
Website Privacy Notice
1. Introduction
Harrow Green is committed to protecting your personal information and being transparent about how we collect, use and store it. This Privacy Notice applies to personal information we collect and hold about individuals who:
- Visit our websites; and/or
- Choose to receive direct marketing communications, alerts or subscribed mailings from us.
Please read this Privacy Notice carefully, together with any other privacy notices we may provide on specific occasions when we collect or process personal data about you. This notice explains how and why we collect, store, use and share your personal information, your rights in relation to that information, and how to contact us or relevant supervisory authorities if you have a complaint.
When we refer to “Harrow Green”, “we”, “us” or “our”, we mean Harrow Green Ltd, the company responsible for processing your personal data in accordance with this Privacy Notice.
This Website Privacy Notice applies where personal data is collected via our websites, including but not limited to:
Where personal data is collected in other circumstances, an additional privacy notice may apply at the point of collection.
2. Scope
This Privacy Notice explains how Harrow Green collects and processes personal data gathered through our websites. It is intended for anyone who wishes to understand how we use the limited personal data collected online.
Our websites are not intended for children, and we do not knowingly collect personal data relating to children.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice or how your personal data is processed, please contact the Data Protection Officer using the details in Section 15.
3. Principles of Data Protection
When we refer to “personal data” or “personal information”, we mean information relating to an identifiable individual.
We process personal data in accordance with the following principles:
- Used lawfully, fairly and transparently
- Collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes
- Adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary
- Accurate and kept up to date
- Retained only for as long as necessary
- Processed securely
We have policies, procedures and controls in place to ensure these principles are followed in practice.
Our websites may contain links to third-party websites. Harrow Green is not responsible for the privacy practices of third parties, and we encourage you to review their privacy notices separately.
4. Sources of Personal Data
We may collect personal data where:
- You provide it directly (e.g. completing forms, subscribing to updates, applying for roles)
- It is collected during our relationship with you
- You make data publicly available (e.g. via social media)
- It is received from business partners or service providers
- It is collected automatically when you use our websites
- It is created through interactions with us (e.g. correspondence, interviews, feedback).
5. Cookies
Our websites use cookies to collect limited technical data and analyse website usage. This helps us improve performance and user experience.
For more information, please refer to our Cookie Policy.
6. Personal Data Collected
The personal data we may collect includes:
- Personal details: name, title, address, email address, telephone number
- Consents and preferences: marketing preferences and subscriptions
- Website usage data: IP address, login credentials, access times
- Security-related information: where required for site access
- Correspondence: communications, enquiries, feedback or complaints.
7. Purpose and Use of Personal Data
We use personal data to:
- Operate, monitor and improve our websites
- Provide requested services or information
- Communicate with you, including responding to enquiries
- Deliver marketing communications (where permitted)
- Support recruitment activities
- Maintain security and prevent unauthorised access
- Comply with legal and regulatory obligations.
8. Legal Basis for Processing
We process personal data only where we have a lawful basis, including:
- Consent (e.g. marketing subscriptions)
- Performance of a contract or steps prior to entering into one
- Legal obligations
- Legitimate interests, such as:
- Operating and improving our services
- Preventing fraud and ensuring security
- Managing relationships and communications
- Establishing, exercising or defending legal claims.
Where legitimate interests apply, we balance these against your rights and freedoms.
Purpose/Use | Type of data | Legal basis |
To register you as a new customer | (a) Identity (b) Contact | Performance of a contract with you
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To process and deliver your order including: (a) Manage payments, fees and charges (b) Collect and recover money owed to us | (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Financial (d) Transaction (e) Marketing and Communications | (a) Performance of a contract with you (b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to recover debts due to us)
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| To manage our relationship with you which will include: (a) Notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy (b) Dealing with your requests, complaints and queries | (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Marketing and Communications | (a) Performance of a contract with you (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation (c) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and manage our relationship with you |
| To enable you to partake in a prize draw, competition or complete a survey | (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Usage (e) Marketing and Communications | (a) Performance of a contract with you (b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them and grow our business)
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| To administer and protect our business and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data) | (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Technical | (a) Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganisation or group restructuring exercise) (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation |
| To deliver relevant website content and online advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you | (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Usage (e) Marketing and Communications (f) Technical | Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy)
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| To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, customer relationships and experiences and to measure the effectiveness of our communications and marketing | (a) Technical (b) Usage | Necessary for our legitimate interests (to define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our website updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy) |
| To send you relevant marketing communications and make personalised suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you based on your Profile Data | (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Technical (d) Usage (e) Profile (f) Marketing and Communications | Consent, having obtained your prior consent to receiving direct marketing communications or where necessary for our legitimate interests (to carry out direct marketing, develop our products/services and grow our business) |
| To carry out market research through your voluntary participation in surveys | Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services and to help us improve and develop our products and services). | |
| To conduct a recruitment campaign | (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Technical (d) Compensation (e) Profile
| Necessary for our legitimate interests (to consider your fit for a vacant role within Restore, based on information that you have provided and that is publicly available (e.g. through LinkedIn) |
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 have any queries about our legal basis for using your personal information, please contact the DPO via the details set out in Section 15 below.
How do we justify our legitimate interests?
We make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you and your rights (both positive and negative) before we process your personal data for our legitimate interests. We do not use your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law).
Exemptions
Harrow Green sometimes handles personal information relying on exemptions under the applicable data protection law. Any permitted handling of personal information under such exemptions will take priority over this Privacy Policy to the extent of any inconsistency.
9. Special Category & Criminal Offence Data
We do not collect special category or criminal offence data through our websites.
10. Direct Marketing
We may contact you with marketing communications where you have consented or where permitted by law. You can opt out at any time by:
- Using the unsubscribe link in emails
- Updating preferences via your account
- Emailing communications@harrowgreen.com or the DPO on dpo@harrowgreen.com
11. Sharing Personal Information
We may share personal data with:
- Group companies (where relevant)
- Service providers and professional advisers
- IT and infrastructure providers
- Regulatory or law enforcement bodies (where required).
All third parties are required to protect personal data and process it only in line with our instructions and applicable law.
Where personal data is transferred outside the UK, appropriate safeguards will be applied.
12. Security of Personal Data
We implement technical, administrative and physical measures to protect personal data, including:
- Access controls and passwords
- Encryption and firewalls
- Staff training and confidentiality obligations
- Secure deletion or anonymisation where data is no longer required.
13. Data Retention
We retain personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes outlined in this notice or to meet legal requirements. When data is no longer required, it is securely deleted or anonymised.
14. Your Legal Rights
You have rights under data protection law, including the right to:
- Access your personal data
- Correct inaccurate data
- Object to processing
- Restrict processing
- Request data portability
- Withdraw consent
- Request erasure (in certain circumstances).
Requests should be submitted to the Data Protection Officer. We may ask you to verify your identity before responding.
15. Data Protection Contacts
Data Protection Officer
Harrow Green Ltd
Unit D Logistics City
Motherwell Way
Thurrock
Essex RM20 3AW
Email: dpo@harrowgreen.com
You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
16. Changes to This Privacy Notice
This Privacy Notice may be updated from time to time. Please check this page regularly for the latest version.