Privacy Policy

This privacy policy sets out how Carrington Textiles uses and protects any information that you give Carrington Textiles when you use this website. Carrington Textiles 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. Carrington Textiles may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 01 April 2018.

Contacting us about your data we hold or our privacy policy
If you want to contact us to discuss how we use or manage your data please email us at info@carrington.co.uk or write to us at:

Registered office address:
Carrington Textiles
Market Street
Adlington nr Chorley
Lancashire
PR7 4HJ

Registered in England: 4309959
VAT Number: 787439176

What we collect:
We may collect the following information:

Name and job title
Contact information including email address
Demographic information
Other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers

Carrington Consent Form
By entering your data in our Consent Form you authorise us to hold it securely. This means we know who you are, what your requirements are and use it to send out promotional materials in the future.

What we do with the information we gather?
We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

Internal record keeping

We may use the information to improve our products and services.
We may periodically send promotional emails about information we think you may find interesting using the email address you have provided.
From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes
We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail
We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests

Who is collecting it?
The data is being collected by Carrington Textiles and its employees and stored only on secure and licenced company software or platforms.

How is it collected?
Data is collected from a range of sources and uploaded onto our licenced company software or platforms.

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.

How we use cookies
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

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.

Use of Tracking Technologies

In addition to cookies, we use various tracking technologies to enhance user experience, analyse site usage, and assist in our marketing efforts. These technologies include Facebook Pixel and the LinkedIn Insight Tag.

Facebook Pixel

We utilise the Facebook Pixel to understand the effectiveness of our advertising by tracking user actions on our website. This tool enables us to:

Measure the performance of our ads.
Optimise and build targeted advertisements based on your activities on our website.
Collect data including pages visited and actions taken on the site, which may be linked to your personal Facebook account if you are logged in while visiting.

To learn more about how Facebook handles your data and how you can manage your privacy settings, please visit Facebook’s data policy. If you wish to opt-out of this tracking, you may do so through your Facebook account settings.

LinkedIn Insight Tag

Our website also employs the LinkedIn Insight Tag to collect data about our website’s visitors, which assists us in collecting valuable analytics about our users. This tag enables us:

To gather insights such as IP address information and page view events.
To track conversions, retarget website visitors, and gain additional insights about members interacting with our LinkedIn adverts.

The data collected is encrypted and anonymised within seven days, and the anonymised data is deleted within 180 days. LinkedIn members can manage the use of their personal data for advertising purposes through their LinkedIn account settings. For more information, please see LinkedIn's privacy policy.

Your Rights and Choices

As detailed in our privacy policy, you have various rights and choices regarding the data we collect and how it is used. This includes our use of tracking technologies like Facebook Pixel and LinkedIn Insight Tag. You have the right to:

Opt out of data collection by adjusting your settings on Facebook and LinkedIn as mentioned above.
Access, correct, and request erasure of any personal information we hold about you.

For any additional questions or concerns about our use of tracking technologies or if you would like to exercise your rights, please contact us at info@carrington.co.uk.

Controlling your personal information
You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

Whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes
If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at info@carrington.co.uk
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. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.
You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. A small fee will be payable.
If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to - Carrington Textiles, Market Street, Adlington nr Chorley, Lancashire PR7 4HJ

Your rights
We take your rights very seriously and will adhere to the following:

Your right to be informed of use of data
Your right of access to your data
Your right of rectification of data
Your right to erasure of data and be forgotten
Your right to restrict our processing of your data
Your right for your data to be portable
Your right to object at the use of your data
Your rights relating to automated decision making and profiling