Privacy Statement
This website (‘the Site’) is operated by Homethos Limited (‘we’, ‘us’ or ‘our’). Homethos Limited is a private limited company (registered in England and Wales No: 7691862). It was founded by its Executive Director Michael Hicks, a Surveyor. Our Registered Office is at Horton House, 8 Ditton Street, Ilminster TA19 0BQ.
We are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected.
The purpose of this privacy statement is to inform you about the type of information that we gather about you when you visit our Site, how we may use that information and whether we give it to anyone. It also informs you of the choices you have regarding our use of, and your ability to correct, that information. We reserve the right to change this Statement from time to time, so please check back periodically.
The Statement will explain the following:
What personally identifiable information is collected on this site?
How is it used and how long is it kept?
Changes of use of data
Security
Choice/Opt-out
Correct/Update
What anonymous information is collected on this site?
How does this site use cookies?
Links
E-mail Links
Legal Disclaimer
Data Protection Act
What personally identifiable information is collected on this site?
Visitors may supply personally identifiable information (such as name, address, email address or telephone numbers) for various purposes on this site. These purposes include requesting further information about products or simply asking us a question.
Homethos Ltd does not collect personal information from you unless you provide it to us. This means that you can visit our site without telling us who you are or revealing any personally identifiable information about yourself.
How is it used and how long is it kept?
When you supply information about yourself for a specific purpose (registering, asking for advice, making an enquiry), we use the information for that purpose only.
Our primary goal in collecting other information from you (for example by way of cookies, see below) is so that we can provide you with a smooth, efficient and customised experience. It allows us to provide services and features that most likely meet your needs, and helps us to customise our service and the Site to make your browsing experience easier.
From time to time we may also use your information to contact you for market research or to provide you with information we think would be of interest.
The legal bases we rely on to collect your personal data:
Consent
In specific situations, we will collect and process your data with your consent. For example, when you choose to receive email updates from us.
Contractual obligations
In certain circumstances, we need your personal data to comply with our contractual obligations. For example, our contracts with Homethos Panel Specialists.
Legal compliance
If the law requires us to, we may need to collect and process your data. For example, we may need to process your data in relation to anti money laundering laws.
Legitimate interests
In specific situations, we would use your data to pursue our legitimate interests in a way which might reasonably be expected as part of running our business and which does not materially impact your rights, freedoms or interests. For example, we may use your email address in connection with the Homethos Community Scheme.
How long will we keep your personal data?
Whenever we collect or process your personal data, we’ll only keep it for as long as is necessary for the purpose for which it was collected or for as long as is required of us by law or our legitimate interests.
Changes of use of data
Should any material changes be made to the ways in which we use personally identifiable information, we'll take commercially reasonable measures to obtain e-mail consent from you. We will also post the changes to our use of personally identifiable information on our Site at least 30 days prior to a change.
Security
Keeping information about you secure is very important to us. We have therefore taken various steps to put in place security measures to protect this Site from loss, misuse and alteration of information, and we store and process your personal information in accordance with the high standards required under data protection legislation.
Personally identifiable information is only accessed by employees or provided to Panel Members on a "need to know" basis.
Choice/Opt-out
If you have registered to receive e-mail communications from us and later change your mind, you may contact us to have your name removed from our distribution lists.
You have the following options to do this:
you can send an e-mail to michael@homethos.co.uk
or
you can send a letter to the following: The Data Controller, Homethos Limited, Horton House, 8 Ditton Street, Ilminster TA19 0BQ.
Correct/Update
If you would like to verify the data we have received from you or to make corrections to it, you may contact us directly at the e-mail and postal addresses provided above.
What anonymous information is collected on this site?
Anonymous information is collected for every visitor viewing this site. This includes pages viewed, date and time, and browser type. IP numbers are not stored, but are temporarily used to determine domain type and in some cases, geographic region. We do not make any association between this information and a visitor's identity.
How does this site use cookies and other data collection devices?
We automatically track information based upon your behaviour on our Site using cookies and other devices. Cookies are small files placed on your hard drive that collect information (usually anonymous information as mentioned above). They assist us in providing you with a customised service. We also offer certain features that are only available through the use of a cookie (for example, we use cookies to assist with any login procedures).
You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits, although in that case you may not be able to use certain features on our Site.
Please see our Cookie Statement at the end of this Privacy Statement
Links
This Site may contain links to other websites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you are entering another site for which we are in no way responsible. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of these linked sites as their privacy policies may differ from ours.
E-mail Links
We use e-mail links located on this site to allow you to contact us directly via e-mail. We use the information provided in your e-mail to respond to your questions or comments and to provide reviews and case studies. We may also store your comments for future reference. Your personal information is never shared with third parties without your specific consent.
Legal Disclaimer
If required by Law agencies we may disclose personal information when required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary in order to conform to the law or comply with legal process.
Data Protection Act 1998
We are registered under the Data Protection Act 1998 and have given all appropriate notifications to the Data Protection Commissioner.
Under data protection legislation you have the right to request a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. We will use reasonable efforts to supply, correct or delete personal information about you on our files.
Please address requests and questions about this to us at privacy@homethos.co.uk
For further information please see our Terms and Conditions.
This statement explains how we use cookies on Homethos Limited’s web pages (i.e. those in www.homethos.co.uk). Please see our Privacy Policy above for information about what types of personal information is collected when you visit the website, and how this information will be used.
How we use cookies
All of our web pages use "cookies". A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we place on your computer or mobile device if you agree. These cookies allow us to distinguish you from other users of our website, which helps us learn how we can improve our website to give users a better experience as they browse.
Most web browsers allow you some control of most cookies through your browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.
Specific cookies we use
Cookies may be set either by the www.homethos.co.uk website ("first party cookies"), or by a third party website ("third party cookies"). The tables below identify the cookies we use and explain the purposes for which they are used.
However, we continue to collect information about third-party cookies and the tables below are based on the work completed to date. Accordingly, we may update the information contained in this section from time to time. Additionally, some cookies may be set from time to time by feeds from third party websites that we make available on our sites.
First Party Cookies
Provider
Cookie Name
Purpose
Google Analytics
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These cookies allow us to collect anonymous information about how users are interacting with our website, which help us resolve errors and improve our site.
www.homethos.co.uk
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So we can check if you have already seen a notification on the site.
ASP.NET_SessionId
A cookie that asp.net uses to store a unique identifier for your session.
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A cookie that asp.net uses to check that you have authenticated.
Changes to our Cookie Statement
Any changes we may make to our Cookie Statement in the future will be posted on this page.
Contact
Any queries or concerns about the use of cookies on this website should be sent by email to michael@homethos.co.uk or addressed to the Data Controller, Homethos Limited, Horton House, 8 Ditton Street, Ilminster TA19 0BQ.