Privacy Notice

The website for https://www.bermondseymechanics.co.uk is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Our privacy notice explains when and why we collect personal information about people who visit our website, how we use that information, the conditions under which we may disclose information to others with your consent and how we keep information secure.

We may change our privacy notice from time to time so please check this page periodically to ensure that you are happy with any changes. By using our website, you agree to be bound by this notice.

Any questions regarding this Notice and our privacy practices should be sent via our website contact form.

WHO ARE WE?
Bermondsey Mechanics in London is a specialised automotive repair and maintenance service provider located in the South London area of Bermondsey. They offer a range of services that cater to various vehicle needs, from routine maintenance to complex mechanical repairs. Their expertise covers areas such as diagnostics, brake and clutch repairs, engine tuning, suspension work, and electrical diagnostics. They also provide MOT testing to ensure vehicles meet UK safety and environmental standards.

HOW DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION ABOUT YOU?
We obtain information about you when you use our website contact form and send us an email.

WHAT TYPE OF INFORMATION IS COLLECTED FROM YOU?
The personal information we collect might include your name, email address, postal address and other information that you consent to be provided.

HOW IS YOUR INFORMATION USED?
We may use your information to:

to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts or agreements entered in to by you and https://www.bermondseymechanics.co.uk.
seek your feedback on the products, services and events we provide
notify you of relevant changes to our products, services and events
send you communications which you have requested and that may be of interest to you for legitimate business purposes

We review our retention periods for personal information on a regular basis. We are legally required to hold some types of information to fulfil our statutory obligations, such as records that we keep for HM Revenue and Customs.

We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant activity, or if is set out in any relevant contract you hold with https://www.bermondseymechanics.co.uk.

WHO HAS ACCESS TO YOUR INFORMATION?

We will not sell or rent your information to third parties.
We will not share your information with third parties for marketing purposes.

Third Party Service Providers working on our behalf: We may pass your information to our third- party service providers, agents, sub-contractors and other associated organisations, for the purposes of completing tasks and providing services to you on our behalf such as the Post Office, couriers or delivery services. However, when we use third party service providers, we disclose only the personal information that is necessary to deliver the service and we have a contract in place that requires them to keep your information secure and not to use it for their own direct marketing purposes. Please be reassured that we will not release your information to third parties beyond https://www.bermondseymechanics.co.uk network for them to use for their own direct marketing purposes, unless you have requested us to do so, or we are required to do so by law, for example, by a court order or for the purposes of prevention of fraud or other crime.

DATA RETENTION
Your personal information will only be retained for as long as is necessary for the processing or to comply with a legal retention obligation. If you have any questions about the retention of your data, please refer to the contact details below.

YOUR CHOICES
You have a choice about whether you wish to receive information from us. If you do not want to receive direct marketing communications from us about our products, then you can select your choices by ticking the relevant boxes on our website contact form on which we collect your information.

We will not contact you for marketing purposes by email unless you have given your prior consent.

You can change your marketing preferences at any time by notifying us on our website contact form.

HOW CAN YOU ACCESS AND UPDATE YOUR INFORMATION?
The accuracy of your information is important to us. We are working on ways to make it easier for you to review and correct the information that we hold about you. In the meantime, if you change your email address, or any of the other information we hold is inaccurate or out of date, please notify us via our website contact form.

You have the right to ask for a copy of the information that we hold about you. Please submit your request in writing via email: bermondseymechanics@gmail.com.

SECURITY PRECAUTIONS IN PLACE TO PROTECT THE LOSS, MISUSE OR ALTERATION OF YOUR INFORMATION
When you give us personal information, we take steps to ensure that it’s treated securely. Non-sensitive details (your email address etc.) are transmitted normally over the Internet, and this can never be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we take great care to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your information, we will make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.

USE OF COOKIES
Like many other websites, https://www.bermondseymechanics.co.uk uses cookies. 'Cookies' are small pieces of information sent by an organisation to your computer and stored on your hard drive to allow that website to recognise you when you visit. While cookies collect statistical data about your browsing actions and patterns, they do not identify you as an individual. This helps us to improve our website and deliver a better more personalised web user experience.

It is possible to switch off cookies by setting your browser preferences. For more information on how to switch off cookies on your computer, visit our full cookies notice. Turning cookies off may result in a loss of functionality when using our website.

For more information about how we use Cookies, click here.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
Our website may contain links to other websites run by other organisations. This privacy notice applies only to the https://www.bermondseymechanics.co.uk website‚ so we encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit. https://www.bermondseymechanics.co.uk cannot be held responsible for the privacy notices and practices of other sites even if you access them using links from our website.

In addition, if you linked to our website from a third-party website, https://www.bermondseymechanics.co.uk cannot be held responsible for the privacy notices and practices of the owners and operators of that third party site and recommend that you check the privacy notice of that third party site.

16 OR UNDER?
We are dedicated to protecting the privacy of children aged 16 or under. If you are aged 16 or under‚ please get your parent/guardian's permission beforehand whenever you provide us with personal information.

TRANSFERRING YOUR INFORMATION OUTSIDE OF EUROPE
As part of the services offered to you through this website, the information which you provide to us may be transferred to countries outside the European Union (“EU”). By way of example, this may happen if any of our servers are from time to time located in a country outside of the EU. These countries may not have similar data protection laws to the UK. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing, or processing. If we transfer your information outside of the EU in this way, we will take steps to ensure that appropriate security measures are taken with the aim of ensuring that your privacy rights continue to be protected as outlined in this Notice. Currently, our servers are located within the European Union and the United States covered under standard, contractual clauses.

If you use our services while you are outside the EU, your information may be transferred outside the EU to provide you with those services.

ANY QUESTIONS?
If you have a question, of any type, about the https://www.bermondseymechanics.co.uk website or the use to which we put information we gather, please e-mail: bermondseymechanics@gmail.com.

We welcome your views about the website and our Privacy Notice. You can contact us with any queries, complaints, or comments.

HOW TO CONTACT BERMONDSEY MECHANICS:
Tel: 07712 449957
E-mail: bermondseymechanics@gmail.com

Review of this notice: https://www.bermondseymechanics.co.uk keeps this Privacy Notice under regular review.

This Privacy Notice was last updated in November 2024.