Privacy Policy

Introduction

HJ Webb and Son are committed to protecting your personal data and your privacy is important to us. Our privacy notice sets out how we take care of our personal data when you visit this website. sets out your privacy rights and shows how you are protected by the law.

How do We get Information?

Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you for one of the following reasons:

You have provided Information through your completion of our on-line website forms, website registration (creation of an account on our website) or from any email you send to us.

You have made an enquiry to us.

You have purchased a product or products online, over the telephone or in person from us.

You have requested a quotation online, over the telephone or in person from us.

You wish to attend, or have attended, one of our training events.

You have requested product and/or service support.

You have participated in a survey, competition or promotion.

You have provided feedback, reviews or testimonials.

You subscribed to our e-newsletter.

You have applied for a job or secondment with us.

You are representing your organisation.

Your Data Protection Rights

This privacy policy is supplemental to any other privacy notices we may issue on specific occasions and does not override them.

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.

Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.

Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to object to processing - You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.

Please contact us at [email]{hyperlink} if you wish to make a request.

Our website is not intended for children and no data relating to children is knowingly collected.

Sharing Your Information

We will not share your information with any third parties for the purposes of direct marketing.

We use data processors who are third parties who provide elements of services for us. We have contracts in place with our data processors. This means that they cannot do anything with your personal information unless we have instructed them to do it. They will not share your personal information with any organisation apart from us. They will hold it securely and retain it for the period we instruct.

Links to Other Websites

Where we provide links to websites of other organisations, this privacy policy does not cover how that organisation processes personal information. We encourage you to read the privacy notices on the other websites you visit.

Your Right to Complain

We strive for high standards when it comes to processing your personal information. If you have queries or concerns, please contact us at [email]{hyperlink}.

If you remain dissatisfied, you can make a complaint about the way we process your personal information to us as the UK supervisory authority. Please follow this link {hyperlink} to see how to do that.

Complaints about us are handled in the same way as a complaint about any other organisation.

For information about how we process a complainant’s information, please see this section of our privacy policy.

Visitors to Our Website

Analytics

When you visit our Website we use a third-party service, Fathom Analytics, to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out such things as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. This information is only processed in a way that does not directly identify anyone.

We do not make, and do not allow [analytics] to make, any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website.

If we do collect personal data through our website, we’ll be upfront about this. We’ll make it clear when we collect personal information and we’ll explain what we intend to do with it.

Cookies

We use a cookies tool on our website to gain consent for the optional cookies we use.

Cookies that are necessary for functionality, security and accessibility are set and are not deleted by the tool.

You can read more about how we use cookies, and how to change your cookies preferences, on our Cookies Policy page.

Lawful Bases for Processing Your Information

The purpose for implementing the above is to maintain and monitor the performance of our website and to constantly look to improve the site and the services it offers to our users. The lawful basis we rely on to process your personal data is either Article 6(1)(a) of the UK GDPR, for example when we require your consent for the optional cookies we use, or Article 6(1)(f) which allows us to process personal data when it’s necessary for our legitimate interests. For example in order to maintain the integrity of our IT systems and the continuity of our business.

What are Your Rights?

As we are processing your personal data for our legitimate interests as stated above, you have the right to object to our processing of your personal data. There are legitimate reasons why we may refuse your objection, which depend on why we are processing it.

For more information on your rights, please see Your data protection rights.

How do we Collect your Personal Data?

We use various methods to collect data from you and about you including:

Direct Interaction: Identity, Contact and Financial Data may be given to us when you correspond with us by phone, email, through our website or by post. This may include personal data. We may also collect information about your equipment and browsing actions and patterns. This personal data may be collected using server logs, cookies and other technologies. Further information is available in our cookie policy {link}.

Creating and using an account on our website

Subscribing to our publications or other services

Entering a promotion, survey or competition

Providing us with feedback

Through online advertising networks, such as (but not restricted to) Google, Facebook and LinkedIn who are based outside the UK and EU

Providers or technical, search, messaging and email platforms such as (but not restricted to) Google, Ask, Facebook, Mailgun, Mailjet, AWS and Algolia who are based outside the UK and EU

Payment and delivery service providers who may be based outside the UK and EU

Publicly available sources such as (but not restricted to) the electoral register and companies house

CCTV used at our premises for security

The Purposes for Which We will use Your Personal Data

Below is a description of the ways in which we plan to use your personal data and the legal bases we rely on to do so. Depending on the purpose for which we are using your data we may rely on multiple legal grounds. Please contact us if you require more specific information.

 

Purpose

Data Type

Lawful Basis (including legitimate interest)

Registering you as a new customer on our Website

Identity

Contact

Performing a contract or contracts with you

Order processing

Delivery

Payment management (including charges and fees)

Identity

Contact

Financial

Transactional

Marketing

Communications

Performing a contract or contracts with you

Debt recovery (legitimate interest)

Relationship management

Notification of changes to our privacy policy

Requesting reviews or survey participation

 

Identity

Contact

Usage

Profille

Technical

Marketing

Communications

Compliance with legal obligations

Performing a contract or contracts with you

Studying how customers use our products so that we can develop our business

Maintaining our records

 

Business and website administration

Data analysis and reporting

Testing and troubleshooting

Maintenance and support

Hosting of data

Technical

Identity

Contact

Business administration

IT services

Security and fraud protection

Compliance with legal obligations

Delivery of relevant advertisements

Delivery of relevant website content

Understanding how relevant our advertising is

Suggesting and recommending goods and services which may be of interest

Identity

Contact

Usage

Profile

Marketing

Communications

Technical

Defining and segmenting customers for our products and services

Keeping our website updated and relevant

Developing our product and service ranges (legitimate interest)

Informing and developing our business and marketing strategy

On premises CCTV

Identity

Providing security at our premises (legitimate interest)

Purpose, Usage and Disclosure of Your Personal Data

We will only use your personal data for a purpose other than which we collected it if:

That reason is compatible with the original purpose

We reasonably consider it to be necessary

Should we need to use your data for an unrelated purpose we will inform you of the legal basis one which we plan to do so.

We do not allow third parties to use your data for their own purposes. Any purposes for which they do use your data must be in accordance with the instructions, mandates or directives we give them.

Some of our third party providers are outside the EU and UK so when they process your data it will involve a transfer outside the EU and UK. Please contact us if you require further information on how we ensure a similar level of protection in these circumstances.

Marketing and Promotion

We aim to provide you with choices around personal data uses for marketing, advertising and promotion. We may use the following data form a view of your product or service requirements and what you may be interested in:

Contact

Technical

Usage

Profile

Marketing

Communications

Where you have not opted out of receiving such information you may receive marketing or promotional information where you have requested information, entered a competition or registered for a promotion.

We will not share your personal data for third party marketing with any company outside of [owner] unless we have you explicit opt-in consent.

Visitors to Our Premises

We meet visitors at our premises, including:

Clients

External training providers

Job applicants

Contractors

Suppliers and tradespeople

Dignitaries

We have Wi-Fi on site for the use of visitors. We may provide you with the address and password.

We record the device address and will automatically allocate you an IP address whilst on site. We also log traffic information in the form of sites visited, duration and date sent/received.

We don’t ask you to agree to terms, just to the fact that we have no responsibility or control over your use of the internet while you are on site, and we don’t ask you to provide any of your information to get this service.

The purpose for processing this information is to provide you with access to the internet whilst visiting our site. The lawful basis we rely on to process your personal data is article 6(1)(f) of the UK GDPR, which allows us to process personal data when it’s necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests.

For information about how long we hold personal data, see our [retention policy]{hyperlink} policy.

We may ask new visitors to our offices to show some form of ID, but this will not be recorded anywhere and is purely for ID verification.

When you visit our premises we may also use CCTV for security purposes.

Making a Complaint to Us

Purpose and Lawful Basis for Processing

Our purpose is to investigate and take action in line with our statutory duties and contractual obligations.

The lawful basis we rely on to process your personal data is article 6(1)(e) of the UK GDPR, which allows us to process personal data when this is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests.

What We Need

We need information from you to investigate your complaint properly, so our complaint forms are designed to prompt you to give us everything we need to understand what’s happened.

When we receive a complaint from you, we may set up a case file. This normally includes your contact details and any other information you have given us about the other parties in your complaint.

Why We Need it

We need to know the details of your complaint so we can investigate it and fulfil our statutory duties and contractual obligations.

What We do With it

We may use your personal information to investigate your complaint and check on our level of service by inviting you to complete a customer satisfaction survey. We may compile and publish statistics showing information like the number of complaints we receive, but not in a form that identifies anyone.

No third parties have access to your personal information unless the law allows them to do so.

If you are acting on behalf of someone making a complaint, we’ll ask for information to satisfy us of your identity and if relevant, ask for information to show you have authority to act on someone else’s behalf.

How Long We Keep it (Retention Policy)

Our retention periods are driven by legislation and/or business

need. If there is no legally defined retention period for corporate

information it is the responsibility of the relevant IAO(s) to

determine an appropriate retention period. The Information

Management team must agree the proposed retention period to

ensure:

Retention triggers are clear and consistent

Retention periods are not excessively long and are consistent

with the rest of the schedule

Retention and Disposal Policy 5

The correct retention source has been identified

IAO approval has been obtained for any new entries with an

action of ‘destroy’.

We assign clearly defined retention periods to our information to

ensure it is kept for the appropriate length of time. Each retention

period has three elements:

Trigger – the action which begins the retention period (e.g.,

‘End of Financial Year’ or ‘End of Employment’)

Retention period – the length of time the information will be

kept

Action – either ‘review’ or ‘destroy’.

If the action is ‘review’ the information must be reviewed to

ensure it is no longer required before destruction. Outcomes

of a review may be – dispose, mark for permanent

preservation, or temporary extension to review again at a

future date.

If the action is ‘destroy’, this means the information can be

destroyed without being reviewed in line with ICO

procedure. IAO approval is not needed prior to destruction

if the action is ‘destroy.’

What are Your Rights?

We are acting in our official capacity to investigate your complaint, so you have the right to object to our processing of your personal data. There are legitimate reasons why we may refuse your objection, which depend on why we are processing it.

For more information on your rights, please see Your data protection rights (above).

Do We use any Data Processors?

No.

Make an Enquiry

When you contact us to make an enquiry, we collect information, including your personal data, so that we can respond to it and fulfil our regulatory responsibilities.

The lawful basis we rely on to process your personal data is article 6(1)(e) of the UK GDPR, which allows us to process personal data when this is necessary to perform our statutory duties and contractual obligations.

What We Need and Why We Need it

We need enough information from you to answer your enquiry.

What We do With it

We may set up a case file on our customer relationship management (CRM) system to record your enquiry and so we can get it to the correct area of the business to be dealt with. We’ll also keep a record of our response.

We use the information supplied to us to deal with the enquiry and any subsequent issues that may arise, and to check on the level of service we provide.

Information entered into the forms will be passed onto the external data processor data processor [external processor]{hyperlink} upon submission (which is then forwarded to us via email). Please review their privacy policy for information on how they process your data.

How Long We Keep it

For information about how long we hold personal data, see our Retention Policy (above).

What are Your Rights?

We are acting in our legitimate interest capacity to respond to your enquiry, so you have the right to object to our processing of your personal data.

There are legitimate reasons why we may refuse your objection, which depend on why we are processing it.

For more information on your rights, please see ‘Your rights as an individual’.

Do We Use any Data Processors?

We use [external processor]{hyperlink} as mentioned above. Emails may also be processed by various email clients/services. This may include antispam services or web based clients such as Gmail among others.

Law Enforcement

We will share your information if required to do so by law. We may disclose your personal information to law enforcement and/or government agencies.

Apply for a Job or Secondment

Purpose and Lawful Basis for Processing

Our purpose for processing this information is to assess your suitability for a role you have applied for and to help us develop and improve our recruitment process.

The lawful basis we rely on for processing your personal data is article 6(1)(b) of the UK GDPR, which relates to processing necessary to perform a contract or to take steps at your request, before entering a contract.

If you provide us with any information about reasonable adjustments you require under the Equality Act 2010 the lawful basis we rely on for processing this information is article 6(1)(c) to comply with our legal obligations under the Act.

The lawful basis we rely on to process any information you provide as part of your application which is special category data, such as health, religious or ethnicity information is article 9(2)(b) of the UK GDPR, which relates to our obligations in employment and the safeguarding of your fundamental rights. And Schedule 1 part 1(1) of the DPA2018 which again relates to processing for employment purposes.

We may process information about applicant criminal convictions and offences. The lawful basis we rely on to process this data is Article 6(1)(e) is that we have a legitimate interest. In addition we rely on the processing condition at Schedule 1 part 2 paragraph 6(2)(a).

What Will We Do with the Information You Give Us?

We’ll use all the information you provide during the recruitment process to progress your application with a view to offering you an employment contract with us, or to fulfil legal or regulatory requirements if necessary.

We will not share any of the information you provide with any third parties for marketing purposes.

We’ll use the contact details you give us to contact you to progress your application. We may also contact you to request your feedback about our recruitment process. We’ll use the other information you provide to assess your suitability for the role.

We may set up a case file on our customer relationship management (CRM) system to record your application and so we can get it to the correct area of the business to be dealt with. We’ll also keep a record of our correspondences.

We use the information supplied to us to deal with the application and any subsequent queries that may arise, and to check on the level of service we provide.

Information entered into the forms will be passed onto the external data processor [external processor]{hyperlink} upon submission (which is then forwarded to us via email). Please review their privacy policy for information on how they process your data.

Do We Use any Data Processors?

We use [external processor]{hyperlink} as mentioned above. Emails may also be processed by various email clients/services. This may include antispam services or web based clients such as [email provider] among others.

What Information do We Ask for, and Why?

We do not collect more information than we need to fulfil our stated purposes and will not keep it longer than necessary.

The information we ask for is used to assess your suitability for employment. You don’t have to provide what we ask for but it may affect your application if you don’t.

We will use any feedback you provide about our recruitment process to develop and improve our future recruitment campaigns.

Application Stage

If you apply online or by post, your details may be collected by an external recruitment agency on our behalf or passed to them for processing.

You can submit your application to us by emailing us at [email]{hyperlink} or by post.

We ask you for your personal details including name and contact details. We’ll also ask you about previous experience, education, referees and for answers to questions relevant to the role. Our recruitment team will have access to all this information.

You may also be asked to provide equal opportunities information. This is not mandatory – if you don’t provide it, it won’t affect your application.

We won’t make the information available to any staff outside our recruitment team, including hiring managers, in a way that can identify you. Any information you provide will be used to produce and monitor equal opportunities statistics.

Shortlisting

Our hiring managers shortlist applications for interviews. They may be provided with your name or contact details or with your equal opportunities information if you have provided it.

Assessments

We may ask you to participate in assessment days; complete tests or occupational personality profile questionnaires; attend an interview; or a combination of these. Information will be generated by you and by us. For example, you might complete a written test or we might take interview notes. This information is held by us.

If you are unsuccessful after assessment for the role, we may ask if you would like your details retained in our talent pool. If you say yes, we would proactively contact you should any further suitable vacancies arise.

Conditional Offer

If we make a conditional offer of employment, we’ll ask you for information so that we can carry out pre-employment checks. You must successfully complete pre-employment checks to progress to a final offer. We must confirm the identity of our staff and their right to work in the United Kingdom, and seek assurance as to their trustworthiness, integrity and reliability.

You must therefore provide:

Proof of your identity – you will be asked to attend our office with original documents; we’ll take copies

Proof of your qualifications – you will be asked to attend our office with original documents; we’ll take copies

A criminal records declaration to declare any unspent convictions

Your email address, which we may use to contact you to complete an application for a Basic Criminal Record check via the Disclosure and Barring Service, or Access NI, which will verify your declaration of unspent convictions.

We’ll contact your referees, using the details you provide in your application, directly to obtain references.

We’ll also ask you to complete a questionnaire about your health to establish your fitness to work.

We’ll also ask you about any reasonable adjustments you may require under the Equality Act 2010. This information will be shared with relevant [company] staff to ensure these are in place for when you start your employment.

If we make a final offer, we’ll also ask you for the following

Bank details – to process salary payments

Emergency contact details – so we know who to contact in case you have an emergency at work

Any membership of a pension scheme

After your start date

Our Code of Conduct requires all staff to declare if they have any potential conflicts of interest. If you complete a declaration, the information will be held on your personnel file. You will also need to declare any secondary employment.

Secondments

We also offer opportunities for people to come and work with us on a secondment basis. We accept applications from individuals or organisations who think they could benefit from their staff working with us.

Applications are sent directly to us. Once we have considered your application, if we are interested in speaking to you further, we’ll contact you using the details you give.

We may ask you to provide more information about your skills and experience or invite you to an interview.

If we do not have any suitable work at the time, we’ll let you know but we may ask if you would like us to retain your application so that we can proactively contact you about possible opportunities in the future. If you say yes, we’ll keep your application for up to 12 months.

If you are seconded to us, you will be expected to adhere to a confidentiality agreement and code of conduct, which will be agreed with your organisation.

We may also ask you to complete our pre-employment checks - this will depend on the type of work you will be doing for us.

We ask for this information so that we fulfil our obligations to avoid conflicts of interest and to protect the information we hold.

How Long is the Information Kept For?

For information about how long we hold personal data, see our Retention Policy (above).

How We Make Decisions About Recruitment

Final recruitment decisions are made by hiring managers and members of our recruitment team. We take account of all the information gathered during the application process.

Any online testing is marked and a result is generated automatically. However, if you wish to challenge the mark you have received, the result can be checked manually.

You can ask about decisions on your application by speaking to your contact in our recruitment team or by emailing [email]{hyperlink}

Your Rights

As an individual, you have certain rights regarding your own personal data.

For more information on your rights, please see Your data protection rights.

Subscribing to Our e-newsletter

Purpose and Lawful Basis for Processing

Our purpose for collecting the information is so we can provide you with a service and let you know about new products, features and training sessions.

The lawful basis we rely on for processing your personal data is your consent under article 6(1)(a) of the UK GDPR.

What We Need

Your name, email address and any preferences..

Why We Need it

We use your email address to send you our newsletter.

What We do With it

We only use your details to provide the service.

We gather statistics around email opening and clicks using industry standard technologies including clear gifs to help us monitor and improve our e-newsletter.

You will receive a confirmation email once you have submitted your details and then the newsletters monthly.

How Long We Keep it

For information about how long we hold personal data, see our [retention policy]{hyperlink}.

What are Your Rights?

We rely on your consent to process the personal data you provide to us for marketing purposes. This means you have the right to withdraw your consent, or to object to the processing of your personal data for this purpose at any time. If at any point you want to withdraw your consent please email or call us. If you do that, we’ll update our records to reflect your wishes.

Do We Use any Data Processors?

No

When you apply for our Early Access Program, we collect information, including your personal data, so that we can respond to it and fulfil our regulatory responsibilities.

Contacting Us

[owner] is the controller and is responsible for this website.

Our data privacy manager is responsible for handling any questions you may have in relation to this privacy policy. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) which is the UK authority responsible for supervising data protection issues. We would however appreciate the opportunity to deal with any concerns before you approach the ICO and would prefer you to contact us in the first instance.

Legal Entity: HJ Webb and Son

Data Privacy Manager: Steve Davison (General Manager)

Telephone: 01793 783 879

Email: sales@webbswood.co.uk

Address: Southdown Farm, Faringdon Road, Longcot, Oxfordshire, SN7 7UA

We aim to respond to legitimate requests within a month. If this is not possible we will notify you and keep you updated. We will only charge a fee if your request is excessive, repetitive or clearly unfounded.

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