This Privacy Policy explains how Advanced Metallurgical Services Limited, trading as AMS Testing (“we”, “us”, or “our”), collects and uses personal information from people who use our website, amstesting.co.uk, including people who request a quote or contact us.
Advanced Metallurgical Services Limited is the data controller responsible for your personal data under UK GDPR.
Who We Are
Advanced Metallurgical Services Limited (trading as AMS Testing)
Company number: 02558234
Registered office: Unit 8C, Oldham Broadway Business Park, Chadderton, Oldham, England, OL9 9XA
What We Collect
- Quote requests: your name, email address, phone number, country, company name, the type of service you need, and any details you give us about methods, quantities, specifications and materials.
- Contact form enquiries: your name, email address, phone number and your message.
- Emails and phone calls: anything you send or tell us directly, including your contact details and the details of your enquiry.
- Job enquiries: if you send us your CV or ask about working with us, your contact details, CV and anything else you choose to include.
- Website usage data: information about how visitors use our site, collected through Google Analytics cookies if you agree to them (see the Cookies section).
Our forms are designed for business enquiries. Please don’t include sensitive personal information (such as health details) in a message. If you do, we will only use it to deal with your enquiry.
How We Use It and Why
- Responding to your enquiry or quote request: taking steps at your request before entering into a contract, or legitimate interests where you are enquiring on behalf of your employer or another business.
- Carrying out testing work and managing our customer relationship if you go ahead: performance of a contract, or legitimate interests where the contract is with your employer.
- Keeping financial records: legal obligation, for example HMRC record-keeping requirements.
- Considering a job enquiry or CV: taking steps at your request before entering into a contract.
- Understanding how our website is used: consent, for Google Analytics cookies.
- Showing a map of our location: consent, for the Google Maps embed on our contact page.
- Protecting our website forms from spam and abuse: legitimate interests.
We do not send marketing emails without your consent. We do not sell or rent your data to anyone.
How Long We Keep It
- Enquiries and quote requests that don’t lead to work: 12 months from your last contact with us, then deleted.
- Customer records, quotes and invoices: 6 years from the end of the financial year they relate to, in line with HMRC’s record-keeping requirements.
- Job enquiries and CVs: 6 months from our decision, unless you ask us to keep them for future roles.
- Analytics data: Google Analytics keeps data for up to 14 months, after which it is deleted automatically.
Who Handles Your Data
We use trusted third-party services to run our website. They process data on our behalf under written agreements:
- Cloudways (DigitalOcean): website hosting.
- Elastic Email: sending emails from our website forms. Elastic Email is based in Canada, which the UK recognises as providing adequate data protection. Some processing may take place in the EU or US, covered by Elastic Email’s data processing agreement.
- CleanTalk: filtering spam from our website forms. CleanTalk may process form submissions on servers in the EU and US.
- CookieYes: managing your cookie choices. CookieYes stores a record of the choices you make on our cookie banner.
- Google (Google Analytics): website analytics, only if you accept analytics cookies. Based in the US and covered by the UK-US data bridge.
- Google (Google Maps): showing our location on our contact page, only if you accept the relevant cookies. Based in the US and covered by the UK-US data bridge.
We may also share information with regulators or law enforcement where the law requires us to.
Cookies
Our website uses:
- Essential cookies: needed for the site to work, including remembering your cookie choices. These don’t need your consent.
- Analytics cookies: set by Google Analytics to help us understand how visitors use our site so we can improve it. These are only set if you accept them through our cookie banner.
- Third-party cookies: set by Google Maps when the map on our contact page loads. These are only set if you accept them through our cookie banner.
We don’t use advertising or marketing cookies.
You can change your cookie choices at any time using the cookie settings link in our website footer.
Your Rights
Under UK GDPR you have the right to:
- access the personal data we hold about you, free of charge
- ask us to correct or delete it
- restrict or object to how we use it
- ask us to move your data to another provider (data portability), where technically feasible
- withdraw your consent at any time where we rely on it
To use any of these rights, or to complain about how we’ve handled your data, email us at en*******@***********co.uk or write to us at the address below. We’ll respond within one month. If you make a complaint, we’ll acknowledge it within 30 days, respond without undue delay and keep you updated on progress.
If you’re not happy with our response, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk or on 0303 123 1113.
Security
We protect your data with secure hosting, HTTPS encryption, spam filtering and restricted access to the information you send us.
Payments
We do not take payments through this website.
Links to Other Websites
Our website links to other websites, such as our LinkedIn page. We are not responsible for how those websites handle your information, so please read their privacy policies.
Children
Our website and services are aimed at businesses and adults. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this policy from time to time. The “Last Updated” date below shows when it was last revised.
Contact
Advanced Metallurgical Services Limited (trading as AMS Testing)
Unit 8C, Oldham Broadway Business Park, Chadderton, Oldham, England, OL9 9XA
Email: en*******@***********co.uk
Phone: 01706 882891
Last Updated: 1st October 2026
