Data Privacy Statement
Archibald Removers & Storers
Revision History
REVISION DATE NAME DESCRIPTION
1.0 01/07/2017 Mr. S. Shahi Original
1.1 07/12/2017 Mr. M. Corr Revised for GDPR
Approved by board / management on: 12/12/2017
Policy became operational on: 13/12/2017
Next review date: 12/12/2018
Data Privacy Statement – Introduction
Archibald Removers & Storers know that your privacy is very important to you. When it comes to your information, we follow some straightforward principles. We aim to be clear about the data we collect and why.
Please note that Archibald Removers & Storers reserves the right to update or change this privacy notice at any time. If it is updated or changed during the service we are providing you with, we will notify you and provide a link to our new data privacy policy.
What personal data do we collect?
It is the nature of the services we provide that requires us to collect and process personal data. This will, at a minimum, include:
- Your name
- Your phone number and/or email address
- Origin and destination addresses
We may need to collect more personal data if it is necessary to the delivery of the service you have requested. For example, international moves may require us to collect an image of your passport.
If you don’t provide us with personal data, we’ll try to provide the service but it may be impossible.
(N.B. Please do not provide us with the personal data of anyone else without their permission, unless you have obtained the explicit consent from that person.)
How else we have obtained your personal data?
We may have purchased your data from a direct marketing firm who collect personal data from individuals who have consented to third party marketing communications. If you did not consent to third party marketing communications, then they may have collected your data from publicly accessible sources. For example, information on a property in the public domain includes whether it is ‘for sale’ or ‘sold subject to contract’.
In either case, you have, by law, the right to object to direct marketing. If you want to exercise this right, then please contact us on 01243 885158. We apologise for the inconvenience and will never contact you again with marketing communications.
How do we use your personal data?
We limit the use of personal data to ensuring we deliver the service you have requested. Furthermore, we retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary to deliver you this service. Under certain circumstances we will retain your personal data longer if it part of an accounting record which we are obliged by law to retain for 7 years. Where this is the case, your personal data will be archived. Records in an archived state means access to them is greatly restricted.
After that, unless we need it for a particular investigation, we securely destroy records your personal data is contained within in line with our retention schedule. Destruction of paper records is done securely and appropriately. For example, we securely shred paper records in line with the British Standard for secure destruction of confidential material (BS EN 15713).
To whom might we disclose your personal data?
If another organisation helps us to provide the service, we’ll also make your personal data available to them. If this involves transferring information to a country not recognised by the Information Commissioner’s Office as providing equivalent protection, we’ll use additional safeguards approved by UK or EU regulations.
We shall only disclose your personal data to third parties in circumstances that are necessary for delivering the service agreed with you. For example, we will disclose your personal data to our overseas partners who will be carrying out the destination services of your international move.
We have never and will never sell your personal data.
If there are attacks on our services, or other criminal activity, we may share information with the police or similar public body.
How do we secure your personal data?
Unfortunately, no data transmission over the internet or any other network can be guaranteed as 100% secure, but we take appropriate steps to try to protect the security of your personal data. For example, we encrypt all personal data disclosed to third parties. Likewise, Group servers and all data stored locally are protected by a hardware firewall that is preventing unauthorised intrusion into the network. Software solutions are also in place which constantly scan for malware and viruses on the network.
All staff are required to ensure that any paper files not in current use are stored in filing cabinets and locked at all times when offices are unoccupied. Any paper documentation containing personal data is shredded once it becomes superfluous.
Access to personal data is restricted to authorised users on a need-to-know basis.
In the event of a data breach involving your personal data which presents a high risk we will contact you immediately.
Inaccuracies and corrections
We would like to keep your personal data accurate and up to date. If you become aware of any errors, noted on our correspondence with you for example, then please let us know by phoning or emailing us.
How to contact us and exercise your rights?
Under the Data Protection Act 1998 you have certain rights over your personal data that we hold:
- To receive a copy of your personal data that we hold
- To ask us to correct any errors; and
- To delete it once we no longer need it.
To contact us regarding those rights, or anything else in this data privacy statement, please write to our compliance officer, Matthew Corr, by email (compliance@archibaldremoversandstorers.co.uk) or at our postal address below:
FAO Matthew Corr, International House, Unit G, Bar End Ind. Est., Winchester SO23 9NP
If you don’t feel we’ve dealt with your request appropriately, you have the right to appeal to the Information Commissioner’s Office.
Links to other websites
Our website contains links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites. We encourage you to exercise caution and read the privacy policy of other sites that collect or use personal data. This privacy policy applies only to personal data collected by Archibald Removers & Storers.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. A cookie can’t read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Cookies do not damage your system; they allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the personal data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, however, you can reset your browser so as to refuse any cookie or to alert you to when a cookie is being sent. If you refuse cookies, this may prevent you from taking full advantage of our website.
