Privacy Policy
Effective Date: 2025-01-01
1. Introduction
Welcome to the website of UAB Alavas (“we,” “us,” or “our”). We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This policy explains how we handle data when you visit our website, alavas.co.uk. As we do not have any contact forms, user registration, or e-commerce functions on this site, we do not actively collect your personal identifiable information (such as name, email, or phone number) through the website itself.
For the purpose of the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018, the data controller is:
- UAB “Alavas”
- Gelvonų str. 51-52, LT-07136 Vilnius, Lithuania
- Email: info@alavas.co.uk
2. Information We Collect
The only data we collect is anonymous or pseudonymous data through Google Analytics 4 (GA4) for the purpose of understanding how visitors interact with our website. This data is not used to identify you personally. The information collected may include:
- Your device’s IP address (which is anonymised by Google Analytics).
- The type of browser and device you are using.
- The pages you visit on our website and the time you spend on them.
- The referring website from which you arrived.
- Your general geographic location (e.g., city, country).
3. How We Use Your Information
We use the aggregated and anonymised data collected by Google Analytics 4 for the following legitimate business purposes:
- To analyse website traffic and user behaviour.
- To improve our website content, design, and user experience.
- To understand which of our services are most popular.
- To monitor the overall performance and health of our website.
4. Legal Basis for Processing
Our legal basis for processing this analytical data is your consent, which you provide by accepting cookies via our cookie consent banner when you first visit our site. You can withdraw this consent at any time by clearing your browser’s cookies or by managing your preferences in our cookie banner.
5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a small text file placed on your device to help us analyse web traffic. We use Google Analytics 4 cookies to gather the information described in Section 2. These are non-essential cookies and will only be activated if you provide your consent.
You can control and manage cookies through your web browser’s settings. For more information on how to do this, visit https://www.allaboutcookies.org/.
6. Data Sharing and Third Parties
We do not sell, trade, or rent your data to others.
We share the anonymised analytical data with Google as part of our use of the Google Analytics service. We may be required to disclose information to law enforcement, government bodies, or other third parties if we are under a legal duty to do so.
7. Your Data Protection Rights
Under UK 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 information you think is inaccurate.
- 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 information in certain circumstances.
- Your right to object to processing – You have the right to object to processing if we are able to process your information because the process forms part of our public tasks, or is in our legitimate interests.
Given that we do not collect personally identifiable information via the website, exercising these rights in relation to your website visit may be limited. However, if you have contacted us directly via email or phone, you may exercise these rights by contacting us at info@alavas.co.uk
8. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this policy from time to time. The effective date at the top of this page will be amended. We encourage you to review this page periodically to stay informed about how we are protecting your information.