Privacy Policy, Cookies & GDPR

Introduction:

Ashton Car Alarm Centre are suppliers and fitters of vehicle alarm systems and other vehicle related accessories. We also provide a vehicle tracking system and service. Our website is www.ashtoncaralarmcentre.co.uk.  By using this website or any Ashton Car Alarm Centre products/services, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

1. We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of Ashton Car Alarm Centre’s visitors and service users.
2. This policy applies where we are acting as a data controller with respect to the personal data of Ashton Car Alarm Centre’s visitors and service users; in other words, where we determine the purposes and means of the processing of that personal data.
3. We use cookies on our website. Insofar as those cookies are not strictly necessary for the provision of Ashton Car Alarm Centre’s visitors and service users, we will ask you to consent to our use of cookies when you first visit our website.
4. We are committed to adhering to GDPR regulations.

Personal Data:

We may collect the personal data in the following ways:

1. We may process data about your use of our website and services (“usage data”). The usage data may include your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths, as well as information about the timing, frequency and pattern of your service use. The source of the usage data is our website analytics tracking system. This usage data may be processed for the purposes of analysing the use of the website and services. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely monitoring and improving our website and services.
2. We may process your account data (“account data”). The account data may include your name, email address and details of your payment method which you used to purchase our products. The source of the account data is you. The account data may be processed for the purposes of operating our website, providing our services, ensuring the security of our website and services, maintaining back-ups of our databases and communicating with you. The legal basis for this processing is your consent and our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business.
3. We may process your information included in your personal profile on our website (“profile data”). The profile data may include your name, address, telephone number, and email address only if you have provided that to us. The legal basis for this processing is your consent and our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business.

Providing Your Personal Data To Others:

We do not sell or pass your data onto any other third parties.

Retaining And Removing Personal Data:

This Section sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal data.

1. Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
2. Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
3. You retain the absolute right to ask us to provide full details of the personal data we hold about you and to request that we remove that data from our records.

Your principle rights under the data protection law are:

• the right to access;
• the right to rectification;
• the right to erasure;
• the right to restrict processing;
• the right to object to processing;
• the right to data portability
• the right to complain to a supervisory authority; and
• the right to withdraw consent.

About Cookies:

1. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.
2. Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.
3. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

Cookies We Use:

• We use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website. Cookies used for this purpose are: “identify cookies”;
• We use cookies to help us to determine if you are logged into our website. Cookies used for this purpose are: “identify cookies”;
•  we use cookies to help us to analyse the use and performance of our website and services. Cookies used for this purpose are: “identify cookies”;