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Privacy Statement

This document was last updated 1 February 2023.

1. What does this policy cover?

This privacy policy applies only to your use of this website. This site may contain links to other websites. Please note that Raeburn Drilling Northern has no control over how your data is collected, stored or used by other websites and advises you to check the privacy policies of any such websites before providing any data to them.

2. Your rights

As a data subject, you have the following rights under the UK’s data protection legislation, which this policy and Raeburn Drilling Northern’s use of personal data have been designed to uphold:

The right to be informed about Raeburn Drilling Northern’s collection and use of personal data;

The right of access to the personal data Raeburn Drilling Northern holds about you;

The right to rectification if any personal data it holds about you is inaccurate or incomplete (please contact Raeburn Drilling Northern using the details below);

The right to be forgotten – i.e. the right to ask Raeburn Drilling Northern to delete any personal data it holds about you (it only holds your personal data for a limited time, as explained below but if you would like it to delete it sooner, please contact Raeburn Drilling Northern using the details below);

The right to restrict (i.e. prevent) the processing of your personal data;

The right to data portability (obtaining a copy of your personal data to re-use with another service or organisation);

The right to object to Raeburn Drilling Northern using your personal data for particular purposes; and

Rights with respect to automated decision making and profiling.

If you have any cause for complaint about Raeburn Drilling Northern’s use of your personal data, please contact the company via info@raeburndrillingnorthern.com and it will do its best to solve the problem for you. If it is unable to help, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with the UK’s supervisory authority, the Information Commissioner’s Office.

For further information about your rights, please contact the Information Commissioner’s Office or your local Citizens Advice Bureau.

3. What data does Raeburn Drilling Northern collect?

Depending upon your use of Raeburn Drilling Northern’s site, it may collect some or all of the following personal and non-personal data (please also see the section below on use of cookies and similar technologies:

name;
business/company name
contact information such as email addresses and telephone numbers;
IP address;
web browser type and version;
operating system;
a list of URLs starting with a referring site, your activity on this site, and the site you exit to;

4. How does Raeburn Drilling Northern use your data?

All personal data is processed and stored securely, for no longer than is necessary in light of the reason(s) for which it was first collected. Raeburn Drilling Northern will comply with its obligations and safeguard your rights under the UK’s data protection legislation at all times. For more details on security see below.

Raeburn Drilling Northern’s use of your personal data will always have a lawful basis, either because it is necessary for its performance of a contract with you, because you have consented to its use of your personal data (e.g. by subscribing to the Raeburn Drilling Northern newsletter), or because it is in Raeburn Drilling Northern’s legitimate interests. Specifically, Raeburn Drilling Northern may use your data for the following purposes:

Providing and managing your access to the site;

Personalising and tailoring your experience on the site;
Replying to emails or queries from you;
Supplying you with emails that you have opted in to (you may unsubscribe or opt-out at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in the footer of any emails Raeburn Drilling Northern sends you;
Analysing your use of the site to enable Raeburn Drilling Northern to continually improve its site and your user experience;

With your permission and/or where permitted by law, Raeburn Drilling Northern may also use your data for marketing purposes which may include contacting you by email AND/OR telephone with information, news and offers on its services. It will not, however, send you any unsolicited marketing or spam and will take all reasonable steps to ensure that it fully protects your rights and complies with its obligations under the UK’s data protection legislation and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003.

You have the right to withdraw your consent to Raeburn Drilling Northern using your personal data at any time, and to request that Raeburn Drilling Northern deletes it.

It does not keep your personal data for any longer than is necessary in light of the reason(s) for which it was first collected. Data will therefore be retained for the following periods (or its retention will be determined on the following bases): IP Address, geographical and non-personally identifiable data is stored for a maximum of 2 years.

5. How and where does Raeburn Drilling Northern store your data?

It only keeps your personal data for as long as it needs to in order to use it as described above, and/or for as long as it has your permission to keep it.

Some or all of your data may be stored outside of the European Economic Area (“the EEA”) (The EEA consists of all EU member states, plus Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein). You are deemed to accept and agree to this by using the site and submitting information to Raeburn Drilling Northern. If it does store data outside the EEA, it will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your data is treated as safely and securely as it would be within the UK and under the Data Protection Act 1998

Data security is very important to Raeburn Drilling Northern, and to protect your data it has taken suitable measures to safeguard and secure data collected through this site.

Steps Raeburn Drilling Northern takes to secure and protect your data include:

All non-personally identifiable data is stored with Google and is collected in cookies outlined below. Raeburn Drilling Northern may sometimes use third party data processors that are located outside of the European Economic Area (“the EEA”) (The EEA consists of all EU member states, plus Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein). Where it transfers any personal data outside the EEA, it will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your data is treated as safely and securely as it would be within the UK and under the UK’s data protection legislation:

6. Does Raeburn Drilling Northern share your data?

Raeburn Drilling Northern will not share any of your data with any third parties for any purposes other than outlined in Section 5.

It may compile statistics about the use of its site including data on traffic, usage patterns, user numbers, and other information. All such data will be anonymised and will not include any personally identifying data, or any anonymised data that can be combined with other data and used to identify you. It may from time to time share such data with third parties such as prospective investors, affiliates and partners. Data will only be shared and used within the bounds of the law.

Raeburn Drilling Northern may sometimes use third party data processors that are located outside of the European Economic Area (“the EEA”) (The EEA consists of all EU member states, plus Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein). Where it transfers any personal data outside the EEA, it will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your data is treated as safely and securely as it would be within the UK and under the UK’s data protection legislation:

7. What happens if the business changes hands?

Raeburn Drilling Northern may, from time to time, expand or reduce its business and this may involve the sale and/or the transfer of control of all or part of the business. Any personal data that you have provided will, where it is relevant to any part of the business that is being transferred, be transferred along with that part and the new owner or newly controlling party will, under the terms of this privacy policy, be permitted to use that data only for the same purposes for which it was originally collected by Us.

In the event that any of your data is to be transferred in such a manner, you will not be contacted in advance and informed of the changes.

8. How can you control your data?

You may wish to sign up to one or more of the preference services operating in the UK: The Telephone Preference Service (“the TPS”), the Corporate Telephone Preference Service (“the CTPS”), and the Mailing Preference Service (“the MPS”). These may help to prevent you receiving unsolicited marketing. Please note, however, that these services will not prevent you from receiving marketing communications that you have consented to receiving.

9. Your right to withhold information

You may access certain areas of the site without providing any data at all. However, to use all features and functions available on the site you may be required to submit or allow for the collection of certain data.

You may restrict the use of cookies.

10. How can you access your data?

Under the UK’s data protection legislation, no fee is payable and Raeburn Drilling Northern will provide any and all information in response to your request free of charge. Please contact Raeburn Drilling Northern for more details at info@raeburndrillingnorthern.com or using the contact details below.

11. Raeburn Drilling Northern’s use of cookies

Raeburn Drilling Northern’s site may place and access certain first party cookies on your computer or device. First party cookies are those placed directly by Raeburn Drilling Northern and are used only by Raeburn Drilling Northern. It uses cookies to facilitate and improve your experience of the site and to provide and improve its services. Raeburn Drilling Northern has carefully chosen these cookies and has taken steps to ensure that your privacy and personal data is protected and respected at all times.

All cookies used by and on Raeburn Drilling Northern’s site are used in accordance with current cookie law.

Certain features depend on cookies to function. Cookie law deems these cookies to be “strictly necessary”. Raeburn Drilling Northern has taken great care to ensure that your privacy is not at risk by allowing them.

This site uses analytics services provided by Google. Website analytics refers to a set of tools used to collect and analyse anonymous usage information, enabling Raeburn Drilling Northern to better understand how the site is used. This, in turn, enables Raeburn Drilling Northern to improve the site and the services offered through it. You do not have to allow Raeburn Drilling Northern to use these cookies, however whilst its use of them does not pose any risk to your privacy or your safe use of the site, it does enable Raeburn Drilling Northern to continually improve the site, making it a better and more useful experience for you.

With respect to the Google Analytics cookies, please note that Raeburn Drilling Northern has entered into a data processing agreement with Google that ensures that the last octet of your IP address is masked when Raeburn Drilling Northern provides information to Google, that it does not use any other Google services in combination with Google Analytics cookies and that it does not share any data with Google for advertisement purposes. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.