About this privacy policy
This privacy policy describes how we use your personal data when you use our website www.ardex.co.uk or communicate with us in relation to our goods and their use. We have provided this privacy policy to ensure that you understand what personal data we may collect and hold about you, what we may use it for and how we keep it safe. You have legal rights to access the personal data that we hold about you and to control how we use it which are also explained.
You can read, print and save this whole policy or click on the links below to see specific information about:
Who we are and how you can contact us
What personal data we collect about you
What we use your personal data for
When we need your consent to use your personal data
Personal data you are legally obliged to provide
Your rights to know what personal data we hold and to control how we use it
Automated decision making and profiling
When we will share your personal data with others
How we keep your personal data safe
How we use your personal data for marketing
How long we keep your personal data
How we keep this policy up to date
Who we are and how you can contact us
We are ARDEX UK, a company registered in England and Wales (Registered number 00668297). Our registered head office address is ARDEX UK Limited, Homefield Road, Haverhill, Suffolk, CB9 8QP.
You can contact us in writing at the address above, or by emailing info@ardex.co.uk. If you would like to speak to us please call us on 01440 714939.
Please refer to the sections on Your rights to know what personal data we hold and to control how we use it and How to make a complaint for further contact information.
What personal data we collect about you
We collect:
- Personal data that you provide to us. There are lots of ways in which you may share your personal data with us, for example, you may use our website, post on social media sites that we run, register or attend training events or exhibitions, request technical advice etc. or contact us in connection with goods or services that you would like to buy, or have already bought, from us. The personal data that you provide to us may include your name, address, e-mail address and phone number, financial and credit card information
- Personal data that we receive from third parties. We may also obtain your personal data from a public register relevant to your industry or trade, or because you placed it in the public domain i.e. via yell.com. If we work with other businesses or use sub-contractors these parties may collect personal data about you which they will share with us. For example, we may receive details of your credit history from credit reference agencies, have your name and contact details passed to us by a distributor or retailer of our products that refers you to us so that we can provide you with our goods or services, receive feedback from a sub-contractor we have instructed to help us provide you with goods or services or that you have requested such as a courier company
- Personal data about your use of our website. This is technical information and includes details such as your IP address, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, operating system and platform, as well as details of how you navigated to our website, where you went, when you left, what pages you viewed or searched for, page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs) and any phone numbers used to call our customer service number
What we use your personal data for
We use your personal data in the following ways:
- Personal data that you provide to us is used to:
- Provide you with the information, products and services that you request from us
- Provide you with marketing information in accordance with your marketing preferences (see How we use your personal data for marketing)
- Manage and administer our business
- Review and improve our goods and service
- Personal data that we receive from third parties is combined with the personal data that you provide to us and used for the purposes described above
- Personal data about your use of our website is used to:
- Administer our website and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes
- To improve our website to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer or mobile device
- To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so
- As part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure
- To measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you
- To make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of our site about goods or services that may interest you or them
Cookies
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our website. For detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them see our Cookie policy
When we need your consent to use your personal data
Whilst we always want you to be aware of how we are using your personal data, this does not necessarily mean that we are required to ask for your consent before we can use it. In the day-to-day running of our business we may use your personal data without asking for your consent because:
- We are entering into and carrying out our obligations under a contract with you
- We need to use your personal data for our own legitimate purposes (such as the administration and management of our business and the improvement of our services) and our doing so will not interfere with your privacy rights
In exceptional circumstances we may wish to use your personal data for a different purpose which does require your consent. In these circumstances we will contact you to explain how we wish to use your data and to ask for your consent. You are not required to give consent just because we ask for it. If you do give consent you can change your mind and withdraw it at a later date.
Please refer to the section on How we use your personal data for marketing to read about marketing consents.
Personal data you are legally obliged to provide
You are not under a legal obligation to provide us with any of your personal data but please note that if you elect not to provide us with your personal data we may be unable to provide our goods or services to you.
Your rights to know what personal data we hold and to control how we use it
You have a legal right to know what personal data we hold about you – this is called the right of subject access. You can exercise this right by sending us a written request at any time. Please mark your letter “Subject Access Request” and send it to us at using the details in the Who we are and how you can contact us section.
You also have rights to:
- Prevent your personal data being used for marketing purposes (see How we use your personal data for marketing for further details)
- Have inaccurate personal data corrected, blocked or erased
- Object to decisions being made about you by automated means or to your personal data being used for profiling purposes
- Object to our using your personal data in ways that are likely to cause you damage or distress
- Restrict our use of your personal data
- Require that we delete your personal data
- Require that we provide you, or anyone that you nominate, with a copy of any personal data you have given us in a structured electronic form such as a CSV file
You can find full details of your personal data rights on the Information Commissioner’s Office website at www.ico.org.uk.
Automated decision making and profiling
We do not make use of automated decision making or profiling.
When we will share your personal data with others
We share your data with the following people in the day to day running our business:
- Any business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors we work with to provide you with goods or services that you have requested from us
- Analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our site
- Credit reference agencies for the purpose of assessing your credit score where this is a condition of us entering into a contract with you
We may also share your personal information with third parties on a one-off basis, for example, if:
- We sell or buy any business or assets (including our own), in which case we will disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets
- We are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our website terms of use or our terms and conditions of supply and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of our customers, ourselves or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction
How we keep your personal data safe
We take every care to ensure that your personal data is kept secure. The security measures we take include:
- Only storing your personal data on our secure servers and network
- Ensuring that our staff receive regular data security awareness training
- Keeping paper records to a minimum and ensuring that those we do have are stored securely on our office premises
- Maintaining up to date firewalls and anti-virus software to minimise the risk of unauthorised access to our systems
- Enforcing a strict policy on the use of mobile devices and out of office working
- Ensuring that any partner agencies requiring this data are also fully compliant with GDPR and offer other security measures
Unfortunately, sending information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of personal data sent to our website; you send us personal data at your own risk. Once we have received your personal data, we will use strict procedures and security features (some of which are described above) to try to prevent unauthorised access.
How we use your personal data for marketing
We will add your details to our marketing database if:
- You request directly that we send you information
- You make an enquiry about our goods or services
- You buy our goods or services
- You have told a third party that you would like them to pass us your contact details so that we can send you updates about our goods and services
- We may send you marketing communications by email, telephone, text message and post
You can ask us to only send you marketing communications by particular methods (for example, you may be happy to receive emails from us but not telephone calls), about specific subjects, or you may ask us not to send you any marketing communications at all.
We may ask you to indicate your marketing preferences when you first register with us. You can check and update your current marketing preferences at any time by calling or emailing us using the details set out in the Who we are and how you can contact us section above.
We never share your personal data with third parties for marketing purposes.
How long we keep your personal data
We only keep your personal data for as long as we actually need it. In practice this means that we will keep:
- Your name and contact details for as long as reasonably needed. This may be up to 2 years from your last interaction with us (i.e. opening of emails, information requests from yourself)
- A record of the goods and services, including a copy of your full customer file, we provide to you for 7 years from the date of purchase
- Complaint records for 10 years
Please note that we may anonymise your personal data or use it for statistical purposes. We keep anonymised and statistical data indefinitely but we take care to ensure that such data can no longer identify or be connected to any individual.
How you can make a complaint
If you are unhappy with the way we have used your personal data please contact us using the contact details set out in the Who we are and how you can contact us
You are also entitled to make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office which you can do by visiting www.ico.org.uk. Whilst you are not required to do so, we encourage you to contact us directly to discuss any concerns that you may have and to allow us an opportunity to address these before you contact the Information Commissioner’s Office.
How we keep this privacy policy up to date
We will review and update this privacy policy from time to time. This may be to reflect a change in the goods or services we offer or to our internal procedures or it may be to reflect a change in the law.
The easiest way to check for updates is by looking for the latest version of this privacy policy on our website www.ardex.co.uk or you can contact us (see Who we are and how to contact us) to ask us to send you the latest version of our privacy policy.
Each time we update our privacy policy we will update the policy version number shown below at the end of the document, and the date on which that version of the privacy policy came into force.
This is policy version 0418 which came into effect on 16th April 2018.
