Customer Privacy policy 
professional services

Last review: Stuart Gordon (CFO), 11/10/2025

This privacy notice tells you what to expect us to do with your personal information:

1. Contact details
2. What information we collect, use, and why
3. Lawful bases and data protection rights
4. Where we get personal information from
5. How long we keep information
6. Who we share information with
7. How to complain

Contact Details:

Phone: 07947764009

E-mail: enquiries@gorela.co.uk

What information we collect, use, and why:

We collect or use the following information to provide and improve products and services for clients:

• Names and contact details
• Addresses
• Occupation
• Usage data (including information about how you interact with and use our website, products and services)
• Information relating to compliments or complaints
• Records of meetings and decisions

We collect or use the following personal information for the operation of client or customer accounts:

• Names and contact details
• Addresses
• Purchase or service history
• Account information, including registration details
• Information used for security purposes
• Marketing preferences

We collect or use the following personal information for information updates or marketing purposes:

• Names and contact details
• Addresses
• Marketing preferences
• Purchase or account history

We collect or use the following personal information for research or archiving purposes:

• Names and contact details
• Addresses
• Purchase or client account history

We collect or use the following personal information to comply with legal requirements:

• Name
• Contact information
• Health and safety information

We collect or use the following personal information for dealing with queries, complaints or claims:

• Names and contact details
• Addresses
• Purchase or service history
• Witness statements and contact details
• Photographs
• Relevant information from previous investigations
• Customer or client accounts and records
• Financial transaction information
• Information relating to health and safety (including incident investigation details and reports and accident book records)
• Correspondence

Lawful bases and data protection rights:

Under UK data protection law, we must have a “lawful basis” for collecting and using your personal information. There is a list of possible lawful bases in the UK GDPR. You can find out more about lawful bases on the ICO’s website.

Which lawful basis we rely on may affect your data protection rights which are set out in brief below. You can find out more about your data protection rights and the exemptions which may apply on the ICO’s website:

• Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information. You can request other information such as details about where we get personal information from and who we share personal information with. There are some exemptions which means you may not receive all the information you ask for. Read more about the right of access.
• Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to correct or delete personal information you think is inaccurate or incomplete. Read more about the right to rectification.
• Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to delete your personal information. Read more about the right to erasure.
• Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to limit how we can use your personal information. Read more about the right to restriction of processing.
• Your right to object to processing - You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data. Read more about the right to object to processing.
• Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you. Read more about the right to data portability.
• Your right to withdraw consent – When we use consent as our lawful basis you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Read more about the right to withdraw consent.

If you make a request, we must respond to you without undue delay and in any event within one month.

To make a data protection rights request, please contact us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information to provide and improve products and services for clients are:

• Consent - we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for the operation of client or customer accounts are:

• Contract – we have to collect or use the information so we can enter into or carry out a contract with you. All of your data protection rights may apply except the right to object.

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for information updates or marketing purposes are:

• Consent - we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for research or archiving purposes:

• Consent - we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information to comply with legal requirements:

• Legal obligation – we have to collect or use your information so we can comply with the law. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to erasure, the right to object and the right to data portability.

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for dealing with queries, complaints or claims are:

• Consent - we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

Where we get personal information from:

We get all of your personal information directly from you.

How long we keep information:

We will retain the personal information we have gathered for up to 6 years.

Who we share information with:

We will only share your personal information with organisations we are legally obliged to.

How to complain:

I you feel uncomfortable with any aspects of how we might be using or storing your personal data then we kindly ask that you reach out to us directly to raise your concerns. You can reach us with the following contact details:

Stuart Gordon, Gorela Controls Ltd
Phone: 07947764009
E-mail: enquiries@gorela.co.uk

If you remain unhappy with how we’ve used your data after raising a complaint with us, you can also complain to the ICO.

The ICO’s address:           

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113

Website: https://www.ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint