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Privacy Policy

Introduction

This Privacy Policy explains the types of personal data we may collect about you when you make contact with us. It also explains how we’ll store and use that data and keep it safe for you.

We want you to be fully informed about your rights, and how The Manchester Self Storage Company uses your data.

We hope the following sections will answer any questions you have please feel free to get in touch with us if you have any questions.

The law on data protection sets out reasons for which a company may collect and process your personal data, including:

Customer’s Consent
In specific situations, we can collect and process your data with your consent. For example, when you tick a box to receive email newsletters.

Contractual obligations

In certain circumstances, we need your personal data to comply with our contractual obligations. For example, if you order a service or product from us for delivery, we’ll collect your address details to fulfil the service or deliver the product. In some circumstances we may pass your details to a sub-contractor or a third party to fulfil the service on our behalf.

Legal compliance

If the law requires us to, we may need to collect and process your data. For example, we can pass on details of people involved in fraud or other criminal activity affecting the Partnership to law enforcement .

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. For example, we will use your previous purchase history to send you or make available exclusive offers.

We will also use your address details to send you direct marketing information by post, telling you about products and services that we think might interest you.

When will we collect the data?

  • When you visit our website or use our website to buy products and services either on the phone, online or in store.
  • When you create an account with us.
  • When you purchase a product or service in store or by phone but don’t have an account.
  • When you engage with us on social media.
  • When you contact us by any means with queries, complaints etc.
  • When you enter any prize draws or competitions.
  • When you book any kind of appointment with us.
  • When you choose to complete any storage related or customer service surveys we send you.
  • When you comment on or review our products and services.
  • Any individual may access personal data related to them, including opinions.
  • When you fill in any forms. For example, if an accident happens in store, we may collect your personal data.
  • When you’ve given a third party permission to share with us the information they hold about you.

What kind of data will we collect?

  • If you have a web account with us: your name, gender, date of birth, billing/delivery address, orders and receipts, email and telephone number.
  • Details of your interactions with us through contact centres, in store or online. For example, we collect notes from our conversations with you, details of any complaints or comments you make, details of purchases you made, services you have ordered, items viewed or added to your basket, gift list and wish list choices, voucher redemptions, brands you show interest in, web pages you visit and how and when you contact us.
  • Copies of documents you provide to prove your age or identity where the law requires this. (including your passport and driver’s licence). This will include details of your full name, address, date of birth and facial image. If you provide a passport, the data will also include your place of birth, gender and nationalit
  • Details of your visits to our websites or apps, and which site you came from to ours.
  • Information gathered by the use of cookies in your web browser.
  • Personal details which help us to recommend items of interest. It’s always your choice whether you share such details with us.
  • Payment card information.
  • Your comments and product reviews.
  • Your image may be recorded on CCTV when you visit one of our stores or car park.
  • Your car number plate may be recorded at some of our car parks to manage parking restrictions.
  • To deliver the best possible web experience, we collect technical information about your internet connection and browser as well as the country and telephone code where your computer is located, the web pages viewed during your visit, the advertisements you clicked on, and any search terms you entered.
  • Your social media username, if you interact with us through those channels, to help us respond to your comments, questions or feedback.
 How and why would we use this data? 

We want to give you the best possible experience. We then use this to offer you promotions, products and services that are most likely to interest you. The data privacy law allows this as part of our legitimate interest in understanding our customers needs. If you wish to change how we use your data, you’ll find details in the ‘What are my rights?’ section.

Here’s how we’ll use your personal data and why:
  • To process any orders that you make by using our websites, apps or in store. If we don’t collect your personal data during checkout, we won’t be able to process your order and comply with our legal obligations. Your details may need to be passed to a third party to supply or deliver the product or service that you ordered, and we may keep your details for a reasonable period afterwards in order to fulfil any contractual obligations such as refunds.
  • To respond to your questions, refunds and complaints. Handling the information you sent enables us to respond. We may also keep a record of these to inform any future communication with us and to demonstrate how we communicated with you throughout. We do this on the basis of our contractual obligations to you, our legal obligations and our legitimate interests in providing you with the best service and understanding how we can improve our service based on the user experience.
  • To protect our business and your account from fraud and other illegal activities.
  • We operate CCTV systems in our stores and car parks which record images for security. We do this on the basis of our legitimate business interests and your on going safety.
  • To process payments and to prevent fraudulent transactions. We do this on the basis of our legitimate business interests. This also helps to protect our customers from fraud.
  • If we discover any criminal activity or alleged criminal activity through our use of CCTV, fraud monitoring and suspicious transaction monitoring, we will process this data for the purposes of preventing or detecting unlawful acts. We aim to protect the individuals we interact with from criminal activities.
  • With your consent, we will use your personal data, preferences and details of your transactions to keep you informed by email, web, text, telephone of relevant products and services. You are free to opt out of hearing from us at any time.
  • To send you relevant, personalised communications by post in relation to updates, offers, services and products. We’ll do this on the basis of our legitimate business interest.
  • To send you communications required by law or which are necessary to inform you about our changes to the services we provide you. For example, updates to this Privacy Notice and legally required information relating to your orders. These service messages will not include any promotional content and do not require prior consent when sent by email or text message. If we do not use your personal data for these purposes, we would be unable to comply with our legal obligations.
  • To display the most interesting content to you on our websites or apps, we’ll use data we hold about your favourite brands or products and so on. We do so on the basis of your consent to receive app notifications and/or for our website to place cookies or similar technology on your device.
  • To develop, test and improve the systems, services and products we provide to you. We’ll do this on the basis of our legitimate business interests.
  • To comply with our contractual or legal obligations to share data with law enforcement.
  • To build a rich picture of who you are and what you like, and to inform our business decisions, we’ll combine data captured from across the Partnership, third parties and data from publicly-available lists as we have described in the section ‘What Sort of Personal Data do we collect?’ We’ll do this on the basis of our legitimate business interest.
  • Sometimes we’ll need to share your details with a third party who is providing a service (such as delivery couriers). We do so to maintain our appointment with you. Without sharing your personal data, we’d be unable to fulfil your request.

Your data for direct marketing.

We want to bring you offers and promotions that are most relevant to your interests at particular times. To help us form a better, overall understanding of you as a customer, we combine your personal data gathered described above. For this purpose we also combine the data that we collect directly from you with data that we obtain from third parties to whom you have given your consent to pass that data onto us.

The protection of you personal data.

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. We secure access to all transactional areas of our websites and apps using ‘https’ technology. Access to your personal data is password-protected, and sensitive data (such as payment card information) is secured by SSL encryption. We regularly monitor our system for possible vulnerabilities and attacks, and we carry out penetration testing to identify ways to further strengthen security.

How long we keep your data.

Whenever we collect or process your personal data, we’ll only keep it for as long as is necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.

How can you remove your details for marketing purposes.

There are several ways you can stop direct marketing communications from us:

  • Click the ‘unsubscribe’ link in any email communication that we send you.
  • Write to us at Manchester Self Storage, Wharfside Way, M17 1AW

Please note that you may continue to receive communications for a short period after request giving us to time to process.

 If you have any questions regarding this privacy policy you can contact by following this link.

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