GDPR & Privacy
GDPR & Privacy
Introduction
STAR 401 uses your data to process your request for services with us. We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
Information About Us
Company Name: Star 401 Private Hire / Taxis
Address: 95 Market Street, Westhoughton, Bolton, BL5 3AA
Email address: info@star401.co.uk
Telephone number: 01942 810401
ICO Registration Number: ZB817570
At Star 401 Private Hire (“we”, “us”, or “our”), your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and protect your personal data when you use our website, mobile app, or taxi services, in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018
Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.
Definitions
- Data controller – A controller determines the purposes and means of processing personal data.
- Data processor – A processor is responsible for processing personal data on behalf of a controller.
- Data subject – Natural person
- Personal data – The GDPR applies to ‘personal data’ meaning any information relating to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified in particular by reference to an identifier (as explained in Article 6 of GDPR). For example name, home address or private email address. Online identifiers include IP addresses and cookies.
- Processing – means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction.
- Third party – means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or body other than the data subject, controller, processor and persons who, under the direct authority of the controller or processor, are authorised to process personal data.
Who are we?
STAR 401 is the data controller. This means we decide how your personal data is processed and for what purposes. If you have any queries about how we use your information you can email us at info@star401.co.uk
The purpose of processing your personal data
We only use your personal data for the purpose of processing your request for using our services.
What Data We Collect
We may collect and process the following information:
Personal Data:
- Full name
- Email address
- Phone number
- Pickup and drop-off addresses
- Payment information (handled securely via third-party processors)
- Account login details (if applicable)
Technical Data:
- IP address
- Browser type and version
- Device type and operating system
- Cookies and analytics data
How We Use Your Data
We process your personal data to:
- Manage and fulfil ride bookings
- Process payments securely
- Communicate updates or confirmations
- Provide customer support
- Improve and personalise our services
- Comply with legal and regulatory requirements
Sharing your personal data
How We Share Your Data
We may share your information with:
- Our registered drivers and dispatch team
- Payment processors (e.g., Stripe, Square)
- IT and cloud service providers
- Regulatory or law enforcement authorities if legally required such as HMRC
We do not sell your personal data.
Data Security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. By law we have to keep basic information about our customers for a minimum of 6 years.
Your rights and your personal data
Unless subject to an exemption under the GDPR, you have the following rights with respect to your personal data:
- The right to request a copy of the personal data which we hold about you;
- The right to request that we correct any personal data if it is found to be inaccurate or out of date;
- The right to request your personal data is erased where it is no longer necessary to retain such data;
- The right to request that we provide you with your personal data and where possible, to transmit that data directly to another data controller, (known as the right to data portability), (where applicable i.e. where the processing is based on consent or is necessary for the performance of a contract with the data subject and where the data controller processes the data by automated means);
- The right, where there is a dispute in relation to the accuracy or processing of your personal data, to request a restriction is placed on further processing;
- The right to object to the processing of personal data, (where applicable i.e. where processing is based on legitimate interests (or the performance of a task in the public interest/exercise of official authority); direct marketing and processing for the purposes of scientific/historical research and statistics).
Further processing
If we wish to use your personal data for a new purpose, not covered by this Data Privacy Notice, then we will provide you with a new notice explaining this new use prior to commencing the processing and setting out the relevant purposes and processing conditions.
How to make a complaint
If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at info@star401.co.uk
You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.
The ICO’s address:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Helpline number: 0303 123 1113
ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk