RW Martel, Limited
Privacy Policy
RW Martel, Limited (RWM) is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information.
This privacy notice describes how we collect and use personal information about you during and after your relationship with us, in accordance with the Data Protection (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law 2017 (the Guernsey Data Protection Law).
This privacy notice applies to all personal information collected by us.
All organisations active in the European Union (EU) will need to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in addition to local data protection law. This privacy notice is therefore designed to ensure compliance with both the Guernsey Data Protection Law and the GDPR.
It applies to all clients, service providers, business referrers, intermediaries, users of our website and employees (Contacts).
We are registered with The Office of the Data Protection Authority: www.odpa.gg
RW Martel, Ltd. is a local on island building contractor. Our registered office and contact details are as follows:
RW Martel, Ltd
Bailiffs Cross Garage
Route de St Andre
Guernsey
GY6 8TU
Tel: 01481 236094
Email: office@rwmartel.com
Website: www.rwmartel.com
Guernsey Company Registration: 2965
RWM is a “data controller”. This means that we are responsible for deciding how we hold and use personal information about you. We are required under data protection legislation to notify you of the information contained in this privacy notice.
This notice applies to all Contacts whether existing, prospective, declined, exited or former and users of our website. This notice does not form part of any contract to provide services. We may update this notice at any time.
It is important that you read this notice, together with any other privacy notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal information about you, so that you are aware of how and why we are using such information.
Data protection principles
We will comply with data protection law. This says that the personal information we hold about you must be:
1. Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way.
2. Collected only for valid purposes that we have clearly explained to you and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes.
3. Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes.
4. Accurate and kept up to date.
5. Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about.
6. Kept securely.
The kind of information we may hold about you
Personal data, or personal information, means any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual. It does not include data where no natural person can be identified from the data.
We may collect, store, and use the following categories of personal information about you:
Personal Details:
Full name
Title
Resident address
Telephone, email
Nationality
Passport number
Occupation and employer
Place of birth
Date of birth
Verified identification
Verified residential address
Compliance data:
Bank details
World checks
Administration data
File notes which may contain personal data / and potentially special category data.
How is your personal information collected?
We collect your personal information when you contact us by telephone, in writing, by email or by entering your details in the fields requested on, or any documents linked to or downloaded from, our website, or any other forms provided to you. We will collect the data to enable us to deal with your enquiry or provide you with the relevant services. When you write to or email us, we may store and use the information you provide within that letter or email together with your postal address and email address and any enclosures or attachments you may have included.
We may sometimes collect additional information from third parties including clients, client advisers, credit reference agencies or public open sources.
We will collect additional personal information in the course of service-related activities throughout the period of providing services to you.
How we will use information about you
We will only use your personal information when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal information in the following circumstances:
1. Where we need to perform the contract we have entered into with you.
2. Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.
3. Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
We may also use your personal information in the following situations, which are likely to be rare:
1. Where we need to protect your interests (or someone else’s interests).
2. Where it is needed in the public interest.
Normally the purposes for which we use your personal information will be made clear at the point we collect that information. We will not use your personal information for purposes that are not clear when it is collected. The personal information you provide us is used primarily to provide and pay for the products and services you request, to manage any account you may have with us and to advise you of any improvements and or changes to those products, services and accounts and to respond to your enquiries, instructions or claims. We may also use the personal information you provide for direct marketing purposes provided you consented for us to do so by opting-in at the point the information was collected. You are able to withdraw consent at any time.
We may also use the information we gather to:
Enhance or improve customers’ experience of RWM products and services and our website
For security purposes i.e. confirm your identity when you use our services
Develop and provide products and services, either on our own or with third parties
To provide anonymised statistical data on our products, services, overall performance and customer service
Situations in which we will use your personal information
We need all the categories of information in the list above (see ‘The kind of information we hold about you’ on page 1, above) primarily to allow us to perform contracts with you and to enable us to comply with legal obligations. In some cases we may use your personal information to pursue legitimate interests of our own or those of third parties, provided your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests. The situations in which we will process your personal information are listed below:
Providing products and services to you
Informing you of the products and services we offer or changes to those products and services
Administering the contract we have entered into with you or where you are a party related to an entity for which we are contracted to provide services
Business management and planning, including accounting and auditing
Making arrangements for the termination of our commercial relationship
Education, training and development requirements
Dealing with legal disputes involving you
To prevent fraud
To ensure network and information security, including preventing unauthorised access to our computer and electronic communications systems and preventing malicious software distribution
To conduct data analytics studies to review and better understand customer retention and attrition rates
Some of the above grounds for processing will overlap and there may be several grounds which justify our use of your personal information.
If you fail to provide personal information
If you fail to provide certain information when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have entered into with you, or we may be prevented from complying with our legal obligations.
Change of purpose
We will only use your personal information 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 we need to use your personal information for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.
Please note that we may process your personal information without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.
Our obligations as a data controller
Information about criminal convictions
Due to the nature of the work RWM undertakes, we do not envisage that we will hold information about criminal convictions.
We may only use information relating to criminal convictions where the law allows us to do so. This will usually be where such processing is necessary to carry out our obligations and provided we do so in line with our data protection policy.
Less commonly, we may use information relating to criminal convictions where it is necessary in relation to legal claims, where it is necessary to protect your interests (or someone else’s interests) and you are not capable of giving your consent, or where you have already made the information public.
Data sharing
We may have to share your data with third parties, including third-party service providers and other entities in the group.
We require third parties to respect the security of your data and to treat it in accordance with the law.
If we do, you can expect a similar degree of protection in respect of your personal information.
Why might we share your personal information with third parties?
We will not share or sell your personal data with anyone outside of RWM except as set out below:
We made it clear to you we may do so when you provided the information
To third parties we are contracted or are contracted by to provide the products and services you have requested
To credit reference and debt collection agencies
To our auditors or legal advisors
Where we are legally required to do so
With relevant third parties in the event of RWM’s sale, merger, consolidation, change in control, reorganisation, liquidation or administration
Which third-party service providers process your personal information?
“Third parties” includes third-party service providers (including contractors and designated agents) and other entities within our group. The following activities are carried out by third-party service providers:
Provision of utility services (e.g. water, electricity, gas)
Provision of sub-contractor building services (e.g. plumbers, electricians)
IT Support
How secure is your information with third-party service providers and other entities in our group?
All our third-party service providers and other entities in the group are required to take appropriate security measures to protect your personal information in line with their policies. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes.
What about other third parties?
We may share your personal information with other third parties, for example in the context of the possible sale or restructuring of the business. We may also need to share your personal information to comply with the law.
Transferring information outside the EU
We may transfer the personal information we collect about you to countries which are authorised jurisdictions other than Member States of the European Union in order to perform our contract with you. Where there is an adequacy decision in force or the authorised jurisdiction is a designated jurisdiction which is (i) the United Kingdom, (ii) a country within the United Kingdom, (iii) any other country within the British Islands, or (iv) any sector within a country mentioned in (i), (ii) or (iii).
Data security
We have put in place measures to protect the security of your information.
Third parties will only process your personal information on our instructions and where they have agreed to treat the information confidentially and to keep it secure.
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal information to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal information on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected data security breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected breach where we are legally required to do so.
Data retention
How long will we use your information for?
We will only retain your personal information 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. Details of which are available by emailing us. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal information so that it can no longer be associated with you, in which case we may use such information without further notice to you. Once you are no longer a Contact of the company we will securely destroy your personal information in accordance with our data retention policy and/or applicable laws and regulations.
Rights of access, correction, erasure, and restriction
Your duty to inform us of changes
It is important that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal information changes during your working relationship with us.
Your rights in connection with personal information
Under certain circumstances, by law you have the:
Right to data portability: right to request the transfer of your personal information to another party.
Right of access to your personal information (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
Right to object to processing of your personal information where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal information for direct marketing purposes or if data were being processed on grounds of public interest or for historical or scientific purposes.
Right to rectification of the personal information that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected.
Right to erasure of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal information where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal information where you have exercised your right to object to processing (see below).
Right to restriction of processing of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of personal information about you, for example if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it.
Right to be notified of rectification, erasure and restrictions; and
If you want to review, verify, correct or request erasure of your personal information, object to the processing of your personal data, or request that we transfer a copy of your personal information to another party, please contact us by the email listed or in writing to the address indicated.
No fee usually required
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal information (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request for access is clearly unfounded or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with the request in such circumstances.
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 the information (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is another appropriate security measure to ensure that personal information is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it.
Right to withdraw consent
In the limited circumstances where you may have provided your consent to the collection, processing and transfer of your personal information for a specific purpose, you have the right to withdraw your consent for that specific processing at any time. To withdraw your consent, please contact our administration office. Once we have received notification that you have withdrawn your consent, we will no longer process your information for the purpose or purposes you originally agreed to, unless we have another legitimate basis for doing so in law.
Data protection Office
The Administration office will oversee compliance with this privacy notice. If you have any questions about this privacy notice or how we handle your personal information, please contact the Administration office. You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Authority established pursuant to the Guernsey Data Protection Law and to appeal any decisions.
Changes to this privacy notice
We reserve the right to update this privacy notice at any time, and we will provide you with a new privacy notice when we make any substantial updates. We may also notify you in other ways from time to time about the processing of your personal information. This privacy notice was last updated on 27 September 2022.
If you have any questions about this privacy notice, please contact our office.
RW Martel, Ltd
Bailiffs Cross Garage
Route de St Andre
Guernsey
GY6 8TU
01481 236094
