Privacy & Cookies Policies
1. Introduction
Blast Clean and Coatings Limited (“we”, “us”, “our”) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Policy explains how we collect, use, share, and safeguard your personal data when you visit our website — blastcleanandcoatings.co.uk — and when you communicate with us via our contact form. By using our website, you accept the practices described in this Policy.
For the purposes of UK data protection law (UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018), the data controller is Blast Clean and Coatings Limited (Company No. 04647175), registered at Lower Trolvis Works, Longdowns, Penryn, Cornwall, TR10 9DL. We are ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001 and JOSCAR registered.
2. Information We May Collect
2.1 Information You Provide
Contact Form: When you enquire via our contact form, we collect your name, email address, telephone number, company (if provided), and details of your enquiry.
2.2 Information We Automatically Collect
With your consent where applicable, we use cookies and similar technologies to collect:
Technical data: IP address, browser type & version, time zone, operating system.
Usage data: pages viewed, date/time stamps, clickstream data (navigation paths), interaction events (scroll, clicks), error logs.
Embedded media data: YouTube video playback session identifiers.
Advertising data: ad click identifiers and conversion metrics.
3. How We Use Your Information
Category
Contact communications
Site administration & security
Analytics & performance
Marketing & targeting
Purpose
To respond to your enquiry, provide quotes and information about our services.
To administer and secure our site, detect fraud and abuse, and ensure its functionality.
To measure and improve site performance, understand user behaviour, and optimise content.
To deliver, measure and improve the relevance of adverts served to you across the web.
Legal Basis
Contract performance / Legitimate interest
Legitimate interest
Legitimate interest
Consent
4. Cookie Policy
4.1 What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on your device to store information. They may be:
Session cookies, which expire when you close your browser.
Persistent cookies, which stay until a set expiry date.
First-party cookies, set by our website.
Third-party cookies, set by services we embed or integrate (e.g., Google, YouTube).
4.2 Cookie Categories & Details
Cookie Name
__Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN
CookieConsent
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA
YSC
_ga
ga<container-id>
_gcl_au
Provider
Our CDN / A–B testing platform
Our Website
YouTube
YouTube
YouTube
Google Analytics
Google Analytics
Google AdSense
Purpose
Security token for feature rollout / CDN management.
Remembers your cookie banner choice.
Bandwidth estimation & feature roll-out for embedded videos.
Stores your YouTube embed consent metadata.
Tracks embedded video play sessions.
Distinguishes unique users via randomly-generated IDs.
Separates tracking between different Analytics containers.
Measures ad conversion and efficiency.
Category
Strictly Necessary
Strictly Necessary
Functional / Preferences
Functional / Preferences
Functional
Performance / Analytics
Performance / Analytics
Marketing / Advertising
Expiry
179 days
1 year*
179 days
179 days
Session
399 days
399 days
89 days
*CookieConsent retention linked to renewal of your consent choice.
4.3 Managing Cookies
We use Cookiebot (Usercentrics) as our Consent Management Platform (CMP) to give you full control over which cookies are set:
Cookie Banner
On your first visit, the Cookiebot banner lets you:
– Accept All Cookies
– Reject All Non-Essential Cookies
– Manage Preferences by category (Strictly Necessary, Functional, Performance, Marketing etc).
Updating Your Choices
At any time, click the Cookiebot icon in the bottom-left corner of the page to reopen the preferences modal. There you can enable or disable each category individually.
How We Store Your Choice
Cookiebot saves your selections in a first-party cookie called CookieConsent, which persists for 1 year.
Please note: blocking or rejecting Strictly Necessary cookies may prevent core site features—such as the contact form or security tokens—from working correctly.
5. Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose your personal data to:
Regulators or authorities when required by law.
Prospective buyers if we sell or reorganise our business or assets (with appropriate confidentiality obligations).
We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to third parties for their own marketing purposes.