Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

At South Kent Cleaning Ltd, we understand that your privacy is very important to you. That’s why we are committed to protecting and respecting the privacy of all users of our website any other services we provide (“our services").

Our Privacy Policy, which is set out below, explains what information and personal data we may collect from you, as well as how we may use or share any information that we have collected, or you have provided to us. Please note that we are only describing our own practices here, which apply to all websites that we own and operate and to all services that we provide, including our online and mobile products. This policy does not apply to third parties, including other companies you might interact with on or through our services.

When you use and provide information to us via our Services, you are accepting and consenting to our processing of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy, our Cookies Policy, our Website Terms of Use, our End User Licence and, if applicable, our End User Licence. 

Please read this entire policy carefully. When registering an account, or using our websites, apps and services, you are agreeing to the practices described below.

For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 2018 (the Act), the data controller is South Kent Cleaning Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales, with registered company number 07826714, whose registered office is located at 111 Kingsnorth Road, Ashford, Kent, TN23 6HZ.

If you don’t understand any parts of the policy or you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at info@southkentcleaning.co.uk.

Our commitment to privacy

We want South Kent Cleaning Ltd to be among the first to set the new standard in data protection regulations. We have adopted the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (‘GDPR’) to ensure that we fully comply with the principles of national and international data protection laws. We have established the following data protection principles as our guidelines:

1. Lawfulness, fairness and transparency of data processing

Your personal data will be collected and processed in a legal, fair, and transparent manner.

2. Purpose and storage limitation

The personal data we collect serves an explicit and a legitimate purpose and will not be stored by us for any longer than is necessary.

3. Data minimisation

Any personal data that we use will be adequate, up to date, and only limited to what is necessary for us and our partners to provide any of the offered services.

4. Accuracy

The personal data we have on file will be the correct, complete, and updated information that you have personally provided to us. Suitable steps will be taken to ensure that inaccurate or incomplete data is either deleted, corrected, supplemented, or updated.

5. Confidentiality and data security

Your personal data will be treated as confidential and will be kept secure by taking all suitable organisational and technical measures to prevent unauthorised access, illegal processing and distribution, as well as the accidental loss, modification, or destruction of your personal data.

Information we may collect from you

We may collect and process the following data about you:

Information that you provide to us, such as your name, address, email address and telephone number, age, username, password and other registration information, financial and credit card information, personal description, details of your household or business, details of any pets you may have and any information about you or your property revealed in photographs and/or video and/or audio recordings of you or your property and any persons or objects therewith which you provide to us or which the service provider takes or records before, during and/or after the provision of the services in accordance with the terms and conditions of the services and any other information that you choose to provide voluntarily, when you:

- submit a booking enquiry through our website;

- complete contact or enquiry forms on, or otherwise provide information via, our website;

- subscribe to receive any newsletter we may offer from time to time;

- complete any voluntary surveys we may ask you to participate in from time to time;

- send feedback to us via our website;

- respond to any of our marketing communications;

- correspond with us by telephone, post or email or via the instant chat function on our websites and our apps (in which case we will keep a record of that correspondence); or

- if/when you report a problem with any of our services.

Information that we may collect automatically each time you visit any of our websites, use any of our apps or account systems:

- basic demographic information and preferences (if you opted in for sharing demographic data in your Google Account; technical information, including the type of device) you use, network information, your operating system, the type of browser you use, etc;

- statistical usage data about our users’ browsing actions, patterns, interactions and navigation through our website. Please note that this data does not identify any individual;

Here is what type of information you can access:

Up-to-date information regarding recent orders; personal information (including name, email, phone, address, communications and personalised advertising preferences); payment settings (including credit card information); marketing communication settings; booking and enquiry history.

How we may use your information

We use the information that you give us:

- to administer any account, you may have with us;

- to manage your booking or respond to booking enquiry and to arrange the performance of services by your service provider;

- to occasionally provide you with co-branded and joint offerings in the form of products or services;

- to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered between you and us;

- to provide you with the information, products and services that you request from us;

- to communicate with you about any comments, complaints, queries or feedback you might have about us or the services;

- to give you the ability to interact with any service features on our website when you choose to do so.

- to notify you about any changes to our Terms or our Services, to communicate any information about your booking with you and to send you any account-related information and announcements;

- to ensure that content on our websites and our apps is presented in the most effective manner for you and your computer and/or device;

- to provide you with information about goods and services we offer that we feel may interest you by post, telephone, SMS or email. We will send that information by SMS or email only if:

(i) you have consented to this; or

(ii) the information is about products and services like those which were the subject of a previous sale or negotiation of a sale to you (and you have not opted out of receiving such marketing messages); or

(iii) after opting out (and/or unsubscribing) you continue to use our services; or

(iv) where we are permitted to do so by law without consent, for example, if you have provided us with a company email address. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please contact us using our contact form or the contact details in paragraph Contact below.

Specifically, we will provide your data to the service provider who is allocated to provide services to you, for the purpose of providing those services. This information may include (i) your name, address and contact details; (ii) the details about your property and the services you require, together with any relevant photographs you may have provided; (iii) the non-binding quote we have provided to you; and (iv) your payment details.

We use the information about you that we collect automatically:

- to administer our websites and our apps and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;

- to improve our websites, apps and services, to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer and device;

- to monitor and improve the security, quality and efficiency of our products and services;

- to allow you to participate in interactive features on the websites and apps, when you choose to do so;

- as part of our efforts to keep our websites and apps safe and secure;

- to measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you;

- to make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may interest you and to otherwise manage our relationship with our clients.

We use the information about you that we collect from other sources in combination with the information you give to us and the information about you that we collect automatically. We will only use such information for the purposes set out above.

Cookies

Our websites and our apps use cookies to distinguish you from other users. This helps us to provide you with the best possible experience when you browse our website and allows us to improve the services we offer. For detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them see our Cookies Policy.

Where we store and process your information

All information you provide to us is stored on secure servers either with Fasthosts UK or Microsoft (Office 365). We have in place a level of security appropriate to the nature of the information stored and the harm that might result from a breach of security.  All data will be stored within the UK/EU. 

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our websites or our apps; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

Disclosure of your information

Disclosure within South Kent Cleaning Ltd

We will not disclose your personal information to any other companies other than South Kent Cleaning Ltd unless necessary in the following circumstances. 

Third party companies

We may disclose your personal information to third parties for the following purposes:

Payment services

If when you are paying for a service you decide to pay by credit or debit card, we will share your payment-related information with entities we have engaged to process payments and provide similar financial services (for example fraud prevention). In any such case the service providers can process only the information solely for the purposes necessary to perform the requested service.

Change of ownership

If we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets; or

If all or substantial amount of South Kent Cleaning Ltd assets or the assets of our group of companies are acquired by a third party. In this case, personal data held by us about our customers will be one of the transferred assets;

Duty to disclose

If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our Website Terms of Use, our End User Licence, our End User Licence and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property or safety of South Kent Cleaning Ltd, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection, credit risk reduction and in an event of a report/claim made to our insurers or the insurers of our partners;

Breach of agreement

If you do not make payments that you owe in relation to any services provided to you by the service provider, we may disclose your personal data to credit reference agencies and to fraud prevention agencies for the purposes of fraud protection, credit risk reduction and in an event of a report/claim made to our insurers or the insurers of our partners. We may also disclose your personal data to debt collection agencies which may use your information to trace your whereabouts and recover the debts. The information which we provide to such agencies may in turn be provided by those agencies to other organisations which may use your personal data to perform similar checks. Information recorded by fraud prevention agencies may be accessed by organisations in other jurisdictions;

Protect clients and/or any third parties

If we are forced to protect our own rights, property and operations (enforcing contract performance or pursuing remedies or limiting damages we may sustain).

Security

We are committed to securing personal information and any data we collect from clients. We use physical, technical and organisational security safeguards to help protect the information that we have collected from unauthorised access and third parties.

However, please note that no server, network or data transmission over the Internet is 100% secure and we cannot guarantee the security of any information transmitted through our website and account systems and make no assurance about our ability to prevent any such loss or misuse. By choosing to share any information with us, you are accepting this risk.

Your rights

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes. You can also exercise this right at any time by accessing the preference centre in your online account or by contacting us using the contact details in paragraph Contact us below.

The General Data Protection Regulation also grants you the rights : to know about and access the information we hold about you, to request changes to your personal information if it is erroneous or misrepresents you in any way and to request a copy of your personal data, ask that we restrict the processing of your personal data, or to have us completely erase it.

Additionally, you can limit the personal information you share. The only way we collect personal information is when you provide it to us voluntary. You can choose to browse some parts of the South Kent Cleaning Ltd.’ website without ever creating an account, purchasing a service or otherwise submitting personal information to us. Any personal information that is given to us will generally be retained for as long as your account is active or for as long as it is necessary to provide a service or operate our business, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.

If you have more questions or you want to exercise any of your rights, contact our team by sending an email to info@southkentcleaning.co.uk. We will then review your request and get back to you within 30 days. You can also reach out to The Information Commissioner’s Office, who will be able to advise you on how to submit a complaint.

Links to third-party websites

Our websites may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites. We welcome any feedback about third-party websites linked to from our websites.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

By submitting your information to us, you consent to the use of that information as set out in this Privacy Policy. If we change our Privacy Policy, we will post the updated policy on this page and may place notices elsewhere within the websites and the apps (such as the home page) for a reasonable period, so that you may be aware of the changes.

In the event of any changes, we will also update the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy. You should check our Privacy Policy occasionally to ensure that you are happy with any changes we make. Your continued use of the Services following any changes to this Privacy Policy will mean you accept those changes.

Contact us

At any time, you can contact our information security team directly with all questions, comments and suggestions concerning this Privacy Policy and data protection at info@southkentcleaning.co.uk or address it to South Kent Cleaning Ltd by post at 111 Kingsnorth Road, Ashford, Kent, TN23 6HZ.