Privacy Policy

1. Customer Privacy Notice 

When you buy a product from Autonative Ltd T/A Ford Certified Used Parts ("we", "our" or "us") certain information about you and your vehicle ("personal information") will be collected.

This notice explains how your personal information will be used and who it will be shared with.

In addition to this notice, some products and services from our Partners have their own privacy policies which describe in more detail how your personal information is used in a particular context. You can also find out more about what information your vehicle collects and uses by consulting the owners' manual or its accompanying app (where available). 

2. Who your personal information will be shared with 

Your personal information may be disclosed to:

  • companies or other organisations that we have engaged to provide services on our behalf, such as web-hosting companies, mailing vendors, analytics providers, event hosting services, and information technology providers;
  • companies or other organisations where you have asked us to or agreed that we may share your personal information with them;
  • professional advisors;
  • any law enforcement agency, court, regulator, government authority or other third party where we believe this is necessary to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation, or otherwise to protect our rights, the rights of any third party or individuals' personal safety, or to detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or safety issues; or
  • any third party that purchases, or to which we transfer, all or substantially all of our assets and business. Should such a sale or transfer occur, we will use reasonable efforts to try to ensure that the entity to which your personal information is transferred uses it in a manner that is consistent with this notice.
  • Transferring your personal information internationally 

Your personal information will be treated in accordance with UK law concerning data protection and may be transferred within the European Economic Area ("EEA"), as well as to countries outside the EEA (including to the USA). The countries to which we transfer your personal information may not be regarded by the European Commission as ensuring an adequate level of protection for personal information. As a result, when we transfer your personal information outside the EEA we will put in place appropriate safeguards in accordance with our legal obligations to ensure that your personal information is adequately protected, irrespective of the country to which it is transferred. 

These safeguards may include obtaining contractual assurances from any third party given access to your personal information that your personal information will be protected by standards which are equivalent to those that protect your personal information when it is in the EEA. If you would like to know more about how Autonative protects your personal information when it is transferred outside the EEA, or to obtain a copy of the safeguards we put in place to protect your personal information when it is transferred, please contact: gdpr@autonative.com 

3. What personal information will be used 

3.1 Ford Certified Used Parts collects your personal information specifically when you contact us. For example, we will keep a record of the information you provide when you write to us or contact our customer service centres). 

3.2 The personal information we collect includes: 

  • your name and contact information (such as your address, telephone number(s) and email address) and information about your business or employer if you are enquiring in a commercial capacity;
  • information about your vehicle (including your Vehicle Identification Number ("VIN"), vehicle registration number, model, age and mileage);
  • the products in which you are interested or have purchased; your contact and marketing preferences; 
  • Information required for financing purposes such as payment information. 

3.3 In addition and where permitted by law, we may combine the information we hold with information about you or your interests, socio-economic and socio-demographic status, online identifiers and current contact details collected by third parties such as marketing agencies and from public sources. 

3.4 We may be required by law to collect certain personal information. We may also be required to collect your personal information as a result of a contractual relationship with you. Failure to provide this information may prevent or delay the fulfilment of these obligations. 

4. How your personal information will be used 

4.1 We use the personal information we collect to: 

  • fulfil your requests
  • manage and improve our business and our relationship with you;
  • assess the quality of the services we and our partners provide, and the services our suppliers provide to us or on our behalf;
  • deal with your enquiries;
  • conduct research;
  • send you marketing material in line with your communications preferences; and
  • comply with our legal and regulatory responsibilities, to respond to legal process or requests for information issued by government authorities or other third parties, and to prevent and detect crime and fraud, or protect your, our or others’ rights. 

In some limited circumstances, the automated decisions we take may have a legal or similar effect on you. We will only make these kinds of automated decisions about you where: 

  • the decisions are necessary for performing or entering into a contract with you;
  • the decisions are authorised by law; or
  • you give your consent to us carrying out automated decision-making.
  • You can contact us to request further information about automated decision-making, and in some circumstances object to our use of automated decision-making, or request that an automated decision is reviewed by a human. 
  • We would like to make sure the communications we send you and our interactions with you are as relevant to you as possible. As a result, from time to time, we may use information about you collected from public sources and from third parties (as described in the 'What personal information will be used' section above) to help us determine what products and services you might be interested in. For example, analytics providers and advertising services may analyse the information they collect from online and other sources to provide us with information about your demographics and interests – such as inferences about your age range and the types of products or services that may interest you. We may then send you information about those products and services in accordance with your communications preferences, and use the information we hold about you to inform our customer service centres if you contact them. We may also work with third parties to show you tailored advertising on social media platforms or, if you have consented to the use of cookies, when you browse the internet/visit other websites. You can find out how to stop receiving marketing material from us in the 'Your rights' section below. 

We keep your personal information in identifiable form for as long as is reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected and as required to comply with applicable legal and regulatory obligations. This generally means holding your personal information for as long as one of the following apply: 

  • your personal information is reasonably required in order to provide the services you have requested;
  • your personal information is reasonably required in order to protect and defend our rights or property (this will generally be the length of the relevant legal limitation period); or
  • applicable laws or regulations otherwise require the retention of your personal information.
  • The lawful grounds that will be relied upon when your personal information is used
  • There are different lawful grounds that we rely on to use your personal information and we will collect and use your personal information in the following situations: 

Where our use of your personal information is necessary to perform a contract or contracts that you are a party to, or to take steps that you request before entering into a contract. These contracts could include the conditions on which you enter a competition or agreements you enter into for service products, for example; where our use of your personal information is within our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of the organisation with which we have shared your personal information and we have made sure that your personal information, and your rights in relation to that information, are protected.  

Additionally, we may rely on this legal ground if we and/or the companies within the creation of the Ford Certified Used Parts webstore use your personal information to: 

  • understand and improve our (or their) products, services and/or business or marketing strategies; for research purposes; 
  • to manage and improve our relationship with you and for administrative purposes; 
  • to help find out what information, products and services are most likely to interest you and to send or show you information, offers, and online advertisements for these products or services;
  • to personalise your experience of our products and services; to ensure that our products and services are delivered and used in accordance with the law and the terms and conditions that apply to them; 
  • Where necessary to protect or defend our or another's rights or property, or to detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security, safety or privacy issues;
  • where we believe it is necessary to use your personal information to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation;
  • in limited circumstances where we believe it is necessary to protect someone's safety or vital interests;
  • in certain circumstances, we may need to use your personal information for purposes which are in the public interest; and
  • where we have your consent. We will rely on your consent to, for example, to use your personal information for marketing to you by email and text message. Where we rely on consent to use your personal information, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time . Please see the 'Your rights' section of this notice for more details. 

5. Your rights 

You have the right as an individual to find out what information we hold about you and for what purposes, as well as to access that information and make corrections if necessary. You also have the right in some circumstances to object to our use of your personal information, to ask us to restrict or erase your personal information or to request that your personal information is provided to you in a commonly used electronic format so that you can share it with other organisations (this is often referred to as the right to 'data portability'). 

Where you have consented to the use of your personal information (please see the section named 'The lawful grounds that will be relied upon when your personal information is used' for further information), you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. 

If you have questions or concerns regarding our use of your personal information, or would like to access the information that we hold about you or exercise any of the other rights you have in relation to your personal information, please contact us on gdpr@autonative.com  

We encourage you to contact us to update or correct your personal information if it changes or if the personal information we hold about you is inaccurate.

If you have a complaint about the way in which Autonative uses your personal information we hope that in the first instance you will contact us. You may, however, also make a complaint to the Information Commissioner's Office, which is the authority that upholds information rights in the UK. 

6. Changes to this notice 

We may modify or update this notice from time to time. If we change this notice, we will notify you of the changes. Where changes will have a fundamental impact on the nature of the processing or otherwise have a substantial impact on you, we will give you sufficient advance notice so that you have the opportunity to exercise your rights in relation to your personal information (for example, to object to the processing). 

Repair, Diagnosis and Servicing for your Ford vehicle 

When your Ford vehicle was manufactured it was assigned a unique number (the Vehicle Identification Number, or "VIN"). From the VIN we can tell certain information about your vehicle, including its model, age, the software it uses and its technical specifications. 

In addition to the transfers of information described above, Autonative may also pass this information to: 

  • companies in the Ford corporate Group for the purposes of research and development and analytics; and/or
  • to companies in the Ford corporate Group and/or third parties where Ford believes this is necessary to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation, or otherwise to protect the rights of Ford, other companies in the Ford Motor Company corporate group, or the rights of any third party. 

You can find out more about the legal grounds we rely on when we use your personal information in the section named 'The lawful grounds’ that will be relied upon when your personal information is used' above. 

Given the global nature of the system, VIN information is transferred to countries outside the European Economic Area by Ford. You can find out more about the international transfers of personal information in the section named 'Transferring your personal information internationally' above. As this information is a formal record of your vehicle, Ford will retain it for 20 years.

7. Cookies used on this website.  

You can find the list of cookies used on this website on our Cookie Policy. In addition to cookies used on this website, additional cookies may be saved in connection to our customer services.