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This is the privacy policy for www.ridgeback.co.uk (“Privacy Policy”). It explains who we are and how and why we collect, store, use and share your personal data if you:
We take your privacy very seriously and will always treat your personal data with the utmost respect. We also want to ensure that you are properly informed about how your personal data is used by us and what your privacy rights are, which is why we provide this Privacy Policy. Please review it carefully.
Please select from the different sections of this Privacy Policy below to find out more:
1.About us
You have the right to object to us processing your personal data on the basis of our legitimate interests or for direct marketing purposes (including any related profiling we do to help ensure that our marketing is relevant to your interests). For more information about your right to object and how you can exercise it, see the section Your privacy rights.
We are H. Young (Operations) Limited, a private limited company incorporated in (and subject to the laws of) England and Wales with registration number 00706712 (referred to in this Privacy Policy as "we", "us" or "our"). Our registered address is Buckingham House, West Street, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 1BD, UK.
We are the “data controller” of your personal data, which means that we determine the purposes and the means of use of the personal data we collect about you for the purposes of applicable data protection law (which includes the General Data Protection Regulation 2016 or “GDPR”).
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 website).
We collect the following personal data about you:
We use the data described above for the purposes set out in the How we use your personal data section below.
We use your personal data for the following purposes:
To register your products and communicate with you about them for warranty and recall purposes
If you create an account on our website to register your products with us, we keep a record of your contact details and the serial number of the products you wish to register with us. We use this information to manager and administer your account and communicate with you about warranty and recall notifications.
To inform you of any changes to our services
We use the contact details you have provided to us to notify you of changes to any of our services or to the terms of any contracts between us or to any related information (such as changes to this Privacy Policy).
To deliver direct marketing (involving profiling to tailor our communications to your interests)
Our marketing communications
If you have provided your consent to do so, we will use your contact details to send you marketing communications by email and SMS text message about www.ridgeback.co.uk products, services, special offers, promotions, giveaways and competitions that we think may be of interest to you.
You can unsubscribe or opt out of receiving our marketing communications at any time by:
Our use of profiling to send tailored marketing communications
We want to ensure that the marketing communications we send to you are relevant to your interests. Consequently, we undertake analysis and profiling of the information you provide to us, such as your gender and product interests, and other information we collect about how you interact with our communications (see the next section on email interaction technology below). This information helps us build a profile of you, meaning that if you sign up to receive marketing communications from us, you are more likely to receive information about products, services, special offers, promotions, giveaways and competitions that we think are more relevant to you and your interests. It also means that we don’t send the same marketing communications to all of our customers, so you may not be made the same offers as another customer.
The legal ground for us using profiling to tailor our marketing communications to your interests is that it is in our legitimate interests to do so, having taken into account whether your interests and fundamental rights and freedoms are overridden by this type of processing. See Legal grounds for using your personal datafor more information about our legitimate interests. If you don’t agree with us using profiling for this purpose, you can let us know (see How you can contact us). If you do object, we won't be able to continue to send you tailored marketing communications, which means the information you receive from us may not be as relevant to you.
Email interaction technology
If you receive emails from us, we or our marketing service provider may automatically collect technical information about how you have interacted with those emails, including whether you have opened them or clicked through any links within them. This helps us understand how an email campaign performed, what types of emails and content our customers find interesting, and what actions our customers took, so we can improve our email campaigns in the future and make our emails more relevant to you. Please see our Cookie Policy to find out more about this, including how to turn this functionality off.
Freewheel marketing communications
H. Young (Operations) Limited, the “data controller” of your personal data, operates another website called Freewheel (www.freewheel.co.uk), where you can purchase various products. We would like to use your name and email address to inform you also of products, services, special offers and promotions that we think may be of interest to you on the Freewheel site. We will only do this where you have provided your consent to do so. You can unsubscribe or opt out of receiving Freewheel email marketing at any time by using the “Unsubscribe” link in Freewheel emails or by contacting us. See the Freewheel Privacy Policy to find out more about our privacy practices in relation to the Freewheel site.
To manage, administer and improve our website
We also use the information we collect about you based on your use of our website and services to:
Please see our Cookie Policy to find out more about how we use cookies and other similar technologies in this context, and how to decline or disable them.
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 run our competitions
If you choose to enter a competition that we run, we need to use your contact details and any other personal data that you provide at the time of entry so that we can manage the competition and let you know if you've won! If we ask for any other personal data as part of the competition, we will let you know at the time of entry exactly how we will use it.
To respond to communications or enquiries from you, and address 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 address any dispute which may arise in the course of us providing our services to you.
Please note that if you contact us through a social media platform, we will only use the publicly available information about you (determined by your social media platform privacy settings) for the purposes of responding to you. Please see the privacy statements of the social media platforms you use for details of how they use your personal data, who they share it with and how you can manage your privacy settings with them.
To conduct market research
We may invite you to be involved in market research. If you accept our invitation, we will use your feedback to improve our website and the services available through it. If you tell us that you don't want to be contacted for this purpose, or you don't accept our invitation, we will respect this choice and it won't affect your ability to access and use our website or interact with us in other ways.
To provide other services requested by you from time to time
We process your personal data to provide any other services requested by you from time to time, as described at the time we collect the data.
To maintain our records and improve data accuracy
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 conduct business analytics and reporting
We may aggregate the data we hold about you on an anonymous basis with other data for analytical and reporting purposes.
To comply with our legal obligations and to detect, prevent and investigate other actual or suspected violations of law or misuse of our website
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 to detect, prevent and investigate fraud or to facilitate the exercise of your consumer rights. In addition, we may need to use your personal data to detect, prevent and investigate any other actual or suspected violations of law or misuse of our website.
Applicable data protection law requires us to only process your personal data if we satisfy one or more legal grounds. These are set out in law and we rely on a number of different grounds for the processing we carry out, depending on the purposes of the processing. These are as follows:
Necessary for the purposes of our legitimate business interests
Much of the personal data we collect about you is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests as a business, which are to:
To help us achieve these outcomes, we profile your personal data, including by combining the data we collect about how you use our website and services with other information we hold about you.
Please note that where we wish to rely on this legal ground, we are required by law to conduct balancing tests to determine whether our legitimate interests are overridden by your interests or your fundamental rights and freedoms. We may continue to process your personal data on the basis of our legitimate interests only if we determine that your interests, rights and freedoms are not overridden by our legitimate interests.
We have considered these matters and where we think there is a risk that 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).
Please contact us if you would like further information regarding our balancing tests (see How you can contact us).
Consent
In certain limited circumstances, we also process your personal data after obtaining your consent to do so for the purposes of:
You don’t have to provide your consent, and can withdraw it at any time.
Necessary for the performance of a contract and to comply with our legal obligations
In some cases, it is necessary for us to process a limited amount of personal data we collect about you for the performance of certain contracts between us. This includes your contact details and any other information you provide to us if you enter any competitions that we run from time to time or if we provide you with any other services that you have requested and for which terms and conditions apply. We will let you know if this is the case at the relevant time.
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, prevent and investigate fraud or to facilitate the exercise of your consumer rights.
H. Young (Operations) Limited, the “data controller” of your personal data, has a number of different business divisions. Personnel within those different divisions assist with the management and operation of www.ridgeback.co.uk and as a result, have access to your personal data in connection with the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
Where you have provided your consent to do so, your name and email address will be used by other personnel within H. Young (Operations) Limited who operate the Freewheel website (www.freewheel.co.uk) for the purposes of sending you emails about products, services, special offers and promotions that we think may be of interest to you on the Freewheel site. See the Freewheel Privacy Policy to find out more about our privacy practices in relation to the Freewheel site.
In addition, we may from time to time need to disclose your personal data to third parties in order to provide you with our services and ensure the effective operation of our website. The providers of such services are granted access to certain personal data to the extent necessary for them to perform the services that we request. Any personal data that is processed by third parties must be processed in accordance with applicable data protection law and subject to contractual obligations, including regarding security and confidentiality. The third parties are:
We may also disclose your personal data:
Additionally, where you have consented to cookies, we allow third parties such as Google to set Google Analytics cookies on your device to assist us with the improvement and optimisation of our website. Google Analytics cookies collect information such as items clicked on, web pages viewed and any web pages where users are encountering download error messages from time to time. Please see our Cookie Policy to find out more about how we use cookies and other similar technologies (including links to further information provided by Google about their practices), and how to decline or disable them.
The personal data we collect about you is stored by us on secure servers located within the European Economic Area (“EEA”) and processed by us in the UK.
In some limited cases, your personal data may, for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, be accessed, transferred or processed outside the EEA by or to our third party service providers. The countries concerned may not have laws which protect your personal data to the same extent as in the EEA. We are required by applicable data protection law to ensure that where we or our third party service providers access, transfer or process your personal data outside the EEA, it is treated securely and is protected.
Please contact us if you would like more information about the countries to which your personal data is transferred and the specific safeguards that are used to protect your personal data when it is transferred outside the EEA (see How you can contact us).
We retain your personal data for no longer than is necessary for the purpose(s) for which it was collected. What this means in practice will vary between different types of data. When determining the relevant retention periods, we take into account factors including:
Otherwise, we securely erase your personal data from our systems when it is no longer needed.
The table in this section below explains what rights you have with regard to your personal data. These rights are not absolute and are subject to certain exceptions and qualifications.
For more information about your rights or if you would like to exercise any of your rights, you are welcome to contact us using the contact details set out below under How you can contact us.
Please note that if you ask us to stop using your personal data in a certain way or erase your personal data, and this type of use or personal data is required by us in order to facilitate your use of our website or services in any way, you may not be able to use our website or services as you did before. This does not include your right to withdraw your consent to receiving marketing communications from us, which you can do so at any time without restriction.
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You have the right to be provided with clear, transparent and easily understandable information about how we use your personal data and your rights. This is why we provide you with the information in this Privacy Policy. |
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You have the right to receive confirmation from us that your personal data is being processed, and where that is the case, obtain access to the personal data that we hold about you and certain other information (similar to that provided in this Privacy Policy). |
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You have the right to require us to rectify any personal data that we hold about you if it is inaccurate or incomplete. Please contact us if you believe that any personal data we hold about you is inaccurate or incomplete. |
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This is also known as ‘the right to be forgotten’ and, in simple terms, enables you to request the erasure of the personal data that we hold about you where:
This is not a general right to erasure; there are exceptions. For example, we have the right to continue using your personal data if such use is necessary for compliance with our legal obligations or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims. |
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You have the right to restrict further processing of your personal data where:
When processing is restricted, we can still store your personal data, but may not process it further without your consent (unless processing is required in connection with legal claims, to protect another person’s rights or on important public interest grounds). |
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You have the right to obtain and reuse the personal data that we hold about you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and (where technically feasible) to have such information transmitted to another "data controller", where:
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You have the right to object to processing in the following circumstances:
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If you have given your consent to us to process your personal data for a particular purpose (for example, to send you marketing communications), you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time (although if you do so, it does not mean that any processing of your personal data up to that point is unlawful). |
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You have the right to make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) if you are unhappy with how we have handled your personal data or believe our processing of your personal data does not comply with applicable data protection law. The contact details of the ICO are set out below under How you can contact us. |
If you would like to exercise your privacy rights or if you are unhappy with how we have handled your personal data, please contact us by:
If you’re not satisfied with our response to any enquiry or complaint or believe our use of your personal data does not comply with applicable data protection law, you can make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) by:
We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under the age of 16. If you become aware that your child or any child for which you have parental responsibility has provided their personal data to us without your consent, please contact us using the contact details set out above under How you can contact us.
Our website may, from time to time, contain hyperlinks to third party websites or other websites operated by H. Young (Operations) Limited. This Privacy Policy does not apply to your use of those other websites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit, as they will govern the use of any personal data you provide when visiting those websites.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on 03/09/2020.
This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time. We will post the updated terms on our website and, where appropriate, we will notify you of the changes, for example by an email notification. We recommend that you check this page from time to time to ensure that you are aware of and understand any changes.