Privacy Policy

Our website is hosted by IONOS (https://www.ionos.co.uk/). We do not collect any personal data from your interactions with our website. The website hosting package only makes available to us aggregated information of the following types:

  • Visitor numbers (e.g., per day)
  • Visitor behaviour (e.g., duration per session, page impressions per session)

HFDE is not responsible for any additional tracking data that may be held by the website host but not made available to us within the scope of our website hosting contract with IONOS.

Cookies

Our website does not use cookies.

Content from other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, if you use these links to leave our site, you should note that we have no control over the content of external websites. Therefore, HFDE takes no responsibility for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide while visiting such sites and they are not covered by this privacy statement.

Basis for the collection and use of your data

Our lawful reasons for storing and using personal information are:

  • Contractual – we have to collect or use the information so we can enter into or carry out a contract with you. All of your data protection rights may apply except the right to object.
  • Legitimate interests – we’re collecting or using your information because it benefits you, our organisation or someone else, without causing an undue risk of harm to anyone. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to portability. Our legitimate interests are:
    • To carry out any business activities that you have instigated with us.
    • To correspond about matters of business in which you have expressed an interest.

If you share your data with us

Our website provides an email address and phone number for you to contact us if you wish. Should you do so, we may keep a record of those contact details you have provided to us solely for the purpose of responding to your enquiry and interacting with you thereafter regarding any business that is being discussed. Your personal data (such as name, job title, address, email address, phone number) will be stored on our password-protected IT equipment and handled with the same security measures that we afford to our own sensitive data.

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties. We will not share your personal data with any third party unless you have agreed that we may do so in the course of our business discussions.

How long we retain your data

Our website does not retain any of your data since there are no interactive features that allow you to upload or submit any form of comment, document, or personal data.

If you have chosen to contact us by any of the means indicated on this website, we will keep your contact details indefinitely for the purpose of future business interactions. However, we will never use that information to send unsolicited messages (“spam”) to you, nor will we share your data with any third party without your prior consent.

What rights you have over your data

If you have interacted with HFDE you can request to receive a document listing any personal data that we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You may also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. Note however, that this does not include data that we might be obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

How to enquire about our use of your data

If you have any questions about our use of your personal data, please contact us in the first instance:

  • By Post: HFDE Ltd, Clydeway House, 813 South Street, Glasgow, G14 0BX
  • By Telephone: 07816 222750
  • By Email: m.judd{at}hfde.co.uk

How to complain

If you remain unhappy with how we have used your data after raising the matter with us directly, you can also complain to the ICO. The ICO can be contacted as follows:           

This policy was last reviewed / updated on 7 February 2025.