Dear Customers and Suppliers,
In compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Blazer International Limited (Blazer International) who operates the Blazer Systems website is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information.
Please find below details of how we collect and use personal information about you before, during and after your working relationship with us, to enable us to be complaint with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
GDPR covers data that includes the personal identifying information regarding Blazer International’s customers and suppliers, and the employee data they choose to share with us.
What data does Blazer International hold?
Customers
If you are a Blazer International customer, you may have provided us with the following:
• The names and contact details of people involved in the purchase and/or use of our products and services
• Invoicing and Delivery addresses for orders placed
We also retain:
• The name and contact details given of any additional people involved in the use of our products and services. This may include any email and mobile telephone contact information provided for the purposes of messaging you.
• History of Purchase Orders for the use by customer service. This includes the serial numbers of equipment to check warranty status, and the purchase dates and periods of any Support Services.
No personally identifying information beyond the initial scope of providing products or services is asked for nor retained by Blazer International.
Suppliers
If you are a supplier to Blazer International you will have provided us with the following:
• The name and contact details of people involved with accepting and processing orders placed by Blazer International, and;
• Financial details required by Blazer International in order to make payment for orders
Other Non-Customer Contacts
If you choose to provide Blazer International with identifying information such as your name, email address and/or phone number in response to direct marketing activities including trade shows, Blazer International and Blazer International websites and meetings in-person; the details provided to us are used exclusively for the transmission of relevant/requested materials directly following the show, meeting or similar.
The details given are retained for no longer than their immediate use (i.e. making contact for the purposes of discussing relevant products and solutions). The details are then discarded; not used for subsequent marketing activities.
How is my data stored and used by Blazer International?
Personal data as defined above is used exclusively by Blazer International to process and support existing business activities. This data is not shared with any third parties for the purposes of marketing. Information directly relating to the physical delivery of goods to customers’ specified locations is shared with our chosen delivery partners, who themselves are subject to GDPR legislation as data processors.
All data is held securely in an encrypted format. Data pertaining to customer accounts and purchases is stored using Blazer International’s chosen Customer Relationship Management (CRM) service. This data is accessible only by select Blazer International personnel and, as mentioned previously, is limited to information directly related to delivering products and services. No access is available externally, including by those about whom it relates.
This data is updated when subsequent orders are made by customers, or when Blazer International orders from our suppliers. Updated information (primary contacts, email and physical addresses, and phone numbers) replaces previously held information. No record of the previous details are held within our CRM, with the exception of any documentation generated prior to the change.
The personally identifying data described here is held indefinitely for the purposes of delivering our products and services until such time as customer/supplier relationship is terminated, or upon request by the customer/supplier. We will share your personal information with third parties only where required by law, where it is necessary to administer the working relationship with you or where we have another legitimate interest in doing so.
Blazer International Website
Blazer International’s websites may employ username and password protection on some content in order to restrict access to product information.
If you have registered as a user on our website, your registration will have included a contact email address. This information is not used or shared for any purpose beyond automated messaging from our website. All details are held securely in an encrypted format within the website hosting environment.
Right to be Forgotten (Right to Erasure)
As mentioned above, the personal data held by Blazer International is done so indefinitely until such time as relationship between us and our customer/supplier is terminated, or the customer/supplier updates their information or requests for it to be deleted.
If you would prefer Blazer International to delete any specific data regarding yourself or your company, please submit your request to: gdpr @ blazersystems.co.uk (please remove spaces in email address)
If the details in question are already outside of periods in which we are legally obligated to maintain records, are not the subject of legal investigation, etc.; this information will be erased in a timely manner.
Data Protection Officer
We have appointed a data privacy manager to oversee compliance with this privacy notice. If you have any questions about this privacy notice or how we handle your personal information, please contact our privacy manager at gdpr @ blazersystems.co.uk (please remove spaces in email address).
Changes to This Privacy Notice
We reserve the right to update this privacy notice at any time, and we will provide you with a new privacy notice when we make any substantial updates. We may also notify you in other ways from time to time about the processing of your personal information.
What we collect
We may collect the following information:
- name
- 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 gather
We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:
- Internal record keeping.
- We may use the information to improve our products and services.
- We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.
- From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail. We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests.
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 in Use on This Site
Our website may use cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites
Our cookies help us:
Make our website work as you’d expect
Save you having to login every time you visit the site
Remember your settings during and between visits
Improve the speed/security of the site
Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook
Continuously improve our website for you
We do not use cookies to:
Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
Pay sales commissions
You can learn more about all the cookies we use below
Granting us permission to use cookies
If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.
More about our Cookies
Website Function Cookies
Our own cookies
We may use cookies to make our website work including:
Determining if you are logged in or not
Remembering your search settings
Allowing you to add comments to our site
There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.
Third party functions
Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video. Our site may include the following which use cookies:
Google – Privacy Policy
Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties
Social Website Cookies
So you can easily Like or share our content on the likes of Facebook and Twitter we may include sharing buttons on our site.
Cookies are set by:
Twitter – Privacy Policy
Facebook – Privacy Policy
The privacy implications on this will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.
Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies
We may use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called analytics programs also tell us if , on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.
Turning Cookies Off
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies Learn how:
Firefox
Chrome
Internet Explorer
Microsoft Edge
Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of ours and a large proportion of the world’s websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites
It may be that you have concerns around cookies relate to so called “spyware”. Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive. Learn more about managing cookies with antispyware software