PRIVACY POLICY

Please read this privacy notice carefully, as it contains important information on who we are, and how and why we collect, store, use, and share your data.  It also explains your rights to your personal data and how to contact us or supervisory authorities if you have a complaint. When we use personal data we are regulated by the Information Commissioner under the General Data Protection Regulation EU 2016/679 as it forms part of the laws of the United Kingdom under section 3 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, including as further amended or modified by the laws of the United Kingdom or a part of the United Kingdom from time to time (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (together, Data Protection Legislation).  We are accountable as Controller of that personal data for Data Protection legislation.

KEY TERMS | It would be helpful to start by explaining some key terms used in this policy, Rellik Salvage Limited trading as RELLIK, a limited company incorporated in England and Wales under registered number 13731042 with registered office at, 4 Market Street, Hatherleigh, EX20 3JN, Devon.

PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT

In the course of your interaction with us and your use of our services as an online retailer of homeware, furniture, lighting and similar, either as a consumer or as a supplier or merchant, we will collect from you the following personal data :

   •    If you contact us via our website to order merchandise or join our mailing list, the email address that you provide when registering on our website, your name, your address, and your credit or debit card details;

   •    If you use our website as a supplier or vendor of merchandise, your name, email address, certain company and bank information if you are a sole trader or freelance worker.

This personal data is required to enable us to provide services or perform our contract with you. If we are not provided with the personal data we ask for, it may delay or prevent us from providing the services, you are requesting or performing our contractual obligations towards you.

HOW PERSONAL DATA IS COLLECTED

We collect your data directly when you interact with us via our website, during the order process mail sign-up, or the sign-up process for brands and vendors.

HOW AND WHY WE USE PERSONAL DATA

Under Data Protection legislation, we can only use personal data if we have a legal basis for doing so. The legislation mandates these and includes:

   •    your consent;

   •    for the performance of our contract with you or to take steps before entering into a contract;

   •    to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations; or

   •    for our legitimate interests or those of a third party.

A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use personal data, so long as this is not overridden by the data subject’s rights and freedoms.

Our legal basis.

To enable us to engage with our customers and provide the services they require including shipping goods ordered, taking payment, and delivering updates/ marketing our services.

For the performance of our contract with you or to take steps before entering into a contract with you and for our legitimate interest.

To enable us to pay suppliers or brands for merchandise ordered, and to pay suppliers of other services.

Operational reasons, such as maintaining the operational effectiveness of our Website.

For the performance of our contract with you or to take steps before entering into a contract with you.

For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, e.g. to identify and remedy problems with our Website usage.

Ensuring the confidentiality of personal data.

For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, e.g. to prevent data breaches.

To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.

The above table does not apply to special category personal data, which we do not anticipate that we will process.  Should this situation change, we will update this Privacy Notice.

PROMOTIONAL COMMUNICATIONS

We will always treat your data with the utmost respect and never sell it to other organisations for marketing purposes.

WHO DO WE SHARE PERSONAL DATA WITH

We only share personal data with our retained external third-party services providers, such as our accountants and relevant brands for order fulfillment and organisations that provide related services to us or on our behalf, including Mailchimp, Microsoft 365, and Xero.

We only allow our external third parties to handle personal data if we are satisfied they take all appropriate measures to protect all personal data and only on our written instructions.

We may occasionally disclose and exchange information with regulatory bodies to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.

WHERE PERSONAL DATA IS HELD

Personal data is kept securely in a password-protected environment.  When we engage cloud-based service providers, it is based on a written Data Processing Agreement and we conduct due diligence on the location of the servers on which our data is stored.

Many of our suppliers store data on servers that may be located outside the United Kingdom. For more information, on how we safeguard personal data if it is transferred outside the UK, see below: ‘Transferring personal data out of the UK.

KEEPING PERSONAL DATA SECURE

The privacy and security of personal data are our utmost priority, and we recognise our obligation to keep it secure and private.  We have industry-standard security practices to prevent personal data from being accidentally accessed unlawfully including password protection, multi-factor authentication of users, and access restriction or control. We limit access to any personal data to our employees and contractors with a genuine business need to access it and subject them to strict obligations of confidence.

HOW LONG PERSONAL DATA WILL BE KEPT

We will retain billing and order information of customers for the duration of our contractual relationship with those customers and then a period of 6 years.  We will retain other personal data of customers for only so long as they use our services or until consent is withdrawn.  We will retain the billing information of vendors, suppliers, and brands for 6 years from the end of the contractual relationship.  When it is no longer necessary to retain personal data, we will delete it.

TRANSFERRING PERSONAL DATA OUT OF THE UK

Some of our third-party providers may store our data on servers that may be located outside the UK.

These transfers are subject to special rules and safeguards under European and UK data protection laws with which we fully comply.

RIGHTS

All data subjects have the following rights, which can be exercised free of charge:

Access;

The right to be provided with a copy of personal data held on a data subject

Rectification.  The right to require us to correct any mistakes in a data subject’s data.

The right to require us to delete personal data—in certain situations.

Restriction of processing;

The right to require us to restrict the processing of certain personal data—in certain circumstances, e.g. if the accuracy of the data is contested

Data portability

The right to receive the personal data provided to us, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and/or transmit that data to a third party—in certain situations object.

The right to object:

   •    at any time to personal data being processed for direct marketing (including profiling);

   •    in certain other situations our continued processing of personal data, e.g. processing carried out for our legitimate interests.

Not to be subject to automated individual decision-making

The right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing (including profiling) that produces legal effects concerning a data subject

To withdraw consent;

The right to withdraw consent as a legal basis for processing, at any time.

For further information on those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, contact us or see the Guidance from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on individuals’ rights under the General Data Protection Regulation.

To exercise those rights, contact us —see below: ‘How to contact us’.

HOW TO COMPLAIN

We hope we can resolve any query or concern, raised about the use of personal information.

The General Data Protection Regulation also gives the right to complain to a supervisory authority. The supervisory authority in the UK is the Information Commissioner who may be contacted at https://ico.org.uk/concerns.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may change this privacy policy from time to time, when we do we will inform data subjects via our website.

HOW TO CONTACT US

We can be contacted by email at listen@rellik.co.uk

Our contact details are shown below:

Rellik Salvage Limited

4 Market Street, Hatherleigh, Okehampton, EX20 3JN, Devon