Hanson Building Products Limited and Hanson Quarry Products Europe Limited (see Trading Divisions) are members of the HeidelbergCement Group. This website is operated by Hanson Building Products Limited and its group companies ("we", "our", us") and by Hanson Quarry Products Europe Limited and its group companies. We are one of the UK's leading suppliers of heavy building materials. By using and visiting our website and using our service you agree to this privacy policy. We respect the privacy of visitors to our sites and recognize that when you choose to provide us with information about yourself, you trust us to act in a responsible manner. That's why we have put a policy in place to protect your personal information. Please read on for more details about our privacy practices.

What information do we collect? How do we use it?
When you register with us we ask for information such as your name, email address and other contact details. We keep a record of this information. This is necessary for us to recognise you as a registered site user.

If you choose to give us personal information via the internet that we may need - to correspond with you for example, we will let you know how we will use such information. If you tell us that you do not wish to have this information used as a basis for further contact with you, we will respect your wishes.

We will use your personal details and information we obtain from other sources to provide you with our products and services, for administration and customer services, to analyse your preferences and to ensure that the content, products, services and advertising that we offer are tailored to your needs and interests. We may keep your information for a reasonable period for these purposes. We may need to share your information with our service providers and agents for these purposes. We may disclose personal data in order to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

We intend to continue improving the content and function of the Hanson Building Products Limited website. For this reason, we may monitor customer traffic patterns and site usage to help us improve the design and layout of our site and provide content of interest to you.

Your consent and other people's information
By providing us with your personal information, you consent to our processing your personal data for the above purposes. You also consent to our transferring your information to countries or jurisdictions which do not provide the same level of data protection as the UK, if necessary for the above purposes. If we do make such a transfer, we will, if appropriate, put a contract in place to ensure that your information is protected.

If you provide us with information about another person, you confirm that they have appointed you to act for them, to consent to the processing of their personal data, including sensitive personal data, and that you have informed them of our identity and the purposes (as set out above) for which their personal data will be processed.

Use of cookies
We may use information obtained about you from cookies (files which are sent to us by your computer or other access device) which we can access when you visit our site in future. We do this to allow us to identify users and personalise the site wherever possible. The cookies store small pieces of information about our visitors, such as names and email addresses. This means that on future visits to our sites, we can identify past visitors and welcome them back.

If you want to delete any cookies that are already on your computer, please refer to the instructions for your file management software to locate the file or directory that stores cookies. Our cookies should be labeled with hanson.co.uk or hanson.co.uk. If you want to stop cookies being stored on your computer in future, please refer to your browser manufacturer's instructions by clicking "Help" in your browser menu. Further information on deleting or controlling cookies is available at www.AboutCookies.org. Please note that by deleting our cookies or disabling future cookies you may not be able to access certain areas or features of our site.

When you visit our site, we may also log your IP address, a unique identifier for your computer or other access device.

How do we use your information for marketing?
We may share your information with our business partners for marketing purposes or we may send you information about other organisations' goods and services. We or they may contact you by mail, telephone, email, fax or other electronic messaging service with offers of products, services or information that may be of interest to you. By providing us with your contact details you consent to being contacted by these methods for these purposes. If you do not wish to receive marketing information from us or our business partners please indicate this on the ["Registration"] form or contact us using the details below.

How do we protect your information?
We take appropriate measures to ensure that the information disclosed to us is kept secure, accurate and up to date and kept only for so long as is necessary for the purposes for which it is used.

Disclaimer
We may link to a variety of other sites or display advertisements from third parties on our site, we are not responsible for the content or privacy policies of these sites or advertisers or for the way in which information about their users is treated. In particular, unless expressly stated, we are not agents for these sites nor are we authorised to make representations on their behalf .

Passwords
In order to bring you more personalized services, we may ask you to establish one or more passwords to gain access to certain services or sections within our web site. You are solely responsible for the control and use of each password you create.

Other Information
You should note that if our business (or any part of it) is sold or transferred at any time, the information we hold may form part of the assets transferred although will still only be used in accordance with this policy.

We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions from this policy at any time so you are encouraged to review this policy from time to time. We will, of course, notify you of any changes where we are required to do so.

You are entitled to ask for a copy of the information we hold about you (for which we may charge a small fee) and to have any inaccuracies in your information corrected.

For quality control and training purposes, we may monitor or record your communications with us.

When and how to contact us
If your personal details change, if you change your mind about any of your marketing preferences or if you have any queries about how we use your information, please let us know by contacting us at enquiries@hanson.com