Privacy Policy

The Importance Of Your Privacy

At Saltmarine Cars we take your privacy seriously and will only use your personal information to administer your account, and to provide products and services you have requested from us. We will never sell your data on to third parties. Under the General Data Protection Regulations, which is law from May 2018, we are required to inform you as to the lawful basis under which we process your personal data.

The lawful basis’ under which we will process your personal data will be where at least one of the following applies:

• You have given consent to the processing of your personal data for one or more specific purposes
• It is necessary for the compliance with a legal obligation
• It is necessary for the performance of a contract
• It is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by Saltmarine Cars

Who Are Saltmarine Cars?

Saltmarine Cars is one of Northern Ireland's largest independent family owned car dealerships.
Established in 1969 and recently rated number 1 in Northern Ireland in the Auto Express Driver Power Best Dealers Survey 2017. We represent Ford, Hyundai and Mazda all at one convenient location just off the M1 Motorway at junction 14.

We also have a great selection of approved used cars at our Used Car Centre, and provide Aftersales, service and parts for Ford, Hyundai, Mazda and Honda (Approved Service Centre).
Our mission statement of 'Saltmarine Cares' runs through every part of our business and our friendly fresh approach to customer service makes us a firm favourite and choice for our local customers across Northern Ireland.

Our Lawful Basis For Marketing To You

We and our manufacturer partner will market to you on a legitimate interest basis about similar products and services once you have negotiated to, or purchased, from us or if consent has been given. We will never pass your details on to any other third party for marketing purposes. In order to balance your fundamental rights and freedoms with our commercial interests we will ensure we tell you we will market similar products and services to you at the point you enquire or purchase from us and we will give you the ability to opt out at this time or at a subsequent point in our relationship. You may also call our dealership or contact our Data Protection Officer who will complete the online opt out for you.

We may contact you during your ownership cycle for essential work such as reminders of MOT and services. You may opt out of any form of marketing by expressing your wish to do so when we check or collect your personal information, or by contacting our data protection officer below. When you visit our website we will use cookies on your browser. Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information. This information is used to track visitor use of the website and to compile statistical reports on website activity. We may track your interactions with Saltmarine Cars via e-mail and text activity and record phone calls for quality and training purposes. For further information please visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

Passing Data

We may contact you as advised by Ford, Hyundai, Mazda and our other suppliers (a full listing can be found via the link at the foot of this notice) to ensure the ongoing safety and care of your vehicle and any policies are maintained, and the replacement of your vehicle and car care related products.

We will register your vehicle keeper details and will cross check your data with DVLA to ensure accurate and timely communications can be made.

Manufacturers

In order to process vehicle sales, replacement parts and accessory sales, servicing, warranty claims and to record vehicle history, we will share your personal information with vehicle manufacturers. We will also share it with them for reporting purposes. The vehicle manufacturers we work with are listed below. You can see how they will process your personal information by clicking on the link to their privacy policy.

Ford: https://www.ford.co.uk/useful-information/privacy-policy

Hyundai: https://www.hyundai.co.uk/legal/privacy

Mazda: https://www.mazda.co.uk/privacy-policy

Honda: http://www.honda.co.uk/cars/useful-links/privacy-policy.html

Service providers

As part of offering services to you we will share your personal information with third party partners and suppliers who provide services to us to help us run our business effectively. These include:-

• Couriers who help us deliver the products you order
• IT service providers who help us manage our IT infrastructure
• Finance companies where you want to obtain finance to facilitate your purchase
• Debt collection agencies should there be an outstanding debt
• Marketing agencies who work with us and our manufacturer partners to keep you informed
• Aftercare services such as our warranty partners
• Solicitors and Accident Repair Centres who work with us in relation to our Accident Management Services solution
• Social media and digital advertising companies who help us interact with you better

Finance Applications

If you should apply for finance from us the information you provide specifically for this purpose will be disclosed to various finance providers for the purpose of considering the application. The finance companies may use this information to carry out searches with credit reference agencies and other regulatory and statutory bodies. A record of those searches will be kept and may be used by other lenders in assessing applications from you and members of your household for credit in the future. The finance companies will cross-check this information with other lenders to prevent fraud and may use this information for statistical or marketing purposes. The finance companies may use credit scoring as part of their decision making process. In some cases, the information provided on this form may be disclosed to a credit reference agency, such as Experian or Equifax. Credit reference agencies may also use this information to carry out further searches for other regulatory and statutory bodies. They may also disclose information to other companies and the finance providers may use such information to advise you of any of our or their services or of another person’s services which may be relevant to you. We will on request tell you of the purposes for which we will use this information.

Your Right To Restrict Processing

Except as required by law, we will not use or disclose your personal information for any purpose for which you have not given us your consent or have requested to no longer be communicated to on a legitimate interest basis. If you ask to be forgotten, you agree that in spite of this we may continue to use the personal information previously provided to us to the extent that we are contractually obligated to do so and to the extent necessary to enforce any contractual obligations you may have for example a finance agreement.

Where Your Data Is Stored

We retain your details for as long as we have evidence that you still own the vehicle unless you ask us to delete these details sooner. Please be aware that we may be unable to fulfill your request to delete your data where there is a legal obligation which prevents us from doing so.

We take steps to ensure any business we work with have security protocols and policies in place to manage and record your data privacy and preferences correctly and that your data is stored securely. The security of your data is paramount. Documentation can be supplied on request from our Data Protection Officer details of whom can be found below.

Please be aware that these latter rights only apply in limited circumstances and therefore even if you do wish to exercise them, we may not always be required to comply.

Your Rights

Under the General Data Protection Regulations, you have the right to:

Request copies of your data, rectification of your data, erasure of your data, object to us or restrict the processing of your data and where our systems allow, give electronic access to copies of your data in a digital format.

Saltmarine Cars reserves the right to update or amend this data privacy notice in line with customer feedback or updates in legislation and it will be published at www.saltmarine.com/site/privacy-and-legal.

Data Protection Officer

Name: Ryan Forsythe

Address: 162 Tamnamore Road, Dungannon, Co. Tyrone. BT71 6HW

Email: dpo@saltmarine.com

If we are unable to resolve any issues you raise within 28 days you have you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioners Office at https://ico.org.uk/concerns.