INTRODUCTION
JB Hardware & Tools are committed to the protection of personal data of employees and other individuals.
This Privacy Statement (the "Privacy Statement") describes the information that JB Hardware & Tools collects from or about you ("Personal Data"), and how we use and to whom we disclose such data. JB Hardware & Tools company which controls the Personal Data is the so-called “data controller” for the Personal Data that is processed about you.
PURPOSE OF THIS DOCUMENT
This Privacy Statement is developed to guide the activities of JB Hardware & Tools and inform Data Subjects of their rights related to protection of Personal Data.
ORGANISATIONS AND DATA SUBJECTS COVERED BY THIS STATEMENT
All references in this Privacy Statement to "JB Hardware & Tools", "we", "us", "our" and like terms should be interpreted accordingly.
This Privacy Statement applies to the Personal Data of all individuals that is either a Customer, an employee of a Customer, a Supplier or an employee of a Supplier or individuals registering their personal data on JB Hardware & Tools.com(the “ Data Subject”).
LEGAL FRAMEWORK AND COMPLIANCE
The JB Hardware & Tools Group has entered a set of data protection rules and policies, with common data protection rules across JB Hardware & Tools, we ensure an adequate level of protection for all Data Subjects including when Personal Data is transferred between different Group companies to different countries.
It is JB Hardware & Tools's policy to comply with the privacy law within each country in which we operate. Sometimes this legislation and/or a Data Subject's right to data protection are different from one country to another. Data Subjects keep any rights they have under local law. This Privacy Statement shall apply only where it provides additional protection. Where local law provides more protection than this Privacy Statement, local law shall apply.
WHAT IS PERSONAL DATA?
Personal Data is any information related to a person that can be used to directly or indirectly identify the person. It can be anything from a name, a photo, an email address, bank details, posts on social networking websites, medical information, or a computer IP address.
For the purposes of this Privacy Statement, Personal Data is any information about an identifiable individual. Personal Data does not include anonymous or non-personal information (i.e., information that cannot be associated with or tracked back to a specific individual).
FOR WHICH BUSINESS PUPROSES DO WE COLLECT PERSONAL DATA?
Personal Data of Data Subjects, shall be collected, used or otherwise Processed for one (or more) of the following Business Purposes:
- Providing, development and improvement of products and/or services purposes:
- Conclusion and execution of agreements with Customers, Suppliers and Business Partners:
- Relationship management and marketing purposes:
- This includes activities such as maintaining and promoting contact with Customers, Suppliers and Business Partners, account management, customer service, recalls and the development, execution, and analysis of market surveys and marketing strategies.
- Business process execution, internal management, and management reporting purposes:
- Health, safety and security purposes:
-In order to comply with legal obligations.
- In order to protect vital interests of Employees or Data Subjects.
- Cookies (please see our Cookie Policy for more information).
WHAT KIND OF PERSONAL DATA DOES JB Hardware & Tools COLLECT FROM YOU?
JB Hardware & Tools collects and maintains different types of Personal Data in respect of Data Subjects. This includes e.g. the Personal Data contained in:
- contact information such as name and address, telephone numbers and email address;
NOTIFICATION AND CONSENT
Privacy laws do not generally require to obtain your consent for the collection, use or disclosure of Personal Data for the purpose of conducting the business purposes of JB Hardware & Tools. In addition, we may collect, use or disclose your Personal Data without your knowledge or consent where we are permitted or required by applicable law or regulatory requirements to do so.
In some situations, however, it might be that your consent is required for our collection, use or disclosure of your Personal Data. In such cases you may at any time, subject to legal or contractual restrictions and reasonable Statement, withdraw your consent. If you choose to withdraw your consent please send an email to your contact person in JB Hardware & Tools or to info@jbhardwaretools.com
HOW IS YOUR PERSONAL DATA PROTECTED?
JB Hardware & Tools endeavours to maintain physical, technical and procedural safeguards that are appropriate to the sensitivity of the Personal Data in question. These safeguards are designed to protect your Personal Data from loss and unauthorized access, copying, use, modification or disclosure.
PERSONAL DATA RETENTION
Except as otherwise permitted or required by laws or regulations, JB Hardware & Tools endeavours to retain your Personal Data only for as long as we believe is necessary to fulfil the purposes for which the Personal Data was collected. We may, instead of destroying or erasing your Personal Data, make it anonymous so that it cannot be associated with or tracked back to you.
UPDATING YOUR PERSONAL DATA
It is important that the Personal Data in our records is both accurate and current. If your Personal Data happens to change, please keep us informed of such changes.
ACCESS, CORRECTIONS AND DELETING PERSONAL DATA
You have the right to access information about your Personal Data. If you want to review, verify, correct or delete your Personal Data, please send an email to info@jbhardwaretools.com
We will take necessary steps to confirm the data subject’s identity before providing any information regarding personal data. The request will, when the requestors identity is confirmed, be answered within 30 days. In some instances, the request may take longer, but we will inform you accordingly and send an answer at the latest within 90 days.
Your right to access the Personal Data is not absolute. There are instances where law or regulations allow or require us to refuse to provide some of the Personal Data. It may also be statutory requirements preventing us from deleting some Personal Data. In the event that we cannot adhere to your request, we will endeavour to inform you of the reasons why, subject to any legal or regulatory restrictions.
RETURN POLICY
We try our best to ensure that our customers are happy, however, occasionally you may need to replace or return an item. If so this should be done within 14 days from the date of purchase. Item to be returned should be unused and in original packing free from dirt or damage.
REVISIONS TO THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT
JB Hardware & Tools may from time to time make changes to this Privacy Statement to reflect changes in our legal obligations or in the manner we deal with your Personal Data. We will communicate any revised version of this Privacy Statement. The, at all times applicable and updated Data Protection Statement is available on www.jbhardwaretools.com. Any changes to this Privacy Statement will be effective from the time they are communicated. Any change that relates to why we collect, use or disclose your Personal Data, that require your consent, will not apply to you until we have obtained your consent.