This privacy notice was last updated on 11th July 2023
No Two Houses are committed to complying with the General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018. Looking after the personal information you share with us is very important, and we want you to be confident that your personal data is kept safely and securely and to understand how we use it to offer you a better and more personalised shopping experience.
We have published this notice to help you understand:
If we make changes to this notice we will notify you by updating it on our website. No Two Houses will be what is known as the ‘Data Controller’ of the personal data you provide to us, and we will sometimes refer to ourselves in this notice as “we” or “us”. By Data Controller, this means No Two Houses determines the purposes and way in which any personal data are, or will be, processed.
Should you need to contact us please write to or email support@notwohouses.zendesk.com quoting Security and Privacy Enquiry.
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Data Protection says that we are allowed to use and share your personal data only where we have a proper reason to do so. The law says we must have one or more of these reasons and these are:
Here is a list of the ways that we may use your personal information, and which of the reasons described above we rely on to do so. Where we list legitimate interests as a reason, we also describe below what we believe these legitimate interests are.
| What we use your personal information for | Our Reasons (Legal Basis) | Our Explanation of No Two Houses’s Legitimate Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Set up your No Two Houses account | Legitimate interest | Process efficiency in dealing with such activity. |
| Process your orders | Fulfilling a contract | N/A |
| Notify you of your order status. | Legitimate interests | Process efficiency in dealing with such activity, and to make improvements to our services. |
| Manage your account/ provide customer services to you. This may include: transfers to Third Countries who undertake call recording data verification customer complaints/queries | Legal obligation/ Legitimate interests (depending on nature of services) | Keeping our records up to date, handling our customer contact efficiently and effectively, working out which of our products and services may interest you and telling you about them. |
| To detect, investigate and report financial crime (e.g. Fraud) | Legal Obligation / legitimate interests | Developing and improving how we deal with financial crime. Complying with any legal obligation placed on us by regulators such as the FCA. Complying with any regulations that apply to us. Process efficiency in dealing with such activity, and to make service and process improvements. |
| Undertake website personalisation and administration. | Legitimate interests | Developing products, services, applications and designs that attract and retain customers. Improving customer interaction with our sites. Defining types of customers for new products or services |
| Marketing communications to inform you of special offers, promotions, new lines and Sales. Provide you with online advertising. | Consent | N/A |
| Notifying you about enhancements to our services, such as changes to the website and new services that may be of interest to you. | Legitimate interests | Developing products, services, applications and designs that attract and retain customers. Improving customer interaction with our sites. |
| Contact you to undertake customer satisfaction surveys, invite you to provide product reviews or for market research. | Legitimate interests | Developing products, services, applications and designs that attract and retain customers. Improving customer interaction with our sites. |
| Maintaining network and data security | Legitimate interests | To maintain the security of our network this in turns helps us to maintain the safety and confidentiality of your information. |
| Logistics planning, demand forecasting, management information and research | Legitimate interests | We use information about shopping habits, products bought and volumes, to help us to respond to demand, ensure the right products get to the right areas and to help us plan our ranges. |
Some of the information you provide to us may be transferred outside the European Economic Area to countries such as India and the US. This is a transfer to a “third country”. For example No Two Houses has a business relationship with Development support and services of which some are based in India. Although the data is held in UK data centres colleagues in India may access it to undertake the activities described above.
If you place an order with us and you are outside of the UK we will transfer the data that we hold on you to No Two Houses in the UK.
No Two Houses also works with suppliers and partners who may make use of cloud and/or hosted technologies. We undertake data security due diligence on our partners and ensure that that these partners conform to appropriate accreditations.
Wherever transfers of data to third counties occurs No Two Houses will put in place an appropriate contractual provisions to ensure that there are strict rules regarding both the confidentiality and security of your information. To find out more please contact us at support@notwohouses.zendesk.com
We want to keep you up to date with information about new ranges, special offers and improvements to our website. When you set your account up, we will ask you if you want to receive this type of marketing information.
No Two Houses will not share your information with outside companies for their marketing purposes.
If you decide you do not want to receive this marketing information you can always unsubscribe using link within the email. You may continue to receive communications for a short period while your request is dealt with.
If we collect your personal information, the length of time we retain it is determined by a number of factors including the purpose for which we use that information and our obligations under other laws.
We may need your personal information to establish, bring or defend legal claims. For this purpose, we will always retain your personal information for 7 years after the date it is no longer needed by us for any of the purposes listed under How we use your information above. The only exceptions to this are where:
You are entitled to request the following from No Two Houses, these are called your Data Subject Rights and there is more information on these on the Information Commissioners website www.ico.org.uk
If you have any general questions about your rights or want to exercise your rights please contact support@notwohouses.zendesk.com
You have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection regulator in Europe, in particular in a country you work or live or where your legal rights have been infringed. The contact details for the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the data protection regulator in the UK, are available on the ICO website www.ico.org.uk where your personal information has or is being used in a way that you believe does not comply with data, however, we encourage you to contact us before making any complaint and we will seek to resolve any issues or concerns you may have.
The Modern Slavery Act 2015 states that organisations over a certain size (turnover) need to publish an annual statement setting out the steps they have taken to ensure there is no modern slavery in their business or supply chain. Below you can download copies of our most recent statements.