Privacy Policy

Do we disclose any information to outside parties?

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others' rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

What do we use your information for?

Any of the information we collect from you may be used in the following way:

To send periodic emails

The email address you provide for enquiries, will only be used to send you information and updates to our services that we believe may be of interest to you or your business.

How do we protect your information?

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you make an enquiry.

These security measures include: password protected directories and databases to safeguard your information.

Do we use cookies?

Yes - Cookies are small text files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computers' hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the sites or service providers systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. Whilst cookies can be used to track a user's activities across several web sites, George Dutton Ltd does not use any third party service that tracks a users' activity. The only third party service George Dutton Ltd uses to gather anonymous user data is through the Google Analytics Service

The George Dutton Ltd site uses what is known as a server session cookie, this identifies the user to the web site to allow the web site to remember certain actions when moving from page to page. These actions are stored on the server and not the end user. In order to comply with the changes brought in by the EU Directive on Cookies and other technologies for storing information on 26th May 2011.

Whilst we would encourage the user to allow cookies to be used in order to benefit from the features of the site, should the user wish they can turn off allowing cookies from the George Dutton Ltd site, however, this may interfere with the user's experience and some aspects of the site will not work.

We also use Google Analytics to monitor visitor numbers and certain other useful information which helps in the ongoing development of this site. Google Analytics also uses cookies to track your movement across the site. For more about what information Google Analytics gathers, please click here.

To find out more about the changes to cookies and their use on web sites, click here to visit the Information Commissioner's Office or click here to read the press release from the ICO.

In Windows the cookie we create is stored in the following folder:
Users / ***User name*** / AppData / Roaming / Microsoft / Windows / Cookies / Low
***User Name*** indicates the user's name or profile when using Windows.

In Mac OSX you can find cookies stored here:
***User Name*** / Libraries / Cookies / Cookies.plist

The cookie we create has a file name something like this - user@george-dutton[1].txt

For details about how to delete cookies, visit the AboutCookies.org web site.