This Online Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) applies to the Weeting Tyres Ltd website located at https://www.weetingtyres.co.uk (the “Website”).
Weeting Tyres Ltd and its affiliates respect individual privacy and values the confidence of the visitors of our websites, our customers, vendors and others with whom we do business. We strive to process personal data (as further defined below) in a manner consistent with the laws of the country in which we do business. In the European Union, this includes as from May 25, 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (the "GDPR")1.
Whenever you visit our Website, https://www.weetingtyres.co.uk (hereafter also “Weeting Tyres” or “we”) will process personal data about you (as further defined below). In that context, Weeting Tyres will act as a controller, i.e. the person responsible for the processing of your personal data, as it decides why and how your personal data is processed.
The purpose of this Policy is to inform you and explain in all transparency:
For purposes of this Policy, the following definitions shall apply:
"personal data" means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person2;
"processing" shall mean any operation or set of operations that is performed upon personal data or sets of personal data, whether or not by automatic means, such as collection, recording, organization, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, blocking, erasure or destruction and the verb “to process” shall be construed accordingly; and
"processor" means a natural or legal person which processes personal data on behalf of the controller. Weeting Tyres’s processors may be subsidiaries, affiliates or third-party suppliers and service providers. In all cases, Weeting Tyres will conclude a data processing agreement with its processor to ensure your personal data is processed in accordance with the GDPR.
Method of collection
When you browse the Website, some personal data is collected simply as a result of your browsing. Some functions of our Website, however, may request that you voluntarily supply Weeting Tyres with additional personal data.
We collect the following information from website visitors:
If you wish to have access to or benefit from certain features of our Website, we may also request you to provide the following additional information:
Please note that in some countries, car identification information may also be obtained from publicly accessible sources to which we have access to link the license plate with the car identification information.
Payment processing, including debit and credit card payment processing, is performed by third party service providers and Weeting Tyres does not process or store your credit or debit card information in connection with transactions occurring through the Website.
Consequences of a refusal to provide personal data
You are not subject to any legal obligation to provide Weeting Tyres with your personal data. Please note however that, in certain circumstances, your refusal to provide personal data or to accept cookies or browser setting may affect your browsing experience and prevent you from using certain features on our Website.
Therefore, whenever personal data is collected (e.g. in forms), we will indicate whether the provision of such data is mandatory (e.g. with an asterisk) and the consequences of a refusal to provide the requested data.
Cookies and other similar technology
Our Website may use "cookies" or "web beacons." A "cookie" is a text file which may be placed on your computer, device or system when visiting our Website. Cookies allow Weeting Tyres to better serve visitors to the Website by offering a tailored experience. It contains information that is collected from your device and sent back to the Website on each subsequent visit to remember your actions and preferences over time. The information collected does not contain your name, address, telephone number or email address.
Please refer to https://www.weetingtyres.co.uk for further information on how we use cookies.
Taking into account the state of the art, the costs of implementation and the nature, scope, context and purposes of processing as well as the risk of varying likelihood and severity for the rights and freedoms of natural persons, Weeting Tyres takes appropriate precautions to protect personal data in its possession from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction, and to respond to the misuse, loss or unauthorized use of such personal data.
Information Weeting Tyres collects may be stored on third party data storage systems (see section “Third-Party Recipients” below). In those instances, Weeting Tyres also requires those third parties to employ security practices and systems to ensure the security of the information.
Purposes and legal basis of the processing
Purposes of the processing
Weeting Tyres and processors acting on Weeting Tyres’ behalf use the personal data you give to Weeting Tyres for the following purposes:
Online tire warranty registration information provided by you will not be used for marketing purposes.
Legal basis of the processing
We are not allowed to process personal data if we do not have a valid legal ground. Therefore, we will only process personal data if:
Examples of such ‘legitimate interests’ are:
We may transfer personal data to our members of personnel (to the extent they need it to perform their tasks) and other companies of the Weeting Tyres group. Such other group companies will either act as another controller (in which case you will be separately informed about this processing) or only process personal data on behalf and upon request of the controller (thereby acting as a processor).
In addition, we may also transfer your personal data to third party processors outside the Weeting Tyres group to complete the purposes listed above, to the extent they need it to carry out the instructions we have given to them.
Such third-party processors include:
Your personal data may also be disclosed to:
Any information provided by users through the online tire warranty registration form available on this Website will not be shared with any third party other than as provided by law.
Cross border data transfers
The personal data transferred within or outside Weeting Tyres, may also be processed in a country outside the European Economic Area, which includes the EU Member States, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway (the "EEA").
If your personal data is transferred outside the EEA, we will enter into EU standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission prior to such transfer to ensure the required level of protection for the transferred personal data. You may request additional information in this respect and obtain a copy of the relevant safeguard put in place by exercising your rights as set out below (see section “Your rights”).
Weeting Tyres will only retain your personal data for [a period of 3 months after [your last visit of our Website].
However, if individuals wish to have their personal data removed from our databases before such time, they can make a request thereto as described below.
Your rights
You have a right of access to your personal data as processed by Weeting Tyres under this Policy. If you believe that any information, we hold about you is incorrect or incomplete, you may also request the correction thereof. Weeting Tyres will promptly correct any such information.
You also have the right to:
and Weeting Tyres will honour such requests, withdrawal or objection as required under the applicable data protection rules.
In addition, you also have the right to data portability. This is the right to obtain the personal data you have provided to Weeting Tyres in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and to request the transmission of such personal data to a third party, without hindrance from Weeting Tyres and subject to your own confidentiality obligations.
To exercise the above rights, please send an email to info@weetingtyres.co.uk, with a recto-verso scan/copy of your identity card or passport for identification purpose.
If you do not want to receive email or other communications from Weeting Tyres, please adjust your communications preferences by sending an email to info@weetingtyres.co.uk. Weeting Tyres will address all requests to remove names from any postal mail or email lists in compliance with applicable data protection laws.
If you have any questions or are not satisfied with how Weeting Tyres processes your personal data, please let us know by sending a message to Weeting Tyres Ltd 2 8 Out Northgate, Bury Saint Edmunds IP33 1JQ, United Kingdom or by e-mail at info@weetingtyres.co.uk. We will examine your question of complaint and get back to you as soon as possible.
You also always have the right to file a complaint with the competent data protection authority.
Other websites
The Website may contain links to non-Weeting Tyres websites, and we make every effort to link only to websites that share our high standards and respect for privacy. However, Weeting Tyres is not responsible for the content of or the privacy practices employed by non-Weeting Tyres websites.
Children
Weeting Tyres does not knowingly collect, use or disclose any personal data (such as name, address and telephone number) from children under 16 years of age through any Website without obtaining prior consent from a parent or legal guardian. Weeting Tyres does not allow children under 16 to register for or participate in contests or promotions on this Website. However, if the parent or guardian of a child under 16 believes that his or her child has provided Weeting Tyres with personal data, that parent or guardian should contact Weeting Tyres if they want this information deleted from Weeting Tyres’s systems. If Weeting Tyres obtains knowledge that it has personal data about a child under 16 in retrievable form in its files Weeting Tyres will delete that information from existing files.
In addition, anyone under 16 years of age should seek his or her parent's or guardian's permission prior to using or disclosing any personal data on this Website.
Any future updates to the processing of your personal data as described in this Policy will be notified to you in advance through our Website (via a pop-up or otherwise) as well as through our other usual communication channels (e.g. by email, if available).
[1] Regulation 2016/679 of the EU Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC.
[2] An identifiable natural person is a person who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.