This Privacy Policy sets out the data processing practices carried out through the use of the Internet and any other electronic communications networks by Magnets Direct Ltd. If you have any requests concerning your personal information or any queries with regard to these practices, please contact us at sales@magnetsdirect.co.uk. Please note that all data thus captured will be used and held in accordance with the requirements of the Data Protection Act 1998 and the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2018.
We collect information from visitors through the use of online forms, through email hyperlinks and through our payment providers. We also collect information about the transactions you undertake through this site, and we collect additional information automatically about your visit to our website.
We require the following information (if applicable) to process and fulfil your orders; Your name, the name of your company, your company's registration, VAT and EORI numbers, your delivery address, contact information such as phone numbers and email addresses, payment information and product order information. We consider an order placed by you (through any method) as consent to hold and use this information in connection with fulfilling your orders. At any point you can request that we provide you with a copy of all the information about you that we hold (a fee of up to £15.00 may apply) or that we delete any or all information about you.
We process personal information collected via this website for the purposes of providing and personalising our services, dealing with your enquiries and requests, providing you with information about our products and services, processing orders and accounts relating to our suppliers or customers, maintaining information as a reference tool or general resources, carrying out market research campaigns and in cooperating with any legal requirements. We will send you information according to the preferences you submitted via our data capture forms upon request, please email us at sales@magnetsdirect.co.uk.
We do not store any customer information in any database outside of our website sales history or payment provider transaction history (except for where you have subscribed to a mailing list). This information is stored for legal reasons for up to 6 years, but can be requested to be deleted at any point. We also retain detailed sales history for use with our rewards points discount scheme. You can request this data be deleted at any point, but in doing so will forfeit any reward points or coupons that you have generated.
Please note that your information may be used to send you details of those products or services that we offer that we have identified as likely to be of interest to you. If you indicated any preferences when providing us with your data, we will use these to determine what information we provide you with. You can opt-out of this at any time.
If at any point you would like to opt-out of receiving communications from us, or would like to change the channels (such as email or post) that we use to contact you, please contact us at sales@magnetsdirect.co.uk.
As per new GDPR regulations, we will never pass your personal information on to third parties without getting your prior written consent beforehand. With regards to your delivery information, we consider any time your order from us as written consent to pass your name, delivery address and contact information on to one of our carriers for the sole purpose of fulfilling your order. Our delivery carriers include, but not limited to: Royal Mail, The Post Office, DPD, TNT, UPS, Evri, Yodel, UKMail, InPost. We reserve the right to use other delivery carriers without notice and without updating our privacy policy. We will never give these third parties permission to use your data in anyway other than in delivering orders or marketing materials (should you have opted-in to this). However, we cannot be held responsible for any 3rd party carriers' actions should they decide to ignore this.
We will never share your email address to any party, except delivery carriers.
We will only disclose data to our business partners or other organisations within our group of companies, suppliers we engage to process data on our behalf, government bodies and law enforcement agencies (upon request), successors in title to our business.
Our website may contain links to other websites that are outside our control and are not covered by this Privacy Policy. If you access other sites using the links provided, the operators of these sites may collect information from you that will be used by them in accordance with their privacy policy, which may differ from ours.
You have the right to see what personal data we hold about you. To obtain a copy of the personal information we hold about you, please write to us at sales@magnetsdirect.co.uk. Please note that we reserve the right to charge a fee of up to £15.00 for any such request.
Given that the Internet is a global environment, using it to collect and process personal data necessarily involves the transmission of data on an international basis. This means that data you pass to us may be processed outside the European Economic Area, although the data will always be held securely and in line with the requirements of UK data protection legislation. By communicating electronically with us, you acknowledge and agree to our processing of personal data in this way.
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Please note that this privacy policy is subject to change from time to time. It was last reviewed in July 2022.