Privacy Policy

This privacy policy explains how we collect, store and use any personal information you give to us through this website including with whom we intend to share this information and whether the information will be transferred outside of the European Economic Area.

Please read the privacy policy carefully. If you do not agree with it, please do not provide to us any personal information.

We may revise this policy from time to time so please check it each time you use our website.

1. About us

We are Scrap Tyre Exchange Ltd Limited, a limited company registered in England and Wales under company registration number 6340289 and with our registered office at Suite 1.1 Howard House Commercial Centre, Howard St, North Shields, Tyne & Wear, NE30 1AR.

If you have any queries about the information we hold on you, please contact our Data Protection Officer, by writing to Suite 1.1 Howard House Commercial Centre, Howard St, North Shields, Tyne & Wear, NE30 1AR or by e-mailing info@scraptyreexchange.com or by telephoning 0191-257-4600.

2. What information do we collect?

We collect any details you submit through this website and any other information you give us subsequently if you want us to contact you. We also collect information that our funders require.

We do keep a record of traffic data which is logged automatically by our server, such as your IP address, logs of referrals into the website, details of any documents opened on our website and also use of any links to member websites, but not in a way that identifies any individual.

We do not use cookies or "spyware", that is web bugs or hidden identifiers or other similar devices to gain access to information, store hidden information or to trace activities of users.

3. How do we use the information we collect from you?

We will use the personal information we collect from you to provide any services that you have requested us to provide to you including, where appropriate to contact you, and unless you have indicated otherwise, to send you by post or email any information that you may have requested or which we consider may be of interest to you.

We also use the information collected from you to help us to develop and improve our services and activities.

We may also send you details of similar services that we think would be of interest to you.

If you wish to be removed from our mailing list then please write to us at the above address or by email at: info@scraptyreexchange.com.

4. Sharing

We will not share your information with any other organisation except in the following circumstances.

  • we will share your information with another organisation to whom we transfer, or are in discussions to transfer, our rights and obligations under any agreement we have with you;
  • we may share your information with another organisation which buys our company or our assets, or with another organisation from whom we acquire a company or business, and in the course of any preceeding negotiations with that organisation, which may or may not lead to a sale;
  • we will share your information with our funders and with our professional advisers who have a reasonable need to see it;
  • we will give third party providers who supply services to us or who process information on our behalf incidental access to your information;
  • we will disclose your information to enforcement authorities if asked to do so, or to a third party in the context of actual or threatened legal proceedings or if otherwise required to do so by law.
  • We will not transfer your personal information outside the EEA. The EEA comprises certain countries within Europe (including the EU) which have similar laws on data protection. Other countries outside the EEA may not give the same level of protection to your information.

5. How we ensure privacy is maintained

We will keep your information secure by taking appropriate technical and organisational measures against its unauthorised or unlawful processing and against its accidental loss, destruction or damage.

We will keep your information at least for the duration of any ongoing relationship we have with you, or until you ask us to remove and longer than this if we are required to do so by contractual obligation or by law or we are advised to do so by our professional advisers.

You have a statutory right to see a copy of the information we hold about you on payment of a fee, which is currently £10.

Further information about data protection issues including the online Register of Data Controllers can be found at http://www.dataprotection.gov.uk

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