Introduction

At Lithography Equipment Support Ltd, your privacy is important to us. We ask that you read this Privacy notice carefully as it contains important information about what to expect when we collect personal data about you and how we will use your personal data.

Lithography Equipment Support Ltd, hereinafter referred to as "LES" is registered as a Data Controller with the UK Information Commissioners Office, registration number: A8471232

We operate as a data controller when managing personal data that relates to our prospects, suppliers and employees and as a data processor when managing personal data on behalf of our customers. We may process your personal data in order to provide the services as contracted and for other related activities fit to purpose.

This policy applies to information we collect about:

  • Visitors to our website

  • Our customers

  • Prospective customers

  • Professional contacts and suppliers of services to us or our customers

  • Current and Ex-Employees

  • Potential employees

  • Complainants, correspondents and enquirers


If you have any questions about data protection at LES, please contact us at info@LithoSupport.com

The information we collect about you

When you do business with us, become a customer or supplier, or subscribe to our newsletters, register an interest in any of our services, work for us or apply for job vacancies with us we collect some or all of the following personal information from you:

In order to fulfill our contractual commitments, we hold your personal data under the legal basis of Legitimate Interest. The personal data we may hold for our customers may include:

  • Name

  • Address

  • Contact details including email, telephone, mobile number

  • Bank details (for sole trader suppliers for accounting and payment purposes)

  • If you visit LES website, we use Cookies to provide you a better experience. We use cookies to compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. You may accept the use of these cookies or alternatively, change your browser settings to block the use of cookies for this website, or for all the websites you visit. For detailed information on cookies and how we use them please refer to our detailed Cookie Policy.

  • We may record IP addresses (internet protocol addresses) of our website visitors for administration purposes. The IP address indicates the location of your computer on the Internet. This information may be used to provide statistical information about the users of our site. No individual user is identifiable from such information. Its purpose is to try to ensure that our site reflects the needs of our users. IP addresses may be used to track your session in Google Analytics etc.

  • Use of Sites by Minors - The Site is directed to individuals who are permitted to share their personal information without parental consent and we request that other individuals (including individuals under the age of 13) not provide Personal Information through the website.

  • LES do not collect personal data directly from consumers.  We may hold your personal data on behalf of our customers, under contract, in order to fulfill our contractual commitments.  In these cases, we only process personal data as instructed by our customer, the data controller. This data may be held for up to 8 years after the end of our contract.

  • For prospective B2B customers our basis for processing is legitimate interest and where we hold any personal data on individuals, sole traders or partnerships it will be based on consent.

  • We may also receive information about you if you use any of the other websites we operate or the other services we provide. In this case we will have informed you when we collected that data that it may be shared internally.

  • We do not collect sensitive information except where legally required as part of the recruitment process.

How we may collect information?

We may collect your personal information in a variety of ways, including:

  • While working / delivering projects together

  • Website

  • Social Media

  • Trade Fair & Exhibitions

  • Networking

  • Referral

Retention Period

We will retain your Personal data for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in the Privacy Notice unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.

For customers, we maintain and keep your job files including any relevant communication for another 8 years after the job completion date for auditing purposes.

How we will use the information about you

We gather this information to allow us to:

  • Maintain our records for administrative, accounting and marketing purposes.

  • To respond to your enquiries and provide the contracted services.

  • To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into by you and us.

  • To process your payments, have your order delivered to you, communicate with you regarding your purchase.

  • To provide you with updates and announcements concerning our products and services and notify regarding any changes or terms to our services.

  • Seek your views or comments on the services we provide to improve the quality of our services including quality calls or other similar methods.

  • Periodic emails including communications which you have requested and that may be of interest to you.

  • Use re-marketing across trusted websites, including Google AdWords serving relevant adverts to you on social media channels, including; Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn (refer to our Cookies Policy).

  • Where necessary to verify your identity.


Access to your information, updating and correcting your information

You have a right to request to view, correct, delete or otherwise modify any of the personal data you have provided to us.

If you have questions regarding the processing of your personal data or if any of the information that you have provided us changes, for example, if you change your email address or name, please let us know the correct details by sending an email to info@LithoSupport.com.

We are also available to help with information requests, take suggestions or handle complaints and can be contacted via email at info@LithoSupport.com.

We want to ensure that your personal information is accurate and up to date. You may ask us, or we may ask you, to correct information you or we think is inaccurate, and you may also ask us to remove information which is inaccurate.


Who we share your information with

We do not share, sell, trade, transfer or otherwise disseminate your personal data to third parties and will not do so in future, unless required by law or defined in a contract with our customers. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety.

This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We will only share information with third parties where necessary to conduct the services we provide. We share information with the following categories of firms:

  • Data controllers (under contract)

  • Business and professional advisers

  • Data processors

  • Legal and regulatory authorities

  • Government & local authorities (if required by law)

 

How we protect your information

We have put in place various security measures, both technical and organisational, to protect your personal data from loss, misuse, alternation or destruction. We follow our security procedures and apply suitable technical measures, such as encryption where appropriate, to protect your information. Our security and privacy policies are regularly reviewed.

All LES employees have agreed to a confidentiality clause within their contract of employment and only authorised persons will have access to your personal data.


Consent

You have a choice about whether or not you wish to receive information from us. If you do not want to receive direct marketing communications from us about our services, then you can use the unsubscribe link located at the bottom of each email newsletter or contact us to be removed.

We will not contact you for marketing purposes by email, phone or text, unless we have obtained your consent in the appropriate way or we are using Legitimate Interest as the basis for processing. You may change your marketing preferences at any time by contacting us by email: info@LithoSupport.com.

You may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting info@LithoSupport.com  If you unsubscribe from our newsletter we may retain minimal data to ensure you do not receive future email communications.


Overseas transfers

The information you provide may be transferred to countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA) that do not have similar protections in place regarding your data and restrictions on its use as set out in this policy. However, we will take steps to ensure adequate protections are in place to ensure the security of your information.


Changes to Privacy Policy

We keep our Privacy Policy under regular review. If we change our Privacy Policy we will post the changes on this page, and place notices on other pages of the website, so that you may be aware of the information we collect and how we use it at all times.


Contacting Us

If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy you may contact us using the information below.

Lithography Equipment Support Ltd

15 Hazel Heights

Ashford

Kent TN25 4GF

United Kingdom

 

Email: info@LithoSupport.com