About This Policy

This Privacy Policy is intended to inform you of our policies and practices regarding the collection, use and disclosure of any Personal Information and Anonymous Information you submit to us through our website and your communications with us.

We hope you take the time to read this policy. It is important to check back often for updates. If we make changes we consider to be important, we will let you know by placing a notice on the relevant Service and/or contact you using other methods such as email.

What Personal Data We Collect & Why

We collect information about you when you send us an email, leave comments or submit a request form but only for the purposes of carrying out our contracted service or contacting you with a reply as requested. This information may include, but is not limited to, your name, e-mail address, phone number, credit/debit card details and any other details as might be requested from you for the purpose of registration and/or continued use of our Services.

We may also collect information from you if you request information or customer support.

Contact Forms

When you send us a contact form request, that information is used solely for the purposes of replying to your message. The contact form software we use records your data in our website database so it can send us a notification of your correspondence. Emails are retained on the database for a period of two months, after which they are deleted.

Cookies

Nope, not the delicious chocolate chip ones but, instead, little bits of code that follow you around the web.

Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites.

Our cookies help us:

  • Make our website work as you’d expect
  • Save you having to login every time you visit the site
  • Remember your settings during and between visits
  • Improve the speed/security of the site
  • Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook
  • Continuously improve our website for you
  • Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to offer the service we do at the price we do)

We do not use cookies to:

  • Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
  • Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
  • Pass data to advertising networks
  • Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
  • Pay sales commissions
You can learn more about all the cookies we use below.

Granting Us Permission To Use Cookies

If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however, doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.

INSURANCE

The Supplier shall have insurance against liability to pay damages and costs in respect of third-party injury and third-party property damage or loss arising in connection with the performance of the Agreement by the Supplier and consequential loss suffered by Harte with an insurance company approved by the Department of Trade and Industry or similar organisation outside the UK. Harte reserves the right to request evidence of the insurance and examine any policy document.

CONFIDENTIALITY

All information concerning Harte’s business and its products that the Supplier becomes aware of in connection with the Agreement is confidential and shall not be disclosed to a third party.

STATUTORY AND OTHER REQUIREMENTS

The Supplier warrants that they have fully complied with all relevant statutes, regulations, orders, bylaws, and standards in force at the time of delivery.

FORCE MAJEURE

Neither party will be liable to the other for failing to comply with any of its obligations hereunder if, and to the extent that such failure is wholly and directly caused by an event beyond their reasonable control including without limitation, fires, floods, Governmental regulations, wars and industrial action, provided that the party affected shall immediately notify the other party thereof and shall thereafter exert all reasonable diligence to overcome such cause and resume performance of its obligations.

ASSIGNMENT AND SUB-LETTING

The Supplier shall not assign the Agreement in whole or part without the prior written consent of Harte.

NOTICES

Any notice required to be served on the other party under this Agreement shall be in writing. Such notices may be served by hand or 1st class post to the business address of the parties or by facsimile transmission to such address or number as either party may notify to the other from time to time for this purpose.

LAW AND CONSTRUCTION

  • The construction, validity and performance of the Agreement shall in all respects be governed by English Law and the parties shall submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
  • The headings of conditions are for convenience of reference only. In accordance with HMRC legislation under Part 13 CTA 2009, Harte Civil Engineering Ltd may claim R&D tax credits on orders placed if services are of qualifying nature.