Unit 16, Kingston Business Park
Port Glasgow
PA14 5DG

Tel: 01475 744477 / Mobile: 07879 636764
Email: aspireupholstery@gmx.com

Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy – Aspire Upholstery

ASPIRE UPHOLSTERY is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring that your personal information is handled in a safe and responsible way. This policy outlines how we aim to achieve this and includes the information collected when:

 

Definition of Personal Data

Personal Data means any data that relates to an identifiable person who can be directly/indirectly identified from that data. In this case, it means personal data that you give to us via our site.

By providing your personal data, you agree that we can use your personal data in accordance with this policy.

Ensure you understand this policy in its entirety and take your time to read it.

Who are we?

ASPIRE UPHOLSTERY is an upholstery specialist based in PORT GLASGOW, INVERCLYDE

Our registered address is: UNIT 16 KINGSTON BUSINESS PARK, ARDGOWAN STREET, PORT GLASGOW, INVERCLYDE, PA14 5DG

How do we collect information from you?

We collect information when you: make an enquiry.

What type of information is collected from you?

You may be asked to submit personal information about yourself when you make an enquiry. We will collect this information so we can fulfill your enquiry.

ASPIRE UPHOLSTERY collects information such as:

  • name
  • e-mail address (used for correspondence)
  • home or work address
  • Contact number – home and/or mobile
  • billing information taken for deposits and payment

 

When you access our sites:

There is “Device Information” about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by ASPIRE UPHOLSTERY. This information can include:

  • device type (e.g. mobile, computer, laptop, tablet)
  • cookies
  • operating system
  • IP address
  • browser type
  • browser information (e.g., type, language, and history)
  • domain names
  • access times
  • settings
  • referring website addresses
  • other data about your device to provide the services as otherwise described in this policy.

 

Location information:

If you use our website, we may receive your generic location (such as city or neighbourhood).

 

Careers:

You may submit your CV if you’re interested in working for us to ASPIREUPHOLSTERY@GMX.COM.  This information may include:

  • personal details
  • employment details
  • education
  • salary history
  • other relevant details

We will use this information to assess your application. We may also keep it in our records for future reference. Please get in contact if you would no longer like us to hold your records at ASPIREUPHOLSTERY@GMX.COM.

How is your information used?

Our use of your personal data will always have a lawful basis, either because it is necessary to complete a job, because you have consented to our use of your personal data (e.g. by subscribing to emails), or because it is in our legitimate interests.

We require the information outlined in the previous section to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

  • Internal record keeping.
  • Send you service emails (job confirmation).
  • Improve our products and services.
  • We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests.

Who has access to your information?

We will not sell, distribute, or lease your personal information to third parties. Any personal information we request from you will be safeguarded under current legislation.

We will only share your information with companies if necessary to deliver services on our behalf.  For example service providers, third-party payment processors, and other third parties to provide our Sites and fulfil your requests, and as otherwise consented to by you or as permitted by applicable law.

Third parties whose content appears on our Site may use third-party Cookies, as detailed below. Please refer to ‘Use of Cookies’ for more information on controlling Cookies. Please note that we do not control the activities of such third parties, nor the data they collect and use and advise you to check the privacy policies of any such third parties.

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information at any point.  Please refer to the Your Choices section of this Privacy Policy for details.

How and where do we store data?

We only keep your personal data for as long as we need to /12 months in order to use it as described in this privacy policy, and/or for as long as we have your permission to keep it.

Profiling

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.

Your choices

We will not contact you for marketing purposes by email, phone or text message unless you have given your prior consent. We will not pass your details to any third parties for marketing purposes unless you have expressly permitted us to. Furthermore, you can change your marketing preferences at any time by contacting us by email at ASPIREUPHOLSTERY@GMX.COM.

You have a right to request a copy of the personal information that ASPIRE UPHOLSTERY holds about you and have any inaccuracies corrected. Any such requests should be made to this email address: ASPIREUPHOLSTERY@GMX.COM.

You have the right to withdraw your consent to us using your personal data at any time, and to request that we delete it. We do not keep your personal data for any longer than is necessary in light of the reason(s) for which it was first collected. Data will, therefore, be retained for the following periods (or its retention will be determined on the following basis):

  • 12 MONTHS

Security

Data security is very important to us, and to protect your data we have taken suitable measures to safeguard and secure data collected through our Site.
Cookie Policy
This website uses cookies to better the users experience while visiting the website. Where applicable this website uses a cookie control system allowing the user on their first visit to the website to allow or disallow the use of cookies on their computer / device. This complies with recent legislation requirements for websites to obtain explicit consent from users before leaving behind or reading files such as cookies on a user’s computer / device.

The cookies in use to deliver Google Analytics service are described in the table below.

 

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Google Analytics

These cookies are used to store information, such as what time your current visit occurred, whether you have been to the site before, and what site referred you to the web page.

These cookies contain no personally identifiable information but they will use your computer’s IP address to know from where in the world you are accessing the Internet.

Google stores the information collected by these cookies on servers in the United States. Google may transfer this information to third-parties where required to do so by law, or where such third-parties process the information on Google’s behalf.

OPT-OUT
In order to provide website visitors with more choice on how data is collected by Google Analytics, Google has developed the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. The add-on communicates with the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js) to stop data being sent to Google Analytics. The Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on does not affect usage of the website in any other way. A link to further information on the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on is provided below for your convenience.

http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=None

For more information on the usage of cookies by Google Analytics please see the Google website. A link to the privacy advice for this product is provided below for your convenience.

http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html

DISABLING COOKIES
If you would like to restrict the use of cookies you can control this in your Internet browser. Links to advice on how to do this for the most popular Internet browsers are provided below for convenience and will be available for the Internet browser of your choice either online or via the software help (normally available via key F1).

Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows7/Block-enable-or-allow-cookies
Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&answer=95647&p=cpn_cookies
Mozilla Firefox: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Blocking%20cookies
Apple Safari: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=32467

CONTACT & COMMUNICATION
Users contacting this website and/or its owners do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely. Every effort has been made to ensure a safe and secure form to email submission process but advise users using such form to email processes that they do so at their own risk.

This website and its owners use any information submitted to provide you with further information about the products / services they offer or to assist you in answering any questions or queries you may have submitted. This includes using your details to subscribe you to any email newsletter program the website operates but only if this was made clear to you and your express permission was granted when submitting any form to email process. Or whereby you the consumer have previously purchased from or enquired about purchasing from the company a product or service that the email newsletter relates to. This is by no means an entire list of your user rights in regard to receiving email marketing material. Your details are not passed on to any third parties.

SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS
Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and its owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.

Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate / engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. This website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.

This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.

SHORTENED LINKS IN SOCIAL MEDIA
This website and its owners through their social media platform accounts may share web links to relevant web pages. By default some social media platforms shorten lengthy urls [web addresses] (this is an example: http://bit.ly/zyVUBo).

Users are advised to take caution and good judgement before clicking any shortened urls published on social media platforms by this website and its owners. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine urls are published many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.

Use of ‘cookies’

Like many other websites, we use cookies. We use them to help you personalise your online experience.

A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server which allows the website to recognise you when you visit. Cookies only collect data about browsing actions and patterns, and do not identify you as an individual.

We use cookies for the following purposes:

  • Authentication, personalisation and security: cookies help us verify your account and device and determine when you log in, so we can make it easier for you to access the services and provide the appropriate experiences and features. We also use cookies to help prevent fraudulent use of login credentials.
  • Performance and analytics: cookies help us analyse how the services are being accessed and used, and enable us to track the performance of the services. For example, we use cookies to determine if you viewed a page or opened an email. This helps us provide you with information that you find interesting. We also use cookies to provide insights regarding your End Users and your sites’ performance, such as page views, conversion rates, device information, visitor IP addresses, and referral sites.
  • Third Parties: Third Party services may use cookies to help you sign into their services from our services. We also may use third-party cookies, such as Google Analytics, to assist with analysing performance. Any third party cookie usage is governed by the privacy policy of the third party placing the cookie.
  • Opting Out: You can set your browser to not accept cookies, but this may limit your ability to use the services.

 

Our Site may contain links to other websites. Please note that we have no control over how your data is collected, stored, or used by other websites and we advise you to check the privacy policies of any such websites before providing any data to them.

What happens if our business changes hands?

We may, from time to time, expand or reduce our business and this may involve the sale and/or the transfer of control of all or part of our business. Any personal data that you have provided will, where it is relevant to any part of our business that is being transferred, be transferred along with that part. The new owner or newly controlling party will, under the terms of this Privacy Policy, be permitted to use that data only for the same purposes for which it was originally collected by us.

In the event that any of your data is to be transferred in such a manner, you will be contacted in advance and informed of the changes.

Changes to this statement

ASPIRE UPHOLSTERY will occasionally update this Privacy Policy to reflect company and customer feedback. ASPIRE UPHOLSTERY encourages you to periodically review this statement to be informed of how ASPIRE UPHOLSTERY is protecting your information. This policy was last updated in MAY, 2018.

Contact Information

ASPIRE UPHOLSTERY welcomes your comments regarding this Privacy Policy. If you believe that ASPIRE UPHOLSTERY has not adhered to this Privacy Policy, please contact ASPIRE UPHOLSTERY at ASPIREUPHOLSTERY@GMX.COM. We will aim to use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.

RESOURCES & FURTHER INFORMATION

 

May 2018 Edited & customised by: Aspire Upholstery ltd. Company Registration Number SC 387591 (Scotland). Registered office address: Unit 15 Kingston Business Park, Ardgowan Street, Port Glasgow, inverclyde, PA14 5DG

 

For more information on how we can help, call us today on 01475 744477 or 07879 636764 or simply fill out our contact form!

Our services

Re-upholstery

We can fix or replace the webbing, springs, fillings or foams on any existing piece of furniture.

Bespoke

We can make a piece or pieces of upholstered furniture handmade to each customer’s own specification.

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Recovery

We take the furniture and strip it of all its existing material and completely recover in a new material – vinyl or leather.

Repairs

We offer all types of furniture repairs from a broken spring, sagging seat cushions, damaged castors to all types of leather repair.

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Commercial

We can design and build all types of commercial seating to suit any premises. We can also recover/modify any existing seating.

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Caravans

We can recover all types of caravan seating, with or without buttons, along with a replacement foam option if required.

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Marine

We can undertake all manner of jobs, from a simple repair, or re-upholstery of existing seating, to a complete new build service.

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Loose covers

We can make hand-crafted washable covers to suit any type of upholstered furniture.