Privacy Policy

  1. USER PRIVACY AND DATA PROTECTION
    We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors and users of our services. We will never sell, rent or otherwise distribute or make public your personal information.
     
  2. RELEVANT LEGISLATION
    Along with our business and internal computer systems, this website is designed to comply with the following national and international legislation with regards to data protection and user privacy:

    UK Data Protection Act 1988 (DPA)
    EU Data Protection Directive 1995 (DPD)
    EU General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR)

    This site’s compliance with the above legislation, all of which are stringent in nature, means that this site is likely compliant with the data protection and user privacy legislation set out by many other countries and territories as well.
     
  3. PERSONAL INFORMATION THAT THIS WEBSITE COLLECTS AND WHY WE COLLECT IT
    This website collects and uses personal information for the following reasons:
     
    1. Site visitation tracking
      Like most websites, this site uses Google Analytics (GA) to track user interaction. We use this data to determine the number of people using our site, to better understand how they find and use our web pages and to see their journey through the website.

      Although GA records data such as your geographical location, device, internet browser and operating system, none of this information personally identifies you to us. GA also records your computer’s IP address which could be used to personally identify you but Google do not grant us access to this. We consider Google to be a third party data processor (see section 6.0 below).

      GA makes use of cookies, details of which can be found on Google’s developer guides. Disabling cookies on your internet browser will stop GA from tracking any part of your visit to pages within this website.
       
    2. Contact forms and email links
      Should you choose to contact us using the contact form on our Contact us page or via email, the data will be collated into an email and received buy our devices using our GDPR compliant Google Business Suite (see 6.0 OUR THIRD PARTY DATA PROCESSORS).
       
  4. HOW WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
     
    1. On This Website
      As detailed in section 3.2 above, if you submit a enquiry this will be also stored within this website’s database. This is currently the only occasion where personal data will be stored on this website.
       
  5. ABOUT THIS WEBSITE’S SERVER
    This website is hosted within a UK data centre.

    External Certifications
    ISO 27001: Information Security Management System
    ISO 14001: Environment Management System
    ISO 9001: Quality Management System
    PCI Data Security Standards (PCI DSS)
    BSI PAS 2060: Carbon Neutral
    NIC EIC Approved Contractor

    Protection of Hardware & Data
    ISO 27001:2013 (Info Security Mgmt.), ISO 9001:2008 (Quality) and PCI DSS
    Access control
    Proximity cards
    Staffed 24/7/365 (by SIA-accredited staff)
    CCTV - internal and external
    2.8m secure fencing and razor wire perimeter fence
    Site-specific, dedicated firewall technology
    24hr NSOI-accredited security patrol

    Additional Security
    Not only do we protect your data from threats, we continuously monitor and control all of our security and fire systems using a number of additional systems. These systems include: network connectivity and latency CCTV systems, cage and entry door access controls as well as the physical grounds, temperature, moisture and humidity levels in individual suites and power levels (down to individual power bars within racks).

    All traffic (transferral of files) between this website and your browser is encrypted and delivered over HTTPS.

     
  6. DATA BREACHES
    We will report any unlawful data breach of this website’s database or the database(s) of any of our third party data processors to any and all relevant persons and authorities within 72 hours of the breach if it is apparent that personal data stored in an identifiable manner has been stolen.
     
  7. DATA CONTROLLER
    The data controller of this website is: Sustainable Agricultural Inputs, Smallrigg Cottage, Lochmaben, Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, DG11 1JH
     
  8. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
    This privacy policy may change from time to time inline with legislation or industry developments. We will not explicitly inform our clients or website users of these changes. Instead, we recommend that you check this page occasionally for any policy changes. Specific policy changes and updates are mentioned in the change log below.
    1. Change log
      27/10/2021 – version 1.0
      Privacy policy instigated