Privacy Policy
1. INFORMATION ABOUT US
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Torque Tyres Ltd.
Registered & Trading address: Halesfield 14, Telford, Shropshire, TF7 4QR
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​2. WHAT DOES THIS NOTICE COVER?
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This Privacy Information explains how we use your personal data: how it is collected, how it is held, and how it is processed. It also explains your rights under the law relating to your personal data.
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3. WHAT IS PERSONAL DATA?
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Personal data is defined by the General Data Protection Regulation (EU Regulation 2016/679) (the “GDPR”) as ‘any information relating to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified in particular by reference to an identifier’.
Personal data is, in simpler terms, any information about you that enables you to be identified. Personal data covers obvious information such as your name and contact details, but it also covers less obvious information such as identification numbers, electronic location data, and other online identifiers.
The personal data that we use is set out in Part 5, below.
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​4. WHAT ARE MY RIGHTS
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Under the GDPR, you have the following rights, which we will always work to uphold:The right to be informed about our collection and use of your personal data. This Privacy Notice should tell you everything you need to know, but you can always contact us to find out more or to ask any questions using the details in Part 11.
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The right to access the personal data we hold about you. Part 10 will tell you how to do this.
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The right to have your personal data rectified if any of your personal data held by us is inaccurate or incomplete. Please contact us using the details in Part 11 to find out more.
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The right to be forgotten, i.e. the right to ask us to delete or otherwise dispose of any of your personal data that we have. Please contact us using the details in Part 11 to find out more.
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The right to restrict (i.e. prevent) the processing of your personal data.
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The right to object to us using your personal data for a particular purpose or purposes.
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The right to data portability. This means that, if you have provided personal data to us directly, we are using it with your consent or for the performance of a contract, and that data is processed using automated means, you can ask us for a copy of that personal data to re-use with another service or business in many cases.
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For more information about our use of your personal data or exercising your rights as outlined above, please contact us using the details provided in Part 11.
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Further information about your rights can also be obtained from the Information Commissioner’s Office or your local Citizens Advice Bureau.
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If you have any cause for complaint about our use of your personal data, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office.
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5. WHAT INFORMATION DO YOU COLLECT?
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We may collect some or all of the following personal data (this may vary according to your relationship with us):
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Name;
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Date of birth;
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Gender;
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Address;
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Email address;
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Telephone number;
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Business name;
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Job title;
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Profession;
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Payment information;
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Information about your preferences and interests;​
5. HOW DO YOU USE MY PERSONAL DATA?
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Under the GDPR, we must always have a lawful basis for using personal data. This may be because the data is necessary for our performance of a contract with you, because you have consented to our use of your personal data, or because it is in our legitimate business interests to use it. Your personal data may be used for one of the following purposes:
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Providing and managing your account.
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Supplying our products AND/OR services to you. Your personal details are may be required in order for us to enter into a contract with you.
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Personalising and tailoring our products AND/OR services for you.
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Communicating with you. This may include responding to emails or calls from you.
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Supplying you with information by email AND/OR post that you have opted-in to (you may unsubscribe or opt-out at any time by using the unsubscribe link in our emails).
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To provide updates to you about any changes to Torque Tyres policies, terms and conditions and any other matters which we may need to tell you;
With your permission and/or where permitted by law, we may also use your personal data for marketing purposes, which may include contacting you by email AND/OR telephone AND/OR text message AND/OR post with information, news, and offers on our products AND/OR services. You will not be sent any unlawful marketing or spam. We will always work to fully protect your rights and comply with our obligations under the GDPR and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, and you will always have the opportunity to opt-out.
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6. HOW DO YOU USE MY PERSONAL DATA?
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We will not keep your personal data for any longer than is necessary in light of the reason(s) for which it was first collected.
We only keep your personal information for as long as we need to, to be able to use it for the reasons given in this privacy policy, and for as long as we are required to keep it by law. The actual period for which we store your personal information will vary depending on the type of personal information and how it is used.
7. HOW DO YOU USE MY PERSONAL DATA?
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We will not keep your personal data for any longer than is necessary in light of the reason(s) for which it was first collected.
We only keep your personal information for as long as we need to, to be able to use it for the reasons given in this privacy policy, and for as long as we are required to keep it by law. The actual period for which we store your personal information will vary depending on the type of personal information and how it is used.
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8. HOW AND WHERE DO YOU STORE OR TRANSFER MY PERSONAL DATA?
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We may store or transfer some or all of your personal data in countries that are not part of the European Economic Area (the “EEA” consists of all EU member states, plus Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein). These are known as “third countries” and may not have data protection laws that are as strong as those in the UK and/or the EEA. This means that we will take additional steps in order to ensure that your personal data is treated just as safely and securely as it would be within the UK and under the GDPR as follows.
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Where we transfer your data to a third party based in the US, this may be protected if they are part of the EU-US Privacy Shield. This requires that third party to provide data protection to standards similar levels of data protection to those in Europe. More information is available from the European Commission.
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Please contact us using the details below in Part 11 for further information about the particular data protection mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data to a third country.
The security of your personal data is essential to us, and to protect your data, we take a number of important measures, including the following:
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Check to see if any third party software is GDPR compliant.
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9. DO YOU SHARE MY PERSONAL DATA?
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Most of Torque Tyres Ltd. processes, procedures and systems are shared across the TIA Group, which means that we need to share your personal information between us. We make sure that access to your personal information is limited to those of our staff who need it, and that all staff understand how and why we protect your personal information.
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We share your personal information with certain third party service providers. They only have access to the personal information they need to perform those services. They are required to keep your personal information confidential and may not use it other than as we ask them to and always in accordance with this privacy policy. Those third party service providers fall into the following categories:
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Certain distributors, who help us to sell our products in certain countries; Those helping us to deliver products to you; Third parties that help us with mailing services, product services, processing product purchases, financial services, audit services, administrative services, IT technologies (e.g. data storage), security services and insurance claims; and third parties that help us to provide services and responses to you.
We want to make sure that our advertising and marketing is relevant and interesting to you and our other customers. That means that we work with third parties to help us to understand how well our online advertising works, or to reach people who are more interested in Torque Tyres Ltd’s products. They do this by setting cookies on our website (more information on this can be found in our cookies policy).
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We will also share limited personal information with:
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social media platforms (such as Facebook), who serve our advertising on their platforms and
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third party data providers and analytics companies, who perform data matching and/or data analysis on our behalf.
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We will also share your personal information if we are required to do so by law, including in response to a legal process, such as a court order or subpoena, or to comply with other national, state, provincial or local laws.
If you would like more information on how we share your personal information, please email our Privacy Team at Parminder.smith@treadsetters.co.uk .
10. HOW CAN I ACCESS MY PERSONAL DATA?
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If you want to know what personal data we have about you, you can ask us for details of that personal data and for a copy of it (where any such personal data is held). This is known as a “subject access request”.
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All subject access requests should be made in writing and sent to the email or postal addresses shown in Part 11. To make this as easy as possible for you, a Subject Access Request Form is available for you to use. You do not have to use this form, but it is the easiest way to tell us everything we need to know to respond to your request as quickly as possible.
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There is not normally any charge for a subject access request. If your request is ‘manifestly unfounded or excessive’ (for example, if you make repetitive requests) a fee may be charged to cover our administrative costs in responding.
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We will respond to your subject access request within 30 days and, in any case, not more than one month of receiving it. Normally, we aim to provide a complete response, including a copy of your personal data within that time. In some cases, however, particularly if your request is more complex, more time may be required up to a maximum of three months from the date we receive your request. You will be kept fully informed of our progress.
11. HOW DO I CONTACT YOU?
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To contact us about anything to do with your personal data and data protection, including to make a subject access request, please use the following details for the attention of Parminder Smith:
Email address: Parminder.smith@treadsetters.co.uk.
Telephone number: 0044 1952 684168.
Postal Address: Units B2-B4, Halesfield 8, Telford, Shropshire, TF7 4QR.
12. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE
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We may change this Privacy Notice from time to time. This may be necessary, for example, if the law changes, or if we change our business in a way that affects personal data protection.
Any changes will be made available on our website torquetyres.com
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This privacy policy sets out how Torque Tyres. uses and protects any information that you give Torque Tyres. when you use this website. Torque Tyres. 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. Torque Tyres. 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.
WHAT WE MAY COLLECT
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We may collect the following information:
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name
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contact information including email address
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demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests
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other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers
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For the exhaustive list of cookies we collect see the List of cookies we collect section
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WHAT WE DO WITH THE INFORMATION WE GATHER
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We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:
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Internal record keeping.
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We may use the information to improve our products and services.
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We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.
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From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail. We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests.
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SECURITY
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We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
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HOW WE USE COOKIES
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A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
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LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
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Our website 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 website. 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.
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CONTROLLING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
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You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:
Whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes if you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at info@torquetyres.com
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.
You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to Halesfield 8, Telford TF7 4QR.
If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.