Personal Data and General Confidentiality Agreement

Who we are

Our website addresses are: https://www.cc-computers.com and all subdomains, such as https://members.cc-computers.com

We are CritchCorp Computers Ltd a Computer, Hosting and Communications company based in England, registered number 05928822, registered office 132 – 134 Great Ancoats Street, Manchester, M4 6DE.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

We do not use third party advertising cookies on this site. All cookies are of the required and functional/temporary type or convenience type. There is therefore no list of cookies to toggle on/off.

If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year. If you choose not to save these details, then the cookie will not be saved.

If you have an account, and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. When you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site 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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Account data

If you sign up for an account (specifically at store.cc-computers.com) or buy anything then we will retain your data, including any validation data used to validate your identity, for as long as necessary to maintain your account plus six years after your account is closed to comply with all applicable laws.

Analytics

We use analytical data to help us to analyse our site's usage, and to help improve it.

Who we share your data with

Analytical data

Our analytical data is collected by third parties who protect your data (personal) and only use aggregate data.

Suppliers

We also need to share your data with our suppliers in order to provide you with some products and services. We only do this where absolutely necessary. Our suppliers have agreed and been vetted for their compliance with the GDPR.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

cc-computers.com

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

members.cc-computers.com & www.cc-computers.com

For users who register on this website and purchase anything, we retain your data for as long as necessary, usually six years after your last product or service is cancelled. You have access to view your data and edit parts of it.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on any of our sites, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Additional information

What data breach procedures we have in place

See our data breach policy here.

What automated decision-making and/or profiling we do with user data

We use spam filtering for comments and email. We also use automated fraud checks for purchases.

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements

CritchCorp Computers Ltd is regulated by OfCom for our relevant products and services (Phones, telecoms and internet).