Privacy Policy

Registered address: The Drift, School Lane, Bromeswell, Suffolk, IP12 2PX

Important notice

This privacy policy sets out how Wells Interiors uses and protects any information that you give Wells Interiors when you use this website. Wells Interiors is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

We take your privacy seriously and use your personal data as further explained in this Privacy Policy. We are the “controller” of the personal data you provide to us.

Personal data we may collect and why

Personal data is any information which identifies you personally whether directly (for example, your name) or indirectly (for example, information about your use of our products and services).

We may collect the following data about you:

  • Contact details: your name, email address, and telephone number so that we can contact you in response to an enquiry you make via our Site or in relation to the products and services that we have from time to time agreed to provide to you;
  • Correspondence: we collect any additional personal data you may provide to us from time to time if you contact us by email, letter or telephone, through our Site, by submitting a comment on our Site, or by any other means.

Cookies

What is a cookie?

This website uses cookies and by proceeding to use the website the user agrees to the below.

A cookie is a small file placed on your computer’s hard drive. It enables our website to identify your computer as you view different pages on our website.

Controlling cookies

You can use your web browser’s cookie settings to determine how our website uses cookies. If you do not want our website to store cookies on your computer or device, you should set your web browser to refuse cookies.

However, please note that doing this may affect how our website functions. Some pages and services may become unavailable to you.

What cookies are used on this site?

The cookies we use on our Site are broadly grouped into the following categories:

  • Essential – Some of the cookies on our Site are essential for us to be able to provide you with a service you have requested. An example of this could be a cookie used to allow communication between your browser and our Site or to allow us to add forms to our site You may not be able to use our Site without these cookies.
  • Analytics – We use analytics cookies to helps us understand how users engage with our Site. An example is counting the number of different people coming to our Site or using a particular feature, rather than the total number of times the site or feature is used. Without this cookie, if you visited our Site once each week for three weeks we would count you as three separate users. We would find it difficult to analyse how well our Site was performing and improve it without these cookies.
  • User Cookies – We use cookies to improve your experience by remembering your preferences so we know how you like to use our Site. Examples of this would be remembering you so that you are served with the same content or to remember you when you come back to our Site
  • From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for marketing purposes. We may contact you by email, phone or mail. We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests.
Contact & Communication

Users completing our online forms or contacting the website, and/or its owners do so at their discretion and provide any such personal details at their own risk. All information presented to us via the website is kept private and stored securely until it is no longer required as detailed in the Data Protection Act 2018. 

We will never lease, distribute or sell your personal information to third parties unless we have your explicit permission, or the law requires us to.

You will not be subscribed to any programmes or email newsletters unless you have made it clear you would like to be subscribed by selecting a tick box or contacting us directly. 

We only wish to communiate with people who want to hear from us. If you no longer wish to hear from us, you can select to Unsubscribe on any marketing correspondance you are sent or by emailing marketing@wells-interiors.com at any time.

You also have the right to know what data we hold and request we delete any data we hold for you. Please email marketing@wells-interiors.com if you wish to make such a request.

How we use your personal data

We use your personal data for the following purposes:

  • To provide you with the products and services you have requested. We use your personal data to accept you as a new or returning customer to provide you with the products and services you have requested in accordance with the Terms and Conditions of business.
  • To send you service communications, including in relation to changes to our Terms and Conditions of Business. We use the contact details you have provided to us so that we can communicate with you about the products and services that we provide, including to let you know about major changes to those products and services or to the Terms and Conditions between us or to any related information.
  • Direct marketing (including by third parties). If you have provided your consent or we otherwise have the right to do so, we may use your contact details to send you direct marketing and keep you informed of promotional offers by email, SMS, post or telephone relating to our products and services.
  • To track your usage of our website, communications, products and services. We use cookies and similar technologies to track your activity on our Site so that we can provide important features and functionality on our Site, monitor its usage, and provide you with a more personalised experience.
  • To provide and improve customer support. We use your personal data to be able to provide and improve the customer support we provide to you (for example, where you have questions about our products and services).
  • To maintain our records and improve data accuracy. Like any business, we process personal data in the course of maintaining and administering our internal records. This includes processing your personal data to ensure that the information we hold about you is kept up to date and accurate.
  • To respond to enquiries, complaints and disputes. We use the personal data we hold about you to help us respond to any enquiries or complaints you have made, or deal with any dispute which may arise in the course of us providing our products and services to you, in the most effective manner.
  • To investigate, detect and prevent fraud and comply with our legal obligations In certain circumstances, we use your personal data, only to the extent required, in order to enable us to comply with our legal obligations, including for fraud detection, investigation and prevention purposes. This may require us to provide your personal data to law enforcement agencies if they request it.

Legal grounds for processing

Data protection law requires us to only process your personal data if we satisfy one or more legal grounds. These are set out in data protection law and we rely on a number of different grounds for the processing we carry out. These are as follows:

Consent

In certain circumstances, we process your personal data after obtaining your consent to do so for the purposes of:

  • sending you marketing communications about our products and services;
  • conducting marketing research;
  • obtaining your credit score so that we can establish the best possible payment terms we are able to offer to you.
Necessary for the peformance of a contract and to comply with our legal obligations

It is necessary for us to process your basic contact details, payment details and information about the business you represent for the performance of the Terms and Conditions of business between us. In particular, we rely on this legal ground to:

  • provide you with the products and services;
  • communicate with you about the products and services that we provide to you, including to let you know about major changes to those products and services or to the Terms and Conditions of business between us or to any related information;
  • provide and improve customer support; and
  • notify you about changes to our service

If you choose not to give some or all of the aforementioned information to us, this may affect our ability to provide our products and services to you.

In certain circumstances, we also use your personal data, only to the extent required, in order to enable us to comply with our legal obligations, including to detect, investigate and prevent fraud.

Necessary for the purposes of our legitimate business interests.

It is sometimes necessary to collect and use your personal data for the purposes of our legitimate interests as a business, which are to:

  • provide you with products and services that are as useful and beneficial as possible, including by personalising our contact with you and making sure we tell you about all the offers that are relevant to you;
  • better understand our customer base so that we can improve our products and services and marketing activities (which could also benefit you);
  • comply with our contractual obligations to third parties;
  • develop and improve our Site to enhance the customer experience;
  • train our staff so that we can provide you with a better customer service;
  • respond to any enquiries or complaints you have made, or deal with any dispute which may arise in the course of us providing our products and services to you; and
  • to ensure that content from our Site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
  • ensure effective operational management and internal administration of our business, document retention, compliance with regulatory guidance and exercise or defence of legal claims.

Where we think there is a risk that one of your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms may be affected, we will not process your personal data unless there is another legal ground for us to do so (either that we have obtained your consent to the processing or it is necessary for us to perform our contract with you or to comply with our legal obligations).

Who we share your data with

We may disclose your personal data if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to protect the rights, property, or safety, of our business, our customers or others. This includes, in specific cases, exchanging information with other organisations for the purposes of fraud protection.

In some cases, the personal data we collect from you may, for the purposes set out above, be transferred outside the European Economic Area (EEA) and such destinations may not have laws which protect your personal data to the same extent as in the EEA. We are required by data protection law to ensure that where we or our “processors” transfer your personal data outside of the EEA, it is treated securely and is protected against unauthorised access, loss or destruction, unlawful processing and any processing which is inconsistent with the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.

Links from our site

Our website may contain links to other websites.

Please note that we have no control of websites outside www.wells-interiors.com. If you provide information to a website to which we link, we are not responsible for its protection and privacy.

Always be wary when submitting data to websites. Read the site’s data protection and privacy policies fully.

Changes to this privacy policy

This Privacy Policy was last updated on 23 January 2023.

Wells Interiors may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.

How to contact us

If you would like to exercise your data protection rights or if you are unhappy with how we have handled your personal data, please feel free to contact our Nominated Person for Data Protection on 020 3637 3176, or via the ‘Contact Us’ section of our website.

If you’re not satisfied with our response to any enquiries or complaint or believe our processing of your personal data does not comply with data protection law, you can make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) by:

  • writing to: Information Commissioner’s Officer, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF;
  • calling: 0303 123 1113; or submitting a message through the ICO’s website at: https://ico.org.uk/concerns/

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