Secure Checkout

1. Introduction
   1. We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors and service users.
   2. This policy applies where we are acting as a data controller with respect to the personal data of our website visitors and service users; in other words, where we determine the purposes and means of the processing of that personal data.
   3. By using our website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.
   4. In this policy, “we”, “us” and “our” refer to Quality Essential Distribution Ltd. For more information about us, see Section 13.
2. Credit
   1. This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal (https://seqlegal.com).
3. How we use your personal data
   1. In this Section 3 we have set out:
      1. the general categories of personal data that we may process;
      2. in the case of personal data that we did not obtain directly from you, the source and specific categories of that data
      3. the purposes for which we may process personal data; and
      4. the legal bases of the processing.
   2.  We may process data about your use of our website and services (“usage data”). The usage data may include your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths, as well as information about the timing, frequency and pattern of your service use. The source of the usage data is our analytics tracking system. This usage data may be processed for the purposes of analysing the use of the website and services. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely monitoring and improving our website and services.
   3. We may process your account data (“account data”). The account data may include your name and email address. The source of the account data is you or your employer. The account data may be processed for the purposes of operating our website, providing our services, ensuring the security of our website and services, maintaining back-ups of our databases and communicating with you. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business.
   4. We may process your information included in your personal profile on our website (“profile data”). The profile data may include your name, address, telephone number, email address, profile pictures, gender, date of birth, relationship status, interests and hobbies, educational details and employment details. The profile data may be processed for the purposes of enabling and monitoring your use of our website and services. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business.
   5. We may process your personal data that are provided in the course of the use of our services (“service data”). The source of the service data is you or your employer. The service data may be processed for the purposes of operating our website, providing our services, ensuring the security of our website and services, maintaining back-ups of our databases and communicating with you. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business.
   6. We may process information that you post for publication on our website or through our services (“publication data”). The publication data may be processed for the purposes of enabling such publication and administering our website and services. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business.
   7. We may process information contained in any enquiry you submit to us regarding goods and/or services (“enquiry data”). The enquiry data may be processed for the purposes of offering, marketing and selling relevant goods and/or services to you. The legal basis for this processing is consent.
   8. We may process information relating to transactions, including purchases of goods and services, that you enter into with us and/or through our website (“transaction data”). The transaction data may include your contact details, your card details and the transaction details. The transaction data may be processed for the purpose of supplying the purchased goods and services and keeping proper records of those transactions. The legal basis for this processing is the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps, at your request, to enter into such a contract and our legitimate interests, namely our interest in the proper administration of our website and business.
   9. We may process information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our email notifications and/or newsletters (“notification data”). The notification data may be processed for the purposes of sending you the relevant notifications and/or newsletters. The legal basis for this processing is consent.
   10. We may process information contained in or relating to any communication that you send to us (“correspondence data”). The correspondence data may include the communication content and metadata associated with the communication. Our website will generate the metadata associated with communications made using the website contact forms. The correspondence data may be processed for the purposes of communicating with you and record-keeping. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business and communications with users.
   11. We may process any of your personal data identified in this policy where necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the protection and assertion of our legal rights, your legal rights and the legal rights of others.
   12. We may process any of your personal data identified in this policy where necessary for the purposes of obtaining or maintaining insurance coverage, managing risks, or obtaining professional advice. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper protection of our business against risks.
   13. In addition to the specific purposes for which we may process your personal data set out in this Section 3, we may also process any of your personal data where such processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.
   14. Please do not supply any other person’s personal data to us, unless we prompt you to do so.
4. Providing your personal data to others
   1. We may disclose your personal data to any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries) insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes, and on the legal bases, set out in this policy.
   2. We may disclose your personal data to our insurers and/or professional advisers insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes of obtaining or maintaining insurance coverage, managing risks, obtaining professional advice, or the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.
   3. We may disclose delivery addresses and names, contact numbers and email addresses relating to these to our suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purpose of delivering goods to you or a different site address which you provide.
   4. Financial transactions relating to our website and services are handled by our payment services providers, Trust Payments and PayPal. We will share transaction data with our payment services providers only to the extent necessary for the purposes of processing your payments, refunding such payments and dealing with complaints and queries relating to such payments and refunds. You can find information about the payment services providers’ privacy policies and practices at Privacy Notice – Trust Payments  and https://www.paypal.com/en/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full.
   5. In addition to the specific disclosures of personal data set out in this Section 4, we may disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for compliance  with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person. We may also disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.
5. International transfers of your personal data
   1. There are no circumstances in which your personal data may be transferred to countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA) by us.
   2. You acknowledge that personal data that you submit for publication through our website or services may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use (or misuse) of such personal data by others.
6. Retaining and deleting personal data
   1. This Section 6 sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal data.
   2. Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
   3. We will retain your personal data as follows:
      1. Banking and payment data will be retained for a maximum period of 7 years.
      2. Credit Card data will be retained for a maximum period of 18 months.
   4. In some cases it is not possible for us to specify in advance the periods for which your personal data will be retained. In such cases, we will determine the period of retention based on the following criteria:
      1. the period of retention of personal data and account activity will be determined based on the legal basis to do so regarding our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business.
   5. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 6, we may retain your personal data where such retention is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.
7. Amendments
   1. We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.
   2. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.
   3. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email.
8. Your rights
   1. In this Section 8, we have summarised the rights that you have under data protection law. Some of the rights are complex, and not all of the details have been included in our summaries. Accordingly, you should read the relevant laws and guidance from the regulatory authorities for a full explanation of these rights.
   2. Your principal rights under data protection law are:
      1. the right to access;
      2. the right to rectification;
      3. the right to erasure;
      4. the right to restrict processing;
      5. the right to object to processing;
      6. the right to data portability;
      7. the right to complain to a supervisory authority; and
      8. the right to withdraw consent.
   3. You have the right to confirmation as to whether or not we process your personal data and, where we do, access to the personal data, together with certain additional information. That additional information includes details of the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data concerned and the recipients of the personal data. Providing the rights and freedoms of others are not affected, we will supply to you a copy of your personal data. The first copy will be provided free of charge, but additional copies may be subject to a reasonable fee. You can access your personal data by visiting https://qedgroup.co.uk/ when logged into our website.
   4. You have the right to have any inaccurate personal data about you rectified and, taking into account the purposes of the processing, to have any incomplete personal data about you completed.
   5. In some circumstances you have the right to the erasure of your personal data without undue delay. Those circumstances include: the personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed; you withdraw consent to consent-based processing; you object to the processing under certain rules of applicable data protection law; the processing is for direct marketing purposes; and the personal data have been unlawfully processed. However, there are exclusions of the right to erasure. The general exclusions include where processing is necessary: for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information; for compliance with a legal obligation; or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
   6. In some circumstances you have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data. Those circumstances are: you contest the accuracy of the personal data; processing is unlawful but you oppose erasure; we no longer need the personal data for the purposes of our processing, but you require personal data for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; and you have objected to processing, pending the verification of that objection. Where processing has been restricted on this basis, we may continue to store your personal data. However, we will only otherwise process it: with your consent; for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person; or for reasons of important public interest.
   7. You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data on grounds relating to your particular situation, but only to the extent that the legal basis for the processing is that the processing is necessary for: the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of any official authority vested in us; or the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party. If you make such an objection, we will cease to process the personal information unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing is for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
   8. You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes (including profiling for direct marketing purposes). If you make such an objection, we will cease to process your personal data for this purpose.
   9. You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data for scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes on grounds relating to your particular situation, unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out for reasons of public interest.
   10. To the extent that the legal basis for our processing of your personal data is:
       1. consent; or
       2. that the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract,
          and such processing is carried out by automated means, you have the right to receive your personal data from us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. However, this right does not apply where it would adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.
   11. If you consider that our processing of your personal information infringes data protection laws, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection. You may do so in the EU member state of your habitual residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement.
   12. To the extent that the legal basis for our processing of your personal information is consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of processing before the withdrawal.
   13. You may exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal data by written notice to us, in addition to the other methods specified in this Section 8.
9. About cookies
   1. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.
   2. Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.
   3. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
10. Cookies that we use
    1. We use cookies for the following purposes:
       1. authentication – we use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website (cookies used for this purpose are: PHPSESSID, frontend, frontend_cid);
       2. status – we use cookies to help us to determine if you are logged into our website (cookies used for this purpose are: PHPSESSID, frontend, frontend_cid);
       3. personalisation – we use cookies to store information about your preferences and to personalise the website for you (cookies used for this purpose are: PHPSESSID, frontend, frontend_cid);
       4. security – we use cookies as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website and services generally (cookies used for this purpose are: ACCESS_LEVEL);
       5. cookie consent – we use cookies to store your preferences in relation to the use of cookies more generally. (the cookies in use are: moove_gdpr_popup)
       6. Mailchimp – mailchimp_landing_site
       7. Online Shop Cookies (these do not store personal data).
          Cookie Name Duration Purpose woocommerce_cart_hash session Helps WooCommerce determine when cart contents/data changes. woocommerce_items_in_cart session Helps WooCommerce determine when cart contents/data changes. wp_woocommerce_session_ 2 days Contains a unique code for each customer so that it knows where to find the cart data in the database for each customer. woocommerce_recently_viewed session Powers the Recent Viewed Products widget.
11. Cookies used by our service providers
    1. Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website.
    2. We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
       The relevant cookies are: _ga, _gat, _gid, ads/ga-audiences.
    3. We use tawk.to to supply the online chat service. You can view the privacy policy of this service provider at https://www.tawk.to/privacy-policy/.
       The relevant cookies are: _cfduid, tawkuuid, ss, tawkuuid, TawkCookie, TawkConnectionTime, Tawk5743087839b153e403310955, TawkWindowName
       We use YouTube by Google for videos. This service uses cookies to keep statistics of how visitors use YouTube videos. You can view the privacy policy of this service provider at https://policies.google.com/privacy.
12. Managing cookies

1. Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:
   1. https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);
   2. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox);
   3. http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/ (Opera);
   4. https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer);
   5. https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411 (Safari); and
   6. https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).
2. Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.
3. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.

Our details

1. This website is owned and operated by Quality Essential Distribution Ltd.
2. We are registered in England and Wales under registration number 3391401, and our registered office is at Unit 445 Oakshott Place, Bamber Bridge, Preston, Lancashire, PR5 8AT.
3. Our principal place of business is as above.
4. You can contact us:
   1. by post, to the postal address given above;
   2. using our website contact form;
   3. by telephone, on the contact number published on our website; or
   4. by email, using the email address published on our website.

Online Shop

1. We collect information about you during the checkout process on our store. What we collect and store
2. While you visit our site, we’ll track:
   Products you’ve viewed: we’ll use this to, for example, show you products you’ve recently viewed
   Location, IP address and browser type: we’ll use this for purposes like estimating taxes and shipping
   Shipping address: we’ll ask you to enter this so we can, for instance, estimate shipping before you place an order, and send you the order!
3. We’ll also use cookies to keep track of basket contents while you’re browsing our site.
4. When you purchase from us, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number and optional account information like username and password. We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to:
   Send you information about your account and order
   Respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints
   Process payments and prevent fraud
   Set up your account for our store
   Comply with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes
   Improve our store offerings
   Send you marketing messages, if you choose to receive them
5. If you create an account, we will store your name, address, email and phone number, which will be used to populate the checkout for future orders.
6. We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it. For example, we will store order information for 1 years for tax and accounting purposes. This includes your name, email address and billing and shipping addresses.
7. We will also store comments or reviews, if you choose to leave them.
   Who on our team has access
8. Members of our team have access to the information you provide us. For example, both Administrators and Shop Managers can access:
   Order information like what was purchased, when it was purchased and where it should be sent, and
   Customer information like your name, email address, and billing and shipping information.
9. Our team members have access to this information to help fulfill orders, process refunds and support you.
10. When shopping, we keep a record of your email and the cart contents for up to 30 days on our server. This record is kept to repopulate the contents of your cart if you switch devices or needed to come back another day. It allows us to remind you if you have forgotton items in your cart too.