The information in this privacy policy relates to Alsford Timber Ltd.

Data Protection Act 1998
Alsford Timber is registered under the Data Protection Act 1998. We aim to abide by the eight principles of the Data Protection Act at all times.

Collection of Personal Data
Alsford Timber only requires you to provide us with the personal information necessary for us to complete a specific task, for example, when you place an order we require you to provide us with sufficient personal information so that we may process your order, despatch it to you and also so that we may contact you in the event of a problem. You can provide us with additional information but that is your free choice.

Use of your information and your preferences
We will use your information to provide and personalise our service. We will use your contact details to communicate with you. We may use your information to send you offers and news about the products and services of Alsford Timber. Whenever you provide Alsford Timber with your personal information you can choose not to be included in such mailings.

Please note that there may be instances where it may be necessary for us to communicate with you, in any event, for administrative or operational reasons relating to our service.

Disclosures of your information
Your personal information may be passed and used by Alsford Timber. At each point where you enter personal information you are given the option to say that you do not wish for this to happen. Alsford Timber will not divulge your personal information to any third party.

Other Websites
Our website may contain links to other websites which are outside our control and are not covered by this privacy policy. If you access other sites using the links provided, the operators of these sites may collect information from you which will be used by them in accordance with their privacy policy.

Use of Cookies
At present Alsford Timber does not use cookies on it’s website.

Website tracking
Whenever you visit our website our web server automatically records the IP address you are connecting to us from and each page you visit. It also records information including any previous website you were on and followed a link to this site and your operating system and web browser type. This information is not linked to any personal information we hold about you.

Privacy of personal data
We aim to protect the security of your personal data at all times. We try to accomplish this by using a combination of methods including, but not limited to:

• Each time your personal information is displayed on the screen you must be within a session in which you have provided your password.
• Whenever your personal information is exchanged between your web browser and our web server we use the maximum encryption currently available - this is currently 128 bit SSL (secure sockets layer) encryption. This makes it extremely difficult for someone to intercept and read the information being passed between your web browser and our web server.