Privacy Policy

CONTENTS  

1.0    Introduction
2.0    Principles and important information
         2.1       Purpose of this privacy notice
         2.2       Controller
         2.3       Changes to the privacy notice and your duty to inform us of changes
         2.4       Third-party links
3.0    The data we collect
         3.1       If you fail to provide personal data
4.0    How is your personal data collected?
         4.1       How we use your personal data
         4.2       Purposes for which we will use your personal data
5.0    Marketing
         5.1       Promotional offers from us
         5.2       Third-party Marketing
         5.3       Opting out
         5.4       Cookies
         5.5       Change of purpose
6.0    Disclosures of your personal data
7.0    International Transfers
8.0    Data security
9.0    Data retention
10.0   Your legal rights
         10.1      Fees
         10.2      What we may need from you
         10.3      Time limit to respond
11.0   Glossary

Introduction

ITW Limited trading as Avery Weigh-Tronix (the Company) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy notice will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

Please use the Glossary at clause 11.0 for clarity on the meaning of some terms used in this privacy notice.

2.0       Principles and important information

2.1       Purpose of this privacy notice

This privacy notice aims to give you information on how the Company collects and processes your personal data through your use of our website, including any data you may provide through this website when you sign up for usage and/or purchase a product or service.

It is important that you read this privacy notice together with any other privacy notice or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy notice supplements the other notices and is not intended to override them.

2.2       Controller

The Company is made up of different legal entities and this Privacy Notice is issued on behalf of ITW Limited trading as Avery Weigh-Tronix (the Company). The company is a ‘data controller’ and gathers and uses certain information about you. This information is also used by our affiliated entities and group companies, namely ITW ltd., AWTX, GSE, Salter, Brecknell, Dillon, Railweight, Central Weighing and/or Exactrak (our ‘group companies’) and so, in this policy, references to ‘we’ or ‘us’ or ‘our’ mean the Company and/or our group companies.

We will let you know which entity will be the controller for your data when you purchase a product or service with us. The Company is a data controller and responsible for our associate website/s.

We have appointed a Data Controller who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this privacy notice. If you have any questions about this privacy notice, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact the Data Controller at [email protected].

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance at [email protected]

2.3       Changes to the privacy notice and your duty to inform us of changes

This version is dated on the cover of this notice. Historic versions of our privacy notice will be archived and can be obtained by contacting us directly.

It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.

2.4       Third-party links

Our website/s may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website/s, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.

3.0       The data we collect

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data). We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together follows:

We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.

3.1       If you fail to provide personal data

Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract or agreement we have with you and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you with goods or services). In this case, we may have to cancel a product or service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.

4.0       How is your personal data collected?

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

You may give us your Identity, Contact and Financial Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, telephone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:

As you interact with our website/s, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, and other similar technologies. Please refer to the Cookie Policy on our website for further details.

We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources as set out below;

4.1       How we use your personal data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

Generally we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data other than in relation to sending third party direct marketing communications to you via email or text message. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us at [email protected].

4.2       Purposes for which we will use your personal data

We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.

Please note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please contact us at [email protected] if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your personal data where more than one ground has been set out in the table below:

Purpose/Activity

Type of data

Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest

To register you as a new customer

(a) Identity
(b) Contact

Performance of a contract with you

To process and deliver your order including:
(a) Manage payments, fees and charges
(b) Collect and recover money owed to us

(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Financial
(d) Transaction
(e) Marketing and Communications

(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to recover debts due to us)

To manage our relationship with you which will include:
(a) Notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy
(b) Asking you to leave a review or take a survey

(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Profile
(d) Marketing and Communications

(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
(c) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products/services)

To enable you to complete a survey

(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Profile
(d) Usage
(e) Marketing and Communications

(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them and grow our business)

To administer and protect our business and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data)

(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Technical

(a) Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganisation or group restructuring exercise)
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation

To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you

(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Profile
(d) Usage
(e) Marketing and Communications
(f) Technical

Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy)

To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences

(a) Technical
(b) Usage

Necessary for our legitimate interests (to define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our website updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy)

To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you

(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Technical
(d) Usage
(e) Profile

Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our products/services and grow our business)

 

5.0       Marketing

We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising. We have established the following personal data control mechanisms:

5.1       Promotional offers from us

We may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage and Profile Data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which products, services and offers may be relevant for you (we call this marketing).
You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us or purchased goods or services from us and, in each case, you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.

5.2       Third-party marketing

We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any company outside the Avery Weigh-Tronix group of companies for marketing purposes.

5.3       Opting out

You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages or communications at any time by clicking on our ‘unsubscribe’ or ‘opt-out’ links on any marketing message/s sent to you. Alternatively you can opt-out directly or by contacting us using [email protected] at any time.

Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages or materials, this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of a product/service purchase, warranty registration, product/service experience or other transactions etc. For further details, please refer to clause 4.2.

5.4       Cookies

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about the cookies we use, please see the information available on our website i.e. our Cookie Policy Notice.

5.5       Change of purpose

We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us at [email protected].

If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so. Please refer to clause 5.3 for full details on opting out.

Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.

6.0       Disclosures of your personal data

We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table in clause 4.2 of this policy, above

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

7.0       International Transfers

If we need to share your personal data within the ITW limited or Avery Weigh Tronix Group. This will involve transferring your data outside the European Economic Area (EEA).

We ensure your personal data is protected by requiring all our group companies to follow the same rules when processing your personal data. These rules are called “binding corporate rules”. For further details, see European Commission: Binding corporate rules.

Some of our external third parties may be based outside the European Economic Area (EEA) so their processing of your personal data may involve a transfer of data outside the EEA.

Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented. The following countries to which we may transfer personal data have been assessed by the European Commission as providing an adequate level of protection for personal data

Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe. For further details, see European Commission: Model contracts for the transfer of personal data to third countries.

Where we use providers based in the US, we may transfer data to them if they are part of the Privacy Shield which requires them to provide similar protection to personal data shared between the Europe and the US. For further details, see European Commission: EU-US Privacy Shield.

Please contact us at [email protected] if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data out of the EEA.

8.0       Data security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

9.0       Data retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider;

By law we have to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for six years after they cease being customers for tax purposes.

In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

10.0     Your legal rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. These are as follows:
You have the right to:

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us at [email protected]

10.1     Fees

You will not generally have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable administrative fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive, excessive or requires a large amount of time or resource in order to collate. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

10.2     What we may need from you

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

10.3     Time limit to respond

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

11.0     Glossary

LAWFUL BASIS

Legitimate Interest means the interest of our business in conducting and managing our business to enable us to give you the best service/product and the best and most secure experience. We make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you (both positive and negative) and your rights before we process your personal data for our legitimate interests. We do not use your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law). You can obtain further information about how we assess our legitimate interests against any potential impact on you in respect of specific activities by contacting us.

Performance of Contract means processing your data where it is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request before entering into such a contract.

Comply with a legal or regulatory obligation means processing your personal data where it is necessary for compliance with a legal or regulatory obligation that we are subject to.

THIRD PARTIES

Internal Third Parties means any other companies within the ITW limited or Avery Weigh-Tronix Group acting as joint controllers or processors.

External Third Parties may mean;