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Introduction
This Privacy Policy is issued by Albrighton Group Services Ltd,
which operates under the trading brand AGS Security. We are committed
to safeguarding your privacy when you visit our website,
www.albrighton-group.co.uk.
This policy explains how we collect, use, share and protect personal
information when you use our website.
Where we need your consent — for example for optional cookies, or to
keep your details on file after a job application — we will always ask
for it separately, and you are free to refuse or to change your mind later.
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Who We Are and How to Contact Us
Albrighton Group Services Ltd, trading as AGS Security, is the data
controller for the personal information described in this policy.
Albrighton Group Services Ltd
Trading as AGS Security
Company number: 13057321
Science Park, Creative Industries Centre
Glaisher Drive, Wolverhampton WV10 9TG
United Kingdom
info@albrighton-group.co.uk
0333 577 1777
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Information We Collect
We collect personal information where it is necessary to respond to
you, provide information about our services, manage applications and
improve the operation of our website.
Personal information you provide
This may include your name, email address, telephone number,
company name, postcode and information submitted through enquiry,
quotation, Careers or newsletter forms.
Website usage information
Subject to your cookie choices, we may collect information such
as your IP address, browser type, device information, pages visited
and time spent on the website to help us understand and improve
website performance.
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How We Use Your Information
We may use personal information to:
- Respond to enquiries, quotation requests and service enquiries.
- Provide and manage information relating to our services.
- Assess and manage job applications.
- Operate, secure and improve our website.
- Send newsletter or marketing communications where you have subscribed.
- Meet applicable legal and regulatory obligations.
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Our Lawful Bases for Using Your Information
Under the UK GDPR, we must have a lawful basis for processing personal
information. Depending on the circumstances, we may rely on:
Legitimate Interests
To respond to enquiries and quote requests, operate and promote
our services and keep our website secure and functioning properly.
Steps Before a Contract
Where you ask us to provide a quotation, discuss security services
or take steps towards entering into a contract.
Consent
For optional cookies and similar technologies, recruitment storage
where consent is requested, and marketing emails where you subscribe.
Legal Obligation
Where processing is necessary to meet legal or regulatory requirements,
including relevant right-to-work requirements.
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Cookies and Similar Technologies
Our website uses cookies and similar technologies. Some are strictly
necessary for the website to work and may operate without consent where
permitted by law.
Optional technologies — including Google Analytics and embedded Google
Maps content — are controlled through our cookie-consent system and remain
blocked until the appropriate consent is given.
When you first visit the site you can Accept,
Deny or choose View preferences.
You can later change or withdraw your choices using
Manage consent.
Google Analytics is only loaded if you consent to Statistics cookies.
Google Maps content remains blocked until you consent to the relevant
Marketing category.
View Our Cookie Policy
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Job Applications and Recruitment
If you apply for a role through our Careers page, we collect the
information you provide as part of your application.
This can include your name, contact details and postcode, the role applied
for, right-to-work information, SIA licence information, driving licence
or transport information, availability, employment or education history,
previous employment details, personal statement and any CV you upload.
We use this information to assess and manage your application and to meet
relevant recruitment, licensing, right-to-work and screening requirements.
Where an application progresses through our recruitment process, and only
where necessary, relevant information may be shared with appropriate
screening, vetting or compliance providers for right-to-work, SIA licensing,
identity or employment-history checks. Any such provider is required to keep
your information confidential and handle it in accordance with applicable
data-protection requirements.
Information relating to unsuccessful applications is normally retained for
six months after the recruitment process ends, unless there is a lawful
reason to retain it for longer.
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Newsletter and Marketing
Where you choose to subscribe to marketing or newsletter communications,
we use the contact information you provide for that purpose.
You can unsubscribe at any time using the unsubscribe option provided in
the communication or by contacting us at
info@albrighton-group.co.uk.
We do not sell or rent your personal information for marketing purposes.
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Sharing Your Information
We do not sell or rent your personal information.
We may use trusted organisations that help us operate our website,
communicate with users and provide website functionality. This may include
website hosting, email services, website analytics and mapping services.
Google provides the website analytics and mapping services described in
our Cookie Policy where you have provided the relevant consent.
We may also disclose personal information where required by law, where
necessary to protect legitimate rights or interests, or as part of a
legitimate corporate transaction such as a merger or sale of the business.
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Transfers Outside the United Kingdom
Some third-party services used to operate our website may process personal
information outside the United Kingdom.
For example, if you consent to Statistics cookies or embedded Google Maps,
information such as your IP address may be processed by Google in connection
with those services.
Where personal information is transferred internationally, the transfer is
governed by the terms, arrangements and safeguards maintained by the relevant
provider and applicable data-protection law.
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How Long We Keep Your Information
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary
for the purpose for which it was collected and to meet applicable legal,
accounting or business-record requirements.
Website enquiries & quotes
Retained only for as long as reasonably necessary to respond to
the enquiry, manage any resulting commercial relationship and meet
applicable legal, accounting or business-record requirements.
Unsuccessful job applications
Normally retained for six months after the recruitment process ends.
Newsletter subscribers
Retained until you unsubscribe or ask us to remove your details.
Website analytics
Retained in accordance with the retention settings applicable to
our Google Analytics property.
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Data Security
We take data protection seriously and use reasonable technical and
organisational measures designed to protect personal information from
unauthorised access, loss, misuse, alteration or disclosure.
However, no transmission of information over the internet or electronic
storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
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Your Data Protection Rights
Depending on the circumstances, you may have the right to:
- Access — request a copy of personal information we hold about you.
- Rectification — ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete information.
- Erasure — ask us to delete information where the law allows.
- Restriction — ask us to limit processing in certain circumstances.
- Portability — receive relevant information in a commonly used electronic format where applicable.
- Object — object to processing based on legitimate interests in appropriate circumstances.
- Direct marketing — object at any time to use of your information for direct marketing.
- Withdraw consent — where we rely on consent, withdraw it at any time.
For cookie consent, use the Manage consent facility.
For marketing emails, use the unsubscribe option. For other privacy
requests, contact us at
info@albrighton-group.co.uk.
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Complaints and the ICO
If you are unhappy with how we have handled your personal information,
please contact us first so we have an opportunity to address your concern.
You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s
Office (ICO), the UK’s supervisory authority for data protection.
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire SK9 5AF
Helpline: 0303 123 1113
Visit the ICO Website
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Links to Other Websites
Our website contains links to other websites, including social-media
profiles, Google Maps and guidance published by organisations such as
the Health and Safety Executive.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to those external websites. We are
not responsible for their content or privacy practices and recommend
reviewing the privacy information provided by the relevant website.
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Children
Our website and services are primarily aimed at businesses and adults.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children through
this website.
If you believe a child has provided personal information to us through
the website, please contact us so that we can review and, where appropriate,
delete the information.
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Automated Decision-Making
We do not use personal information collected through this website to make
solely automated decisions that produce legal effects or similarly
significantly affect you, and we do not carry out profiling of this kind.
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Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes
in our website, business practices, services or applicable legal requirements.
The latest version will be published on this page and the date of the
latest revision is shown at the top of the policy.
