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VM Home Lift

The VM is a functional, well priced lift, with a classic design

VE Enclosed Lift

The VE expands on the functionality of the VM, with a wider feature set

Elesse Luxury Lift

The Elesse is designed to be a comforable, modern alternative to the stairlift

SP Step Lift

Our smallest platform lift; not to be underestimated!

LR Platform Lift

A step up in height from our SP, but keeping compact

Liberty Open Lift

Our powerful, customisable, open platform lift

Liberty 3 Lift

A potential 6 meters travel with omnidirectional stopping

PLG7 Incline Platform

A unique incline platform stairlift design

Wessex Lifts have been in the business of innovating, designing, manufacturing, installing and maintaining our own home lifts, platform lifts and various other pieces of accessibility equipment including (but not limited to) stairlifts, hoists, door openers and bathing equipment.

From time to time we need to collect personal information about our customers. Here is a guide to exactly what we may keep on record.

If you have any questions about this, please Contact Us and we can talk you through things in more detail.


When Do We Collect Your Data?

Data we collect and store falls into two main categories; data we collect ourselves and data we get shared with us. Because Wessex work so closely with councils, housing authorities and various other agencies including building firms, architects and other tradesmen, we are passed a lot of personal data by them. This should be something you look at in their Privacy Policies. If you are worried about this, we can find the right person from such an agency for you to speak to, so please get in Contact.

Data we get shared from a council, housing authority or other agency, including the following:

Data we collect ourselves comes from the following places:


What Do We Do With Your Data?

We do not collect data without a good reason, and as such we mainly use data to provide our services. Getting in contact with our customers is an important part of our business, and we often capture the following data;


How Do We Share Your Data?

Wherever possible, we endeavour to not share your data. However, there are certain situations where, in order to provide you with the absolute best service, we have to share your data with companies. These are approved, Wessex Trained, partners and are usually also a part of our Wessex Dealer Network. We will only give data to Wessex partner organisations if it is imperative to provide the service you need, or if you have asked us to.

Get in Contact if you want to find out more about our partners.


How Long Do We Keep Your Personal Data?

We only keep your personal data for as long as we need to. Under BS5900:2012, it is recommended that through-floor lifts receive regular maintenance. As such, we generally keep your data from either the point your lift is installed, or from the point we've started looking after your accessibility equipment, to the point that it is removed or we find out it is gone.

However, we may also retain your data on the basis of our Legitimate Interests. This data can be extremely important to our business, for a number of reasons including accounting/financial purposes and to, in some situations, protect our employees.

That being said, there are types of data we can simply get rid of. If you want us to know exactly what these are, please get in Contact. We can remove data in the following ways;


Children

Pieces of mobility/accessibility equipment are not only used by adults but children as well. Therefore it is sometimes necessary for us to keep basic children's data on file.

Children over the age of 13 are allowed to submit their own data, but children under 13 years of age will need the consent of a parent or guardian before we keep or store their data.

With regards to children under 13, we endeavour to only collect basic personal information about children if it is absolutely necessary. This basic information extends to names of the users of accessibility equipment we look after or have sold/installed. Any addresses, telephone numbers or email addresses associated with these children are almost always registered to the legal guardians of those children, or are at the location of the product.


Revisions To This Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time.

If you are a private customer, we will usually avoid clogging up your inbox and simply post a popup for a few months on our website.

If you are a customer through a council, housing authority or another agency, we may not contact you directly with updates to this policy, as these are the terms laid out between your council/authority and us. If you have questions about this, get in Contact.



Cookie Policy

We collect Cookies. Cookies are small files that a site or its service providers tansfer to your computer's hard drive through your web browser (if you allow it to do so). They enable the sites (or service providers) systems to recognise your browser and capture and remember certain information.


Cookie Banner

We have tried to be very dilligent with our Cookie Policy and how we handle Cookies. We have a clear pop-up banner that appears at the bottom of the page when you first visit our website. This lets you accept all Cookies or decline all but the essential ones (one, actually).

Even when you have selected 'decline', you may still see some of the cookies (in the table below), marked, 'non-essential'. This is most likely on Google Chrome. However, these Cookies have been overwritten and you are not being tracked. You can check this for youself, if you know what you're doing.


Cookie Table

There are a few cookies we collect, including the following:

Cookie Name Name Explanation
cookie-consent Cookie Consent Popup Essential; a popup which remembers if you clicked to 'accept cookies', so it won't pop up every time you view the site.
_ga Google Analytics Non-essential; used to distinguish users.
_gat Google Analytics Non-essential; used to throttle request rates.
_gid Google Analytics Non-essential; registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data about the device and behaviour.
_ga_S54VCWM19T Google Analytics Non-essential; used to persist session state.

Other Cookie Options

If you aren't happy with us using Cookies, the best solution is to disable them in your web browser. There's a helpful guide on how to do so: http://www.wikihow.com/Disable-Cookies

We have tried to design our online services so disabling Cookies has as little impact as possible. We are currently aware of only 1 service that requires Cookies to be enabled, and that is our Extranet. If you need something from our Extranet and do not want to enable Cookies, just Contact us and we'll try and get the right files to you.

If we start using new Cookies that you should know about, we will update this table, and post a notice to our website to notify you.


What Do We Use Cookies For?

In short, we collect cookies to provide you with a better user experience on our website and whilst using our services online. This usually involved collecting aggregate data about your visit.