Privacy policy

This privacy policy applies to all personal information submitted to ST Electronics Limited (Company Reg No 9092497) whose registered office address is: 13b Horseshoe Park, Horseshoe Road, Pangbourne, Berkshire. RG8 7JW. In this privacy policy a reference to “we”, “us” and “our” is a reference to ST Electronics.

We are committed to preserving the privacy of our customers and visitors to our website, www.st-electronics.com  (our “Site”). Please read the following privacy policy carefully to understand how we use and protect the information that you provide to us. If you do not accept these terms, please do not submit your personal information to us.

For the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998, we are the “Data Controller”.

We may collect and process the following data about you:

(a) Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Site. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Site, posting material or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information should you report a problem with our Site.
(b) If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
(c) We may also ask you to complete surveys we use for research purposes, although you are not obliged to respond.
(d) Details of transactions you carry out through our Site and of the fulfilment of your orders.
(e) Details of your visits to our Site and the resources that you access and this may include your IP address, operating system and browser type.
(f) Information about your use of this Site by using a “cookie” file that is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Please refer to the “Cookies” section for further information.

We may use your personal data in the following ways:

(a) To ensure that content from our Site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
(b) To provide you with information, products or services you have requested from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes.
(c) To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
(d) To notify you about changes to our service.

Storage of personal data

The data that we collect from you 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 trusted partners. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this possible transfer, storing or processing.  We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

We will keep your personal data confidential

Other than using your personal data as set out above, we will not disclose or sell your personal data outside our company, except to our sub-contractors, agents or suppliers who are under a duty of confidentiality, or in connection with the proposed or actual sale of the whole or part of our business.

We may also have to disclose your personal information:

(a) if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation;
(b) in order to enforce or apply our Site terms of use and other agreements; or
(c) to protect our, our customers’ or others’ rights, property, or safety.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. We will take all reasonable technological and organisational measures protect your personal data, however we cannot guarantee the security of data transmitted to our Site – any transmission is at your own risk.

Your rights

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you 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 at any time by contacting us at ST Electronics Limited at our Registered Address or by e-mail at sales@st-electronics.com

You have a right to ask us to provide a copy of the personal data we hold about you and, where you do, we are entitled by law to make a small administrative charge for providing such data.

General

Our Site may contain links to third party websites. We are not responsible for the data protection or privacy policies of those third parties. Any changes to our privacy policy in the future will be posted to our Site.
All comments, queries and requests relating to our use of your personal data are welcomed and should be addressed to Sales at sales@st-electronics.com or by post and sent to ST Electronics Limited at the Registered Address.