Privacy Policy

This website is operated by Belgravia Garage Ltd.

We take your privacy very seriously and we ask that you read this privacy policy carefully as it contains important information on:

the personal information we collect about you;
what we do with your information, and
who your information might be shared with.

Who we are

Belgravia Garage Ltd (‘we’ or ‘us’) are a ‘data controller’ for the purposes of the relevant data protection legislation including the Data Protection Act 2018 and the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016 (i.e. we are responsible for, and control the processing of, your personal information).

What information we collect?

Personal information provided by you

We collect the following personal information about you when you register with us, express an interest in or purchase products or services from us. We also collect personal information when you contact us.

Personal information provided by third parties

Occasionally we may receive information about you from other sources (such as credit reference agencies or your employer), which we will add to the information we already hold about you in order to help us provide products and services and improve and personalise our service to you. We will always seek your permission to contact these people for your information.

The information we collect may include:

Basic personal details such as your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, date of birth or age, gender, marital status;
Additional information regarding your vehicle including the registration, VIN number, service history, any works undertaken, insurance policy details, MOT and Tax status of the vehicle;
Sensitive personal information may be collected where a vehicle is purchased under the Motability scheme. This may include details of any medical conditions. We will always be clear to explain when and why we need this information and the purposes for which we will use it and will obtain your explicit consent to use sensitive personal information;

Personal information about other individuals

If you give us information on behalf of someone else, you confirm that the other person has appointed you to act on his/her behalf and has agreed that you can:

give consent on his/her behalf to the processing of his/her personal data;
receive on his/her behalf any data protection notices;
give consent to the transfer of his/her personal data abroad; and
give consent to the processing of his/her health information.

Sensitive personal information

We may ask you to provide sensitive personal information, for example where you require us to tailor our goods or services to an existing physical condition e.g. as part of the Motability scheme, or where you are applying for a finance or an insurance product and we are required to enquire whether you have committed a criminal offence. If we request such information, we will explain why we are requesting it and how we intend to use it.

Sensitive personal information includes but is not limited to information relating to:

your ethnic origin;
your political opinions;
your religious beliefs;
whether you belong to a trade union;
your physical or mental health or condition;
your sexual life, and
whether you have committed a criminal offence

We will only collect your sensitive personal information with your explicit consent and when it is needed.

Monitoring and recording communications

We may monitor and record communications with you (such as telephone conversations and emails) for the purpose of quality assurance, training, fraud prevention and compliance.

Use of cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. The table below explains the cookies we use and why.

Cookie	Domain	Type	Description	Duration
test_cookie	.doubleclick.net	Advertisement	This cookie is set by doubleclick.net. The purpose of the cookie is to determine if the user’s browser supports cookies.	15 minutes
_ga	.belgraviagarage.com	Analytics	This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors.	2 years
_gid	.belgraviagarage.com	Analytics	This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the wbsite is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages viisted in an anonymous form.	1 day
_gcl_au	.belgraviagarage.com	Analytics	This cookie is used by Google Analytics to understand user interaction with the website.	3 months
ict_0	ict.infinity-tracking.net	Other	Contains third party tracking and number replacement source cache	10 years
ict_master	ict.infinity-tracking.net	Other	Stores the unique Visitor Reference	10 years
_gat	.belgraviagarage.com	Performance	This cookies is installed by Google Universal Analytics to throttle the request rate to limit the colllection of data on high traffic sites.	1 minute
__utma	.belgraviagarage.com	Performance	This cookie is set by Google Analytics and is used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the JavaScript library executes and there are no existing __utma cookies. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.	2 years
__utmc	.belgraviagarage.com	Performance	The cookie is set by Google Analytics and is deleted when the user closes the browser. The cookie is not used by ga.js. The cookie is used to enable interoperability with urchin.js which is an older version of Google analytics and used in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine new sessions/visits.	session
__utmz	.belgraviagarage.com	Performance	This cookie is set by Google analytics and is used to store the traffic source or campaign through which the visitor reached your site.	6 months
__utmt	.belgraviagarage.com	Performance	The cookie is set by Google Analytics and is used to throttle request rate.	10 minutes
__utmb	.belgraviagarage.com	Performance	The cookie is set by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the JavaScript library executes and there are no existing __utma cookies. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.	30 minutes

How Do I Change my Cookie Settings

You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the ‘C’ icon. You can then adjust the available sliders to ‘On’ or ‘Off’, then clicking ‘Save and close’. You may need to refresh your page for your settings to take effect.

Alternatively, most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:

To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer’s website.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

How Google will use your information.

Google uses the information shared by this site to deliver their services, maintain and improve them, develop new services, measure the effectiveness of our advertising, protect against fraud and abuse, and personalise content and ads you see on Google.

For full details please refer to this document: How Google Uses Your Information

How will we use the information about you?

We collect information about you so that we can:

identify you and manage any accounts you hold with us;
process your order;
maintain a service record for your vehicle, conduct research and carry out statistical and behavioural analysis;
carry out customer profiling and analyse your purchasing preferences;
if you agree, let you know about other products or services that may be of interest to you — see ‘Marketing’ section below;
detect and prevent fraud;
verify your identity and carry out anti-fraud checks,
provide you with payment options,
assess your application for a product, service or quote,
ensure that you can afford any financial agreement offered,
ensure that any insurance products are suitable for you,
administer any finance agreements including updating you on and delivering our services,
monitor your use of our Websites and any response to advertising campaigns;

We may also offer enhanced services including MOT and service reminders where we believe this would be helpful or of interest.

Where your vehicle manufacturer maintains an electronic service record of your vehicle we may share details of any work with your manufacturer so that an accurate record can be kept.

Marketing

We would like to send you information by post, email, telephone, text message (SMS) or automated call about products and services, competitions and special offers which may be of interest to you.

Other businesses which we have selected carefully may also send you similar marketing messages, depending on what you agree with us.

If you have consented to receive such marketing from us, or other businesses, you can opt out at any time. See ‘What rights do you have?’ below for further information.

Keeping your data secure

We will use technical and organisational measures to safeguard your personal data, for example:

access to your account is controlled by a password and user name that are unique to you;
we store your personal data on secure servers; and
payment details are encrypted using SSL technology (typically you will see a lock icon or green address bar (or both) in your browser when we use this technology).

While we will use all reasonable efforts to safeguard your personal data, you acknowledge that the use of the internet is not entirely secure and for this reason we cannot guarantee the security or integrity of any personal data that are transferred from you or to you via the internet. If you have any particular concerns about your information, please contact us (see ‘How can you contact us?’ below).

What can I do to keep my information safe?

If you want detailed information from Get Safe Online on how to protect your information and your computers and devices against fraud, identity theft, viruses and many other online problems, please visit www.getsafeonline.org. Get Safe Online is supported by HM Government and leading businesses.

What rights do you have?

Right to request a copy of your information

You can request a copy of your information which we hold (this is known as a subject access request). If you would like a copy of some or it, please:

email, call or write to us (see ‘How can you contact us?’ below);
let us have proof of your identity and address (a copy of your driving licence or passport and a recent utility or credit card bill), and
let us know the information you want a copy of, including any account or reference numbers, if you have them

Right to correct any mistakes in your information

You can require us to correct any mistakes in your information which we hold free of charge. If you would like to do this, please:

email, call or write to us (see ‘How can you contact us?’ below);
let us have enough information to identify you (e.g. account number, user name, registration details), and
let us know the information that is incorrect and what it should be replaced with.

Right to ask us to stop contacting you with direct marketing

You can ask us to stop contacting you for direct marketing purposes. If you would like to do this, please:

email, call or write to us (see ‘How can you contact us?’ below).
let us have proof of your identity and address (a copy of your driving licence or passport and a recent utility or credit card bill), and
let us know what method of contact you are not happy with if you are unhappy with certain ways of contacting you only (for example, you may be happy for us to contact you by email but not by telephone).

Right to restrict processing and to be forgotten

Where your details are no longer needed to perform our contractual obligations, You have the right to restrict how we use your data, including to request that we delete any or all personal data we hold on you. The only reason we would not carry out this request is if it would result in us being in breach of other legal or regulatory obligations we have,

If you would like to do this, please:

email, call or write to us (see ‘How can you contact us?’ below). You can also click on the ‘unsubscribe’ button at the bottom of any of our customer emails. Unsubscribing via emails is instant. All other updates will take place within 7 working days.
let us have proof of your identity and address (a copy of your driving licence or passport and a recent utility or credit card bill), and
let us know what method of contact you are not happy with if you are unhappy with certain ways of contacting you only (for example, you may be happy for us to contact you by email but not by telephone).

Right to transfer your data

Where data is processed automatically you have the right to request that we provide a copy of the data in a commonly read format to another controller. The only reason we would not carry out this request is if it would result in us being in breach of other legal or regulatory obligations we have,