Inspiration Marine Group, Privacy Policy

BACKGROUND

Inspiration Marine Group Limited understands that your privacy is important to you and that you care about how your personal data is used. We respect and value the privacy of everyone who visits this website, www.inspirationmarine.co.uk ("Our Site"). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and protect your personal data in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation ("UK GDPR"), the Data Protection Act 2018, and other applicable data protection laws.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand how your personal data is handled.

1. Definitions and Interpretation

In this Policy, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

"Cookie" means a small text file placed on your computer or device by Our Site when you visit certain parts of Our Site and/or when you use certain features. Details of the Cookies used by Our Site are set out in Part 14.

"Cookie Law" means the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 ("PECR").

2. Information About Us

Our Site is owned and operated by Inspiration Marine Group Limited, a company registered in England and Wales under company number 05754400.

Registered address: Chandlery Building, Hamble Point Marina, Hamble, SO31 4NB.

Data Protection Contact: J Stone
Email: contact.us@inspirationmarine.co.uk

3. What Does This Policy Cover?

This Privacy Policy applies only to your use of Our Site. Our Site may contain links to other websites. We have no control over how your data is collected, stored, or used by other websites and advise you to check their privacy notices before providing any personal data.

4. What Is Personal Data?

Personal data is defined by the UK GDPR as any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual. This includes information such as your name and contact details, as well as online identifiers such as IP addresses.

5. Your Rights

Under the UK GDPR, you have the following rights:

The right to be informed about how your personal data is used;
The right of access to your personal data;
The right to rectification of inaccurate or incomplete data;
The right to erasure (the "right to be forgotten");
The right to restrict processing;
The right to object to processing, particularly for direct marketing;
The right to data portability, where applicable;
Rights relating to automated decision-making and profiling (we do not carry out such processing).

You can exercise your rights by contacting us using the details in Part 15. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

6. What Data We Collect

Depending on how you use Our Site or interact with us, we may collect:

Name and title;
Contact details (address, email address, telephone number);
Business name and job title;
Enquiry and correspondence information;
Marketing preferences;
IP address and technical data relating to your use of Our Site;
Cookie and usage data.

7. How We Use Your Personal Data and Lawful Bases

We only process personal data where we have a lawful basis under UK GDPR. These include:

Contractual necessity – where processing is required to perform a contract with you or take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract;
Legitimate interests – where processing is necessary for managing enquiries, customer relationships, improving our services, and operating our business, provided your rights do not override these interests;
Consent – where required by law, particularly for certain electronic marketing activities.

Your personal data may be used for:

Responding to enquiries;
Managing customer relationships;
Supplying products and services;
Communicating with you about your account or enquiries;
Sending marketing communications in accordance with PECR and your preferences.

You may opt out of marketing communications at any time by using the unsubscribe link provided or by contacting us.

8. How Long We Keep Your Personal Data

We retain personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes for which it was collected. This includes:

Customer and transactional records retained for up to seven years to comply with legal and accounting obligations;
Enquiry and prospect data retained for a reasonable period to allow follow-up, unless you request deletion sooner;
Marketing data retained until you unsubscribe or object.

9. How We Store and Protect Your Personal Data

We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data, including access controls, password protection, and security software.

Where personal data is transferred outside the UK, we ensure appropriate safeguards are in place, such as adequacy regulations or approved contractual protections.

10. Sharing Your Personal Data

We may share your personal data with:

Other companies within our group for internal administrative and legitimate business purposes;
Trusted third-party service providers who process data on our behalf;
Public authorities where required by law.

All third parties are required to process your data securely and in accordance with data protection law.

11. Controlling Your Personal Data

You can manage your marketing preferences at any time and may object to direct marketing. Preference services such as TPS, CTPS, and MPS are also available.

12. Withholding Information

You may browse Our Site without providing personal data, but certain features may require it. You can control cookies via your browser and our cookie controls.

13. Accessing Your Personal Data

You may request access to your personal data by contacting us. Requests will be handled without undue delay and within one month, subject to UK GDPR provisions.

14. Cookies

Our Site uses strictly necessary cookies to function. Other cookies, such as analytics cookies, are used only with your consent. Full details are provided in our Cookie Policy.