Our website address is: https://removals-estimates.co.uk.
Our site enables people to request Removals Estimates or information about services shown or selected on this site.
The service that our site provides is to connect people who are looking to move to and from: UK, Europe or International locations with relevant Removal Companies.
If you’d like to request and receive removals estimates or any other information related to removals services provided by our removals companies, please complete and submit our webform.
Once we’ve received your request, we’ll connect you with one or more relevant Removals Companies. We’ll tell the Removals Companies who you are, and your Moving requirements, and they’ll then contact you directly with your requested Removal Estimates/Quotes, by email or phone.
For certain services, before connecting you with relevant Removals Companies, we may call you to confirm your details or requirements.
You’ll see on our webform that we have a really clear consent statement. This statement sets out the Removals Companies that will contact you.
There is no obligation to purchase the estimates/quotes we provide.
We respect your data and rights by keeping your data secure and confidential, limiting the use of your data only with Removals Companies which we partnered with (i.e. to providing you with the requested Estimates/Quotes), and not sharing your data with anyone else.
Before confirming what data we collect, and why, here’s what we definitely don’t do with your data, unless clearly set out in this notice:
If you complete our webform in order to request Estimates/Quotes, it will ask you for your contact details, such as your name, email address, telephone number, postal address, and/or postal code.
Our webform will also ask for information regarding your service requirements.
From time to time, we change our webforms, and so they may ask you for other information. It will always be clear from the webform what information we’re requesting, and we only request information that is relevant to your request, and the service that we’re providing.
We also store and share Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, as explained below. Every computer or device has an IP address – a unique number – which enables it to communicate with other computers and devices over the Internet.
We may monitor and/or record these calls for the purposes of quality control and staff training. Also, occasionally, we may need to provide to our partners Removals Companies with limited access to such recordings in order to resolve disputes.
Additionally, we might collect data about you if you:
We use your data (described above) in the following ways.
As explained above, if you submit our webform, we’ll pass your request to one or more relevant Removals Companies . We will do this in a secure way. For example, using HTTP Secure (HTTPS), which means the data is encrypted. The Service Providers then contact you directly with your quotes. They may contact you by telephone, text/SMS or email.
We store IP addresses in order to stop unwanted traffic (i.e. spam) to our site. For example, if we become aware that spam is coming from a particular IP address (i.e. computer or location), we can block that IP address. From time to time, we also share IP addresses with Removals Companies to enable Removals Companies to verify that requests for Estimates/Quotes have come from a particular country.
For certain products, before connecting you with relevant Removals Companies, we may call you to confirm your details or requirements.
We may also call you to ask about your experience using our site and service, and dealing with the Removals Companies with which we connected you.
To email you about similar products and services – But only if you haven’t opted out of such emails
If you use our estimate/quote request service, then, as an existing user, we would like to email you, or send you text/SMS messages, about similar products and services for which we think you might like estimates/quotes or information (“Other Services”).
You will always be given an opportunity to opt out of such messages before we send them, and we will not send such messages if you have opted out.
We like to work with Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin, Google and other platforms (“Platforms”) to reach out to you with adverts for Other Services. We also like to use Platforms to reach out to other people who might like to use our estimate/quote request service.
Your data, along with other data, is used to create a custom audience and/or a lookalike/similar audience.
As we explain below, at any time, you may object to such activity by emailing us at contact@removals-estimates.co.uk.
From time to time, Removals Companies may return data to us. They may do this if they have a query regarding a request for Estimates/Quotes that we have sent to them in order to enable us to resolve the query. They may also return data to us, together with confirmation on whether or not a services has been purchased, in order to enable us to improve our marketing. We may also use such data to create custom and lookalike/similar audiences, as explained above.
We work with a number of suppliers, who process data on our behalf. These include web hosting providers, email service providers, and telephony providers. We have appropriate contracts in place with such suppliers to ensure the protection and confidentiality of data.
Depending on the countries in which you’re looking for Service Providers, we may transfer your data outside the European Economic Area (the “EEA”). For example, if you’re looking for Service Providers in the USA, we may need to transfer your data to the USA.
Some of those countries (e.g. Canada, New Zealand, USA) have a European Commission adequacy decision, which means they are considered to offer an adequate level of data protection.
Other countries do not have the same level of legal protection as countries in the EEA, or with an adequacy decision. If we do transfer your data in this way, we will take steps to ensure that it is protected to the same levels that apply in the EEA. This may include, for example, ensuring that the organisation receiving the data is registered with the EU-US Privacy Shield (in the case of transfers to the USA), or that we use the EU’s model contract clauses.
We have a data retention policy, which clearly sets out how long we keep data for, and for what reasons.
We will keep your data only for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purpose/s for which it was collected in the first place, i.e. as set out in this notice.
For example:
Following the periods set out above, we will not use the data, save that we will hash/anonymise the same, and retain it for a further 3 years for compliance purposes.
Under the GDPR, you have a number of rights. In relation to our site, and the service that we provide, those rights are set out in the table above. We further explain these rights, and your other rights, below.
Right of access – You have the right at any time to ask us for a copy of the personal information that we hold about you, and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
Right of rectification – If personal information that we hold about you is not accurate or is out of date and requires amendment or correction you have a right to have the data rectified or completed.
Right of erasure – In certain circumstances, you have the right to request that personal information we hold about you is erased (e.g. if the information is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or processed).
Right to object to or restrict processing – In certain circumstances, you have the right to object to our processing of your personal information. For example, if we are processing your information on the basis of our legitimate interests, and there are no compelling legitimate grounds for our processing which override your rights and interests.
Right of data portability – In certain instances, you have a right to receive any personal information that we hold about you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format.
Right to withdraw consent – In the limited circumstances where you may have provided your consent to the collection, processing and transfer of your personal information for a specific purpose, you have the right to withdraw your consent for that specific processing at any time. You can exercise this right by contacting us on our email at contact@removals-estimates.co.uk.
As explained above, you can exercise your right to withdraw consent by contacting us on our email at contact@removals-estimates.co.uk.
If you wish to exercise any of your other rights under the GDPR, please email us at contact@removals-estimates.co.uk.
Alternatively, you can write to us at the address set out above, or inform us if you speak with us on the phone.
Our lead supervisory authority for the processing set out in this notice is the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). If you are unhappy with how we have processed your data, you have the right to make a complaint to the ICO.
If you are based outside of the UK, or you have a complaint concerning our activities outside of the UK, you may prefer to lodge a complaint with a different Supervisory Authority. A list of relevant authorities can be accessed here.
If you have any questions regarding this notice, or any questions relating to data protection or privacy, you can contact us at contact@removals-estimates.co.uk.
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.