This is the Privacy Policy (the “Policy“) of Scintilla Systems Limited, a limited liability company registered in England and Wales, with a registered company number of 11498262 and a registered address at The Innovation Centre, Sci-Tech Daresbury, Keckwick Lane, Warrington, WA4 4FS (hereafter “Scintilla“, “we” or “us”). This Policy describes the ways in which Scintilla collects and uses information about you when you visit our website at www.scintilla.systems (the “Website“) or ask us to provide services to you (subject to us agreeing and entering into a service agreement in relation to such services) (the “Services“).

Scintilla may change this Policy at any time, in which case we shall notify you of any changes to this Policy. The changes will apply to your use of the Website and/or our Services (as applicable) after we have given notice. If you do not wish to accept the new Policy, you should not continue to use the Website and/or our Services (as applicable). If you continue to use the Website and/or our Services (as applicable) after the date on which the change comes into effect, your use of the Website and/or our Services (as applicable) indicates your agreement to be bound by the new Policy.

For the purposes of data protection legislation, Scintilla is the controller for the processing of your personal data.

This Policy was issued in April 2024.

SECTION A – Your use of the Website

• Information which is collected when you use the Website: Scintilla may collect the following information from you via the Website if you choose to contact us via the Website, namely your name and e-mail address and details of your particular query, together with any other contact details that you may choose to provide to us such as your phone number, mobile number and address. We also collect information through our use of cookies as described in our cookies policy (Click here for Cookies Policy)

• Processing ground: Scintilla relies on the contractual necessity processing ground to collect the items of information listed in 1 above where you choose to contact us via the Website, as this information is required in order for Scintilla to answer your particular query. Scintilla relies on legitimate interests in order to place and collect the information in relation to its cookies as these cookies are either essential cookies or cookies placed by Google Analytics and hence do not impose a level of intrusiveness or risk of harm to you that could be considered to outweigh your rights and freedoms as a data subject.

• How the information about you on the Website is used: The information about you described in paragraph 1 is used by Scintilla to answer your particular query. The information collected through our use of cookies is collected for the purposes set out in our cookies policy.

SECTION B – Your use of any of our Services

• Information which is collected when you receive any of our Services: Scintilla may collect the following information when you choose to have us provide Services to you:

• Information we require in order to engage you as our client, including a contact name, e-mail address, telephone number and address, together with any other details that we may require as part of our contracting process.

• Information we require from you in order to provide our Services.

• Processing ground: Scintilla relies on the contractual necessity to collect the items of information noted in 4 above because this information is required in order to provide our Services to you.

• How the information about you provided in connection with our Services is used: The information about you described in paragraph 4 may be used by Scintilla as follows:

• to enable Scintilla to provide its Services to you.

• to prevent fraud or illegal activities.

• to use such information in anonymised form for its own research and marketing purposes; namely, to improve the way in which its Services are operated and run.

• to share with third parties as described in paragraph 7 below.

SECTION C – General

• Sharing information with third parties: Scintilla shall not pass your information to any third party (other than as described in this paragraph). Your information may, subject to Scintilla’s obligations to comply with applicable data protection legislation, be shared with the following third parties:

• In relation to Scintilla’s storing of information used to perform its Services; Scintilla uses exclusively its own data storage operations which are based on Microsoft Azure hosting systems

• having taken precautions to maintain the security of such information, Scintilla may share this information with any regulatory body.

• in anonymised form, Scintilla may share the information with: (i) any third party, in relation to the sale of some or all of Scintilla’s business, or its assets, or as part of any business restructuring or reorganisation. Scintilla will take steps with the aim of ensuring that your rights continue to be protected if your personal data is transferred in accordance with this paragraph; (ii) law enforcement agencies in compliance with law enforcement.

• Links to third-party websites and third-party adverts: Scintilla is not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other sites even if you access them using links from the Website. You should check the policy of each site you visit and contact its owner or operator if you have any concerns or questions. In addition, if you link to the Website from a third-party site or via a social network (e.g. Twitter), Scintilla is not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of the owners or operators of that third-party site and recommends that you check the policy of that third party site and contact its owner or operator if you have any concerns or questions.

• Security: Scintilla has implemented technology and policies to safeguard your privacy from unauthorised access and improper use.

• Storage and Data Retention: Your information is stored by us, via our third-party storage provider, in the EEA. Our other third-party partners may store data outside the EEA and we have appropriate contracts in place to ensure the adequacy of such transfer. You can ask for your information to be removed at any time by e-mailing us at enquiries@scintillas.systems. We store your information for so long as we consider it reasonably necessary to do so and in accordance with our own internal data protection policy.

SECTION D – Contact and your rights

• Scintilla Contact Details: If at any time, you would like to contact Scintilla you can do so by sending an e-mail to us at enquiries@scintillas.systems or write to us at: Data Protection Query, Scintilla Systems Limited, The Innovation Centre, Sci-Tech Daresbury, Keckwick Lane, Warrington, WA4 4FS. This is Scintilla’s registered address and we are a company incorporated in England and Wales with company number 11498262.

• Your Rights: You can contact us using the details set out in the paragraph above if you wish to:

• access a copy of the personal data that we hold about you;

• correct any items of personal data that we hold about you; and/or

• have any items of personal data that we hold about you erased or object to our processing of such items of personal data. You may also contact the ICO at any time.

COOKIE POLICY – SCINTILLA SYSTEMS LIMITED

This Cookie Policy was prepared on 2nd April 2024 and applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of the United Kingdom.

1. Introduction

Our website, https://www.scintilla.systems (hereinafter: the “website”) uses cookies and other related technologies (for convenience all technologies are referred to as “cookies”). Cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged. In the document below we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.

2. What are cookies?

A cookie is a small simple file that is sent along with pages of this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or another device. The information stored therein may be returned to our servers or to the servers of the relevant third parties during a subsequent visit.

3. What are scripts?

A script is a piece of programme code that is used to make our website function properly and interactively. This code is executed on our server or on your device.

4. What is a web beacon?

A web beacon (or a pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to monitor traffic on a website. In order to do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.

5. Cookies

5.1 Technical or functional cookies

Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting our website. We may place these cookies without your consent.

5.2 Statistics cookies

We use statistics cookies to optimise the website experience for our users. With these statistics cookies we get insights in the usage of our website. We ask your permission to place statistics cookies.

5.3 Marketing/Tracking cookies

Marketing/Tracking cookies are cookies or any other form of local storage, used to create user profiles to display advertising or to track the user on this website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.

6. Placed cookies

Google Fonts

Marketing/Tracking

Miscellaneous

Purpose pending investigation

7. Consent

When you visit our website for the first time, we will show you a pop-up with an explanation about cookies. As soon as you click on “All cookies”, you consent to us using all cookies and plug-ins as described in the pop-up and this Cookie Policy. You can disable the use of cookies via your browser, but please note that our website may no longer work properly.

8. Your rights with respect to personal data

You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:

• You have the right to know why your personal data is needed, what will happen to it, and how long it will be retained for.

• Right of access: You have the right to access your personal data that is known to us.

• Right to rectification: you have the right to supplement, correct, have deleted or blocked your personal data whenever you wish.

• If you give us your consent to process your data, you have the right to revoke that consent and to have your personal data deleted.

• Right to transfer your data: you have the right to request all your personal data from the controller and transfer it in its entirety to another controller.

• Right to object: you may object to the processing of your data. We comply with this, unless there are justified grounds for processing.

To exercise these rights, please contact us. Please refer to the contact details at the bottom of this Cookie Policy. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you, but you also have the right to submit a complaint to the supervisory authority (the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)).

9. Enabling/disabling and deleting cookies

You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed. For more information about these options, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser.

Please note that our website may not work properly if all cookies are disabled. If you do delete the cookies in your browser, they will be placed again after your consent when you visit our websites again.

10. Contact details

For questions and/or comments about our Cookie Policy and this statement, please contact us by using the following contact details:

Scintilla Systems Limited,
The Innovation Centre,
Sci-Tech Daresbury,
Keckwick Lane,
Warrington,
WA4 4FS,
United Kingdom

Website: https://scintilla.systems

Email: enquiries@scintilla.systems

This Cookie Policy was synchronised with cookiedatabase.org on 2nd April 2024.