Welcome to Signs Express's privacy notice.Signs Express (“we”, “us” or “our”) respects your privacy and we are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy notice will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
1. WHO WE ARE AND IMPORTANT INFORMATIONPurpose of this privacy noticeThis privacy notice aims to give you information on how we collect and process your personal data through your use of our website, including any data you may provide through this website. It also covers personal data provided to us via phone, email or other means.
It is important that you read this privacy notice together with any other privacy notice or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data.
Controller – who we areThe data controller of our site is Signs Express Ltd, The Old Church, St Matthews Road, Norwich, NR1 1SP. If you have any questions about this privacy notice, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact us via email to
dataprotection@signs-express.co.uk.
In this policy, references to ‘we’, ‘us’ and ‘our’ means Signs Express Ltd. Signs Express operates a national network of franchised centres that are independently owned and operated businesses.
You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please
contact us in the first instance.
Changes to the privacy notice and your duty to inform us of changesThis version was last updated on 25th May 2018. It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.
Third-party linksThis website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.
Subject Access RequestIndividuals can make a data subject access request by completing our form which is available to download
here.2. THE DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOUPersonal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified.
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together follows:
Identity Data includes first name and last name.
Contact Data includes email address and telephone numbers.
Technical/Website Usage Data includes internet protocol (IP) address browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences (specifically if manually unsubscribing to certain types of communication).
Professional Data includes any information we may collect in the course of providing our services to you. This includes bank and payment card details, transactional data such as details of payments to and from Signs Express, delivery address and project contacts.
We also collect and use Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for internal purposes.
We also collect and use Business Data including company name, brand guidelines, logos, artwork and project specific details to enable us to provide services to you. This is not deemed personal data.
We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.
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 that 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 an answer to an enquiry). In this case, we may have to cancel a service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.
3. HOW IS YOUR PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED?
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity, Contact and Professional Data by filling in contact forms or by corresponding with us by phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you submit an enquiry, purchase online or when you enter one of our online competitions.
Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, and other similar technologies. Please see our cookie policy (under Section 4) for further details.
4. HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
Where we need it to deliver products and services in the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
Generally, we rely on legitimate interest as a legal basis for processing your personal data and marketing to you. You have the right to unsubscribe to marketing at any time by contacting us.
Purposes for which we will use your personal data
We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.
Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please contact us if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your personal data where more than one ground has been set out in the table below.