This website is operated by Bi-Design Europe Limited t/a HOME incorporated and registered in England and Wales with company number 04224297 whose registered office is at 7 Unicorn Business Park, Whitby Road, Brislington, Bristol, England, BS4 4EX (“HOME”)
We take your privacy very seriously and we ask that you read this privacy policy carefully as it contains important information on:
We may change this privacy policy from time to time. You should check this policy occasionally to ensure you are aware of the most recent version that will apply each time you access this website.
HOME (‘we’ or ‘us’) are a ‘data controller’ for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and any subsequent UK data protection legislation and we are responsible for, and control the processing of, your personal information.
This privacy policy applies to any individuals whose personal information we process during the course of business, which includes:
If you are unsure how this policy applies to you, please contact us (see ‘How to contact us’ below) and we will be happy to help.
During the course of accessing our website, using our products and services, contacting us, signing up to our mailing list, providing services to us, or otherwise dealing with us, you may provide us with a range of personal data which we will use in the course of our business. This personal information may include:
Our website and services may collect certain information about you automatically (such as your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system).
Occasionally we may receive information about you from other sources (such as our suppliers, customers, or group companies), which we will add to the information we already hold about you in order to help us operate our business effectively.
If you give us information on behalf of someone else, you confirm that the other person has appointed you to act on his/her behalf and has agreed that you can:
We may process your data for a variety of reasons, including because:
In some instances, we will rely on your consent to process personal data and where we do this, it will be flagged to you at the time.
Our main processing activities for personal data, and the legal basis on which we perform those activities are:
We will process your personal data in order to contact you in relation to our products and services and keep a record of our communications (e.g. sales telephone calls, quotations and offers). We also process your data when you sign up to our newsletter.
Our legal basis for doing so will be either:
We will process your personal data in order to provide our products/services to you and to provide you with information and updates regarding the same. Our legal basis for doing so is that the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract. We will also keep a record of your data and use it for related purposes, including account management, customer support, and audit purposes, on the basis that we have a legitimate interest in doing so.
We may also contact you in relation to our products and services. Our legal basis for doing so will be the same as for prospective customers, as set out above.
We will process your personal data in order to receive goods and/or services from you and to manage our relationship, including making payments to you, dealing with accounts issues, placing orders etc. Our legal basis for doing so is that the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract.
We may monitor and record communications with you (such as telephone conversations and emails) for the purpose of training, fraud prevention, and/or quality assurance. We may also retain copies of communications and details provided to us by you, for example support requests, account queries, complaints, for internal account management and auditing purposes. This is done on the basis of legitimate interests.
We may do a credit check on you:
Our search will be recorded on the files of the credit reference agency. We may also disclose information about how you conduct your account to credit reference agencies and your information may be linked to records relating to other people living at the same address with whom you are financially linked.
Other credit businesses may use your information to:
If you provide false or inaccurate information to us and we suspect fraud, we will record this.
We store your personal data on our own servers and on cloud-based servers based in the UK/EEA.
We may disclose your personal data to:
We use MailChimp as our marketing platform. By subscribing to our mailing list, you acknowledge that the information you provide will be transferred to MailChimp for processing in accordance with their Privacy Policy and Terms.
We will use technical and organisational measures to safeguard your personal data, for example:
While we will use all reasonable efforts to safeguard your personal data, you acknowledge that the use of the internet is not entirely secure and for this reason we cannot guarantee the security or integrity of any personal data that are transferred from you or to you via the internet. If you have any particular concerns about your information, please contact us (see ‘How to contact us’ below).
If you want detailed information from Get Safe Online on how to protect your information and your computers and devices against fraud, identity theft, viruses and many other online problems, please visit www.getsafeonline.org. Get Safe Online is supported by HM Government and leading businesses.
We may need to transfer your personal data to countries located outside the UK where our suppliers do so as part of their services (for example to suppliers such as MailChimp). Any transfer of your data will be subject to a UK approved contract that will safeguard your privacy rights and give you remedies in the unlikely event of a security breach.
We keep your personal information for as long as we need to for the purposes for which it was collected or (if longer) for any period for which we are required to keep personal information to comply with our legal and regulatory requirements.
You are responsible for ensuring that information you provide to us is accurate, complete and up-to-date. You can review and change your information by contacting us.
You have a number of rights in relation to your personal data, these include the right to:
If you would like to exercise any of your rights or find out more, please contact us.
Please contact us here if you have any questions about this privacy policy or the information we hold about you.
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