1. Introduction

Carbuyingcrew.co.uk is a website operated by G3 Remarketing Ltd.  G3 Remarketing respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy will inform you how we look after your personal data and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you. Our website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.

2. Information about us

G3 Remarketing is registered in England and Wales under company number 06929699 and has its registered office at G3 House, Thunderhead Ridge, Castleford, West Yorkshire, WF10 4UA.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact us in writing to our registered office or email [email protected]

3. Data Protection Principles

When processing your personal data, we must comply with the following, which ensure that your personal information must be:

• Processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner.
• Processed for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes.
• Adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary.
• Accurate and kept up to date.
• Kept for no longer than is necessary; and
• Processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security.

4. The data we collect about you

We may collect, use, store and transfer various kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

• Identity Data includes first name, maiden name, last name, username or similar identifier, marital status, title, date of birth and gender.
• Contact Data includes billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers.
• Financial Data includes bank account and payment card details.
• Document Data includes vehicle registration documents, and copies of your driving licence, passport, utility bill and other documents that verify your identity.
• Transaction Data includes details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from us.
• Company Data includes the name of the organisation you represent, and that organisation’s Contact Data, Financial Data and Transaction Data.
• Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this Website.
• Profile Data includes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses.
• Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, products and service.
• Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
• We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you

5. If you fail to provide personal data

Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to register you or your organisation (as the case may be) or to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you with goods or services). In this case, we may have to cancel a product or service you have with us, but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.

6. ‘When’ is personal data collected?

• Applying for our products or services.
• Creating an account on our website.
• Using our Valuation Widget.
• Subscribing to our service or publications.
• Requesting marketing.
• Entering a competition, promotion or survey.
• Giving us feedback.
• We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources.

7. How we use your personal data 

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

• To process an account, you have applied for with G3Remarketing.
• To communicate with you regarding a vehicle valuation via our Valuation Widget.
• Where we need to perform the contract, we are about to enter or have entered with you.
• 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.
• Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
• Undertaking financial crime and soft credit checks for due diligence with a third party when undertaking financial transactions with you or your business.

Note: We may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.

8.   Marketing

We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising. We have established the following personal data control mechanisms:

• We may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage and Profile Data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which products, services and offers may be relevant for you (we call this marketing).
• You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us or purchased goods or services from us or if you provided us with your details when you completed a valuation using our Valuation Widget, entered a competition or registered for a promotion and, in each case, you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.
• We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any company outside the G3R group of companies for marketing purposes.
• You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing messages sent to you or by emailing us: [email protected]
• Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of a product/service purchase, warranty registration, product/service experience or other transactions.
• Cookies –You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this Website may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about the cookies we use, please see our Cookie Policy

9. Change of purpose

We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we 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 data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.

10. Disclosure of your personal data

We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table in paragraph above.

• Public bodies and regulatory authorities.
• Other companies in the G3 Group.
• Other personnel within your organisation, or any other organisation that is party to or otherwise has a legitimate interest in the agreement between us and your organisation.
• Providers of IT and system administration services of our business.
• Our professional advisers.
• Analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our website; and
• Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this Privacy Policy.
• Third party providers of customer due diligence software.
  • We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

11. International transfers

We do not transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area (EEA).

12. Data retention

We will only retain your personal data 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.

By law we must keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for six years after they cease being customers.

13. Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have the following rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data:

• Request access to your personal data.
• Request correction of your personal data.
• Request erasure of your personal data.
• Object to processing of your personal data.
• Request restriction of processing your personal data.
• Request transfer of your personal data.
• Right to withdraw consent for use of your personal data.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact our Data Privacy Manager at our registered office or by emailing: [email protected].

14. Concerns

If you have a concern with how your personal information is being processed you can contact us by writing to our registered office or emailing: [email protected].

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.

15. Changes to this policy and your duties to inform us

Any changes we make to this Privacy Policy in the future will be updated on our website.

It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.

16. Third party links

This Website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.