Privacy NoticeThis is the privacy notice of P&G Fabrications (Essex) Ltd. t/a www.ductstore.co.uk, company number 02222215 (we, our, or us). Our registered office is at: 43 Bridge Road, Grays, Essex, RM17 6BU Trading address: Unit 39 Globe Ind. Est. Grays, Essex, RM17 6ST IntroductionThis notice describes how we collect, store, transfer and use personal data. It tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you. In the context of the law and this notice, personal data is information that clearly identifies you as an individual or which could be used to identify you if combined with other information. Acting in any way on personal data is referred to as processing. This notice applies to personal data collected solely through our website www.ductstore.co.uk Except as set out below, we do not share, or sell, or disclose to a third party, any information collected through our website. Personal data we process1. How we obtain personal dataThe information we process about you includes information: you have directly provided to us as a result of monitoring how you use our website or our services 2. Types of personal data we collect directlyWhen you use our website to make a purchase from us we ask you to provide personal data. This can be categorised into the following groups: personal identifiers, such as your first and last names. contact information, such as your email address, your telephone number and your postal addresses for billing, delivery and communication payment information, such as a debit or credit card number and expiry date and bank account details records of communication between us including messages sent through our website, email messages and telephone conversations In addition, we may also, on occasion, process: documentation that confirms your identity, such as an image of your passport or drivers licence an image that shows your face, such as a passport photograph 3. Types of personal data we collect from third partiesWe confirm some of the information you provide to us directly using data from other sources. We also add to the information we hold about you, sometimes to remove the need for you to provide it to us and sometimes in order to be able to assess the quality of the services you offer. The additional information we collect can be categorised as follows: information that confirms your identity business information, including your business trading name and address, your company number (if incorporated), and your VAT number (if registered) information that confirms your contact information reviews and feedback about your business on other websites through which you sell your services unsolicited complaints by other users 4. Types of personal data we collect from your use of our services |
14. Payment informationPayment information is never taken by us or transferred to us through our website. Our employees and contractors do not have access to it. At the point of payment, you are transferred to a secure page on the website of [WorldPay / Opayo / PayPal / MoneyBookers / Stripe] or some other reputable payment service provider. That page may be branded to look like a page on our website, but it is not controlled by us. We are able to take a further payment when, for example, products are added to an existing order, but we do not have access to the payment details; we are only able to instruct the payment service provider to enact a further payment using the specific payment method previously used. We will always request explicit consent from you before instructing the payment service provider to enact such a payment. Payment details supplied directly in person or by telephone are passed directly to our payment service provider through a physical or virtual payment terminal. Payment details are not held by us. 15. Job application and employmentIf you send us information in connection with a job application, we may keep it for up to three years in case we decide to contact you at a later date. If we employ you, we collect information about you and your work from time to time throughout the period of your employment. This information will be used only for purposes directly relevant to your employment. After your employment has ended, we will keep your file for six years before destroying or deleting it. 16. Credit referenceTo assist in combating fraud, we share information with credit reference agencies, so far as it relates to clients or customers who instruct their credit card issuer to cancel payment to us without having first provided an acceptable reason to us and given us the opportunity to refund their money. 17. Service providers and business partnersWe may share your personal data with businesses that provide services to us, or with business partners. As examples: we may pass your payment information to our payment service provider to take payments from you we may use fraud prevention agencies and credit reference agencies to verify your identity and we may pass your information to those agencies if we strongly suspect fraud on our website Use of information we collect through automated systems18. CookiesCookies are small text files that are placed on your computer's hard drive by your web browser when you visit a website that uses them. They allow information gathered on one web page to be stored until it is needed for use at a later date. They are commonly used to provide you with a personalised experience while you browse a website, for example, allowing your preferences to be remembered. They can also provide core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility; record how you interact with the website so that the owner can understand how to improve the experience of other visitors; and serve you advertisements that are relevant to your browsing history. Some cookies may last for a defined period of time, such as one visit (known as a session), one day or until you close your browser. Others last indefinitely until you delete them. Your web browser should allow you to delete any cookie you choose. It should also allow you to prevent or limit their use. Your web browser may support a plug-in or add-on that helps you manage which cookies you wish to allow to operate. The law requires you to give explicit consent for use of any cookies that are not strictly necessary for the operation of a website. If you choose not to use cookies or you prevent their use through your browser settings, you may not be able to use all the functionality of our website. We do not use cookies for any form of advertising purposes. We use cookies in the following ways: to track the use of our website to keep you signed in to our website if required 19. Personal identifiers from your browsing activityRequests by your web browser to our servers for web pages and other content on our website are recorded. We record information such as your geographical location, your Internet service provider and your IP address. We also record information about the software you are using to browse our website, such as the type of computer or device and the screen resolution. We use this information in aggregate to assess the popularity of the web pages on our website and how we perform in providing content to you. If combined with other information we know about you from previous visits, the data possibly could be used to identify you personally, even if you are not signed in to our website. We do not provide your personal data to advertisers or to third-party re-marketing service providers. However, if you are already a member of a website whose affiliated business provides such services, that affiliated business may learn of your preferences in relation to your use of our website. Other matters20. Your rightsThe law requires us to tell you about your rights and our obligations to you in regard to the processing and control of your personal data. We do this now, by requesting that you read the information provided at http://www.knowyourprivacyrights.org 21. Use of our services by childrenWe do not sell products or provide services for purchase by children, nor do we market to children. 22. Encryption of data sent between usWe use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates to verify our identity to your browser and to encrypt any data you give us. Whenever information is transferred between us, you can check that it is done so using SSL by looking for a closed padlock symbol or other trust mark in your browsers URL bar or toolbar. 23. Data may be processed outside the UKOur website is hosted in the UK. We do not use outsourced services in countries outside the UK. If this should change, this document will be updated accordingly. 24. Control over your own informationIt is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and up to date. Please inform us if your personal data changes. At any time, you may contact us to request that we provide you with the personal data we hold about you. To obtain a copy of any information that is not provided on our website you should contact us to make that request. When we receive any request to access, edit or delete personal data we first take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting you access or otherwise taking any action. This is important to safeguard your information. Please be aware that we are not obliged by law to provide you with all personal data we hold about you, and that if we do provide you with information, the law allows us to charge for such provision if doing so incurs costs for us. After receiving your request, we will tell you when we expect to provide you with the information, and whether we require any fee for providing it to you. If you wish us to remove personally identifiable information from our website, you should contact us to make your request. This may limit the service we can provide to you. We remind you that we are not obliged by law to delete your personal data or to stop processing it simply because you do not consent to us doing so. While having your consent is an important consideration as to whether to process it, if there is another legitimate basis on which we may process it, we may do so on that basis. 25. Communicating with usWhen you contact us, whether by telephone, through our website or by email, we collect the data you have given to us in order to reply with the information you need. We record your request and our reply in order to increase the efficiency of our business. We may keep personally identifiable information associated with your message, such as your name and email address so as to be able to track our communications with you to provide a high quality service. 26. ComplainingIf you are not happy with our privacy policy, or if you have any complaint, then you should tell us. When we receive a complaint, we record the information you have given to us on the basis of consent. We use that information to resolve your complaint. If we think your complaint is vexatious or without any basis, we shall not correspond with you about it. If your complaint reasonably requires us to notify some other person, we may decide to give to that other person some of the information contained in your complaint. We do this as infrequently as possible, but it is a matter for our sole discretion whether we do give information, and if we do, what that information is. We may also compile statistics showing information obtained from this source to assess the level of service we provide, but not in a way that could identify you or any other person. If a dispute is not settled then we hope you will agree to attempt to resolve it by engaging in good faith with us in a process of mediation or arbitration. If you are in any way dissatisfied about how we process your personal data, you have a right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). This can be done at https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/. We would, however, appreciate the opportunity to talk to you about your concern before you approach the ICO. 27. Retention periodExcept as otherwise mentioned in this privacy notice, we keep your personal data only for as long as required by us: to provide you with the services you have requested to comply with other law, including for the period demanded by our tax authorities to support a claim or defence in court 28. Compliance with the lawOur privacy policy complies with the law in the United Kingdom, specifically with the Data Protection Act 2018 (the Act) accordingly incorporating the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR). 29. Review of this privacy policyWe shall update this privacy notice from time to time as necessary. |