Privacy Policy

At Global House Midlands, we’re committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. 

The aim of this privacy policy is to explain when and why we collect personal information about people who visit our website, how we use it and how we may disclose it to other organisations. 

Home Furniture Store is registered in England and Wales.  The registered address is 158-164 Hurst Street, Birmingham, UK, B5 6RY, United Kingdom

What information do we collect about you?

Personal information means any information that may be used to identify you, such as, your name, title, phone number, email address or postal address.  We obtain information about you when you use our website, for example when you contact us about products and services, if you opted to receive regular newsletters or have applied for a vacancy.

We use several products to analyse visitors to our website in order to understand our visitors’ needs and to improve our site.  Sometimes our systems are able to matchup your visit with your personal information so that we can help to provide the right products and services to you.  The personal information we collect might include your name, email address, IP address and information regarding what pages are accessed.

How will we use the information about you?

At Global House Midlands, we always ensure we are acting fairly and lawfully, and this extends to how we use your information.  We will not sell or rent your information to third parties, nor will we share your information with third parties for marketing purposes. 

We may pass your information to our third party service providers, agents, subcontractors and other associated organisation for the purposes of completing tasks and providing services to you on our behalf (for example to send newsletters to you).  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 purposes.  Please be assured that we will not release your information to third parties for them to use for their own 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.

We may use your information to:

• Send you communications which you have requested and that may be of interest to you.
• To notify you of any order updates.
• To notify you of changes to our services

We may analyse your personal information to create a profile of your interests and preferences so that we can contact you with information relevant to you. We may make use of additional information about you when it is available from external sources to help us do this effectively. We may also use your personal information to detect and reduce fraud and credit risk.

We review our retention periods for personal data on a regular basis.  We are legally required to hold some types of information for the purposes of satisfying any legal requirements. We will hold your personal data on our systems in accordance with our retention policy and for as long as is necessary for the relevant activity, or as long as is set out in any relevant contract you hold with us. 

Marketing

You have a choice about whether or not you wish to receive information from us. After you have shared your data with us, we may use it to send direct marketing communications about our products and services.  We will not contact you for marketing purposes by email, phone or post unless you have given your prior consent. You can change your marketing preferences at any time by contacting support@ghmshop.co.uk

If you have opted out of receiving future publications from us, your contact details will remain on our opt-out list to prevent you from receiving any further publications from us. 

Access to your information

The accuracy of your information is important to us.  If any of the information we hold is inaccurate or out of date, please contact support@ghmshop.co.uk who will be more than happy to update our records. 

Where we store your information

All of the information which you submit via our website is stored and located within the European Union.  We will not export the information you provide outside of the EU.

Cookies

We store cookies only to help provide  abetter user experience. All  data store is anonymised

Other Websites

Our website contains links to other websites.  This privacy policy only applies to this website so when you link to other websites you should read their own privacy policies.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

We may update this policy from time to time and we suggest you review this page occasionally. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this policy and the way in which we use this data please get in touch with support@ghmshop.co.uk.  This policy is reviewed regularly and was last updated in May 2021.

Complaints

Sometimes things do go wrong and we will always try our best to resolve them.  Please do speak to us first as at support@ghmshop.co.uk or 0121 238 5739 we may be able to quickly and easily resolve the problem.  In the event that you wish to make a complaint about how your personal data is being processed, or how your complaint has been handled, you have the right to lodge a complaint directly with the Information Commissioners’ Office who’s website is http://www.ico.org.uk/ or calling 0121 238 5739.

How to contact us

Please contact us if you have any questions about our privacy policy or the information we hold about you.  You can email us using support@ghmshop.co.uk, write to us at our address above, or call us on 0121 238 5739