Privacy Policy

Who we are

This privacy policy explains how William Eikos Ltd may collect and use personal information from you when you use our website:  https://williameikos.com/

As a business, we are committed to respecting and protecting the privacy of all individuals with whom we interact. We will process your personal information at all times in accordance with applicable privacy and data protection laws.

What personal data do we collect?

We collect information about you if you ask us to respond to a query that you have. The information we collect is limited to the details we need to provide to respond to your specific query. We do not collect sensitive information, such as your political or religious beliefs, ethnic background, sexual preference, health or any other sensitive information.

How do we use this information?

Except where required by law, we only use the personal information you provide to us to deliver the specific information you have requested. For example, if you submit an enquiry through this site, we will only use the contact details you provide to us to respond to that enquiry. Without your consent, we will not use your contact details for any other purpose.

How do we store your personal information?

We are committed to ensuring your personal information is kept secure and confidential and not kept for longer than is necessary. From time to time we may ask third-party service providers, to help us manage our information technology systems. Some of these systems may be located in countries overseas. We will only transfer your information to a third-party service provider or overseas, where we are satisfied that adequate levels of protection are in place to protect the integrity and security of any information being processed and compliance with applicable privacy and data protection laws.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Does this website use “Cookies”?

Cookies are small packets of information stored by your web browser when you visit certain websites, including our website. Cookies are generally used by websites to improve your user experience by enabling that website to ‘remember’ you, either strictly for the duration of your visit (using a “session” cookie which is erased when you close your browser) or for repeat visits (using a “permanent” cookie).

We do not use cookies to store any personally identifiable information about you.

Our site uses the following types of cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies

We deploy cookies to help us to identify how users navigate to and around our website and to enable some of the features within the site that may be beneficial to you. This helps us deliver an effective online service to you. These are known as “First Party” cookies.

Performance cookies

We may also use cookies issued by third parties (“Third Party” cookies) to track the pages you visited or search terms you used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use Google Analytics for this purpose. Google Analytics uses its own cookies. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how the site works. You can find out more about Google Analytics cookies here.

You can avoid the use of Google Analytics relating to your use of our site by downloading and installing the Browser Plugin available via this link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB.

Functional cookies

These cookies allow our site to remember choices you make (such as user name, or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.

If you don’t want to receive cookies, you can alter your browser settings. The procedure for doing so varies from one browser application to another. If you wish to reject cookies from our site but wish to accept those from other sites, you may choose the option in your browser settings to receive a notice before a cookie is stored on your device.

Please consult the “Help” section of your browser for more information. To find out more, please consult the following: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies and http://www.youronlinechoices.com. By disabling cookies, you may be prevented from accessing some features of our site or certain content or functionality may not be available.

By using this website you consent to us deploying cookies as described above. If you do not wish to accept cookies from our site, or would like to stop permanent cookies being stored on your computer in the future you can change the settings in your web browser to decline and/or delete cookies. See the “Help” section on your browser menu for guidance on how to do this. Note that changing cookie settings may affect certain features within this website.

Our responsibility for website links

This Privacy Policy is limited to the personal information we collect and use via this website. Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). If you follow these links, you should use these sites in conjunction with their applicable user and privacy policies as their data practices fall outside the scope of this Privacy Policy. Further, we can have no responsibility for or control over the information collected by any third-party website and we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you may provide on such websites.

Information sharing and disclosure 

We do not sell or rent any personally identifiable information about you to any third party.

We may disclose personally identifiable information in response to legal process, for example in response to a court order or a subpoena, or in response to a law enforcement agency’s request, or where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, and as otherwise required by law.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

How to contact us if your information or choices change

If you would like to stop receiving information from us; or your personal preferences change and you do not want us to send you the information requested; or if you have any queries about how we use your personal information, please let us know by contacting us directly via the contact us page.

Updates

We may change this policy from time to time by updating this page with amended terms. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are aware of any changes. This policy was last updated in April 2024.