Privacy Policy

Read through our privacy policy to learn more about how EvoTimber® both collects and uses your personal data.

At EvoTimber®, we are committed to protecting your personal information, and maintaining your privacy.

This privacy notice is designed to inform you about how we look after and use your personal data. We will collect your personal data when you enter a contract with us to purchase either a product or service (whether for a business or personal use), make a payment or an enquiry to us, or visit our website at evotimber.com. As well as explaining how we your data is collected, this privacy notice will explain your privacy rights and how the law protects you. In the event of conflict, this privacy notice shall prevail over any contract with us to purchase a product or service.

When you supply us with your personal data, you are consenting to its collection as stated in this privacy notice. If you are giving personal data on behalf of another person, you are confirming that they have read the information detailed in this privacy notice and have agreed for us to use their data in the way we describe. For clarity, we have included a glossary to help you to better understand the meaning of the terms used in this privacy notice.

1. Important Information

Purpose of this privacy notice

This privacy notice aims to give you information on how EvoTimber collects and processes your personal data which you provide to us when you enter into a contract with us to purchase a product or service (whether on behalf of an organisation or personally), make payment to us, make an enquiry to us, visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) or otherwise.

We do not knowingly collect data relating to children.

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. This privacy notice supplements the other notices and is not intended to override them.

Controller

EvoTimber is the controller and is responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as the “Company”, “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy notice).

We have appointed a data privacy manager who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this privacy notice. If you have any questions about this privacy notice, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact the data privacy manager using the details set out below.

Contact details

Our full details are:

Buyrite Enterprises Limited (T/A EvoTimber) – for the attention of the data privacy manager.

Innovation House, Telford Way, Stephenson Industrial Estate, Coalville, Leicestershire, LE67 3HE, United Kingdom

enquiries@evotimber.com

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 changes

This version was last updated in April 2023, but any historic versions can be obtained by contacting us.

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 links on our website

Our website may include links to third-party websites, applications, and plug-ins. By clicking on these outbound links or enabling those connections, you 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.

2. The data we collect

Personal data or information refers to any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).

We may collect, use, store and transfer various kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

  • Identity Data includes first name, maiden name, last name, username or similar identifier, marital status, title, date of birth, job title and gender.
  • Contact Data includes billing address, delivery address, site address, branch address, email address and telephone numbers.
  • Financial Data includes bank account and payment card details.
  • Transaction Data includes details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from us.
  • Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, 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 our website and systems.
  • Profile Data includes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, information viewed or requested by you, sales enquiries from you, feedback by you and any account preferences.
  • Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, products and services.
  • Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

We may also use, collect, and share Aggregated Data, for example statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated 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 Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific feature of our website. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we will treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this privacy notice.

We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details such as race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sexual orientation, sex life, political opinions, any trade union memberships, general information about your health and genetic and biometric data), or 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 (such as providing you with products or services). In such a case, we may have to cancel a product or service you have with us, but we will notify you appropriately at the time.

3. How is your personal data collected?

We may use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

  • Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity, Contact and Financial Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by phone, email, post or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
    • sign into one of our site visitor books;
    • apply for our products or services;
    • create an account with us (on our website or otherwise);
    • subscribe to our service or publications;
    • request marketing to be sent to you;
    • enter a competition, promotion or survey; or
    • give us some feedback.
  • Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We may collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies.
  • Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources.

We may also record phone conversations we have with you.

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 to perform 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.

We do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us.

Purposes for which we will use your personal data

In the table below, we have set out a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and 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. 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:

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Purpose/Activity Type of data Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
Registering you as a new customer or contact (a) Identity
(b) Contact		 Performance of a contract with you
Processing your job application (a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Financial		 (a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation e.g. employment law
(c) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to employ the best applicant for each vacancy)
Processing and delivering your order including:
(a) Manage payments, fees and charges
(b) Collect and recover money owed to us		 (a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Financial
(d) Transaction
(e) Marketing and Communications		 (a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to recover debts due to us)
Managing our relationship with you which will include:
(a) Notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy notice
(b) Asking you to leave a review or take a survey		 (a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Profile
(d) Marketing and Communications		 (a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
(c) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products/services)
Enabling you to partake in a prize draw, competition or complete a survey (a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Profile
(d) Usage
(e) Marketing and Communications		 (a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them and grow our business)
Administering and protecting our business and our website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data) (a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Technical		 (a) Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganisation or group restructuring exercise)
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
Delivering relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you (a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Profile
(d) Usage
(e) Marketing and Communications
(f) Technical		 Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy)
using data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and user experience (a) Technical
(b) Usage		 Necessary for our legitimate interests (to define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our website updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy)
Making suggestions and recommendations to you about products or services that may be of interest to you (a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Technical
(d) Usage
(e) Profile		 Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our products/services and grow our business)

Marketing

We aim to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising. You have the right to withdraw consent to any of our marketing at any time clicking the unsubscribe option at the bottom of applicable email, or by contacting us directly.

Promotional offers from us

We may use your Identity, Technical, Profile, Usage and Contact to help us decide what we think you may be of interest to you. This process is how we dictate which services, offers, and products may be relevant for you.

You may receive marketing communications from us if you have purchased goods or services with us, requested information or quotes from us, or shared personal data with us in any way, such as when registering for a promotional offer or competition.

Opting out

If you do not want to receive any marketing or promotional material from us, you can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by contacting us directly.

Cookies

We may use cookies, as they help us to understand how our visitors are using our website. This in turn enables us to improve the function, design, and layout of the site using the information gathered.

A cookie is simply information that has recorded how you have used a website. The next time you visit that website, it can tailor your options based on the information it has stored about your last visit.

If you do not want your information to be stored in this way, you can easily set your internet browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. However, please be aware that if you refuse, disable or block cookies, our website may not function properly, and some pages may even become inaccessible.

Further information can be found at https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies.

Change of purpose

We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us.

If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.

Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.

5. Disclosures of your personal data

We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table in paragraph 4 above.

  • Internal Third Parties as set out in the Glossary.
  • External Third Parties as set out in the Glossary.
  • Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy notice.

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We would not allow any third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and would only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes in accordance with our instructions.

To offer you Klarna’s payment methods, we might in the checkout pass personal data to Klarna, so they can assess whether you qualify for their payment methods. Your personal data transferred is processed in line with Klarna’s own privacy notice.

6. International Transfers

We do not knowingly transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). However, some External Third Parties may run their operations outside of the EEA. Though they may not be subject to the same data protection laws as organisations based in the UK, we will take steps to make sure they provide an adequate level of protection in accordance with UK data protection law. When submitting your personal information to us you agree to this storing, processing, or transferring at a location outside of the EEA.

7. Data security

We have in place security measures preventing your personal data from being used, lost, altered, disclosed or accessed in an unauthorised way. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those 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 too 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.

8. Data retention

How long will you use my personal data for?

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 accounting, reporting or legal requirements.

When determining the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the sensitivity, amount, and overall nature of your data, as well as the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of this data, the purposes for which we process your data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

Details of retention periods for different aspects of your personal data are available from us upon request. However, please be aware that, by law, we have to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Financial, Identity, and Transaction Data) for six years after they cease being customers for tax purposes.

In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data (see below).

In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data so that it can no longer be associated with you for statistical or research purposes. In which case, we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

9. Your legal rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. These are explained in the Glossary.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

No fee usually required

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.

What we may need from you

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

Time limit to respond

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

10. Glossary

LAWFUL BASIS

Legitimate Interest means the interest of our business in conducting and managing our business to enable us to give you the best service/product and the best and most secure experience. We make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you (both positive and negative) and your rights before we process your personal data for our legitimate interests. We do not use your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law). You can obtain further information about how we assess our legitimate interests against any potential impact on you in respect of specific activities by contacting us.

Performance of Contract means processing your data where it is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you, an organisation you represent or a third party are a party or to take steps at your request before entering into such a contract.

Comply with a legal or regulatory obligation means processing your personal data where it is necessary for compliance with a legal or regulatory obligation that we are subject to.

THIRD PARTIES

Internal Third Parties

Other companies in the Company’s group, acting as joint controllers or processors.

External Third Parties include:

  • Service providers acting as processors who provide IT and system administration services.
  • Professional advisers acting as processors or joint controllers including lawyers, bankers, accountants/auditors, marketing advisers, human resources advisers and insurers who provide consultancy, banking, legal, marketing, human resources, insurance and accounting services.
  • HM Revenue & Customs, regulators and other authorities acting as processors or joint controllers who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.

YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS

You have the right to:

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 legitimate 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. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.

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.