MGDUK PRIVACY POLICY

SECURITY OF YOUR DATA

MGDUK use reasonable physical, technical and administrative security measures to protect your personal information against loss or theft as well as unauthorized access and disclosure to protect your privacy. However, no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while MGDUK strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, MGDUK cannot guarantee its absolute security.

MGDUK may at times provide carefully selected links on our website and newsletters to third party content relevant to your interests. These websites will have separate privacy policies, and MGDUK therefore does not accept any responsibility for their content. As such, choosing to follow these links is a choice you make at your own risk and MGDUK advises that you check these websites' individual privacy policies before submitting any Personal Data to them.

INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT:

• Full name, job title and company details
• Contact information including email address
• Demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests
• Other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers

WHAT WE DO WITH THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Personal Data you provide or directly supply to us when you use our website www.mgdesignuk.com; Included in responses to our questions including research or project feedback surveys that MGDUK may occasionally ask you to complete;

For authentication and tracking purposes MGDUK use Google Analytics which is a service offered by Google that tracks and reports on our website traffic. The data that is saved to your computer serves exclusively for anonymous website reporting and server resource management. It may, optionally and with your permission be used to:

• Estimate the size, geography and usage patterns of our website audience
• Identify you upon your return to our website
• Increase the speed of your website searches

MGDUK work with third-party service providers such as Google Analytics and Google AdWords that may store and use cookies in a variety of ways and means. MGDUK is not responsible for the privacy policies of the third-party service providers. Legislation provides for a right to be forgotten so you remain entitled to refuse cookies by adjusting your browser settings.

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

COOKIES

WHAT IS A COOKIE?

Most websites you visit will use cookies in order to improve your user experience by enabling that website to ‘remember’ you, either for the duration of your visit (using a ‘session cookie’) or for repeat visits (using a ‘persistent cookie’).

Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, storing your preferences, and generally improving your experience of a website. Cookies make the interaction between you and the website faster and easier. If a website doesn't use cookies, it will think you are a new visitor every time you move to a new page on the site - for example, when you enter your login details and move to another page it won’t recognise you and it won’t be able to keep you logged in.

Some websites will also use cookies to enable them to target their advertising or marketing messages based for example, on your location and/or browsing habits.

Cookies may be set by the website you are visiting (‘first party cookies’) or they may be set by other websites that run content on the page you are viewing (‘third party cookies’).

WHAT IS IN A COOKIE?

A cookie is a simple text file that is stored on your computer or mobile device by a website's server and only that server will be able to retrieve or read the contents of that cookie. Each cookie is unique to your web browser. It will contain some anonymous information such as a unique identifier and the site name and some digits and numbers. It allows a website to remember things like your preferences or what's in your shopping basket.

WHAT TO DO IF YOU DON'T WANT COOKIES TO BE SET

Some people find the idea of a website storing information on their computer or mobile device a bit intrusive, particularly when this information is stored and used by a third party without them knowing. Although this is generally quite harmless you may not, for example, want to see advertising that has been targeted to your interests. If you prefer, it is possible to block some or all cookies, or even to delete cookies that have already been set; but you need to be aware that you might lose some functions of that website.

COOKIE SETTINGS

If you don't want to receive certain categories of cookies on this website, you can change your cookie settings via your browser; your browser help function will tell you how. Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org, which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of desktop browsers.

NOTE: THIS WEBSITE DOES WORK WITHOUT COOKIES, BUT YOU WILL LOSE SOME FEATURES AND FUNCTIONALITY IF YOU CHOOSE TO DISABLE COOKIES. BY CONTINUING TO USE THIS SITE YOU ARE AGREEING TO THE TERMS OF THIS POLICY AND OUR USE OF COOKIES.

1. Necessary Cookies

These cookies are those that are needed to make our website function properly, such as searching for properties. Without these, the site wouldn't work for you. They do not collect any information about you that could be used for marketing.

Cookie Name	What does it do?
XSRF-TOKEN	The cookie is set by Laravel, the platform our website is built on. The cookie is used for security purposes.
laravel_session	Laravel uses laravel_session to identify a session instance for a user.
cookie-opt-in	Used to understand the consent for the usage of cookies on the website.

2. Performance Cookies

These cookies help to improve the performance of the website, providing a better user experience and helping you find the information you are looking for faster.

Cookie Name	What does it do?
_ga	This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors.
_gat	This cookies is installed by Google Universal Analytics to throttle the request rate to limit the colllection of data on high traffic sites.
_gid	This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visted in an anonymous form.
_gcl_au	This cookie is used by Google Analytics to understand user interaction with the website.

By continuing to use our website you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

3. Third party cookies

Some of our pages feature content from other providers. We don't have control over the cookie policies of these providers, but you can view them below and control your preferences via https://optout.networkadvertising.org/

Provider

YouTube

Google Maps

Facebook

Google

Matterport

Vimeo

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Controlling your personal information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

Whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes if you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at info@mgdesignuk.com

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to MGDUK, 34 Croydon Road, Caterham, United Kingdom, CR3 6QB.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

If at any time MGDUK make a change to its privacy policy, MGDUK will update this page to reflect such change. Where MGDUK feels it appropriate, MGDUK will notify you by email, however MGDUK recommend you review this page periodically to ensure you continue to agree with its current privacy policy.

GETTING IN TOUCH ABOUT THIS POLICY

MGDUK welcomes any questions or comments in relation to this privacy policy, and advises you to send any such communication to info@mgdesignuk.com

Updated December 2018