interests: For purposes necessary to operate, improve, market, and promote our business activities and provide you with the best experiences, such as:
• Sending you marketing communications and offers for our products and services. You can opt out anytime.
• Responding to your customer service requests and support needs
• Conducting research and analysis of our services
• Processing payments and managing transactions
• Protecting against fraud, breach of policies, unlawful uses, and other harmful activities
• Enforcing legal claims against clients
• Legal obligations: In certain situations we may be required by law to process and share your data. For example, with law enforcement or government agencies.
• Consent: We may rely on your consent in order to process certain personal data, such as when you subscribe to our newsletter or direct communications. You can withdraw consent at any time.

Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. We also limit access to your personal data to employees and contractors on a need to know basis. They are subject to strict contractual confidentiality obligations.

We review our information collection, storage and processing practices, including physical security measures, to guard against unauthorised access.

Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for and in accordance with legal requirements and tax and accounting rules.

For example, we retain your Contact Data as long as you have an active account with us in order to provide services at your request.

We may retain certain limited data for longer periods if required by law or tax regulations. For example, some Financial Data is retained for seven years as required by the IRS.

Transferring Your Data Outside of the EEA

We do not transfer the personal information we collect about you outside of the EEA.

Do We Share Your Data?

We will not sell or rent your personal data to third parties for marketing purposes without your explicit consent.

In certain situations we may need to share your personal data with third parties who help us operate and deliver services you request. For example:

• Business partners: We may share limited data with select business partners related to joint promotions or service offerings. We have contracts restricting their use of this data for any other purpose.
• Service providers: To assist us in delivering services and operating our business, we may share your data with select contracted service providers, such as payment processors, email services, and data analytics firms. These have access only to the information required to perform those duties.
• Legal and law enforcement: We may be required to share your personal data in response to legal processes, such as a court order, subpoena, or investigation. We also share data when necessary to prevent harm or financial loss, detect abuse, and protect company assets.

Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. These include the right to:

• Request access to your personal data
• Request correction of your personal data
• Request erasure of your personal data
• Object to processing of your personal data
• Request restriction of processing your personal data
• Request transfer of your personal data
• Right to withdraw consent

If you feel that Fencing Quincy MA has not complied with your data protection rights, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues.

Cookie Policy

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we put on your computer. Cookies allow us to distinguish you from other users of the website which helps us provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and allows us to improve our site.

The cookies we use are “analytical” cookies. They allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them below:

[List individual cookies used and their purpose such as]:

• Google Analytics: To track website traffic and behavior
• Session cookies: To identify your session for shopping cart and order fulfillment
• Search personalization cookies: To store recent searches to provide more relevant results

By using our site, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device. Your browser will give you option to accept or disable certain cookies. You can also use your browser settings to accept or stop cookies being installed on your device at any time. However, disabling cookies may prevent you from utilizing specific features on our website.

Consult your browser’s help section for more information about cookie controls and settings available in your browser software.

Changes to the Privacy Policy

We may change this privacy policy from time to time to keep it up to date with legal requirements and the way our business operates. We will always update the effective date at the top of the policy. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.