Privacy Policy
This privacy policy describes how Westmark Ltd uses and protects any information that you give us when you use this website.
Westmark Ltd is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
Westmark Ltd may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from May 2014.
What we Collect
We may collect the following information:
- Name and job title
- Contact information including email address
- Browsing preferences and interests
What we do with the information we gather
This information allows us to better understand your needs and provide you with a quality service.
- We may use the information for Internal record keeping
- We may use the information to improve our products and services
- We may periodically send promotional emails about new products or services which we think you may find interesting or useful using the email address which you have provided.
We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail. We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests.
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure we have put in place physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. All employees and representatives of Hawthorn who have access to your personal data are contractually obliged to respect your confidentiality. We have put in place technology measures and security policies and procedures to protect personal information from unauthorised access, improper use, alteration, unlawful or accidental destruction and accidental loss.
Cookies
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website, tailoring it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and before the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose 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. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
Other Gathered Information
Westmark Ltd uses independent measurement and research companies who gather non-personal data regarding the visitors to our website on our behalf using cookies and code. Both the cookies and the embedded code provide non-personal statistical information about visits to pages on the website, the duration of individual page view, paths taken by visitors through the website, data on visitors’ screen, settings and other general information. Hawthorn uses this type of information, as with that obtained from other cookies used on the website, to help it improve the services to its users.
Links
This Privacy Policy only relates to the Westmark Ltd website. Any links from our site to other websites are provided merely for your convenience and do not imply endorsement by us of the content or provider. 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.
Through this website you are able to link to other websites which are not under the control of Westmark Ltd. We have no control over the nature, content and availability of those sites. The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation of or endorsement of the views expressed within them.