Privacy Policy

 

At Charlie Engineering your privacy is our utmost concern. Please read through our Privacy Policy carefully.

 

We do not gather or process any personal data at all, save for the Contact Form on our site whose only aim is to provide a way for you to contact us.

 

In the Contact Form minimal data is required (name and email) and this only for the purpose of communication. We do not send mailshots or promotional material of any kind.

 

At Charlie Engineering we do not share or sell your information to anyone in any way.

 

Charlie Engineering reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time, as long as it still conforms to the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

 

Your rights under the GDPR

The rights of an EU resident under the GDPR, and how you can exercise those rights are:

  • Right of access: You can ask us what personal data is being used, how, why and where.
  • Right to rectification: If you want to change any of the data we retain on you, you may do so at any time.
  • Right to be forgotten: If you wish us to delete all data pertinent to you, we will permanently remove it within five (5) working days or at the earliest possible opportunity.
  • Right to restrict processing: If you believe your personal data is inaccurate or collected unlawfully, you may request limited use of your personal data.
  • Right of portability: We provide you with the ability to move any of your personal data to a third party at any time.
  • Right to object: You have the right to let us know if you do not wish your personal data to be processed in any way.
  • Right to complain to relevant authorities: If you feel that any of your rights have been violated, you have the right to complain to the Information and Data Protection Commissioner.

 

Information and Data Protection Commissioner (IDPC)

Click here for the IDPC’s website and contact information.

 

Should you wish to contact us about our Privacy Policy and your rights, you can click here to visit our contact page.

 

Cookies In Use on This Site

Cookies and how they Benefit You

Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites.

 

Our cookies help us:

  • Make our website work as you’d expect
  • Remember your settings during and between visits
  • Improve the speed/security of the site
  • Continuously improve our website for you

 

We do not use cookies to:

  • Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
  • Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
  • Pass data to advertising networks
  • Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
  • Pay sales commissions

 

You can learn more about all the cookies we use below.

 

Granting us permission to use cookies

If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.

 

More about our Cookies

Website Function Cookies

 

Our own cookies

We use cookies to make our website work including:

  • Remembering your search settings

There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.

 

Third party functions

Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. Our site includes the following which use cookies:

  • Embedded YouTube videos
  • Embedded Google Maps

Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties.

 

Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies

We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called “analytics” programs also tell us if , on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.

We use: Google Analytics

 

Turning Cookies Off

You can switch cookies off by clicking on the ‘Privacy & Cookies Policy’ tab at the bottom of our website and selecting the ‘Reject’ button. Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of our’s and a large proportion of the world’s websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites. You can re-enable the cookies any time you want by clicking on the ‘Accept’ button in the same tab.

It may be that you concerns around cookies relate to so called “spyware”. Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive. Learn more about managing cookies with antispyware software.