Privacy Policy

Privacy Notice

1  Who we are

We are Strathesk Re:solutions Limited, a company incorporated in Scotland with registered number SC597598 and having our registered office address at Strathesk House, 56 New Street, Musselburgh, United Kingdom, EH21 6JJ.

We are a data controller for the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) and related data protection legislation.

2  How to contact us

If you have any questions about this privacy notice, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact us using the details set out below.

Initial enquiries should be directed to Malcolm Currie as follows:

  • By post: Strathesk Re:solutions Ltd, Strathesk House, 56 New Street, Musselburgh EH21 6JJ
  • By phone: 07736068787
  • By email: contact@strathesk.co.uk
  • Online: http://strathesk.co.uk/contact/

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. We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.

3  Privacy Information

We are committed to protecting your personal data and your privacy. This privacy notice aims to give you information on how we collect and process your personal data through your use of our website  (“Website“), including any personal data that you may provide through our Website, where we have a contract in place with you (please note that separate terms and conditions may also be applicable here) and through your other communications with us.

It is important that you read this privacy notice when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your personal data.

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 version of our privacy notice was last updated on 1 October 2018.

4  To whom does this privacy notice apply?

This privacy notice applies to:

  • all individuals who visit our Website; or
  • all individuals who are our “client contacts” where you or your organisation (including any public authorities) are or have been our corporate client (being a corporate entity such as a limited company, limited liability partnership or public authority);
  • all individuals who are or were our “individual clients” where you are a sole trader, partner in a traditional or limited partnership or member of an unincorporated association;
  • all individuals who are current or former employees, workers, directors, officers, job applicants or otherwise related personnel of our corporate client or individual client (“client-related individuals”);
  • all individuals who are our “business contacts” where you or your organisation supply goods or services to us, provide professional services, have expressed an interest in us or have any other business relationship with us (including where your organisation is a public authority, an industry body or regulatory authority or similar).

This privacy notice does not apply to employees, workers or other staff of Strathesk Re:solutions Limited.

5  Information about our Website

Our 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 we 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.

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

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 the Website may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about the cookies we use, please see our Cookie Notice available on our Website.

6  Children

Our Website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect any personal data relating to children.

7  About the personal data that we collect and process

“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”).

“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 may from time to time obtain special categories of personal data (in particular health data) about individual clients or client-related individuals in the course of providing our services to our clients. We may also from time to time obtain information about “criminal convictions and offences” about individual clients or client-related individuals.

The table set out in SCHEDULE 1 summarises the personal data we collect and process, how we use it (“our processing purposes”) and why we use it (“the lawful bases of processing”).

We may also collect, use and share “Aggregated Data” such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific feature of our Website. However, if we combine or connect 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 privacy notice.

8  How is your personal data obtained?

We use different methods to collect personal data from and about you including through:

  • Direct interactions. You may give us your identity, contact, financial, transactional or similar personal data when you correspond with us by post, phone, e-mail or otherwise, including when you complete a form on our Website or otherwise contact us via our Website.
  • Direct interactions with business contacts and client contacts. You may give us your identity, contact, financial, transactional and other business related personal data when you correspond with us, including when:
  • you or your organisation negotiate and/or enter into a contract or purchase order with us; or
  • you or your organisation provide services or products to us or your or your organisation receive services from us; or
  • you provide us with your business card.
  • Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our Website, we may automatically collect technical data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, and other similar technologies.
  • Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources as set out below:
  • where you are a client contact or business contact, your organisation or business may provide us with your identity, contact and employment data and we may receive information from third party references or from professional advisers.
  • where you are an individual client, we may receive identity, contact and employment data from professional advisers or medical professionals.
  • where you are a client-related individual, your organisation or business may provide us with your identity, contact and employment data, and we may receive such information from professional advisers.
  • we may obtain identity, contact and employment data from publicly available sources such as social media (such as LinkedIn or Twitter), Companies House or other organisations’ websites.
  • we may obtain contact, financial and transaction data from providers of payment and credit card services.
  • we may obtain technical data (relating to the use of our Website) from analytics providers or search information providers.

9  Failure to provide personal data

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 services). In this case, we may have to cancel a service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.

10  Marketing

If you are an individual consumer, we will only provide you with direct marketing communications where you have consented to receive such communications or you have contacted us directly to request specific information about our services. You can subscribe to such marketing communications, and you can adjust your marketing preferences at any time by contacting us at contact@strathesk.co.uk.

If you represent another business, we may provide you with direct marketing communications where we feel that this may be relevant to your business (provided that you have not opted out of such communications). When we use your personal data for such purposes, we do so on the basis that it is in our legitimate interests to pursue direct marketing, provided that it constitutes fair processing of your personal data to do so.

You can also opt-out or unsubscribe from all or some of these marketing communications at any time by contacting us at contact@strathesk.co.uk.

Where you opt out of receiving these marketing communications, this opt-out will not apply to personal data provided to us for any other purpose.

11  With whom do we share your personal data?

There may be circumstances in which we may also need to share your personal data with certain third parties (strictly on a confidential, business need-to-know basis). The third parties to which we may transfer your personal data include:

  • Your business or organisation, for the purpose of providing our services to your business or organisation, or receiving products or services from your business or organisation.
  • Service providers acting as processors who provide IT and system administration services.
  • Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, accountants, auditors and insurers who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance and accounting services.
  • Any relevant accreditation body or trade association.
  • Any relevant regulatory authority or law enforcement agency, including HM Revenue & Customs, courts or tribunals who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.
  • Trade unions and trade union representatives where the relevant individual client or client-related individual specifically consents to such disclosure.
  • Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy notice.

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.

Any sharing of your personal data will only take place either where we are legally obliged to do so, where it is necessary for the performance of a contract with you or where it is in our legitimate interests to do so, including as follows:

  • to maintain network and information security;
  • to provide services to our corporate clients;
  • to develop and improve our services in order to remain competitive;
  • to establish, protect and defend our legal rights;
  • to pursue our commercial objectives where this does not override your rights and freedoms as a data subject.

12  International transfers

We generally do not transfer your personal data out of the European Economic Area (EEA). However, whenever we are required to transfer your personal data out of the EEA (for example where a third party supplier is located outside of the EEA), we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring that appropriate safeguards are implemented, including any of the following:

13  Automated decision making and profiling

We do not use automated decision-making (including profiling) to make any decisions which would produce a legal effect or similarly significantly affect a data subject.

14  How long do we retain your personal data?

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.

Personal data relating to website users, business contact and client contacts will generally not be retained for longer than 12 months unless such data is relevant to ongoing services. Personal data relating to individual clients and client-related individuals will generally not be retained for longer than 7 years after conclusion of the relevant services unless such data is relevant to any legal, accounting or reporting requirements. Please contact us at contact@strathesk.co.uk for further details about our retention periods.

15 Data security

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 the Information Commissioner’s Office of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

16 Your rights

Your personal data is protected by legal rights, which include your rights to:

  • Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a “data subject access request“). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
  • Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
  • Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, following your request.
  • Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those 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.
  • Request restriction of 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 data’s accuracy; where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; where you need us to hold the 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 data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
  • Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party (data portability). We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
  • Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, 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 services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

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.

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 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.

You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office, which regulates the processing of personal data, about how we are processing your personal data.

Personal data will be processed by us where you consent to the processing or where that processing is necessary for 1) the performance of a contract with you; or 2) compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject; or 3) the purposes of our legitimate interests (or those of a third party).

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.

Whose personal data?

What personal data do we collect?

How do we use your personal data?

Why do we use your personal data?

Website users

Any visitor to our Website

Technical data
(including internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access our Website)

Usage data
(including information about your visit and how you use our Website)

To improve the user experience and administer the functionality of our website

To respond to general and specific enquiries

·         Necessary for our legitimate interests (to maintain network security and Website relevance for visitors to our Website)

Client contacts

Any contact person of an existing or former corporate client

Identity data
(including full name and title)

Contact data
(including business address, email address and telephone numbers)

Employment data
(including job title and role, credentials)

Transaction data
(including information obtained by providing services to your organisations and other details of our interactions including correspondence and conversations)

Marketing and communications data
(including your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences)

To process and deliver services to your organisation including:

(a) providing information about our services on request;

(b) carrying out our services;

(c) managing payments, fees and charges;

(d) collecting and recovering money owed to us;

(e) dealing with any client complaints and receiving feedback; and

(f) corresponding with you in connection with our services.

To manage our relationship with you as our client contact.

To notify your organisation about changes to our terms and conditions or privacy notice

 Necessary for our legitimate interests (to perform contracts with our corporate clients, to respond to your correspondence with us, to keep our records up to date, to recover debts due to us and to manage client relationships)

Individual clients

·          any sole trader, partner in a traditional or limited partnership, member of an unincorporated association or other individual who is or was a client

Identity data
(including full name and title)

Contact data
(including business and home address, email address and telephone numbers)

Employment data
(including job title and role, credentials)

Transaction data
(including information obtained by providing services to you, details about services provided by us to you, details of payments to and from you, and other details of our interactions including correspondence and conversations)

Financial data
(including bank account details and payment details)

Special category data *
(including health data such as sickness leave, parental leave, disability information and any other health data relevant to the services we are providing to you, or data relating to racial or ethnic origin or other data relevant to equal opportunity monitoring)

Criminal convictions data **
(including information relating to any unspent criminal convictions or offences)

Marketing and communications data
(including your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences)

To process and deliver services to your organisation including:

(a) providing information about our services on request;

(b) carrying out our services;

(c) managing payments, fees and charges;

(d) collecting and recovering money owed to us;

(e) dealing with any client complaints and receiving feedback; and

(f) corresponding with you in connection with our services.

To manage our relationship with you

To notify you about changes to our terms and conditions or privacy notice

·         Performance of a contract with you

·         Necessary for our legitimate interests (to respond to your correspondence with us, to keep our records up to date, to recover debts due to us and to manage client relationships)

·         Necessary to comply with a legal obligation

·         * Where we process any special category data, we do so on one or more of the following additional lawful bases (depending on the circumstances):

o    necessary for the establish-ment, exercise or defence of legal claims

o    necessary for reasons of substantial public interest relating to equal opportunity monitoring and/or racial or ethnic diversity monitoring

o    your explicit consent

·         ** Where we process any criminal convictions data, we do so on one or more of the following additional lawful bases (depending on the circumstances):

o    necessary for the establish-ment, exercise or defence of legal claims

o    necessary for reasons of substantial public interest relating to preventing or detecting unlawful acts, dishonesty, fraud, etc and relating to assisting other persons in complying with regulatory requirements relating to unlawful acts, dishonesty, etc

o    your explicit consent

Client-related individuals ***

·          any actual, former or prospective employees, workers, consultants, job applicants and other personnel of a client;

·          any other individual related to a client who is relevant to any services provided by us to such client

Identity data
(including full name and title)

Contact data
(including business and home address, email address and telephone numbers)

Employment data
(including job title and role, employer, credentials, employment history, recruitment records, performance records, disciplinary or grievance records and any other employment records or ongoing cases)

Transaction data
(including information obtained by providing services to our client, and other details of our interactions including correspondence and conversations)

Financial data
(including bank account details and payment details)

Special category data *
(including health data such as sickness leave, parental leave, disability information and any other health data relevant to the services we are providing to you, or data relating to racial or ethnic origin or other data relevant to equal opportunity monitoring)

Criminal convictions data **
(including information relating to any unspent criminal convictions or offences)

To process and deliver services to your organisation including:

(a) providing information about our services on request;

(b) carrying out our services;

(c) managing payments, fees and charges;

(d) collecting and recovering money owed to us;

(e) dealing with any client complaints and receiving feedback; and

(f) corresponding with you in connection with our services.

 

·         Necessary for our legitimate interests (to perform contracts with our clients, to provide services to our clients, to keep our records up to date, and to manage client relationships)

·         Necessary for the legitimate interests of our clients (to receive professional advice in connection with employment-related matters).

·         * Where we process any special category data, we do so on one or more of the following additional lawful bases (depending on the circumstances):

o    necessary for the establish-ment, exercise or defence of legal claims

o    necessary for reasons of substantial public interest relating to equal opportunity monitoring and/or racial or ethnic diversity monitoring

o    your explicit consent

·         ** Where we process any criminal convictions data, we do so on one or more of the following additional lawful bases (depending on the circumstances):

o    necessary for the establish-ment, exercise or defence of legal claims

o    necessary for reasons of substantial public interest relating to preventing or detecting unlawful acts, dishonesty, fraud, etc and relating to assisting other persons in complying with regulatory requirements relating to unlawful acts, dishonesty, etc

o    your explicit consent

Business Contacts

actual, former or prospective business contacts, including:

·          staff or other contacts at our third party suppliers (including professional advisors)

·          individuals or representatives of organisations who have expressed an interest in our business, and

·          anyone else with whom we have contact in a business context

Identity data
(including full name and title)

Contact data
(including business address, email address and telephone numbers)

Employment
(including job title and role, employer, credentials)

Transaction data
(including details about products and services provided by you (or your organisation) to us, details of payments to and from you (or your organisation) and other details of our interactions including correspondence and conversations)

Marketing and communications data
(including your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences)

To manage our business relationships with suppliers and sub-contractors, professional advisors, regulatory authorities, public authorities and others, which will include:

(a) seeking or maintaining business relationships with various organisations, including accreditation and regulatory authorities;

(b) assessing the suitability of any existing or potential supplier or other business relationship;

(c) negotiating and entering into appropriate contracts for the supply of goods or services to us, carrying out any obligations under such contracts (including obligations of payment) and if necessary enforcing any such contracts;

(d) undertaking on-going monitoring and management of our relationship with suppliers and other professional and business contacts;

(e) interacting with other organisations or persons (including partners, other advisers or sub-contractors) in the course of providing services to our clients; and

(f) investigating any complaints or enquiries.

·         Performance of a contract with you (where relevant)

·         Necessary for our legitimate interests (to perform a contract with your organisation or business, to manage third party relationships, to seek supply arrangements appropriate for our business, to run our business efficiently and profitably, to enhance, modify and improve our services, and to pursue our commercial objectives where this does not override your rights and freedoms as a data subject)

All data subjects

All personal data

To comply with a legal obligations (such as any legislation or a court order).

To protect our privacy, property or safety or those of a third party and your rights do not override such interests.

To establish, exercise or defend our legal rights.

·         Necessary to comply with a legal obligation

·         Necessary for our legitimate interests (to assert our legal rights)

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 wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us at contact@strathesk.co.uk.

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.

* Further details on how we handle special category data are set out in our Special Category Data Policy.  Please contact us for further information or a copy of the policy.

** Further details on how we handle criminal convictions data are set out in our Criminal Convictions Data Policy.  Please contact us for further information or a copy of the policy.

*** In certain circumstances, we may be unable to provide our privacy notice to client-related individuals. This would be the case, for example, where we receive personal data relating to client-related individuals in the course of providing confidential advice to our client so it would impair the achievement of the objectives of processing such personal data if we informed the individuals that we held their personal data.