PRIVACY POLICY

Our website address is: https://www.blackdognarrowboats.co.uk

We (Black Dog Narrowboats) are committed to protecting the privacy and security of all personal information given to us by our clients.

Any information submitted to Black Dog Narrowboats is protected by The Data Protection Act 1998 and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2018.

Definitions and Interpretation

Meanings of phrases within this document:

Data – Any information that a user of the website provides to us, through our “Contact” page, or through emailing us relating to any person who can be directly or indirectly identified from that information.
We/Us/Our – We operate as Black Dog Narrowboats – company number —— .
You/Your – A user of the website and of our services
The Website –blackdognarrowboats.co.uk

Cookies

Anonymous Browsing

You can visit us on the World Wide Web without telling us who you are or revealing any information about yourself, including your e-mail address. In this case, our Web servers collect the name of the domain you used to access the Internet (such as aol.com), which pages on our Site are visited (and when they are visited), Internet browser type and platform, the link that brought you to our Site, and any links clicked within our Site. This information is used by us and our business partners to measure the number of visits, average time spent, page views, and other statistics about visitors to our Website in general. We also use this data to monitor site performance and to make the site easier and more convenient to use. None of this information can be used by us to identify you.

Personal Information Collection

There are times when we may ask you for information about yourself to assist us in meeting your various needs, including:

Providing you with products or services you have requested
Servicing your account
Improving our services
Developing and/or informing you of additional products or services that may be of interest

In these cases, your browsing will no longer be anonymous to us. To provide these services, we may need to ask you directly to provide, among other things, your name, address, post code, e-mail address, phone number and certain financial information about your order.

Also, you may elect to apply online for one of our products or services, which may require us to gather additional information to determine your eligibility for such products or services.

Please note that we do not knowingly solicit information from children under 18 years of age and we do not knowingly market our products or services to such children. As a result, children under 18 years of age should not use this Site.

Cookies

Cookies are small pieces of data stored by your Internet browser on your computer’s hard drive. If you are browsing, a cookie is used to help us measure the number of visits, average time spent, page views, and other statistics relating to our Website.

This cookie by itself doesn’t tell us your e-mail address or who you are. If you decide to register online or apply for additional information, products, or services from us, we may collect additional information to provide tailored offerings or content to you or to deliver such products and services. In this case, we use cookies to allow us to recognise you on subsequent visits and make your online experience and our provision of products and services more convenient.

Cookies cannot be used to get data from your hard drive, get your e-mail address or personally identifiable information about you. You may set your Internet browser to notify you when you receive a cookie or to prevent cookies from being sent. Please note, however, that by not accepting cookies, you will limit the functionality we can provide you when you visit our site and may prevent you from accessing products and services we offer.

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

E-MAIL COMMUNICATION AND ONLINE SURVEYS

Occasionally, we will send you e-mail communications with information, which may be useful to you, including information about our products and services or about offerings from affiliates or third parties. When you first provide us with your e-mail address, you will be given the option of not receiving any such e-mail or other marketing contacts if you choose. We will also include instructions in our e-mail messages on how to unsubscribe if you later decide you do not want to receive any future e-mails or other marketing contacts from us or other third parties.

At times, we conduct online surveys to better understand the needs, profiles, and experience of our visitors. Your will be given the option of not participating in such surveys.

HOW IS YOUR INFORMATION SECURED AND PROTECTED?

At www.blackdognarrowboats.co.uk, our goal is to protect your personal information submitted to us through this site. E-mail communication is not suitable for confidential information; please do not send us any confidential details by email.

We instruct our employees with access to your information that it is to be used only in adherence with the principles set forth in this Privacy Policy and the laws applicable to our business. Employees who misuse customer information are subject to disciplinary action.

Your data will only be stored in the EU (UK) in line with all GDPR requirements.

Using Your Information

Where we hold any personal information, it will be processed and stored securely, for no longer than is necessary, considering the reason it was provided to us. We will potentially –

Reply to your email;
Provide details on the products requested, plus any others we think may interest you;
Offer or provide you with the services requested, plus any others we think may interest you;
Use various forms of communication including letter, telephone call and SMS

We will delete your personal information once your request has been met or the service has been provided, except where –

You were interested in details of our products we are offering, when we will continue to hold your information in order to send you information on other products that may interest you;
You become a client or a buyer of our products;
You require us to retain it for longer;
We are required to retain it for longer for other legal reasons.

You have the right to withdraw your consent to us using your data and to request that we delete it as detailed below.

Sharing Your Information With Third-party Service Providers

We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own or other purposes.

We only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes in accordance with our legitimate business interest and on our instructions or with our agreement.

Your Rights

As a user you have the following rights –

A right to be informed about our collection and use of personal information;
A right of access to the personal information we hold about you;
A right to rectification if any personal information we hold about you is inaccurate or incomplete;
A right to ask us to delete any personal information held about you unless we are obliged to retain the information for other legal reasons;
A right to restrict or prevent the processing of your personal information;
A right to data portability (obtaining a copy of your data to re-use with another service or organisation);
A right to object to the use of your data for particular purposes.

Contacting Us to Exercise Your Data Protection Rights

To exercise any of your rights including preventing disclosure of this information to unaffiliated third parties (except as necessary to fulfil your requests, or as required by law) e-mailing us at (use the subject line “DISCLOSURE OPT-OUT” and include your name, physical address, and e-mail address) or by calling us, if you so choose.

What Does This Policy Cover?

This Privacy Policy only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect online through this Site from users. The privacy customs of policies of these Sites may be different from ours. To the extent that you disclose your information to other parties or Sites, you are subject to the privacy customs and policies of those parties or Sites. We cannot be sure whether any third parties linked to or through our Site have privacy policies similar to ours. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the content or the privacy practices employed by anyone else.

WHAT IF WE CHANGE OUR PRIVACY POLICY?

We reserve the right to modify or supplement this Privacy Policy at anytime. If we make any material change, we will update our Website to include such changes. We recommend that you review this Privacy Policy regularly for changes.

IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ABIDE BY THE TERMS & CONDITIONS OR THIS PRIVACY POLICY, PLEASE DO NOT USE THE SITE OR SUBMIT YOUR INFORMATION THROUGH IT.

This website (www.blackdognarrowboats.co.uk) is owned and operated by Black Dog Narrowboats a trading company in the United Kingdom.

Complaints

If you have any cause for complaint about our use of your personal data, please contact us at info@blackdognarrowboats.co.uk .

We will address your concerns and attempt to solve the problem to your satisfaction.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office.

For further information about your rights, please contact the Information Commissioner’s Office, or your local Citizens Advice Bureau.

Privacy Policy

Definitions and Interpretation

Company Information

WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT? HOW DO WE USE IT?