Privacy Policy

Introduction

Our website address is: www.quintontyres.co.uk

The pages on this website Quintontyres.co.uk are published by Quinton Tyres Ltd Registered in England and Wales No.05157993, Unit 8, Fifth Avenue, Dukinfield, SK16 4PP.

Maintaining the security of your data and your right to privacy is a priority to Quinton Tyres. We will handle your personal data legally and fairly at all times and we will be transparent about what data we collect about you and how we use it.

This policy provides you with details about:

  • what personal data we collect.
  • how we use your personal data.
  • how we ensure your privacy is maintained.
  • your legal rights about your personal data.

Personal data collected

Quinton Tyres may collect the following information about you:

  • your name, age/date of birth and gender.
  • your contact details: postal address including billing and delivery addresses, telephone numbers (including mobile numbers) and e-mail address.
  • your on-line browsing activities on our websites.
  • your communication and marketing preferences.
  • your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses.
  • your location.
  • your correspondence and communications with us.
  • other publicly available personal data, including any which you have shared via a public platform (such as a Twitter feed or public Facebook page).

Our website are not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.

This list is not exhaustive and, in specific instances, we may need to collect additional data for the purposes set out in this Policy. Some of the above personal data is collected directly, for example when you set up an on-line account on our website, or send an email to our enquiries team. Other personal data is collected indirectly, for example your browsing or shopping activity. We may also collect personal data from third parties who have your consent to pass your details to us, or from publicly available sources.

How we use your data

Quinton Tyres (and trusted partners acting on our behalf) uses your personal data:

  • to provide goods and services to you.
  • to make a tailored website available to you.
  • to manage any registered account(s) that you hold with us.
  • to verify your identity.
  • for crime and fraud prevention, detection and related purposes.
  • with your agreement, to contact you electronically about promotional offers and products and services which we think may interest you.
  • for market research purposes – to better understand your needs.
  • to enable us to manage customer service interactions with you.
  • where we have a legal right or duty to use or disclose your information (for example in relation to an investigation by a public authority or in a legal dispute)

Promotional communications

Quinton Tyres uses your personal data for electronic marketing purposes (with your consent) and may send you postal mail to update you on the latest Quinton Tyres offers.

Quinton Tyres aims to update you about products & services which are of interest and relevance to you as an individual.

You have the right to opt out of receiving promotional communications at any time, by:

  • making use of the simple “unsubscribe” link in emails.
  • contacting Quinton Tyres via the contact channels set out in this Policy.

Sharing your personal data

Our service providers and suppliers
In order to make certain services available to you, we may need to share your personal data with some of our service partners. These include IT and marketing service providers. Quinton Tyres only allows its service providers to handle your personal data when we have confirmed that they apply appropriate data protection and security controls. We also impose contractual obligations on service providers relating to data protection and security, which mean they can only use your data to provide services to Quinton Tyres and to you, and for no other purposes.

Other third parties

Aside from our service providers, Quinton Tyres will not disclose your personal data to any third party, except as set out below.  We will never sell or rent our customer data to other organisations for marketing purposes.

How long will we keep your data

We will not retain your data for longer than necessary for the purposes set out in this Policy. Different retention periods apply for different types of data, however the longest we will normally hold any personal data is 6 years.

Legal basis for using your data

Quinton Tyres collects and uses customers’ personal data because is it necessary for:

  • the pursuit of our legitimate interests
  • the purposes of complying with our duties and exercising our rights under a contract for the sale of goods to a customer or
  • complying with our legal obligations

In general, we only rely on consent as a legal basis for processing in relation to sending direct marketing communications to customers via email or text message.

Customers have the right to withdraw consent at any time. Where consent is the only legal basis for processing, we will cease to process data after consent is withdrawn.

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.

Your rights

You have the following rights:

  • the right to ask what personal data that we hold about you at any time
  • the right to ask us to update and correct any out-of-date or incorrect personal data that we hold about you free of charge and
  • the right to opt out of any marketing communications that we may send you

If you wish to exercise any of the above rights, please contact us using the contact details set out below.

Contact information

If you have any questions about how Quinton Tyres uses your personal data that are not answered here, or if you want to exercise your rights regarding your personal data, please contact us by any of the following means:

  • phone us on: 0161 342 7700
  • e-mail us at: enquiries@quintontyres.co.uk
  • write to us at: Quinton Tyres, Unit 8, Fifth Avenue, Dukinfield, SK16 4PP

You have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office. Further information, including contact details, is available at https://ico.org.uk.