Privacy Policy

 

This Privacy Notice (the “notice”) sets out how we, PGC, process the personal data of individuals (each a “User”, “you”, “your”) who contact us or who use our websites, services, programs, content and related features (collectively, the “Services”) or who visit us at trade shows, events or at our premises.

If you have any questions about this Notice, please contact us by email at customerservice@pgcwirecable.com. If you wish to contact us, please refer to our Contact page for details.

This notice, together with our Conditions of Use and any other documents referred to in these documents, set out our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. Please read these documents carefully. By visiting our website or using our Services, you acknowledge the processing described in this Notice, our Conditions of Use and related documents.

Our Services are not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect, use or disclose personal data from or about visitors under 13 years of age. If you are under the age of 18, you must obtain the consent of your parent or guardian to use our Services and to provide us with your personal data.

This version of our privacy notice was published in AUGUST 2018.

What is personal data?

“Personal data” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, known as ‘data subject’, who can be identified directly or indirectly; it may include name, address, email address, phone number, IP address, location data, cookies, call recording and similar information. It may also include “special categories of personal data” such as racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, and the processing of genetic data, biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a data subject, data concerning health or data concerning a natural person’s sex life or sexual orientation.

What personal data do we process?

We may process the following personal data:

  • Information provided by you.
    You may give us information about you by filling in forms such as the contact form on our website, subscribing to Services, requesting a quote, responding to a promotional campaign, responding to a survey, making applications in respect of job postings, uploading information, corresponding with us by e-mail, phone or otherwise. This information may include your name, email address, billing address, shipping address, phone number, position and place of employment, payment information, the content of any email you send to us and similar information.
  • Information about others:  You may also provide to us personal data relating to third parties, such as people who you work with, the person who pays for your orders, your friend if you use our referral service to tell a friend about our products, services or promotions, and other individuals.
  • Information about your device:   With regard to each of your visits to our website we may collect technical information about your device such as IP address, operating system, browser, time zone setting, the Internet address of the website from which you linked directly to our website, URL clickstream data, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page.

We use Google Universal Analytics to recognize you and link the devices you use when you visit our site on your browser or mobile device, or otherwise engage with us. We share a unique identifier, like a user ID or hashed email address, with Google Universal Analytics to facilitate the service. Google Analytics allows us to better understand how our users interact with our site and to tailor our advertisements and content to you. For information on how Google Analytics collects and processes data, as well as how you can control information sent to Google, review Google’s site “How Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps” at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. You can learn about Google Analytics’ currently available opt-outs, including the Google Analytics Browser Ad-On here tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.

We may also utilize certain forms of display advertising and other advanced features through Google and Bing, such as Remarketing with Google Analytics, Google Display Network Impression Reporting, Google Ads, Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting, and Bing Ads. These features enable us to use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies together to inform, optimize, and display ads based on your past visits to the site. You may control your advertising preferences or opt-out of certain Google advertising products by visiting the Google Ads Preferences Manager, currently available at adssettings.google.com or by vising NAI’s online resources at optout.networkadvertising.org.

Information from third party sources:   This may include information received from credit reference agencies, shipping companies, our service providers and other third parties.

Generally, you are under no obligation to provide this information, but without it, we may be unable to provide you with some of our Services. Some personal data will be mandatory in order for us to comply with mandatory client due diligence processes before we are able to provide the Services.

Information about third parties should only be provided if you have demonstrable permission to do so or if the information is available in the public domain.

We will rely on the information provided by you as accurate, complete and up to date and you agree to ensure that this will be the case.

How do we use your personal data?

We will only process personal data, in accordance with applicable law, for the following purposes:

  1. responding to your queries, requests and other communications;
  2. providing the Services including our website and related features, sale of products and services, subscriptions and other Services;
  3. enabling suppliers and service providers to carry out certain functions on our behalf in order to provide the Services, including webhosting, data storage, identity verification, technical, logistical and other functions, as applicable;
  4. allowing you to use features on our website, when you choose to do so;
  5. sending you personalized marketing communications as permitted by law or as requested by you. You have the right to unsubscribe by email to customerservice@pgcwirecable.com;
  6. serving personalized advertising to your devices, based on your interests in accordance with our Cookie Statement below. You have the right to disable cookies as set out below;
  7. publishing marketing materials, such as User testimonials. If you wish to make the request that your testimonial be removed you may contact us at customerservice@pgcwirecable.com;
  8. connecting you to third party features, such as social media. Our Websites may include social media features, such as the Facebook “Like” button, or other functionality, such as the “share this” button. These features may collect your IP address or the page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy statement of the company providing them;
  9. contacting third parties, such as sending a friend referred by you a one-time invitation;
  10. ensuring the security of our business and preventing and detecting fraud;
  11. administering our business, including complaints resolution, troubleshooting of our website, data analysis, quality control, staff training, testing of new features, research, statistical and survey purposes;
  12. developing and improving our Services; and
  13. complying with applicable law, including in response to a lawful request from a court or regulatory body.

The legal basis for our processing of personal data for the purposes described above will typically include:

  • processing necessary to fulfill a contract that we have in place with you or other data subjects, such as processing for the purposes set out in paragraphs a), b), c), d) and j);
  • your consent, such as processing for the purposes set out in paragraphs e), f), g), h) and j);
  • processing necessary for our or a third party’s legitimate interests, such as processing for the purposes set out in paragraphs a), b), c), d), g), i), j),k), l) and m), which is carried out on the basis of our legitimate interests to ensure that Services are properly provided, ensure the security of our business and our Users and for the proper administration and development of our business;
  •  processing necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, such as processing for the purposes set out in paragraph n); and
  •  other applicable legal grounds.