Wellington Motors Ltd – Data Privacy Notice


(Trading names include: South West Nissan, Exeter Nissan, Wellington Nissan and Barnstaple Nissan)

We take your privacy seriously and will only use your personal information for the following purposes to administer your account and to provide the products and services you have requested from us. Informing you during contact and for marketing purposes, gaining your consent about the way your data is obtained and processed by us, is a legal requirement of The General Data Protection Regulation which becomes law in May 2018.

We will contact you as advised with our manufacturer partner Nissan Motor (GB) Ltd and our associated suppliers to ensure the ongoing safety and care of your vehicle and any policies are maintained and where consent is provided the replacement of your vehicle and car care related products.

We use your personal information in connection with our business activities and we cross check your data with the DVLA to ensure accurate and timely communications can be made. We track data around email interaction to understand whether communications have reached you e.g. MOT reminders. We check driver and vehicle profiles including drive time, vehicle age and type of work due, to help prioritise customer contact. We combine data from various sources into one place, to deliver a more personalised experience to you.

We take steps to ensure that any businesses that 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. Under the General Data Protection Regulation 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.

All Employees of Wellington Motors Ltd are provided with a copy of our data privacy notice. Employees are made aware of the legislation so that they understand their own rights regarding the personal data that we hold for them as well as how we use the personal information for our customers.

We use a third party provider, FingerprintJS Inc. to supply and support our anti-spam service. If you use this service we will collect information relating to a user's device, operating system, browser, browser configuration, IP address, and approximate location. This data is stored by Fingerprint indefinitely. Fingerprint stores the information in the US under Standard Contractual Clauses which provide appropriate safeguards. Please see Fingerprint's privacy policy (https://dev.fingerprint.com/docs/privacy-policy) and DPA (https://dev.fingerprint.com/docs/dpa-gdpr) for more information on how they use your data.

If you have any questions, comments or requests regarding this Privacy Notice or wish to request any documentation please feel free to contact us by writing to us at: Data Protection Officer, Wellington Motors Ltd, Taunton Vale House, Summerfield Way, Wellington, Somerset, TA21 9JE or by emailing datacontrol@southwestnissan.co.uk