The Forge Shopping Centre

Privacy Policy

 

PRIVACY NOTICE

Introduction

The Forge Limited Partnership is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This policy sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us or a 3rd party on our behalf.  Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

The rules on processing of personal data are set out in the General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”).

Who are we?

Under the legislation The Forge Limited Partnership is the data controller. This means we decide how your personal data is processed and for what purposes. Our contact details are:

1221 Gallowgate

Parkhead

Glasgow

G31 4EB

For data matters the data processor is LSH.

The purpose(s) of processing your personal data

We use your personal data for the following purposes:

  • To send you marketing information by various channels including email, SMS, mail or telephone, or push messages if you use our app, including sending notices of new products, special offers and other marketing materials to enhance and support your relationship with The Forge Shopping Centre. We will use this data in accordance with any preferences you have selected, either on the basis of consent (where requested) or of legitimate interests where you have not objected to receiving such information.
  • We may also use your data for our own legitimate interests, which include:
  • sending you surveys or supporting Marketing Research activities to you in other ways to help us improve our services and understand our customers better;
  • allowing you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so;
  • ensuring that content from our digital channels is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer/smart phone and/or tablet;
  • allowing us to investigate and respond to any issues or correspondence received;
  • administering your online account and any promotion or competition which you have entered;
  •  notifying you about changes to our services.
  • We believe that these interests are justified as it is completely optional for you to register, participate or otherwise provide us with Personal Data in the above situations. You will be able to object to this processing at any time.

The categories of personal data concerned

With reference to the categories of personal data covered under the regulation we process the following categories of your data:

  • Geo-location data provided by your smartphone or other mobile device to access our services using the App, provided that you have consented to the App collecting this data on your smartphone or other mobile device. If you no longer wish to share this Geo-location data, you can de-activate it using your smartphone’s location settings.
  • Device and Website Use Information – When you install one of our mobile applications or use a computer, tablet, smart phone or other device to access our websites, we may collect information about the device and how you use it.
  • This information may include the type of device, your operating system, your browser (for example, whether you used Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome or another browser), your internet service provider, your domain name, your internet protocol (IP) address, your device identifier (or UDID), the date and time that you accessed our service, the website that referred you to our website, the web pages you requested, the date and time of those requests, and the subject of the ads you click or scroll over. To collect this information, we use cookies, beacons and similar technologies.

What is our legal basis for processing your personal data?

Your data will be processed under the following:

  • Legitimate interest: information is processed as part of legitimate interests which include: managing opting out of communications, profiling, direct marketing, monitoring, web analytics, and other core services provided by the data controller.
  • Consent: where we process information under consent we will seek your clear and unambiguous consent prior to processing.

Sharing your personal data

Your personal data will be treated as strictly confidential and will be shared only with 3rd parties as necessary for processing and under contract.

How long do we keep your personal data?

We will keep information for a reasonable amount of time in order to perform the purposes listed above.

We only keep your information for as long as necessary. We generally keep personal information for 7 years after last contact with you. However, The Forge Limited Partnership reserves the right to keep information for longer if we feel that this is in the legitimate interests of The Forge Limited Partnership.

Providing us with your personal data

You are under no statutory or contractual requirement or obligation to provide us with your personal data, but failure to do so will have the following consequences:

  • You will not receive any special offers or events invitations from the Forge Limited Partnership.

Your rights and your personal data

Unless subject to an exemption under the GDPR, you have the following rights with respect to your personal data:

  • The right to request a copy of the personal data which we hold about you;
  • The right to request that we correct any personal data if it is found to be inaccurate or out of date;
  • The right to request your personal data is erased where it is no longer necessary to retain such data;
  • The right to withdraw your consent to the processing at any time.
  • The right to request that we provide you with your personal data and where possible, to transmit that data directly to another data controller (known as the right to data portability), (where applicable, i.e. where the processing is based on consent or is necessary for the performance of a contract with the data subject and where the data controller processes the data by automated means);
  • The right, where there is a dispute in relation to the accuracy or processing of your personal data, to request a restriction is placed on further processing;
  •  The right to object to the processing of personal data, (where applicable i.e. where processing is based on legitimate interests (or the performance of a task in the public interest/exercise of official authority); direct marketing and processing for the purposes of scientific/historical research and statistics).

Automated Decision Making

We do not use any form of automated decision making in our business.

Further processing

If we wish to use your personal data for a new purpose, not covered by this Data Privacy Notice, then we will provide you with a new notice explaining this new use prior to commencing the processing and setting out the relevant purposes and processing conditions.

Changes to our privacy policy

We will update this statement from time to time, so we suggest that you review this statement at regular intervals. Where we undergo substantial changes to our privacy statement we will endeavour to inform you directly about these changes.

Updated 22nd May 2018