Welcome to GC Car Hire LTD. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy notice will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

1. Important Information and Who We Are

GC Car Hire LTD is the controller and responsible for your personal data.

Company Number: 11136577
ICO Certificate Number: ZB122183
Registered Office: Abc House, Bank Street, Wolverhampton, England, WV10 9DU
Email Address: info@gccarhire.co.uk
Telephone: 01902 44 20 44

2. The Data We Collect About You

To provide our private hire vehicle rental services, we may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you, which we have grouped together as follows:

Identity Data: First name, last name, date of birth, National Insurance number.
Contact Data: Billing address, home address, email address, and telephone numbers.
Professional Data: UK Driving Licence number, DVLA check codes, Wolverhampton City Council PHV Badge number, penalty points, and driving history.
Technical Data: Internet protocol (IP) address, browser type, time zone setting and location.
Usage Data: Information about how you use our website.

3. How We Use Your Personal Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

Application Verification: To verify your identity, age, driving history, and eligibility to rent a PCO or private hire vehicle.
Contract Performance: To enter into a vehicle rental agreement with you, manage weekly rental payments, and maintain insurance coverage.
Legal Compliance: To comply with Wolverhampton City Council regulations, DVLA guidelines, and law enforcement requests.
Customer Support: To contact you regarding vehicle maintenance, servicing schedules, emergency assistance, or general account enquiries.

4. Disclosures of Your Personal Data

We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes outlined above:

Insurance Providers: To secure comprehensive fleet insurance coverage for your rental period.
Local Authorities: Such as Wolverhampton City Council, for regulatory compliance and vehicle plating validation.
Law Enforcement & Penalty Issuers: To transfer liability for Parking Charge Notices (PCNs), speeding fines, or toll charges incurred during your rental period.

5. 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. We limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, and third parties who have a strict business need to know.

6. 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 tax and insurance compliance purposes for six years after they cease being customers.

7. Your Legal Rights

Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including the right to:

Request access to your personal data.
Request correction of your personal data.
Request erasure of your personal data.
Object to processing of your personal data.
Request restriction of processing your personal data.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us at info@gccarhire.co.uk.

8. Cookies

Our website uses minimal local storage and cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website, specifically to remember your preferences (such as closing the cookie consent banner) and to improve site performance. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies.

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