• General Statement
• The Data Protection Act
• Collection of Client Data
• [Online] Data Security
• Marketing Data

General Statement

At Standrin we take our responsibilities to our clients seriously. When it comes to matters of client data storage & privacy we believe that integrity and transparency are paramount. We therefore operate an open policy on all aspects of privacy, data use & storage. Furthermore, we believe it is imperative that all sensitive data that is collected and stored during course of our business activities (such as client or account details for example) is stored only when absolutely necessary and in as secure a manner as is possible.

We believe that the importance of privacy & data security cannot, in today's climate, be overstated.

The Data Protection Act

Standrin is registered as a data controller for the purposes of the Data Protection Act.

Collection of Client Data

Obviously, during the course of conducting our business, it may be necessary to collect certain data such as your business or residential address, your name or your telephone number for example. We will never ask for, collect or store more information than is deemed absolutely necessary for us to conduct our business in a professional and expedient manner.

[Online] Data Security

Our business operates within an environment (the Internet) that is sadly becoming synonymous with poor data handling and inadequate data security. However, at Standrin we place a high degree of importance on how all client data is accessed, handled and stored.

Without going off at a technical tangent you can rest assured that all sensitive electronic data that is stored for direct access by this web site is encrypted before storage on any electronic data storage medium. Depending upon the nature of the data being stored our systems may employ either symmetric or asymmetric encryption methods.

The encryption algorithms used within our online systems are industry-standard algorithms, each with their own pros and cons. Some of the more familiar algorithms we may use are AES, RSA, MD5, and SHA.

To further enhance the security model of our online systems, and where appropriate, all encryption is performed using a random salt to ensure that our/your data is still further protected from 'rainbow table' attacks or similar. Of course, an attacker would first have to overcome the network security protocols that are in place before such an attack would be possible on our data, as we do not store any client (or otherwise sensitive) data within this web sites physical (or logical) structure.

Marketing Data

Our policy here is simple. Unless we are legally required to do so we will not, for any reason, transmit or in any other way knowingly pass your details on to any other party.

The sole purpose of the marketing data that we may retain is to let those of our clients, who have so requested, stay abreast of new developments and/or exhibitions.

We do not buy marketing data nor do we sell (or pass on) your data for marketing purposes.