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Privacy Policy

We understand your personal data is important to you and when you use our services, we work hard to protect your information and put you in control of it.

This Privacy Policy will help you understand what information we collect about you, why we collect it, and how you can access your personal data and delete it.

Who we are

This website bestreg.co is an online marketplace which facilitates the buying and selling of cherished registrations, private plates and DVLA personalised number plates.

This service is owned and operated by Cars GT Ltd, who is the data controller of the personal information collected via, or in connection with this website, bestreg.co.

Cars GT Limited is a company registered in England and Wales, company registration number 11478083, and whose registered office address is at 1 The Oaks, Mill Farm Courtyard, Beachampton, Milton Keynes, England, MK19 6DS.

This Privacy Policy, as well as our Cookie Policy, applies to all users of our Website and online Services where we collect your personal information, including Our website – bestreg.co (“Website”). Our social media accounts (“@bestregco”). This also relates to our use of any personal information you provide to us by phone, email, other correspondence and in person.

What we collect and store

Comments

We collect information about visitors who comment on our Site. This information typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it for the purpose of retrieving your Globally Recognised Avatar (profile picture). After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/.

Visitor comments may be checked through Akismet, an automated spam detection service. 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.

 

Contact forms

When you contact us through our contact forms, as well as the information you provide us, we collect information about you to allow our customer services team to respond to your query.

We do not use any of the information submitted through our contact forms for marketing purposes and following the conclusion of your query, we will not contact you in the future unless you have explicitly given us consent to do so.

The information we may collect about you to assist with your query includes

  • Your name: we’ll use this to address our response to you.
  • Email address and contact details: we’ll use this to respond to your query.
  • IP address and browser type: we’ll use this to, for example, help you resolve any browsing issues you may be experiencing on the site.

Media

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.

Shop

While you browse the shop, we’ll track

  • Products you’ve viewed: we’ll use this to, for example, show you products you’ve recently viewed, or similar products you may be interested in.
  • Location, IP address and browser type: we’ll use this for purposes like estimating taxes and shipping where relevant, as well as allowing us to optimise your browsing experience based on your access device.
  • Shipping address: we’ll ask you to enter this so we can, for instance, estimate shipping before you place an order, and send you the order.


When you purchase from us, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, payment details and optional account information like username and password. We use this information to

  • Send you information about your order and account.
  • Respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints.
  • Process payments and prevent fraud. Set up your account for our store.
  • Comply with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes.
  • Improve our store offerings.
  • Send you marketing messages, if you choose to receive them. If you create an account, we will store your name and email.

If you create an account in the process of making a purchase from our shop, in addition to your name and email, we’ll also collect your address and phone number, which will be used to populate the checkout for future orders. We will also store comments or product reviews and ratings, if you choose to leave them.

Third parties we receive data from

We may use third parties to provide the functionality to allow you to register for our Website or Services.

Data retention and security

How long we hold your data

We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information to do the activities we told you about, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it. For example, we will store order information for 6 years for tax and accounting purposes. This includes your name, email address, billing and shipping addresses.

For users that register on our website, we 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 leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

How we protect your data

We work hard to protect the personal data we process and maintain reasonable and appropriate technical and organisational security measures to prevent unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure, loss or destruction.

When you give us any personal information we’ll let you know how long we’ll hold it for. If we don’t say anything we stick to these principles:

  • We use encryption to keep your data private while in transit.
  • We store information only for as long as we need it to do the activities we told you about and we don’t hold your information any longer than we have to.
  • We think about what type of information it is, the amount collected, how sensitive it might be and any legal requirements.
  • We always think about the potential risk from anyone using or sharing this information without permission.
  • We may close your account if it remains inactive for an extended period of time, usually 1 year. We’ll notify you by email to tell you that we plan to do this before we delete anything, so please check to see if we’ve sent you any emails about this.
  • Access to personal information is restricted by strict contractual confidentiality to Cars GT employees, contractors, and agents who need that information in order to process it.

How we protect your data

We work hard to protect the personal data we process and maintain reasonable and appropriate technical and organisational security measures to prevent unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure, loss or destruction.

When you give us any personal information we’ll let you know how long we’ll hold it for. If we don’t say anything we stick to these principles:

  • We use encryption to keep your data private while in transit.
  • We store information only for as long as we need it to do the activities we told you about and we don’t hold your information any longer than we have to.
  • We think about what type of information it is, the amount collected, how sensitive it might be and any legal requirements.
  • We always think about the potential risk from anyone using or sharing this information without permission.
  • We may close your account if it remains inactive for an extended period of time, usually 1 year. We’ll notify you by email to tell you that we plan to do this before we delete anything, so please check to see if we’ve sent you any emails about this.
  • Access to personal information is restricted by strict contractual confidentiality to Cars GT employees, contractors, and agents who need that information in order to process it.

Data breach procedures we have in place

Should despite of our security measures, a security breach occur that is likely to result in a risk to the data privacy of our Users, we will inform the relevant Users and other affected parties, as well as relevant authorities as required by applicable data protection law, about the security breach as soon as reasonably possible.

Who has access to your data

Members of our team have access to the information you provide us. For example, both Administrators and Shop Managers can access:

  • Order information like what was purchased, when it was purchased and where it should be sent, and
  • Customer information like your name, email address, and billing and shipping information.

Our team members have access to this information to help fulfil orders, process refunds and provide you support.

What we share with others

We share information with third parties who help us provide, maintain, and improve our Services, including service providers who access information about you to perform services on our behalf (e.g. fraud prevention, identity verification, and fee collection services).

We share information with third parties who help us provide, maintain, and improve our Services, including service providers who access information about you to perform services on our behalf (e.g. fraud prevention, identity verification, and fee collection services).

If you use our Services to interact with other users of our Website e.g. through direct messaging, comments or reviews on our publications, products or Services, we share your username/chosen display name and a link to your publicly available profile. This is necessary to provide our Services to you and fulfil our obligations in our Terms of Service, as well as in our legitimate interest to do so.

We do not disclose or share personally identifiable information we collect from you to third parties without your permission except to the extent necessary including:

Safety and Compliance with Law

If we believe that disclosure is reasonably necessary (i) to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request (e.g., from tax authorities, law enforcement agencies, etc.); (ii) to enforce or comply with our general Terms of Service or other applicable agreements or policies; (iii) to protect our partners’ rights or property  or our customers’ rights or property or the security or integrity of our Services; or (iv) to protect us, users of our Services or the public from harm, fraud or potentially prohibited or illegal activities

What we share with others

We share information with third parties who help us provide, maintain, and improve our Services, including service providers who access information about you to perform services on our behalf (e.g. fraud prevention, identity verification, and fee collection services).

We share information with third parties who help us provide, maintain, and improve our Services, including service providers who access information about you to perform services on our behalf (e.g. fraud prevention, identity verification, and fee collection services).

If you use our Services to interact with other users of our Website e.g. through direct messaging, comments or reviews on our publications, products or Services, we share your username/chosen display name and a link to your publicly available profile. This is necessary to provide our Services to you and fulfil our obligations in our Terms of Service, as well as in our legitimate interest to do so.

We do not disclose or share personally identifiable information we collect from you to third parties without your permission except to the extent necessary including:

Safety and Compliance with law

If we believe that disclosure is reasonably necessary (i) to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request (e.g., from tax authorities, law enforcement agencies, etc.); (ii) to enforce or comply with our general Terms of Service or other applicable agreements or policies; (iii) to protect our partners’ rights or property  or our customers’ rights or property or the security or integrity of our Services; or (iv) to protect us, users of our Services or the public from harm, fraud or potentially prohibited or illegal activities

Payment processing

We do not collect or store any payment card details.

We accept payments through our payment processing partner, Stripe. When processing payments, some of your data will be securely passed to Stripe, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information including

  • Name
  • Email
  • Address
  • Phone
  • Unique payment identifier
  • Payment provider identifier

Please see the Stripe Privacy Policy https://stripe.com/gb/privacy for more details.

Sale of business or assets

In the event that the Website or substantially all of its assets is sold or disposed of as a going concern, whether by merger, sale of assets or otherwise, or in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership, the information we have collected about you may be one of the assets sold or merged in connection with that transaction.

Embedded content from other websites

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.

Google web fonts

For uniform representation of fonts, this page uses web fonts provided by Google. When you open a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly. For this purpose your browser has to establish a direct connection to Google servers. Google thus becomes aware that our web page was accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web fonts is done in the interest of a uniform and attractive presentation of our website. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.

If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font is used by your computer.

Further information about handling user data, can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy.

Cookies

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 have an account and you log in to this Site, 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 ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

When you browse our articles and products in our shop, we use cookies to recommend other articles or products you may be interested in. We’ll also use cookies to keep track of shopping cart contents while you’re browsing our site. No personal information is stored within these cookies.

Advertising

We rely on advertising to help fund our free Services and editorial content. We use cookies to help us show you tailored advertisements; that is, ads that are tailored to reflect your interests.

To help understand your interests, third party vendors including Google use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to our Website or other websites across the internet.

By using our Website, you consent to the use of such cookies, and the sharing of data captured by such cookies with Google and other third party vendors.

You can view, delete or add interest categories associated with your browser and can also choose to opt out of behavioural advertising by visiting Ads Settings.

You can edit or delete cookies individually or in bulk from all modern browsers on your computer or device. To find out how to do this and for specific requirements please see https://www.cookiesandyou.com, which has comprehensive information on a wide variety of desktop and mobile browsers.

In addition to the controls available on your computer, there are other ways of choosing not to receive Online Behavioural Advertising and other tracking cookies.

You may also opt out of some third-party vendors’ uses of cookies for online behavioural advertising by visiting

Most of these choices work by setting a cookie that overrides behavioural advertising cookies. If you clear all your cookies, you will also clear these opt-out cookies, therefore changing your preferences. In this instance you would need to make your choices again.

By opting out of behavioural ads, you may continue to receive adverts as you browse our Website, however these ads will not be tailored to your interests.

For more information on the cookies we use and how to manage them, please see our Cookie Policy.

What rights you have over your data

GDPR

The General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR for short, is one of the biggest changes to data privacy law in recent years. It is designed to put you in control of how your information is collected and used by organisations.

If you are a resident of a country in the EEA, you have the rights, among others, to

  • Access your personal data.
  • Ensure the accuracy of your personal data.
  • Have us delete your personal data.
  • Restrict further processing of your personal data.
  • Complain to a supervisory authority in your country of residence in the event that your data is misused.

If you believe that our processing of your personal information infringes data protection laws, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection. You may do so in the EU member state of your residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement.

You may exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal data by

  • Accessing and managing your data in your Ultimate Car Check account.
  • Emailing our data privacy team at [email protected].
  • Written notice to us forwarded to our address, listed at the top of this page – Who we are.

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.

About this policy

We may revise and update this Privacy Policy as required if our practices change, as technology changes, as we add new services or change existing ones. The most recent version of the Privacy Policy will always be posted on the Website, with the “Effective” or “Last updated” date shown at the top of the Policy.

If we make any material changes to our Privacy Policy or how we handle your personal information, or we are going to use any personal information in a manner that is materially different from that stated in our Privacy Policy at the time we collected such information, we will give you a reasonable opportunity to consent to the change.

If you do not consent, your personal information will be used as agreed to under the terms of the Privacy Policy in effect at the time we obtained that information. By using our Site or Services after the Effective date, you are deemed to consent to our then-current Privacy Policy. We will use information previously obtained in accordance with the Privacy Policy in effect when the information was obtained from you.

Contact information

For any questions relating to this Privacy Policy, please contact us.