Privacy Overview

Scottish Leather Group Limited (a private limited company registered in Scotland with registered number SC042020 and having its registered office at Locher House, Kilbarchan Road, Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire PA11 3RN to which address any notices should be sent) considers Internet users privacy and data protection to be of paramount importance. Scottish Leather Group Limited complies with the Data Protection Act 2018 and any other applicable legislation in relation to all processing of personal data supplied to us by users and other personal data in our possession for any reason.

We have developed this privacy policy to let you know:

what types of personal data we collect
how we collect personal data
how we store your personal data
the purposes for which we process your personal data
the rights you have with regards to your personal data collected by us
when and why we share it with other organisations, including the types of organisations involved
how long we keep personal data for.

Processing of personal data as described in this privacy policy is undertaken by Scottish Leather Group Limited. It will also cover the processing of personal data of other group companies of Scottish Leather Group Limited where relevant.

In this privacy policy, Scottish Leather Group Limited and relevant group companies are referred to as “SLG”, “we”, “us” and “our”. SLG is the controller in relation to the processing of your personal data as described in this privacy policy.

This statement discloses the privacy policy for the Scottish Leather Group Limited website. This statement does not extend to sites that are linked to or which are not part of the Scottish Leather Group Limited website. If you are a consumer of one of SLG’s brands (Muirhead and Bridge of Weir), a separate privacy policy related to each of these brands is available on their individual websites.

Cookies

A 'cookie' is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. Cookies do not damage your computer. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites. You can decide if you want to accept cookies by changing the settings on your browser to either accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set.

Scottish Leather Group Ltd's Website uses cookies to assign identification to your individual browser. This identifies your browser, but not you, to our servers every time you visit our network. Cookies by themselves cannot be used to find out the identity of any user. Unless you voluntarily advise us, Scottish Leather Group Ltd will never know who you are, even though we assign your browser a cookie.

The information gathered through the use of cookies allows Scottish Leather Group Limited to offer a quality website and easily accessible online content to our users, and catalogue traffic patterns throughout the website in a manner that provides personal privacy protection.

We also keep track of your IP address to gather broad demographic information about you, such as your location and your Internet Service Provider. Scottish Leather Group Limited may also collect aggregate information on how our users are utilising the site. This might include information regarding traffic patterns through the site.

For more information on cookies and their use please visit http://www.aboutcookies.org

Types of Personal Information

At specific times Scottish Leather Group Limited may ask you to provide us or third-party vendors with personal information, including, but not limited to:

your name
your contact details: postal addresses, including billing and delivery addresses, and contact telephone number(s)
details of purchases and orders made by you
your correspondence and communications with SLG
your communication and marketing preferences
your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses
online browsing activities on SLG’s website, IP address, mobile device ID, any login data, browser type and other technology you use to access this website

in order for us to carry out any of the purposes set out in Processing of Personal Data below.

Storage of Personal Data

We may transfer your personal data outside of the United Kingdom. This is primarily to allow us to provide products and services and other benefits to you from selected third parties in our supply chain.

Where your personal data is transferred outside of the United Kingdom, we will ensure your personal data is afforded an adequate level of data protections (as required by data protection law), including:

by transferring the data to a country that the United Kingdom authority has deemed as providing an adequate level of data protection (an "adequacy decision")
by implementing an appropriate international transfer mechanism under data protection law, such as standard contractual clauses or a data transfer agreement / addendum approved for this purpose by the United Kingdom authority
by relying on a "transfer derogation" under data protection law (e.g. where the transfer is based on your explicit consent, or is necessary to perform a contract with you)
where we are otherwise permitted to make the transfer under data protection law.

Please contact us if you would like further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data out of the United Kingdom.

Processing of Personal Data

SLG (and anyone acting on our behalf – see Sharing of Personal Data below) use your personal data as follows.

With your agreement, to provide you with information, products or services that you request from us, or which we feel may interest you. This is only done when you have given your consent to be contacted by us, or where we are permitted to contact you in accordance with data protection law (such as where you have not opted out of receiving such information from us at the time of making a purchase from us).
We may send you personalised communications based on your preferences, and use of SLG’s or any of its brands’ products.
To verify your identity.
For crime and fraud prevention, detection and related purposes.
To enable SLG to manage any customer service interactions with you.
To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
To comply with our obligations under bribery legislation by recording all gifts and guests at events on our internal registers.
To ensure that our web content is presented in the most efficient way for you and your computer.
To allow you to participate in interactive features on our website, when you choose to do so.
Where we have a legal right or duty to use or disclose your information (for example, in relation to an investigation by a public authority or in a legal dispute).

Legal Reason for Processing Personal Data

We are required to state our legal reason for processing your personal data.

Where we have requested your consent, SLG relies on your consent to send you marketing communications. We may also send you marketing communications about SLG and its brands where you have requested information from us or made a purchase and you have not opted out of receiving such communications.

You can withdraw your consent to receive these communications at any time by using the unsubscribe button included in the communications sent to you or by contacting us at enquiries@scottishleathergroup.com. Where you opt out of receiving marketing communications, this will not remove any personal data provided to us as a result of a purchase that you have made.

SLG also collects and uses your personal data because it is necessary for:

the pursuit of our legitimate interests (as set out below)
the purposes of complying with our duties and exercising our rights under a contract with a customer
complying with our legal and regulatory obligations.

Legitimate Interests

The normal legal basis for processing personal data is that it is necessary for the legitimate interests of SLG, including:

selling and supplying goods and providing services to our customers
protecting customers, employees and other individuals and maintaining their safety, health and welfare
promoting, marketing and advertising our products, services, events, experiences and brand partnerships
understanding our customer’s behaviour, activities, preferences, and needs
improving existing products and developing new products
protecting SLG’s brands
handling customer contacts, queries, complaints, or disputes
preventing, investigating and detecting crime, fraud, or anti-social behaviour and prosecuting offenders.

Where we process your personal data in pursuit of our legitimate interests, you have the right to object to us using your personal data for the above purposes. If you wish to object to any of the above processing, please contact us at enquiries@scottishleathergroup.com.

If we agree and comply with your objection, this may affect our ability to undertake the tasks above for your benefit.

Change of Purpose

We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you require any further information on how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us using the details below.

If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.

Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.

Your Data Protection Rights

You have a number of rights under data protection law in relation to the way we process your personal data, as follows.

Right of access

You have the right to access your personal data (commonly known as a "data subject access request"). This enables you to receive access to the personal data we hold about you and to receive confirmation on how we are processing it.

Right to rectification

You have the right to ask us to rectify personal data you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete. We may need to verify the accuracy of the new personal data you provide to us.

Right to erasure

In certain circumstances, you have the right to have your personal data deleted or removed where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where:

you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below)
we may have processed your personal data unlawfully, or
we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law.

We may not always be able to comply with your request for erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.

Right to restriction of processing

In certain circumstances, you have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios:

if you want us to establish the accuracy of any personal data
where our use of the personal data is unlawful, but you do not want us to erase it
where you need us to hold the personal data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims, or
you have objected to our use of your personal data (see below) but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate interests to use it.

Right to object to processing

You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or the legitimate interest of a third party), and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your personal data which override your rights and freedoms.

Right to data portability

You have the right to ask that we transfer the information you gave us from one organisation to another, or give it to you. We will provide your personal data to you, or a third party you choose, in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. This right only applies to personal data which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the personal data to perform a contract with you.

Right to withdraw consent

You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. This will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.

Rights relating to automated decision-making and profiling

Automated decision-making is when a computer makes a decision based on information entered into a system without any human involvement. Profiling is a form of automated processing, which monitors and evaluates such things as a person’s behaviour, location, personal preferences or financial situation.

In certain circumstances, you have the right to object to decisions based solely on computer processing that have legal or similarly significant effects on you as an individual, and to question the decisions made about you by a computer.

We will not carry out any automated decision making.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at enquiries@scottishleathergroup.com.

Sharing of Personal Data

To effectively fulfil our obligations to you, and to provide you with certain benefits, we use a number of trusted and reliable third parties to carry out functions which involve the processing of your personal data. These include:

vendors who will process your personal data on our behalf and under our written instructions to carry out their services during the course of our business, such as delivery providers that are used by us in the conduct of our business. We contract with such vendors to ensure that they only process your personal data under our instructions and ensure the security and confidentiality of your personal data by implementing the appropriate technical and organisational measures for such processing
our professional advisers (e.g. lawyers, accountants and bankers)
other entities in the Scottish Leather Group Limited group of companies.

We may provide information to others (such as governmental or law enforcement agencies) in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (i) enforce or apply terms and conditions; (ii) comply with any legal claims raised against SLG; (iii) protect the rights, property or safety of SLG or any individuals employed or engaged by SLG; or (iv) protect the rights, property or safety of the public.

Protection of Personal Data

SLG is committed to keeping your personal data safe and secure. We have implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security in order to protect personal data from loss, misuse, or unauthorised alteration or destruction.

Retention Periods

We will not retain your personal data for longer than necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy. Different retention periods will apply to different types of data. If you wish to have your data deleted or removed please contact us at enquiries@scottishleathergroup.com.

Links to Other Sites

The Scottish Leather Group Limited website contains links to other sites not affiliated with Scottish Leather Group Limited. These sites have their own policies and practices with respect to online privacy, and Scottish Leather Group Limited cannot be responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these unaffiliated websites.

Complaints

You have the right to complain about data protection matters to the Information Commissioner’s Office (the “ICO”).

The ICO is the UK's independent body set up to uphold information rights. You can find out more about the ICO on its website (https://ico.org.uk/). The ICO can be contacted by calling 0303 123 1113 or by using the live chat service on the ICO website.

Changes

This privacy policy may change from time to time. If we change anything important, we will notify or contact you.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about the way in which your personal data is processed, please contact enquiries@scottishleathergroup.com.

Last updated: 10 June 2026