Website privacy & cookies policy

This is the website privacy & cookies policy for Drive Motor Retail Limited and its subsidiaries. We (Drive Motor Retail Limited) take your privacy seriously and are fully committed to handling the information we collect from you in a secure and responsible manner and adheres to the guidelines published in the United Kingdom Data Protection Act and the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 which is applicable from the 25^th May 2018.

Any questions relating to this privacy policy should be sent to: stuartharrison@drivevauxhall.co.uk.

Please read this privacy policy, which explains how we use your personal information, in particular:

• What information is collected from you through our trading website/s
• How the information is used and consent
• With whom the information may be shared
• How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information

General
When you register with the Drive Motor Retail Limited website you may be asked for the following details:

• Name
• Address
• E-mail address
• Contact telephone number
• Further vehicle information regarding vehicle sales and duty of care

We will then keep your details safely and will not sell or rent your details to third parties.

We will only share your information in the way described in this statement.

Use of Your Data

Drive Motor Retail Limited may pass your data to our select number of finance partners if you request details about car finance.

Please be aware that once a request to unsubscribe/remove data has been submitted, it may take up to 30 days for your information to be removed from all systems and processes.

Drive Motor Retail Limited may use your personal details to contact you about news and special offers that we think may be of interest to you as part of the contractual and consent process.

 If you wish to subsequently amend your consent, please e-mail: stuartharrison@drivemotorretail.co.uk

Please also use these contact details to let us know if you would like us to delete any information from your records and we will do so at any time.

Personal Information, Collection and Retention

The use of our website/s will result in the organisation receiving information from you. This will be used in examples such as viewing vehicles or making online service bookings.

 

The organisation requires this information to provide our online services in order to book appointments or services at our dealerships. We will detail this information below.

To make an online booking for sales, service, mot or repair we require the following; Name, Address, E-mail Address, Telephone Number and Vehicle Information.

As part of our duty of care we will contact you with reference to service and MOT reminders.

Drive Motor Retail Limited may use your personal information for general marketing purposes as part of the contractual or consent process.

If you subsequently wish to amend your consent on general marketing, service and MOT reminders then please request that by sending an email to stuartharrison@drivemotorretail.co.uk or a written request to:

Stuart Harrison

Drive Motor Retail Limited

Freemens Common Road

Leicester

LE2 7SL

If you search through our new and used car offers then we may store information on the vehicles searched for and your postcode that is used to personalise the results that are returned to you.

After booking a test drive or for the purposes of using a courtesy car as part of your service booking, we will require a copy of your driving licence in our dealership, which we will store as part of our data protection process, in case of any motoring offences that may occur.

Please be aware that if you call any of the dealerships owned by Drive Motor Retail Limited that your calls may be monitored or recorded for training purposes.

When you visit our dealership’s, we use CCTV to monitor our premises in this event your image and your vehicle registration can potentially be stored for a period of weeks.

If you wish to obtain car finance as part of the requirements of purchasing a vehicle we will be required to collect further details for finance and credit search purposes. These are;

• Name
• Email
• Address
• Length of time at present address
• Previous address (if you have been at your current address less than 3 years)
• Date of Birth
• Gender
• Full UK driving licence
• Marital status
• Dependants

This information will be passed to the finance provider and recorded on their finance system. Your personal information will be stored on your order form, which will be retained for 7 years after which it will be deleted.

Our data retention periods are reviewed on a regular basis and we will only hold your personal information as long as it deemed relevant for the required activity or as required for legal reasons or as stated in any relevant contract that we have in place with you.

 Marketing
Drive Motor Retail Limited will contact you with reference to our duty of care for vehicle safety and warranty based compliance OR where there is a contractual reference for us to do so.

If you have agreed to receive marketing from Drive Motor Retail Limited by form of consent you will have the option to select which form of marketing you would like to receive. You may choose to amend your consent to receive such marketing from us and you can do this by sending an email to stuartharrison@drivemotorretail.co.uk or by written request to:

Stuart Harrison

Drive Motor Retail Limited

Freemens Common Road

Leicester

LE2 7SL

Tracking
We track your movements on the website to analyse trends and public interest in our products and services, administer the site and gather information for aggregate use. The information we gather in this way is anonymous and is not linked to personal information from which you can be identified.

Sharing
We share information within the Drive Motor Retail Limited group of companies in order to offer you the full range of our services, but your personal data is not disclosed to any third parties outside the Drive Motor Retail group without your consent. If you consent to a credit search with respect to a finance application then we will be required to submit your information outside of the group. This information will not be used for any other purpose other than to obtain a credit limit, which we will communicate, to you.

Manufacturers
We share information with the manufactures listed below in line with our retailer agreements and with respect to safety and compliance specifications.

We proudly represent Vauxhall, Citroen and MG.

If your enquiry leads to the purchase of a new car for the purposes of warranty, registration and safety compliance we will share this information with the respective manufacturer.

Safety and Compliance
For warranty and product safety requirements contacts will be made to our guests from the manufacturer or Drive Motor Retail Limited.

Data Security
You should be aware that the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure although we will use our best endeavours to protect your personal data. Drive Motor Retail Limited cannot guarantee the security of your data in transit.

After receiving your information. Drive Motor Retail Limited will use clear procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

Drive Motor Retail Limited will never ask you to email your bank details, usernames, passwords, or ask you through an email or text for personal banking information.

If you suspect you have become a victim of fraud please report this instance to the police through 'Action Fraud' via the website www.actionfraudpolice.co.uk or by calling 03001 232040.  Drive Motor Retail Limited would also recommend contacting the Information and Commissioners Office (ICO) via the website -www.ico.gov.uk.

 Access to information
You may request a copy of your personal information that the company holds about you at no cost. If you wish to access or update your personal information please contact Drive Motor Retail Limited by sending an email to stuartharrison@drivevauxhall.co.uk or a written request to:

Stuart Harrison

Drive Motor Retail Limited

Freemens Common Road

Leicester

LE2 7SL

If you wish to remove any of the personal information the company holds please request this via email or writing to the above address.

However, if your personal information relates to any legal reasons it may be removed.

If there are any concerns that Drive Motor Retail Limited are not using your information in accordance with there processes and with legal precedence or you are not satisfied with our response to your data request that are made you can refer to the 'Information Commissioners Office (ICO)' - www.ico.gov.uk.

 Drive Motor Retail Group Company Information

Company	Co. No.	Trading Names	Registered Address
Drive Motor Retail Limited	04340383	Drive Vauxhall	Freemens Common Road, Leicester LE2 7SL
Sterling Motor Properties Limited	04469729	N/A	as above
Drive Motor Properties LLP	OC353541	N/A	as above

 

Disclosure of information
Drive Motor Retail Limited may disclose your personal information to other members of our organisation as described above.

Drive Motor Retail Limited may disclose your personal information to other parties in the event of:

• If we sell any of our businesses we may disclose your personal information to the prospective buyer of the relevant business.
• In the event of a duty of disclosure due to compliance with legal obligation then your personal information may be shared.
• In order to enforce or to comply with our terms and conditions of use for non-compliance.
• Data may be shared with other organisations for purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
• In the event of a data-cleansing organisation being sourced under contract to ensure accuracy of data information.
• Use of live chat and phone calls your information may be collected and shared with our third party providers.

 Cookies
We use cookies to make this website as useful to you as possible.
Cookies are small text files that we put in your browser to track usage of our site (to improve and enhance it) but they do not tell us who you are. Absolutely no uniquely identifiable information is stored in any of our Cookies.

What are cookies?
A cookie is a piece of data/text file that is placed in your computer’s memory when you visit a website. The information the cookie contains is set by our website’s server and, depending on the type of cookie, may be used each time you visit our website/s.

Cookies are widely used to make our website/s work, or work more efficiently for you, our guest, as well as to provide companies with information about traffic through the website.

Cookies are designed to remember things that you have done on a website in the past, which can include saving products to view later, completing enquiry forms fast or clicking on links. This can save you time when you visit a website more than once.

Cookies can be used by our website/s in the following ways:

• To remember your preferences.
• To find out what the website doesn’t do well and make improvements to it in future.
• Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook.
• To make personalised product recommendations, based upon your previous times you’ve visited our website/s.
• Make sure advertising on other websites is relevant to you.
• They can also help us to see how many people are visiting our website and which pages are the most popular (see Google Analytics).

Two types of cookies may be used on our website: session cookies which are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site, and persistent cookies which remain in the cookie file of your browser for longer. This will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie.

Advertising Cookies
Our website uses cookies/advertising IDs for the purpose of advertising. This enables us to show our advertisements to visitors who are interested in our products on partner websites, apps and emails. Re-targeting technologies use your cookies or advertising IDs and display advertisements based on your past browsing behaviour. You can opt-out of interest-based advertising  by visiting the following websites:

http://go.pardot.com/e/126241/choices-/3yy9lv/114140805

http://go.pardot.com/e/126241/2017-04-12/3yy9lx/114140805

We may share data, such as technical identifiers derived from your registration information on our website or our CRM system with our trusted advertising partners. This allows them to link your devices and/or environments and provide you a seamless experience across the different devices and environments that you use.  

Cookies are not dangerous. They are not computer programs and cannot be used to circulate viruses. They are not used to identify you personally.

Google Analytics
This is a behavioural tracking service that shows us what pages people have visited, for how long and it what order. It also tells us whether people are using desktops or mobile devices to view the website, and other helpful information. This data helps us find out what can be improved on the website and how important it is.

List of Cookies
Here is a list of the main cookies we use, and what we use them for on our website/s. 

You can at anytime refuse the use of cookies by changing your browser settings.

 IP Addresses

The additional cookies that run during your session will collate information regarding your computer in the form of server logs including where available your IP addresses, operating system, browser types regarding your systems administration.

This is for the purpose of statistical data, disabling cookies ensures that your IP address will not be recorded. You can update your cookie preferences in your browser settings. Please note that disabling cookies will ensure that your IP address will not be recorded.

Drive Motor Retail Limited would request that the cookies are accepted, as they are used for:

• Customisation of the website layout and content.
• Recognition of when a user has visited and how many unique visits are received.
• Remembering your preferences and settings.
• Recognition of devices so as to not need to provide the same information on visits to the website.
• Identification of errors for resolution.
• Identification of what is relevant whilst browsing the website.
• Collation of statistical and anonymous information around the use of our digital services.
• Effectiveness of our website and online message. 

Links
The Websites associated with Drive Motor Retail Limited may contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks and manufacturer.

In the event of you following these links, these websites will have their own privacy policies and Drive Motor Retail Limited do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies.

Drive Motor Retail Limited would advise that you check these policies before you submit any personal information to these websites.

Social Networks
The Websites associated with Drive Motor Retail Limited may offer you opportunity to share or follow information about the business using third party social networking functionality; share this, like or follow buttons.

We offer this functionality in order to generate interest toward our website and services among members of your social networks.

You should be aware that sharing personal information within a social network may result in that being collected by the social network provider. This could result in that information becoming publicly available in internet search engine results.

Drive Motor Retail Limited do no exercise or endorse controls, policies or practices or any third party social network that you may access through our websites.

Please read the privacy policy or any social network with which you may share information with.

Jurisdiction - Data storage for use in the EU and third countries
Drive Motor Retail Limited store your data on secured servers inside the EU. Most of our partner networks are mainly based within the EU but some are based outside.

We have a clear data policy in place regarding the submission of your personal information. This will cover consent to transfer, storing or processing your personal information and data.

In the event of this instance Drive Motor Retail Limited will take steps to ensure that the required security measures are followed to protect data as per our data security policy.

You can read about the EU e-Privacy Directive and the UK’s Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 at www.ico.gov.uk.

We may update our privacy policy from time to time, so would advise that you check it each time you visit the website.

 

Copyright
All rights, including copyright and database right, in the website and its contents, are owned by or licensed to Drive Vauxhall Motor Group, or otherwise used by Drive Vauxhall Motor Group as permitted by applicable law or the copyright holder. You may not copy, reproduce, republish, download, post, broadcast or transmit any text, images, graphic, logo, button, icon, image and their selection and arrangement thereof, and any underlying source code and software, for any commercial or public purpose without prior written permission from Drive Vauxhall Motor Group or the copyright holder.

You may not adapt, alter or create any of the material or information in this site or use it for any other purpose other than for your personal non-commercial use. You agree to use this site only for lawful purposes.

Drive Vauxhall Motor Group reserves the right to use for its own purposes any material submitted to the site, including text and images, either on the site or in any other form, including for publicity purposes. Drive Vauxhall Motor Group reserves the right to monitor submissions to the site and to edit or reject any submissions.

Disclaimer
We try to ensure that information on our site is accurate, complete and up-to-date. In using this site, however, you agree to be bound by the Terms & Conditions, which take effect on the date when you first use the site.

Without prejudice to your statutory rights, the site and all information, text, names, images, pictures, logos, links and icons and other materials (without limitation) are provided 'AS IS' and on an 'IS AVAILABLE' basis without representation warranty or endorsement, express or implied. In particular, we do not warrant or represent the accuracy or completeness of information provided on this site nor do we guarantee that use of this site will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that the site and its servers are free of computer viruses or bugs.

In no event will Drive Vauxhall Motor Group be liable to any person for any damage or loss that may arise from the use of any information contained in our site or products displayed on our site, including, without limitation, indirect or consequential damages, or any damages whatsoever arising from use or loss of use, data, or profits, whether in action of contract, negligence or other tortious action, arising out of or in connection with the use of the site.

Notwithstanding anything else in these Terms & Conditions, we will not be liable for claims relating to the functionality or availability of this site.

Fees and Charges
Admin fees and charges may apply in the purchase process of any of our products. This will be relayed by the dealership during the sales process.

Fees may differ from dealership to dealership.

Trademarks
All names, images, logos identifying Drive Vauxhall Motor Group are proprietary marks of Drive Vauxhall Motor Group. All third party brand, product, service and company names contained on this site are the trademarks, service marks and trade names of their respective holders. Drive Vauxhall Motor Group does not give permission for their use by any person other than the holders. Any such use may constitute an infringement of the holders' rights.

External links
Drive Vauxhall Motor Group does not represent, warrant, endorse or hold responsibility over any external sites that may be linked to and from this site. Any external site that you visit by clicking through a link on this site is outside the control of Drive Vauxhall Motor Group and you visit entirely at your own risk.

Software disclaimer
The software downloads from this site have been thoroughly scanned and tested at all stages of production, but - as with all new software - we still recommend that you run a virus checker before use. We also recommend that you have an up-to-date backup of your hard disk before using the software. Drive Vauxhall Motor Group cannot accept responsibility for any disruption, damage and/or loss of data on your data or computer system that may occur while using the software. Consult your network administrator before installing any software on a networked computer.

Jurisdiction
These Terms & Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. Disputes arising here shall be exclusively subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

If any of these Terms should be determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable by reason of the laws of any state or country in which these Terms are intended to be effective, it shall be severed and deleted from this clause. All other Terms of Use and Terms & Conditions shall remain in full force and continue to be binding and enforceable.

Drive Vauxhall Motor Group reserves the right to change any of its terms and conditions at any time by posting changes online.

If you do not accept these Terms in full, you must stop using this website immediately.

Complaints Handling
At Drive, we aim to provide the highest quality service to all of our customers at all times. If for any reason you are unsatisfied with the service you have received from Drive, you can find our Complaints Procedure here.

Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement
This statement sets out the steps Drive Motor Retail Ltd has taken to ensure that modern slavery or human trafficking is not taking place within our business or supply change. Read our Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement.

Gender Pay Gap Report 2021
To view Drive Vauxhall's 2021 Gender Pay Gap Report click below:

2021 Gender Pay Gap Report