Privacy Policy
This privacy policy is for this website [www.theinnovationhut.com] served by The Innovation Hut Ltd and manages the privacy of its users who choose to use it.
The policy sets out the specific areas where user privacy is concerned and outlines the obligations & requirements of the users, the website and the website owners. Furthermore, the way this website processes, stores and protects user data and information will also be detailed within this policy.
THE INNOVATION HUT WEBSITE
This website and its owners take a proactive approach to user privacy and ensure the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its users throughout their visiting experience. This website adheres to UK national laws and requirements for user privacy.
OUR COOKIE POLICY
This website uses cookies to better the user’s experience while visiting the website. Where applicable, this website uses a cookie control system allowing the user on their first visit to the website to allow or disallow the use of cookies on their computer/device. This complies with recent legislation requirements for websites to obtain explicit consent from users before leaving behind or reading files such as cookies on a user’s computer/device.
The website uses Google Analytics and its associated cookies. These cookies are used to store information, such as when and what time your current visit occurred, if this is your first visit or if you have been to the site before, and what site referred you to the web page.
These cookies contain no personally identifiable information, but they will use your computer’s IP address to know from where in the world you are accessing the Internet.
Google stores the information collected by these cookies on servers in the United States. Google may transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf.
This website uses Hub Spot cookies to provide the interactive chat facility.
HOW TO OPT-OUT
To give website visitors more control over how data is collected by Google Analytics, Google has developed the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. The add-on communicates with Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js) to stop data from being sent to Google Analytics. The Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on does not affect website usage in any other way. A link to further information on the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on is provided below for your convenience.
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=None
For more information on the usage of cookies by Google Analytics, please visit the Google website. A link to the privacy advice for the opt-out product is provided for you below.
http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html
DISABLING THE COOKIES
If you wish to restrict the use of cookies you can control this in your Internet browser. Links to advice on how to do this for the most popular Internet browsers are provided below.
- Internet Explorer
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows7/Block-enable-or-allow-cookies
- Apple Safari
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=32467
- Google Chrome
https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&answer=95647&p=cpn_cookies
- Mozilla Firefox
http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Blocking%20cookies
CONTACT US VIA THE WEBSITE
Users contacting this website and/or its owners do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until it is no longer required or has no use within the guidelines detailed in the Data Protection Act 1998. Every effort has been made to ensure that safe and secure forms to submit enquiries have been provided, but advise users that using such forms is at their own risk.
This website and its owners use any information submitted to provide you with details about the services they offer or to assist you in answering any questions or queries you may have submitted. This includes using your details to subscribe you to any email newsletter program that the website operates, but only if this was made clear to you and where your express permission was given when submitting any form-to-email process or where you, the user, have previously purchased from or enquired about purchasing from the company a service that the email newsletter relates to. This is by no means an entire list of your user rights in regard to receiving email marketing material. Your details are not passed on to any third parties.
EXTERNAL LINKS
Although this website only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised to adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links contained in this website.
The owners of this website cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their best efforts. Users should therefore note that they click on external links at their own risk. This website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.
SOCIAL MEDIA
Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and its owners participate in are custom to the terms and conditions and the privacy policies held with each social media platform, respectively.
Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate/engage with them with due care and caution regarding their own privacy and personal details. This website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through the company’s primary communication channels, such as telephone or email.
This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion. They should note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.
This website and its owners, through respective social media accounts, may share web links to relevant web pages. Some social media platforms shorten lengthy URLs [web addresses] (this is an example: http://bit.ly/zyVUBo). Users are therefore advised to take caution before clicking any shortened URLs published on social media platforms by this website and its owners.
Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine URLs are published many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking. Therefore, this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.