About Us
This privacy statement describes how we use data relating to anyone who registers with us to be a buyer or prospective buyer (“you”) at an auction managed by us (“Auction”). “We” or “us” are Wyles Hardy & Co Limited, a company which is registered in England with registered number 2598566 and whose registered office is at 9 Bonhill Street, London, EC2A 4DJ, England.
Your privacy is very important to you and us. We depend on your trust. We comply with the Data Protection Act 1998 and only use your name and other data relating to you in the manner set out in our Privacy Policy. We only use your personal data in a way that is fair to you. We just keep your information for as long as we need to for legal requirements or as is relevant for the purposes for which it was collected.
If you have any questions, comments or suggestions about the way in which we use your personal data or if any of your personal data changes, please e-mail us at privacy@wyleshardy.com, telephone us at +44 (0) 1442 832234 or write to us at Ley Hill Road, Bovingdon, Hertfordshire, HP3 0NW.
Security
We will endeavour to maintain the confidentiality and security of your data.
Collecting your data
We collect the following data about you when you apply to register for eligibility as a buyer at an Auction and whenever you provide updated details to us: your name, address, telephone numbers (including mobile), e-mail addresses, payment card details (where applicable) and type of products that you are interested in buying. We may obtain other information from you for security purposes in order to verify your identity. We also allocate usernames, passwords and paddle numbers for you and issue replacement usernames, passwords and paddle numbers. Further, we may collect and record photographs, moving images and sound involving your participation in any aspect of the Auction.
You must only submit to us information which is accurate and not misleading about yourself and you must keep it up to date or inform us of changes.
Our use of your data
We use the information which you provide to us or which we collect so you can have access to the areas of our Auction service for which you are eligible to use or participate. We also use your data in case we have any queries, for billing, to verify identities, for security, to solve disputes and to provide a quality service.
Furthermore, we may also use your personal data for the purposes of surveys and improving our websites and services.
If you give us your prior consent, we may use your data in order to send you newsletters, publications or information about our websites or our services or changes to them. In addition, if we have your prior consent, we may use your data to tell you about our other products, services or events which we think would be of interest to you and those of our business partners. If you would like to stop receiving details about our service, websites, products or events, please send us an appropriate email explaining this to privacy@wyleshardy.com.
Third parties and Links
We do not sell or transfer your personal data to third parties except as set out in this Privacy Policy or as you otherwise consent.
We disclose your data to third parties where necessary to provide the Auction service (whether in an auction room, on the telephone, electronically or by any other means), for example to third parties with whom we jointly provide an Auction.
We may also pass on your details to a vendor who is selling a product for which you have placed a bid or to financial organisations for processing your payment card details for payment.
We may transfer our databases containing your personal data if we sell our business or part of it.
Other than as set out in this Privacy Policy, we shall not disclose your personal data to third parties without obtaining your prior consent unless this is necessary to provide our Auction service or unless we are required to do so by law.
Our websites and physical materials may contain advertising of third parties or links or frames to other websites. Please be aware we are not responsible for third parties’ privacy practices or the content of their websites nor for the privacy practices of any third party to whom we transfer your data in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
Other countries
Your data may be accessed in other countries for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. Some countries in the world may not have adequate data protection laws at all or may offer differing levels of protection of personal data which are not as high as in the UK.
Cookies
Our websites may use cookies. Cookies are files which identify your computer to our server. Cookies are used to recognise your e-mail address and, where applicable, username and password, saving you time while you are on our websites. We use cookies for your convenience while you are on our websites. We also use cookies to personalise your experience of our websites to suit your individual interests. Your browser can be set to not accept cookies, but this could restrict your use of our websites.
Changes
Any material changes to the way in which we use your data will be described in future versions of this Privacy Policy. Each time you enter our websites or use any aspect of our Auction service, you agree that the Privacy Policy current at that time shall apply to all data which we hold about you. If at any time you would like to see the current version of the Privacy Policy, please ask us for a copy.
Consent
By submitting data to us and using our websites and Auction service, you consent to our use of your data in the manner set out in this Privacy Policy (as amended) and waive any rights of privacy you or anyone else may have in such data.