Privacy Policy

This website is owned and administered by Covol Engineering Limited. We want you to visit our site and are committed to maintaining your privacy when doing so. Your privacy and the security of your data is important to us and we have set out this policy in clear sections. You are encouraged to read this privacy notice to ensure you are happy with it. Any queries about it should be sent to info@covol.co.uk

Any data and information made accessible by this website is made available on an “As is” and “As available” basis without any warranty or representations, either expressed or implied. Access to this website and the downloading of data and information from such website are at the user’s own risk.

The term ‘Covol’ or ‘Covol Engineering Ltd’ or ‘us’ or ‘we’ refers to the owner of the website whose registered office is Office 507/508, Belasis Business Centre, Coxwold Way, Billingham, TS23 4EA. Our company registration number is 11184319 and is registered in England & Wales.

The term ‘you’ refers to the user or viewer of our website.

The following provides an overview of how we protect your privacy during your visit.

The information we gather

We automatically collect statistical information regarding website traffic. Part of this information is collected through the use of cookies. A cookie is a small text file saved to your computer and allows our website to follow your visit and to recognise your computer when you visit our website again. A cookie is not a program and does not contain virus, nor spreads malicious software. Cookies will be used to measure traffic, develop and improve our web services.

We may use cookies to save your preferences or language to provide a better experience on our websites.

We also collect information when you voluntarily submit it to us. It is completely up to you whether or not you want to provide it.

We automatically log the following information about your visit:

  • Internet Protocol (IP) address & Internet Service Provider
  • Geography
  • Time of access
  • Browser type and language
  • Operating system
  • Screen resolution
  • The web page you visited before our site

We collect information about your usage and activity on our sites e.g. visited pages, words searched for in our site search engine and whether your computer/browser has previously accessed our sites.

One example of information we collect indirectly is through our Internet access logs. When you access covol.co.uk your Internet address is automatically collected and is placed in our Internet access logs.

Third party cookies

We sometimes embed photos and video content from websites such as YouTube. As a result, when you visit a page with content embedded from other websites, you may be presented with cookies from these websites. We do not control the dissemination of these cookies. You should check the relevant third-party website for more information about their use of cookies.

The use of this information

Information about how you navigated the site is analysed to determine what is most effective about our site, to help us identify ways to improve it and determine how we can tailor covol.co.uk to make it more effective. We may also use data for other purposes, which we would describe to you at the point we collect the information.

Sharing information with outside parties

We will not share this information with outside parties

Sensitive personal data

If we collect such data we will ask you to consent to our proposed uses of the data. We may also collect some sensitive personal data incidentally. By providing us with unsolicited sensitive personal data, you consent to our using the data subject to applicable law as described in this Privacy Statement. The references to “sensitive personal data” are to the various categories of personal data identified by European and other data privacy laws as requiring special treatment, including in some circumstances the need to obtain explicit consent.

Access to your information

You are entitled to know whether we hold information about you and, if we do, to have access to that information and require it to be corrected if it is inaccurate. You can do this by contacting us at info@covol.co.uk

Data security

As far as possible, we take appropriate steps to maintain the security of your data. You should understand, however, that the open nature of the Internet is such that data may flow over networks without security measures and may be accessed and used by people other than those for whom the data is intended.

We are interested in maintaining your privacy and creating a valuable resource for you to use. If you have any questions now or during your visit, please contact us at info@covol.co.uk