Arson attack prompts installation of letterbox sentry
Former Marine Who Spoke Out Against 'Thugs' Has Home Torched Twice
Sean Ivey, who is now a teacher, posted on social media for change after his parents were robbed and he saw a biker 'riding like a lunatic' on the pavement.
Later that night, his home in Wingate, County Durham, was set alight while he and his family slept.
Posting on Facebook after the initial arson attack, he said: 'We're good standing members of the community and now, because I spoke out against anti-social behaviour, my five-year-old boy, seven-year-old girl, wife and myself were almost murdered whilst asleep.'
Learning of Sean's story and the fear he was now facing, Letterbox Sentry got in touch to offer him and his family a free of charge FG1 Anti-Arson Lockable Alarmed Letterbox.
The FG1 model has been designed as an early warning system. It will sound an audible alarm if anyone tries to tamper with your letterbox when it is locked. The FG1 model also has an inbuilt vapour sensor which detects flammable accelerants. As soon as a flammable substance has been detected, the letterbox will automatically lock and the audible alarm will sound giving you and your family time to move to a safer location and call the emergency services.
With 90% of malicious fires being started via the letterbox, Letterbox Sentry has offered Sean and his family a feeling of safety at home again.
Sean advised: 'Letterbox Sentry offered a fantastic service. It now gives us peace of mind while we try and rebuild our lives.'
For more information about Letterbox Sentry and HOW TO ORDER, please contact info@letterboxsentry.co.uk
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Data Protection Principles
Letterbox Sentry is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses your personal data and in meeting our data protection responsibilities.
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Processing is lawful, fair, transparent. Our Processing activities have lawful grounds. We always consider your rights before Processing Personal Data. We will provide you information regarding Processing upon request.
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We will do our best to ensure the accuracy of data.
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The Data Subject has the following rights:
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Publicly available information
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How we use your Personal Data
We use your Personal Data in order to:
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- enhance your customer experience;
- fulfil an obligation under law or contract;
– it is in our legitimate interest as a business to use your personal data in this way.
– Where we rely on our legitimate interests we will always make sure that we balance these interests against your rights
On the grounds of entering into a contract or fulfilling contractual obligations, we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:
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We Process your Personal Data in order to fulfil obligation rising from law and/or use your Personal Data for options provided by law. We reserve the right to anonymise Personal Data gathered and to use any such data. We will use data outside the scope of this Policy only when it is anonymised. We save your billing information and other information gathered about you for as long as needed for accounting purposes or other obligations deriving from law.
We might process your Personal Data for additional purposes that are not mentioned here, but are compatible with the original purpose for which the data was gathered. To do this, we will ensure that:
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- there would be appropriate safeguard for Processing.
We will inform you of any further Processing and purposes.
Who else can access your Personal Data
We will never sell your data to a third party.
We only work with Processing partners who are able to ensure adequate level of protection to your Personal Data. We disclose your Personal Data to third parties or public officials when we are legally obliged to do so. We might disclose your Personal Data to third parties if you have consented to it or if there are other legal grounds for it.
How we secure your data
We take the security of your data very seriously. We have implemented various strategies, controls and measures to keep your data secure and keep these measures under close review. We protect your data by using encryption techniques and we use other safeguards such as firewalls and password protection. That means your data is protected and only accessible by administration staff who need it to carry out their job responsibilities. We also ensure there are strict physical controls in respect of the security of our building which restricts access to your personal data to keep it safe.
In line with the Industry Standard all Staff employed by Letterbox Sentry undergo security screening to BS-7858.
Even though we try our best we cannot guarantee the security of information. However, if we consider a data breach has occurred we will notify the appropriate authorities within 72 hours. We will also notify you if there is a threat to your rights or interests. We will do everything we reasonably can to prevent security breaches and to assist authorities should any breaches occur.
Children
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Staff awareness training is undertaken to ensure understanding of the Policy and compliance procedures.
Letterbox Sentry is a Data Controller registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office.
Supervisory Authority
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Phone: +44 1625 545 745
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy.
Last modification was made February 26th, 2021 @ 16:30 pm.
