Introduction
1.1 We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of all visitors to our website.
1.2 This policy applies where we are acting as a data controller concerning the personal data of you, our website visitor, in regards to the purposes and means of the processing of that personal data.
1.3 We use cookies on our website. In so far as those cookies are not strictly necessary for the provision of our website, we will ask you to consent to our use of cookies when you first visit our website.
1.4 Our website incorporates privacy controls which affect how we will process your data. By using the privacy controls, you can specify whether you would like to receive direct marketing communications and limit the publication of your information. You can access the privacy controls via legitremovals.co.uk/.
1.5 In this policy, “we”, “us” and “our” refer to legitremovals.co.uk.
2. Credit
2.1 This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal (https://www.legitremovals.co.uk/documents/privacy-policy).
3. How do we use your data?
3.1 In this Section 3 we have set out:
(a) the general categories of personal data that we may process;
(b) the purposes for which we may process personal data; and
(d) the legal bases of the processing.
3.2 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 to analyse the effectiveness of our website and services. The legal basis for this process is to monitor and improve our website and services.
3.3 We may process information contained in any enquiry you submit to us regarding goods and/or services (“enquiry data”). The enquiry data may be processed for offering, marketing and selling the most relevant goods and/or services to you. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper functioning of our website and business.
3.4 We may process any of your data identified in this policy where necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or an administrative or out-of-court procedure. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the protection and assertion of our legal rights, your legal rights and the legal rights of others.
3.5 In addition to the specific purposes for which we may process your data set out in this Section 3, we may also process any of your data where such processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.
3.6 Please do not supply any other person’s data to us, unless we prompt you to do so.
4. Providing your data to others
4.1 We may disclose your data to our insurers and/or professional advisers insofar as reasonably necessary for obtaining or maintaining insurance coverage, managing risks, obtaining professional advice, or the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or an administrative or out-of-court procedure.
4.2 Your data held in our website database will be stored on the servers of our hosting services providers identified at legitremovals.co.uk.
4.3 In addition to the specific disclosures of personal data set out in this Section 4, we may disclose your data where such disclosure is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person. We may also disclose your data where such disclosure is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or an administrative or out-of-court procedure.
5. International transfers of your data
5.1 In this Section 5, we provide information about the circumstances in which your data may be transferred to countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA)].
5.2 The hosting facilities for our website are situated in the U.S. The European Commission has made an “adequacy decision” concerning the data protection laws of each of these countries. Transfers to the U.S will be protected by appropriate safeguards, namely the use of standard data protection clauses adopted or approved by the European Commission, a copy of which you can obtain from wix.com.
5.4 You acknowledge that personal data that you submit for publication through our website or services may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use (or misuse) of such personal data by others.
6. Retaining and deleting personal data
6.1 This Section 6 sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal data.
6.2 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.
6.3 We will retain your data as follows:
(a) usage data will be retained for a minimum period of 3 months following the date of collection, and for a maximum period of 12 months following that date;
(b) account data will be retained for a minimum period of 3 months following the date of closure of the relevant account, and for a maximum period of 12 months following that date;
(c) enquiry data will be retained for a minimum period of 3 months following the date of the enquiry, and for a maximum period of 12 months following that date;
6.4 Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 6, we may retain your data where such retention is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.
7. Your rights
7.1 In this Section 7, we have listed the rights that you have under data protection law.
7.2 Your principal rights under data protection law are:
(a) the right to access – you can ask for copies of your data;
(b) the right to rectification – you can ask us to rectify inaccurate personal data and to complete incomplete personal
data;
(c) the right to erasure – you can ask us to erase your data;
(d) the right to restrict processing – you can ask users to restrict the processing of your data;
(e) the right to object to processing – you can object to the processing of your data;
(f) the right to data portability – you can ask that we transfer your data to another organisation or you;
(g) the right to complain to a supervisory authority – you can complain about our processing of your data; and
(h) the right to withdraw consent – to the extent that the legal basis of our processing of your data is consent,
you can withdraw that consent.
7.3 These rights are subject to certain limitations and exceptions. You can learn more about the rights of data subjects by visiting https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protection/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/individual-rights/.
7.4 You may exercise any of your rights about your personal data by written notice to us, using the contact details set out below:
Enter company contact details on the website
8. About cookies
8.1 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 stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.
8.2 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.
8.3 Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal data that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
9. Cookies that we use
9.1 We use cookies for the following purposes:
(a) analysis – we use cookies to help us to analyse the use and performance of our website and service cookies used for this purpose are anonymous, contain no information that can identify you personally and are used to inform the development of our website and business;
10. Cookies used by our service providers
10.1 Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website.
10.2 We use Google Analytics. Google Analytics gathers information about the use of our website using cookies. The information gathered is used to create reports about the use of our website. You can find out more about Google’s use of information by visiting https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ and you can review Google’s privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy. The relevant cookies are anonymous, contain no information that can identify you personally and are used to inform the development of our website and business Delete if don’t use them – leave if not sure
10.3 We use wix.com to host our website. This service uses cookies for anonymous analysis, they contain no information that can identify you personally and are used to inform the development of our website and business. You can view the privacy policy of this service provider at wix.com.
11. Managing cookies
11.1 Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:
(a) https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647 (Chrome);
(b) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox);
(c) https://help.opera.com/en/latest/security-and-privacy/ (Opera);
(d) https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer);
(e) https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac (Safari); and
(f) https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).
11.2 Blocking all cookies will hurt the usability of many websites.
11.3 If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.
12. Amendments
12.1 We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.
12.2 You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.
12.3 We may notify you of significant changes to this policy by email.
13. Our details
13.1 This website is owned and operated by Legit Removals LTD
13.2 We are registered in England and Wales under registration number 13368722, and our registered office is at 87A Lent Rise Road, London, United Kingdom, SL1 7NY
13.3 Our principal place of business is at 87A Lent Rise Road, London, United Kingdom, SL1 7NY
13.4 You can contact us:
(a) by post, to the postal address given above;
(b) using our website contact form;
(c) by telephone, on the contact number published on our website; or
(d) by email, using the email address published on our website.
14. Data protection officer
14.1 Our data protection officer’s contact details are: 0203 8842 000 –Legit Removals Ltd