EAR Sheppard – Privacy Policy

This privacy policy sets out how EAR Sheppard Consulting Civil and Structural Engineers, here on after referred to as EAR Sheppard, uses and protects any information that you give EAR Sheppard when you use this website.

EAR Sheppard  is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
EAR Sheppard  may change this policy from time to time by updating this page.  This policy is effective from May 2018.

Information we may collect and why
• name and job title
• contact information including address, email address and telephone number

We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a response to your enquiry.

Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so.

Cookies
A cookie is a small data file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) which is sent to your Internet browser, when you visit our website, and stored on your computer’s hard drive, mobile phone or other device.

Some cookies used on our website are essential and necessary for this website to work. Other types of cookies allow customisation and optimisation of the content displayed, the collection of user preferences or the monitoring of the audience of the website, website errors and the securing of its access.

Analytics – We use analytics cookies to helps us understand how users engage with our Site.  An example is counting the number of different people coming to our Site or using a particular feature, rather than the total number of times the site or feature is used. Without this cookie, if you visited our Site once each week for three weeks we would count you as three separate users. We would find it difficult to analyse how well our Site was performing and improve it without these cookies

Social Sharing – We use third party cookies to allow you to share content directly on the social networking/sharing sites like Facebook, Twitter or Google+. Examples would be if you wanted to “like” or “tweet” about us or our products or services. Please see our “Third Party Cookies” section below for more details.

We do not have access to data collected by third-party services and cannot prevent third-party services from setting these cookies. Please check the relevant third-party website for more information about their cookies. On our website we have the Twitter feed enabled, Twitter may set cookies. For more details on what information Twitter collects, please visit their website: https://twitter.com/privacy.

Most Internet browsers allow cookies by default. If you do not want our Website to install cookies on your browser, you can disable cookies on the cookie settings page or by modifying your browser settings. However, certain pages and features of the Website may not function properly, if cookies are disabled. For more information about cookies please visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

Your rights
You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the General Data Protection Regulations 2018.  A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to EAR Sheppard Consulting Civil and Structural Engineers, 5 Chiswick Place, Eastbourne, BN21 4NH .
If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest.  However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.