Effective Date: 20 April 2026
Welcome to Westshield. We are a North West construction group specialising in Civil Engineering, Construction, Housing, and Development. We respect your privacy and commit to protecting your personal data.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and share your personal data when you visit our website or interact with our services. It also explains your privacy rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
1. The Data We Collect
We collect information to provide you with the best possible service. The personal data we collect may include:
- Identity Data: Your first name, last name, and title.
- Contact Data: Your email address, telephone numbers, and billing or delivery addresses.
- Technical Data: Your IP address, browser type, and operating system.
- Usage Data: Information about how you use our website and services.
2. How We Use Your Data
We only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we use your data to:
- Respond to your enquiries regarding our civil engineering, construction, and development services.
- Manage our relationship with you, including notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy.
- Deliver relevant website content to you and understand the effectiveness of our services.
- Secure our website and protect it against fraud or abuse.
3. Data Storage and Security
We have put in place strong security measures to prevent your personal data from being lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorised way. We limit access to your personal data to employees, agents, and contractors who have a business need to know.
We will only keep your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for. This includes satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
4. Data Sharing
We do not sell your personal data. However, we may share your data with trusted third parties to help us run our business effectively. These include:
- Service providers who support our IT and system administration.
- Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, and insurers.
- Regulators and other authorities who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and treat it in line with the law.
5. Security and reCAPTCHA
To keep our website safe and secure, we use Google reCAPTCHA. This tool checks if a user is a person or an automated bot. The reCAPTCHA algorithm collects hardware and software information, such as device and application data, and sends it to Google for analysis. We use this service strictly to fight spam and abuse on our website.
6. Your Legal Rights Under GDPR
Under data protection laws, you have specific rights regarding your personal data. You have the right to:
- Request access to your personal data. This allows you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
- Request correction of any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you.
- Request erasure of your personal data when there is no good reason for us to continue processing it.
- Object to processing of your personal data where we rely on a legitimate interest.
- Request restriction of processing of your personal data. You can ask us to suspend the processing of your data in certain scenarios.
- Request the transfer of your personal data to you or a third party.
- Withdraw consent at any time where we rely on consent to process your personal data.
7. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or want to exercise your legal rights, please contact us.
Westshield
Email: info@westshield.co.uk
Website: www.westshield.co.uk
We aim to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally, it may take us longer if your request is complex or you have made multiple requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.