Professional Protection Systems ( PPS ) is committed to protecting your privacy and utilising technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Privacy Statement applies to the ppsgb.com site and services and governs the information collected by PPS.
ppsgb.com sites include all web pages hosted from the Professional Protection Systems domain.
By using ppsgb.com sites and services, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
When you subscribe to the PPS Newsletter via the site, ppsgb.com requests your e-mail address.
In general, ppsgb.com does not collect other types of personally identifiable information, such as, name, home or work address or telephone number but these may be requested when users of the Site elect to send specific enquiries to ppsgb.com. Information collected at ppsgb.com sites and services is not shared outside the ppsgb.com´s family of web sites and services.
There is additional non-personal information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by ppsgb.com sites and services and may be shared with other web sites within the ppsgb.com family of web sites. This information can include: your IP address, browser type,
domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by PPS for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the ppsgb.com web sites and services.
PPS encourages you to review the privacy statements of web sites you choose to link to from ppsgb.com so that you can understand how those web sites collect, use and share your information. PPS is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on web sites outside of the ppsgb.com family of web sites.
Use of your Personal Information
PPS and its operational service partners collect and use your personal information to operateppsgb.com web sites and deliver the services you have requested. Specifically, ppsgb.com uses your e-mail address to send you the newsletter(s) you have requested. ppsgb.com may also contact you via online surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current products or of potential new products that may be offered. You will always have the option of unsubscribing from ppsgb.com email lists.
ppsgb.com sites and services do not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.
PPS occasionally hires other companies to provide limited services on its behalf, such as providing customer support, web design or performing statistical analysis of its services. PPS will only provide those companies the personal information they need to deliver the service, and they are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.
ppsgb.com keeps track of the web sites and pages our customers visit within ppsgb.com sites and services, in order to determine which ppsgb.com sites and services are the most popular.
This data may be used to deliver customized content within ppsgb.com sites and services to customers whose online behaviour indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
ppsgb.com sites and services may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on ppsgb.com; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of ppsgb.com and PPS (the company); or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of PPS, its web sites, or the public.
Personal information collected on ppsgb.com sites and services may be stored and processed in the United States, the United Kingdom or any other country in which PPS or its affiliates, subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities, and by using this site, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country or region. PPS abides by the safe harbor framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of data from the European Union.
Control your Personal Information
ppsgb.com currently uses your e-mail address only for newsletter distribution and as described above. If you wish to remove yourself from the email distribution list you may unsubscribe at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the newsletter.
Please be aware that this Privacy Statement and the choices you make regarding personal information provided to ppsgb.com sites and services will not necessarily apply to personal information you may have provided to PPS in the context of other, separately operated, PPS products or services.
Security of your Personal Information
ppsgb.com secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. ppsgb.com secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure.
Use of Cookies
ppsgb.com sites and services may use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience.
A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. The cookies unique identifier is constructed from a Globally Unique Identifier (GUID). The ID is generated by ppsgb.com, via standard internet functions, and it is stored by ppsgb.com in the cookie. GUIDs are used to compile aggregated statistics about ppsgb.com web site usage.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time.
The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page.
For example, if you navigate within ppsgb.com sites or services, a cookie helps ppsgb.com to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of delivering relevant content, ease site navigation, and so on. When you return to ppsgb.com sites and services,
the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the ppsgb.com features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies,
but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of ppsgb.com sites and services or other web sites you visit.
Use of Web Beacons
ppsgb.com web pages may contain electronic images or other references known as Web beacons - sometimes called single-pixel gifs or invisible pages - that allow ppsgb.com sites and services to count users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services. ppsgb.com sites and services may include web beacons in promotional e-mail messages or PPS Newsletters in order to count how many messages have been opened and acted upon. Web beacons are not used to access your personally identifiable information on the ppsgb.com sites and services; they are a technique we use to compile aggregated statistics about ppsgb.com web site usage.
Web beacons collect only a limited set of information including a cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the web beacon resides.
Note: Disabling cookies or changing the security level may affect the speed at which your computer interacts with web sites that expect to put cookies on your computer.
Changes to this Statement
ppsgb.com will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect customer feedback or changes to the service. PPS encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how PPS is protecting your information.
