Privacy Policy

This website is operated by NATURAL PAVING STORE. The privacy of our users is extremely important to us and therefore we encourage all users to read this policy very carefully because it contains important information regarding:

• who we are;
• how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information;
• your rights in relation to your personal information; and
• how to contact us and supervisory authorities in the event that you have a complaint.

Who we are

 

NATURAL PAVING STORE (‘we’, ‘us’, ‘our’) collect, use and are responsible for storing certain personal information about you (‘you’, ‘your’, ‘yours’).

 

The personal information we collect and use

 

Personal information is information which you can be identified from (and does not include any anonymised forms of information).

 

Types of personal information

We may process the following types of personal information in relation to you:

• contact details
• postal addresses
• phone numbers
• email addresses
• Payment information

How your personal information is collected

 

This section describes how the above types of personal information are collected by us. Your personal information will be collected as follows:

 

Personal information obtained from you directly

We will sometimes obtain information from you directly, including when you:

• subscribing to news letters
• purchasing products
• create a user profile
• contact us using the chat service

Personal information obtained by use of cookies or other automated means

We will sometimes obtain information via automated technology. This shall be by use of cookies and other similar technology. A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your computer or electronic device when you access our website. Similar technologies include web beacons, action tags, local shared objects (‘flash cookies’) and single-pixel gifs. Such technologies can be used to track users’ actions and activities, and to store information about them. Usually this will be in order to monitor and obtain information regarding:

• how many times a user visits the website
• which pages a user visits
• traffic data
• location data

On the first occasion that you use our site we will ask whether you consent to our use of cookies and/or other similar processing technologies. If you do not consent, such technologies will not be used. Thereafter you can opt-out of using cookies at any time or you can set your browser not to accept cookies. However, some of our website features may not function as a result.

For further information on our use of cookies and other similar technologies, please see our policy document as described below.

 

Changes to the way in which we collect your personal information

In the event that we need to obtain personal information in relation to you from any other source than those described above, we shall notify you of this.

 

How we use your personal information

 

General purposes
In general, your personal information will generally be processed for the following purposes:

• To enter into a contract of sale
• help improve our customer service
• offer new and additional products to you

Use of your information for marketing purposes
We have described above that one of the general purposes for which your data shall be processed is for our marketing purposes.

We wish to make you aware that you have the right to object or to opt-out of any direct marketing by:

• unsubscribing to news letters
• emailing info@naturalpavingstore.co.uk

Lawful basis for processing of your personal information

We have described above the purposes for which we may process your personal information. These purposes will at all times be justified by UK data protection law.

 

General lawful bases
The lawful basis upon which we are able to process your personal data are:

• where we have your consent to use your data for a specific purpose
• where it is necessary to enter into a legal contract with you or to perform obligations under a legal contract with you
• where it is necessary to enable us to comply with a legal obligation
• where it is necessary to ensure our own legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party (provided that your own interests and rights do not override those interests). Wherever we rely upon this basis, details of the legitimate interests concerned shall be provided to you
• where we need to protect your own vital interests (or the vital interests of another person); and/or
• where it is needed in the public interest (or where we are acting in our official functions), provided that the task or function has a clear basis in law.

In general, in order to meet the purposes we have described above, we will process your personal information where we have your express consent on each occasion that the data is processed.

 

Lawful bases specifically applicable to marketing
We will only ever use your personal information to send you marketing directly where we have your explicit consent (which will be obtained in a format separately to this policy).

 

Sharing of your personal information

On any occasion where any of your personal information is shared with any third party, we shall only permit them to process such information for our required purposes, under our specific instruction, and not for their own purposes. We are required to enter into a formal legal agreement to enable such sharing to take place.

We do not anticipate that we will need to share your personal information with any third party. We will notify should this position change.

 

How long your personal information will be kept

Your personal information will only be kept for the period of time which is necessary for us to fulfil the above purposes.

We envisage that your personal information shall be retained by us for the following:

• personal information will be held on our systems for 6 years.

After the period described above, your information shall be properly deleted or anonymised.

 

Keeping your information secure

We will ensure the proper safety and security of your personal information and have measures in place to do so. We will also use technological and organisation measures to keep your information secure. These measures are as follows:

• We have proper procedures in place to deal with any data security breach, which shall be reported and dealt with in accordance with data protection laws and regulations. You shall also be notified of any suspected data breach concerning your personal information.

Children

Our website is not intended for children (anybody under the age of 18). We do not intend to collect data from children.

 

Your rights

Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation you have a number of important rights free of charge. In summary, those include rights to:

• fair processing of information and transparency over how we use your use personal information;
• access to your personal information and to certain other supplementary information that this Privacy Statement is already designed to address;
• require us to correct any mistakes in your information which we hold;
• require the erasure of personal information concerning you in certain situations;
• receive the personal information concerning you which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit this information to a third party in certain situations;
• object at any time to processing of personal information concerning you for direct marketing;
• object to decisions being taken by automated means which produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you;
• object in certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal information, or ask us to suspend the processing procedure in order for you confirm its assurance or our reasoning for processing it;
• object to processing our your personal information where we are doing so in reliance upon a legitimate