Cookies Privacy Policy & Modern Day Slavery

This is the website of: Access Innovations

We can be reached via e-mail:  info@accessinnovations.co.uk, or you can reach us by telephone: 0800 859 5287

1. Cookies

By using the website of you consent to the usage of data captured by the use of cookies. Cookies allow us to do multiple things to enhance and improve your browsing experience on our website. If you wish to turn off cookies, please adjust your browser settings. Our website will continue to function without cookies.

We use cookies to track visitors to our website; these details are in no way personal or identifiable details and will never be shared. Our cookies are for the sole purpose of improving the performance of our website for you, the user; this includes allowing us to geo-target our users, to make websites more personal and relevant to you.

Below are the third party tools we use:

Google Analytics

Page views, source and time spent on website are part of the user website activities information we can see with this cookie. This information cannot be tracked back to any individuals as it is displayed as depersonalised numbers; this is in order to help protect your privacy whilst using our website.

Using Google Analytics we can take account of which content is popular, helping us to provide you with reading and viewing materials which you will enjoy and find useful in the future.

We also use Google Analytics Remarketing cookies to display adverts on third party websites to our past site users, based on their past visits. The data we collect will only be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy.

Should you not wish for your website visits to be recorded by Google Analytics, you are able to opt-out with the addition of a browser add-on: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/

Google Analytics Advertiser

We use Google Analytics Advertiser Features, which helps us to better understand site visitors, via anonymised data. This can include collecting information from:

• Google Display Network Impression Reporting
• DoubleClick Platform integrations
• Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting
• Remarketing with Google Analytics

This information is collected via Google advertising cookies and anonymous identifiers, in addition to data collected through the standard Google Analytics implementation. It allows us to understand what type of users visit the site, which then allows us to improve the website’s offerings for a better user experience.

Google AdWords

We use Google AdWords to see which pages led to our users submitting contact forms to us, which allows us to create a more effective marketing campaign, and make better use of our paid search budget.

DoubleClick

We use DoubleClick cookies and remarketing codes on our website to record user activity. The information we collect allows us to create targeted advertising in future work and across Google’s network of partners.

Website Optimiser

Our website optimiser uses cookies to remember your search history. The information collected is anonymous and not personally identifiable, and allows us to generate more relevant results for your searches in the future.

Call Tracking

We use Call Tracking to set dynamic phone numbers on our site. These help us identify how you found the website when you call us and allows us to identify the source that you used to find the website. It gives a better idea of our users’ requirements and lets us tailor our advertising methods in the future. If you phone us, your call may be recorded for training and quality purposes.

Visitor Tracking

We often record and monitor user’s behaviour around a website to analyse how we can improve its performance.

2. Privacy Policy

For each visitor to our web page, our web server will not hold any information regarding the domain or email address.

If you supply us with your postal address you will only receive the information for which you provided us your address.

Persons who supply us with their telephone numbers will only receive telephone contact from us with information regarding enquiries placed online.

If you do not want to receive emails from us in the future, please let us know by sending us an email at the above address.

3. Personal Identification Information

We may collect personal identification information from users in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to when users visit our site, subscribe to our newsletter or fill out a form, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our site. Users may be asked for, as appropriate: name, email address and phone number.

However, users may visit our site anonymously. We will only collect personal identification information from users if they voluntarily submit such information to us. Users can always refuse to supply personal identification information, except that it may prevent them from engaging in certain site related activities.

Your personal information may be used to inform any promotional information sent to you about third parties that are deemed to be relevant to your needs. Unless we have your permission, or unless required to do so by law, we will never sell, distribute or lease any personal information to a third party.

4. How We Store & Protect Your Information

We adopt appropriate data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal information, username, password, transaction information and data stored on our site.

Consumers can have any inaccurate contact information corrected by sending us an email at the above address.

5. Sharing your Personal Information

We do not sell, trade, or rent users’ personal identification information to others. We may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personal identification information regarding visitors and users with our business partners, trusted affiliates and advertisers for the purposes outlined above.

We may use third party service providers to help us operate our business and the site or administer activities on our behalf, such as sending out newsletters or surveys. We may share your information with these third parties for those limited purposes provided that you have given us your permission.

With respect to Ad Servers: We do not partner with or have special relationships with any ad server companies.

6. Variations to the Policy

From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses that have not been previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will post the policy changes to our website to notify you of these changes. For these new purposes, we will only use data collected from the time of the policy change forward. If you are concerned about how your information is being used, you should check back at our website periodically.

Customers may prevent their information from being used for purposes other than those for which it was originally collected by emailing us at the above address.

If you feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, you may contact us at the above addresses or phone number.

For any further information regarding cookies, or our use of cookies, please visit: support.google.com/analytics/answer/2700409?hl=en-GB

7. Modern Day Slavery Statement

ORGANISATION & INTRODUCTION

This statement applies to Access Innovations UK Ltd. The information included in the statement refers to the financial year 2020. The following statement sets out the actions by Access Innovations LTD to understand all potential modern day slavery risks related to its business and take action that is aimed at ensuring that there is no slavery or human trafficking in its own business or within its supply chains, this statement relates to actions and activities during the financial year 1^st January to 31^st December 2020. As part of the service industry, access innovations recognise that is has a responsibility to take a robust approach to slavery and human trafficking.

Access Innovations is committed to preventing slavery and human trafficking in its company’s activities, and to ensuring that its supply chain is free from slavery and human trafficking.

ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE

During the financial year of 2020 access innovations operated in the United Kingdom. Where Access Innovations has local personnel centralised office based in the UK, region is West Midlands from which location all staff work; organisation is a limited company. Works are carried across the UK due to being a service company. Operation is annually

The labour supplied to the Access Innovations UK Ltd in pursuance of its operation is carried out in UK, and suppliers based in Italy and Germany. Servicing is carried out within the UK, with all staff based centrally in the West Midlands, all servicing is wholly carried out in the UK by qualified and highly skilled engineers.

DEFINITIONS

The Access Innovations UK Ltd considers that modern slavery encompasses:

• Human trafficking;
• Forced work, through mental or physical threat;
• Being owned or controlled by an employer through mental or physical abuse of the threat of abuse;
• Being dehumanised, treated as a commodity or being bought or sold as property;
• Being physically constrained or to have restriction placed on freedom of movement.

COMMITMENT

The Access Innovations UK Ltd acknowledges its responsibilities in relation to tackling modern slavery and commits to complying with the provisions in the Modern Slavery Act 2015. The Access Innovations UK Ltd understands that this requires an ongoing review of both its internal practices in relation to its labour force and, additionally, its supply chains.

The Access Innovations UK Ltd does not enter into business with any other organisation, in the United Kingdom or abroad, which knowingly supports or is found to involve itself in slavery, servitude and forced or compulsory labour.

No labour provided to the Access Innovations UK Ltd in the pursuance of the provision of its own services is obtained by means of slavery or human trafficking. The Access Innovations UK Ltd strictly adheres to the minimum standards required in relation to its responsibilities under relevant employment legislation in United Kingdom.

SUPPLY CHAINS

In order to fulfil its activities, the Access Innovations UK LTD main supply chains include those related to the supply door, barriers and gate systems within the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy.

In relation to its supply chain, Access Innovations conducts a regular risk assessment of the different types of supply so as to identify where there is the greatest risk of modern-day slavery and human trafficking being involved. For instance, the servicing industry is considered low risk.

POTENTIAL EXPOSURE

The Access Innovations UK Ltd considers its main exposure to the risk of slavery and human trafficking to exist, in general, the Access Innovations UK Ltd considers its exposure to slavery/human trafficking to be relatively limited. Nonetheless, it has taken steps to ensure that such practices do not take place in its business nor the business of any organisation that supplies goods and/or services to it.

IMPACT OF COVID-19

During the reporting period covered by this statement, the COVID-19 pandemic had taken hold. For several months, the UK was placed into lockdown to stem the spread of COVID-19. This created several challenges for the Access Innovations UK Ltd, as it did for others across the nation.

The Access Innovations UK Ltd welcomes the UK Government’s decision, as confirmed in April 2020, to allow for a delay of up to 6 months in the publication of modern slavery statements without the risk of facing penalty.

Despite the permitted, delay, the Access Innovations UK Ltd remains in a position to publish its statement for the financial year 2020 in line with the original publishing requirements.

The Access Innovations UK Ltd concludes that the COVID-19 pandemic did not adjust the risk of modern slavery to a level above that which existed before the pandemic.

In line with emergency legislation passed by the Government, Access Innovations employees have been paid Statutory Sick Pay during periods of self-isolation where it has not been possible to agree a temporary period of homeworking.

The Access Innovations UK LTD modern slavery risks were subject to the same monitoring procedures during the pandemic as at all other times.

STEPS

The Access Innovations UK Ltd carries out due diligence processes in relation to ensuring slavery and/or human trafficking does not take place in its organisation or supply chains, including conducting a review of the controls of its suppliers.

The Access Innovations UK Ltd has not, to its knowledge, conducted any business with another organisation which has been found to have involved itself with modern slavery.

In accordance with section 54(4) of the Modern Slavery Act 2015, the Access Innovations UK Ltd has taken the following steps to ensure that modern slavery is not taking place, steps taken include:

• Reviewed supplier contracts to include termination powers in the event that the supplier is, or is suspected, to be involved in modern slavery;
• Placed measures to identify and assess the potential risks in its supply chains
• Embed a Zero Tolerance policy towards modern slavery

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

The Access Innovations UK Ltd has set the following key performance indicators to measure its effectiveness in ensuring modern slavery is not taking place in the Access Innovations UK Ltd or its supply chains.

• Access Innovations has evaluated all existing higher risk suppliers

POLICIES

The Access Innovations UK Ltd has the following policies which further define its stance on modern slavery, policies include, Access Innovations team, and in relation to access innovations supply chain. Risk assessment: assessments are conducted by, in relation to recruitment, the team, and in relation to Access Innovations supply chain, procurement management to monitor supplier code of conduct and recruitment.

TRAINING

The Access Innovations UK Ltd provides the following training to staff to effectively implement its stance on modern slavery is included in Access Innovations induction training course.

SLAVERY COMPLIANCE OFFICER

The Access Innovations UK Ltd has a Slavery Compliance Officer, to whom all concerns regarding modern slavery should be addressed, and who will then undertake relevant action with regard to the Access Innovations UK Ltd obligations in this regard.

This statement is made in pursuance of Section 54(1) of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and will be reviewed for each financial year.