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Welcome to the Hermes Privacy Notice. 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 when you order delivery services from us and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.
At Hermes, we are 100% committed to protecting the privacy and security of our customers and site visitors. Hermes staff members are customers and data subjects themselves, of both myHermes and other internet sites – so we appreciate and respect how important privacy is. If you have any questions about how we Protect Your Privacy, drop us a line at data.protection@hermes-europe.co.uk
For all our services, the data controller — the company that’s responsible for your privacy— is Hermes Parcelnet Limited and our address is Capitol House, 1 Capitol Close, Morley, Leeds LS27 0WH.
We have appointed a data protection officer (DPO), Hugo Martin, who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this privacy notice. If you have any questions about this privacy notice, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact the DPO via data.protection@hermes-europe.co.uk or by using the company’s address above.
You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.
This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together follows:
We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (for your information Special Categories of Personal Data includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data).
We use your information in a number of different ways — what we do depends on the information. The tables below set this out in detail, showing what we do, and why we do it.
How we use your name and contact details | Why | Lawful Basis for Processing |
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To register you as a new customer | We have to use your name and address to add you to our systems. | Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract |
Deliver your parcel/package | We have to use your name and address to deliver your parcel/package | Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract and for the purposes of Hermes' legitimate interests where Hermes relies on historic information to ensure the delivery address is accurate |
Send you service messages by text and e-mail | We use your text and email contact details to send service messages such as delivery notifications and updates | Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract |
Parcel recipient satisfaction surveys | To improve the quality of service we provide | Processing is necessary for the purposes of Hermes' legitimate interests |
Sending you information by email or SMS about our new products and services | To keep you up to date with our latest offerings. We only send this with your permission | You have given consent or for the purposes of Hermes’ legitimate interests |
Fraud prevention and detection | To prevent and detect fraud against either you or Hermes – unfortunate, but absolutely essential | Processing is necessary for the purposes of Hermes’ legitimate interests |
How we use your name and contact details | Why | Lawful Basis for Processing |
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Take payment, and give refunds | Necessary to pay for Hermes’ services or to facilitate a refund | Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract |
Fraud prevention and detection | To prevent and detect fraud against either you or Hermes – unfortunate, but absolutely essential | Processing is necessary for the purposes of Hermes’ legitimate interests |
Collect and recover money owed to us | To lawfully complete the contract between us | Necessary for our legitimate interests |
How we use your name and contact details | Why | Lawful Basis for Processing |
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Provide customer service and support | To ensure you receive appropriate support in relation to any service enquiries you make | Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract |
Train our staff | To ensure we can provide you the best possible service when you contact us | Processing is necessary for the purposes of Hermes’ legitimate interests |
Asking you to leave a review or take a survey | To study how customers use our products/services | Necessary for our legitimate interests |
How we use your name and contact details | Why | Lawful Basis for Processing |
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Improve our website | To give you the best possible user experience | Processing is necessary for the purposes of Hermes’ legitimate interests |
How we use your name and contact details | Why | Lawful Basis for Processing |
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To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences | To define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our website updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy | Processing is necessary for the purposes of Hermes’ legitimate interests |
To administer and protect our business and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data) | For running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security and to prevent fraud | Processing is necessary for the purposes of Hermes’ legitimate interests |
We also anonymise and aggregate personal information (so that it does not identify you) and use it for purposes including testing our IT systems, research, data analysis, improving our site and app, and developing new products and services.
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We do not, and will not, sell any of your personal data to any third party – including your name, address, email address or phone number. We want to earn and maintain your trust, and we believe this is essential in order do that.
However, we share your data with the following categories of companies as an essential part of being able to provide our services to you, as set out in this statement:
If you want to send a parcel from the UK to a destination outside of the UK, you may visit and use the myHermes International website which is a website operated by our third-party partner, Parcel2go.com Limited under the myHermes brand.
This means that if you use the myHermes International website you are contracting with Parcel2go.com Limited rather with myHermes. Parcel2go.com Limited is a company registered in England. Parcel2go.com Limited may be contacted via https://international.myhermes.co.uk/help-centre
We share personal data and other data related to the Services, which myHermes has collected from you in relation to our Services, with Parcel2go.com Limited but, this is only used to:
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
An IP address is a string of numbers which identifies a specific computer or internet enabled device when it connects to a network such as the internet, enabling such devices to communicate.
We have an offshore Customer Contact Centre in India, which we use for helping to process customer enquiries during busy periods. Similarly, to support IT Development activities we have a couple of support partners located in India. As India is not a country that currently has a European Commission decision of adequacy, we protect your privacy and your rights using the European Commission’s standard data protection clauses.
To continually review and improve the quality of service we offer our customers, we may invite you to take part in a survey provisioned by a company called ForeSee. The data collected by ForeSee will only include personal data should you choose to provide it – the survey can be completed anonymously. The data collected by ForeSee is hosted in the United States and the transfer of data is protected using the European Commission’s standard data protection clauses or under the EU recognised Privacy Shield arrangements.
Only a small percentage of visitors will be asked to undertake the survey. If you don’t want to take part, please close the pop-up window invite and you can continue with your browsing.
If you choose to take the survey:
All data is submitted directly to Foresee and Foresee provides myHermes with the results of the survey. Foresee will not sell or disclose to third parties any personal data gathered from the surveys. For full details of how Foresee process and use the survey data please see:
http://www.foreseeresults.com/privacy-policy.shtml
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. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
- How Long Will You Use My Personal Data For?
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.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
By law we have to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for six years after they cease being customers for tax purposes.
In some circumstances, we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
We’ll hold on to your information for as long as you have your account, or as long as is needed to be able to provide the services to you, or (in the case of any contact you may have with our Customer Care team) for as long as is necessary to provide support-related reporting and trend analysis only.
If reasonably necessary or required to meet legal or regulatory requirements, resolve disputes, prevent fraud and abuse, or enforce our terms and conditions, we may also keep hold of some of your information as required, even after you have closed your account or it is no longer needed to provide the services to you.
You have a lot of rights relating to your personal information. You have the right to:
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.
If you like to make a request in line with the above rights, please click on the following:
If you want to exercise your rights, have a complaint, or just have questions, please contact us - data.protection@hermes-europe.co.uk or at Capitol House, 1 Capitol Close, Morley, Leeds LS27 0WH.
Thank you.