What do we do with the information collected?
We will not pass your information onto 3rd parties or send spam e-mail. We may send out newsletters occasionally or e-mail to let you know about trade events, however if you do not wish to receive these you can unsubscribe easily. Further detailed information is supplied on the privacy policy below:
1. Our guiding privacy principles
Westgarth is committed to upholding your privacy as a valued customer/client or user of our website. Any personal data about you that we collect, process or use (Data) is held securely and treated in accordance with this Policy. Whenever you give us Data, you are consenting to its collection and use as explained at the time of collection and in this Policy.
The aim of our email newsletter is to keep you up-to-date with all the latest news and trade events that we feel may be of interest to you, however if you feel you no longer wish to receive email communications from us, you are able to opt out of them individually at any time (see section 3).
If you would like to contact us at any time with regard to this Policy or its contents please contact: Westgarth Furniture Solutions – 3 Pacific Court, Pacific Road, Altrincham, WA14 5BJ – Tel: 0161 924 0040
2. Disclosure of information
Westgarth can use your Data for any of the purposes disclosed in this Policy, or any other purposes disclosed in any separate communication.
In no case, unless obliged to do so by law, willﾠWestgarth sell, rent, lease or otherwise share your Data with third parties, unless you have provided your specific, positive and unambiguous consent.
3. What we use your data for
Data about you provided will be used for the purpose of email newsletters. However, when you supply us with your email address we will, in all of our communication to you, offer you the chance to opt in or opt out.
We do not send random marketing emails to personal email addresses (spam).
Under GDPR, we will continue sending relevant marketing emails after 25th May 2018, under the “soft opt-in” policy for all email addresses gathered before this data, as these will have been exclusively from past customers/clients that have expressed a specific interest in Westgarth.
4. Opting out
You may at any time opt out of any Westgarth communication. If you wish to opt out of receiving communications please follow the unsubscribe link supplied at the bottom of all our email communications.
5. Maintaining the information we hold about you
Westgarth aims to keep the Data it holds about you accurate and up to date. If at any time you want to verify, update or amend any Data we hold about you or if you become aware of possible errors or inaccuracies in that Data, please contact us on greg@westgarthfurniture.co.uk
If you wish to opt out of further use of your Data for any purpose, please refer to Section 3 on Opting Out.
6. Security
Westgarth places great importance on the security of all Data supplied by customers/clients.
7. Cookies on Westgarth
To make this site function properly, we sometimes place small data files on your computer, known as cookies. Most big websites or internet service providers do this too. Cookies help the site remember your settings preferences for how you want to view the site on your computer – so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to us.
Any page that has a Youtube video embeded will employ 3rd party cookies from Youtube for the purposes of accurately tracking the number of views a video has. No personal or identifiable information is collected.
How you can control cookies
You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see AboutCookies.org.
You can delete all the cookies already on your computer and you can set most browsers to block them being placed. But if you do this, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit the site.
Westgarth does not use cookies for any other purpose than those presented here and does not use them to collect any personal data for any other purpose.
8. Notification of changes
We reserve the right to modify, alter or otherwise update this Policy at any time and users are encouraged to review this Policy from time to time. Any changes to the Policy will be highlighted and the previous Policy will be available on request for at least three months after the change has come into effect.
9. What Information do we collect
a) Personally Identifable Informaiton: We may collect personally identifable information about you, such as your first name, phone number and email address.
b) Non-Personally Identifable Informaiton: Most of this is covered in the cookies section above. Usage data, referring/ exit pages and URLs, platform types, number of clicks, device used etc may be gathered with relevant 3rd parties to help them and us understand the usage patterns to help us best suit your needs and those of our partners to do so also. Non-Personally Identifable Informaiton may be sorted indefinitely.
10. Data Retention
We only retain the personal data collected for as long as we believe you still have an interest in Westgarth.