Privacy Policy

Stuart Brown Limited (“We”, “Our”, “Us”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy, it’s important to us.  Below you will find the way in which we collect and use your personal information.  This privacy policy tells you who we are, and how we collect, share and use information which identifies you, and how you can exercise your privacy rights in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).  It applies to personal information that we collect through our website https://www.stuart-brown.co.uk and other personal information that you may provide us with in our legitimate business interests such as when we provide you with our services and products.

Information we hold

Personal information collected is dependent on your activity, it could be in the form of:

• Your title, name and address
• Business name and address
• Contact information, email, telephone numbers
• Financial payment method
• Customer history and billing information

If you contact us by post or telephone, we may keep a record of that correspondence.  The information is collected at the point of sale, in the process of providing new products, machinery, servicing and maintenance services, or through the website.

How we use this information

We use your information to persue our legitimate interests in a way which might reasonably be expected as part of running our business.  We will comply with our obligations and safeguard your rights under the General Data Protection Regulation.  We may use your data for the following purposes:

• Providing and managing your account and internal record keeping
• Supplying products and services and maintenance work
• To process payments with our payment companies
• Replying to emails, and communications to improve our customer service
• Direct marketing by email or post about special offers or competitions
• Servicing and maintenance reminders and or product recalls
• Product registration and warranty issues 

We will not send any unsolicited marketing and will take all reasonable steps to make sure we fully protect your rights and comply with the new GDPR regulations.

Data Security

We do take the security of your information very seriously and we employ technical and organisational measures to keep your personal information safe and secure, and to prevent unauthorised access to, or use, or disclosure of. Unfortunately no information transmission over the internet is guaranteed to be one hundred percent secure, any transmission is at your own risk.

How we may share information

We may share your personal information with our business partners in connection with legitimate business practices for product registration and product warranty and servicing.  Providing your personal data to a payment provider for invoice fulfilment.  In certain circumstances we may be legally required to share certain data for example where we are involved in legal proceedings, complying with legal obligations, a court order or regulatory authorities such as Revenue and Customs.  If data is required for the shipping of goods, information will be supplied to any relevant shipping company.

Your right to be forgotten

You have the right to request that we delete your personal details at any time, unless the data is necessary for us to provide you with services or we are required to retain it to fulfil our legal obligations such as financial information for a seven year period.

Data Retention 

We retain personal information collected from you only for as long as it is necessary and for the purpose for which it was collected.  We will keep your information safe and secure and whilst you are a customer and for a further seven years after.  At the end of the retention period your data will either be deleted completely or anonymised so that it can be used in a non-identifiable way for statistical analysis or business planning.

Right to withdraw your consent

If you have given us your consent to the collection and processing of your personal data, and you later wish to change your mind, you can do so at any time.You have the right to opt-out of marketing communications we send from time to time.  You can exercise this right by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link in any emails, or opt-out of other forms of marketing, such a postal, by contacting us on the details below. You can revoke your consent at any time with future effect.  This, however, does not affect the legitimacy of processing your data until the date of revocation.

Cookies

Most websites you visit will use cookies in order to improve your user experience by enabling that website to remember you, either for the duration of your visit using a session cookie or for repeat visits using a persistent cookie.  Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, storing your preferences, and generally improving your experience of a website. Cookies make the interaction between you and the website faster and easier. Websites that don't use cookies will treat you as a new visitor every time you move to a new page on the site.  Without a cookie when you enter your login details and move to another page it won't recognise you and it won't be able to keep you logged in. Some websites will also use cookies to enable them to target their advertising or marketing messages based for example, on your location and/or browsing habits.

Removing and disabling cookies

If you do not wish to accept cookies on to your machine you can disable them by adjusting the settings on your browser. However, this will affect the functionality of the websites you visit. 

Links to other websites

Our site may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other site. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question. 

How to contact us

Any questions comments and requests, or to update your personal preferences and data, to advise us of a change to your details, or to opt-out of email/text/postal marketing you can either use the following email:  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call us on 01525 841842