This privacy notice explains what to expect us to do with your personal information when you contact us, place an order online or in store, bring jewellery in for repair, apply for finance, or visit our shop.

 

1. Who we are (name and contact details)

This website and business is operated by Gallacher Holdings Ltd (company number SC786107), trading as Ian Gallacher Manufacturing Jeweller and Diamond Merchant.
You can contact us at:
 
7 Murray Place, Stirling, FK8 1DQ Email: info@iangallacher.com Phone: 01786 473696

If you have any questions about this notice, or wish to make a request about your personal information (including asking us to remove it), please contact us using the details above. We are the “data controller” for the personal information described in this notice.

2. Why we have your information (what we collect)
 
Depending on how you interact with us, we may collect:
  • Your name, billing and delivery address, email address and phone number when you place an order online (we use guest checkout — you do not need to create an account)
  • Your name and contact details, and details of your item, when you bring jewellery in for repair or place an order in store
  • Order, repair and purchase details
  • Information you provide when you apply for finance through our finance provider
  • Information you send us through our website contact form (such as your name, email, phone number and your message/enquiry)
  • Payment information — this is handled securely by our payment and finance providers; we do not store your full card or finance details ourselves
  • Anonymous website usage statistics collected through analytics, which help us understand how our website is used and do not identify you personally
3. What we do with it
 
We use your personal information to:
  • Process, fulfil and deliver the orders you place with us, online or in store
  • Take in and carry out repairs, and allocate each item to the correct customer
  • Confirm your identity for security when you collect your jewellery or completed order
  • Pass your details to our finance provider when you choose to apply for finance, so your application can be assessed
  • Respond to enquiries you send us
  • Take payment and provide refunds or returns
  • Keep records required for accounting and tax purposes
  • Prevent and detect fraud
  • Maintain and improve our website and service
4. Our lawful basis for using your information
 
Under UK data protection law we must have a “lawful basis” for using your personal information. The bases we rely on are:
  • Contract — to process and deliver the orders you place, to take in and carry out repairs, and to pass your details to our finance provider when you ask to apply for finance.
  • Legal obligation — to keep financial and transaction records as required by law (for example, for HMRC).
  • Legitimate interests — to respond to enquiries you send us, to keep your jewellery secure and confirm your identity when you collect it, to prevent fraud, and to run and improve our business.
5. Who we share it with
 
We share personal information only where necessary, with:
  • PayPal — to process payments securely. PayPal acts as a separate data controller and handles your payment information under its own privacy policy.
  • Omni Capital Retail Finance — when you apply for finance, we pass your application details to them. They act as a separate data controller and assess your application (including any credit checks) under their own privacy policy.
  • Royal Mail — to deliver your orders.
  • 20i — our website hosting provider.
  • ETB Media — our website and IT support provider, who maintain the website on our behalf.
  • Our accountant / professional advisers — for bookkeeping and to meet our legal obligations.
  • Authorities — where we are legally required to share information (for example, HMRC or law enforcement).
We do not sell your personal information to anyone.
 
6. How long we keep it
 
We keep your personal information only as long as we need it:
  • Order, transaction and finance records: 6 years, because we are legally required to keep financial records (for example, for HMRC).
  • All other personal information (such as contact-form enquiries): we keep this for 10 years. 
How we keep your information secure

Information you give us in store, such as repair and order paperwork, is kept securely in our reception or workshop during the day and locked in our safe overnight. Once a job is completed, paperwork is held in secure on-site storage and is then professionally and securely destroyed.
 
7. Your rights

You have rights over the personal information we hold about you. You can ask us to:
  • Access the information we hold about you (a “subject access request”)
  • Correct information that is inaccurate or incomplete
  • Erase your information (“right to be forgotten”), in certain circumstances
  • Restrict or object to how we use it, in certain circumstances
  • Transfer your information to another provider (“data portability”), in certain circumstances
To make any of these requests — including asking us to remove your information — please email us at info@iangallacher.com or contact us using the details in section 1. We will respond within one month.
 
Your right to complain
 
If you have concerns about how we use your personal information, please contact us first using the details above so we can try to put things right.
You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK’s data protection regulator:
  • Website: ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint
  • Helpline: 0303 123 1113
  • Address: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF

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