Privacy Policy

1. Important Information

This Privacy Policy has been prepared in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulations ("GDPR"). The GDPR aims to protect and enhance the rights of data subjects. Wedds & Co Limited recognise the importance of the correct and lawful treatment of personal information and will only use personal data as set out in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy explains in detail the types of personal data we may collect about you when you interact with us. It also explains how we will store and handle that data, and keep it safe.

It is important that you read this Privacy Policy together with any other Privacy Policy or terms and conditions we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you, so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This Privacy Policy supplements the other notices and is not intended to override them.

We hope the following sections will answer any questions you have but if not, please do get in touch with us.

Controller

We have appointed a Data Protection Officer to oversee compliance with this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions about the Privacy Policy or how we handle your personal data, please contact our Data Protection Officer by email or post.

You have the right to request a copy of any information about you that Wedds & Co Limited holds at any time and also to have that information corrected if it is inaccurate. To ask for your information, please contact Data Protection Officer, Wedds & Co Limited 48 Carver Street, Birmingham B1 3AS, or email [email protected].

It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.

2. The Data We Collect About You

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

• Identity Data includes first name, maiden name, last name, username or similar identifier, marital status, title, date of birth and gender.
• Contact Data includes billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers.
• Financial Data includes bank account and payment card details.
• Transaction Data includes details about payments to and from you.
• Technical Data includes IP address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access the website.
• Profile Data includes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses.
• Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, products and services.
• Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.

If You Fail To Provide Personal Data

Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you with goods or services). In this case, we may have to cancel a product or service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.

3. How Is Your Personal Data Collected?

• Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity, Contact and Financial Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone email or otherwise. This includes personal data when you:
  • create a Trade Account with us
  • sign up to our website
  • ask us to email you information about a service we provide
  • contact us via any means with a query, complaint or quotation request
  • fill in any forms we provide you
  • visit our premises which have CCTV systems operated for the purposes of security. These systems may record your image during your visit.
• Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies and other similar technologies.
• Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive personal data about you from various third parties as set out below:
  • CMJ - The Company or Master Jewellers - Member Lists / Public Website
  • NAJ - National Associated of Jewellers - Public Website

4. How We Use Your Personal Data

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. 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

Legal compliance: If the law requires us to, we may need to collect and process your data.

Legitimate interest: In specific situations we require your data to pursue our legitimate interests in a way which might reasonably be expected as part of running our business and which does not materially impact your rights, freedom or interests.

Purpose/Activity	Type of data	Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest.
Contacting you regarding orders	Identity, Contact	Performance of contract
Register you as a new customer	Identity, Contact, Financial	Necessary to comply with a legal obligation Performance of a contract with you.
Retain transactions	Financial	Necessary to comply with a legal obligation.
Record CCTV images	Identity	Legitimate business interests - safeguarding the business and its assets against crime and protecting the safety of our staff and customers.
Signing in Visitors	Identity	Legitimate business interests - safeguarding the business and its assets against crime and protecting the safety of our staff and customers.
Email newsletters to you	Identity, Contact, Marketing and Communications	Legitimate business interests - to maintain our relationship with the customers and to keep them informed of our activities, new equipment, processing capabilities. Consent (prospective customers)
Sending you marketing information by post	Identity, Contact, Marketing and Communications	Legitimate business interests - promotion of our business in terms of our processing capabilities and the services we can offer.
Contacting you by telephone to discuss our services	Identity, Contact, Marketing and Communications	Legitimate business interests - promotion of our business in terms of our processing

Marketing

We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising. We have established the following personal data control mechanisms

Within our CRM system we have preference fields covering email, telephone and postal communications. If you choose to object to a form of communication, this will be updated on your record to ensure you are not contacted via this method ongoing.

Promotional Offers from Us

We may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage and Profile Data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which products, services and offers may be relevant for you (we call this marketing).

You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us or purchased good or services from us or if you or if you provided us with your details when you entered a competition or registered for a promotion and, in each case, you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.

Opting Out

You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time. Here are the ways you can stop direct marketing communications from us:

• By e-mailing us at [email protected]
• Write to Data Protection Officer, Wedds & Co Ltd, 48 Carver Street, Birmingham B1 3AS. Please note that you may continue to receive communications for a short period after changing your preferences while our systems are fully updated.

Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of any transaction you make with us.

Cookies

By using this website you're confirming that you're happy to accept our use of cookies. We do not use cookies to store any personal or confidential information about you. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.

Change of Purpose

We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purposes is compatible with the original purpose please contact us.

If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.

5. Disclosures of Personal Data

We sometimes share your personal data with trusted third parties, only when this is absolutely necessary to allow us to fulfil our contractual or legal requirements.

For example delivery couriers, shipping agents, police / hmrc requests and the facilitation of bank / metal transfers.

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.

The third parties we work with are:

• IT companies who support our website and other business systems. Operational companies such as delivery couriers / shipping agents.
• Direct marketing companies who help us manage our electronic communications with you.
• Banks and financial organisations.
• Government and legal organisations.

Sharing your data with third parties for their own purposes. We will only do this in very specific circumstances, for example:

• 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, in your country of origin or elsewhere, upon a valid request to do so. These requests are assessed on a case-by-case basis and take the privacy of our customers into consideration.

6. Data Security

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.

• Access to your personal data within all of our systems is password-protected and access levels granted based on job role.
• We regularly monitor our network and systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks, and operate industry leading antivirus and firewall technologies.
• We secure access to all areas of our websites and apps using 'https' technology.

7. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which your personal data is required and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

8. Your Legal Rights

An overview of your different rights

You have the right to:

• Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a 'data subject access request'). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
• Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
• Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.
• Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which overrides your rights and freedoms.
• Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see above), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, at the time of your request.
• Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios: (a) if you want us to establish the data's accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c) where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
• Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact Data Protection Officer, Wedds & Co Ltd, 48 Carver Street, Birmingham B1 3AS, or email [email protected].

If we choose not to action your request we will explain to you the reasons for our refusal.

No Fee Usually Required

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

What We May Need From You

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

Time Limit to Respond

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

9. Contacting the Regulator

If you feel that your data has not been handled correctly, or you are unhappy with our response to any requests you have made to us regarding the use of your personal data, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office.

You can contact them by calling 0303 123 1113. Or go online to www.ico.org.uk/concerns

10. Any Questions?

We hope this Privacy Policy has been helpful in setting out the way we handle your personal data and your rights to control it.

If you have any questions that haven't been covered, please contact our Data Protection Officer who will be pleased to help you.

Email us at [email protected], or write to us at Data Protection Officer, Wedds & Co Ltd, 48 Carver Street, Birmingham B1 3AS.