Privacy Policy

Specialised Hardwares Ltd respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information you share with us. Your privacy is important to us, please read the following to fully understand our online privacy policy. This Privacy and Cookie Policy describes how we collect, use, share, store or otherwise process the information we hold about you.

Your personal information allows us to provide the products and services you have asked for, as well as enabling us to improve those products and services by understanding your interests and preferences. By understanding what you like (and what you don’t) we are able to personalise your course, show relevant adverts and improve your course.

Email marketing (if applicable): With your permission, we may send you emails about our store, new products and other updates.

LEGAL BASIS FOR USING YOUR INFORMATION

All organisations need a legal reason to use your personal information. We are conscious of our legal responsibilities as a “data controller” and we shall endeavour to ensure that the personal information we obtain and use will always be held, used, transferred and otherwise processed in accordance with our legal obligations. If we don’t have a reason, we can’t use your personal information. There are a number of legal grounds that enable data processing. It’s quite complicated but below are the most relevant grounds you should be aware of.

CONSENT

There are some activities where we process personal information with your consent and whenever possible we aim to obtain your explicit consent to process this information, for example, by asking you to agree to our use of cookies. You may withdraw your consent at any time by emailing bijal@specialisedhardwares.com

However, if you do so, we may not be able to provide the product or service you have requested.  For example, where we want to send you marketing messages by email, we would first ask your permission to opt-in. If you opt-in, you may request to opt-out at any time. We will indicate in the Policy where we rely on consent.

FOR A LEGITIMATE INTEREST

Sometimes we may use your information to help achieve our business objectives but only where that activity doesn’t negatively affect your rights. For example, we might use your information to analyse interest in our product and services for product rating purpose.

WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

When you interact with our products and services we collect information about you and that particular interaction. Generally, this may include:

• Your personal details
• Contact information, and preferences
• Information about your use of our items and other services when you work with us
• Conversations you have when you call our office (these are not recorded but we might take and record notes if it helps us to serve you better)
• Information about the devices you use to interact with us

TO COMPLY WITH LEGAL OBLIGATIONS

Further Information on how we use your information. We sometimes use your information for reasons that we think you might want a bit more detail on, so to help we have added more information to these below. There may be situations where we need to use your information to comply with legal obligations.

DIRECT MARKETING

In addition to sending you information about the products and services you use (product communications) and in-life communications while you work with us, where we have your permission we may send you direct marketing communications about our products, services, events and offers, as well as those of our other details that we think you’ll be interested in.

Direct marketing communications may be sent by post, email, telephone, SMS and MMS, through social media (such as WhatsApp, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook), messages including push notifications to your mobile devices, and via other electronic means such as when you visit our websites or use our apps. This may also include any websites and apps of our partners who are in our advertising networks.

We may send you direct marketing while you have an ongoing relationship with us and for a reasonable time after you have used one of our products or services. You will be able to opt-out of direct marketing by following the instructions in the communications you receive or changing your device settings. Alternatively, where you have an account with us, you will be able to log-in and change your marketing preferences.

PRODUCT RELATED COMMUNICATIONS AND IN-LIFE UPDATES

We may use your information to send you newsletters, bulletins, and other in-life communications, and triggered communications where you make changes to your account or other information about products and services you have signed up for.

Service communications will be sent to you regarding products and services you interact with. These are important messages relating to the products and services we provide to you.

ANALYSIS AND PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

We may use your information to improve the products and services we offer. For example, we may look at the preferences of our clients.

PROTECTION OF PERSONAL DATA

Specialised Hardwares Ltd strive to protect the privacy of the information that you share with us. We have undertaken reasonable efforts to implement security measures designed to protect all data we collect against unauthorised access. We utilise the industry standard security measures available through your browser, so that it is unlikely that your information can be read as it travels over the Internet.

Unfortunately, no data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, although we strive to protect your information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of the information that you submit to us via the Site and you do so at your own risk. We also implement measures to protect your personal information off-line.

DISCLOSURES REQUIRED BY LAW

Your information will be disclosed where we are obliged by law to do so. We may also disclose your information where we are allowed by law to protect or enforce our rights or the rights of others and for the detection and prevention of crimes, such as fraud.

ACCEPTABLE USAGE

If you post or send offensive or inappropriate content anywhere on or to any of our websites or apps, or otherwise engage in disruptive behaviour on any of our websites or apps, we may use the information that is available to us about you to stop such behaviour. This may involve responding to or informing relevant third parties and law enforcement agencies about the content and your behaviour.

DATA TRANSFERS

When you complete our registration forms or use our services, we may transfer your information to our processors – companies that carry out activities on our behalf, only on our instructions, we will only transfer your information if we have appropriate measures in place to ensure the Protection of your information in accordance with applicable data protection legislation.

HOW WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Where you provide your information to us we may share it with our group companies and affiliates, advertising networks and partners, commercial partners, and sharing with our suppliers.

What sharing takes place will depend on the activity that your information is being used for. Your information will only be shared and used in accordance with this Policy and where an agreement is in place to ensure that your information is protected. We won’t sell your personal information without your consent

• Sharing with advertising partners

When you visit our websites or apps we may pass information about you and any devices you are using to our advertising network partners to enable them to deliver relevant adverts and tell advertisers that adverts have been delivered and seen.

• Sharing with our processors

There may be situations where we use data processor companies who act on our behalf to process your information for us. These processors can only use your information in accordance with our instructions and for the purposes in this Policy.

• Sharing with commercial partners

We may share your information with third parties for their own purposes, including direct marketing, where we have told you about this and you have given permission. As above, this may include sharing information with owners of businesses we manage and/or to whom we have licensed a brand.

• Sale of our business

If we restructure or sell all or part of our business or business operations, we may transfer your information as part of that activity, including, but not limited to, where we transfer or cease to manage (or license the use of a brand). Where this is the case your information will be used in accordance with this Policy unless you are notified otherwise.

ACCESS AND CONTROL

• Updating your information

If you have an online account with us, please ensure that the information you provide (e.g. any contact information) is correct and that you review and update it regularly. Alternatively, you can tell us that your information has changed and we will update it for you.

• Controlling direct marketing

A customer may allow Specialised Hardwares Ltd to provide them with information about products and services that Specialised Hardwares Ltd, or third parties that Specialised Hardwares Ltd have selected, which may be of interest to them. Specialised Hardwares Ltd will only do this where a customer has agreed to receive such information. You agree to receive marketing information:

• From Specialised Hardwares Ltd about our products and services by choosing not to opt-out on your registration form for a Specialised Hardwares Ltd website or service.
• From Specialised Hardwares Ltd about similar products and services where you provide your details in the items you purchase or negotiate for the purchase of a product or service
• From third parties about their products and services by choosing to opt-in on your registration form for a Specialised Hardwares Ltd website or service.
• Controlling other communications

You can control the communications you receive from us, such as product related communications, by logging into your account, by following the instructions in any relevant communication.

• Controlling profiling

If you would like to opt-out of profiling, you can do this in your account preferences or by contacting us using the details below or by updating your preferences in your account, where this feature is available.

RIGHTS IN RELATION TO YOUR INFORMATION

• Your rights

Under GDPR, you may have the right to object, erase, or restrict our processing of your information – for example, where we process your personal information because this is in our legitimate interests, you may object to this. We will carefully consider your request as there may be circumstances which require us to, or allow us to, continue processing your data.

The request must be in writing and must contain the following:

• Your name and postal address
• Details of your request.
• Any details which may help us locate the information which is the subject of your request.
• GDPR – the fees to access the personal data

We must provide a copy of the requested information free of charge. However, we can charge the requestor a ‘reasonable fee’ when a request is manifestly unfounded, mischievous, vexatious, specious or excessive, particularly if it is repetitive.

We may also charge a reasonable fee to comply with requests for further copies of the same information. This does not mean that we can charge for all subsequent access requests.

The fee will be based on the administrative cost of providing the information.

• Complaining to the regulator

If you have any comments, concerns or complaints about our usage of your information we would ask that you contact us first, so that we can try and resolve any matter. However, where we are unable to assist, you are able to complain to the data protection regulator in your country of residence, who will be able to liaise with the local authorities.

• Retention of your information

We will retain your information for as long as necessary for the uses set out in this Policy or while there is a legitimate business reason for doing so. We will destroy your personal information as early as practicable and in a way that the information may not be restored or reconstructed. If you ask us to delete your information before this time, we may not be able to do so for technical, legal, regulatory or contractual constraints. For example, where you wish to be suppressed from direct marketing, we would need to retain your information for this purpose.

Where you ask for your account to be closed, we will do this as soon as possible subject to any terms and conditions relating to the account. Your information will be retained in order to comply with legal and regulatory obligations as well as for analysis, to prevent fraud, collect any money owed, and to resolve disputes.

COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES

Introduction

We use cookies to help improve our websites in a variety of different ways. Including collecting contextual information about your visit to the site to enhance functionality and user course.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your devices when you visit websites via internet browsers. Our use of cookies is to primarily help enhance your user experience and improve the efficiency of our website. In order to make purchases on our website you will need to enable cookies.

What cookies do we use?

• Essential cookies

These make our websites work. They remember what dates you visited our website and products and services browsed through. They also allow us to collect information about your use of our websites and apps, enabling us to improve the way they work. Analytics cookies also allow us to see if there are any technical issues on our websites and if you are experiencing any issues using our websites. They also allow us to look at usage statistics and performance.

• Functional cookies

These cookies collect information about the language you have requested the site display content in, remembering your username (if applicable) so you can log-in more quickly, text size, location you are in and generally allow us to customise your browsing. Nobody likes having to repeat themselves and these cookies help with that.

• Tracking and advertising cookies and similar technologies

We use these types of cookies and similar technologies to provide adverts that we think may be more relevant to your interests. This can be based on your browsing activity and is known as Online Behavioural Advertising or OBA. Cookies are placed on your browser, which remembers what websites you’ve been to. Advertising based on what you have been viewing is then displayed.

• Web beacons and tracking pixels

These technologies help us to count users on a web page and see if a cookie has been activated. They allow us to see how popular content is and if an email has been delivered to a recipient, opened and links clicked on. We use this information to track how successful campaigns have been.

• Flash cookies

Sometimes we may use flash players to deliver special content, such as video clips. This uses Local Shared Objects or flash cookies to remember settings.

• Device Fingerprinting

Sometimes we may use a device’s browser information to identify that device, conduct analysis, help detect and prevent fraud and present content correctly.

What other purposes do cookies and similar technologies are used for:

• Allow you access to our websites;
• Permit your internet connection to our websites;
• Allow our servers to record information about your device (such as IP address, browser type, location, hardware and software information;

MANAGING COOKIES

You can change your cookie settings very easily in your browser settings. However, you need to be careful about restricting the use of cookies, as they may prevent the websites you visit from working as they were intended.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY AND COKIE POLICY

From time to time we may make changes to this Policy. This might be in relation to changes in the law, best practice, changes to the products and services we provide or collection and use of your personal information. We will always display clearly when the Policy was last updated and where appropriate, notify you of any relevant changes.

CONTACT

If you would like to get in touch with us, please contact

• By Email: bijal@specialisedhardwares.com
• By Post: 38931 – 00623