Privacy Policy - Anchor Safety LLP
Anchor Safety respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy notice will inform you how we look after your personal data if you are:
- a current, potential or former customer,
- a supplier, or professional or business contact of Anchor Safety,
- a visitor to our website (www.anchorsafety.co.uk),
and otherwise when we interact with you.
We may update this privacy policy from time to time – you can find our latest policy on our website at www.anchorsafety.co.uk or by asking us for a copy.
1. Important Information
Anchor Safety LLP is a limited liability partnership with registration number OC380986, and is the data controller and responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as "Anchor Safety", "we", "us" or "our" in this privacy notice).
We have appointed a Data Protection Manager who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this privacy notice. If you have any questions about this privacy notice, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact the Data Protection Manager as follows:
Address:
Anchor House, Chapel Lane, Great Blakenham, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP6 0JZ
Telephone Number: 0800 328 5028
Email address: customer.care@anchorsafety.co.uk
Third-party links
Our website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.
2. The Data We Collect And How We Collect It
The data we collect
- Identity and Contact Data: including your name, postal address, email address and telephone number;
- Financial Data: including details of your bank accounts and payment card details;
- Transaction Data: details of goods and services we provide to you;
- Technical Data: information we collect automatically when you visit our website, including your IP address, browser details, and device details;
- Marketing and Communications Data: includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences
Can you withhold your data?
You can withhold your data from us if you wish. But where we need to collect personal data by law, or to provide services to you, and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to provide our services to you. In such cases, we may have to suspend or terminate our engagement, but if this is the case, we will notify you at the time.
Where we collect your data from
We may collect your data from different sources:
- We collect all of the types of data listed above directly from you when you interact with us.
- We collect Technical Data automatically when you interact with our website, by using cookies and other similar technologies.
- We collect Identity and Contact Data from publicly available records such as Companies House.
2. How We Use Your Personal Data
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to.
We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.
We may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please contact us using the details above if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your personal data where more than one ground has been set out in the table below.
Purpose/Activity | Lawful basis for
processing including basis of legitimate interest |
To register you or your
company or employer as a new customer or supplier | (a)
Performance of a contract
with you (b)
Necessary for our
legitimate interests (to provide goods or services to your employer) |
To provide goods and
services to you and carry out your instructions in connection with our
services | Performance of a contract
with you |
To carry out
administration in connection with the provision of goods or services to or by
you or your company or employer, including: (a) Managing payments, fees and charges (b) Collect and recover
money owed to us | (a) Performance of a
contract with you. (b) Necessary for our
legitimate interests (to administer payments for goods and services we
provide or receive). |
To manage queries
relating to goods and services we have provided to you historically | (a)
Performance of a contract
with you (b)
Necessary for our
legitimate interests (to be able to respond to queries about our goods and
services) |
To manage our
relationship with you which will include: (a) Notifying you about
changes to our terms or privacy policy (b) Asking you to leave a
review or take a survey | (a) Performance of a
contract with you (b) Necessary to comply
with a legal obligation (c) Necessary for our
legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how customers
use our products/services) |
To enable you to partake
in a competition or complete a survey | (a) Performance of a
contract with you (b) Necessary for our
legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to
develop them and grow our business) |
To administer and protect
our business and our website (including troubleshooting, data analysis,
testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data) | (a) Necessary for our
legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration
and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a
business reorganisation or group restructuring exercise) (b) Necessary to comply
with a legal obligation |
To deliver relevant
website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the
effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you | Necessary for our
legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to
develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy) |
To use data analytics to
improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and
experiences | Necessary for our
legitimate interests (to define types of customers for our products and
services, to keep our website updated and relevant, to develop our business
and to inform our marketing strategy) |
To make suggestions and
recommendations to you about goods and services that may be of interest to you | (a)
Consent (where you have
provided positive consent) (b)
Necessary for our
legitimate interests (to develop our products/services and grow our business) |
We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose.
In addition, we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, where this is required or permitted by law.
Marketing
We may use your personal data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which services and events may be relevant for you.
You may receive marketing communications from us in respect of our business and our goods and services either if you have requested information from us or previously been a customer and, in each case, you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.
We do not share your contact details with any third party for the purpose of that third party sending marketing.
You can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by contacting us using the details above at any time.
Aggregated Data and Benchmarking
We may also collect, use and share aggregated data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. For example, we may prepare statistics on the demographic of customers purchasing a certain type of product. Although aggregated data may be derived from your personal data, it is not considered personal data in law as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity.
Cookies when using our website
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about the cookies we use, please see
www.anchorsafety.co.uk/cookies-policy
When you click through to other websites from our site, those websites may place cookies on your device or collect data from you. We are not responsible for the activities of the provider of any third party website.
4. Disclosures Of Your Personal Information
We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table in paragraph 3 above:
- Our suppliers who we may need to contact in respect of your order, including delivery service providers.
- Service providers based within the UK or wider EEA who provide IT and system administration services, or who store documents on our behalf.
- Our professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers based in the UK or EEA who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance and accounting services.
- HM Revenue & Customs and any other regulatory or governmental body in the UK who require reporting of our processing activities in certain circumstances.
- Company administrators and liquidators;
- Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy notice.
We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
International Transfers
We may transfer your personal data to third parties providing services to us who are based outside of the UK This includes parties providing IT administration services and hosting services, and parties providing assistance with managing our marketing databases.
Whenever we transfer your personal data outside of the UK, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:
- Transferring data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the UK government or ICO;
- using specific contracts approved by the ICO which give personal data the same protection it has in the UK.
6. Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
For more details of our specific retention periods, please contact our Data Protection Manager.
7. Your Legal Rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. These rights are set out below. If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out below, please contact our Data Protection Manager.
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
Complaint to the ICO
You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.
Your legal rights
Your legal rights are as follows:
- Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a "data subject access request"). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
- Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected.
- • Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law.
- Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms.
- Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.
- Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party.
- Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.