Our website has an AI assistant that answers questions about our services, in writing or out loud. What you type or say to it is sent to Anthropic, which writes the reply. If you speak to it, a recording of what you say is sent to ElevenLabs to be turned into text, and if you listen to its replies, the reply text is sent to ElevenLabs to be turned into speech. We do not keep the recordings or the audio. To stop the assistant being misused, we use your IP address to limit how much it can be used in a short space of time. Please do not enter confidential or sensitive information into the assistant.
We keep a record of each conversation for up to two years: what you asked, what the assistant replied, the page you were on, the time, your approximate location (country and city) and the type of device and browser you used. We do not store your IP address with it. Instead we keep a one-way code (a hash) made from it, which only lets us tell that two conversations came from the same visitor. We read these records to see what people want to know, to improve the assistant's answers and to follow up if you ask us to. The lawful basis is legitimate interests. Conversations are not used to build a profile of you and are not linked to your identity unless you volunteer contact details.
If you send your details from the short form inside the assistant, we receive your name, your contact number and a summary of your chat, and use them only to reply to you. If you follow a link from the assistant to our contact form, the message box starts with a summary of your chat, which you can edit or delete before sending. That summary is held in your browser's session storage, which is cleared when you close the tab.