Privacy Policy - Lifting Equipment Hire

Who we are

Our website address is: www.liftingequipmenthire.com

We believe it is important to protect and respect the privacy of our members, users, and website visitors.

This Privacy Policy covers our treatment of personally identifiable information collected by us through our website, our hosting company, and third parties including Amazon, Google, and also affiliate partners.

We urge you to read this Privacy Policy so that you will understand both our commitment to you and your privacy, and how you can participate in that commitment.

We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways other than those outlined in this Privacy Policy. Information is collected from our users at several different points on the website. Personal Information (defined below) provided by users (“you”) will be used by liftingequipmenthire.com to improve the use of this website and provide a more personalized experience for the user and/or to measure and improve our services, but information that identifies a specific individual will not be disclosed to third parties without the user’s permission unless necessary to provide services which the user has requested.

This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to any information that could be collected offline.

For the avoidance of doubt, do not use this website if any provision of this Privacy Policy does not comply with any laws of your jurisdiction.

What kinds of personal information about you do we process?

In general, you can browse our website without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself. We will ask you when we need information that personally identifies you or allows us to contact you (“Personal Information”). Generally, this information is requested when you become a member of one of our training courses, paid services, or contact us for information.

Additional details about the type of information we may collect from you are described in the following section.

What is the source of your personal information?

We may collect information from you in several different ways including the following:

i) Registration. In order to use some of the services offered by our website, you may be required to create an account with us. During the registration process, you are required to give certain contact information, including, but not limited to, your name, email address, date of birth, and mailing address. We use this information to contact you about the services on our Application in which you have expressed interest and to facilitate future related services.
ii) Log Files. As is true of most websites and applications, our website gathers certain information automatically and stores it in log files. This information includes Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and movements around the application, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.

iii) Correspondence. If you send us personal correspondence, such as emails or letters, or if other users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities, we may collect such information into a file specific to you.

iv) Supplementation of Information. In order to provide certain services to you, we may on occasion supplement the personal information you submitted to us with information from third-party sources.
Website Usage. Whilst browsing our website we may monitor your activities, preferences, and transactional data (such as your IP address) relating to your use of our Application and/or services and log this information. This information may be used to diagnose the websites technical problems or problems with your account and to enhance your experience in using our website.
Service-related Announcements. We may send you strictly service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email. Generally, you may opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to delete your account (if an account has been created).
Cookies. Cookies are data files that are written onto your computer by a website, and stay there unless they expire or are removed by you.
Cookies enable us to recognize your computer when you revisit our website, and recall your website browsing preferences to enhance your experience in using the website. First-party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting.
A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. We do not use cookies to collect or use any information about your visits to third-party websites or otherwise collect any information from our Application.
Consult your browser Help menu to learn more about how you can configure your browser software to notify you when your computer receives a new cookie. Note that you may also be able to configure your browser to disable the creation of cookies entirely (although your full interactive use of the Application may be adversely impacted if you do this). We are not responsible for the use of cookies by third parties or how such parties may collect or use any information about your visits on our Application. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by the Application only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers or third parties.

For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/.

Without cookies, you may not be able to take full advantage of this website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Application.

Pixels Tags and Web Beacons. We may use other industry standard technologies like pixel tags and web beacons to track your use of the website, or we may allow third parties to use these devices on our behalf. When you access the liftingequipmenthire.com website, or open or click an email, pixel tags and web beacons generate a non-personally identifiable notice of that action. Pixel tags allow us to measure and improve our understanding of visitor traffic and behavior on the website, as well as give us a way to measure our promotions and performance. We may also utilize pixel tags and web beacons provided by our marketing and advertising partners for the same purposes.

We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our applications. Google Analytics gathers information on application use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our application is used to create reports about the use of our application. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can, however, obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:

(a) https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);

(b) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-protection-firefox-desktop (Firefox);

(d) https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer);

(e) https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-sfri11471/mac (Safari); and

(f) https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).

Please note that blocking cookies may have a negative impact on the functions of many websites, including our own website. By blocking, some features of the website may cease to be available to you.

Third Party Advertisements

The Website works with several third party advertisers to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. These serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.

Google Doubledart Cookie:

Use of the DoubleClick Dart Cookie. The DoubleClick DART cookie is used by Google in the adverts served on this website, such as the AdSense adds or Google certified add networks. When users visit the www.liftingequipmenthire.com website and either view or click on an advert, a cookie may be dropped on that end user’s browser. The data gathered from these cookies will be used to help better serve and manage adds on this website and across the web. Users can read how to opt out of these adverts by following the information on the GOOGLE ADVERTISING PRIVACY PAGE(S), (Alternatively, users of this site can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page).

Affiliatewindow.com:

If you are redirected to an affiliate website associated with Affiliatewindow.com, cookies will be placed on their behalf as well as their associated merchants.

1 Information Affilatewindow.com may collect from you

They may collect and process the following data about you:

1.1 Information that you provide by filling in forms on any of our (their) websites which shall include without limitation the following: www.affiliatewindow.com, www.buy.at and www.shopwindow.com (“the Websites”). This includes information provided at the time of registering to use the Website(s), subscribing to our service, posting material or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with the Website(s).
1.2 If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
1.3 We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
1.4 Details of transactions you carry out through the Website(s) and of the fulfilment of your orders.
1.5 Details of your visits to the Website(s) including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data and other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access

The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:

IP Address
Operating System type
Operating System version
Device Type
Language of the website
Web browser type
Email (in hashed form)

Our advertisers may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. They may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from the advertisers publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. The advertising partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

What are the legal grounds for our processing of your personal information (including when we share it with others)?

We rely on the following legal bases to use your personal data:

Where it is needed to provide you with our products or services, such as:
a) Assessing an application for a product or service you hold with us, including considering whether or not to offer you the product, the price, the payment methods available and the conditions to attach
b) Managing products and services you hold with us, or an application for one
c) Sharing your personal information with third party service providers when you subscribe as needed to help provide you the service
d) All stages and activities relevant to managing the product or service including inquiry, application, administration and management of accounts
e) For some of our profiling and other automated decision making to decide whether to offer you a product and/or service, particular payment method and the price or terms of this
Where it is in our legitimate interests to do so, such as:
a) Managing your products and services relating to that, updating your records, and contacting you about your account (where appropriate)
b) To perform and/or test the performance of, our products, services and internal processes
c) To follow guidance and recommended best practices of government and regulatory bodies
d) For management and audit of our business operations including accounting
e) To carry out monitoring and to keep records of our communications with you and our staff
f) To administer our good governance requirements, such as internal reporting and compliance obligations or administration
g) For market research and analysis and developing statistics
h) For direct marketing communications and related profiling to help us to offer you relevant products and services, including deciding whether or not to offer you certain products and services. We will send marketing to you by SMS, email, phone, post and social media and digital channels
j) Subject to the appropriate controls, to provide insight and analysis of our customers to business partners either as part of providing products or services, helping us improve products or services, or to assess or to improve the operating of our businesses
j) For some of our profiling and other automated decision making
k) Where we need to share your personal information with people or organizations in order to run our business or comply with any legal and/or regulatory obligations
To comply with our legal obligations
With your consent or explicit consent:
a) For some direct marketing communications
b) For some of our profiling and other automated decision making
c) For some of our processing of special categories of personal data such as about your health, if you are a vulnerable customer or some criminal records information

What do we use your personal data for?

We use your personal data, including any of the personal data listed above, for the following purposes:

Assessing an application for a product or service, including considering whether or not to offer you the product or service, the price, the risk of doing so, availability of payment method and the terms
Managing the product or service you have with us
Updating your records
Managing any aspect of the product or service
To make automated decisions on whether to offer you a product or service, or the price, payment method, risk or terms of it
To perform and/or test the performance of, our products, services and internal processes
To improve the operation of our business and that of our business partners
To follow guidance and best practices under the change to rules of governmental and regulatory bodies
For management and auditing of our business operations including accounting
To monitor and to keep records of our communications with you and our staff (see below)
To administer our good governance requirements such as internal reporting and compliance obligations or administration
For market research and analysis and developing statistics
For direct marketing communications and related profiling to help us to offer you relevant products and services, including deciding whether or not to offer you certain products and services. We’ll send marketing to you by SMS, email, phone, post, social media and digital channels).
To provide personalized content and services to you, such as tailoring our products and services, our digital customer experience and offerings, and deciding which offers or promotions to show you on our digital channels
To develop new products and services and to review and improve current products and services
To comply with legal and regulatory obligations, requirements and guidance
To provide insight and analysis of our customers both for ourselves and for the benefit of business partners either as part of providing products or services, helping us improve products or services, or to assess or improve the operating of our businesses
To share information, as needed, with business partners (for example, financial services institutions, insurers), account beneficiaries, service providers or as part of providing and administering our products and services or operating our business

Additional Information.

Links. Our Application may contain website links to other sites. However, please be aware that we are not responsible for and cannot control the privacy policies of such other sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave the website and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by our website.
Notification of Privacy Statement Changes. We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time, and you may visit this page to learn of our revised Privacy Policy. All such changes shall be binding on you 14 calendar days after they are initially posted on our website unless you are a new user, in which case they are binding on you immediately.
Business Transition. In the event we go through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred.

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