This privacy notice applies to visitors to our websites (klvalets.co.uk and klvalets.com), our online booking app (klvalets.co.uk), our mobile application (all referred to as "website" or “application” interchangeably throughout this policy), and anyone who calls us, e-mails us or contacts us through any other means.
1. Who we are
We are KL Valets self employed automotive detailer
2. How to contact us
If you have any questions about this privacy notice or our data protection policies generally, please contact us:
- By post: 33 North Road Southampton SO17 2LX
- By Phone 07859 000028
3. Privacy notice
- We are committed to protecting your personal data and your privacy. This privacy notice sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, or that we acquire through a third party, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.
- Before we process your personal data, we are obliged to inform you of who we are, why we need to process your personal data, what we will do with your personal data and to whom we will pass your personal data.
- 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.
4. Cookie Usage and Data Sharing Consent
- Cookies are short text files, saved within a user's browser, that contain data relating to a user's session (visit) and their interactions and usage of the website. 1st party cookies are cookies set by the website you are visiting and typically relate to essential functionality. 3rd party cookies relate to cookies set by external services that typically relate to the tracking of site traffic and user engagement.
- This website uses 1st party cookies for a variety of purposes including the provision of an online shopping cart and other essential functional aspects of the site. A small number of 3rd party cookies are also used, where consent has been granted, to enable us to analyse user interaction with our site via analytics services and to help us market our content to the right audience via external platforms.
- In compliance with GDPR, this site asks users for consent via a 'consent banner' prior to the use of non-essential cookies or tracking software that may result in the transfer of user data to an external 3rd party. By clicking 'Accept' within the consent banner or "Enable Cookie Consent Mode" below, you are agreeing to our use of non-essential cookies and 3rd party software that may make use of personal data, such as a user's IP address, and that may in some instances process that data outwith the EEA.
- If you no longer see the consent banner loading or the button below reads "Revoke Cookie Consent Mode" this means you have previously chosen to accept our use of cookies and 3rd party tracking software. Clicking that button will reset your consent choice. Should you choose not to 'accept' or to 'revoke' consent, software that makes use of non-essential cookies or 3rd party software will not load.
- Essential Site Functionality - Several key site elements (such as the shopping cart or our LiveChat support widget) require the use of cookies to function. GDPR allows for this type of essential cookie to be used without consent.
- Google Services - Services such as Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics and Google Ads tracking codes are loaded using 'Consent Mode'. This ensures that no non-GDPR-compliant data is shared before gaining user consent.
- User Engagement - If the user grants consent, this site may load software provided by 3rd party analytical solutions including HotJar that allows us to monitor user engagement with on-page content and to develop better ways to communicate to users.
- Marketing services - With the user's consent, this site may also load tracking software from Hubspot, LinkedIn, Facebook and TikTok that may use user data to track engagement and enable us to market our services more effectively. Where consent is granted, Google services are also able to share additional user data in line with their ad_storage, ad_user_data, ad_personalization, and analytics_storage consent modes. More info on Google's consent modes can be read on Google here.
- 3rd Party Content - Please note, a number of web pages in the site contain YouTube videos. Interaction with this type of external media player may result in the use of cookies and usage data. Where possible we will endeavour to load this type of content within a privacy mode if one is available, however, we have no control over those external platforms or the ways in which they collect and process data.
5. People who use our products and services (our customers)
- What information do we collect and process?
- Telephone
When you call us, we will collect your name and telephone number, and where relevant, we may collect other details including other contact details and information relating to any contract for products or services relating to you.
- Email
When you email us, we will collect your name, e-mail address and the contents of your message and any attachments.
- Website contact forms
When you fill out any of our contact forms, we may collect:
- Your name
- Your email address
- Your address (if your query is such that we need to know where you are located)
- Your phone number (if we need to contact you to discuss your query in more detail)
- Your car registration, make and model
- Post
If you send us a letter or other correspondence by post, we may collect any personal data contained in such correspondence.
- Contract
Where you create an account with us to use our services or Application, we will collect personal data about you that is necessary for us to be able to perform the contract with you.
- Application
When you download and use our Application, or use our web booking app we may collect:
- Your name
- Your email address
- Your location
- Your address
- Your phone number
- Your car registration, make and model
- You must provide your consent for us to process your personal data with regard to certain features of our services. You may adjust your privacy settings at any time on the Application, but please note that certain features of our service may not be available to you as a result, for example if you do not allow us to collect your location data we will not be able to supply services that require us to process such data.
- Anonymised Aggregated Data
We also collect, use and share anonymised aggregated data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated anonymised data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your personal data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific Application feature. However, if we combine or connect anonymised aggregated data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this privacy notice.
- How do we use your information?
- We may use any information obtained by telephone, e-mail, Website /Application, contact forms, business cards or other media to handle customer and other enquiries, including addressing any complaints. This may include contacting you to discuss any such enquiries or complaints.
- We may use any information obtained by telephone, e-mail, Website/Application or other media to provide our products and services to you.
- We may monitor e-mails and other electronic messages for security reasons. We use e-mail monitoring or blocking software (spam filters).
- We may also use any personal data obtained by telephone, e-mail, Website/Application or other media to improve our internal processes, including staff training and quality control.
- Which third parties can see your personal data?
- We may use third parties to develop or provide our services, and these third parties will have access to your personal data that we store. Such third parties are data processors and will only process your personal data on our instructions and subject to obligations of confidentiality. Please see section 13 for full details of these third parties.
- What happens if you don’t give us your 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 mobile valet we would need to know your address, car details and contact date). In this case, we may have to cancel a product or service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.
- What is the legal basis for processing your personal data?
- When we process your personal data in connection with telephone calls, e-mails, Website/Application or other media, we do so on the basis of our legitimate interests being those business interests in responding to customer and other queries and in creating and retaining records of such communications for training purposes and so that we have a record of the content of any communications with you.
- Where you are an existing or prospective customer, we process your personal data arising from telephone calls, e-mails, Website/Application or media on the basis of meeting the terms of a contract with you (or steps necessary to enter into such a contract in the case of prospective customers) where such communications are relevant to such a contract. In essence, this means we need to process your personal data to provide you with access to our services and software.
- We may use anonymised and aggregated personal data to innovate and improve our products so that we give you the best customer experience we possibly can.
6. Personal data of children
Due to the nature of our business we do not anticipate collecting of data from children.
7. How long do we retain your data?
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
8. Direct Marketing
If you are an individual consumer, we will only provide you with direct marketing communications where you have consented to receive such communications or you have contacted us directly to request specific information about our products and services. You can subscribe to such marketing communications, and you can adjust your marketing preferences at any time by contacting us at 33 North Road Southampton SO17 2LX If you represent another business, we may provide you with direct marketing communications where we feel that this may be relevant to your business (provided that you have not opted out of such communications). When we use your personal data for such purposes, we do so on the basis that it is in our business interests to pursue direct marketing, provided that it constitutes fair processing of your personal data to do so. You can also opt-out or unsubscribe from all or some of these marketing communications at any time by contacting us at33 North Road Southampton SO17 2LX Where you opt out of receiving these marketing communications, this opt-out will not apply to personal data provided to us for any other purpose (for example your personal data which we require to carry out a contract with you).
9. Additional Information
- Compliance with legal obligations, etc. We may process (including disclose) your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligations binding on us; to protect the rights, property, or safety of our staff, our customers, or others; and to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights. When we process your personal data for the above purposes, we do so on the basis that such processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject or necessary in order to protect the vital interests of a natural person, respectively or necessary in order to pursue our business interests in exercising our legal rights.
- Corporate governance We may share your personal data with any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries. We may disclose your personal data to third parties:
- in the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may if relevant disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets; or
- if we or substantially all of our assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by us about our customers will be one of the transferred assets.
- When we process your personal data for the above purposes, we do so on the basis that we have an interest in pursuing business aims and objectives.
10. Data transfers
- We do not knowingly transfer the personal data you submit directly to us outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) except with regard to user data submitted, processed, and held by Mailchimp, Hubspot, and Livechat. Submitting details through these external service providers may result in data being transferred, processed or held outside the EEA.
11. Data Security
- We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to only named employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
- We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
12. Your rights
- Your personal data is protected by legal rights, which include your rights:
- Request access to your personal data
(commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
- Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you
This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
- Request erasure of your personal data.
This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
- Object to processing of your personal data
Where we are relying on a business interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes.
- Request restriction of processing of your personal data
This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios: (a) if you want us to establish the data’s accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c) where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
- Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party
We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
- Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data
However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.
- If you want to exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details in section 2.
- You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
- You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office, which regulates the processing of personal data, about how we are processing your personal data.
13. How to close your account with us
All users of our products and services are able to close the accounts they have with us by righting to us at 33 North Road Southampton SO17 2LX When we receive a request from you to close your account we will delete all of the personal data we hold on our products and services but we may retain limited personal data. We may retain personal information relating to your initial purchase of our products and services.