Privacy Policy

GVS Swimming Pool Supplies is a limited company, registered in England. The company registration number is: 732432 The Registered Office is 2376A Stratford Road, Hockley Heath, Solihull, West Midlands B94 6QT.

GVS Swimming Pool Supplies Ltd operates the website www.gvsswimmingpools.co.uk (the “website”).

The purpose of this policy

GVS Swimming Pool Supplies Ltd wants to protect the privacy of visitors to our website and that of our customers and contacts. Please read the following policy; it will help you to understand how we use your personal data. We may change our privacy policy at any time without giving you notice, so please check it each time you visit our website.

Whenever you give us personal data, you are consenting to its collection and use in accordance with this privacy policy.

What personal data do we collect?

When you purchase products from us, visit our website, use our services or make an enquiry, you may be asked to provide some personal data, which may include:

  • Name and company
  • Contact information including email address and postcode
  • Demographic information such as preferences and interests
  • Other information relevant to surveys, offers and enquiries

We may automatically collect data about visitors to our website (for example on browsing patterns, by using cookies and your Internet Protocol (IP) address). This data is used in an anonymous form.

What we do with the data we collect?

We use your personal data to provide goods and services to you or your organisation and to let you know about other goods and services in which you may be interested.

We may also use your personal data to carry out research about our visitors’ and customers’ demographics, interests and behaviour. We do this to better understand our visitors, customers and potential customers. This research is compiled and analysed on an aggregated and anonymous basis.

From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone or mail.

Whenever and wherever we collect, process or use personal data, we take steps to ensure that it is treated securely and in accordance with our privacy policy.

We use legitimate interests as the legal basis for processing data. We assume that if you are customer of GVS Swimming Pool Supplies Ltd, or have made an enquiry, that you are interested in hearing about our products and services.

We retain the personal data processed by us for as long as is considered necessary for the purpose for which it was collected (including as required by applicable law or regulation). Specific retention periods can be obtained by emailing: sales@gvsswimmingpools.co.uk

We use an e-commerce platform called PrestaShop, when you make a purchase on our website your data will be collected and stored in our website database. You can view PrestaShops privacy information at https://www.prestashop.com/en/privacy-policy

Security

Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any other network can be guaranteed as 100% secure, but we take appropriate steps to try and protect the security of your personal data.

Cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

At GVS Swimming Pool Supplies Ltd we will only use cookies to monitor the performance of our website and to improve user experience. If you are not happy with our use of cookies, then you should either not use the website, delete our cookies once you have visited the site, or browse the site using your browser’s anonymous usage setting.

A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

Other web services and links

External web services.

We may use a number of external web services on the GVS Swimming Pool Supplies Ltd website, mostly to display content within our web pages and to provide e-commerce services. For example, we use PrestaShop to allow customers to order on our website and we may use YouTube or Vimeo to display website content.

This is not an exhaustive or complete list of the services we use, or might use in the future, when embedding content. We cannot prevent these sites, or external domains, from collecting information on your usage of this embedded content. If you are not logged in to these external services then they will not know who you are but are likely to gather anonymous usage information e.g. number of views, plays, loads etc.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, 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 which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Controlling your personal information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information. Under the GDPR you have the right to:

  • Request a copy of the personal information we hold about you. Please provide as much information as possible about the nature of your contact with us to help us locate your records.
  • Object to certain types of processing such as direct marketing.
  • Have the data we hold about you transferred to another organisation.
  • Request that we delete your personal data so it is erased from our records.
  • Have any inaccuracies in your data corrected.
  • Object to automated processing.

If you wish to carry out any of the above, you can do so by writing to please writing to us at: 2376A Stratford Road, Hockley Heath, Solihull, West Midlands B90 6QT or by emailing us at: sales@gvsswimmingpools.co.uk

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so.

You have the right to lodge a complaint about an organisation’s data practices with the ICO who are the supervisory authority.

Disclaimer

The material on our website site is given for general information only, and does not constitute professional advice. You should take specific advice before taking a course of action as we do not accept directly or indirectly any responsibility for loss arising directly or indirectly from reliance on information on this site.

Given that the Internet uses an open system we cannot warrant that the site and downloads reach you virus-free. You must, therefore, take all appropriate precautions for your own safety.

Copyright

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