Helmsman Privacy Policy

Your privacy is very important to us. At Helmsman we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:
We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.

Helmsman Storage Solutions Ltd. (“Helmsman”) operates helmsman.co.uk. It is Helmsman policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website.

Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Helmsman collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Helmsman purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Helmsman visitors use its website.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Helmsman websites choose to interact with Helmsman in ways that require Helmsman to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Helmsman gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who would like more information or a quote to provide personal details. For those who wish to receive Helmsman updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, Helmsman collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfil the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Helmsman. Helmsman does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics
Helmsman may collect statistics about the behaviour of visitors to its websites. For instance, Helmsman may monitor the most popular pages on helmsman.co.uk site. Helmsman may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Helmsman does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Helmsman discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Helmsman’s behalf or to provide services available at Helmsman’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Helmsman’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Helmsman will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Helmsman discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental requests, or when Helmsman believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Helmsman, third parties or the public at large. If you have subscribed to Helmsman website and have supplied your email address, Helmsman may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Helmsman and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Helmsman takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Helmsman uses cookies to help Helmsman identify and track visitors, their usage of Helmsman website, and their website access preferences. Helmsman visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Helmsman’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Helmsman’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers
If Helmsman or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Helmsman goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that are transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and that any acquirer of Helmsman may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Helmsman may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Helmsman’s sole discretion. Helmsman encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.