Effective date: 3 November 2025
This Privacy Policy explains how Andrew Strain Construction Limited (“we”, “us”, “our”) collects, uses, stores and shares personal data when you visit or interact with www.strainconstruction.com (the “Site”), contact us, or use our services. We aim to be clear and concise — if anything below isn’t clear, contact us (details below).
Data controller: Andrew Strain Construction Limited
Registered office: Blackfaulds House, Drumhead Place, Glasgow East Investment Park, Cambuslang, Glasgow, G32 8EY.
Companies House: SC312487
Contact email: enquiries@strainconstruction.com
Phone: 01355 200129.
This policy covers personal data collected:
when you visit or interact with our Site;
when you use our contact form, request a quote, or email/phone us;
when we provide construction, civil engineering or groundworks services to you or your organisation.
We may collect the following categories of personal data depending on how you interact with us:
Identity & contact data: name, job title, company, email, phone number, postal address.
Communications: messages, enquiries, quotes, meeting notes, recorded phone call details (where applicable).
Site & technical data: IP address, browser and device type, pages visited and timestamps, cookie identifiers.
Contract & payment data: contractual information, invoicing and payment details (when you engage our services).
Sensitive data: we generally do not collect special category data; if we ever need it (e.g., for health & safety on-site), we will only collect it with explicit lawful basis and extra safeguards.
We use personal data for purposes including:
responding to enquiries, providing quotes and communicating about projects;
performing and administering contracts for construction/civil engineering works;
maintaining and improving the Site (diagnostics and security);
marketing (only where you’ve consented or we otherwise have a lawful basis);
complying with legal, regulatory and health & safety obligations;
fraud prevention and business risk management.
Where UK GDPR applies we rely on one or more lawful bases:
Contractual necessity — to perform a contract you have entered into with us (e.g., site works, quotes).
Legitimate interests — specifically: responding to business enquiries submitted via our contact form; maintaining the security and operation of our website; and general business record-keeping and administration. We have assessed that these interests are not overridden by your rights and freedoms, given the limited and expected nature of the processing involved.
Consent — for marketing communications where we ask for your consent.
Legal obligation — to comply with statutory duties (e.g., tax, health & safety reporting).
We use Borlabs Cookie as our consent management platform (CMP) to manage cookie preferences in compliance with PECR 2003 and UK GDPR. The following describes all cookies and third-party services active on this site.
Essential
Essential services are necessary for the proper function of the website. They are active by default and do not require consent.
Borlabs Cookie — stores your cookie consent preferences so we do not ask again on subsequent visits.
Google reCAPTCHA — protects our contact form from automated spam submissions. Sets a number of .google.com cookies to distinguish human users from bots. reCAPTCHA is provided by Google LLC. When the contact form is loaded, reCAPTCHA transmits your IP address and interaction data to Google servers in the United States. This transfer takes place under Google’s Standard Contractual Clauses. See Google’s Privacy Policy at policies.google.com.
External Media
Content from video platforms and social media platforms is blocked by default. If you accept External Media cookies, access to those contents no longer requires manual consent. The following services are available but currently disabled by default:
Facebook — off by default.
Google Maps — off by default.
Vimeo — off by default.
YouTube — off by default.
Cookies are only set on the contact page (/contact/). All other pages on this site set zero cookies for anonymous visitors.
You can manage or withdraw your cookie preferences at any time via the cookie settings option in the footer of any page, or by adjusting your browser settings. Note that blocking essential cookies may affect the functionality of the contact form.
We may share personal data with the following categories of recipients:
Hosting provider — the company that hosts our website and its data. Personal data is stored on servers located in the UK or EEA, or transferred under Standard Contractual Clauses where applicable.
Google LLC (reCAPTCHA) — IP address, browser data and interaction data are transmitted to Google when the contact form is loaded. Transfer to the US takes place under Google’s Standard Contractual Clauses. See policies.google.com.
Google LLC (Google Fonts) — this website loads fonts from Google’s CDN (fonts.googleapis.com). This transmits your IP address to Google on each page load. No cookies are set by Google Fonts. Transfer to the US takes place under Google’s Standard Contractual Clauses.
Email delivery provider — contact form submissions are delivered to our inbox via an SMTP service. Name, email address and message content are transmitted for this purpose.
Professional advisors — legal, accounting and audit advisors where necessary.
Payment processors or subcontractors — where required to deliver services.
We do not sell personal data to third parties. We do not use personal data for advertising purposes.
We will only transfer personal data outside the UK/EEA when appropriate safeguards are in place (e.g., adequacy decisions, standard contractual clauses) or where permitted by law.
We implement technical and organisational measures to protect personal data (access controls, encryption where appropriate, staff training). We retain personal data only as long as necessary for the purposes set out above, taking into account legal and regulatory retention requirements (for example, accounting records). Typical retention periods:
contact form enquiries: up to 2 years (unless a contract is formed);
contract and project records: for the duration of the project and for statutory retention periods (often 6 to 7 years for commercial records);
payroll, tax and statutory records: retained in line with legal requirements.
Subject to applicable law, you have the right to:
access the personal data we hold about you;
request correction of inaccurate data;
request erasure (to the extent permitted by law and our contractual/legal obligations);
request restriction of processing;
object to processing based on legitimate interests or for direct marketing;
request data portability where processing is carried out by automated means and is based on consent or contract.
To exercise your rights, contact us at enquiries@strainconstruction.com or the address above. If you are unhappy with our response you may lodge a complaint with the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk.
We will only send you marketing communications where you have given consent or where we have another lawful basis. Every marketing message includes an easy way to opt out.
We may update this policy from time to time. The “Effective date” at the top will show when it was last revised. We encourage you to review it periodically.
If you have questions, want to exercise your rights, or wish to complain, contact:
Email: enquiries@strainconstruction.com
Phone: 01355 200129
If you remain dissatisfied you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk or by calling 0303 123 1113.
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