Privacy Policy

Who we are

E O Burton & Co Ltd is a timber merchant specialising in machining hardwoods and softwoods.

We take the protection of personal data extremely seriously, and this Privacy Notice explains how I go about the care and management of all the data I control and process.

Personal Data means any personal information relating to you, or information from which you can be personally identifiable. You have a choice over how it is used by organisations. This Privacy Notice is issued in compliance to the UK GDPR and will explain:

  1. Who we are
  2. Contact Details
  3. The data I collect from you
  4. Who I share your data with
  5. How I keep your data secure
  6. Your data protection rights and how to exercise them

Contact Details

Name: E O Burton & Co Ltd

Email: timber@eoburton.com

Website: eoburton.com

The data I collect from you

We currently collect and process the following information:

Company website browsing

If you visit my company website, we use cookies. E O Burton & Co Ltd and any affiliates and analytics or service providers use cookies and other technologies to ensure everyone who uses our website has the best possible experience. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard drive by a web page server. Some cookies are strictly necessary for the functionality of the website. However, some cookies are non-essential, and you will have choice of whether we can gather these cookies or not. We offer you that choice and provide you the option to consent or not to the gathering of these particular cookies.

We have a detailed Cookie Policy which explains what cookies we gather, how and why we use them, and what your rights are. Our cookie policy can be found here.

Sales and marketing

We may at times engage in sales and marketing campaigns. The data processed for such campaigns is gathered from forms on my website and will consist only of business contact details, including:

  • Name
  • Company Name
  • Email
  • Phone Number
  • Address

Where we have asked for your consent to receive marketing communications you may choose to opt out by timber@eoburton.com or clicking 'unsubscribe' from our marketing emails.

Who I share your data with

We do not directly transfer any data to any 3rd party for any reason. We do however also employ a number of business tools and apps to assist in the smooth functionality of my business, with whom we share data, where data storage may be in a 3rd party.

The tools and apps we use include the following:

  • HubSpot
  • Shopify
  • Active Campaign

Your data protection rights and how to exercise them

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

  • Your right of access. You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
  • Your right to rectification. You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
  • Your right to erasure. You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
  • Your right to restriction of processing. You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
  • Your right to object to processing. You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
  • Your right to data portability. You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.