Cabcon have been involved in the manufacture and distribution of power, data and telecommunications industry since 1985. Originally trading as an independent company, Cabcon UK Ltd, the company was acquired by and merged into the Acal BFi in August 2014. Acal BFi are a division of discoverIE Group plc.
Cabcon (“we”, ”us”, and “our”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This policy (together with our terms and of website use, cookie policy and any other documents referred to in 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.
Cabcon are part of Acal BFi, a discoverIE Group Plc company. Acal BFi have offices in 10 countries and offer sales and support services across all of Europe.
For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the “Act”), the data controller is Cabcon of 3 The Business Centre, Molly Millars Lane, Wokingham, Berkshire RG41 2EY.
We may collect and process the following data about you.
By using our site or submitting information to us through or in connection with our site, you signify your consent to our collection, use and disclosure of your personal and business information in accordance with this privacy policy. If you do not agree with this privacy policy, you must not use our site or submit information to us through or in connection with our site.
We will store your personal data, such as name, email address and company name, in a secure database. We will not share your personal details outside of Cabcon or Acal BFi, except in the circumstances mentioned below.
If you have signed up for our newsletters, we use third-party software to send out our emails, and so your email address will be stored securely by our third-party provider. We will not pass on or sell your email address to any other company.
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users on our website, to build up a better picture of how users use our website. Please see our Cookie policy for more details on the cookies we use and how you can opt out of them.
We may collect information about your computer including, where available, your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration purposes, to establish the number of visits from different countries and to determine where you are accessing our site and services from. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual. It also helps us direct you to your local country website. Please see our cookie policy for more details on the cookies we use and how you can opt out of them.
We use information held about you in the following ways.
Our website will give you detailed information about how we will contact you in relation to specific services, activities or online content.
We may disclose your personal information to third parties in the following circumstances.
Because of the international nature of our business, we may need to transfer to other entities within Cabcon and Acal BFi, and to third parties as noted above. Personal data may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff may be engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of your order, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data you agree to this transfer, storing and processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy. Any data held by Acal BFi is stored in European data centres.
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 – any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information we will use strict procedures and security features to mitigate against unauthorised access.
If you wish to exercise any of the rights mentioned here, please email data-protection@acalbfi.com.
Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from our sites of our partner networks and affiliates. 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.
This privacy policy may be updated from time to time so you may wish to check it each time you submit personal information to us. The date of the most recent revisions will appear on this page. If you do not agree to these changes, please do not continue to use our site or to submit personal information to us. Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page.
We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary to comply with any legislative requirement for the relevant activity, or as long as is set out in any relevant contract you hold with us.
Where you contribute material to us, we will generally only keep your information for as long as is reasonably required for the purpose(s) for which it was submitted. For example, we will only keep copies of entries to a competition for the duration of the competition.
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be emailed to data-protection@acalbfi.com.
Last updated 14 May 2018