Privacy Policy - Ashley Chains
This is the Privacy Policy of Ashley Chains - a trading division of English Chain Company Limited.
In this document, "we", "our",
or "us" refer to English Chain Company Ltd.
Our company number is 00427960 registered
in the United Kingdom.
Our registered office is at Unit 1, Harleston Street,
Sheffield, Yorkshire S4 7QB, United Kingdom.
Introduction
1. This is a notice to inform you of our policy
about all information that we record about you. It sets out the conditions
under which we may process any information that we collect from you, or that
you provide to us. It covers information that could identify you (“personal
information”) and information that could not. In the context of the law and
this notice, “process” means collect, store, transfer, use or otherwise act on
information.
2.
We regret that if there are one or more points
below with which you are not happy, your only recourse is to leave our website
immediately.
3.
We take seriously the protection of your privacy
and confidentiality. We understand that all visitors to our website are
entitled to know that their personal data will not be used for any purpose
unintended by them, and will not accidentally fall into the hands of a third
party.
4.
We undertake to preserve the confidentiality of
all information you provide to us, and appreciate your reciprocation.
5.
Our policy complies with UK law accordingly
implemented, including that required by the EU General Data Protection
Regulation (GDPR).
6.
The law requires us to tell you about your
rights and our obligations to you in regards to the processing and control of
your personal data. We do this now, by requesting that you read the information
provided at www.knowyourprivacyrights.org
7.
Except as set out below, we do not share, sell,
or disclose to a third party, any information collected through our website.
The bases on which we process information about you
The law requires us to determine under which of six defined bases we
process different categories of your personal information, and to notify you of
the basis for each category.
If a basis on which we process your personal
information is no longer relevant then we shall immediately stop processing
your data.
If the basis changes then if required by law we
shall notify you of the change and of any new basis under which we have determined
that we can continue to process your information.
1.
Information we process because we have a
contractual obligation with you
When you create an account on our website, buy a
product from us, or otherwise agree to our terms and conditions, a contract is
formed between you and us.
In order to carry out our obligations under that
contract we must process the information you give us. Some of this information
may be personal information.
We may use it in order to:
1.1.
verify your identity for security purposes
1.2.
sell products to you
1.3.
provide you with our services
1.4.
provide you with suggestions and advice on
products and how to obtain the most from using our website
We process this information on the basis there is a
contract between us, or that you have requested we use the information before
we enter into a legal contract.
Additionally, we may aggregate this information in a
general way and use it to provide class information, for example to monitor our
performance with respect to a particular service we provide. If we use it for
this purpose, you as an individual will not be personally identifiable.
We shall continue to process this information until
the contract between us ends or is terminated by either party under the terms
of the contract.
2.
Information we process with your consent
Through certain actions when otherwise there is no
contractual relationship between us, such as when you browse our website or ask
us to provide you more information about our business, (including job
opportunities) or our products, you provide your consent to us to process
information that may be personal information.
Wherever possible, we aim to obtain your explicit
consent to process this information, for example, by asking you to agree to our
use of cookies.
Sometimes you might give your consent implicitly,
such as when you send us a message by e-mail to which you would reasonably
expect us to reply.
Except where you have consented to our use of your
information for a specific purpose, we do not use your information in any way
that would identify you personally. We may aggregate it in a general way and
use it to provide class information, for example to monitor the performance of
a particular page on our website.
If you have given us explicit permission to do so,
we may from time to time pass your name and contact information to selected
associates whom we consider may provide services or products you would find
useful.
We continue to process your information on this
basis until you withdraw your consent or it can be reasonably assumed that your
consent no longer exists.
You may withdraw your consent at any time by
instructing us via email on sales@ashleychains.co.uk. However, if you do so, you may not be able to
use our website or our services further.
3.
Information we process for the purposes of
legitimate interests
We may process information on the basis there is a
legitimate interest, either to you or to us, of doing so.
Where we process your information on this basis, we
do after having given careful consideration to:
- whether the same objective could be achieved
through other means
- whether processing (or not processing) might
cause you harm
- whether you would expect us to process your data, and whether you would, in the round, consider it reasonable to do so. For example, we may process your data on this basis for the purposes of:
-
record-keeping for the proper and necessary
administration of English Chain Company Limited
- responding to unsolicited communication from you
to which we believe you would expect a response
- protecting and asserting the legal rights of any
party
- insuring against or obtaining professional
advice that is required to manage English Chain Company Limited's risk.
- protecting your interests where we believe we
have a duty to do so
4.
Information we process because we have a legal
obligation
We are subject to the law like everyone else.
Sometimes, we must process your information in order to comply with a statutory
obligation.
For example, we may be required to give information
to legal authorities if they so request or if they have the proper
authorisation such as a search warrant or court order.
This may include your personal information.
Specific uses of information you provide to us
5.
Information provided on the understanding that
it will be shared with a third party
Our website allows you to post information in your
account area or via the forms with a view to that information being read,
copied, downloaded, or used by other people.
In posting personal information, it is up to you to
satisfy yourself about the privacy level of every person who might use it.
We do not specifically use this information except to allow
it to be displayed or shared internally by English Chain employees.
We do store it, and we reserve a right to use it in
the future in any way we decide.
Once your information enters the public domain, we
have no control over what any individual third party may do with it. We accept
no responsibility for their actions at any time.
Provided your request is reasonable and there is no
legal basis for us to retain it, then at our discretion we may agree to your
request to delete personal information that you have posted. You can make a
request by contacting us at sales@ashleychains.co.uk.
6.
Complaints regarding content on our website
We attempt to moderate user generated content, but we are
not always able to do so as soon as that content is published.
If you complain about any of the content on our website,
we shall investigate your complaint.
If we feel it is justified or if we believe the law
requires us to do so, we shall remove the content while we investigate.
Free speech is a fundamental right, so we have to
make a judgment as to whose right will be obstructed: yours, or that of the
person who posted the content that offends you.
If we think your complaint is vexatious or without
any basis, we shall not correspond with you about it.
7.
Information relating to your method of payment
7.1 For online payments payment information is
never taken by us or transferred to us either through our websites or
otherwise. Our employees and contractors never have access to it.
7.2 At the point of payment, you are
transferred to a secure page on the website of WorldPay. That page may be branded to look like a page
on our website, but it is not controlled by us.
7.3 For payments taken over the ‘phone we write
down your debit or credit card details in order to process your payment. Once
payment has been processed all payment information is shredded immediately.
7.4 We take the following measures
to protect your payment information:
We do not keep all your payment
information so as:
7.4.1 to prevent the possibility of
our duplicating a transaction without a new instruction from you;
7.4.2 to prevent any other third party from carrying out a transaction without your consent.
7.5
Access to your payment
information is restricted to authorised staff only.
7.6. If we ask you questions about
your payment information, we only show the last four digits of the debit or
credit card number, so that you can identify the means of payment to which we
refer.
8.
Job application and employment
If you send us information in connection with a job
application, we may keep it for up to one year 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 6 years
before destroying or deleting it.
9.
Sending a message to our sales team
When you contact us, whether by telephone, through
our website or by e-mail, 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 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.
10.
Complaining
When we receive a complaint, we record all the
information you have given to us.
We use that information to resolve your complaint.
If your complaint reasonably requires us to contact 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 as to 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.
11.
Agent information
This is information given to us by you in your
capacity as an agent of us.
It allows us to recognise visitors that you have
referred to us, and to credit to you commission due for such referrals. It also
includes information that allows us to transfer commission to you.
The information is not used for any other purpose.
We undertake to preserve the confidentiality of the
information and of the terms of our relationship.
We expect any agent to agree to reciprocate this
policy.
Use of information we collect through automated systems when you visit our
website
Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your
computer's hard drive by your web browser when you visit any website. They
allow information gathered on one web page to be stored until it is needed for
use on another, allowing a website to provide you with a personalised
experience and the website owner with statistics about how you use the website
so that it can be improved.
Some cookies may last for a defined period of time,
such as one day or until you close your browser. Others last indefinitely.
Your web browser should allow you to delete any you
choose. It should also allow you to prevent or limit their use. Please see How to disable cookies below.
Our website uses cookies. They are placed by
software that operates on our servers, and by software operated by third
parties whose services we use such as Google Analytics. We use these to help us
to track visitor activity to our websites to help us understand how best to
serve your requirements.
When you first visit our website, we ask you whether you
wish us to use cookies. If you choose not to accept them, we shall not use them
for your visit except to record that you have not consented to their use for
any other purpose.
If you choose not to use cookies or you prevent their use
through your browser settings, you will not be able to use all the
functionality of our website.
We use cookies in the following ways:
11.1.
to track how you use our website
11.2.
to keep you signed in our site
We have three types of cookies on our
website: -
1.
Necessary
2.
Performance
3.
Functionality
4.
Advertising
Our cookies enable us to provide
features such as the ability to store items in your Shopping Basket between
visits.
We provide more information about
the cookies we use in our Cookie Policy.
IP Address and traffic data - We keep a record of
traffic data which is logged automatically by our servers, such as your
Internet Protocol (IP) address, device information, the website that you
visited before ours and the website you visit after leaving our site. We also
collect some site, application and service statistics such as access rates,
page hits and page views. We are not able to identify any individual from
traffic data or site statistics.
How to disable cookies – Should you wish to do so you
may be able to configure your browser or our website, application or service to
restrict cookies or block all cookies.
However if you disable cookies you may find this affects your ability to
use certain parts of our website, applications or services. For more
information about cookies and instructions on how to adjust your browser
settings to accept, delete or reject cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org
12.
Personal identifiers from your browsing activity
Requests 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 webpages 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.
Disclosure and sharing of your information
13.
Information we obtain from third parties
Although we do not disclose your personal
information to any third party (except as set out in this Policy), we sometimes
receive data that is indirectly made up from your personal information from third
parties whose services we use, such as Google Analytics.
No such information is personally identifiable to you.
14.
Data may be processed outside the European Union
No data is processed outside of the EU on the
current platform, except maybe third parties such as Google Analytics.
Our websites are hosted in the UK.
Our host may also use outsourced services in
countries outside the European Union from time to time in other aspects of our
business.
Accordingly data obtained within the UK or any other
country could be processed outside the European Union.
For example, some of the software our websites use may have
been developed in the United States of America or in Australia.
Access to your own information
15.
Access to your personal information
15.1.
At any time you may review or update personally
identifiable information that we hold about you.
15.2.
To obtain a copy of any such information you may
send us a request to sales@ashleychains.co.uk.
15.3.
After receiving the 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.
16.
Removal of your information
If you wish us to remove personally identifiable
information from our website, you may contact us on sales@ashleychains.co.uk.
This may limit the service we can provide to you.
17.
Verification of your information
When we receive any request to access, edit or
delete personal identifiable information we shall first take reasonable steps
to verify your identity before granting you access or otherwise taking any
action. This is important to safeguard your information.
Other matters
18.
Use of site by children
18.1.
We do not sell products or provide services for
purchase by children, nor do we market to children.
19.
Encryption of data sent between us
19.1. We use Secure Sockets Layer
(SSL) certificates to verify our identity toyour browser and to encrypt any data you give us.
19.2 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 browser’s URL bar or toolbar.
20.
How you can complain
20.1.
If you are not happy with our privacy policy or
if have any complaint then you should tell us by email. Our address is sales@ashleychains.co.uk
20.2.
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.
20.3.
If you are in any way dissatisfied about how we
process your personal information, you have a right to lodge a complaint with
the Information Commissioner's Office. This can be done at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/
21.
Retention period for personal data
Except as otherwise mentioned in this privacy policy,
we keep your personal information only for as long as required by us:
21.1.
to provide you with the services you have
requested;
21.2.
to comply with other law, including for the
period demanded by our tax authorities;
21.3.
to support a claim or defence in court.
22.
Compliance with the law
Our privacy policy has been compiled so as to comply
with the law of every country or legal jurisdiction in which we aim to do
business. If you think it fails to satisfy the law of your jurisdiction, we
should like to hear from you.
However, ultimately it is your choice as to whether
you wish to use our website.
23.
Review of this privacy policy
We may update this privacy policy from time to time
as necessary. The terms that apply to you are those posted here on our website
on the day you use our website. We advise you to print a copy for your records.
If you have
any question regarding our privacy policy, please contact us by email to sales@ashleychains.co.uk or by writing to us at 13 Bedford Road, Petersfield, Hampshire GU32 3LJ.
Updated 23/05/18