Lotus Technology Innovative Limited having its trading address at 9 Dallington Street, London EC1V 0BZ, registration number 13337498 (“LOTUS”) is the subsidiary UK entity of Lotus Technology Inc. This privacy policy relates to LOTUS. LOTUS respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit www.lotuscars.com (referred to as “our website” or “the website” in this privacy policy) (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
This privacy policy aims to give you information on how LOTUS collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide through this website when you purchase a product or service.
This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.
It is important that you read this privacy policy together with any other privacy policy or fair processing policy we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy policy supplements other notices and privacy policies and is not intended to override them.
LOTUS is the controller and responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as “LOTUS”, “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy policy).
We have appointed a data privacy committee that is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this privacy policy. If you have any questions about this privacy policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact the data privacy committee at LTIL.Legal@eu.lotuscars.com.
E-mail is our preferred method of communication as it allows us to respond to queries faster, but if you would rather send us a letter then please address it to Legal and Compliance, Lotus Technology Innovative Limited, 9 Dallington Street, London EC1V 0BZ.
You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK regulator 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.
We keep our privacy policy under regular review. 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 policy of every website you visit.
Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:
We may also put your personal data into aggregated and anonymised form. Once anonymised, that data is no longer your personal data. However, if we combine or connect that anonymised, aggregated data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this Policy.
We do not, via the website, collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this 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). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.
Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you, and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you with goods or services). In this case, we may have to cancel a product or service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.
Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please contact us if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your personal data where more than one ground has been set out in the table below.
| Purpose/Activity | Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest |
|---|---|
| To register you as a new customer | Performance of a contract with you |
| To process and deliver your order including: (a) Manage payments, fees and charges (b) Collect and recover money owed to us (c) Managing your order | (a) Performance of a contract with you (b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to recover debts due to us) |
| To manage our relationship with you which will include: (a) Notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy (b) Asking you to leave a review or take a survey | (a) Performance of a contract with you (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation (c) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products/services) |
| To enable you to partake in a prize draw, competition or complete a survey | (a) Performance of a contract with you (b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them and grow our business) |
| To administer and protect our business and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data) | (a) Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganisation or group restructuring exercise) (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation |
| To carry out incident investigation and management. | (a) Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, to keep our records of such incidents updated to ensure efficient resolution and management of incidents) (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation |
| To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you | Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy) |
| To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences | Necessary for our legitimate interests (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) |
| To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services from LOTUS (including but not limited to service packs), or goods or services that may be of interest to you (including but not limited to, paint protection, tyre protection, extended warranty, and gap insurance) from third-party providers, intermediaries, sales agents and any other providers set out in Annex A as amended from time to time | Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our products/services and grow our business) Consent |
You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us or purchased goods from us and you have opted in to receiving that marketing.
We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any third party for marketing purposes.
You can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by managing your options in your account settings.
Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of a product purchase.
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about the cookies we use, please see our cookie policy.
We may share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table Purposes for which we will use your personal data above.
For job application purposes, you will be referred to our job application portal which we share with our Geely parent company. This is subject to our separate Applicant Privacy Policy.
We may transfer your personal data to countries outside the UK or the EU. A transfer of personal data to a country outside the UK or EU may occur only to the extent necessary to perform services for you, if required by law, or where you have given consent.
Please note that not all countries have a data protection level recognized as adequate by the ICO or the European Commission. For data transfers to countries outside the EU or the UK, we will ensure that the recipient has an adequate level of data protection before transferring any personal data. (e.g. through an agreement with the recipient containing the so-called “International Data Transfer Agreement” issued by the ICO, the “EU standard contractual clauses” of the European Union or other appropriate safeguards). You can obtain further details of our safeguards by contacting us.
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.
We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.
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, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. Please click on the links below to find out more about these rights:
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us via LTIL.Legal@eu.lotuscars.com.
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.