Privacy Policy
This policy relates to the privacy of your information at GS UK Ltd
General Principles
GS UK Ltd is committed to keeping your information private. By ‘your information’ we mean any information about you that you, or third parties, provide to us. This policy relates to the privacy of your information at GS UK Ltd and our webshop gs-ukdirect.com. How we will handle your information is explained below.
Customers
If you’re a customer of GS UK Ltd, to allow us to facilitate your order and future orders, we will need to store and process some of your personal information. This includes your name, addresses, postcodes and your contact details such as your telephone number or email address. We may require this information to contact you, for example if your order has been delayed, however, we will not use your details for any other purposes unless you have given us your express permission to do so.
From time to time we like to inform our customers of up-coming road show events, exhibitions we will be at, new products, special offers and competitions. Under the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) we aren’t allowed to do so without your permission. When setting up your account we will ask you if you are happy for us to contact you in these circumstances.
We promise never to share your information with other organisations (other than for the purposes of facilitating your order) and we also promise not to contact you too often!
Online Services – Information we collect
If you register to use our secure services, such as the gs-ukdirect.com website, we’ll ask you to provide some information about yourself for security, identification and verification purposes.
When completing any online registration forms for the webshop, we’ll tell you how your information will be used within the form and in any associated terms and conditions.
We will retain information collected about you online for as long as permitted for legitimate business purposes.
Use of Cookies
We use cookies and similar technologies on this website.
Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information, which your computer or mobile device downloads when you visit a website. When you return to websites – or visit websites that use the same cookies – they recognise these cookies and therefore your browsing device.
Like most businesses, we use cookies to do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences and generally improving your browsing experience.
If you visit our website, we will deploy these technologies to provide an online service more suited to the device you connect from.
We use cookies to:
Ensure your security and privacy when in our secure sites.
Store login details for our secure sites.
| Processor | Cookies indication | Personal data | Purpose of data processing | Legal title | Processing times |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Functional cookies / similar technology | |||||
| GS UK Laser Cutting ltd. | dcb_dsv | no | Version for consent of processing cookies. | legitimate interest | internal storage / 365 days |
| GS UK Laser Cutting ltd. | dcb_config | no | Configuration of consent of processing cookies. | legitimate interest | internal storage / 365 days |
| Google LLC – 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States | cookiePreferences | no | Registration of user’s cookie preferences. | user consent | 2 years |
| Analytical cookies / similar technology | |||||
| Google LLC – 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States | _ga | no | ID used for user identification. | user consent | 2 years |
| Google LLC – 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States | _ga_ | no | ID used for user identification. | user consent | 2 years |
| Google LLC – 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States | _gid | no | ID used for user identification after 24 hours since last activity. | user consent | 24 hours |
| Google LLC – 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States | _gat | no | Used to track the number of Google Analytics requests when using Google Tag Manager. | user consent | 1 minute |
| Google LLC – 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States | _dc_gtm_ | no | Used to track the number of Google Analytics requests. | user consent | 1 minute |
| Google LLC – 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States | AMP_TOKEN | no | Contains the token code that is used to retrieve the client ID from the AMP Client ID service. | user consent | 30 seconds to 1 year |
| Google LLC – 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States | _gat_gtag_ | no | Used to set up and retrieve tracking data. | user consent | 1 hour |
| Google LLC – 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States | _gac_ | no | Contains information related to the user’s marketing campaigns. These are shared with Google AdWords / Google Ads when the Google Ads and Google Analytics accounts are linked. | user consent | 90 days |
| Google LLC – 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States | __utma | no | ID used to identify users and sessions. | user consent | 2 years after last activity |
| Google LLC – 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States | __utmt | no | Used to track the number of Google Analytics requests. | user consent | 10 minutes |
| Google LLC – 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States | __utmb | no | Used to distinguish between new sessions and visits. This cookie is set when the GA.js javascript library is loaded and there is no existing __utmb cookie. The cookie is updated every time the data is sent to the Google Analytics server. | user consent | 30 minutes after last activity |
| Google LLC – 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States | __utmc | no | Used only with older versions of Urchin Google Analytics, not with GA.js. Used to distinguish between new sessions and end-of-session visits. | user consent | end of session (browser) |
| Google LLC – 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States | __utmz | no | Contains information about the traffic source or campaign that directed users to the site. The cookie is set when the javascript GA.js is loaded and updated when the data is sent to the Google Anaytics server. | user consent | 6 months after last activity |
| Google LLC – 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States | __utmv | no | Custom information for web developers is received through the _setCustomVar method in Google Analytics. The cookie contains new updates as well as new messages on Google Analytics. | user consent | 2 years after last activity |
| Google LLC – 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States | __utmx | no | Used to determine whether a user is included in an A/B test or a multivariate test. | user consent | 18 months |
| Google LLC – 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States | __utmxx | no | Used to determine when an A /B test or multivariate test in which a user participates ends. | user consent | 18 months |
GS UK Ltd Privacy Principles
GS UK Ltd is committed to safeguarding the privacy of your information. By ‘your information’ we mean any information about you, that you or third parties provide to us.
We will only collect and use your information where we have lawful grounds and legitimate business reasons to do so.
We will be transparent in our dealings with you and will tell you about how we will collect and use your information.
If we have collected your information for a particular purpose, we will not use it for anything else unless you have been informed and, where relevant, your permission obtained.
We will not ask for more information than we need for the purposes for which we are collecting it.
We will update our records when you inform us that your details have changed.
We will continue to review and assess the quality of our information.
We will implement and adhere to information retention policies relating to your information, and will ensure that your information is securely disposed of at the end of the appropriate retention period.
We will observe the rights granted to you under applicable privacy and data protection laws, such as GDPR, and will ensure that queries relating to privacy issues are promptly and transparently dealt with.
We will train our staff on their privacy obligations.
We will ensure we have appropriate physical and technological security measures to protect your information regardless of where it’s held.
We will ensure that when we outsource any processes, the supplier has appropriate security measures in place and will contractually require them to comply with these Privacy Principles
If you have any questions about privacy at GS UK Ltd, please contact the GS UK Ltd Privacy and Data Protection Team at: 5 Crocus Street Nottingham NG2 3DE.