We respect your privacy.
RED processes your personal data, respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with RED’s privacy policy, which applies where we are the data controller. (References to “RED”, “we” and “our” is to the companies listed below in the List of Data Controllers. Where the references are to a single entity, this will be made explicit.) Where we are processing on behalf of our clients, their privacy policy applies.
This privacy notice describes the types of personal information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit or use our website at https://www.red-eng.com/ (our “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting and disclosing that information as data controller.
This privacy notice applies to personal information we collect:
- On our Website.
- In e-mail, text or other electronic messages between you and us.
- When you subscribe to one of our communications.
- When you attend a webinar or an event hosted or sponsored by us.
- We may also collect information about you from third party sources, such as other organizations where you might receive information about us. In particular, such third party sources may include:
- Social Media (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn), when you send us instant message requests or download pieces of content about us for instance.
- Third party programs – We may run webinars and gated pieces of content which enabled us to capture your information.
It does not apply to information collected by:
- Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by RED, its affiliates and subsidiaries or through any of the services that we provide.
- Any third party, including through any application, content or advertising that may link to or be accessible from or on the Websites.
Please read this privacy notice carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. This privacy notice may change from time to time. Although we will ensure that any significant change to this privacy notice are clearly displayed on our Websites, we encourage you to check periodically for updates.
I. General Information
Information We Collect About You And How We Collect It
We collect several types of personal information about you as a user of our Websites (“Personal Information”), including information you provide to us and information we collect automatically via data collection technologies, as detailed below.
- Identity and contact details, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number.
- Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of subscribing to our newsletters, webinars or email notifications or when requesting further information or services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website.
- Records and copies of your correspondence (including e-mail addresses), if you contact us.
- Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
- Financial information such as bank account details where you are providing goods or a service.
- Photographs.
- Information that we obtain from cookies.
- Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data (including your queries) and the resources that you access to use on our Website.
- Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address and geolocation.
Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies
As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns, including:
- Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs and other communication data and the resources that you access to use on the Website.
- Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system and browser type.
We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioural tracking).
This information collected helps us to improve our Website, and to deliver a better and more personalised service, by enabling us to:
- Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
- Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customise our Website according to your individual interests.
- Speed up your searches.
- Recognise you when you return to our Website.
For more information regarding the technologies we use to automatically collect your data (including cookies) and how to manage them, please refer to our Cookie Policy.
How We Use Your Information
The data controller of our Website is Red Engineering Design Limited, whose registered office is 2 Church Street, Burnham, Buckinghamshire, SL1 7HZ (Company number 05299489). However, the data controller may vary according to the circumstances, including the services provided.
Our lawful basis of processing is generally legitimate interest (as we will have a business or commercial reason for using your personal data) but for some activities (such as marketing) it may be based on consent or legal obligation. If based on consent, you may withdraw your consent for future processing at any time by simply contacting us.
We use your information:
- To present our Website and its contents to you.
- To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us.
- To notify you about changes to our Website or any other products or services we offer or provide through it.
- To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website.
- To improve our Website and deliver a better and more personalized services to you.
- For marketing purposes as permitted by the applicable legislation.
- For statistical purposes and to monitor website usage to help us improve our website and our services.
- For purposes of managing security, risk, and crime prevention.
- For any other purpose with your consent.
We also may use technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). There is no personal impact: the purpose is solely to improve our services and Websites. You may reject the behavioral tracking. For more information regarding the technologies we use to automatically collect your data (including cookies) and how to manage them, please refer to our Cookie Notice.
Note that this privacy notice does not apply to the processing of Personal Information via our Careers page and for more information about the way we process Personal Information of job applicants, please read the Privacy Notice on our Careers page here.
Disclosure Of Your Information
We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, with third party vendors who my use it for prospecting and targeting purposes. We may disclose Personal Information that we collect, or you provide, as described in this privacy notice:
- To our subsidiaries and affiliates, some of whom may be located in a country other than yours where privacy protection may be different than those in your home country.
- To contractors, service providers and other third parties we use to support our business (for example, to support the delivery of, provide functionality on, or help to enhance the security of our Website) and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep Personal Information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
- To a potential buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganisation, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all of RED’s assets.
- To any competent law enforcement body, regulatory, government agency, court or other third party where we believe disclosure is necessary (i) as a matter of applicable law or regulation, (ii) to exercise, establish or defend our legal rights, or (iii) to protect your vital interests or those of any other person.
- To any other person with your prior consent.
Data Security
We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards in connection with the collection, storage and disclosure of Personal Information along with measures designed to secure your Personal Information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration and disclosure.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Website like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Website.
Children Under The Age Of 18
Our Website is not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any information, personal or otherwise, to or on the Website Any processing by us of the data of children under 18 years of age, for example in the context of educational visits to our offices are covered by a separate children’s privacy policy.
II. Information Addressed To Californian Users
If you are a resident of California, the following additionally applies to you.
Your California Privacy Rights
We allow third parties through automated technologies to collect information related to the use of our websites for analytics purposes. At this moment, we do not have actual knowledge of any sale or sharing of personal information to third parties for their advertising purposes. If your browser is sending ”do not track” signals, we do not interact with them in any way.
In addition, we do not have actual knowledge that we sell or share the personal information of minors under 16 years of age.
California residents have certain rights regarding their personal information (subject to certain exemptions or other limitations under applicable laws). These include:
- Access – the right to request, twice in a 12-month period, disclosure of the personal information collected, used, and disclosed about you, the categories of sources from which the personal information is collected, the categories of third parties with whom the data has been shared and the specific pieces of personal information collected.
- Correction – the right to request correction of inaccurate personal information.
- Deletion – the right to request the deletion of certain personal information collected from you, subject to certain exceptions.
- Limit Use and Disclosure - the right to request limited use and disclosure of sensitive personal information collected about you to the extent required by applicable law.
- Shine the Light Request – the right to request that you be provided with a list of certain personal information that has been disclosed to third parties for their direct marketing purposes during the immediately preceding calendar year and the identity of those third parties.
The collection of geolocation data constitutes sensitive personal information.
III. Information Addressed To European Users
If you are based in Europe, the following sections will additionally apply to you.
Legal Grounds For Processing
Our legal basis for collecting and using the Personal Information described above will depend on the personal information concerned and the specific context in which we collect it. Our lawful basis of processing is generally legitimate interest (we have a business or commercial reason for using your personal data) but for some activities (such as marketing), it may be based on consent or legal obligation. If based on consent, you may withdraw your consent for future processing at any time by simply contacting us.
If you have questions about or need further information concerning the legal basis on which we collect and use your personal information, please contact us by using the contact details provided below.
Data Retention
We retain your Personal Information no longer than is necessary and relevant for our operations. In addition, we may retain Personal Information to comply with national laws, prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, and take other actions permitted or required by applicable national laws (e.g. to comply with applicable legal, tax or accounting requirements).
When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your Personal Information, we will either delete or anonymise it.
Transfer Of Personal Information Outside The UK/EU/EEA
We may transfer your Personal Information to, and process it in, countries other than the country in which you are resident, which are located outside the UK, the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA). These countries may have data protection laws that are different to the laws of your home country.
Specifically, and our group companies and third party service providers and partners operate around the world. This means that when we collect your Personal Information we may process it in any of these countries.
Except where your Personal Information is transferred to third countries outside the UK/EU/EEA that have been officially recognised by the European Commission as countries that provide an adequate level of protection, in all other cases, we have taken appropriate safeguards to ensure that when your Personal Information is transferred to group companies or third parties outside the UK/EU/EEA, your Personal Information will remain protected in accordance with this privacy notice. Such safeguards may include transferring the data to a company in the United States that has certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework or with whom we have signed the EU Standard Contractual Clauses or that has Binding Corporate Rules that were approved by the European Data Protection Board, or any other valid legal mechanism for lawfully transferring Personal Information outside the UK/EU/EEA in accordance with the GDPR.
For further information concerning the safeguards we have put in place, please contact us as indicated in the section "Contact Information" below.
Use Of Personal Information For Marketing
Based on the consent provided by you in a manner consistent with applicable regulations and on this privacy notice, we may use your Personal Information to:
- tell you about our websites, applications, services and tools.
- deliver targeted marketing and promotional offers based on your communication preferences.
We do not sell or rent your Personal Information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent. We may combine your Personal Information with information we collect from other sources and use it to improve and personalize our advertising and marketing to you.
You have the right to opt-out of marketing communications we send you at any time. You can exercise this right by clicking on the “unsubscribe” or “opt-out” link in the marketing e-mails we send you. To opt-out of other forms of marketing (such as postal marketing or telemarketing), then please contact us using the contact details provided below.
Your Data Protection Rights
You have the following data protection rights:
- If you wish to access, correct, update or request deletion of your Personal Information, you can do so at any time by contacting us using the contact details at the bottom of this privacy notice.
- In addition, in certain circumstances, as stipulated in the applicable data protection legislation, you can object to processing of your Personal Information, ask us to restrict processing of your Personal Information or request portability of your Personal Information. Again, you can exercise these rights by contacting us using the contact details at the bottom of this privacy notice.
- If we have collected and process your Personal Information with your consent, then you can withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your Personal Information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
- If you have a complaint or concern about how we are processing your Personal Information then we will endeavour to address such concern(s). If you feel we have not sufficiently addressed your complaint or concern, you may have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your Personal Information. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority.
We respond to all requests we receive from individuals wishing to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
We do not process Special Category Personal Data (also known as sensitive personal data.)
IV – Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this privacy notice and our privacy practices or to exercise your rights, contact us at privacy@red-eng.com.
Last Updated 07/03/2024
