Privacy Policy

Welcome to Apexis Engineering’s Privacy Policy. Our company is respectful towards your privacy and is fully committed to protecting your data. This policy outlines how we use and protect the information that you give Apexis Engineering when you use our website.

Data Privacy

Apexis Engineering Ltd is the controller of data for the purposes of the data protection legislation.

We are registered for the processing activities that we undertake with the ICO under reference: ZA794227

Who does this policy apply to?

Any individual whose personal data Apexis Engineering processes, including an individual who:

• Is a customer of Apexis Engineering
• Is a supplier to Apexis Engineering
• Meets a member of the Apexis Engineering team as events, shows, networking, conferences or exhibitions
• Contacts us via our website
• Applies for a job at Apexis Engineering Ltd

What data do we collect?

If you complete a contact us form we ask you to share your:

• Name (including title, first name and last name)
• Work email address (or personal if applying for a vacancy)
• Work contact number including your mobile phone number (or personal if applying for a vacancy)
• Business address (or personal if applying for a vacancy)
• Marketing and communications data which includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences

Special category data

We do not generally collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you however if we run an event here at our business premises we may ask for your dietary or access requirements. This data will not be stored by Apexis Engineering.

How your personal data is collected

Direct interactions with you:

• You submit a contact form on our website
• You send in an email to our mailbox
• You subscribe to our newsletter
• We meet you at an industry event and swap business cards
• You complete work experience here or apply for a job (including sending us a CV)
• You send us or respond to a LinkedIn message

Automated technologies or interactions:

When you interact with our website or receive our marketing emails we may automatically collect technical data about your browsing actions and patterns. For more information on the cookies we use please see below.

Indirect actions:

• We may find your work email address or business address using readily available online tools to send you marketing materials
• We may use any identity and contact data from publicly available sources such as Companies House

How your data is used

The personal data that Apexis Engineering use is very limited to the information we need to service you as a client of the company or as a supplier to the company and is processed mainly using the contractual legal basis to perform the tasks or services we have agreed with you or as needed to meet our legal obligations.

Additionally there will be instances where we will process information using our legitimate interests including:

• Where we believe there is a legitimate interest to share information about our business services
• Record call logs on our CRM to ensure we have transparency so any member of staff can help you
• Capture and share on our social media channel (LinkedIn) or on our website any images we have taken of events
• Conduct surveys and research activities to enable us to develop our services
• We will seek your consent where needed for the processing of details in anything such as creating case studies

Marketing purposes

We undertake various marketing activities to promote our services but only where we believe it will be of interest to you and your business.

All of our marketing activities are completed as a legitimate interest including sharing our monthly newsletter to relevant parties, sharing information on our services which are already listed on our website.

We may use your data to assist us in targeted marketing for example LinkedIn advertising, sending 1:1 emails to you or mail in the post.

Any marketing we undertake is not intended to be intrusive or to cause you concern and is carefully considered to ensure in a full compliance as governed by UK data protection regulations. Whenever we issue any digital marketing we will always give you the option to opt out / unsubscribe.

Cookies

When you visit our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again. These cookies will last for one year.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about webpage traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.