This privacy notice tells you what to expect us to do with your personal information.

Contact details

Post – Unit 5, Tanshelf Industrial Estate, Colonels Walk, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, WF8 4PJ.

Telephone – 01977 798720

Email – damien@varioheat.co.uk

What information we collect, use, and why

We collect or use the following information to provide services and goods, including delivery:

  • Names and contact details
  • Addresses
  • Purchase or account history
  • Payment details (including card or bank information for transfers and direct debits)
  • Account information
  • Information relating to compliments or complaints

We collect or use the following information for the operation of customer accounts and guarantees:

  • Names and contact details
  • Addresses
  • Payment details (including card or bank information for transfers and direct debits)
  • Purchase history
  • Account information, including registration details
  • Marketing preferences

We collect or use the following information to prevent, detect, investigate or prosecute crimes:

  • Video and CCTV recordings of public areas (including indoor and outdoor spaces)
  • Dashcam footage – outside vehicle – with audio

We collect or use the following information for service updates or marketing purposes:

  • Names and contact details
  • Marketing preferences

We collect or use the following information to comply with legal requirements:

  • Name
  • Contact information

We collect or use the following information for recruitment purposes:

  • Contact details (eg name, address, telephone number or personal email address)
  • Date of birth
  • National Insurance number
  • Copies of passports or other photo ID
  • Employment history (eg job application, employment references or secondary employment)
  • Education history (eg qualifications)
  • Right to work information

We collect or use the following personal information for dealing with queries, complaints or claims:

  • Names and contact details
  • Address
  • Purchase or service history

Lawful bases and data protection rights

Under UK data protection law, we must have a “lawful basis” for collecting and using your personal information. There is a list of possible lawful bases in the UK GDPR. You can find out more about lawful bases on the ICO’s website.

Which lawful basis we rely on may affect your data protection rights which are in brief set out below. You can find out more about your data protection rights and the exemptions which may apply on the ICO’s website:

If you make a request, we must respond to you without undue delay and in any event within one month.

To make a data protection rights request, please contact us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.

Our lawful bases for the collection and use of your data

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information to provide services and goods are:

  • Consent – we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
  • Contract – we have to collect or use the information so we can enter into or carry out a contract with you. All of your data protection rights may apply except the right to object.

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for the operation of customer accounts and guarantees are:

  • Consent – we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
  • Contract – we have to collect or use the information so we can enter into or carry out a contract with you. All of your data protection rights may apply except the right to object.

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information to prevent, detect, investigate or prosecute crimes are:

  • Legal obligation – we have to collect or use your information so we can comply with the law. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to erasure, the right to object and the right to data portability.

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for service updates or marketing purposes are:

  • Consent – we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for legal requirements are:

  • Consent – we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
  • Contract – we have to collect or use the information so we can enter into or carry out a contract with you. All of your data protection rights may apply except the right to object.
  • Legal obligation – we have to collect or use your information so we can comply with the law. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to erasure, the right to object and the right to data portability.

    Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for recruitment purposes are:

    • Consent – we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
    • Contract – we have to collect or use the information so we can enter into or carry out a contract with you. All of your data protection rights may apply except the right to object.

    Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for dealing with queries, complaints or claims are:

    • Consent – we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
    • Contract – we have to collect or use the information so we can enter into or carry out a contract with you. All of your data protection rights may apply except the right to object.

    Where we get personal information from

    • Directly from you
    • CCTV footage or other recordings
    • Suppliers and service providers

    How long we keep information

    We only keep your personal information for as long as the purpose for which your information was provided exists, or as required to comply with a legal, or statutory obligation. For example, we are legally obliged to retain purchase records for seven years.

    When the lawful reason to keep your personal information no longer exists, we will erase your information or change it, so that the information no longer identifies you.

    Data processors

    Couriers
    This data processor does the following activities for us: deliveries of products to customers

    How to complain

    If you have any concerns about our use of your personal data, you can make a complaint to us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.

    If you remain unhappy with how we’ve used your data after raising a complaint with us, you can also complain to the ICO.

    The ICO’s address:

    Information Commissioner’s Office
    Wycliffe House
    Water Lane
    Wilmslow
    Cheshire
    SK9 5AF

    Helpline number: 0303 123 1113

    Website: https://www.ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint

    Last updated 8 September 2024