Personal Data – Legitimate Interests
The specific legitimate interest pursued and how this is balanced against your interests:
- to enable us to operate efficiently, and to ensure any issue you may have is dealt with effectively, efficiently and fully.
- to manage customer accounts, including keeping general records of customers, sales, customer care and other interactions. This will ensure you receive the best service possible.
- to provide you with updates and promotional offers about our goods and/or services, where you have not opted out of receiving such communications from us. In doing so, we can ensure that we are providing you with relevant details of our products and services where these are of interest to you. These offer benefits to you and will hopefully save you money on future purchases.
- to target our direct marketing to you. This is necessary to build a better picture of the type of offers and products we can provide which you might be interested in, so that the communications you receive are more relevant to you and are not merely generic communications. We believe this is justified as you are in control over whether you receive our direct marketing.
- to follow up on any uncompleted sales; in doing so we can deal with any outstanding queries and ensure that if you want to go ahead with the sale, the process to complete it is smooth as possible.
- to protect ourselves from fraudulent transactions. This is necessary to protect genuine customers and our business from fraud to minimise the risk of false details being used, and abuse of card details by fraudsters.
- to improve the operation of our business and our marketing activity more generally, including to assess what is working and what is not in terms of our marketing activity or our sales performance, so that we can develop our websites, products and offers to be more relevant to our customers generally, to improve your online experience and the products we offer. Where possible, we will use statistical or pseudonymised data for these purposes.
- to offer credit facilities to you – ie giving you the option of spreading the cost of your purchase.
| Where our processing of your Personal Data is necessary for our legitimate interests, you can object to this processing at any time. If you do this, we will need to show either a compelling reason why our processing should continue, which overrides your interests, rights and freedoms or that the processing is necessary for us to establish, exercise or defend a legal claim. If you would like to exercise any of your rights as described above (or if you have any questions about this Privacy Notice or concerns about our dealings with your Personal Data), please contact customerservice@thesleepco.co.uk. We will try to resolve any concerns you may have. However, if you consider that we are in breach of our obligations under data protection laws, you may lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (https://ico.org.uk/concerns/). You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work or of an alleged infringement of the GDPR. |