Privacy and Cookie Policy

Discover how we manage your data and utilize cookies in our Privacy and Cookie Policy.

British Water Accredited Engineers

Wastewater experts since 1973

Work with multiple manufacturers

Data controller: Hutchinson Environmental Solutions Ltd, White Wall Nook, Wark, Hexham, Northumberland, NE48 3PX

Our Data Protection Officer can be contacted by post at the address above or by email at gdpr@csg.co.uk

Hutchinson Environmental Solutions collects and processes personal data relating to its customers in order to manage the customer relationship. Hutchinson Environmental Solutions is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and meeting its data protection obligations.

What information does the organisation collect?

Hutchinson Environmental Solutions collects and processes a range of personal information about you. This includes:

  • Full name
  • Addresses – both commercial and domestic
  • Phone numbers
  • Email addresses

Hutchinson Environmental Solutions may collect this information in a variety of ways. For example, data might be collected through face-to-face meetings, phone calls, emails or website enquiries.

Data will be stored in various places, including digital and hard copy.

Our website uses cookies to store tracking information about how you first arrived on the site, for example via a paid advert on Google, Social Media, and other sources. We do this to help us understand the needs of our customers and ultimately provide an improved user experience. For further information on our use of cookies and tracking please see our Cookie Notice below.

Why does Hutchinson Environmental Solutions process personal data?

Hutchinson Environmental Solutions only processes personal data for which it has a legitimate interest to do so. This means we will only process the data of customers with whom we trade, have previously traded with or those who have previously made an enquiry to trade with us.

In all other cases, Hutchinson Environmental Solutions will only process data that we have gained prior consent to do so.

We process your data to provide you with information on our services, products or any special offers that may be of interest to you and to process your order and payment.

Here is a list of the ways that we may use your personal information, and the reasons we rely on to do so. Where we list legitimate interests as a reason, we also describe below what we believe these legitimate interests are.

What We Use Your Personal Information ForOur Reasons (Legal Basis)Our Explanation of CSG’s Legitimate Interests
Undertake website personalisation and administration.Legitimate interestsDeveloping services and website content, structure and designs in order to attract and retain customers. Understanding how our customers discover and interact with our website.
Development of marketing communications to inform you of special offers, promotions and new services.Legitimate interestsDeveloping services that attract and retain customers. Improving customer interaction with our websites and ensuring that we can supply our customers with relevant communications that match their service requirements.
Contact you to undertake customer satisfaction surveys.Legitimate interestsDeveloping and improving services that attract and retain customers. By seeking and collating customer feedback we can improve our service offerings in line with customer requirements, leading to improved acquisition and retention of customers.
Setting up your account, managing your account and providing customer services to you.Legal obligation / Legitimate interestsKeeping our records up to date, handling our customer contact efficiently and effectively, dealing with queries and processing orders.
Process your ordersFulfilling a contractN/A
Notify you of your order/booking status.Legitimate interestsProcess efficiency in dealing with such activity, and make improvements to our services.
To detect, investigate and report financial crime (e.g. Fraud)Legal obligation / Legitimate interestsDeveloping and improving how we deal with financial crime. Complying with any legal obligation placed on us by regulators such as the FCA. Complying with any regulations that apply to us. Process efficiency in dealing with such activity, and to make service and process improvements.
Maintaining network and data securityLegitimate interestsTo maintain the security of our network this in turn helps us to maintain the safety and confidentiality of your information.

Who has access to data?

Your information may be shared internally, including with members of the sales and marketing team, as well as our finance team to process your payments and your local depot to carry out the service that you require. Hutchinson Environmental Solutions does not share your data with third parties unless the law requires us to do so.

However, Hutchinson Environmental Solutions does utilise the services of various third-party companies for internal processing purposes who may as a result hold your data including the following:

CRM (Customer Relationship Management) System – Salesforce.com

Email Marketing & Automation Software – MailChimp

Lead Generation Software – Lead Forensics

Electronic Ticket Platform – Codegate

Email Services – Microsoft 365

Telephone & Website Payment Processing – CashFlows

Hutchinson Environmental Solutions will not transfer your data to countries outside the European Economic Area.

How does Hutchinson Environmental Solutions protect data?

Hutchinson Environmental Solutions takes the security of your data seriously. Hutchinson Environmental Solutions has internal policies and controls in place to try to ensure that your data is not lost, accidentally destroyed, misused or disclosed, and is not accessed except by its employees in the performance of their duties.

Where Hutchinson Environmental Solutions engages third parties to process personal data on its behalf, they do so on the basis of written instructions, are under a duty of confidentiality and are obliged to implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure the security of data.

For how long does Hutchinson Environmental Solutions keep data?

We are required under UK tax law to keep your basic personal data (name, address, contact details), for a minimum of 7 years after which time it will be destroyed. Hutchinson Environmental Solutions will hold your personal data for marketing purposes from when you choose to give consent to do so, until the point that you may choose to withdraw your consent. At this point, your personal data will be removed from all our records.

Contact Preferences

You are able to opt out of all communications from Hutchinson Environmental Solutions or update your contact preferences by completing the following form on our website:

www.www.hutchinson.co.uk/resources/contact-preferences/

Marketing emails sent by Hutchinson Environmental Solutions will include an unsubscribe option.

For any queries relating to your contact preferences, you can email us at gdpr@csg.co.uk.

Your rights

As a data subject, you have a number of rights. If at any point you believe the information we process on you is incorrect you can request to see this information and even have it corrected or deleted. If you wish to raise a complaint about how we have handled your personal data, you can contact our Data Protection Officer who will investigate the matter.

You can:

  • Access and obtain a copy of your data on request
  • Require the organisation to change incorrect or incomplete data
  • Require the organisation to delete or stop processing your data, for example where the data is no longer necessary for the purposes of processing
  • Choose to remove your consent for us to process your personal data
  • Object to the processing of your data where the organisation is relying on its legitimate interests as the legal ground for processing.

If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please email gdpr@csg.co.uk.

If you believe that Hutchinson Environmental Solutions has not complied with your data protection rights, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

Cookie Notice

This notice is designed to help you understand what cookies are, how CSG uses them and the choices you have with regard to their use.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your browser or the hard drive of your computer or other device when you visit this website. This allows the website to recognise you as a user either for the duration of your visit (using a ‘session cookie’) or for repeat visits ( a ‘persistent cookie’). The cookie’s type and duration are indicated on our cookie list.

What are third-party cookies?

Any cookies created by a web domain other than the one you are visiting are classed as third-party cookies. Companies primarily use this type of cookie to track visitor behaviour across multiple websites. Popular web browsers such as Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer now prevent the placement of third-party cookies by default.

When you visit our website in Google Chrome and if signed into a Google account, Google can place third-party cookies on your browser. This can occur when you are visiting our contact pages which utilise Google’s ‘Recaptcha’ solution, or when you visit a page that contains an embedded Google Map.

We have listed and categorised these cookies. We cannot currently prevent Google from placing these cookies in these scenarios. If you do not wish to accept the use of these third-party cookies, then you will not be able to use the ‘Recaptcha’ box on our website forms (which is used to determine that you are a genuine website visitor) and you will be prevented from submitting a contact form on our website.

In this scenario, we would recommend you instead contact us by email at enquiries@hutchinson.co.uk, call us on 01434 220 508 or switch to using a web browser that prevents the placement of third-party cookies.

Can I turn off cookies?

Yes, you can remove your consent to the use of cookies on our website at any time.

Cookies can also be prevented using your web browser. For information on how to disable cookies, please consult the “Help” tab of your browser via the menu bar.

What do we use cookies for?

We have determined that there are four categories of cookies used on our website which are described below:

Necessary

These cookies are essential for the functionality of our website and therefore you cannot change the settings for these cookies. They ensure our website can maintain stability throughout your session. They also can be used to record your consent to the use of other, non-essential cookies. These cookies are used to keep the website safe and secure, by preventing fraud or crime and preventing spam.

Functional

Functional cookies help to perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features such as map functions. They also protect the security of our website by enabling spam filtering on our contact forms.

Analytics & Performance

These cookies help us understand how people use our website so that we can improve the way our website works.

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These cookies help us, and our partners understand what products, services and offers that might be relevant to you. This is so we and our partners can personalise the content and advertising you see on our website and our partner websites. We have carefully selected the partners we have chosen to work with and ensured that they value your privacy as highly as we value your privacy.

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