Ahead4 Limited is committed to the protection of your privacy.
We will not sell or rent your information to third parties under any circumstances.
We will not share your information with third parties for marketing purposes.
You have the right to ask for a copy of the information Ahead4 Limited hold about you.
This Privacy Policy explains when we collect your personal information, why we require it, how we utilise it, how we keep it secure and the conditions of which we may disclose it to a third party authority.
We may change, update or amend this Privacy Policy from time to time with or without notification so please check this page occasionally to ensure that you’re happy with any changes. You acknowledge that by using our website or services, you are agreeing to be bound by this Privacy Policy.
Should you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy and/or our data handling methods we request you send us an email to [email protected] or by writing to 117 Hullbridge Road, South Woodham Ferrers, Essex CM3 5LL. You may also contact us via telephone 01245 426 163.
We are a managed computer, telecom and web services provider located in Chelmsford, Essex and Wickford, Essex. We offer a comprehensive range of IT and Web services suited to any businesses' needs. We offer our expertise in areas such as computer and smartphone repairs to server installation, website/server creation, maintenance packages, telecoms, full external IT support, installations, and consultancy. We operate throughout Essex but also regularly support clients overseas and are confident to provide you a solution in nearly every area of IT. We are a Limited company registered in England and Wales (4048409).
We collect information from you when using our website and it’s intended functions when you contact us about products and services.
The personal information that is potentially collected could be your name, address, email address, IP address, telephone number, and information regarding what pages are accessed and when optionally we may collect your company name is specified.
By entering into a contract to do business, your payment information is held by our third-party payment processors, who specialise in the secure online capture and processing of credit/debit card and Direct Debit transactions, as explained below. We do not collect, store, handle or observe payment information, credentials or a transaction.
We may use your information in the following ways:
We review our retention periods for personal information on a regular basis. We are legally required to hold some types of information to fulfill our statutory obligations. We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant activity, or as long as is set out in any relevant contract you hold with us. For example as long as you hold any form of IT or Web service with us on your account we will hold on to your personal information as a means of contact and payment, should you move all of your services away and opted out of communications from us, we will hold onto your data for a reasonable amount of time should you wish to return before removing your data from the system, usually around 14-30 days after full termination of services and migrations are complete. After this elapsed time post completion you will be required to create a new customer account if you wish to return as all account information will be destroyed. The only data which we keep due to legal obligations are invoices and email records.
Third Party Service Providers working on our behalf: We may pass your information to our third party service providers, agents, subcontractors and other associated organisations for the purposes of completing requested tasks and providing services to you on our behalf (for example to process orders and services). However, when we use third party service providers, we will only disclose the information that is necessary to deliver the service and we have a contract in place that requires them to keep your information secure and not to use it for their own direct marketing purposes. Please be reassured that we will not release your information to third parties for them to use for their own direct marketing purposes, unless you have requested us to do so, or we are required to do so by law, for example, by a court order or for the purposes of prevention of fraud or other crime.
Third Party Product Providers we work in association with work closely with various third- party product providers to bring you a range of quality and reliable products and services designed to meet the IT needs of businesses (e.g. Microsoft, Stripe, Digital Ocean; please see our Ahead4 Supplied Services page for more information). When you enquire about or purchase one or more of these products, the relevant third party product provider will use your details to provide you with information and carry out their obligations arising from any contracts you have entered into with them. In some cases, they will be acting as a data controller of your information and therefore we advise you to read their Privacy Policy. These third-party product providers will share your information with us which we will use in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
We may transfer your personal information to a third party as part of a sale of some or all of our business and assets to any third party or as part of any business restructuring or reorganisation, or if we’re under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation or to enforce or apply our terms of use or to protect the rights, property or safety of our customers. However, we will take steps with the aim of ensuring that your privacy rights continue to be protected.
You have a choice about whether or not you wish to receive information from us. If you do not want to receive direct marketing communications from us about our products and services, then you can select your choices by ticking the relevant boxes situated on the form on which we collect your information.
We will not contact individuals for marketing purposes by email, phone or text message unless you have given your prior consent. We will not contact you for marketing purposes by post if you have indicated that you do not wish to be contacted. You can change your marketing preferences at any time by contacting us by email: [email protected] or telephone on 01245 426 163.
The accuracy of your information is important to us. We’re working on ways to make it easier for you to review and correct the information that we hold about you. In the meantime, if you change email address or any of the other information we hold is inaccurate or out of date, please email us at [email protected], or write to us at Ahead4 Limited, 117 Hullbridge Road, South Woodham Ferrers, Chelmsford, Essex CM3 5LL. Alternatively, you can telephone 01245 426 163.
You have the right to ask for a copy of the information Ahead4 Limited hold about you.
Non-sensitive details are transmitted normally over the Internet, and this can never be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your information, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems. Where we have given (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our portal, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.
Like many other websites, the Ahead4 Limited website uses cookies. 'Cookies' are small pieces of information sent by an organisation to your computer and stored on your hard drive to allow that website to recognise you when you visit. They collect statistical data about your browsing actions and patterns and do not identify you as an individual. This helps us to improve our website and deliver a better more personalised service.
It is possible to switch off cookies by setting your browser preferences. Turning cookies of may result in a loss of functionality when using our website.
Our website may contain links to other websites run by other organisations. This privacy policy applies only to our website‚ so we encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit. We cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other sites even if you access them using links from our website.
In addition, if you linked to our website from a third party site, we cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of the owners and operators of that third party site and recommend that you check the policy of that third party site.
We are concerned to protect the privacy of children aged 16 or under. If you are aged 16 or under‚ please get your parent/guardian's permission beforehand whenever you provide us with personal information.
As part of the services offered to you through this website, the information which you provide to us may be transferred to countries outside the European Union (“EU”). By way of example, this may happen if any of our servers are from time to time located in a country outside of the EU. These countries may not have similar data protection laws to the UK. By submitting your personal data, you’re agreeing to this transfer, storing or processing. If we transfer your information outside of the EU in this way, we will take steps to ensure that appropriate security measures are taken with the aim of ensuring that your privacy rights continue to be protected as outlined in this Policy.
If you use our services while you are outside the EU, your information may be transferred outside the EU in order to provide you with those services.
We keep this Policy under regular review. This Policy was last updated in April 2018.