There are some changes in data protection law, so we wanted you to know that we’ve updated our Privacy Notice to comply with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) laws.
Your trust is important to us, and we want to make sure you understand what these changes mean for you.
If you would like to find out more, take a look at our Privacy Policy or visit our website at any time.
This Privacy Notice explains in detail the types of personal data Walls and Floors may collect about you when you interact with us. It also explains how we’ll store and handle that data, and keep it safe.
We know that there’s a lot of information here, but we want you to be fully informed about your rights, and how Walls and Floors uses your data; for example we will explain things such as our credit checking procedure, and how we combine data to build a picture of you and provide an enhanced online experience.
We hope the following sections will answer any questions you have but if not, please do get in touch with us.
The law on data protection sets out a number of different reasons for which a company may collect and process your personal data, including:
Consent
In specific situations, we can collect and process your data with your consent. For example, when you tick a box to receive our email newsletters. When collecting your personal data, we’ll always make clear to you which data is necessary in connection with a particular service.
Contractual obligations
In certain circumstances, we need your personal data to comply with our contractual obligations. For example, if you order an item from us for home delivery, we’ll collect your address details to deliver your purchase, and pass them to our courier.
Legal compliance
If the law requires us to, we may need to collect and process your data. For example, we can pass on details of people involved in fraud or other criminal activity.
Legitimate interest
In specific situations, we require your data to pursue our legitimate interests. For example, we will use your purchase history to send you or make available personalised offers.
We also combine the shopping history of many customers to identify trends and ensure we can keep up with demand, or develop new products/services.
We may also use your address details to send you direct marketing information by post, telling you about products and services that we think might interest you.
When you visit any of our websites, and use your account to buy products and services, on the phone, in a shop or online.
When you make an online purchase and check out as a guest (we just collect transaction-based data).
When you create an account with us.
When you purchase a product or service in store or by phone but don’t have (or don’t use) an account.
When you engage with us on social media.
When you download help, advice or inspirations material from us (for example eBooks)
When you join a loyalty programme (such as Walls and Floors Trade).
When you sign up, you will be given access to a My Account area on wallsandfloors.co.uk. This will collect and store all of your order history, invoices and receipts for you when you make a purchase from Walls and Floors.
When you contact us by any means with queries, complaints, questions etc.
When you enter prize draws or competitions.
When you book any kind of appointment with us, for example a project consultation in store.
When you choose to complete any surveys we send you.
When you comment on or review our products and services.
Any individual may access personal data related to them, including opinions. So if your comment or review includes information about the Partner who provided that service, it may be passed on to them if requested.
When you fill in any forms. For example, if an accident happens in store, a partner may collect your personal data.
When you’ve given a third party permission to share with us the information they hold about you.
When our Finance suppliers and partners – such as Close Brothers Retail Finance – share information with us about the product you have purchased.
We collect data from publicly-available sources when you have given your consent to share information or where the information is made public as a matter of law.
When you use our car parks and stores which usually have CCTV systems operated for the security of both customers and employees. These systems may record your image during your visit.
If you have an online account with us: your name, billing/delivery address, orders and invoices, email and telephone number. For your security, we’ll also keep an encrypted record of your login password.
Details of your interactions with us through contact centre, in store or online. For example, we collect notes from our conversations with you, details of any complaints or comments you make, details of purchases you made, items viewed or added to your basket and wish list choices, voucher redemptions, web pages you visit and how and when you contact us.
Details of your visits to our websites, and which site you came from to ours.
Information gathered by the use of cookies in your web browser. Learn more about how we use cookies and similar technologies by viewing our Cookie Policy.
Personal details which help us to recommend items of interest. For example, you might tell us your room colour preference which we’ll use to guide our suggested products. Or you might share information on your favourite interior trends which allows us to recommend appropriate products. We’ll only ask for and use your personal data collected for recommending items of interest and to tailor your shopping experience with us. Of course, it’s always your choice whether you share such details with us.
Payment card information.
Your comments and product reviews.
Your image may be recorded on CCTV when you visit a store or car
park.
Your car number plate may be recorded at some of our car parks to
manage parking restrictions.
To deliver the best possible web
experience, we collect technical information about your internet
connection and browser as well as the country where your computer is
located, the web pages viewed during your visit, the advertisements
you clicked on, and any search terms you entered.
Your social
media username, if you interact with us through those channels, to
help us respond to your comments, questions or feedback.
We want to give you the best possible customer experience when shopping for tiles. One way to achieve that is to get the richest picture we can of who you are by combining the data we have about you.
We then use this to offer you promotions, products and services that are most likely to interest you. In the case of Trade loyalty scheme members, we’ll also offer you relevant rewards.
The data privacy law allows this as part of our legitimate interest in understanding our customers and providing the highest levels of service.
Of course, if you wish to change how we use your data, you’ll find details in the ‘What are my rights?’ section below.
If you choose not to share your personal data with us, or refuse certain contact permissions, we might not be able to provide some services you’ve asked for. For example, if you’ve asked us to let you know when an item comes back into stock, we can’t do that if you’ve withdrawn your general consent to recieve emails from us. Here’s how we’ll use your personal data and why:
To process any orders that you make by using our websites, over the phone or in store. If we don’t collect your personal data during checkout, we won’t be able to process your order and comply with our legal obligations. For example, your details may need to be passed to a third party to supply or deliver the product that you ordered, and we may keep your details for a reasonable period afterwards in order to fulfil any contractual obligations such as refunds, exchanges and/or guarantees. To respond to your queries, refund requests and/or complaints. Handling the information you sent enables us to respond. We may also keep a record of these to inform any future communication with us and to demonstrate how we communicated with you throughout. We do this on the basis of our contractual obligations to you, our legal obligations and our legitimate interests in providing you with the best service and understanding how we can improve our service based on your experience.
To protect our business and your account from fraud and other illegal activities. This includes using your personal data to maintain, update and safeguard your account. We’ll also monitor your browsing activity with us to quickly identify and resolve any problems and protect the integrity of our websites. We’ll do all of this as part of our legitimate interest. With your consent, we will use your personal data, preferences and details of your transactions to keep you informed by email, web, text, telephone and through our contact centres about relevant products and services including tailored special offers, discounts, promotions, events, competitions and so on.
Of course, you are free to opt out of hearing from us by any of these channels at any time.
To send you relevant, personalised communications by post in relation to updates, offers, services and products. We’ll do this on the basis of our legitimate business interest. You are free to opt out of hearing from us by post at any time.
To send you communications required by law or which are necessary to inform you about our changes to the services we provide you. For example, updates to this Privacy Notice and legally required information relating to your orders. These service messages will not include any promotional content and do not require prior consent when sent by email or text message. If we do not use your personal data for these purposes, we would be unable to comply with our legal obligations.
To display the most interesting content to you on our websites, we’ll
use data we hold about your tile preferences or products. We do so on
the basis of our website to placing cookies or similar technology on
your device. For example, we might display a list of items you’ve
recently looked at, or offer you recommendations based on your
purchase history and any other data you’ve shared with us. To
administer any of our prize draws or competitions which you enter,
based on your consent given at the time of entering.
To develop,
test and improve the systems, services and products we provide to you.
We’ll do this on the basis of our legitimate business interests.
For example, we’ll record your browser’s Session ID to help us
understand more when you leave us online feedback about any problems
you’re possibly having. To comply with our contractual or legal
obligations to share data with law enforcement. For example, when a
court order is submitted to share data with law enforcement agencies
or a court of law. To send you survey and feedback requests to help
improve our services. These messages will not include any promotional
content and do not require prior consent when sent by email or text
message. We have a legitimate interest to do so as this helps make our
products or services more relevant to you.
Of course, you are
free to opt out of receiving these requests from us at any time by
unsubscribing via a link or contacting us.
To build a better picture of who you are and what you like, and to inform our business decisions, we’ll combine data captured, third parties and data from publicly-available lists as we have described in the section 'What Sort of Personal Data do we collect?' We’ll do this on the basis of our legitimate business interest. For example, by combining this data, this will help us personalise your experience and decide which inspiration or content to share with you. We also use anonymised data from customer purchase histories to identify trends in different areas of the country. This may then guide which products we display in particular stores.
We want to bring you offers and promotions that are most relevant to your interests at particular times. To help us form a better, overall understanding of you as a customer, we combine your personal data as described above, for example your shopping history and/or trends you've told us you like. For this purpose we also combine the data that we collect directly from you with data that we obtain from third parties. We do not share your personal data with any third parties for their marketing purposes.
We know how much data security matters to all our customers. With this in mind we will treat your data with the utmost care and take all appropriate steps to protect it. We secure access to all transactional areas of our websites using ‘https’ SSL technology 'Norton Secured', provided by Symantec (Digicert).
Access to your personal data is password-protected, and sensitive data such as payment card information is secured and tokenised to ensure it is protected via our secure payment gateways SagePay, PayPal, AmazonPay and Close Brothers Retail Finance.
We regularly monitor our system for possible vulnerabilities and attacks, and we carry out penetration testing to identify ways to further strengthen security.
Whenever we collect or process your personal data, we’ll only keep it for as long as is necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.
At the end of that retention period, your data will either be deleted completely or anonymised, for example by aggregation with other data so that it can be used in a non-identifiable way for statistical analysis and business planning. Examples of customer data retention periods:
Orders
When you place an order, we’ll keep the personal data you
give us for 7 years so we can comply with our legal and contractual
obligations.
Refunds or Exchanges
If your order included a refund, exchange or
warranty period, the associated personal data will be kept until the
end of the relevant period.
We sometimes share your personal data with trusted third parties. For example, delivery couriers, for fraud management, to handle complaints, to help us personalise our offers to you. Here’s the policy we apply to those organisations to keep your data safe and protect your privacy:
We provide only the information they need to perform their specific
services.
They may only use your data for the exact purposes we
specify in our contract with them.
We work closely with them to
ensure that your privacy is respected and protected at all times.
If
we stop using their services, any of your data held by them will
either be deleted or rendered anonymous. Examples of the kind of third
parties we work with are:
IT companies who support our website and other business systems. Operational companies such as delivery couriers. Marketing companies who help us manage our electronic communications with you. For fraud management, we may share information about fraudulent or potentially fraudulent activity in our premises or systems. This may include sharing data about individuals with law enforcement bodies.
We may also be required to disclose your personal data to the police or other enforcement, regulatory or Government body. These requests are assessed on a case-by-case basis and take the privacy of our customers into consideration. To help personalise your journey through our website we currently use the following companies, who will process your personal data as part of their contracts with us:
HubSpot, Trustpilot, Google, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, YouTube, Affiliate Window, Yahoo, Bing, Magento, Rackspace, SagePay, Sage, PayPal, AmazonPay, Close Brothers...
An overview of your different rights
You have the right to request:
Access to the personal data we hold about you, free of charge in most
cases.
The correction of your personal data when incorrect, out
of date or incomplete.
For example, when you withdraw consent, or
object and we have no legitimate overriding interest, or once the
purpose for which we hold the data has come to an end.
That we
stop using your personal data for direct marketing (either through
specific channels, or all channels).
That we stop any
consent-based processing of your personal data after you withdraw that
consent.
You have the right to request a copy of any information about you that we hold at any time, and also to have that information corrected if it is inaccurate. To ask for your information, please contact our Data Protection Officer, Walls and Floors Ltd, Garrard Way, Telford Way Industrial Estate, Kettering, Northamptonshire, NN16 8TD, or email customerservice@wallsandfloors.co.uk. To ask for your information to be amended, please update your online account, or contact our Customer Services team. If we choose not to action your request we will explain to you the reasons for our refusal.
Your right to withdraw consent
Whenever you have given us your
consent to use your personal data, you have the right to change your
mind at any time and withdraw that consent.
Where we rely on our legitimate interest
In cases where we are
processing your personal data on the basis of our legitimate interest,
you can ask us to stop for reasons connected to your individual
situation. We must then do so unless we believe we have a legitimate
overriding reason to continue processing your personal data.
Direct marketing
You have the right to stop the use of your
personal data for direct marketing activity through all channels, or
selected channels. We must always comply with your request.
Checking your identity
To protect the confidentiality of your
information, we will ask you to verify your identity before proceeding
with any request you make under this Privacy Notice. If you have
authorised a third party to submit a request on your behalf, we will
ask them to prove they have your permission to act.
There are several ways you can stop direct marketing communications from us:
Click the ‘unsubscribe’ link in any email communication that we send you. We will then stop any further emails from that particular area.
If you have an account, log in into your Walls and Floors account,
visit the ‘My Account’ area and change your preferences.
Write to
us, Data Protection Officer, Walls and Floors Ltd, Garrard Way,
Telford Way Industrial Estate, Kettering, Northamptonshire, NN16 8TD
or email customerservice@wallsandfloors.co.uk.
Please note that
you may continue to receive communications for a short period after
changing your preferences while our systems are fully updated.
How we use your personal data
When you purchase a product or service via our Finance option, we will receive a copy of the information you supplied. If you agree to receive marketing communications from us, we will use your data to personalise what we send you. You are free to opt out of receiving marketing communications from us at any time. How our Finance providers use your personal data
When you apply for a product or service from one of our chosen Finance providers, your data will be collected and used by them under the terms of their own separate privacy policies. Here are those individual privacy policies (all links open in a new window; please note we can't be responsible for the content of external websites): Close Brothers Retail Finance
For all non-UK customers
By using our services or providing your personal data to us, you
consent to the processing of your personal data by us or on our
behalf. Of course, you still have the right to ask us not to process
your data in certain ways, and if you do so, we will respect your
wishes.
Sometimes we’ll need to transfer your personal data
between countries to enable us to supply the goods or services you’ve
requested. In the ordinary course of business, we may transfer your
personal data from your country of residence to ourselves and to third
parties located in the UK.
By dealing with us, you are giving your consent to this overseas use, transfer and disclosure of your personal data outside your country of residence for our ordinary business purposes.
This may occur because our information technology storage facilities and servers are located outside your country of residence, and could include storage of your personal data on servers in the UK.
We’ll ensure that reasonable steps are taken to prevent third parties outside your country of residence using your personal data in any way that’s not set out in this Privacy Notice. We’ll also make sure we adequately protect the confidentiality and privacy of your personal data.
We hope this Privacy Policy has been helpful in setting out the way Walls and Floors handle your personal data and your rights to control it.
If you have any questions that haven’t been covered, please contact us and we will be pleased to help you:
Email us at customerservices@wallsandfloors.co.uk
Or write to us
at Data Protection Officer, Walls and Floors Ltd, Garrard Way, Telford
Way Industrial Estate, Kettering, Northamptonshire, NN16 8TD
Updated 25-05-18 to comply with GDPR