Cookies and Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
Details submitted via this website comprise “personal data” for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998. We are therefore required to give you the following information.
The data controller for any such personal data is The Centre for Creative Enterprise Ltd t/a Cobalt Carbon Free and will be processing such personal data in the following ways depending on the data you provide to us.
Your personal data will be stored electronically on our client database and where applicable passed to any associates of Cobalt Carbon Free to enable them to complete work under your agreement with Cobalt Carbon Free.
It will be used to enable us to complete work agreed with you and to stay in contact with you during the time we work together. All client email addresses and names are also added to our database to enable us to send out key client information to you. You can unsubscribe from this at any time.
Personal data is retained by The Centre for Creative Enterprise Ltd t/a Cobalt Carbon Free after the termination of your agreement with us for sending you relevant information, warranty documents and thank you offers etc.
If you wish to have all personal data or records of our work together removed, you can request this in writing at any time by emailing enquiries@cobaltcarbonfree.co.uk.
Under the Data Protection Act you have the right to access your personal data held by us and to correct any inaccuracies in that information.
Cookies In Use On This Site
Cookies and How They Benefit You
Our website uses 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:
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Make our website work as you’d expect
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Improve the speed/security of the site
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Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook
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Continuously improve our website for you
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Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to offer the service we do at the price we do)
We do not use cookies to:
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Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
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Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
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Pass data to advertising networks
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Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
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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.
Our own cookies
We use cookies to make our website work including:
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Allowing you to add comments to our site
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Allowing you to submit contact forms
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Enabling you to sign up for our newsletter
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 includes the following which use cookies:
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Google – Privacy Policy
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Hotjar – Privacy Policy
Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties
Social Website Cookies
You can easily ‘Like’ or share our content on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram we have included sharing buttons on our site.
Cookies are set by:
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Facebook – Privacy Policy
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Twitter – Privacy Policy
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Instagram – 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.
We may request feedback from our customers using the below online survey site:
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Survey Monkey – Privacy Policy
We 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 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.
Turning Cookies Off
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies (Learn how here). Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of our and a large proportion of the world’s websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites.
It may be that you concern 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.