Privacy Policy

Last Updated: 6th June 2025

CMS GeoScience ("we," "our," "us") is committed to protecting the privacy and security of the personal data we collect from visitors to our website. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your information when you visit our website at www.cms-geoscience.co.uk.

By using our website, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

1. Who We Are
CMS GeoScience is a specialist marine geotechnical survey company. You can find more information about us and our services on our website.

2. Information We Collect
We may collect and process the following types of data about you:
a. Information You Provide to Us
This includes information you provide when you interact with us directly through our website, such as via contact forms, email links, or direct inquiries. This may include:

Contact Information: Your name, company name, email address, phone number, and postal address.
Project Details: Information related to your project requirements, challenges, and specific survey needs that you choose to share with us when seeking a quote or discussing potential solutions.
Correspondence: Records of any communications you have with us.

b. Information Collected Automatically
When you visit our website, we may automatically collect certain information about your device and browsing activity through cookies and similar technologies. This may include:

Technical Data: Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
Usage Data: Information about how you use our website, such as pages visited, time spent on pages, clickstream data, internal site searches, and referring website addresses.

3. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:

To Respond to Your Inquiries: To communicate with you and provide the information, services, or quotes you request.
To Provide and Improve Our Services: To understand your needs and provide tailored solutions, as well as to enhance our website functionality and user experience.
For Business Operations: To manage our relationship with you, including accounting and record-keeping, and to comply with legal obligations.
For Analytics and Website Improvement: To analyze website traffic, understand user behavior, and identify areas for website improvement. This data is typically aggregated and anonymized.
For Marketing (with Consent): If you opt-in, we may use your contact information to send you updates about our services, news, or relevant industry information. You can opt-out at any time.

4. How We Share Your Information
We will not sell, distribute, or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may share your information with:

Service Providers: Trusted third-party service providers who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or providing services to you (e.g., website hosting, analytics providers). These third parties are obligated to keep your information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
Legal Requirements: If required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court order or government agency).
Business Transfers: In connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets.

5. Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

6. Your Data Protection Rights (GDPR)
If you are located in the UK or EU, under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have certain rights regarding your personal data. These include:

The right to access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
The right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organisation, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details below.

7. Security of Your Data
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. To prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.

8. Third-Party Links
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy policy. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

9. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

10. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, your data, or if you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please contact us:
Email: info@cms-geoscience.co.uk
Tel: 01326 531604
Address: Marine House, North Parade, Falmouth Marina, Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 2TD, UK

Privacy Policy

Contact Information: Your name, company name, email address, phone number, and postal address.

Project Details: Information related to your project requirements, challenges, and specific survey needs that you choose to share with us when seeking a quote or discussing potential solutions.

Correspondence: Records of any communications you have with us.

b. Information Collected Automatically When you visit our website, we may automatically collect certain information about your device and browsing activity through cookies and similar technologies. This may include:

Technical Data: Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.

Usage Data: Information about how you use our website, such as pages visited, time spent on pages, clickstream data, internal site searches, and referring website addresses.

3. How We Use Your Information We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:

To Respond to Your Inquiries: To communicate with you and provide the information, services, or quotes you request.

To Provide and Improve Our Services: To understand your needs and provide tailored solutions, as well as to enhance our website functionality and user experience.

For Business Operations: To manage our relationship with you, including accounting and record-keeping, and to comply with legal obligations.

For Analytics and Website Improvement: To analyze website traffic, understand user behavior, and identify areas for website improvement. This data is typically aggregated and anonymized.

For Marketing (with Consent): If you opt-in, we may use your contact information to send you updates about our services, news, or relevant industry information. You can opt-out at any time.

4. How We Share Your Information We will not sell, distribute, or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may share your information with:

Legal Requirements: If required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court order or government agency).

Business Transfers: In connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets.

The right to access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.

The right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.

The right to erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to object to processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organisation, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

b. Information Collected Automatically
When you visit our website, we may automatically collect certain information about your device and browsing activity through cookies and similar technologies. This may include:

3. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:

4. How We Share Your Information
We will not sell, distribute, or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may share your information with: