Tierglaze Ltd is a double glazing supplier and installation company registered in England No. 07155719 and our registered office is Rear of 137 Broadway, Bexleyheath, Kent DA6 7EZ. This Privacy Notice explains how we use any personal information we collect about you when you use this website or contact us directly.
The Data Protection Act and the EU General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR)
The Data Protection Act and GDPR requires us to manage personal information in accordance with Data Protection Principles and in particular requires us to process your personal information fairly and lawfully. This means you are entitled to know how we intend to use any information you provide. You can then decide whether you want to give it to us in order that we may provide the product or service that you require.
All our employees are personally responsible for maintaining customer or employee confidentiality and will do their utmost to keep all data accurate, timely and secure. We provide training and education to all employees to remind them about their obligations.
What personal information do we collect?
We collect information about you when you register with us or when you make an enquiry or place an order for windows, doors or conservatories and when you apply for employment with us. We also collect information when you voluntarily complete customer surveys, provide feedback, participate in competitions or attend our events. Website usage information is collected using cookies and Google analytics, which may capture your IP address.
The personal information we collect from you will depend on the nature of your enquiry, the type of product or service you are enquiring about, or to satisfy any contractual or statutory obligation. This may include personal information, sensitive personal information, recorded voice conversations or CCTV images. Typically the information might include:
- Contact details (name, address, telephone / mobile numbers, email address)
- Photographic identification & proof of address documents (to carry out due diligence)
- Bank and financial details (to establish source of funds to pay for the product or service)
- Professional information (if you are applying for employment with us)
- Other information in order for us to fulfil your needs and complete the transaction
- By what methods you wish us to contact you.
We recognise that your personal information is confidential and we will protect the confidentiality of your information in accordance with our internal procedures and legal requirements.
On what basis will we process your personal information?
The basis for processing your personal information is:
- It is necessary for the performance of a contract
- It is necessary to comply with mandatory legal or statutory obligations
- It is necessary for Public Interest (or National Interest & Criminal Background Record checks as per DPA 2017)
- It is necessary to protect the vital interest of you or other persons, such as safety issues regarding your purchase
- It is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests as data controller to continue processing your personal data in a way that we have previously done, however, we will ensure that this does not cause undue damage or distress to you
- Consent, whereby you have given us permission to use the personal data.
How we will use your personal information?
We may use your information in the following ways:
- to ensure the web site’s content is presented as effectively as possible for you
- to provide the products, services and information that you have requested
- for our own internal record keeping
- to prepare documentation in order to complete transactions for our products and services, which may require sharing your data with 3rd parties
- to introduce you to other service providers* (us acting as a Broker) with whom you may form a direct relationship with, in order to deliver your product, service or information, such as finance or insurance providers (* see list below). Please note that if you form a direct relationship with that provider then they will become the data controller for the products or services they have contracted with you for, and their Privacy Policy will take precedent over ours.
- to maintain warranty plans and aftercare communications
- to develop and improve the products and services we offer, including those from selected suppliers, and notify you of these
- to review our employees interaction with you with a view to improve our performance by training and development.
- we will, with your consent, use your data for market research, marketing purposes, and independently assess how we did, and will always give you the option to withdraw this consent.
- we use CCTV images to protect our assets, and for security of you and our employees, and to detect criminal activity
- we use voice recording of telephone conversations for training purposes, to protect you and our employees from verbal abuse, and to ensure we have fully complied with your request for information, products or services
- in the event that you apply for a job at Tierglaze, to assess your suitability for the role and to carry out any subsequent interview process
- to respond to complaints or allegations of negligence against us
- we may aggregate your information with other data so as to provide statistics in order to make business decisions and assess data about web traffic patterns, sales, demand for products, etc. This aggregated information does not identify any individual or individual’s personal data.
With whom will we share your personal information?
We do not share your details with our suppliers as all jobs are ordered using a reference name and not a customer’s full details. If we should need to pass your details on to our suppliers, you would be notified accordingly.
In limited circumstances we may disclose your information to third parties:
- if we are under a duty to disclose or share your information to comply with a legal or statutory obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms and conditions, or protect the rights, property or safety of our customers, employees or others.
- to fulfil certain compliance requirements, such as external auditor needs
- to our professional indemnity insurer in the event that a claim is made against us in order to defend ourselves
- to our regulators, including but not limited to the Information Commissions Office (ICO) and FENSA.
- any disclosure to law enforcement agencies where required by law
- in the event that the company goes into receivership
- if the company decides to sell all or part of its business via an asset sale, then the customer database, including your data, will form part of the assets. Any prospective buyer will be subject to a non-disclosure agreement until such time as the transaction takes place and they provide satisfactory assurances that they comply with GDPR requirements.
How long will your information be stored for?
We will store your information in a secure and protected environment for as long as we believe it will better help us to understand how we can serve you and respect your wishes. However, this will be for a reasonable period and only for as long as is necessary. In addition, legislation might oblige us to store the information for a certain period of time.
Your Rights?
Under the Data Protection Act and GDPR you have a right:
- to be informed – as per this Privacy Notice
- of access – we will provide a copy of the data we hold about you within 30 days of receiving your request in writing – see address below
- to rectification – of any inaccuracies or omissions in your data
- to erasure and to be forgotten – whereby personal data is no longer necessary for the purpose it was originally collected, but subject to contractual, statutory or legal obligations
- to data portability – whereby personal data is transferred from one data controller to another at your request. It will be your responsibility to check that the receiving data controller complies with GDPR requirements and operates within the EEA.
- to restrict processing of the personal data, or withdraw consent in any or all of the areas previously given
- to object to processing based upon legitimate interest and/or direct marketing
- to be informed in relation to automated decision making and profiling – where decisions may be taken without human intervention
What about Internet & Site Security?
The Internet is not a secure system and you should always be cautious about the information you disclose whilst online as there is a risk that it could be intercepted.
Personal Data Security
We take the responsibility for the security of your data very seriously. Your data will be held on secure servers within the EEA where possible, with all reasonable technological and operational measures put in place to safeguard it from unauthorised access. Where possible any identifiable information will be encrypted and transferred only by secure means.
Under what conditions might this privacy notice not operate?
In addition to directly providing your information to us, you might also provide Personal Information to other organisations that then forward it to us. The other organisations Privacy Notice will prevail until we deal with you directly.
How to contact us?
If you have any queries, requests or complaints on the subject of data protection or would like to opt in or out of any contact or communications, please do not hesitate to contact our Data Information Officer at the address below: -
Data Information Officer
Tierglaze
Rear of 137 Broadway
Bexleyheath
Kent
DA6 7EZ
Email: tierglaze@aol.com
Telephone: 020 8303 2211