Our full Privacy Policy is below and explains in detail what information we collect about you, how we process, use and protect that information, how long we keep any information we have about you, how and when we will contact you and how you can exercise your privacy rights.
WJB SELF STORAGE is the trading name of WILLIAM JAMES BOUGHEY LTD (“WJB” “we” “us” “our”).
WJB is the controller and is responsible for your personal data.
WJB is committed to protecting your personal data and respects your right to privacy.
Please read our full privacy policy carefully, so you fully understand how we collect or obtain your data and the reasons why we collect and/or process your personal data and your rights in relation to this.
WJB is a cost effective drive-up self storage company specialising in containerised self storage. We provide secure and convenient storage for homes and businesses. We have a significant number of customers benefiting from our services and storing with us. Founded in 2021 with our very own site in Winchester.
We operate under a philosophy of the provision of excellent customer service and pride ourselves on offering the most cost effective storage in the market. The security of our customers’ possessions is a top priority for us, as is the security, protection and transparency of the data we hold on our customers.
Our Privacy Policy explains how we do this.
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This Privacy Policy relates to the provision of self storage, plus other relevant and related services required to utilise self storage, including packing materials, contents insurance and the transportation of possessions.
WJB is committed to protecting you and your family’s personal data when you are using WJB services. This Privacy Policy relates to our use of any personal data you provide to us through our websitewww.wjbstorage.com the “Website”) and as a customer of WJB. In order to provide you with WJB services, we may collect and process personal data about you. This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) therefore explains the following:
As set out above, WJB is committed to safeguarding your personal data.
Whenever you provide such information, we are legally obliged to use your information in line with all laws concerning the protection of personal data, including the Data Protection Act 2018 (all such laws are referred to collectively in this Privacy Policy as the“data protection laws“).
Please note: The Website contains hyperlinks to other websites owned and operated by third parties. These third party websites have their own privacy policies and may employ their own cookies. We therefore urge you to review the privacy policies of such websites as they will govern the use of cookies on those websites and the use of any personal data you submit whilst visiting these websites. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of such third party websites and your use of such websites is at your own risk.
When you request to receive a storage price from WJB, become a storage customer, use our other storage related services or communicate with WJB through the Website, we will collect certain personal data about you.
Here are all of the different ways you can engage with WJB and what information we collect about you for each one:
If you are requesting a price through the WJB website or over the telephone, we collect the following personal data from you; your title, first name, surname, email address, Company details, telephone number and postcode.
We also ask which site you are wishing to receive a price from, the type of customer you are (i.e. a domestic, business or student customer), when you want your storage to start and an approximation of how long you want the storage for. We ask the reason you need storage, for example moving home, decluttering, home improvements etc., and what storage container size you are obtaining a price for.
If you are a business and are requesting a storage price from us, we will also ask you the reason you need storage, for example, archiving, stock or as a distribution hub.
If you are reserving a storage container with WJB through the website, over the telephone, via email or face to face on site, in addition to the information we have collected from you when obtaining a price (see above section), we also collect your full postal address and ask if you would like extended hours access to your container.
When you are about to move into WJB as a customer, we require additional personal information about you.
This personal information includes: Your name, address, date of birth, an emergency contact name, an emergency contact telephone number, direct debit card details via Stripe and two forms of ID e.g. driving licence and recent bill.
When providing information about an emergency contact, we will assume you have obtained their consent to provide their personal data to WJB. Please note any personal data supplied about your emergency contact will not be used for direct marketing purposes or shared/sold to third parties.
The only additional information we ask for when you move out from WJB, is your reason for leaving.
If you buy packing materials from WJB, you can do this online.
The website also collects your payment card details, although this service is provided by a third party Stripe.
Stripe ask for your name, type of payment card, the card number, the card expiry date and the card’s CVC security number. These payment details are not stored with WJB.
For more details on Stripe’s Privacy Policy,click here
In order to use our Live Chat service on our websites, we ask for a first name and an email address. We also record the transcript of the chat conversation.
Customer feedback surveys may be sent via email to our customers who have just moved in to storage, just moved out of storage, or who obtained a price from us but chose not to move in. Filling out these surveys is completely optional.
We use this feedback to help improve our service offering and the questions are therefore based on the user experience with the Website, the site and site teams. Your full name and email address are the only personally identifiable pieces if data that are used to email out the feedback surveys. The only other personal information collected about you, should you choose to complete these surveys, is gender and age.
WJB also uses cookies (see section 14 below for details) and will process your IP address when you navigate the Website (an IP address is a number that can uniquely identify a specific computer or other network device on the internet). We use analysis software to look at IP addresses and cookies for the purpose of enhancing your user experience. This information is not used to develop a personal profile of you.
WJB will use your personal information for the following purposes:
In addition to the above, we may convert your personal data into statistical or aggregated data in such a way as to ensure that you are not identified or identifiable from that data. We may use this anonymised aggregated data or we may share it with our trade association to conduct market research and analysis, including to produce statistical research and reports. For example, we may produce reports on which of our products and services are most popular.
Except as described below, the processing of your personal data as set out above, is done on the lawful basis that it is necessary for the legitimate interests pursued by WJB, which do not unfairly prejudice your rights and freedoms or personal legitimate interests
Speaking with the potential customer at enquiry stage to understand their storage needs and make recommendations on the best storage size is therefore in the legitimate interest of our enquirers.
When we have a contract with you for services, some processing of your personal data (for example, ensuring that you receive the service) may also be on the lawful basis that it is necessary to comply with our contractual obligations to you, in respect of those services.
Where we send certain marketing communications to you (please see section 7, below), we are required to obtain your consent.
Should you choose to withhold or withdraw your consent, WJB will not process the affected personal data.
Finally, the processing of your personal data for administrative and record keeping purposes will be based on our legitimate interest (as described above) but may also be necessary for compliance with our legal obligations laid down by English Law.
WJB applies appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your data against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, personal data and to comply with the data protection laws. These procedures include that we shall permit only authorised employees, who are trained in the proper handling of customer information, to have access to that information.
Our customer feedback company, should you decide to complete an online survey uses passwords, encryption, AD authentication, network authentication, access control list and physical storage protection to protect any voluntary data they collect on you.
See section 11, How long will WJB keep my personal information? For more details on when personal data is deleted.
WJB may contact you:
We will keep your information confidential except where disclosure is required or permitted by law (for example to HMRC, government bodies and law enforcement agencies) or as described in section 10 below.
WJB also uses third parties to process your information on our behalf (for example, third party payment providers, professional advisors).
WJB also use a number of independent measurement and research companies to gather information regarding the visitors to the Website on our behalf using cookies, log file data and code which is embedded on our Website (please see section 14, below). WJB use this type of information to help improve the services it provides to its users.
WJB will require these third parties to only process your personal data on the instructions of WJB and will require that they do not use your personal information for their own business purposes.
WJB may also transfer your personal data to a third party (where lawful to do so) in relation to any sale or restructuring of our business.
These third party companies include:
Should a customer fail to pay their invoices (in breach of their contract) after our required reasonable time period, we are permitted to retrieve the storage costs, in accordance with our Customer Licence and may pass the debtors possessions onto an auction house.
When we collect online payments from you for self storage or for online purchases, we use a third party payment system called Stripe. Stripe will collect the following information from you; first name, surname, email address, phone number, IP address, postal address, postcode, credit card/debit card details. For more details on online shopping with Stripe click here
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WJB does not process any personal data in jurisdictions other than the UK. However, some of our service providers may (from time to time) hold personal data on data centres located in other jurisdictions or otherwise rely on sub-contractors located in other jurisdictions. Where this is the case, please be aware that some jurisdictions outside the UK may not offer the same level of protection to your personal data as it is afforded in the UK.
If your personal data is to be transferred from within to outside the UK, we will only make that transfer if:
Your personal data will not be kept for longer than is necessary to fulfil the specific purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, and to allow us to comply with our legal requirements.
Any data we do hold onto will be anonymous. Any personally identifiable information such as your name, address, date of birth and telephone number will be deleted after a defined period.
The anonymised data will be used to analyse general market and website trends.
For avoidance of doubt, here are the data retention periods for each of the circumstances where we would hold personal data:
If you have requested an online price from us or over the telephone and we have created an enquirer record of you, we will delete your personal data 12 months after the date of your last contact with us.
If you have reserved storage space with us, but never actually taken it up, we will keep your personal data for 12 months from the date of your reservation.
If you moved in to storage, regardless of what period of time you moved in for, we will keep your personal data for the entire period you are a customer.
We will keep your details for up to 7 years after you move out of our storage. Some personal information will be deleted earlier than this.
All of your personal, identifiable information will be deleted 12 months from our customer database after the date the order was placed. Your name and address may still appear on archived invoices and credit notes issued and payments received and will be kept for seven years after the date of your purchase, which is compliant with HMRC requirements other statutory authorities. After which time all personal identifiable information on these records will be anonymised.
Any personal identifiable information submitted when providing a customer review through our customer feedback survey company and which is limited to full name and email, will be deleted after 12 months.
Any written customer reviews that the customer has given permission to be published on the WJB website will remain on the WJB website unless the individual requests they are removed. The customer can do this by emailing [email protected] with their details and the review will be deleted.
Your name, email address and the transcript of the conversation will be held for 12 months and then be deleted.
A debtor is one who has an outstanding payment with WJB and who may no longer be able to be contacted. We will retain the personal data of any debtor for 7 years.
We may retain your personal data for the period in which you might legally bring claims against us (in the UK this means we will retain it for 7 years) if and to the extent this is relevant.
We may retain your personal data for the period in which you might legally bring claims against us (in the UK this means we will retain it for 7 years) if and to the extent this is relevant.
We will consider whether we need to retain your personal data after the period of retention in the case of claims (above) because of a legal or regulatory requirement. Some or all of these criteria may be relevant to retention of your personal data collected in connection with our products and services.
We will delete all personal details including email addresses of customers who have opted in to receive ongoing marketing communications from WJB after 10 years from the date they opted in, and who haven’t unsubscribed from such communications in that time frame.
If you would like further information about our data retention practices please contact us.
You have the right to request access to the personal data WJB holds about you. In order for us to comply with such a request, you will have to submit a Subject Access Request (SAR). We may require you to prove your identity with two pieces of approved identification. We will respond to a SAR within 30 days.
As well as the right to access the personal data WJB holds about you, you have a number of other rights in respect of your personal data under the data protection laws. These may include (as relevant):
Should you wish to exercise any of your rights (or if you have questions about your rights), please address your request and/or questions to us [email protected]
We have installed CCTV on all of our storage premises covering all areas. This is for the purpose of staff and public safety, building security, crime prevention/detection & for the security of our premises and our customers’ possessions. We consider CCTV is a key selling point for self storage.
We have CCTV monitors on all our sites which relay CCTV feeds. These monitors can be viewed by WJB site employees.
In accordance with the ICO CCTV Guide, we ensure the CCTV pictures are appropriately zoomed out so that individuals cannot be identified.
CCTV privacy notices are on display all around our sites and on perimeter fencing and gates alerting people to the fact that CCTV is in use throughout the site.
Images captured on CCTV will not be kept for longer than necessary, typically this is up to 60 days and is then automatically overwritten. However on occasions there may be a need to keep images for longer, for example where an incident is being investigated.
CCTV footage is stored within WJB services and can be viewed/reviewed by the following:-
You have the right to view CCTV images of yourself which can be actioned by placing a Subject Access Request (SAR) directly with the site. We will only disclose images to other authorised bodies for the purposes stated above i.e. to aid a police investigation.
We operate CCTV and disclose in accordance with the codes of practice issued by the Information Commissioner and the Home Office.
A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes a unique identifier that is sent to your computer or mobile phone (referred to here as a “device”) browser from a website’s computer and is stored on your device’s hard drive. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites. Many sites do this whenever a user visits their website in order to track online traffic flows.
For information on why WJB uses cookies and a full list of all cookies used on the WJB website, please see our full cookies policy
Yes. If you would like to ask any questions or raise any concerns with the way in which WJB processes your personal data or complies with your legal rights under the data protection laws, please feel free to contact us in the first instance, using the contact details set out below.
Notwithstanding the above and without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy you might have, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office directly, if you consider that we have infringed applicable data protection laws when processing your personal data. The Information Commissioner is the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues and may be contacted at https://ico.org.uk or telephone 0303 123 1113.
Questions or comments about this privacy policy are welcomed – please visit our Contact Us page for all the ways you can get in touch with us.
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy please email [email protected]
This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time so you may wish to check it each time you submit personal information to the Website.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on [April 2023].