Egis Services Ltd Customer Privacy Notice

This privacy notice tells you what to expect us to do with your personal information.

Contact details:

Email: hello@egisservices.co.uk

What information we collect, use, and why:

We collect or use the following information to provide services and goods, including delivery:

  • Names and contact details

  • Addresses

  • Payment details

  • Health & Safety Information

  • Website user information

  • Photographs or video recordings

  • Information relating to compliments or complaints

Lawful bases and data protection rights:

Under UK data protection law, we must have a “lawful basis” for collecting and using your personal information. There is a list of possible lawful bases in the UK GDPR. You can find out more about lawful bases on the ICO’s website.

Which lawful basis we rely on may affect your data protection rights which are set out in brief below. You can find out more about your data protection rights and the exemptions which may apply on the ICO’s website:

If you make a request, we must respond to you without undue delay and in any event within one month.

To make a data protection rights request, please contact us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.

Our lawful bases for the collection and use of your data:

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information to provide services and goods are:

  • Legitimate interests – we’re collecting or using your information because it benefits you, our organisation or someone else, without causing an undue risk of harm to anyone. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to portability. Our legitimate interests are:

  • We provide Joinery & Carpentry services to customers across the UK. We would collect personal information for any new customers who have enquired with us or requested a quotation. The reason we collect their personal information is so we can get in contact with them to supply our services for any projects they wish to use us for.

For more information on our use of legitimate interests as a lawful basis you can contact us using the contact details set out above.

Where we get personal information from:

  • Directly from you

How long we keep information:

We only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to provide our services, meet our legal obligations and protect our legitimate business interests.

Our retention periods are as follows:

  • Enquiries and quotations – We retain names, contact details, property addresses and correspondence relating to enquiries and quotations for up to 12 months after our last communication, unless you become a customer.

  • Customer project records – If you instruct us to carry out work, we retain your contact details, property address, project information, meeting notes, correspondence and any photographs relating to your project for up to 7 years after the project has been completed. This allows us to provide ongoing customer support, respond to queries, maintain project records and comply with our legal obligations.

  • Invoices and payment records – Financial records, including invoices and payment information, are retained for at least 6 years in accordance with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) requirements.

  • Website data – Information collected through cookies and website analytics is retained in accordance with our Cookie Policy and the settings of the services we use, such as Google Analytics.

  • Compliments and complaints – Records relating to customer feedback, compliments or complaints may be retained for up to 7 years where necessary to resolve issues, improve our services or comply with legal obligations.

Once the relevant retention period has expired, we will securely delete or anonymise your personal information unless we are legally required to retain it for a longer period.`

Cookies

Cookies are small pieces of data that websites store on a device. Cookies can improve our visitors’ browsing experience because they help websites remember preferences and understand how people use different features. Squarespace places two kinds of cookies on visitors’ browsers:

  • Necessary cookies so visitors can navigate and use key features on our site. 

  • Non-essential, or analytics and performance cookies, that collect information on our behalf about how visitors interact with our site.

_acloggedin

  • Supports login by Acuity Scheduling client if the client has an account

  • Duration: January 1, 2025

ACUITY_CART

  • Stores details about a client's package, gift, or subscription purchase, including the item purchased and the quantity

  • Only applies to the new scheduler

  • Type: localStorage

  • Duration: No expiration

_client_acloggedin

  • Supports login by Acuity Scheduling client if the client has an account

  • Duration: January 1, 2025

_dd_cookie_test

  • Tests if cookies are supported

  • Duration: Expires instantly

_dd_s

  • Tracks browser errors

  • Duration: Four hours

_dd_site_test

  • Tests if cookies are supported

  • Duration: Expires instantly

_grecaptcha

  • Helps reduce spam in Acuity Scheduling

  • Type: localStorage

  • Duration: No expiry

_ssid

  • Remembers devices for anti-fraud purposes

  • Duration: Four years

CART

  • Shows when a visitor adds a product to their cart

  • Duration: Two weeks

CHECKOUT_WEBSITE

client_username

  • Remembers a logged in Acuity Scheduling client's username between visits

  • Duration: One year

clientUser

  • Stores the Acuity Scheduling client's username, OAuth2 Access Token, and OAuth2 Refresh Token. This cookie is required for functionality of logged-in clients

  • Duration: 30 days

Commerce-checkout-state

  • Stores state of checkout while the visitor is completing their order in PayPal

  • Type: sessionstorage

  • Duration: Session

Crumb

hasCart

  • Tells Squarespace that the visitor has a cart

  • Duration: Two weeks

Locked

  • Prevents the password-protected screen from displaying if a visitor enters the correct site-wide password.

  • Duration: Session

orderStatusSessionToken

  • Authenticates a visitor who logs into an order status page.

  • Duration: One year

PHPSESSID

  • Securely authenticates a visitor during their checkout in Acuity Scheduling

  • Duration: One month

RecentRedirect

  • Prevents redirect loops if a site has custom URL redirects. Redirect loops are bad for SEO.

  • Duration: 30 minutes

remember_client

  • Remembers Acuity Scheduling client’s login details if they have an account

  • Duration: 365 days

siteUserCrumb

SiteUserInfo

SiteUserSecureAuthToken

  • Authenticates a visitor who logs into a customer account

  • Duration: Three years

squarespace-announcement-bar

  • Prevents the announcement bar from displaying if a visitor dismisses it

  • Type: localStorage

  • Duration: Persistent

squarespace-likes

  • Shows when you've already "liked" a blog post

  • Type: localStorage

  • Duration: Persistent

squarespace-popup-overlay

  • Prevents the promotional pop-up from displaying if a visitor dismisses it

  • Type: localStorage

  • Duration: Persistent

squarespace-video-player-options

  • Remembers video player selected preferences (volume, playback speed, and quality) for videos uploaded directly to Squarespace

  • Type: localStorage

  • Duration: Persistent

ss_performancecookiesAllowed

  • Remembers if a visitor agreed to placing Performance and Analytics cookies on their browser, if your site has a cookie banner and is restricting the placement of cookies

  • Duration: 30 days

ss_marketingcookiesAllowed

  • Remembers if a visitor agreed to placing Marketing cookies on their browser, if your site has a cookie banner and is restricting the placement of cookies

  • Duration: 30 days

ss_sd

  • Ensures that visitors on the Squarespace 5 platform remain authenticated during their sessions

  • Duration: Session

Test

  • Investigates if the browser supports cookies and prevents errors

  • Duration: Session

TZ

  • Enables a Acuity Scheduling client’s appointments to display correctly based on their time zone preferences.

  • Type: localStorage

  • Duration: Persistent

Analytics and performance cookies

Squarespace uses analytics and performance cookies to collect information on our behalf about how visitors interact with our site. These are the analytic and performance cookies used:

ss_cid

  • Duration: Two years

  • Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

ss_cpvisit

  • Duration: Two years

  • Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

ss_cvisit

  • Duration: 30 minutes

  • Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

ss_cvr

  • Duration: Two years

  • Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

ss_cvt

  • Duration: 30 minutes

  • Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

How to complain:

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a data protection complaint to us:

Email:hello@egisservices.co.uk

If you remain unhappy with how we’ve used your data after raising a complaint with us, you can also complain to the ICO. 

The ICO’s address:

Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113

Website: https://www.ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint