1) Within this notice SSED Ltd T/A Hunters Wholesale, Trade City, Unit 3 Martin Road, Clivemont Park, Maidenhead, SL6 7DZ are referred to as the ‘Company’ and the Customer or visitor/user of the Website www.hunters-wholesalers.co.uk is referred to as ‘you’ or ‘Your’.

2) The Company is committed to safeguarding the privacy of Customers and website visitors; this notice sets out how the Company will may collect, process  and store your personal information, whether by automatic or manual means.

3) Within this notice ‘Personal Information’ means any information in any format or medium, from which you can be personally identified.

4) The Company provides this policy to ensure that you have all the information regarding your privacy when using our Website or purchasing products and to comply with our obligations and your rights created by applicable law.

5) The Company takes pride in keeping up to date with regard to advances in technology and legal developments, changes can result in needing to change this privacy policy so you should refer to them on a regular basis to ensure that you are aware of our policies that are current at the time of your visit to our website or engaging in business with us.

6) Whether you are personally identifiable from the information that we gather, store or process or not you can be assured the information will only be used in accordance with this policy.

7) If you do not agree with anything within in this Privacy Policy, you must not use our Website or make any purchases. By continuing to use the Website, you are deemed to accept and agree to this Privacy Policy and if you make any purchases this policy is integrated into the Terms and Conditions of Sale.

Your Personal Information
We will not gather, collect, process or store any Personal Information except –

• With your consent or for another lawful purpose;
• That is necessary for processing an enquiry or application from you;
• To take the necessary steps to enter into a contract with you;
• That is necessary for the performance and administration of a contract;
• For the recording of a financial transaction.
• For internal records that we are legally obliged to keep.
• To deal with complaints, disputes and legal actions.
• Where necessary to protect the vital interest of you or another person;
• To send commercial communications from us (including the availability of new Products, special offers and discounts, newsletters, notifications), where you request or consent to such communications.
• To send commercial communications from selected partners, associates or affiliates only where you expressly request or consent to such communications

8) When visiting the Website the Company may collect the following information –

• country
• browser
• operating system
• screen resolution
• web pages visited

9) If you make a purchase the Company shall collect and process information necessary

• In the course of administration for dealing with an enquiry;
• To take the necessary steps to enter into a contract with you;
• Where necessary for the performance of a contract;
• For the recording of a financial transaction.
• For internal records that the Company are legally obliged to keep.
• To deal with complaints, disputes and legal actions.
• Where necessary to protect the vital interest of you or another person;
• To send commercial communications including the availability of new Products, special offers and discounts, newsletters, notifications), where you request or permit such communications.

10) The Company may use and share your Personal Information with our employees, officers, agents, consultants, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary

• For the purposes of conducting any business between Us and You.
• In performance of a contractual obligation.
• To the extent that we are required to do so by law.
• In connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings;
• In order to establish, exercise or defend Our legal rights;
• With the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset which we are (or are contemplating) selling;
• To send commercial communications from selected partners, associates or affiliates only where you expressly request or permit such communications.

11) The Company will not sell, share or otherwise distribute your Personal Information unless –

• required to do so by Law or order of a Court;
• it is necessary for the prevention of fraud or other criminal activity;
• for the purposes of establishing, exercising or defending legal rights;
• required to by a purchaser in the event of selling the Company;
• you expressly give permission or instruction to do so.

12) The Company shall not use automated processing of your Personal Information to form or make decisions except where the decision is necessary for entering into or performing a contract; or authorised or required by law (for example for the detection of fraud or tax evasion); or you have given your express consent.

13) You may withdraw your consent for the processing of your Personal Information at any time by informing the Data Processor at  Hunters Wholesale, Trade City, Unit 3 Martin Road, Clivemont Park, Maidenhead SL6 7DZ or by using a link provided for that purpose when the processing is direct marketing.

14) Upon receipt of a notice withdrawing your consent to process your Personal Information the Company shall stop processing the Personal Information except:

• Where there are 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.

15) The Company will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of Personal Information, including storing of data on a secure, password and firewall protected servers.

16) In the event of a breach of the security measures taken to protect your personal information the Company will inform you as soon as is reasonably practical.

17) In order that In order that the Company is able to provide you with an optimum service and to ensure that all obligations under UK Data Protection legislation are complied with, you must let the Company know if any Personal Information which you have provided changes or becomes inaccurate or out of date.

18) The Company shall restrict the processing of your Personal Information if the following circumstances arise

• Where you contest the accuracy of the Personal Information, the Company shall restrict the processing until the accuracy of the Personal Information has been verified.
• Where you have objected to the processing where it was necessary for the performance of a public interest task or purpose of legitimate interests, and the Company is considering whether the legitimate grounds override your grounds.
• When processing is unlawful and you opposes erasure and you request restriction instead.
• If the Company no longer need the Personal Information but you require the information to establish, exercise or defend a legal claim.

19) Where processing of your Personal Information is restricted, the information shall be stored but no further processing shall occur and the Company shall

• inform any third party to whom your Personal Information has been disclosed or shared that the Information is restricted.
• inform you when any restricted period comes to an end.

Processing Payments
20) When submitting any payments, all payments are processed by a third party payment processing merchant in full compliance with all recognised standards and security requirements.

21) The payment processing merchant will use full encryption to ensure your payment card information remains secure, this means that orders can only be accepted from web browsers that permit communication through Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology, it is not possible to make a payment via an unsecured connection. Most web browsers support SSL.

22) The Company does not store or retain your payment card Details.

Access to Personal Information

23) You may require the Company to provide you with

• Confirmation whether or not your Personal Information is being processed; and
• Access to any Personal Information that the Company holds about you.  To obtain a copy of any Personal Information we hold contact the Data Controller at Hunters Wholesale, Trade City, Unit 3 Martin Road, Clivemont Park, Maidenhead SL6 7DZ.

24) This information will be provided free of charge except where a request is manifestly unfounded or excessive (for example it is a repetitive request, or where the Company needs to process large amounts of data) in which case the Company shall make a charge for reasonable administrative costs in dealing with the request or refuse to respond and provide a justifiable reason for refusing to respond which you may seek judicial remedy or complain to the Information Commissioners Office. 

25) The Company shall provide the requested information within one month of receipt of the request.

26) Any Personal Information that you provide for the performance of a contract which is stored electronically shall be held in a portable format (readable in a format that will be commonly used on other computer systems) and the Company shall provide this information to you or directly to another organisation (where technically feasible) upon your request.

27) As the Company takes the issue of protecting your Personal Information seriously, the Company shall follow strict storage and disclosure procedures which mean you may occasionally be required to provide proof of identity prior to disclosing such information.

Right to erase Personal Information

28) You have the right in certain circumstances to instruct the Company to erase your Personal Information where

• The Personal Information is no longer necessary in relation to the purpose for which it was originally collected/processed.
• You withdraw your consent.
• You object to the processing and there is no overriding legitimate interest for continuing the processing.
• The Personal Information was unlawfully processed or obtained.
• The Personal Information has to be erased in order to comply with a legal obligation.
• The Personal Information is processed in relation to the offer of information services to a child.

29) Where you have the right and you issue an instruction to erase your Personal Information  the Company shall use all reasonable efforts to

• Inform all third parties to whom the Company has disclosed or shared your Personal Information of the requirement to erase your Personal Information which they hold;
• In the event that your Personal Information has been published online the Company shall endeavour to ensure that any links or references are also removed.

30) The Company may refuse to erase your Personal Information only 

• to exercise the right of freedom of expression and information;
• to comply with a legal obligation or for the performance of a public interest task or exercise of official authority;
• for public health purposes in the public interest;
• archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific research historical research or statistical purposes; or
• the exercise or defence of legal claims.

Non-Personal Information

31) Like all other websites, the Company uses analytical software to gather and collect anonymous information (from which you are not personally identifiable) whilst you browse the Website.
 
32) This includes information about the device and software that you use to access the Website including the geographical location (Country) of the server used for access, browser type, pages viewed, length of visit and referral source.

33) This information helps us to generate reports about the usage of the Website, monitor trends, and enables us to maintain a Website that is user friendly and compatible with popular equipment and software.

34) We shall only use cookies which collect personal information in accordance with our Cookie Policy.