Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy Introduction

This privacy policy is issued on behalf of John Pye & Sons Limited and our group of companies so when we mention, "we", "us" or "our" in this privacy policy, we are referring to the relevant company in the Group responsible for processing your data. We will let you know which entity will be the controller for your data when you purchase a product or service with us although John Pye & Sons Ltd is our main trading company and is most likely to be processing your data.

John Pye & Sons Ltd, James Shipstone House, Radford Road, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG7 7EA is the controller and responsible for this website. The following companies are registered with the Information Commissioner’s office, the brackets after each company name contain the registration number John Pye & Sons Limited (ZA159238), John Pye Surveyors Limited, (ZB873086) and Adam James Limited (ZA585659).

We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This privacy policy describes how and why we obtain, store and process any personal data we may collect about you. Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified.

 

Please read this privacy policy carefully to understand our views and practices and your rights regarding your personal data. By visiting any of our websites, portals or applications (“our sites”) or by otherwise providing us with your personal data, your personal data will be processed as described in this policy:

Contents

 

  • What information do we collect?
  • How do we collect this information?
  • Why do we collect this information?
  • How long do we keep hold of your information?
  • Marketing
  • Who might we share your information with?
  • International transfers
  • How is your information stored and kept secure?
  • What are your rights?
  • Cookies
  • Changes to this policy
  • Contact us

 

What information do we collect?

Personal data, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified or that relates to an identifiable individual. In the course of our business, we may collect and process the following data about you:

Information you give us which includes

 

  • first name, last name, any previous names, username or similar identifier, marital status, title, date of birth and gender;
  • billing address, delivery address and email address;
  • telephone numbers;
  • financial and payment information such as bank account and payment card information;
  • details of proof of identity/age;
  • your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses;
  • job title and employer; and
  • details of proof of ownership of goods offered for sale including descriptions, provenance, and images of goods offered for sale.

 

This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.

 

Information we collect from your use of our sites and services including:

  • technical information, such as time zone setting and location, the Internet Protocol (IP) address used to connect your device to the Internet, your login information, browser type and version, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, device ID and other technology on the devices you use to access our websites;
  • a record of details of how you interact with and use our websites, products and services including:

 

                   o    your browser click through behaviour including your searches, the products, properties and pages that you looked at;

                   o    bidding history;

                   o    the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our sites (including date and time);

                   o    page response times and download errors;

                   o    page interaction information (such as length of visits to certain pages, scrolling, clicks and mouse-overs info);

                   o    methods used to browse away from the page; and

                   o    the type of device you used to access our sites.

 

  • delivery information;
  • payment information and details of transactions when you purchase our products or services;
  • information about the effectiveness of our advertising and your interactions with it;
  • analytics information on your use of our services, used to produce statistical information.

 

Information we collect from other sources

  • information regarding your relationship with social networks, such as Facebook, which may provide us with information where you access our sites through your social network account and allow the social network to share information with us to auto-fill forms;
  • relationship with search engine providers, such as Google, which may provide us with information about what devices are used to access our sites; and
  • credit reference agencies which provide financial information.

 

How do we collect this information?

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

  • Your interactions with us. You may give us your personal data by filling in online forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
  • register for our products or services;
  • create an account on our websites;
  • subscribe to our service or publications;
  • request marketing to be sent to you;
  • enter a competition, promotion or survey; or
  • give us feedback or contact us.
  • Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our websites, we will automatically collect technical data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies. For further details about cookies and our use of them, please see our cookie policy which you will find here.
  • Third parties or publicly available sources. We will receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources as set out below:
  • Technical Data is collected from the following parties:
  • analytics providers such as Google;
  • advertising networks; and
  • search information providers.
  • Contact, Financial and Transaction Data is collected from providers of technical, payment and delivery services.
  • Identity and Contact Data is collected from data brokers or aggregators.
  • Identity and Contact Data is collected from publicly available sources such as Companies House, Government sanctions list checks and the Electoral Register.

 

Why do we collect this information?

We process your personal data for the following reasons:

Pursuant to a contract in order to:

  • register you as a new customer;
  • provide you with our goods and services or otherwise fulfil our contractual and legal obligations;
  • provide you with information you request from us in order to take steps to enter into a contract;
  • process payments, fees and charges;
  • to enable you to partake in a prize draw, competition or complete a survey;
  • arrange and carry out collection or delivery of goods;
  • enforce the contractual terms;
  • collect and recover money owed to us;
  • maintain business and service continuity (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data);
  • deliver relevant website content and online advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you;
  • use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, customer relationships and experiences and to measure the effectiveness of our communications and marketing;
  • send out relevant marketing communications and to make personalized suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you based on your profile data; and
  • send service communications so that you receive a full and functional service and so we can perform our obligations to you, including notifications about invoicing, payments and changes to our websites, services, terms and conditions and policies. These may be sent by email or post.

On the basis of your consent:

If you have consented to receive marketing from us, for example if you have signed up to our marketing list, then we will provide you with marketing communications, as described in the Marketing section below.

Where we rely on your consent for processing this will be brought to your attention, or will otherwise be apparent from the context, when the information is collected from you.

Where we process your personal data on the basis of your consent, you have the right to withdraw this consent at any time. See the What are your rights? section below for more details.

In our legitimate interests of providing the best service and improving and growing our business we will process information in order to:

where you are an existing customer or client of ours, make suggestions and recommendations to you about similar goods or services we think may interest you, as described in the Marketing section below;

  • improve our products and services;
  • use functionality, analytics and marketing cookies on our sites;
  • keep our sites and systems safe and secure;
  • conduct market research;
  • ensure content from our sites will be presented to you in the most effective and secure manner for you and your computer;
  • provide you with a personalised service;
  • allow auto-fill functions on forms filled out by you when you access our services through Facebook or other third party platforms;
  • understand our customer base and purchasing trends;
  • understand the effectiveness of our marketing;
  • verify your identity and prevent fraud and forgery; and
  • defend against or exercise legal claims and investigate and resolve complaints.

To comply with legal requirements relating to:

  • the provision of goods and services;
  • accounting, including, CGT, Inheritance tax, DACS, VAT and any other applicable tax;
  • data protection;
  • health and safety;
  • anti-money laundering;
  • fraud investigations;
  • assisting authorities and law enforcement; and
  • any other legal obligations placed on us from time to time.

 

How long do we keep hold of your information?

We will only keep your information for as long as is reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.

Usually we will keep information about you for a maximum of 6 years after the end of our relationship with you unless legal obligations require otherwise or we are required to remove such data for our records.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.

 

Marketing

We strive to provide you with choices around what marketing communications you receive from us.

Direct Marketing

You will receive marketing communications if either:

  • you have signed up to our mailing list. Electronic marketing, such as email, is sent on the basis of your consent which you have the right to withdraw at any time. Postal and telephone marketing is carried out in our legitimate interests of promoting our business; or
  • you are an existing customer and you have not objected to receiving marketing. This marketing is sent on the basis of our legitimate interests to promote our services. You have the right to opt-out of marketing at any time.

Ad preferences

We advertise on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Youtube and X (formerly known as twitter). This may involve us using our list of people who will receive marketing communications from us to instruct these social media companies to advertise our services to those individuals or to similar individuals. We carry out this processing in our legitimate interests to promote our business.

Changing your preferences

You can change your marketing preferences at any time by logging in and updating your preferences in the Settings menu on our sites.

Opting out of marketing

To withdraw consent for marketing or otherwise request that we stop processing your information for direct marketing purposes, including profiling, at any time you can opt-out of all communications by clicking ‘unsubscribe’ or ‘manage preferences’ in any of our emails, or by emailing privacy@johnpye.co.uk, and we shall stop processing your information for those purposes.

If you opt out of receiving marketing communications, you will still receive service-related communications that are essential for administrative or customer service purposes for example relating to order confirmations, updates to our terms and conditions and checking that your contact details are correct.

See What are your rights? section below for further information about your rights.

 

Who might we share your information with?

For the purposes set out in the Why do we collect this information? section above, we will share your personal information with the following categories of third parties:

  • Internal third parties including group companies.
  • suppliers and sub-contractors who we appoint to provide services, such as our auction platforms, CRM and other software providers, delivery contractors, online payment providers, email providers, marketing automation platforms and providers of marketing services;
  • professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, consultants, auditors and insurers who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance and accounting services;
  • estate agents;
  • analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our site;
  • customer survey providers in order to receive feedback and improve our services;
  • social media companies that assist us to ensure that you receive relevant advertising;
  • remote ID verification software providers who will also facilitate government sanctions list checks;
  • HM Revenue & Customs, regulators and other authorities; Additionally, we will disclose your personal information to the relevant third party:
  • In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we will disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
  • If we are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by us about our customers will be one of the transferred assets.
  • If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation or a properly executed court order, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of our customers, our regulator, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and prevention of money laundering and credit risk reduction.

 

Links to other websites

Our sites may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers, affiliates and social networking pages. If you follow a link to any of those websites, please note that they will have their own privacy policies and we do not accept any responsibility or liability for those policies. Please check through the third party website Privacy Policy before you submit any personal data to those websites.

International transfers

We may transfer your data outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). We will only do so if adequate protection measures are in place in compliance with data protection legislation. We use the following protection measures:

  • transferring to countries that have been deemed by the UK to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data;
  • using UK approved standard contractual terms; and
  • requiring companies we transfer data to in the USA to be signed up to the UK Extension to the Data Protection Framework.

For example, we use Mailchimp to send out emails to our mailing lists. It is based in the USA and is certified under the UK Extension to the Data Privacy Framework. More information on international transfers, including a copy of the safeguards, is available by contacting us.

 

How is your information stored and kept secure?

Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access, loss or unauthorised use, alteration and disclosure. All information that you provide to us will be stored on secure servers. The computers that store the information are kept in a secure facility with restricted access and we use secure firewalls. All staff computers are password protected.

What are your rights?

Where processing of your personal data is based on consent, you can withdraw that consent at any time.

You have the following rights. You can exercise these rights at any time by contacting us at John Pye & Sons Ltd, James Shipstone House, Radford Road, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG7 7EA or privacy@johnpye.co.uk. You have the right:

  • to withdraw your consent at any time, where processing is based on consent (see Why do we collect this information? above). However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent;
  • to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. 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;
  • to ask us not to process your personal data where it is processed on the basis of legitimate interests provided that there are no compelling reasons for that processing. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your right to object;
  • to ask us not to process your personal data for scientific or historical research purposes, where relevant, unless the processing is necessary in the public interest;
  • to request from us access to personal information held about you;
  • to ask for the information we hold about you to be rectified if it is inaccurate or incomplete;
  • to ask for data to be erased provided that the personal data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, you withdraw consent (if the legal basis for processing is consent), you exercise your right to object, set out below, and there are no overriding legitimate ground for processing, the data is unlawfully processed, the data needs to be erased to comply with a legal obligation or the
  • data is children’s data and was collected in relation to an offer of information society services. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request;
  • to ask for the processing of that information to be restricted if the accuracy of that data is contested, the processing is unlawful, the personal data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or you exercise your right to object (pending verification of whether there are legitimate grounds for processing); and
  • to ask for data portability if the processing is carried out by automated means and the legal basis for processing is consent or contract.

No fee usually required

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we could refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

What we may need from you

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you to clarify or for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

Time limit to respond

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it could take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

 

Cookies

Our sites use cookies and similar technologies to distinguish you from other users.

A cookie is a small data text file sent by a web server (a device where one or more websites are stored) to a web browser, they are then stored by the browser. The cookie is then sent back to the web server each time the web browser requests a page from the web server. This enables the web server to identify and track the web browser and provide richer user experiences for visitors to a web site. You can find more information about the individual cookies we use across our site and the purposes for which we use them in the cookie policy found here.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy. This Privacy Policy was last updated in July 2025.

Contact us

Should you have any issues, concerns or problems in relation to our processing of your personal data, or should you wish to notify us of data we hold concerning you which is inaccurate, please let us know by contacting us at privacy@johnpye.co.uk, or by writing to: Data Protection Officer, John Pye & Sons Ltd, James Shipstone House, Radford Road, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG7 7EA.

In the event that you are not satisfied with our processing of your personal data, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant supervisory authority, which is the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the UK, at any time. The ICO’s contact details are available here: https://ico.org.uk/concerns/. We ask that you contact us to allow us to address your concerns in the first instance.

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