Privacy Policy

Glen Dimplex Benelux BV privacystatement

PRIVACY POLICY

1. GENERAL
Glen Dimplex Consumer Appliances Europe part of Glen Dimplex Benelux BV together with any group companies (“we” “us” “our”) are
committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. For the purposes of data protection legislation, we are the data controller and we will
process your personal data in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and national laws which relate to the
processing of personal data. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how
we will treat it.

2. VISITORS TO OUR WEBSITE
2.1 We may collect and process personal data about you in the following circumstances:
2.1.1 when you complete forms on our website (“Site”). This includes email, name, address and telephone number which
is provided at the time of registering to use our Site, where you ask us to contact you about our goods or services,
subscribe to our mailing list, or subscribe/request or goods or services;
2.1.2 whenever you provide information to us when reporting a problem with our Site, making a complaint, making an enquiry
or contacting us for any other reason. If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence;
2.1.3 details of your visits to our Site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication
data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise, and the resources that you access (see
section 2.2.2 on Cookies below); and
2.1.4 whenever you disclose your information to us, or we collect information from you in any other way, through our Site.
2.2 We may also collect data in the following ways:

IP Address
2.2.1 We may collect information about your device, including where available your Internet Protocol address, for reasons of
fraud protection. We may also collect information about your device’s operating system and browser type, for system
administration. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.

Cookies
2.2.2 Our Site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our Site. This helps us to provide you with a good experience
when you browse our Site and also allows us to improve our Site. For detailed information on the cookies we use
and the purposes for which we use them see our Cookie Policy.
2.3 We may use your personal data for our legitimate interests in order to:
2.3.1 provide you with information, or services that you requested from us;
2.3.2 allow you to participate in interactive features of our Sites, when you choose to do so;
2.3.3 ensure that content from our Site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your device;
2.3.4 improve our Site and services;
2.3.5 process and deal with any complaints or enquiries made by you; and
2.3.6 contact you for marketing purposes where you have signed up for these (see section 6 for further details).

Website Links
Our Site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of third parties. Please note that if you follow a link
to any of these websites, such websites will apply different terms to the collection and privacy of your personal data and we
do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. When you leave our Site, we encourage you to read the privacy
notice/policy of every website you visit.
 

3. CUSTOMERS
3.1 We will collect details such as email, name, address and telephone number when you order goods or services from us either
via our Site. We will use this information to process your order and comply with our contractual obligations.
3.2 In order to perform our contact with you, we may also need to share personal data with third parties such as payment providers
and postal service organisations to assist in the delivery of goods or services you have ordered;
3.3 We may also advertise your feedback on our website and marketing materials (subject to obtaining your prior consent where
necessary);
3.4 We will retain your information as long as we require this to provide you with the goods or services ordered from us and for a
period of 5 years. Where you have subscribed to receive marketing correspondence from us we will keep your personal data
for the period of time described in section 6 below.

4. SUPPLIERS
We will collect details such as contact persons, emails, names, address and telephone number in order to contact you about goods or services
ordered with you, to place further orders and to pay you for the goods and/or services supplied. We will keep the personal data for 5
years further to being provided with the goods/services.

5. 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 the 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 our 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.

6. MARKETING
6.1 In addition to the uses described in sections 2-4 above, where you indicate you would like to receive marketing correspondence
from us, subscribe to our mailing lists or newsletters, enter into any of our competitions or provide us with your details at
networking events we may use your personal data for our legitimate interests in order to provide you with details about our
goods, services, business updates and events which we think may be of interest.
6.2 You always have the right to opt-out of receiving the information detailed in section 6.1 at any time. To opt-out of receiving
such information you can:
6.2.1 tick the relevant box situated in the form on which we collect your information;
6.2.2 clicking the unsubscribe button contained in any such communication received; or
6.2.3 email us at GDPR@glendimplex.eu or call +31(0)513-656500 providing us with your name and contact details.
6.3 Where you have subscribed to receive marketing correspondence from us we will keep personal data 5 years from when you
provide us with your consent.
6.4 In order to perform our contact with you, we may also need to share personal data with third parties such as suppliers for our
mailing system, website agencies, marketing agencies, payment providers and postal service organisations to assist in the
delivery of products and or services related to our marketing activities.

7. MONITORING AND RECORDING
We may monitor and record communications with you (such as telephone communications and emails) for the purpose of quality assurance
and training.
 

8. AUTOMATED PROCESSING
We do not undertake automated decision making with your personal data.

9. LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING YOUR PERSONAL DATA
9.1 We will only use your personal data where the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following
circumstances:
9.1.1 for performance of a contract we enter into with you;
9.1.2 where necessary for compliance with a legal or regulatory obligation we are subject to;
9.1.3 where necessary in order to protect your vital interests in respect of a product you have purchased from us; and
9.1.4 for our legitimate interests (as described within this policy) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override
these interests.

10. DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL DATA TO THIRD PARTIES
10.1 In addition to the third parties mentioned above, we may disclose your information to third parties for our following legitimate
interests as follows:
10.1.1 to staff members in order to facilitate the provision of goods or services to you;
10.1.2 to our affiliated entities to support internal administration;
10.1.3 IT software providers that host our website and store data on our behalf;
10.1.4 professional advisers including consultants, lawyers, bankers and insurers who provide us with consultancy, banking,
legal, insurance and accounting services;
10.1.5 HM Revenue and Customs, regulators and other authorities who require reporting of processing activities in certain
circumstances; and
10.1.6 third parties who we may choose to sell, transfer or merge parts of our business or assets. Alternatively, we may seek
to acquire other business or merge with them. If a change happens to our business then the new owners my use your
personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy policy.
10.2 We may disclose personal data to the police, regulatory bodies, legal advisors or similar third parties where we are under a legal
duty to disclose or share personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our website
terms and conditions and other agreements; or to protect our rights, property, or safety of our customers, or others. This includes
exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
10.3 We will not sell or distribute personal data to other organisations without your approval.

11. CROSS-BORDER DATA TRANSFERS
11.1 We will not transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area.

12. DATA SECURITY
12.1 Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our Site, you
are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.
12.2 Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect
your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your information transmitted to our Site; any transmission is at
your own risk.
12.3 Information you provide to us is shared on our secure servers. We have implemented appropriate physical, technical and
organisational measures designed to secure your information against accidental loss and unauthorised access, use, alteration
or disclosure. In addition, we limit access to personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties that
have a legitimate business need for such access.
 

13. ACCESS TO, UPDATING, DELETING AND RESTRICTING USE OF PERSONAL DATA
13.1 It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if the personal data
we hold about you changes.
13.2 Data protection legislation gives you the right to object to the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances or
withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data where this has been provided. You also have the right to
access information held about you and for this to be provided in an intelligible form. If you would like a copy of some or all of
your personal information, please send an email to GDPR@glendimplex.eu. In certain circumstances we reserve the right to
charge a reasonable fee to comply with your request.
13.3 You can also ask us to undertake the following:
13.3.1 update or amend your personal data if you feel this is inaccurate;
13.3.2 remove your personal data from our database entirely;
13.3.3 send you copies of your personal data in a commonly used format and transfer your information to another entity
where you have supplied this to us, and we process this electronically with your consent or where necessary for the
performance of a contract; or
13.3.4 restrict the use of your personal data.
13.4 We may request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and your right to access, and to provide you
with the personal data that we hold about you or make your requested changes. Data protection legislation may allow or
require us to refuse to provide you with access to some or all the personal data that we hold about you or to comply with any
requests made in accordance with your rights referred to above. If we cannot provide you with access to your personal data,
or process any other request we receive, we will inform you of the reasons why, subject to any legal or regulatory restrictions.
13.5 Please send any requests relating to the above to our Data Protection Lead Europe specifying your name and the action you would like us to undertake.

14. RIGHT TO WITHDRAW CONSENT
Where you have provided your consent to the collection, processing and transfer of your personal data, you have the legal right to withdraw
your consent under certain circumstances. To withdraw your consent, if applicable, please contact us at GDPR@glendimplex.eu.

15. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right to update this privacy policy at any time, and any changes we make to our privacy policy will be posted on this page.
We will notify you if there are any changes to this policy that materially affect how we collect, store or process your personal data. If we
would like to use your previously collected personal data for different purposes than those we notified you about at the time of collection, we
will provide you with notice and, where required by law, seek your consent, before using your personal data for a new or unrelated purpose.
We may process your personal without your knowledge or consent where required by applicable law or regulation.

16. CONTACT US
We have appointed a Data Protection Lead to oversee compliance with this privacy policy. If you have any questions, comments or
requests regarding this policy or how we use your personal data please contact us via mail GDPR@glendimplex.eu. This is in addition to your
right to contact your relevant Data Protection Supervisory Authority if you are unsatisfied with our response to any issues you raise.

Contact details for all EU supervisory authorities can be found at the following link:  https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/article29/item-detail.cfm?item_id=612080

And for the UK the Information Commissioners Office can be contacted at  https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/

Last update: Sep. 2023