Privacy Policy

Last updated: February 2025

1. Introduction

Welcome to Badgerworks (“we”, “us”, or “our”). We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. This privacy policy explains how we collect, use, and share information about you when you visit www.badgerworks.co.uk (the “Site”).

If you have any questions or concerns about this policy or our practices, please contact us at the details provided at the end of this document.

2. Information We Collect

We may collect the following types of information when you visit our Site:

Information you provide to us

  • Contact information: If you contact us via social media or other means, we may receive your name, email address, or social media handle.

Information collected automatically

  • Usage data: We automatically collect certain information when you visit our Site, including your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, and the date and time of your visit.
  • Cookies and similar technologies: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to collect information about your browsing activity on our Site. See the Cookies section below for more details.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect to:

  • Operate, maintain, and improve our Site
  • Understand how visitors use our Site so we can improve the user experience
  • Monitor and analyse usage trends and activity
  • Detect, prevent, and address technical issues
  • Respond to your enquiries and communications

4. Cookies and Third-Party Services

Cookies

Cookies are small data files placed on your device when you visit a website. We use cookies to understand how you use our Site and to improve your experience.

The types of cookies we use include:

  • Essential cookies: Necessary for the Site to function correctly.
  • Analytics cookies: Used to understand how visitors interact with the Site, such as which pages are most visited.

You can control and manage cookies in your browser settings. Please note that disabling cookies may affect your ability to use certain features of our Site.

Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager

We use Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager to collect anonymised information about how visitors use our Site. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect this information. The data collected includes pages visited, time spent on pages, and how you arrived at our Site. This information helps us improve the Site.

Google may transfer this information to third parties where required by law, or where those third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.

You can opt out of Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.

For more information about how Google uses data when you use our site, see: How Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps.

5. Sharing Your Information

We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to third parties. We may share your information only in the following circumstances:

  • Service providers: We may share information with third-party service providers that assist us in operating and improving our Site (such as Google for analytics), subject to their own privacy policies.
  • Legal requirements: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid legal requests.

6. Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. Analytics data collected through Google Analytics is retained in accordance with Google’s standard data retention settings.

7. Your Rights

Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, including:

  • Right of access: You may request a copy of the personal information we hold about you.
  • Right to rectification: You may request that we correct any inaccurate personal information.
  • Right to erasure: You may request that we delete your personal information in certain circumstances.
  • Right to restrict processing: You may request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.
  • Right to data portability: You may request a copy of your data in a structured, machine-readable format.
  • Right to object: You may object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details below. We will respond within 30 days.

8. Security

We take reasonable measures to help protect your personal information from loss, theft, misuse, and unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. However, no internet transmission is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of information transmitted to or from our Site.

9. Links to Other Websites

Our Site may contain links to third-party websites (such as LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, and GitHub). We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites and encourage you to review their privacy policies before providing them with your personal information.

10. Changes to This Policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. When we do, we will revise the “Last updated” date at the top of this page. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about how we protect your information.

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this privacy policy or our data practices, please contact us via: