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DAVID BOATWRIGHT PARTNERSHIP LTD Trading as Gen X Garage

Website privacy policy

This website is operated by DAVID BOATWRIGHT PARTNERSHIP LTD. The privacy of our users is extremely important to us and therefore we encourage all users to read this policy very carefully because it contains important information regarding:

  • who we are;
  • how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information;
  • your rights in relation to your personal information; and
  • how to contact us and supervisory authorities in the event that you have a complaint.

Who we are

DAVID BOATWRIGHT PARTNERSHIP LTD (‘we’, ‘us’, ‘our’) collect, use and are responsible for storing certain personal information about you (‘you’, ‘your’, ‘yours’).


The personal information we collect and use

Personal information is information which you can be identified from (and does not include any anonymised forms of information).

  1. Types of personal information

We may process the following types of personal information in relation to you:

This includes your email address, postal address, name and contact number, IP address


How your personal information is collected

This section describes how the above types of personal information are collected by us. Your personal information will be collected as follows:

  1. Personal information obtained from you directly

We will sometimes obtain information from you directly, including when you:

place an order for goods or contact us relating to your order or contact us with a question about our products

  1. Personal information obtained by use of cookies or other automated means

We will sometimes obtain information via automated technology. This shall be by use of cookies and other similar technology. A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your computer or electronic device when you access our website. Similar technologies include web beacons, action tags, local shared objects (‘flash cookies’) and single-pixel gifs. Such technologies can be used to track users’ actions and activities, and to store information about them. Usually this will be in order to monitor and obtain information regarding remembering your choices (such as products added to a shopping cart) information about website usage to help us learn and improve the website

On the first occasion that you use our site we will ask for your consent for us to process this data . You can opt-out of using cookies at any time by setting your browser not to accept cookies. However, some of our website features may not function as a result.

For further information on our use of cookies and other similar technologies, please see our policy document as described below.

  1. Changes to the way in which we collect your personal information

In the event that we need to obtain personal information in relation to you from any other sources than those described above, we shall notify you of this.

How we use your personal information

  1. General purposes

In general, your personal information will generally be processed for the following purposes:

To fulfil your order for goods, to open an account if this has been requested by you, to send offers if you have opted in to this service, to process payment for the goods you have ordered, to respond to any questions you have asked. Referrer information is also used to measure and improve the performance of our site .

  1. Use of your information for marketing purposes

We have described above that one of the general purposes for which your data shall be processed is for our marketing purposes.

We wish to make you aware that you have the right to object or to opt-out of any direct marketing by:

We will not send you direct marketing unless you have opted in, to opt out after opting in you just have to click the unsubscribe link or simply ask us either by email or telephone. WE DO NOT SELL YOUR DETAILS TO ANY THIRD PARTY


Lawful basis for processing of your personal information

We have described above the purposes for which we may process your personal information. These purposes will at all times be justified by UK data protection law.

  1. General lawful bases

The lawful basis upon which we are able to process your personal data are:

(1) where we have your consent to use your data for a specific purpose;

(2) where it is necessary to enter into a legal contract with you or to perform obligations under a legal contract with you;

(3) where it is necessary to enable us to comply with a legal obligation;

(4) where it is necessary to ensure our own legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party (provided that your own interests and rights do not override those interests). Wherever we rely upon this basis, details of the legitimate interests concerned shall be provided to you;

(5) where we need to protect your own vital interests (or the vital interests of another person); and/or

(6) where it is needed in the public interest (or where we are acting in our official functions), provided that the task or function has a clear basis in law.

In general, in order to meet the purposes we have described above, we will process your personal information where we have your express consent on each occasion that the data is processed.

  1. Lawful bases specifically applicable to marketing

We will only ever use your personal information to send you marketing directly where we have your explicit consent (which will be obtained in a format separately to this policy). By signing up for a Newsletter this gives consent for us to email you. periodically. You can opt out at any time.  


Sharing of your personal information

On any occasion where any of your personal information is shared with any third party, we shall only permit them to process such information for our required purposes, under our specific instruction, and not for their own purposes. We are required to enter into a formal legal agreement to enable such sharing to take place.

We do not anticipate that we will need to share your personal information with any third party. We will notify should this position change.


How long your personal information will be kept

Your personal information will only be kept for the period of time which is necessary for us to fulfil the above purposes.

We envisage that your personal information shall be retained by us for the following:

12 months

After the period described above, your information shall be properly deleted or anonymised unless you still wish to receive newsletters, or products. You can opt out of the newsletter at any time, and if you wish us to delete your name and address details simply email us and all data will be deleted.


Keeping your information secure

We will ensure the proper safety and security of your personal information and have measures in place to do so. We will also use technological and organisation measures to keep your information secure. These measures are as follows:

Our website server is located in an ISO 27001 certified data centre located in the UK operated by Fasthosts. Account access is limited to account login with secure password, we secure our site with SSL technology which encrypts data. All access is password protected. All website software such as and plugins are upgraded to the latest secure versions. Any data held is encrypted.

We are ISO 27001 certified. This certification assists us in ensuring the safety of your personal information.

We have proper procedures in place to deal with any data security breach, which shall be reported and dealt with in accordance with data protection laws and regulations. You shall also be notified of any suspected data breach concerning your personal information.


Children

Our website is not intended for children (anybody under the age of 18). We do not intend to collect data from children.


Your rights

Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation you have a number of important rights free of charge. In summary, those include rights to:

(1) fair processing of information and transparency over how we use your use personal information;

(2) access to your personal information and to certain other supplementary information that this Privacy Statement is already designed to address;

(3) require us to correct any mistakes in your information which we hold;

(4) require the erasure of personal information concerning you in certain situations;

(5) receive the personal information concerning you which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit this information to a third party in certain situations;

(6) object at any time to processing of personal information concerning you for direct marketing;

(7) object to decisions being taken by automated means which produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you;

(8) object in certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal information, or ask us to suspend the processing procedure in order for you confirm its assurance or our reasoning for processing it;

(9) object to processing our your personal information where we are doing so in reliance upon a legitimate interest of our own or of a third party and where you wish to raise to an objection to this particular ground;

(10) otherwise restrict our processing of your personal information in certain circumstances;

(11) claim compensation for damages caused by our breach of any data protection laws; and/or

(12) in any circumstance where we rely upon your consent for processing personal information, you may withdraw this consent at any time.

For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, see the Guidance from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on your rights under the General Data Protection Regulations.

If you would like to exercise any of these rights please contact INFO@GENXGARAGE.CO.UK in the following manner:

Simply ask us to erase your data. or you can make the request online.


Your Requirements

If you would like this policy in another format (for example: audio, large print, braille) please contact us using the details below.


Complaints procedure

We hope that we can resolve any query or concern you raise about our use of your information.

The UK General Data Protection Regulation also gives you right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority. The supervisory authority in the United Kingdom is the Information Commissioner.


Changes to the privacy policy

This privacy policy was published on 30th March 2022 and last updated on 30th March 2022.

We may change this privacy policy from time to time and will notify you of any changes by:

a notice in the News / Blog section of the website and by email if you have opted in to receive updates.


Contacting us

The relevant person to contact regarding your personal information is: on our contact page 

Any requests or questions regarding the use of your personal information should be made using the following method:

Simply ask us to erase your data. or you can make the request online. 


Sources of further Information

This policy provides key information to you regarding the processed of your information. For certain areas of our information processing, we have further comprehensive details contained in other documentation. This information can be located as follows:

  • Our policy regarding the use of cookies and other similar technologies entitled GEN X GARAGE COOKIE POLICY can be located at:

Cookies

An explanation of what how information may be used:

Who we are

Our website address is: https://www.genxgarage.co.uk

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on a website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc. from sources such as YouTube or Instagram). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website (such as YouTube).

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information. We delete this information if you request us to do so or delete your account.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments or reviews may be checked through an automated spam detection service to prevent spam and stop bots automatically posting comments.

Once again – We do NOT sell your data.

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