Privacy Policy

We are Shaw Stairs Limited, a company registered in England and Wales with company number 03765245 and with our main place of business at Units 4 & 5 Apollo Park, Lichfield Road Industrial Estate, Tamworth B79 7TA (we, us). This Policy sets out how we will process and handle personal data that you provide to us. You can contact us here Contact Us

We reserve the right to update this Policy from time to time at our discretion. If we do so, and we have your email address, we shall contact you.   Otherwise, the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. You are responsible for regularly reviewing this Policy so that you are aware of any changes to it.

We are the data controller of the personal data that you provide to us.

You do not need to provide us with any personal data if you wish to browse our website.

But, we do need to collect your personal data when you place an order;  we will collect your name, email address, geographical address and payment details.  It is mandatory to provide this information to us if you wish to place an order.  If you place an order online, you must first register and to do so, you will provide to us name, email address and geographical address.

We shall also collect your personal data if you Contact Us.  We will collect you name, phone number and email address if you complete our on line form and such other personal data you provide to us if you otherwise contact us.

All personal data that you provide to us must be true, complete and accurate. We may keep a record of any conversation that we have. If you provide us with inaccurate or false data, and we suspect or identify fraud, we will record this. In addition we may search at fraud prevention agencies for information on you as part of our due diligence to ensure we comply with anti-money laundering legislation.

When you use our website, we, or third parties on our behalf, automatically collect and store information about your device and your activities. This information could include (a) your computer or other device’s unique ID number; (b) technical information about your device such as type of device, web browser or operating system; (c) your preferences and settings such as time zone and language; and (d) statistical data about your browsing actions and patterns.  We collect this information using cookies in accordance with the Cookie section of this Policy and we use the information we collect on an anonymous basis to improve our website and the goods we sell, and for analytical and research purposes.

We will process your personal data to perform any contract we have entered into with you, including in particular to supply your products, provide after sales service and manage any returns and/or refunds due.

We may also use your personal data for our legitimate interests, including dealing with any customer services you require, enforcing our website terms of use, for regulatory and legal purposes (for example anti-money laundering and fraud prevention purposes), for audit purposes and to contact you about changes to this Policy.

For our legitimate interests, we may share your personal data with any service providers, sub-contractors and agents that we may appoint to perform functions on our behalf and in accordance with our instructions, including payment providers, IT service providers, delivery companies, accountants, auditors and lawyers. We shall provide our service providers, sub-contractors and agents only with such of your personal data as they need to provide the service for us and if we stop using their services, we shall request that they delete your personal data.

In order to comply with our legal obligations, under certain circumstances we may have to disclose your personal data under applicable laws and/or regulations, for example, as part of anti-money laundering processes or protect a third party’s rights, property, or safety.

For our legitimate interests, we may also share your personal data in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of assets, consolidation or restructuring, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by or into another company.

Some or all of your personal data may be stored or transferred outside of the European Economic Area (the EEA) for any reason, including for example, if our email server is located in a country outside the EEA or if any of our service providers are based outside of the EEA. You are deemed to accept and agree to this by using the system and submitting information to us.

If we do store or transfer your personal data outside the EEA, we will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your data is treated as safely and securely as it would be within the EEA and under applicable data protection laws.

We shall process your personal data in a manner that ensures appropriate security of the personal data, including protection against unauthorized or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage, using appropriate technical or organisational measures. Our website operates on a secure linux server which is updated on a daily basis with any operating system updates or security patches that need applying.

However, no system can be completely secure. Therefore, although we take steps to secure your information, we do not promise that your personal data that you provide to us will always remain secure.

When you register, you will be offered the opportunity to opt in to receive our newsletter and marketing material. If you agree to do so, we shall use your name and email address to send our newsletter and marketing material to you. You can choose to no longer receive marketing emails from us by contacting us or by clicking unsubscribe from a marketing email. If you do unsubscribe from our mailing list, it may take up to 5 business days for your new preferences to take effect.

A cookie is a small text file containing a unique identification number that is transferred (through your browser) from a website to the hard drive of your computer. The cookie identifies your browser but will not let a website know any personal data about you, such as your name and/or address. These files are then used by websites to identify when users revisit that website.

Our website uses cookies so that we can recognise you when you return and personalise your settings and preferences. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can change your browser settings either to notify you when you have received a cookie, or to refuse to accept cookies. Please note that website may not operate efficiently if you refuse to accept cookies.

We also use third party cookies such Google Analytics to monitor how our website is used. These cookies collect information anonymously and generate reports detailing information such as the number of visits to the system, where visitors generally came from, how long they stayed on the system, and which pages they visited. They place several persistent cookies on your computer’s hard drive. These do not collect any personal data. If you do not agree to this you can disable persistent cookies in your browser. This will prevent these third party cookies from logging your visits.

We shall process your personal data in a manner that ensures appropriate security of the personal data, including protection against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage, using appropriate technical or organisational measures. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers.

However, you acknowledge that no system can be completely secure. Therefore, although we take these steps to secure your personal data, we do not promise that your personal data will always remain completely secure.

You have the right to obtain from us a copy of the personal data that we hold for you, and to require us to correct errors in the personal data that we process for you if it is inaccurate, incomplete or out of date. You also have the right at any time to require that we delete your personal data and to withdraw your consent to receive marketing materials from us. To exercise these rights, or any other rights you may have under applicable laws, please Contact Us

Please note, we reserve the right to charge an administrative fee if your request is manifestly unfounded or excessive.

If you have any complaints in relation to this Policy or otherwise in relation to our processing of your personal data, please Contact Us, or you can contact the Information Commissioner, see www.ico.org.uk .  If you are outside of the UK, you have the right to lodge your complaint with the relevant data protection regulator in your country of residence.

Our website may contain links to other sites of interest. Once you have used these links to leave our website, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information that you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this Policy.

We retain your personal data in accordance with applicable laws.  Therefore, if you register with us, we shall retain your personal data until you close your account except where we are required to retain your personal data for longer to comply with accounting and taxation requirements. We shall
retain your personal data in our records for marketing purposes until you notify us that you no longer wish to receive marketing emails from us.

If you have otherwise contacted us with a question or comment, we shall retain your personal data for 6 months following such contact to respond to any further queries you might have.

If any provision of this Policy is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unenforceable, then such provision shall be construed, as nearly as possible, to reflect the intentions of the parties and all other provisions shall remain in full force and effect.

This Policy shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of England and Wales.

Last updated: 22nd May 2018