- PRIVACY POLICY
- COOKIES
PRIVACY POLICY
When you contact M F Equipment UK LLP trading as Casagrande UK about products or services offered or visit our website, you trust us with your information. This Privacy Policy, together with our Cookies Policy (https://www.casagrandeuk.com/cookies) explains how we use any information we collect about you and forms part of our Conditions of Website Use.
This website is operated by M F Equipment UK LLP trading as Casagrande UK We are committed to protecting your privacy and we comply with data protection laws applicable to the United Kingdom.
This privacy policy applies to personal information about:
- Visitors to our website
- Customers who purchase goods or services or create an account with us
- Our suppliers
WHAT IS PERSONAL INFORMATION?
Personal information is any information relating to an individual who can be identified directly or indirectly, often by name, account number, location, an online identifier, or other factors specific to their identity.
Personal information may include “special category data” relating to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, membership of a trade union, physical or mental health, and criminal records and allegations
As a rule, we do not collect “special category data” about visitors to our website or our customers or suppliers. The exception is where we identify suspected criminal activity such as fraudulent claims or the use of stolen payment card details. In this case, we will record details of the suspected criminal activity and may take appropriate action, including refusing to accept orders, make payments or give refunds. We may also report the incident to the relevant bank or payment card issuer or the police or other appropriate authorities.
See below for details of how we may use your personal information.
Website Visitors: The personal information we collect about you and how we use it.
You can visit and browse our website without providing your name or contact details.
Like many websites, our server logs capture details of your operating system, browser software, IP (Internet Protocol) address and Uniform Resource Locator (URL), including the date and time of your visit.
We use cookies to analyse how our site is used by visitors and to provide some of the functionality – see our cookies policy https://www.casagrandeuk.com/cookies for more information.
You may choose to provide your contact details (name, address, business, job title, email address, telephone number).
If you purchase products or services from us, we may use your personal information in the following ways.
Enquiries and Information :
- to answer your questions or provide you with information you have requested;
- to keep track of sales and enquiries
- to keep you informed about our products and services
- to notify you about important changes or developments to our site or services;
- to provide a more personalised online experience by showing you the most relevant products and offers
Orders and Account Management:
- to process your order
- to help with any questions if you have started an order but not completed it
- to arrange visits to your home (e.g. to carry out a survey or installation)
- to manage deliveries, returns and refunds
- to manage your account, including carrying out identity checks (if applicable)
- to manage your credit account (if applicable) including carrying out credit checks
Customer Relationship :
- to monitor how our customers, transact with us in store and online (for more information see Understanding Our Customers below)
- to contact you for your views on our products and services
- to publish trends and/or to improve usefulness and content of our website
- to track activity on our site and to provide a more personalised online experience
- to link with social media sites and services, for example, for advertising purposes
- for market research purposes, by tracking activity on our site or in store (on an anonymous basis) to identify trends and/or to improve usefulness and content
Other :
- for product liability purposes
- to deal with enquiries and complaints
- for claims management and insurance purposes
- for general record keeping purposes
Suppliers: The personal information we collect about you and how we use it.
If you supply products or services to us, we may use your personal information in the following ways:
- for order processing and management;
- to manage deliveries, installations, returns and refunds;
- for product liability purposes;
- to manage your account, including conducting credit and other background checks where applicable;
- for market research purposes;
- to notify you about important changes or developments to our websites or services;
- for supply chain management;
- to deal with enquiries and complaints;
- for claims management and insurance purposes; and
- for record keeping purposes.
If you are a supplier and you have any questions about how we use your personal information, please contact the Commercial Team or your usual business contact.
UNDERSTANDING OUR CUSTOMERS
So that we can provide a better service, we want to understand the shopping patterns of our customers, how customers select the products and services they ultimately buy, which apps and technology customers prefer to use, and how successful our advertising and promotional campaigns have been. We may use several different techniques to do this:
- We may connect with social media sites so that we can better target our advertising while you are using these services and improve the relevance of what you see
We also use cookies to track online activity. You can find out more about this in ours. The information collected by cookies does not in itself identify a visitor to our site but if you are a customer or account holder we may be able to identify you from both sets of information combined.
KEEPING YOU INFORMED
If you sign up to receive updates or have bought or enquired about our products or services, we may use the information we collect to let you know about our other products and services which may be of interest to you and to keep you updated with information about promotional offers and what is coming soon
We review the products and services you buy and we also analyse your use of our website and the searches you make on this and other websites. We use this information to tailor the marketing you receive from us so it is as relevant as possible. This may include serving you with adverts on social media and other third-party websites.
If you agree, we may pass your information to suppliers and manufacturers who are interested in getting in touch with you about their products and services.
You can opt-out of receiving marketing communications from us at any time by contacting our customer services team through one of the options on our contact-us page
CALL MONITORING
Some telephone calls may be monitored. Call monitoring may be carried out for the following purposes :
- training and quality control;
- as evidence of conversations; and/or
- for the prevention or detection of crime (e.g. fraudulent claims).
RETENTION
We will retain your personal information for as long as needed for the legitimate business purposes described above.
If you are a visitor to the website, we will retain your information for a limited period to respond to your query, provide you with the information you require or send you updates on our products and services for as long as you indicate that you are happy for us to do so.
If you make a one-off purchase, we normally keep records of the transaction for 7 years. If you are an account customer or a supplier, we normally keep records for 7 years after the closure of your account or the last purchase or sale you made. In all cases, this is for accounting, tax, and product liability purposes.
Your information may be retained for longer than this if there are valid legal grounds for us to do so, for example, if required by law or court order, or as needed to defend or pursue legal claims.
WORKING WITH SERVICE PROVIDERS
Like most organizations, we engage service providers to run our website and IT systems, to help us administer accounts, to conduct credit checks and fraud screening, and to handle marketing campaigns. We also work with a large number of suppliers who provide products and delivery services to us.
We will only provide these companies with the information they need to deliver the service we have engaged them for and they are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose. Whenever we share personal information about our customers or visitors to our website with our service providers, we will put in place contracts that require the service provider to protect the information and keep it secure.
OTHER DISCLOSURES
Your information may be shared within the Casagrande Group for account management (including credit accounts), analysis, and reporting.
Your personal data may be disclosed to the following third parties for the purposes described above :
- tax, customs and excise authorities
- regulators, courts and the police
- fraud screening agencies
- central and local government
- insurance companies
- other professional advisors
We may also disclose your personal information if we believe that the disclosure is necessary to enforce or apply our terms and conditions or otherwise protect and defend our rights, property or the safety of our customers and other users of the website.
We may disclose and/or transfer your personal information in connection with a reorganisation of all or part of our business, if the majority of our shares are bought by another company or if we transfer all or some of our assets to another company.
SECURITY
We are committed to safeguarding the personal information you provide to us. We use appropriate measures to protect the information that you submit through our website and the information we collect and store about our customers. We restrict access to personal information. Only employees who need the information to do their jobs have access to it.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of information you submit via our website and any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will take appropriate technical and organizational measures to safeguard your personal data against loss, theft, and unauthorized use, access, or modification.
If you have created an account or registered to use any online services, your account details may be password protected. It is your responsibility to keep your password confidential and to sign out once you have finished browsing.
CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
This privacy policy was last updated in October 2024. Any changes to this privacy policy will be posted here. Please refer back to this page regularly.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
Links may be provided on our website to other websites that are not operated by us. If you use these links, you will leave our website. You should note that we are not responsible for the contents of any third-party website. External sites will have their own privacy policies which you should read carefully.
MARKETING
You can opt-out of receiving marketing at any time by using the unsubscribe option in the message or by contacting our customer service team https://www.casagrandeuk.com/contact. You can also opt-out of postal and telephone marketing by contacting us using the contact us link on the website.
If you prefer not to receive the marketing that is tailored to suit your customer profile, please contact our customer service team https://www.casagrandeuk.com/contact. You will still receive generic marketing unless you opt-out of receiving marketing entirely.
ACCESS AND CORRECTION
If you would like to correct or update any of your other personal information, or if you would like a copy of the personal information we hold, please contact [email protected]. We may need to ask for proof of your identity before we can respond to your request.
OTHER RIGHTS
You may also have the following rights in relation to your personal information :
- in certain circumstances, the right to restrict or object to the processing of your personal information (including profiling), or request that your personal information be deleted
- where you have provided personal information voluntarily, or otherwise consented to its use, the right to withdraw your consent
- in certain circumstances, the right to receive a copy of the personal information which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to request that we transfer that information to another party (known as “data portability”)
- the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority (see further below)
LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING
Some of the information we collect is provided by you voluntarily (and therefore with your permission), for example when you sign up to join a mailing list or submit a query.
If you purchase items from us, or if you supply products or services to us, most of the information we collect is necessary so that we can fulfill the contract between us.
The remainder of the information is collected for our legitimate business purposes, which include :
- To keep in touch with current, past and prospective customers
- To provide online account management and related services
- To gain an understanding of how our customers interact with us so we can provide the most relevant products and services
- To monitor the use of our website and improve its facilities
- To identify suspected criminal activity and take appropriate action
- To manage our supply chain and the relationship with our suppliers
- To protect and defend our rights
When we collect personal information from you we will indicate whether it is mandatory or voluntary – this is done on the website by using asterisks to mark mandatory fields.
COOKIE POLICY
Document Version 2.0.1 – Effective From 2023/05/10
ABOUT THIS POLICY
This policy aims to inform you about the cookies we use on our website and why. You should not use our website if you are not completely happy with this policy. If you do use our website we will assume that you are happy with the terms of this policy.
This policy is reviewed regularly and is subject to change. We advise that you check back here from time to time to keep up to date with our policies.
WHAT ARE COOKIES
Cookies are small text files that are saved by your web browser when you visit a website. They are widely used in order to make websites more secure, work more efficiently, and provide information about how a website is used.
OUR COOKIES
The table below explains the cookies our website uses and why. Our cookies are used to enable the website to function effectively and are not used to store personally identifiable information.
ADDITIONAL COOKIES
As well as our standard cookies you may also find some additional third-party cookies delivered to your browser via our website as detailed below.
GOOGLE TOOLS
We currently use some of the analytical tools provided by Google to enable us to understand how people use our website. They are used to help Google capture anonymous data about a user’s journey around a website and the information is aggregated to allow us to analyze trends and make improvements etc.
For more information about the Google system, the cookies used, and their data privacy policies you can visit their information pages. To opt-out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites (not just ours), you can visit their opt-out information page.
HOW DO I CHANGE MY COOKIE SETTINGS?
Most web browsers allow some control of cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www. all about cookies.org.