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Privacy Policy
Last updated 25/11/2022
Gillibrand Accident Repair Centre is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data.
This notice explains how we use any personal data about you, in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR).
Data Protection Principles
The GDPR sets out that personal data we hold about you must be:
- Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way
- Collected only for valid purposes that we have clearly explained to you and not used
in any way that is incompatible with those purposes - Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes
- Accurate and kept up to date
- Kept only as long as it is necessary for the purposes we have told you about
- Kept securely
The Kind Of Data We Would Hold About
Personal data means an information about an individual from which that person can be identified. We collect, store, and use the following types of personal data about you:
- Personal contact details such as name, title, addresses, telephone numbers and email
- Your credit card details and/or bank details
- Your insurance claim details (if our work is part of an insurance claim)
- Your vehicle information (make, model, registration number, VIN number)
- Your proof of identity (driving licence and/or passport)
- Your image on security CCTV around our site
- Your communications with us and any feedback you provide
How Your Personal Data Is Collected
- From you directly, either verbally or written
- From your insurance company
- From your fleet manager
- From you accident management company
Some personal data may, where lawful to do so, or with your consent, be collected by us from third parties (e.g DVLA to check your driving licence when using our courtesy vehicles).
How We Use The Information About You
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to in the following circumstances:
- Where we need to perform our services to you
- Where we need to comply with a legal obligation
- Where necessary for legitimate interests by us or a third party, and your interest and fundamental rights do not override those interests. For instance, your insurance company.
Change Of Purpose
We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it. 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 not that we may process your personal date without your knowledge or consent, where this is required or permitted by the law.
Automated Decision–Making
We do not use any automated decision–making processes using your personal data.
Data Sharing
We will share your personal data with the third parties and other service providers where it is necessary to perform our services to you, or where we have another legitimate interest in doing so, or where required by the law.
We require third parties to respect the security of your data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We may transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area (EEA). If we do, you can expect the same degree of protection in respect of your personal data as to that provided within the UK.
“Third parties” includes third–party service providers (including contractors and designated agents). The following third parties process personal date about you for the purposes shown:
Third Party | Data Processing Purpose |
Gillibrand Accident Repair Centre | Management of repairs Customer feedback surveys Repair guarantees Complaint handling Hire vehicles not provided by ourselves directly |
Vehicle Manufacturers | Technical support Supply of parts Warranties Customer feedback surveys |
Vehicle Dealerships | Technical support Supply of parts Vehicle system diagnostics, repair and calibration Warranty Vehicle repairs beyond the scope of our own facilities |
Vehicle Specialists | Technical support Vehicle repairs beyond the scope of our own facilities |
Hire Vehicle Providers | Hire of vehicles not provided by ourselves directly |
Vehicle Recovery Agents | Vehicle recovery, collections and delivery services |
Software & Systems Providers | Systems management of vehicle repair |
We may also need to share your personal data with a regulator or to otherwise comply with the law.
Data Security
All third parties are required to take appropriate security measure to protect your personal data. We only permit third parties to process your personal data for specified purposes in accordance with our instructions, and not for their own purposes.
We have security measure to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. We limit access to your personal data to only 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 are subject to a duty of confidentiality. If we suspect that a date breech has occurred, we will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected breach where we are legally required to do so.
Data Retention – How long we will use your data for
We 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 legal, accounting or reporting requirements, this will usually be a maximum of seven years.
In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data so that it can no longer be associated with you, in which case we may use such information without further notice to you.
Your Rights of Access, Correction, Erasure and Restriction
Under certain circumstances, by law you have the right to:
- Request access to your personal data (“data subject access request”)
- Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you
- Request erasure of your personal data
- 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 situation which makes you want to object to processing on this basis. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes
- Request the restriction of processing of your personal data
- Request the transfer of your personal data to another party
- Right to withdraw consent. To withdraw your consent please contact us directly. Once we have received notification that you have withdrawn your consent, we will no longer process your information for the purpose or purposes you originally agreed to, unless we have a legitimate basis for doing so in law
What If You Don’t Provide Personal Data
Please note that you are under no obligation to provide us with your personal data, but not providing certain data could prevent us from providing our services to you, or we may be prevented from complying with our legal obligations.
If you have any questions about this privacy notice, please contact us directly:
Gillibrand Accident Repair Centre
Challenge Court
Blakewater Road
Blackburn
BB1 5EU
01254 277100
info@gillibrand.co.uk