Privacy Policy & GDPR
GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)
Please review our Privacy Policy, which is part of the Terms and Conditions. The Privacy Policy describes how we collect and handle any information gathered from users of the Services. By accessing or using the Service, including browsing the site, you expressly consent to the collection, use, storage, processing, and disclosure of your information in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
Description Of Processing:
Name(s), address, email and phone numbers of pupils and parents for the purpose of driving school lesson records and payments received.
Driving Licence details are also recorded as we book driving tests for you via the DVSA
We do not sell your information to any 3rd party
Reasons/Purposes For Processing information:
We process personal information to enable to maintain our accounts and records and to support and manage our staff. We also use details for booking driving tests for you
Type/Classes Of information Processed:
We process information relevant to the above reasons/purposes. This may include:
- Personal details
- Financial details
- Services provided
Who The Information Is Processed About:
- Customers and clients
- Suppliers and services providers
- Complainants and enquirers
Who The Information May Be Shared With:
We sometimes need to share the personal information we process with the individual themself and also with other organisations. Where this is necessary we are required to comply with all aspects of the Data Protection Act (DPA). What follows is a description of the types of organisations we may need to share some of the personal information we process with for one or more reasons.
Where Necessary Or required We Share Information With:
- Family, associates and representatives of the person whose personal data we are processing
- Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency when booking tests
- Credit / debit card payment websites
Wests Driving School follows the GDPR rules and guidelines protecting your data.
GDPR Notice
Wests Driving School are responsible for the processing of Personal Data it receives.
What Information We Collect
Name(s), address, email and phone numbers of pupils and parents for the purpose of driving school lesson records and payments received from you.
Driving Licence details are also recorded as we book driving tests for you via the DVSA
We do not sell your information to any 3rd Party.
Using ‘cookies’ are used while using Services or products rendered by Wests Driving School or browsing any of the website where our Services are installed. This information sent by the server, stored on a user’s computer for the purpose of automatic identification of a particular user when using our Services. Cookies enable us to quickly confirm your identity and owing to them the use of our Services becomes much easier and more widely available. Cookies are used by Wests Driving School solely with the purpose of personalizing a particular user. Cookies can be used on condition that a browser accepts them and that they shall not be removed from the storage media.
Social Media Features
Our websites includes social media features, such as the ‘Facebook Like button’ and Widgets, such as the ‘Share This button’ or interactive mini-programs that run on our site. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our site. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.
Comment System
In order to post comments on our websites (i.e. our blogs) you must sign into Facebook, Twitter, Google, as we use ‘social-media plugins’ to allow Visitors and Customers to leave comments on our blogs. No Personal Information is tied to your posts. You subscribe to our blogs by providing your e-mail address. We will only use this to send you an e-mail notification when new blogs have been posted and when users comment on a blog that you previously have commented. We will not use this information for any other purpose.
Questions And Concerns
If you have any questions or concerns, or if you wish to access, update, amend, correct or delete, any of your Personal Information we store and process, please contact us at info@westssom.com
Data disclosure
Wests Driving School main purpose of gathering Personal Data and other information is to maintain driving lesson records and to book driving tests for you. . We do not sell or lease, your Personal Data to any third party. We will never share, sell rent or trade your registration and Personal Information with any marketing or promotional partners without your consent.
Choice
We will limit the use and disclosure of your Personal Information, please submit a written request by e-mailing us at info@westssom.com
Security
We promise that we take reasonable and appropriate technical and operational measures to protect your Personal Information we collect and hold from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. While protecting your personal data we take into due account the risk involved in the processing and the nature of the Personal Data.
Data Integrity and Purpose Limitation
Wests Driving School will only collect and retain Personal Information which is relevant to the purposes for which the Information is collected, and will not use it in a way that is incompatible with such purposes Wests will take reasonable steps to ensure that Personal Information is reliable for its intended use, accurate, complete, and current.
Access
Each data subject has the right to delete its Personal Data. The Company shall comply with any commercially reasonable request by Customer to correct, amend, block or delete Customer’s Personal Data, as required by Data Protection Laws, to the extent the Company is legally permitted to do so. If you wish to access, amend, or confirm Wests Driving School has Personal Data relating to you, or if you wish to correct or delete your Personal Information if it is inaccurate, please notify us at: info@westssom.com. If your Personal Data changes, or if you no longer desire our Services, you may correct, update, and delete inaccuracies. We will respond to your access request within 30 days.
Data protection
Wests Driving School applies technical safety measures of the highest standards to protect the provided Personal Data against loss, destruction, misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. Wests takes all necessary steps to update and modernize data protection system. No data transmission via the Internet, however, can guarantee 100% safety. When you enter information, such as credit card number, on our website or within our applications, we encrypt the transmission of that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). Using PayPal for secure card payments. Card numbers are not stored on the Wests website or our own database
Privacy Policy Modification
We may update this privacy statement to reflect changes to our information practices. If we make any significant material changes we will notify you by means of a notice on the website prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this website for the latest information on our privacy practices.
Testimonials
We post Customer testimonials sent by you as a testimonial to us by text or email messages on our website, which may contain Personal Data. We display our Customers’ comments on our websites.
Link to Other Sites
Wests Driving School website may contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by us. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy policies of each and every website that collects personal data. This Privacy Policy applies only to information collected by Wests.
Terms and Conditions
Wests Driving School requires at least 48 hours notice to cancel driving lessons without being charged
Gift vouchers are valid for 12 months from date of purchase
By using this website and purchasing driving lessons you are agreeing to the terms and conditions