At Macfarlane Packaging and Macfarlane Group UK Limited (further described below as
“we/Macfarlane”), we take all security issues very seriously. We understand that security is
important to our customers and therefore implement security systems that provide security to the latest industry standards.
For information on how we handle your data, please see our privacy policy below.
This policy sets out the basis on which Macfarlane collects and processes your personal data
through your use of our website and/or other marketing activities.
Any changes we make to this policy in the future will be posted on this page and, if appropriate, notified to you by email so please check this page regularly.
For the purposes of this policy, Macfarlane refers to Macfarlane Group UK Limited.
Macfarlane Group UK Limited is the controller responsible for your personal data (referred to as “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy policy). Our registered office is Siskin Parkway East,
Middlemarch Business Park, Coventry, CV3 4PE.
We will always do our best to ensure that our processing and handling of personal data is done in accordance with all applicable data protection laws, including but not limited to (1) in respect of data subjects in the UK, the Data Protection Act 2018 and the UK’s retained version of the General Data Protection Regulation ((EU) 2016/679), and (2) in respect of data subjects in Ireland, the Irish Data Protection Act 2018 and the General Data Protection Regulation ((EU)
2016/679). If you have any questions about this privacy policy, the use of your personal
information, or your dealings with our website, you can contact us at
customercare@macfarlanepackaging.com or on 0800 288 8822 (if you are based in the UK) or
at irsales@macfarlanepackaging.com or on IE +353 404 37370 (if you are based in Ireland).
Alternatively, you can contact our Data Protection Officer by emailing dpo@macfarlanepackaging.com.
You will provide some or all the following information to us when you purchase goods from our website, register a customer account with us, contact us, or sign up for marketing activities:
Please Note: It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and up to date. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.
We do not collect any categories of sensitive personal data and our website is not intended for children so we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.
As you interact with our website, we also automatically collect usage and technical data (described below) about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies.
Usage Data – includes details of products and services you have purchased from us, and information about how you use our website;
Technical Data – includes:
Other – We may also receive information from third parties we work closely with such as delivery services, credit reference agencies and fraud prevention agencies.
Data protection law in the UK allows us to collect, use, store and transfer personal information if we have one or more of the lawful bases for doing so. We will normally have one or more of the following lawful bases for our processing:
Below are the ways we will use your personal data to fulfil your contract and/or for our legitimate interests:
We need your consent for direct marketing communications. If you have expressly given your consent to receive direct marketing from us, whether via our website or by other means, we may use the information you have given us for:
At any time, you can opt out of direct marketing or change your preferences by following the link on the emails we send to you or by contacting us using the details set out above.
Cookies: We need your consent for our use of cookies. You have the right to withdraw your
consent.
We may share your information within Macfarlane Group PLC and with our selected third parties for the purposes referred to above. For example:
We require all third parties engaged by us to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. Such third parties are only allowed to process your personal data in accordance with our instructions, and not for their own purposes.
From time to time, we may ask you if you would like to be contacted by other selected third parties, such as part of a joint promotion or a collaboration. If we do this, we will also provide you with a link to that third party’s privacy policy to help you decide if you wish to be contacted by them. If you do consent to this (by an express opt in), that third party would be the data controller in respect of any activity by them that you have consented to.
If you follow links to any other websites from our own website, these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
If you no longer wish to receive direct marketing and updates from Macfarlane, you can
unsubscribe at any time by clicking on the link in the footer of Macfarlane Packaging marketing
emails or using the ‘unsubscribe from all’ link within the email preference centre, which is
accessible through the emails. You can also amend your other marketing preferences within our preference centre.
Alternatively, you can contact us using the details set out above. If you are a customer registered online at macfarlanepackaging.com, you can also opt out and amend your preference settings within your login profile under “My Account”.
We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. All information you provide to us is stored on secure servers. We have also put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach.
Where you have chosen a password which enables you to access certain parts of our website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you to choose an effective, secure password and not to share your password with anyone.
We recommend only connecting to secure wireless networks that you trust to reduce the risk of unauthorised people intercepting your online activity. Beware of the risks of using public wifi.
If you receive an email purporting to be from Macfarlane Group asking for personal data, please do not respond to the email but please let us know that this has happened so we can check whether the email is genuine.
The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside of the UK.
Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the UK, we will endeavour to make sure that all such activity is carried out in compliance with all relevant data protection laws.
We will keep your data for as long as you are a customer and thereafter we may keep it for longer in order to respond to any questions or complaints and to maintain necessary records to satisfy legal, accounting or reporting requirements. We may also keep your data for research or statistical purposes.
You have the right to object to our use of your personal information, or to ask us to delete, remove or stop using it if there is no need for us to keep it. Please let us know if you think we should not be using it, but please be aware that there may be legal or other official reasons why we need to keep or use your information.
Your rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data are briefly summarised below, and where applicable you can exercise these rights by contacting us using the contact details outlined above. :
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data and we try to respond to all requests within one month.
You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). However, we would appreciate the chance to deal with any concerns you may have before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.
If you have any questions or require any more information, please contact us at
customercare@macfarlanepackaging.com or on 0800 288 8822 (if you are based in the UK) or
at irsales@macfarlanepackaging.com or on IE +353 404 37370 (if you are based in Ireland).
There are two cookie types that you may encounter on Macfarlane Group Websites. These are known as; ‘First party cookies’ and ‘Third party cookies’.
First party cookies: these are cookies that are necessary for our website to function and ensure a positive user experience.
Third party cookies: these are cookies delivered by other companies and determine ways in which we can improve or enhance our website. Please see below for a further description of these cookies and the time they remain resident on your computer.
First party cookies:
Name: PHPSESSID
Purpose: Stores session information whilst viewing the website to enhance user
experience. No personal information is used in this cookie.
Expires: When you close your browser.
Name _icl_current_language
Purpose: Stores the current language version of our Live Chat
Expires: 24 hours
Name: wplc_chat_status
Purpose: Checks the status of a Live Chat session
Expires: 24 hours
Third party cookies:
Used by Google Analytics, Facebook and Wordfence.
Provider: Google Analytics
Name: _gat
Purpose: used to throttle request rates for analytics tracking.
Expires: 1 minute.
Provider: Google Analytics
Name: _ga
Purpose: Used to distinguish users when tracking analytics
Expires: 2 years.
Provider: Google Analytics
Name: _gid
Purpose: Used to distinguish users when tracking analytics
Expires: 24 hours.
Provider: Facebook
Name: fr
Purpose: Used for advertising purposes
Expires: 3 months.
Provider: Wordfence
Name: wfvt
Purpose: A security cookie which helps prevent malicious website attacks, worms and
viruses that could impact our visitors.
Expires: 30 minutes.
Provider: Wordfence
Name: wordfence_verifiedHuman
Purpose: Security cookie used to verify if the visitor is a bot or human
Expires: 24 hours
The LinkedIn Insight Tag creates a unique LinkedIn browser cookie on a visitor’s browser and enables the collection of the following data for that cookie: metadata (such as I address, timestamp, page events (like page views), and LinkedIn demographic information if there is an active LinkedIn.com member cookie present. Collected data is encrypted. For more information see:
https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/65521
By using this website you are allowing cookies to be temporarily stored on your machine. Should you not wish this to happen then please navigate away from this site or disable cookies from within your Internet Browser.
Our website’s contact forms require users to give us contact information (like your name, email, postal address, etc.). Contact information from this form is used to supply information about Network Packaging or Macfarlane Packaging to you at a later date.
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this website, please contact marketing@networkpack.co.uk.