Customer Privacy Notice
We take our responsibilities under GDPR very seriously and undertake to protect your data and maintain strict confidentiality at all times. This privacy notice tells you what to expect us to do with the information we collect as part of our work, including your personal information.
Our Contact details
Post Telephone Data Protection Officer ICO Registration Reference | 6 Bathurst Row, Coates, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, GL7 6NW, GB 07885 810810 emma.gray@1stpillar.co.uk Emma Gray ZB771338 |
What information we collect, use, and why
We collect or use the following information to provide services and goods, including delivery:
Names and contact details
Addresses
Purchase or account history
Payment details (including card or bank information for transfers and direct debits)
Health and safety information
Records of meetings and decisions
Information relating to compliments or complaints
We collect or use the following information for the operation of customer accounts and guarantees:
Names and contact details
Addresses
Payment details (including card or bank information for transfers and direct debits)
Purchase history
Marketing preferences
We collect or use the following information for service updates or marketing purposes:
Names and contact details
Addresses
Marketing preferences
Location data
Purchase or viewing history
We collect or use the following information for recruitment purposes:
Contact details (eg name, address, telephone number or personal email address)
Date of birth
National Insurance number
Copies of passports or other photo ID
Employment history (eg job application, employment references or secondary employment)
Education history (eg qualifications)
Right to work information
Details of any criminal convictions (eg Disclosure Barring Service (DBS), Access NI or Disclosure Scotland checks)
We collect or use the following personal information for dealing with queries, complaints or claims:
Names and contact details
Address
Payment details
Account information
Purchase or service history
Customer or client accounts and records
Financial transaction information
Information relating to health and safety
Correspondence
Lawful bases and data protection rights
Under UK data protection law, we must have a “lawful basis” for collecting and using your personal information. There is a list of possible lawful bases in the UK GDPR. You can find out more about lawful bases on the ICO’s website.
Which lawful basis we rely on may affect your data protection rights which are in brief set out below. You can find out more about your data protection rights and the exemptions which may apply on the ICO’s website:
Your right of access – You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information. You can request other information such as details about where we get personal information from and who we share personal information with. There are some exemptions which means you may not receive all the information you ask for.
Your right to rectification – You have the right to ask us to correct or delete personal information you think is inaccurate or incomplete.
Your right to erasure – You have the right to ask us to delete your personal information.
Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask us to limit how we can use your personal information.
Your right to object to processing – You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data.
Your right to data portability – You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you.
Your right to withdraw consent – When we use consent as our lawful basis you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
If you make a request, we must respond to you without undue delay and in any event within one month.
To make a data protection rights request, please contact us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.
Our lawful bases for the collection and use of your data
Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information to provide services and goods are:
Consent – we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
Contract – we have to collect or use the information so we can enter into or carry out a contract with you. All of your data protection rights may apply except the right to object.
Legitimate interests – we’re collecting or using your information because it benefits you, our organisation or someone else, without causing an undue risk of harm to anyone. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to portability. Our legitimate interests are:
to offer advice on improving your organisations operations processes, as requested
Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for the operation of customer accounts and guarantees are:
Consent – we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
Contract – we have to collect or use the information so we can enter into or carry out a contract with you. All of your data protection rights may apply except the right to object.
Legitimate interests – we’re collecting or using your information because it benefits you, our organisation or someone else, without causing an undue risk of harm to anyone. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to portability. Our legitimate interests are:
to offer advice on improving your organisations operations processes, as requested
Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for service updates or marketing purposes are:
Consent – we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
Contract – we have to collect or use the information so we can enter into or carry out a contract with you. All of your data protection rights may apply except the right to object.
Legitimate interests – we’re collecting or using your information because it benefits you, our organisation or someone else, without causing an undue risk of harm to anyone. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to portability. Our legitimate interests are:
to offer advice on improving your organisations operations processes, as requested
Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for recruitment purposes are:
Consent – we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for dealing with queries, complaints or claims are:
Consent – we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
Contract – we have to collect or use the information so we can enter into or carry out a contract with you. All of your data protection rights may apply except the right to object.
Where we get personal information from
Directly from you
How long we keep information
We will keep your information for as long as you are actively a customer, or user of our services, and for two years after that.
Who we share information with
In order to provide you with the services you have requested, we may share personal information with
Professional or legal advisors
Professional consultants
How to complain
If you have any concerns about our use of your personal data, you can make a complaint to us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.
If you remain unhappy with how we’ve used your data after raising a complaint with us, you can also complain to the ICO.
The ICO’s address:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Helpline number: 0303 123 1113
Website: ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint
Last updated
13 August 2024
