Last Updated: 17th January 2025
1. Introduction
OC Digital Ltd (“we”, “us”, or “our”) is committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your information when you visit our website https://www.oc.digital/, in line with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.
2. Information We Collect
Personal Data: We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide through forms on our website, by email, in person, or by telephone. This may include your name, email address, and contact information.
Usage Data: We automatically collect certain data when you visit our website, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, and browsing behaviour. This is done through Google Analytics to help us understand how our website is used. IP addresses are also collected and stored for security and spam prevention purposes.
Cookies and Tracking Technologies: For details on how we use cookies and similar technologies, please refer to our separate cookie policy.
3. Use of Your Information
We use the data we collect for the following purposes:
- To operate and maintain our website.
- To respond to your enquiries and manage form submissions.
- To analyse website usage and improve user experience.
- To protect our website against spam and abuse through security tools like CAPTCHA.
4. Disclosure of Your Information
We may share your data in the following instances:
- Service Providers: We share data with trusted third parties, such as website hosting providers and analytics services, solely for the purposes outlined in this policy.
- Legal Compliance: We may disclose your data where required by law or to protect our legal rights.
5. CAPTCHA and Security Measures
We use CAPTCHA services (e.g., Google reCAPTCHA) on our forms to prevent spam and automated abuse. These services may collect data such as your IP address and user behaviour to distinguish between human users and bots. Use of these services is governed by their respective privacy policies.
6. Embedded content from other websites
Pages on this website may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
7. Data Security
We implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data. However, no method of data transmission over the internet is completely secure.
8. Data Retention
We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes described in this policy or as required by law.
9. Your Data Protection Rights
Under UK GDPR, you have the following rights:
- Access: Request copies of your personal data.
- Rectification: Request correction of inaccurate data.
- Erasure: Request deletion of your data, under certain conditions.
- Restriction: Request restriction of processing your data.
- Objection: Object to our processing of your data.
- Data Portability: Request transfer of your data to another organisation.
To exercise these rights or make an enquiry, please use our Contact Form available on our website.
10. Third-Party Links
Our website may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for their privacy practices and encourage you to review their policies.
11. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically. Changes will be posted on this page with an updated “Last Updated” date.
12. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how we handle your data, please use our Contact Form available on our website.