Privacy Policy
Carpet Cleaning Chiswick Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy explains how Carpet Cleaning Chiswick collects, uses, stores, and shares personal data relating to its customers in the Chiswick area and surrounding locations. It also explains your rights under the UK General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018. This Privacy Policy applies to all Carpet Cleaning Chiswick customers in the area, including prospective customers who make enquiries about our services.
Who We Are and Scope of This Policy
Carpet Cleaning Chiswick is a provider of carpet, rug, upholstery, and related cleaning services to residential and business customers in and around Chiswick. For the purposes of data protection law, Carpet Cleaning Chiswick is the data controller in relation to the personal data described in this Privacy Policy. This Policy covers personal data we process when you contact us, book a service, visit our website, or otherwise interact with us as a customer or prospective customer in the Chiswick area.
Types of Personal Data We Collect
We collect and process the following categories of personal data, depending on how you interact with us:
Identity and contact details, such as your name, address, property access details where relevant, and your preferred contact method. Booking and service information, such as details of the services you request, dates and times of appointments, information about the premises relevant to the cleaning service, and records of communications relating to bookings or aftercare. Payment and transaction data, such as details of payments made for our services and related billing information, processed via external payment providers. Communication data, such as emails, enquiry forms, or messages you send to us and any feedback or complaints. Technical and usage data, when you visit our website, such as the type of device and browser, approximate location based on IP address, and information about how you use our site, collected using cookies or similar technologies where applicable.
How We Collect Personal Data
We collect personal data directly from you when you contact us by phone, through our website, or in person, when you make an enquiry, request a quote, or book a service. We may also collect data when you provide feedback, leave a review, or contact us with questions or concerns. In some cases, we may receive limited data indirectly, for example when an existing customer provides your details to refer you to our services, or when our processors provide us with payment status information following a transaction.
Lawful Basis for Processing Your Data
We process your personal data only where we have a lawful basis for doing so, as required by the GDPR.
Performance of a contract. We use your personal data to provide our services to you, including taking bookings, arranging access to your premises, carrying out cleaning work, handling payments, and managing any follow up support or queries. Legal obligations. We process certain data to comply with our legal responsibilities, for example to keep financial and transaction records for tax and accounting purposes, or to respond to lawful requests from public authorities. Legitimate interests. We process data where it is necessary for our legitimate business interests and where these are not overridden by your rights and freedoms. This includes managing and improving our services, handling business administration, preventing fraud, securing our systems and premises, and maintaining appropriate records. Consent. In limited cases, we may rely on your consent, for example for certain types of direct marketing or non-essential cookies. Where we rely on consent, you can withdraw your consent at any time.
Purposes for Which We Use Personal Data
We use your personal data for the following purposes. To respond to your enquiries, provide quotes, and manage bookings and appointments. To deliver carpet cleaning and related services at the agreed location and time. To process payments, manage invoices, and maintain financial records. To communicate with you about your booking, any changes to services, or follow up after a service has been completed. To address complaints, handle disputes, and provide customer support. To improve our services, for example by analysing non-identifying trends and feedback. To send you service related information and, where permitted, carefully selected marketing about similar services that may interest you. To maintain the security and integrity of our systems, business, and customers.
Sharing and Use of Data Processors
We do not sell your personal data. We may share your personal data with carefully selected third parties who act as data processors on our behalf. These processors only process your data in accordance with our instructions, for the purposes described in this Policy, and are bound by contractual obligations to protect your data.
Typical processors may include providers of booking or customer management systems, payment processing providers, accounting or invoicing platforms, external IT and website hosting or maintenance services, and professional advisers such as accountants where they need access to certain records. We may also share data with law enforcement authorities, regulators, or legal advisers where this is required by law or necessary to protect our rights or the rights of others.
International Data Transfers
Where any of our service providers are located outside the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area, we take appropriate steps to ensure that your personal data remains protected in accordance with applicable data protection laws. This may include using service providers in countries recognised as providing an adequate level of data protection, or implementing standard contractual clauses or other safeguards required by law.
Data Retention
We keep your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, and to meet legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. The specific retention period depends on the type of data and the reasons we collected it.
Typically, we retain customer and booking records for a period that allows us to manage our relationship with you, handle any queries or claims, and comply with our legal obligations. Financial and transaction data may be kept for a longer period as required by tax and accounting laws. Once personal data is no longer required, we will either delete it securely or anonymise it so that it can no longer be associated with you.
Your Data Protection Rights
Under data protection law, you have several rights in relation to your personal data. These rights apply to all Carpet Cleaning Chiswick customers in the area, subject to certain legal limitations.
Right of access. You can request confirmation of whether we hold personal data about you and ask for a copy of that data, together with information about how we use it. Right to rectification. You can ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete personal data we hold about you. Right to erasure. In certain circumstances, you can request that we delete your personal data, for example where it is no longer needed for the purposes for which it was collected and we have no legal obligation to retain it. Right to restriction of processing. You can ask us to restrict the processing of your data in specific situations, such as while we verify its accuracy or consider an objection you have raised. Right to data portability. Where we process your data based on consent or a contract and by automated means, you can request that we provide your data in a structured, commonly used, machine readable format, or ask us to transmit it to another controller where technically feasible. Right to object. You can object to our processing of your personal data based on legitimate interests, including profiling, and you always have the right to object to direct marketing. Rights related to consent. Where we rely on your consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing before withdrawal.
Exercising Your Rights and Contacting Us
If you wish to exercise any of your data protection rights, or if you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or how we handle your personal data, you can contact Carpet Cleaning Chiswick using the contact methods provided on our website or in your booking documentation. We may need to verify your identity before responding to your request to protect your privacy and security. We aim to respond to all valid requests within the time limits set by law.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant data protection supervisory authority if you believe that your data protection rights have been infringed. We encourage you to contact us first so that we can try to resolve your concerns directly.
Security of Your Personal Data
We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorised or unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction, or damage. These measures include limiting access to personal data to those employees and processors who need it to perform their duties, using secure systems where appropriate, and reviewing our security practices regularly. However, no system can be completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security of your data.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our services, legal obligations, or how we process personal data. Any updated version will be made available through our usual communication channels. We encourage you to review this Policy periodically so that you remain informed about how Carpet Cleaning Chiswick protects your personal data.