<h1 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 26px; margin: 0px; font-family: 'News Cycle', sans-serif; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(76, 36, 84); padding: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Haskins Garden Centres&rsquo; Privacy Policy</h1>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(71, 71, 71); font-family: 'News Cycle', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(71, 71, 71); font-family: 'News Cycle', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Last updated: 03.11.2023</p>
<h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'News Cycle', sans-serif; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(76, 36, 84); margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Introduction</h4>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(71, 71, 71); font-family: 'News Cycle', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Haskins Group Ltd is committed to complying with the General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (&ldquo;GDPR&rdquo;). We understand the importance of keeping your personal data safe, private and secure and any personal information that you share with us is treated with the utmost security and confidentiality.</p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(71, 71, 71); font-family: 'News Cycle', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">We have published this guide to help you understand how and why we collect information from you, to whom such information is disclosed and to inform you of your rights regarding your personal data that we hold or process.</p>
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<h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'News Cycle', sans-serif; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(76, 36, 84); margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">About Us</h4>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(71, 71, 71); font-family: 'News Cycle', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">About Us<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">We are Haskins Group Limited, a company registered in England (Company No 03901816). The registered address is Haskins Head Office Building, Longham, Ferndown, Dorset BH22 9DJ.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">The group incorporates:</p>
<ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; list-style-image: url('https://www.haskins.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/bullet-haskins.png'); list-style-type: square; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(71, 71, 71); font-family: 'News Cycle', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 0px 2px;">Haskins Garden Centres Limited (Company No 03368084)</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 0px 2px;">Birdworld Limited (Company No 00601922)</li>
</ul>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(71, 71, 71); font-family: 'News Cycle', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We are listed on the Information Commissioner&rsquo;s Register under numbers Z5870771 and ZA357703<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">All comments, queries or requests relating to our use of your personal information are welcomed:</p>
<ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; list-style-image: url('https://www.haskins.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/bullet-haskins.png'); list-style-type: square; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(71, 71, 71); font-family: 'News Cycle', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 0px 2px;">By e-mail -&nbsp;<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"><a style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(76, 36, 84); text-decoration-line: none;" href="mailto:privacy@haskins.co.uk">privacy@haskins.co.uk</a></strong></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 0px 2px;">By post - Haskins Garden Centres Ltd, Head Office Building, Longham, Ferndown, Dorset BH22 9DJ</li>
</ul>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(71, 71, 71); font-family: 'News Cycle', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice, please contact the data controller using the contact details above.</p>
<h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'News Cycle', sans-serif; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(76, 36, 84); margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Employment with Haskins:</h4>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(71, 71, 71); font-family: 'News Cycle', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">You can apply to work for us via our website, through a recruitment partner such as Indeed, using a paper application form available on request or by sending us your CV. Providing your job application data is voluntary, however, if you choose not to provide all of the information requested, our ability to consider you as a candidate may be limited. We will only use the information you give us to process your application. If we need to request a reference, we will tell you beforehand.</p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(71, 71, 71); font-family: 'News Cycle', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Unsuccessful applicants&rsquo; information will be retained for a period of six months from the closing date of the job position and successful applicants will be retained as part of the employee file for the duration of the employment contract and for 7 years from the employee leave date to fulfil legal obligations.</p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(71, 71, 71); font-family: 'News Cycle', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For any other type of personal data we may process, we will only retain it for as long as is necessary, taking into account the following:</p>
<ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; list-style-image: url('https://www.haskins.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/bullet-haskins.png'); list-style-type: square; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(71, 71, 71); font-family: 'News Cycle', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 0px 2px;">The purpose that are we using the personal data for</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 0px 2px;">Whether we have a legal obligation to continue to process the data</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 0px 2px;">Whether we have a lawful basis for processing the data</li>
</ul>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(71, 71, 71); font-family: 'News Cycle', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</p>
<h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'News Cycle', sans-serif; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(76, 36, 84); margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Who do we share your personal data with?</h4>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(71, 71, 71); font-family: 'News Cycle', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">No information collected by us will be sold, rented or loaned to any third parties or companies. We may disclose information if we are requested or required to do so by a regulator or law enforcement body.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">We may use third party suppliers to store and process your information, such as IT and web service providers. However, we enter processor contracts with these companies to ensure that they do not contravene the purpose and means of why we collect the data, that they comply with data protection laws and ensure that they have appropriate security and organisational measures in place to protect the privacy of your information. Haskins data is always held and processed within the European Union with the exception of MailChimp which we use for our Haskins E-newsletter. MailChimp are self-certified to the EU-US Privacy Shield and are committed to GDPR compliance. Their privacy notice can be found&nbsp;<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"><a style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(76, 36, 84); text-decoration-line: none;" href="https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/">here</a>.</strong></p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(71, 71, 71); font-family: 'News Cycle', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(71, 71, 71); font-family: 'News Cycle', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</p>
<h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'News Cycle', sans-serif; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(76, 36, 84); margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">How do we protect your information?</h4>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(71, 71, 71); font-family: 'News Cycle', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We ensure that we implement appropriate physical and computer security controls alongside organisational measures to keep your information secure, accurate and up to date and that we only keep it for as long as is necessary or for as long as the law requires.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Although we use appropriate security measures once we have received your personal information, the transmission of information over the internet is never completely secure. We cannot guarantee the security of the information transmitted to our website, and this is done at the user&rsquo;s own risk.</p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(71, 71, 71); font-family: 'News Cycle', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</p>
<h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'News Cycle', sans-serif; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(76, 36, 84); margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Your Rights</h4>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(71, 71, 71); font-family: 'News Cycle', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Under GDPR law you have the following rights regarding the personal data we process about you:</p>
<ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; list-style-image: url('https://www.haskins.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/bullet-haskins.png'); list-style-type: square; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(71, 71, 71); font-family: 'News Cycle', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 0px 2px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">Right of Access</strong>&nbsp;&ndash; you can request to know what personal information we have about you. We will tell you what personal information we have, what our purpose is for processing the data, who else may have access to it and how long we will hold the data for.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 0px 2px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">Right to Rectification</strong>&nbsp;&ndash; if you think the data we hold is inaccurate, you can notify us and we will change it accordingly</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 0px 2px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">Right to Erasure</strong>&nbsp;&ndash; if you gave us consent to process your information, you can withdraw your consent at any time and we will delete your personal data. If you feel that our processing of your information no longer meets the original purpose we notified you about at the point we collected your data or you feel that we are processing it unlawfully, you can request to have your information removed</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 0px 2px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">Right to Restrict Processing</strong>&nbsp;&ndash; If you contest the accuracy or the lawfulness of our data processing, you have the right to restrict us processing the data until the issues been investigated and rectified</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 0px 2px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">Right to Object</strong>&nbsp;&ndash; you may object to us processing your personal information</li>
</ul>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(71, 71, 71); font-family: 'News Cycle', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For further information on your rights under GDPR please see&nbsp;<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"><a style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(76, 36, 84); text-decoration-line: none;" href="https://gdpr-info.eu/chapter-3/">https://gdpr-info.eu/chapter-3/</a></strong></p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(71, 71, 71); font-family: 'News Cycle', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">If you would like a copy of your personal information:</p>
<ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; list-style-image: url('https://www.haskins.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/bullet-haskins.png'); list-style-type: square; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(71, 71, 71); font-family: 'News Cycle', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 0px 2px;">By email, quoting &ldquo;Personal Information Request&rdquo; and send to&nbsp;<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"><a style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(76, 36, 84); text-decoration-line: none;" href="mailto:privacy@haskins.co.uk">privacy@haskins.co.uk</a></strong></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 0px 2px;">By post, quoting &ldquo;Personal Information Request&rdquo; to Haskins Garden Centres Ltd, Head Office Building, Longham, Ferndown, Dorset. BH22 9DJ</li>
</ul>
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<h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'News Cycle', sans-serif; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(76, 36, 84); margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Verifying your identity</h4>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(71, 71, 71); font-family: 'News Cycle', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">When you exercise one of your rights under the GDPR, we are required by law to use all reasonable measures to verify your identity before we can action the request. This will be in the form of supplying a utility bill and photographic evidence such as passport or driving licence.</p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(71, 71, 71); font-family: 'News Cycle', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</p>
<h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'News Cycle', sans-serif; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(76, 36, 84); margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Changes to our Privacy Policy</h4>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(71, 71, 71); font-family: 'News Cycle', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We keep our Privacy Policy under regular review and we will place any updates on our website. This policy was last updated on 3/11/2023.</p>