CS Ellis Logistics (‘We’) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This policy (together with our terms of use and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. By browsing this website and communicating electronically with us, you acknowledge and agree to this use.

For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the ‘Act’), the data controller is CS Ellis Logistics.

1. INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM YOU
We may collect and process the following data about you:

• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site (‘our site’) or by e-mail, telephone or any other means of communication. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site, subscribing to our service, posting material or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our site. If you open an account with us we may obtain information about you from a credit reference agency.
• If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
• We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
• Details of transactions you carry out through our site and of the fulfilment of your orders.
• Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access.

2. IP ADDRESSES AND COOKIES
We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type for system administration. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.

For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised service. They enable us:

• To estimate our audience size and usage pattern.
• To store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site according to your individual interests.
• To speed up your searches.
• To recognise you when you return to our site.

You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site.

3. WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers and/or our account with Google Analytics (part of Google.com). Any payment transactions will be encrypted. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site and any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

4. USES MADE OF THE INFORMATION
We use information held about you in the following ways:

• To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
• To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
• To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so.
• To identify potential customers.
• To administer customer accounts.
• To carry out market research.
• To monitor visitor traffic patterns and site use in order to enhance and improve our website.
• To notify you about changes to our service.

We may also use your data, or permit selected third parties to use your data, to provide you with information about goods and services which may be of interest to you and we or they may contact you about these by post or telephone.

If you are an existing customer, we will only contact you by electronic means with information about goods and services similar to those which were the subject of a previous sale to you.

If you are a new customer, and where we permit selected third parties to use your data, we (or they) will contact you by electronic means only if you have consented to this.

If you do not want us to use your data in this way, or to pass your details on to third parties for marketing purposes, please tick the relevant box situated on the form on which we collect your data.

5. DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
We may disclose your personal information to third parties:

• in the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
• if CS Ellis Logistics or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.
• If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of CS Ellis Logistics, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

6. YOUR RIGHTS
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at [email protected]

7. UPDATING YOUR DATA
If any of your details change (e.g. you move or your e-mail address changes) or you believe the information we hold about you is incorrect please let us know by amending your registration details or by sending an e-mail to [email protected]

8. LINKS TO OTHER SITES
Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from other websites that may be of interest to you. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

9. ACCESS TO INFORMATION
The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.

10. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.

11. CONTACT
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to [email protected]

RULES OF ACCEPTABLE USE

1. ACCEPTANCE OF ACCEPTABLE USE RULES
These rules (the “Rules”) set out the terms under which you may access our website () (“our site”) and any interactive services on our site. The Rules apply to all users of, and visitors to our site and to any interactive services on our site. Your use of our site, and any submission of material by you to our site and to any interactive services associated with it, means that you accept and agree to abide by all the terms and conditions of these Rules.

The Rules supplement the terms of website use and privacy policy applicable to our site.

is a site operated by (“we” or “us”).

We expressly exclude liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of our site, and any interactive service on our site, by any person in contravention of these Rules.

2. LIMITATION OF OUR LIABILITY
We do not evaluate or guarantee the accuracy of any business descriptions, business details, reviews, testimonials, information, tutorials, questions, answers or other information posted on our site or on any interactive services provided on our site and we are under no obligation to you or any other person to oversee, monitor or moderate such interactive service. We reserve the right to remove, or to disable access to, any contribution to any such interactive service which we deem to be potentially defamatory of any person or which we deem unlawful or in violation of any third party rights.

You agree that any use you make of information posted on our site or on any interactive service provided on our site is at your own risk. You agree that we are not responsible for any response you receive or do not receive or for any loss, harm, injury or damage resulting from or arising out of your submission of an enquiry or question or your use or reliance on any response thereto or other information posted on our site or on any interactive service provided on it.

While the administrators of our site will attempt to remove or edit any generally objectionable material as quickly as possible, it is impossible to review every page or message posted on our site or on any interactive service provided on it. The opinions expressed by contributors and members to our site or such interactive service are the opinions of the individual author and do not reflect opinions of .

3. SUBMISSION OF CONTRIBUTIONS
The Content Standards set out below apply to any and all material which you contribute to our site and to any interactive services provided on our site, including the member’s pages and comments (“Contribution”). The Content Standards apply to each part of a Contribution as well as to its whole. The Content Standards must be complied with in spirit as well as to the letter. We will determine, in our discretion, whether a Contribution breaches the Content Standards.

4. CONTENT STANDARDS
A Contribution must:

• Be accurate (where it states facts)
• Be genuinely held (where it states opinions)
• Comply with the law applicable in England and Wales and in any country from which it is posted
• Be relevant

A Contribution must not:

• Be defamatory of any person
• Be obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory
• Promote sexually explicit material
• Promote violence
• Promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age
• Disclose the name, address, telephone, mobile or fax number, e-mail address or any other personal data in respect of any individual
• Infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person
• Be likely to deceive any person
• Be threatening, abuse or invade another’s privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety
• Breach any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence
• Be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy another person
• Impersonate any person, or misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person
• Give the impression that the Contribution emanates from .
• Advocate, promote, incite any third party to commit, or assist any unlawful or criminal act
• Contain any advertising or promote any services or web links to other sites.

5. PROHIBITED USES
You may use our site only for lawful purposes. You may not use our site:

• In any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation.
• In any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect.
• To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with our Content Standards.
• To transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar association (spam).
• To knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.

You also agree:

• Not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our site in contravention of the provisions of our terms of website use.
• Not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt:
• Any part of our site
• Any equipment or network on which our site is stored
• Any software used in the provision of our site; or
• Any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.

6. BREACH OF THE RULES
When we consider that a breach of the Content Standards has occurred, we may at our discretion take such action as we deem appropriate. Failure to comply with these Rules constitutes a material breach of the terms of use on which you are permitted to use our site and any interactive services provided on our site, and may result in taking all or any of the following actions:

• Immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our site, including any interactive service provided on our site.
• Immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any Contribution already posted on the Forum or any other interactive service provided on our site.
• Issue of a warning to you.
• Legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach.
• Further legal action against you.
• Disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary or as required by law.
• We exclude liability for all action we may take in response to breaches of these Rules. The actions described above are not limited and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.

7. COMPLAINTS
If you wish to complain about any Contribution posted to the Site or any other interactive service provided on our site, please e-mail using the e-mail address . We will then review the Contribution and decide whether it complies with the Content Standards above. We will deal with any Contribution which, in our opinion, violates the Content Standards as described above. We will inform you of the outcome of our review within a reasonable time of receiving your complaint.

8. CHANGES TO THESE RULES
We may revise these Rules at any time. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we may make, as they are legally binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in these Rules may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.