We are AutoCommercial which is a trading name of MHW 60 Ltd (company number 7456284) and our address is 59 Wigan Road, Ormskirk, Lancashire L39 2AP (referred to as "we" or "us" or "our"). Our VAT number is 102 9035 55.
We are the providers of the AutoCommercial website AutoCommercial (“the Site”) allowing Registered Users, which includes the sellers / landlords of the businesses or properties, or their agents, to display the business or property details for you to view. We are not a business or property agency.
A reference to “Users” is a reference to individuals using the Site and a reference to "you" or "your" is a reference to Users of the Site.
We are committed to protecting your privacy and this privacy policy (“the Policy") explains how and for what purposes we use the information collected about you when you use the Site. Please read this Policy carefully.
If you have a query about information relating to your business or property on the Site please contact us by email to info@autocommercial.co.uk directly or, alternatively, where appropriate contact your agent.
If you would like to stop receiving marketing and communications from us please contact us by email to info@autocommercial.co.uk or please write to us at 59 Wigan Road, Ormskirk, Lancashire L39 2AP.
If you have any questions about this Policy or our use of your personal information or would like to submit a subject access request or exercise your other data subject rights, please contact us by email to info@autocommercial.co.uk or please write to us at 59 Wigan Road, Ormskirk, Lancashire L39 2AP.
When registering as a User to advertise businesses and properties on the Site we collect the following information from you:
We will use this information for a number of reasons including:
Our lawful basis for processing this personal data is that we have legitimate interests which are as follows:
Information you provide to us when you register as a User will be kept for as long as you have an active account and the personal data relating to your account will be deleted when you delete your account or if your account has been inactive for 5 years, whichever is earlier.
We will stop advertising a business or property when we are instructed to do so by our Registered Users but the information will remain available on the Site to enable Registered Users to access it, if required and also for our own commercial purposes.
When registering as a User to request further information on businesses and properties advertised on the Site or to advertise your acquisition criteria, we collect the following information from you:
This information will be used to pass on to the Registered Users who have advertised the business or property on which you have requested further information to enable them to decide whether to make contact with you. We will also use this information for a number of other reasons including the following:
We also collect the following information in relation to your acquisition criteria:
This information will be used to provide you with details of all businesses and properties meeting your criteria and also to send you the details when new businesses and properties meeting your criteria are added to the Site.
Our lawful basis for processing this personal data is that we have legitimate interests which are as follows:
Information you provide to us when you register as a User will be kept for as long as you have an active account and the personal data relating to your account will be deleted when you delete your account or, if earlier, 5 years after you last used the Site.
We will also collect any information you provide when communicating with us by phone, email or otherwise together with information provided when participating in discussion boards or other social media functions on the Site.
This information will be used for a number of purposes including:
Our lawful basis for processing this personal data is that we have legitimate interests which are as follows:
This information will be retained until the User requests that it should be deleted by contacting info@autocommercial.co.uk or, where it relates to a Registered User, 5 years after the Registered User last used the Site, if earlier.
You can opt out of marketing and other communications at any time by contacting us at info@autocommercial.co.uk and you can make full use of the Site without having to agree to marketing.
If you have any concerns about any of the businesses or properties advertised on the Site, please contact us at info@autocommercial.co.uk and we will endeavour to resolve the issue promptly.
If you are a seller or landlord of a business or property that is being actively marketed on the Site by an agent and you want this removed, please contact your agent directly in the first instance.
We retain access to all personal information that we have collected from you.
When you request further information on a business or property advertised on the Site your name, contact details and a profile of the purchaser will be sent to the seller/landlord or their agent to enable them to decide whether to make contact with you.
In relation to property data, it is provided to us by Registered Users who will be responsible for information in their possession and that information will be subject to any privacy terms or policies that the Registered User has in place.
We are not responsible for use (or misuse) of your information by any of our Registered Users.
There may also be links to other websites from the Site and we are not responsible for the content, security, privacy policies and practices of any other websites, even if you access them using links from the Site. We recommend that you check the policy of each website that you visit and make sure that you are comfortable with the terms of such policies before providing any personal information.
If our business is sold or merged, or if we sell or buy any business or assets, we may disclose your personal data to the prospective buyer of such business or assets. We will make sure that any such transfer is done in a secure way.
We will not otherwise disclose, sell or distribute your information to any third party without your permission unless we are required to do so by law or to obtain professional advice.
The data that we collect from you will be stored remotely via the internet and by submitting your personal data to us, you agree to this storing.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure and although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee it’s security and any transmission is at your own risk. However, once we have received your information we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
We follow strict security procedures to ensure that your personal information is not damaged, destroyed or disclosed to a third party without your permission and to prevent unauthorised access to it. The computers that store the information are kept in a secure facility with restricted physical access and we use secure firewalls and other measures to restrict electronic access to protect your information.
Only employees who need access to your information to perform a specific job are granted access to personally identifiable information. We may require you to co-operate with our security checks before we disclose information to you. You can update the personal information we hold for you at any time by visiting the Site.
Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of the Site you are responsible for keeping this password confidential and we ask you not to share your password with anyone.
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data at any time.
You have the right to use the Site without consenting to marketing and the communication services. We will inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. We always use the most recently submitted form to be your current consent status. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by selecting the specific options when you become a Registered User.
You have a right to request access to or rectification of your personal data which we hold about you. You also have a right to erase your personal data, to restrict the processing of your personal data and the right to receive your personal data that you have provided to us, the right to object to our processing of your personal data and a right to request that we transmit your personal data to another data controller.
Where we process your personal data because you have given us your consent to do so, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us by email at info@autocommercial.co.uk.
You have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office if you feel unhappy with the way we process your data. Please visit www.ico.org.uk for more information.
Like many website and App providers, we may use "cookies" to enable us to personalise your visits to the Site, simplify the signing-in procedure, keep track of your preferences and to track the usage of the Site. For full details about what cookies we set and why we use them, please see our Cookie Policy.
We may change the terms of this Policy at any time and any changes we may make to this Policy in the future will be posted on the Site.
Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to this Policy as you will be deemed to accept such changes from your continued use of the Site
Last updated April 2023
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