Privacy Policy

You have the right to object to us processing your personal data on the basis of our legitimate interests or for direct marketing purposes (including any related profiling we do to help ensure that our marketing is relevant to your interests). For more information about your right to object and how you can exercise it, see the section Your privacy rights.

1. About us

We are H. Young (Operations) Limited, a private limited company incorporated in (and subject to the laws of) England and Wales with registration number 00706712 (referred to in this Privacy Policy as "we", "us" or "our"). Our registered address is Buckingham House, West Street, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 1BD, UK.

We are the “data controller” of your personal data, which means that we determine the purposes and the means of use of the personal data we collect about you for the purposes of applicable data protection law (which includes the General Data Protection Regulation 2016 or “GDPR”).

2. What personal data we collect

Personal data is any information which identifies you personally whether directly (for example, your name) or indirectly (for example, information about your use of our website).
We collect the following personal data about you:

• Basic contact details: We ask you to provide us with your name, title, email address and telephone number if you sign up to receive our marketing communications. We may also collect some or all of these contact details as well as your postal address if you register your products with us for warranty and recall purposes, enter any of our competitions, complete a survey or send us feedback, or contact or correspond with us;
• Gender and product interests: If you sign up to receive our marketing communications, we ask you to confirm whether you are male or female. We might also ask you to indicate whether you have an interest in any particular types of products;
• Product registration details: If you create an account on our website to register your products with us for warranty and recall purposes, we ask you to provide the serial number of the products you wish to register in addition to your contact details;
• Information you provide through correspondence, feedback and competitions: We collect any additional personal data that you may provide to us from time to time if you contact us by email, letter or telephone, through our website or a social media platform or by any other means. In addition, we collect any additional personal data that you may provide to us if you send us feedback or enter any of our competitions; and
• Information about how you use our website and services: Each time you visit our website, where you have consented to cookies, we or our service providers automatically collect technical information about the device you have used to access our website (including the make, model and operating system, IP address, browser type and mobile device identifiers) and information about your user preferences and browsing habits (such as items or links clicked on, web pages viewed and any web page download errors). In addition, if you receive emails from us, we or our service providers may automatically collect technical information about how you have interacted with those emails, including whether you have opened them or clicked through any links within them. Please see our Cookie Policy to find out more about what cookies and other similar technologies we use, and how to decline or disable them.

We use the data described above for the purposes set out in the How we use your personal data section below.

3. How we use your personal data

We use your personal data for the following purposes:

To register your products and communicate with you about them for warranty and recall purposes

If you create an account on our website to register your products with us, we keep a record of your contact details and the serial number of the products you wish to register with us. We use this information to manager and administer your account and communicate with you about warranty and recall notifications.

To inform you of any changes to our services

We use the contact details you have provided to us to notify you of changes to any of our services or to the terms of any contracts between us or to any related information (such as changes to this Privacy Policy).

To deliver direct marketing (involving profiling to tailor our communications to your interests)

Our marketing communications

If you have provided your consent to do so, we will use your contact details to send you marketing communications by email and SMS text message about www.adventureoutdoor.co products, services, special offers, promotions, giveaways and competitions that we think may be of interest to you.

You can unsubscribe or opt out of receiving our marketing communications at any time by:

• getting in touch using the contact details set out in the section How you can contact us in our Privacy Policy;
• using the “Unsubscribe” link in our emails or “STOP” number in our SMS text messages; or
• using the “Manage my preferences” feature.

Our use of profiling to send tailored marketing communications

We want to ensure that the marketing communications we send to you are relevant to your interests. Consequently, we undertake analysis and profiling of the information you provide to us, such as your gender and product interests, and other information we collect about how you interact with our communications (see the next section on email interaction technology below). This information helps us build a profile of you, meaning that if you sign up to receive marketing communications from us, you are more likely to receive information about products, services, special offers, promotions, giveaways and competitions that we think are more relevant to you and your interests. It also means that we don’t send the same marketing communications to all of our customers, so you may not be made the same offers as another customer.

The legal ground for us using profiling to tailor our marketing communications to your interests is that it is in our legitimate interests to do so, having taken into account whether your interests and fundamental rights and freedoms are overridden by this type of processing. See Legal grounds for using your personal datafor more information about our legitimate interests. If you don’t agree with us using profiling for this purpose, you can let us know (see How you can contact us). If you do object, we won't be able to continue to send you tailored marketing communications, which means the information you receive from us may not be as relevant to you.

Email interaction technology

If you receive emails from us, we or our marketing service provider may automatically collect technical information about how you have interacted with those emails, including whether you have opened them or clicked through any links within them. This helps us understand how an email campaign performed, what types of emails and content our customers find interesting, and what actions our customers took, so we can improve our email campaigns in the future and make our emails more relevant to you. Please see our Cookie Policy to find out more about this, including how to turn this functionality off.

Freewheel marketing communications

H. Young (Operations) Limited, the “data controller” of your personal data, operates another website called Freewheel (www.freewheel.co.uk), where you can purchase various products. We would like to use your name and email address to inform you also of products, services, special offers and promotions that we think may be of interest to you on the Freewheel site. We will only do this where you have provided your consent to do so. You can unsubscribe or opt out of receiving Freewheel email marketing at any time by using the “Unsubscribe” link in Freewheel emails or by contacting us. See the Freewheel Privacy Policy to find out more about our privacy practices in relation to the Freewheel site. 

To manage, administer and improve our website

We also use the information we collect about you based on your use of our website and services to:

• manage and administer our website and for internal operations, including for troubleshooting, data analysis, testing and statistical purposes;
• improve the services we offer you through our website;
• help ensure that you get the best from our website by making it as easy and intuitive as possible for you to use;
• help keep our website safe and secure; and
• make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of our website about products or services that may interest you or them.

Please see our Cookie Policy to find out more about how we use cookies and other similar technologies in this context, and how to decline or disable them.

To provide and improve customer support

We use your personal data to be able to provide and improve the customer support we provide to you (for example, where you have questions about our products and services).

To run our competitions

If you choose to enter a competition that we run, we need to use your contact details and any other personal data that you provide at the time of entry so that we can manage the competition and let you know if you've won! If we ask for any other personal data as part of the competition, we will let you know at the time of entry exactly how we will use it.

To respond to communications or enquiries from you, and address complaints and disputes

We use the personal data we hold about you to help us respond to any enquiries or complaints you have made, or address any dispute which may arise in the course of us providing our services to you.

Please note that if you contact us through a social media platform, we will only use the publicly available information about you (determined by your social media platform privacy settings) for the purposes of responding to you. Please see the privacy statements of the social media platforms you use for details of how they use your personal data, who they share it with and how you can manage your privacy settings with them.

To conduct market research

We may invite you to be involved in market research. If you accept our invitation, we will use your feedback to improve our website and the services available through it. If you tell us that you don't want to be contacted for this purpose, or you don't accept our invitation, we will respect this choice and it won't affect your ability to access and use our website or interact with us in other ways.  

To provide other services requested by you from time to time

We process your personal data to provide any other services requested by you from time to time, as described at the time we collect the data.

To maintain our records and improve data accuracy

We process personal data in the course of maintaining and administering our internal records. This includes processing your personal data to ensure that the information we hold about you is kept up to date and accurate.

To conduct business analytics and reporting

We may aggregate the data we hold about you on an anonymous basis with other data for analytical and reporting purposes.

To comply with our legal obligations and to detect, prevent and investigate other actual or suspected violations of law or misuse of our website

In certain circumstances, we use your personal data only to the extent required in order to enable us to comply with our legal obligations, including to detect, prevent and investigate fraud or to facilitate the exercise of your consumer rights. In addition, we may need to use your personal data to detect, prevent and investigate any other actual or suspected violations of law or misuse of our website.

4. Legal grounds for using your personal data

Applicable data protection law requires us to only process your personal data if we satisfy one or more legal grounds. These are set out in law and we rely on a number of different grounds for the processing we carry out, depending on the purposes of the processing. These are as follows:

Necessary for the purposes of our legitimate business interests

Much of the personal data we collect about you is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests as a business, which are to:

• provide our customers with services that are as useful and beneficial as possible, including by personalising our contact with customers;
• develop and improve our website to enhance the customer experience;
• safeguard the security and effective operation of our website;
• better understand our customer base by engaging with customers and conducting research into, and analysis of, how customers interact with us and use our website and the services available through it so that we can improve those services, marketing activities and communications (all of which could also benefit you); and
• ensure effective operational management and internal administration of our business, including in relation to document retention, compliance with regulatory guidance and exercise or defence of legal claims.

To help us achieve these outcomes, we profile your personal data, including by combining the data we collect about how you use our website and services with other information we hold about you.

Please note that where we wish to rely on this legal ground, we are required by law to conduct balancing tests to determine whether our legitimate interests are overridden by your interests or your fundamental rights and freedoms. We may continue to process your personal data on the basis of our legitimate interests only if we determine that your interests, rights and freedoms are not overridden by our legitimate interests.

We have considered these matters and where we think there is a risk that your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms may be affected we will not process your personal data unless there is another legal ground for us to do so (either that we have obtained your consent to the processing or it is necessary for us to perform our contract with you or to comply with our legal obligations).

Please contact us if you would like further information regarding our balancing tests (see How you can contact us).

Consent

In certain limited circumstances, we also process your personal data after obtaining your consent to do so for the purposes of:

• sending you marketing communications about www.adventureoutdoor.co products, services, special offers, promotions, giveaways and competitions;
• sending you email marketing in connection with our Freewheel site (www.freewheel.co.uk); and
• collecting market research data.

You don’t have to provide your consent, and can withdraw it at any time.

Necessary for the performance of a contract and to comply with our legal obligations

In some cases, it is necessary for us to process a limited amount of personal data we collect about you for the performance of certain contracts between us. This includes your contact details and any other information you provide to us if you enter any competitions that we run from time to time or if we provide you with any other services that you have requested and for which terms and conditions apply. We will let you know if this is the case at the relevant time.

In certain circumstances, we also use your personal data only to the extent required in order to enable us to comply with our legal obligations, including to detect, prevent and investigate fraud or to facilitate the exercise of your consumer rights.

5. Who we disclose your personal data to

H. Young (Operations) Limited, the “data controller” of your personal data, has a number of different business divisions. Personnel within those different divisions assist with the management and operation of www.adventureoutdoor.co and as a result, have access to your personal data in connection with the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.

Where you have provided your consent to do so, your name and email address will be used by other personnel within H. Young (Operations) Limited who operate the Freewheel website (www.freewheel.co.uk) for the purposes of sending you emails about products, services, special offers and promotions that we think may be of interest to you on the Freewheel site. See the Freewheel Privacy Policy to find out more about our privacy practices in relation to the Freewheel site.

In addition, we may from time to time need to disclose your personal data to third parties in order to provide you with our services and ensure the effective operation of our website. The providers of such services are granted access to certain personal data to the extent necessary for them to perform the services that we request. Any personal data that is processed by third parties must be processed in accordance with applicable data protection law and subject to contractual obligations, including regarding security and confidentiality. The third parties are:

• UK Fast, which provides us with a platform from which we can host and operate our website;
• MailChimp, our marketing service provider, which assists us with our marketing activities and sends you email marketing on our behalf. In addition, in certain circumstances, this third party may use your personal data for their own legitimate business purposes as a "data controller" in their own right. Please see MailChimp’s privacy statement available here for details of how they use your personal data as a “subscriber” of our marketing communications and how you can manage your privacy settings with them; and
• Falcon, which provides us with a social media and customer engagement tool to enable us to better manage and operate our social media presence and interact with our customers.

We may also disclose your personal data:

• if we buy or sell any businesses or assets, to the buyer or seller (or prospective buyer or seller) and/or their advisers; and
• if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with (and/or where we believe we are under a duty to comply with) any legal obligation, or in order to protect the rights, property or safety of our business, our customers or others. This includes, in specific cases, sharing information with law enforcement or regulatory agencies, or authorised third parties, in response to a verified request relating to a criminal investigation or actual or suspected violation of law, misuse of our website or breach of contract that may expose us and/or any customer or third party to legal risks or liability.

Additionally, where you have consented to cookies, we allow third parties such as Google to set Google Analytics cookies on your device to assist us with the improvement and optimisation of our website. Google Analytics cookies collect information such as items clicked on, web pages viewed and any web pages where users are encountering download error messages from time to time. Please see our Cookie Policy to find out more about how we use cookies and other similar technologies (including links to further information provided by Google about their practices), and how to decline or disable them.

6. International transfers of personal data

The personal data we collect about you is stored by us on secure servers located within the European Economic Area (“EEA”) and processed by us in the UK.

• EU-US Privacy Shield: We use MailChimp, which is based in the United States and processes your personal data in the United States. Pursuant to GDPR Article 45, your personal data is transferred by MailChimp to the United States on the basis of their self-certification under the Privacy Shield framework, which requires them to provide similar protection to personal data shared between the European Union and United States. For further details, see European Commission: EU-US Privacy Shield.
• Standard data protection clauses adopted by the EU Commission: Pursuant to GDPR Article 46(2), where required we use specific contracts approved by the European Commission, which give personal data the same protection it has within the EEA. For further details, see European Commission: Model contracts for the transfer of personal data to third countries.

Please contact us if you would like more information about the countries to which your personal data is transferred and the specific safeguards that are used to protect your personal data when it is transferred outside the EEA (see How you can contact us).

7. How long we keep your personal data for

We retain your personal data for no longer than is necessary for the purpose(s) for which it was collected. What this means in practice will vary between different types of data. When determining the relevant retention periods, we take into account factors including:

• legal obligation(s) under applicable law to retain data for a certain period of time;
• statute of limitations under applicable law;
• the warranty period for any products you register with us;
• potential or actual disputes; and
• guidelines issued by relevant data protection authorities.

Otherwise, we securely erase your personal data from our systems when it is no longer needed.

8. Your privacy rights

The table in this section below explains what rights you have with regard to your personal data. These rights are not absolute and are subject to certain exceptions and qualifications.

For more information about your rights or if you would like to exercise any of your rights, you are welcome to contact us using the contact details set out below under How you can contact us.

Please note that if you ask us to stop using your personal data in a certain way or erase your personal data, and this type of use or personal data is required by us in order to facilitate your use of our website or services in any way, you may not be able to use our website or services as you did before. This does not include your right to withdraw your consent to receiving marketing communications from us, which you can do so at any time without restriction.

9. How you can contact us

If you would like to exercise your privacy rights or if you are unhappy with how we have handled your personal data, please contact us by:

• emailing: customercare@Madison.co.uk;
• writing to: Madison, Roebuck Way, Knowlhill, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK5 8HL, UK; or
• calling: 01908 326032.

If you’re not satisfied with our response to any enquiry or complaint or believe our use of your personal data does not comply with applicable data protection law, you can make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) by:

• writing to: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF; 
• calling: 0303 123 1113; or
• submitting a message through the ICO’s website at: www.ico.org.uk.

10. Children’s personal data

We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under the age of 16. If you become aware that your child or any child for which you have parental responsibility has provided their personal data to us without your consent, please contact us using the contact details set out above under How you can contact us.

11. Links to other websites

Our website may, from time to time, contain hyperlinks to third party websites or other websites operated by H. Young (Operations) Limited. This Privacy Policy does not apply to your use of those other websites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit, as they will govern the use of any personal data you provide when visiting those websites.

12. Changes to this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy was last updated on 24/05/2018.

This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time. We will post the updated terms on our website and, where appropriate, we will notify you of the changes, for example by an email notification. We recommend that you check this page from time to time to ensure that you are aware of and understand any changes.