Privacy

At Rowen, we’re committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. 

The aim of this privacy policy is to explain when and why we collect personal information about people who visit our website and our retail store, how we use it and how we may disclose it to other organisations. 

Rowen Interior Design Limited t/a Rowen is a luxury glam interiors and homewares retailer in Newcastle upon Tyne working in both the residential and commercial sectors.  Rowen Interior Design Limited is registered in England and Wales (12586958).  The registered address is Unit 6 Franklin Industrial Est, Blaydon, NE21 5TL, United Kingdom

What information do we collect about you?

Personal information means any information that may be used to identify you, such as, your name, title, phone number, email address or postal address.  We obtain information about you when you use our website, for example when you contact us about products and services, if you opted to receive regular newsletters or have applied for a vacancy.

We also collect personal information when you visit our physical retail store, which may include: 

  • CCTV footage for security and crime prevention
  • Purchase information (e.g., payment details, loyalty programmes)
  • In-store Wi-Fi usage data (if applicable)
  • Customer service interactions

We use several products to analyse visitors to our website in order to understand our visitors’ needs and to improve our site.  Sometimes our systems are able to matchup your visit with your personal information so that we can help to provide the right products and services to you.  The personal information we collect might include your name, email address, IP address and information regarding what pages are accessed.

Legal Basis for Processing Your Data

Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing your personal data include:

  • Your consent (e.g., for marketing communications)
  • Contractual necessity (to fulfil a contract with you)
  • Legal obligations (compliance with legal requirements)
  • Legitimate interests (e.g., business management, fraud prevention)

How will we use the information about you?

At Rowen, we always ensure we are acting fairly and lawfully, and this extends to how we use your information.  We will not sell or rent your information to third parties, nor will we share your information with third parties for marketing purposes. 

We may pass your information to our third party service providers, agents, subcontractors and other associated organisation for the purposes of completing tasks and providing services to you on our behalf (for example to send newsletters to you).  However, when we use third party service providers, we disclose only the personal information that is necessary to deliver the service and we have a contract in place that requires them to keep your information secure and not to use it for their own purposes.  Please be assured that we will not release your information to third parties for them to use for their own purposes, unless you have requested us to do so, or we are required to do so by law, for example, by a court order or for the purposes of prevention of fraud or other crime.

We may use your information to:

  • Send you communications which you have requested and that may be of interest to you.
  • Process a job application submitted through our website, by email or in store
  • Carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into by you and us
  • Notify you of changes to our services

Your Rights Under UK GDPR 

You have the following rights regarding your personal data:

  • Right to access: Request details of the personal data we hold about you
  • Right to rectification: Correct inaccurate or incomplete data
  • Right to erasure: Request deletion of your data in certain circumstances
  • Right to restrict processing: Limit how we process your data
  • Right to data portability: Receive your data in a portable format
  • Right to object: Object to data processing based on legitimate interests
  • Rights related to automated decision-making and profiling

You can exercise these rights by contacting us at hello@rowenhomes.com

International Data Transfers 

All of the information you submit via our website or in-store is stored within the UK or the European Economic Area (EEA). If your personal data is transferred outside the UK or EEA, we ensure appropriate safeguards are in place, such as Standard Contractual Clauses.

We may use your information in the interest of conducting and managing our business, enabling us to give you the best possible customer experience relating to our products and services, and ensuring you are able to shop securely with us. This is known as legitimate interest.

We make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you (both positive and negative) and your rights before we process your personal data for our legitimate interests.

We do not use your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law).

In accordance with legitimate interest, we may analyse your personal information to create a profile of your interests and preferences so that we can contact you with information relevant to you. We may make use of additional information about you when it is available from external sources to help us do this effectively. We may also use your personal information to detect and reduce fraud and credit risk.

We review our retention periods for personal data on a regular basis.  We are legally required to hold some types of information for the purposes of satisfying any legal requirements. We will hold your personal data on our systems in accordance with our retention policy and for as long as is necessary for the relevant activity, or as long as is set out in any relevant contract you hold with us. 

Marketing

You have a choice about whether or not you wish to receive information from us. After you have shared your data with us, we may use it to send direct marketing communications about our products and services.  You can change your marketing preferences at any time by contacting hello@rowenhomes.com

If you have opted out of receiving future publications from us, your contact details will remain on our opt-out list to prevent you from receiving any further publications from us. 

Access to your information

The accuracy of your information is important to us.  If any of the information we hold is inaccurate or out of date, please contact hello@rowenhomes.com who will be more than happy to update our records. 

Security

We take the security of your data seriously and have implemented appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your data against unauthorized access, accidental loss, or destruction.

Cookies

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Other Websites

Our website contains links to other websites.  This privacy policy only applies to this website so when you link to other websites you should read their own privacy policies.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

We may update this policy from time to time and we suggest you review this page occasionally. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this policy and the way in which we use this data please get in touch with at hello@rowenhomes.com.  This policy is reviewed regularly and was last updated in February 2025.

Complaints

Sometimes things do go wrong and we will always try our best to resolve them.  Please do speak to us first as at hello@rowenhomes.com or 0191 743 0219 we may be able to quickly and easily resolve the problem.  In the event that you wish to make a complaint about how your personal data is being processed, or how your complaint has been handled, you have the right to lodge a complaint directly with the Information Commissioners’ Office who’s website is http://www.ico.org.uk/ or calling 0330 123 1113.

How to contact us

Please contact us if you have any questions about our privacy policy or the information we hold about you.  You can email us using hello@rowenhomes.com, write to us at Unit 6 Franklin Industrial Est, Blaydon, NE21 5TL, United Kingdom or telephone on 0191 7430 219.