Privacy Policy | Tornado Wire Ltd
Tornado Wire Ltd is a fencing manufacturer incorporated in Scotland and we are committed to protecting any data that we collect concerning you. By using our services you agree to the use of the data that we collect in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
We are committed to protecting your privacy and our website is protected against unauthorised access using firewalls. We will not share your information with third parties unless legally obliged to do so.
This Policy indicates the type of processes that may result in data being collected about you. Your use of this website gives us the right to collect that information.
To manage the cookies and similar technologies used (tracking pixels, web beacons, etc.) and related consents, we use the consent tool “Real Cookie Banner”. Details on how “Real Cookie Banner” works can be found at https://devowl.io/rcb/data-processing/.
The legal bases for the processing of personal data in this context are Art. 6 (1) lit. c GDPR and Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interest is the management of the cookies and similar technologies used and the related consents.
The provision of personal data is neither contractually required nor necessary for the conclusion of a contract. You are not obliged to provide the personal data. If you do not provide the personal data, we will not be able to manage your consents.
Types of communications
By submitting your email address you are consenting to receive the particular piece of information you requested, as well as allowing us to send you appropriate and useful communications. This includes, but is not limited to; promotion information, special offers, company news and events, pricing information, product updates and opinion surveys.
Please note that if you are a customer of Tornado Wire, you will also receive information for the purpose of transacting our commercial business.
At any time, you can update your preferences by clicking the link in any emails you receive from us. The link will always be in the footer of the email. You can also stop receiving marketing from us using that same link.
Information Collected
We may collect any or all of the information that you give us depending on the type of transaction you enter into, including your name, address, telephone number and email address, together with data about your use of the website. Other information that may be needed from time to time to process a request may also be collected as indicated on the website.
When using our Fencing tracker app ‘Tornado Track’ your username, email address and password will be collected.
Personal information provided by third parties
We may receive information about you from other sources such as Mailchimp. We may also obtain information about you from social media providers such as Twitter and Facebook or from third party websites where you left commentary or feedback about us.
Information Use
We use the information collected primarily to process the task for which you visited the website. Data collected in the UK is held in accordance with the Data Protection Act. All reasonable precautions are taken to prevent unauthorised access to this information. This safeguard may require you to provide additional forms of identity should you wish to obtain information about your account details. We may analyse your information to create a profile about you in order to serve you with relevant content for example promotional information or product information that may be of interest.
Links to other websites
Once you use external links to leave our site we do not have any control over the other website. Therefore we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information that you provide whilst visiting external sites.
Farm Fence Talk forum
When you submit content through public forums any personal information provided is done at your own risk.
How long we keep your information for
We will not keep your personal date for longer than is necessary taking into account information needed for refund purposes, applicable legal requirements and limitation periods.
Controlling your personal information
You may access and amend your personal details at any time. If we receive a request from you to change you details we will take reasonable steps to ensure the request originated from a legitimate source. You may unsubscribe from our mailing list or withdraw consent at any time by using the links in the footer of any email sent by us. You can also contact us directly and ask us to remove your details from our mailing list. You have the right to know what personal information we maintain about you and we will provide you with a copy upon request. To get in touch with us about your data email data@tornadowire.com
Complaints
If you are unhappy about the use of your information you can contact us via data@tornadowire.com or Tornado Wire Ltd, Unit 4b, Waterloo Road Industrial Estate, Bidford on Avon, B50 4JH
This privacy policy can be changed by us at any time. Check back periodically to ensure you are up to date with our policy.
Cookie Policy
Website cookies and link tracking
Cookies allow us to provide important site functionality so you don’t have to re-enter lots of information. They also allow us to remember what links and pages have been clicked or viewed during a session. If you have provided us with personal data, completing a contact form for example, we may associate this personal data with other information. This will allow us to identify and record what is most relevant to you.
By using your browser controls, you are always in control of the cookies we store and access on your computer. More information on how to control cookies and limit personal data processing can be found at www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/five-top-tips.
Cookies are small text files that are placed on to your computer by websites that you visit. They are used to make websites work, to improve efficiency of websites, to improve the user’s experience and to provide usage information on websites. This information should make your website visits more productive by storing and using information on your website preferences and habits.
Your web browser can choose whether or not to accept cookies. Most web browser software is initially set up to accept them. If you would like to block cookies you can do this through the privacy and security menu on your browser. However if you do block all cookies you will not be able to use our website. We use the following cookies:
- Essential cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, and to use online forms.
- Analytical cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Marketing cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you and remember your preferences. These cookies also record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and communications sent more relevant to your interests.
By continuing to use this site, you are accepting our use of these cookies that make communications more relevant to you and your interests and further help us to improve the site.
Full list of cookies
| Cookie name | Type | Host | Category | Purpose | Expiry |
| impression.php/# | cookie | www.facebook.com | Marketing | Used by Facebook to register impressions on pages with the Facebook login button | Session |
| r/collect | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Marketing | unclassified | Session |
| mailchimp_landing_site | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Marketing | unclassified | 1 month |
| mailchimp_user_email | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Marketing | unclassified | 1 month |
| mailchimp_campaign_id | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Marketing | unclassified | 1 month |
| mailchimp_user_previous_email | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Marketing | unclassified | 1 month |
| mc_user_optin | cookie | www.chimpstatic.com | Marketing | unclassified | 1 year |
| PHPSESSID | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Essential | Preserves user session state across page requests | Session |
| wc_cart_hash_# | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Essential | unclassified | Session |
| wc_fragments_# | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Essential | unclassified | Session |
| apbct_cookies_test | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Essential | unclassified | Session |
| apbct_visible_fields | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Essential | unclassified | Session |
| apbct_visible_fields_count | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Essential | unclassified | Session |
| ct_checkjs | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Essential | unclassified | Session |
| ct_cookies_test | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Essential | unclassified | Session |
| ct_pointer_data | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Essential | unclassified | Session |
| ct_timezone | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Essential | unclassified | Session |
| wp-wpml_current_language | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Essential | WPML is a multilingual system for WordPress websites. The cookies store the language of the user and can redirect the user to the version of the website that matches with the language of the browser of the user. | 1 day |
| wp-wpml_current_admin_language_* | IndexedDB | www.tornadowire.com | Essential | WPML | No Expiration |
| _icl_visitor_lang_js | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Essential | WPML | Session |
| wpml_browser_redirect_test | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Essential | WPML | Session |
| wc_cart_hash_* | Local Storage | www.tornadowire.com | Essential | WooCommerce is an e-commerce shop system that allows you to buy products on this website. Cookies are used to collect items in a shopping cart, to store the shopping cart of the user in the database of the website, to store recently viewed products to show them again and to allow users to dismiss notices in the online shop. | No Expiration |
| woocommerce_cart_hash | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Essential | WooCommerce | Session |
| wp_woocommerce_session_* | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Essential | WooCommerce | 2 days |
| woocommerce_items_in_cart | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Essential | WooCommerce | Session |
| woocommerce_recently_viewed | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Essential | WooCommerce | Session |
| store_notice* | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Essential | WooCommerce | Session |
| wordpress_* | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Essential | WordPress is the content management system for this website and allows registered users to log in to the system. The cookies store the credentials of a logged-in user as hash, login status and user ID as well as user-related settings for the WordPress backend. | Session |
| wordpress_logged_in_* | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Essential | WordPress | Session |
| wp-settings-*-* | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Essential | WordPress | 1 year |
| wordpress_test_cookie | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Essential | WordPress | Session |
| real_cookie_banner* | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Essential | Real Cookie Banner asks website visitors for consent to set cookies and process personal data. For this purpose, a UUID (pseudonymous identification of the user) is assigned to each website visitor, which is valid until the cookie expires to store the consent. Cookies are used to test whether cookies can be set, to store reference to documented consent, to store which services from which service groups the visitor has consented to, and, if consent is obtained under the Transparency & Consent Framework (TCF), to store consent in TCF partners, purposes, special purposes, features and special features. As part of the obligation to disclose according to GDPR, the collected consent is fully documented. This includes, in addition to the services and service groups to which the visitor has consented, and if consent is obtained according to the TCF standard, to which TCF partners, purposes and features the visitor has consented, all cookie banner settings at the time of consent as well as the technical circumstances (e.g. size of the displayed area at the time of consent) and the user interactions (e.g. clicking on buttons) that led to consent. Consent is collected once per language. | 1 year |
| real_cookie_banner*-tcf | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Essential | Real Cookie Banner | 1 year |
| real_cookie_banner-test | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Essential | Real Cookie Banner | 1 year |
| @@History/@@scroll|# | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Statistics | unclassified | Session |
| _ga | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Statistics | registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website | 2 years |
| _gat | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Statistics | used by google analytics to throttle request rate | Session |
| _gid | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Statistics | registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website | Session |
| apbct_page_hits | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Statistics | unclassified | Session |
| apbct_prev_referer | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Statistics | unclassified | Session |
| apbct_site_landing_ts | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Statistics | unclassified | Session |
| apbct_timestamp | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Statistics | unclassified | Session |
| ct_fkp_timestamp | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Statistics | unclassified | Session |
| ct_ps_timestamp | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Statistics | unclassified | Session |
| ct_timestamp | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Statistics | unclassified | Session |
| viewed_cookie_policy | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Statistics | unclassified | Session |
| _ga | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Statistics | Google Analytics is a service for creating detailed statistics of user behavior on the website. The cookies are used to differentiate users, store campaign related information for and from the user and to link data from multiple page views. | 2 years |
| _ga_* | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Statistics | Google Analytics | 2 years |
| _ga | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Statistics | Google Analytics is a service for creating detailed statistics of user behavior on the website. The cookies are used to differentiate users, throttle the request rate, link the client ID to the AMP client ID of the user, store campaign related information for and from the user and to link data from multiple page views. | 2 years |
| _gid | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Statistics | Google Analytics | 1 year |
| _gat | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Statistics | Google Analytics | 1 year |
| AMP_TOKEN | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Statistics | Google Analytics | 1 year |
| _gac_* | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Statistics | Google Analytics | 90 days |
| _gat_gtag_* | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Statistics | Google Analytics | 1 minute |
| NID | cookie | www.google.com | Functional | Purpose: Google reCAPTCHA is a solution for detecting bots, e. g. when entering data into online forms, and preventing spam. The cookies are used to identify the user as a user within the data known to Google and to estimate the malignancy of the user. This collected data may be linked to data about users who have signed in to their Google accounts on google.com or a localised version of Google. | 1 year |
| rc::a | Local Storage | www.google.com | Functional | Google reCAPTCHA | Never |
| rc::b | Local Storage | www.google.com | Functional | Google reCAPTCHA | Never |
| rc::c | Local Storage | www.google.com | Functional | Google reCAPTCHA | Never |
| SIDCC | cookie | www.google.com | Functional | Google reCAPTCHA | 1 year |
| __Secure-3PAPISID | cookie | www.google.com | Functional | Google reCAPTCHA | 2 years |
| SSID | cookie | www.google.com | Functional | Google reCAPTCHA | 2 years |
| SAPISID | cookie | www.google.com | Functional | Google reCAPTCHA | 2 years |
| APISID | cookie | www.google.com | Functional | Google reCAPTCHA | 2 years |
| HSID | cookie | www.google.com | Functional | Google reCAPTCHA | 2 years |
| SID | cookie | www.google.com | Functional | Google reCAPTCHA | 2 years |
| __Secure-3PSID | cookie | www.google.com | Functional | Google reCAPTCHA | 2 years |
| SEARCH_SAMESITE | cookie | www.google.com | Functional | Google reCAPTCHA | 6 months |
| CONSENT | cookie | www.google.com | Functional | Google reCAPTCHA | 18 years |
| 1P_JAR | cookie | www.google.com | Functional | Google reCAPTCHA | 1 month |
| comment_author_* | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Functional | WordPress as a content management system offers the possibility to write comments under blog posts and similar content. The cookie stores the name, e-mail address and website of a commentator to display it again if the commentator wants to write another comment on this website. | 1 year |
| comment_author_email_* | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Functional | WordPress | 1 year |
| comment_author_url_* | cookie | www.tornadowire.com | Functional | WordPress | 1 year |
| SIDCC | cookie | www.youtube.com | Functional | YouTube allows embedding content posted on youtube.com directly into websites. The cookies are used to collect visited websites and detailed statistics about the user behaviour. This data can be linked to the data of users registered on youtube.com and google.com or localized versions of these services. | 1 year |
| __Secure-3PAPISID | cookie | www.youtube.com | Functional | Youtube | 2 years |
| __Secure-APISID | cookie | www.youtube.com | Functional | Youtube | 1 month |
| SAPISID | cookie | www.youtube.com | Functional | Youtube | 2 years |
| SSID | cookie | www.youtube.com | Functional | Youtube | 2 years |
| 1P_JAR | cookie | www.youtube.com | Functional | Youtube | 1 month |
| SEARCH_SAMESITE | cookie | www.youtube.com | Functional | Youtube | 6 months |
| YSC | cookie | www.youtube.com | Functional | Youtube | Session |
| LOGIN_INFO | cookie | www.youtube.com | Functional | Youtube | 2 years |
| HSID | cookie | www.youtube.com | Functional | Youtube | 2 years |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | cookie | www.youtube.com | Functional | Youtube | 6 months |
| CONSENT | cookie | www.youtube.com | Functional | Youtube | 18 years |
| __Secure-SSID | cookie | www.youtube.com | Functional | Youtube | 1 month |
| __Secure-HSID | cookie | www.youtube.com | Functional | Youtube | 1 month |
| APISID | cookie | www.youtube.com | Functional | Youtube | 2 years |
| __Secure-3PSID | cookie | www.youtube.com | Functional | Youtube | 2 years |
| PREF | cookie | www.youtube.com | Functional | Youtube | 8 months |
| SID | cookie | www.youtube.com | Functional | Youtube | 2 years |
| s_gl | cookie | www.youtube.com | Functional | Youtube | Session |
| SIDCC | cookie | www.google.com | Functional | Google Fonts is a service that downloads fonts that are not installed on the client device of the user and embeds them into the website. No cookies in the technical sense are set on the client of the user, but technical and personal data such as the IP address will be transmitted from the client to the server of the service provider to make the use of the service possible. | 1 year |
| _Secure-3PAPISID | cookie | www.google.com | Functional | Google Fonts | 2 years |
| SAPISID | cookie | www.google.com | Functional | Google Fonts | 2 years |
| APISID | cookie | www.google.com | Functional | Google Fonts | 2 years |
| SSID | cookie | www.google.com | Functional | Google Fonts | 2 years |
| HSID | cookie | www.google.com | Functional | Google Fonts | 2 years |
| __Secure-3PSID | cookie | www.google.com | Functional | Google Fonts | 2 years |
| SID | cookie | www.google.com | Functional | Google Fonts | 2 years |
| CONSENT | cookie | www.google.com | Functional | Google Fonts | 18 years |
| NID | cookie | www.google.com | Functional | Google Fonts | 6 months |
| 1P_JAR | cookie | www.google.com | Functional | Google Fonts | 1 month |
| DV | cookie | www.google.com | Functional | Google Fonts | 1 minute |