Motor-Vision Privacy Policy

Website Terms of use

Introduction
ATTENTION: This legal notice applies to the entire contents of this website under the domain name motor-vision.co.uk (“the Website”) and to any correspondence by email or otherwise between us and you. Please read these terms and conditions (“Terms”) carefully before using this Website. Using this Website indicates that you accept these Terms. If you do not accept these Terms, please do not use this Website.
Motor-Vision is a Motoring Blog and news portal which is set up and run by Grove & Dean Ltd (referenced to as “Grove & Dean Limited” , “we” , or “us”), who are registered at 7 Station Lane, Hornchurch, Essex, RM12 6JL.

Grove & Dean Ltd are an independent intermediary who are authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and our Firm Reference Number is 307002.
The principle function of Motor-Vision is to provide the latest Motoring News to visitors. Grove & Dean Limited is committed in protecting the privacy and, as stated in the Data Protection Act 1998, we have a legal obligation to protect any and all personal information which is consensually given to us.

If you have any comments, queries, concerns or questions about this Privacy Policy or the website, please contact us using our contact details outlined at the bottom of this page.

Updates and Amendments

We may update these Terms at any time. You should review these Terms every time you visit this site to check for any amendments, because they are binding on you.
If you continue to use this Website after the date on which the change comes into effect, your use of the Website indicates your agreement to be bound by the new Terms.

Use of our website

Unless otherwise indicated, our products and services are only available to UK residents who access this Website from within the UK.
If you use this Website to apply for insurance, you confirm that you are over 17 years old and are not impersonating another person.
We aim to offer very competitive insurance but not everybody will be eligible to take out some of our insurance products. We reserve the right to refuse to offer you a quote if you are not eligible for the selected insurance product.

Licence

You are permitted to print and download extracts from this Website provided that:

a. no documents or related graphics on this Website are modified in any way;
b. no graphics on this Website are used separately from accompanying text; and
c. our copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.

Unless otherwise stated, the copyright and other intellectual property rights in all material on this Website (including, without limitation, photographs and graphic images) are owned by us or our licensors. For the purposes of these Terms, any use of extracts from this Website other than in accordance with the provisions above for any purpose is prohibited. If you breach any of the Terms, your permission to use this Website automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any downloaded or printed extracts from this Website.

Subject to the above provisions, no part of this Website may be reproduced or stored in any other website or included in any public or private electronic retrieval system or service without our prior written permission.
Any rights so expressly granted in these Terms are reserved.

Service Access

While we endeavour to ensure that this Website is available 24 hours a day, we will not be liable if for any reason this Website is unavailable at any time or for any period.

Access to this Website may be suspended temporarily and without notice in the case of system failure, maintenance or repair or for reasons beyond our control.

Visitor Material and Conduct

Other than personally identifiable information, any material you transmit or post to this Website will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. We will have no obligations with respect to such material.

We will be free to copy, disclose, distribute, incorporate and otherwise use such material and/or data, images, sounds, text and other things embodied therein for any and all commercial or non-commercial purposes.

You are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from this Website anything:

a. that is threatening, defamatory, obscene, indecent, seditious, offensive, pornographic, abusive, liable to incite racial hatred, discriminatory, menacing, scandalous, inflammatory, blasphemous, in breach of confidence, in breach of privacy, or which may cause annoyance or inconvenience;

b. for which you have not obtained all necessary licences and/or approval;

c. which constitutes or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise be contrary to the law of or infringe the rights of any third party, in the UK or any other country in the world; or

d. which is technically harmful (including, without limitation, computer viruses, logic bombs, worms, harmful components, corrupted data or other malicious software or harmful data).

You may not misuse the Website (including, without limitation, by hacking).

Links to and from other websites

Links to third party websites on this Website are provided solely for your convenience. If you use these links, you will leave this Website. We have not reviewed all of these third party websites and we do not control and are not responsible for these websites or their contents. Therefore, we do not endorse or make any representations about them, or any material found there, or any result that may be obtained from using them. If you decide to access any of the third party websites linked to this Website, you do so entirely at your own risk.

If you would like to link to this Website, you may only do so on the basis that you link to, but do not replicate, the home page of this Website, and subject to the following conditions:

a. you do not remove, distort or otherwise alter the size or appearance of our logo;

b. you do not create a frame or any other browser or border environment around this Website;

c. you do not in any way imply that we are endorsing any products or services other than its own;

d. you do not misrepresent your relationship with us nor present any other false information about us;

e. you do not otherwise use any of our trade marks displayed on this Website without express written permission from us;

f. you do not link from a website which is not owned by you; and

g. your website does not contain content that is distasteful, offensive or controversial, infringes any intellectual property rights or other rights of any other person or otherwise does not comply with applicable laws and regulations.

We expressly reserve the right to revoke the rights granted above for breach of these Terms and to take any action we deem appropriate.
You shall fully indemnify us for any loss or damage suffered by us or any of our group companies for breach of the above provisions.

Disclaimer

While we endeavour to ensure that the information on this Website is correct, we do not warrant the accuracy and completeness of the material on this Website. We may make changes to the material on this Website, or to the products and prices described in it, at any time without notice, the material on this Website may be out of date, and we make no commitment to update such material.

The material on this Website is provided on a “as is” basis without any conditions, warranties or other terms of any kind. Accordingly, to the maximum extent permitted by law, we provide you with this Website on the basis that we exclude all representations, warranties, conditions and other terms, (including, without limitation, the conditions implied by law of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and the use of reasonable care and skill) which but for this legal notice might have effect in relation to this Website.

Exclusion of Liability

The following “Exclusion of Liability” statement should be read carefully as this explains the exclusions and limitations of our liability arising from your use of this website.

While care has been taken to ensure that the contents of this website are both accurate and complete we and any other party (whether or not involved in creating, producing, maintaining or delivering this Website) accept no liability or responsibility in tort (including without limitation, negligence, contract or otherwise) for any amount or kind of loss or damage which may result to you or a third party including and without limitation to any;

• direct, indirect, punitive or consequential loss or damages
• loss of income, profits, goodwill, data, contracts, use of money,
• loss or damage arising from or in connection in any way to business interruption,

Access and use of this Website is at your own risk. We do not accept liability or responsibility or otherwise which may result in your inability to use the Website functionality; neither do we warrant that the use of this Website or any material downloaded from it will not cause damage to any property or otherwise minimise or eliminate the inherent risks of the internet or websites linked to this Website, including but not limited to loss or damage due to:

• viruses that may infect your computer equipment including but not limited to spyware, malicious software Trojans and worms

• software, data or other property on account of your access to the use of, or browsing of this Website or your downloading of any material from this Website or any websites linked to this Website.

“We” means any of our officers, directors, employees, or shareholders (or agents of them).
Nothing in this legal notice shall exclude or limit our liability for (i) death or personal injury caused by negligence (as such term is defined by the Unfair Contract Terms Act l977); (ii) fraud; (iii) misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter; or (iv) any liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable laws.

If your use of material in this Website results in the need for servicing, repair or correction of equipment, software or data, you are assumed to have accepted all responsibility together with the associated and resultant costs.

Privacy policy

We want you to be confident that we take data protection and your privacy seriously. As a regulated company and data controller we are responsible for the security and management of the personal information we hold about an individual. That’s why we have invested in our systems and processes to ensure that the way we collect, use, share, and store your information meets the legal, regulatory and our own standards.
This notice explains how we collect, use and store your personal information when you use our services or contact us.
If you provide us with another person’s personal data, you should ask them to read this Privacy Policy. By giving us information about another person you are confirming that you have their consent to provide the information to us.

How we act

We act as the data controller in respect of your personal data and are committed to protecting your privacy. We will process the information you have given us in line with the UK’s Data Protection laws and any other laws that apply.

Variations to our privacy policy

We reserve the right to amend or modify this Privacy Policy at any time and any changes will be published on our website or issued to separately when we do so.

Collecting and processing your personal information

We use “cookies” to collect data when you use our website(s). Further details about cookies and how we use them can be found in our website notices.

Motor-Vision offers a monthly newsletter either through subscription (via the sign-up section on the website) or if you are customer of Grove & Dean Limited. Being a customer of Grove & Dean Limited will automatically opt you into receiving the newsletter via e-mail, unless you have asked to not receive any 3rd Party content.

Information that you input for entering a promotion/competition

If you enter a promotion/competition you will be providing us with personal information which will be used in accordance to the terms of the promotion/competition.

Information that you input when participating in a poll/survey:

if you wish to take part in a poll/survey which is hosted on the site, certain personal information will be provided by you, this information will only be used in accordance to the terms stated by the poll/survey.

Demographic and other data:
Motor-Vision uses cookies and analytics to collect information about your use of the site, information on your device (computer, tablet or mobile), demographic data, click-through information and browser type. The data that is collected through the use of cookies and analytics is not transferred to Third-Parties and is used by Grove & Dean Limited for statistical purposes only.

E-Mail Communications:
we use tags on our e-mails to monitor how successful our e-mail campaigns are. Once you open an e-mail from us, it registers on our system and we are able to see what links you have clicked on and where it lands you on our website. Our tags do not register on your device (computer, tablet or mobile), but with the use of cookies we are able to tell when you have opened the e-mail. We keep track of the e-mails that have been sent to you and we also keep track of what communications you have accepted to receive and not receive. If you do wish to opt-out of receiving e-mail in the future, please find the “Unsubscribe” button on your e-mail and follow the instructions noted on screen.

How the information collected is used:
Any information that is collected through this website is owned by Grove & Dean Limited. The information will be used to:

• Contact you with regard to entering a promotion/competition.
• Inform you in the event of you winning a competition.
• Monitor and improve the performance of the website.
• Monitor the compliance of the website with our terms and conditions, enforce our rights to protect the safety of others, including investigating complaints which can result in removing content from the website.
• Send you promotional material or special offers either on our behalf or on behalf of our group companies and any marketing partners.
• If you do not wish to receive any marketing materials and/or promotions, or you wish to amend your preferences please e-mail opt-out @ grove-dean.co.uk or follow the Unsubscribe instructions on any e-mail sent.
• A requirement, by law or other regulatory or government authority.

Please note that any information that you post publicly on the website, can be used by us and also the public. Grove & Dean Limited accepts no responsibility for any information used or viewed on the website.

Collection of non-personal information
We may automatically collect non-personal information about you such as the type of Internet browsers you use or the website from which you linked to our website. You cannot be identified from this information and it is only used to assist us in providing an effective service on this web site. We may from time to time supply third parties with this non-personal or aggregated data for uses in connection with this website.

Storage & Security:
Any information that we collect is stored on a protected server in-house which is only accessible by authorised personnel. The servers are protected by a series of firewalls to insure that no information is accessed by anyone who is unauthorised to do so. All servers are constantly updated and maintained to the highest standard, in line to the Data Protection Act 1998.

External Links:
Motor-Vision links to a great variety of external websites. It will also feature advertisements from third-parties. We take no responsibility for any of the content on any external sites.

Contact Details:
If you have any questions about the website, privacy statement or any information which is held by us, please feel free to contact us:

By Post:

7 Station Lane,
Hornchurch,
Essex,
RM12 6JL

By E-Mail:
Marketing @ grove-dean.co.uk

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