Privacy

Next car & van rental LTD t/a Next Rental ("Next Rental", "we", "us", "our") are committed to protecting the privacy of those with whom we interact, and we recognise the need to respect and protect information that is collected or disclosed to us (called "Personal Information", explained below).

This Privacy Notice is intended to tell you how we use your personal information, and we have tried to explain what we do in enough detail to give you the information you need at a glance. If you still cannot find the information you need, you can email: ops@next-rental.co.uk

1. Who are we?

Next car & van rental LTD t/a Next Rental is the controller and responsible for this website.

We have appointed a Data Privacy Manager 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 Privacy Manager using the details set out below.

Contact details

Our full details are: Next car & van rental LTD t/a Next Rental

Individual: Steven Cooke

Email address: ops@next-rental.co.uk

Postal address: Next House, 9 Brades Road, Oldbury, West Midlands, B69 2DP

2. What is Personal Information and what Personal Information does Next Rental collect about you?

For the purposes of this Privacy Notice "Personal Information" consists of any information that relates to you and/or information from which you can be identified, directly or indirectly. For example, information which identifies you may consist of your name, address, telephone number, photographs, location data, an online identifier (e.g. cookies identifiers and your IP address) or to one or more factors specific to your physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity. When we combine other information (i.e. information that does not, on its own, identify you) with Personal Information, we treat the combined information as Personal Information.

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of Personal Information about you which we have grouped together as follows:

Client Data includes names, contact details, contacts within the business, client account details, transaction history, financial information, payment history and vehicle/fleet information.

Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address (IP addresses are a string of numbers assigned to a computer by an internet service provider).

User Behaviour / Engagement Data includes the date and time of registration, usage session dates and duration, page views, features and functions used, preferences and settings selected, and location.

Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences.

3. How is your Personal Information collected?

Next Rental collects information through the ‘Prohire’ system and website (our "Systems"). You may also provide us with information about you by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise. We use different methods to collect data from and about you including:

Personal Information you provide directly. You (the client) may give us the Personal Information set out above when using our Systems or by corresponding with us by phone, email or otherwise.

Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our Systems, we may automatically collect Technical Data and User Behaviour/Engagement Date about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this Personal Information by using cookies and other similar technologies. Please see section 10 below for further details.

Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources as set out below:

- Technical Data by using tracking and analytics tools, such as pixel tags, action tags, web beacons and JavaScript amongst others to collect and analyse information on behaviour and engagement with our Systems.

- Identity and Contact Data from publicly available sources such as Companies House.

4. How do we use your information?

We may use the Personal Information we collect for the following purposes:

Provide our Services - as well as to administer Systems and accounts;

Customised Content - to provide customised content and layout of our Systems and Services;

Analysis Purposes - for assessment and analysis of our market, customers, Systems, and other Services, and to create sales, marketing and promotional plans and programs;

Service Improvement - to enhance our Systems and the user experience and to develop new services;

Customer Support Services - to provide customer support services, product training and education to users;

Business Purposes - for business monitoring and internal record keeping;

Legal Obligations - to comply with our legal obligations;

Crime Prevention - for the prevention or detection of fraud or crime;

Training - for staff training and quality assurance purposes, particularly in relation to our customer support representatives; and

Updates - to communicate with you, including communicating with you about your account, profiles or transactions with us, giving you important information about your Systems or other Services, sending you notices about any material changes to our Privacy Notice, and, where permitted by you and applicable laws, marketing, sending you offers and promotions for our Services.

The law allows us to use the Personal Information as set out above on the basis that the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you, or we are acting in our "legitimate interests", such as maintaining information within the Next Rental systems.

Marketing communications

Next Rental may use your Personal Information to provide you with email notifications and other communications by email, post, telephone, and/or text message (SMS), on the basis that such use is necessary for our legitimate interests, such as promoting our System and Services. For further information on this, see the 'Your Choices' section of this Privacy Notice.

Combining Personal Information

We may combine the Personal Information that we collect from you (including information received from our affiliates) to the extent permitted by applicable law.

5. To whom do we disclose your information?

We will only use your Personal Information for our internal business purposes, some of which are mentioned above. We do not sell any of your Personal Information to third parties.  However, we may disclose your information to the following entities:

Service Providers

We use third-party service providers to help us to administer certain activities and services on our behalf. We may share Personal Information about you with such third-party service providers solely for the purpose of enabling them to perform services on our behalf and they will operate only in accordance with our instructions. Service providers include email, customer relationship management (CRM) and analytics service providers.

Third parties when required by Law or to Protect our Services

We will disclose your Personal Information to comply with applicable law or respond to valid legal process, including from our regulators, law enforcement or other government agencies; to protect our customers (e.g. to prevent spam or attempts to defraud users of our Services); to operate and maintain the security of our Services (e.g. to prevent or stop an attack on our Systems or networks); or to protect the rights or property of Next Rental, including enforcing any terms or agreements governing the use of our Services.

Other Parties at Your Direction

We may share Personal Information about you with third parties when you request to such sharing, including your financial adviser, broker, actuary, solicitor or accountant.

6. What do we do to keep your information secure?

We have put in place appropriate physical and technical measures to safeguard the Personal Information we collect in connection with our Services. 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. However, please note that although we take appropriate steps to protect your Personal Information, no website, product, device, online application or transmission of data, computer system or wireless connection is completely secure and therefore we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information.

International Transfer of Data

In some instances, our use of third-party service providers requires us to transfer personal data outside the EEA.

When transferring your personal information outside the EEA to other countries, we ensure that appropriate transfer agreements and mechanisms (such as the EU Model Clauses) are in place to help ensure that our third-party service providers provide an adequate level of protection outside the EEA in accordance with applicable laws.

7. Data Retention – How long we will store/keep your Personal Information

Next Rental retains Personal Information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which your Personal Information has been collected as outlined in this Privacy Notice unless a longer retention period is required by law. When your Personal Information is no longer required for the purpose it was collected or as required by applicable law, it will be deleted and/or returned to you in accordance with applicable law.

8. Accessing your Personal Information and other rights you have

Next Rental will collect, store and process your Personal Information in accordance with your rights under any applicable data protection laws. Under certain circumstances, you have the following rights in relation to your Personal Information:

Subject Access - you have the right to request details of the Personal Information which we hold about you and copies of such Personal Information.

Right to Withdraw Consent - where you have consented to our processing of your Personal Information, you have the right to withdraw such consent at any time.  In the event you wish to withdraw your consent to processing, please contact us using the details provided in section 1.

Data Portability - you may, in certain circumstances, request us to port (i.e. transmit) your Personal Information directly to another organisation.

Rectification - we want to ensure that the Personal Information about you that we hold is accurate and up to date. If you think that any information we have about you is incorrect or incomplete, please let us know. To the extent required by applicable laws, we will rectify or update any incorrect or inaccurate Personal Information about you.

Erasure ('right to be forgotten') - you have the right to have your Personal Information 'erased' in certain specified situations.

Restriction of processing - you have the right in certain specified situations to require us to stop processing your Personal Information and to only store such Personal Information.

Object to processing - you have the right to object to specific types of processing of your Personal Information, such as, where we are processing your Personal Information for the purposes of direct marketing.

Prevent automated decision-taking - in certain circumstances, you have the right not to be subject to decisions being taken solely on the basis of automated processing.

Enforcing your rights

If you wish to enforce any of your rights under applicable data protection laws, then please contact us at ops@next-rental.co.uk We will respond to your request no later than one month from receipt of any such request, unless a longer period is permitted by applicable data protection laws, and we may charge a reasonable fee for dealing with your request which we will notify to you. Please note that we will only charge a fee where we are permitted to do so by applicable data protection laws.

Complaints

If you are concerned that we have not complied with your legal rights under applicable data protection laws, you may contact the Information Commissioner's Office (www.ico.gov.uk) which is the data protection regulator in the UK which is where Next Rental is located. Alternatively, if you are based outside the UK, you may contact your local data protection supervisory authority.

9. Third-Party Links on Our Services

Our Systems may contain links to other third-party websites that are not operated by Next Rental, and our websites may contain applications that you can download from third parties. These linked sites and applications are not under Next Rentals control and as such, we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any linked websites and online applications. If you choose to use any third-party websites or applications, any Personal Information collected by the third party’s website or application will be controlled by the privacy notice of that third party. We strongly recommend that you take the time to review the privacy policies of any third parties to which you provide Personal Information.

10. Cookies

10.1 Our Site may place and access certain first party Cookies on your computer or device. First party Cookies are those placed directly by Us and are used only by Us. We use Cookies to facilitate and improve your experience of Our Site and to provide and improve Our products and services. We have carefully chosen these Cookies and have taken steps to ensure that your privacy and personal data is protected and respected at all times.

10.2 By using Our Site you may also receive certain third party Cookies on your computer or device. Third party Cookies are those placed by websites, services, and/or parties other than Us. For more details, please refer to section 6, above, and to section 13.6 below. These Cookies are not integral to the functioning of Our Site and your use and experience of Our Site will not be impaired by refusing consent to them.

10.3 All Cookies used by and on Our Site are used in accordance with current Cookie Law.

10.4 Before Cookies are placed on your computer or device, you will be shown a pop-up requesting your consent to set those Cookies. By giving your consent to the placing of Cookies you are enabling Us to provide the best possible experience and service to you. You may, if you wish, deny consent to the placing of Cookies; however certain features of Our Site may not function fully or as intended.

10.5 Certain features of Our Site depend on Cookies to function. Cookie Law deems these Cookies to be “strictly necessary”. These Cookies are shown below in section 10.6. Your consent will not be sought to place these Cookies, but it is still important that you are aware of them. You may still block these Cookies by changing your internet browser’s settings as detailed below in section 10.10, but please be aware that Our Site may not work properly if you do so. We have taken great care to ensure that your privacy is not at risk by allowing them.

10.6 The following first party Cookies may be placed on your computer or device:

10.7 Our Site uses analytics services provided by Google Analytics. Website analytics refers to a set of tools used to collect and analyse anonymous usage information, enabling Us to better understand how Our Site is used. This, in turn, enables Us to improve Our Site and the products and services offered through it. You do not have to allow Us to use these Cookies, however whilst Our use of them does not pose any risk to your privacy or your safe use of Our Site, it does enable Us to continually improve Our Site, making it a better and more useful experience for you.

10.8 The analytics service(s) used by Our Site use(s) Cookies to gather the required information.

10.9 The analytics service(s) used by Our Site use(s) the following Cookies:

10.10 In addition to the controls that We provide, you can choose to enable or disable Cookies in your internet browser. Most internet browsers also enable you to choose whether you wish to disable all cookies or only third party Cookies. By default, most internet browsers accept Cookies but this can be changed. For further details, please consult the help menu in your internet browser or the documentation that came with your device.

10.11 You can choose to delete Cookies on your computer or device at any time, however you may lose any information that enables you to access Our Site more quickly and efficiently including, but not limited to, login and personalisation settings.

10.12 It is recommended that you keep your internet browser and operating system up-to-date and that you consult the help and guidance provided by the developer of your internet browser and manufacturer of your computer or device if you are unsure about adjusting your privacy settings.

11. Your Choices (e.g. marketing-related emails or otherwise)

We may use your Personal Information (such as your contact details (e.g. name, address, email address, telephone number) to send you, marketing-related correspondence by email, telephone, post and/or text message (SMS) related to our Systems, in accordance with your contact preferences or as you otherwise agree to. When we process your Personal Information for marketing purposes, we do so on the basis that it is in our legitimate interests to do so, for example, to promote the Next Rental System and Services.

We do not share Personal Information with third parties for the third parties’ marketing purposes. We may also use your Personal Information to personalise and to target more effectively our marketing communications to ensure, to the extent possible, that any marketing-related correspondence is relevant to you.

To opt out of receiving marketing-related correspondence from Next Rental, please contact us or click "Unsubscribe" from any marketing or promotional email or text message (SMS) you receive from us.

12. Changes to this Privacy Notice

It is important that you check back often for updates to the Privacy Notice, as we may change this Privacy Notice from time to time. The “Date last updated” legend at the bottom of this page states when the Privacy Notice was last updated, and any changes will become effective upon our posting of the revised Privacy Notice.

We will provide notice to you if these changes are material and, where required by applicable law, we will obtain your consent. We will provide this notice by email or by posting notice of the changes on our website or through any relevant Services.

13. Contact Us / Further Information

If you have any questions regarding the collection, processing, or use of your Personal Information or if you wish to correct, block, rectify, object, access, revoke your consent to any applicable aspect of this Privacy Notice or delete any of your Personal Information, please contact us using the details provided in section 1.

Date last updated: 21 January 2020