GDPR Policy Statement
Access International Security Ltd (“AIS”) are committed to protecting and respecting the privacy of our customers. To ensure that our customers feel confident about our use of their Personal Information when dealing with AIS we have prepared this this Privacy Policy which sets out how we collect, store, use and share your Personal Information. It also explains your rights in relation to your Personal Information and how to contact us or supervisory authorities in the event you have a complaint.
The Purpose of this Policy
This policy sets out the basis on which any Personal Information we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our practices regarding your Personal Information and how we will treat it.
Key terms
It would be helpful to start by explaining some key terms used in this policy:
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Background to this Policy
AIS have reviewed all of the data that we hold on the following basis:
What data we are storing;
Why we store that data;
Where that data is stored;
Who has access to that data; and
When that data is used.
The data that we store is broadly split into the following categories:
Customer Data;
Supplier/vendor data;
Business Contacts Data; and
Prospects Data
The data we store will continue to be reviewed regularly to ensure we remain compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).
Changes to this Policy
We keep our Privacy Policy under regular review. Any changes we make to our Privacy policy in the future will be posted on our website.
Personal Information we collect about you
We may collect and use the following Personal Information about you:
Your name and business contact information, including email address and telephone number and company details
Your company’s billing information
Your personal or professional interests
Your business contact history, business purchase history and saved items
Information to enable us to undertake business credit or other financial checks on you
Information about how you use our website, IT, communication and other systems
Your responses to surveys, competitions and promotions
How your Personal Information is collected
We collect most of this Personal Information directly from you-in person, by telephone, text or email and/or via our website. However, we may also collect information:
from publicly accessible sources, e.g. Companies House, websites, LinkedIn
directly from a third party, e.g.: sanctioned screening providers;
” credit reference agencies;
from a third party with your consent (where required), e.g. your bank or building society
from cookies on our website-for more information on our use of cookies
via our IT systems, e.g.: door entry systems;
” automated monitoring of our websites and other technical systems, such as our computer networks and connections, CCTV and access control systems, communications systems, email and instant messaging systems
How and why we use your Personal Information
Under data protection law, we can only use your Personal Information if we have a proper reason for doing so, e.g.:
to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations;
for the performance of our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract;
for our legitimate interests or those of a third party; or
where you have given consent.
A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your information, so long as this is not overridden by your own rights and interests.
The table below explains what we use (process) your Personal Information for and our reasons for doing so:
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Promotional communications
We may use your Personal Information to send you updates (by email, telephone or post) about our information technology goods or services, including exclusive offers, promotions, events or new offerings.We have a legitimate interest in processing your Personal Information for promotional purposes (see above ‘How and why we use your Personal Information’). This means we do not usually need your consent to send you promotional communications. However, where consent is needed, we will ask for this consent separately and clearly.
We will always treat your Personal Information with the utmost respect and never sell OR share it with other organisations for marketing purposes.
You have the right to opt out of receiving promotional communications at any time by:
contacting us at info@accessinternationalsecurity.com
Advising us you wish to unsubscribe
We may ask you to confirm or update your marketing preferences if you instruct us to provide further information technology goods or services in the future, or if there are changes in the law, regulation, or the structure of our business.
Who we share your Personal Information with?
We routinely share Personal Information with:
third parties approved by you, e.g. social media sites you choose to link your account to or third party payment providers;
We only allow our service providers to handle your Personal Information if we are satisfied they take appropriate measures to protect your Personal Information. We also impose contractual obligations on service providers relating to ensure they can only use your Personal Information to provide services to us and to you. We may also share Personal Information with external auditors, e.g. in relation to the audit of our accounts.
We may disclose and exchange information with law enforcement agencies and regulatory bodies to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.
We may also need to share some Personal Information with other parties, such as potential buyers of some or all of our business or during a re-structuring. Usually, information will be anonymised, but this may not always be possible. The recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations.
We will not share your Personal Information with any other third party.
The data we store
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How long we store your information for
We keep your information only for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it or as defined in the previous table. This includes for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, reporting or regulatory requirements.
Data retention is defined by this policy and where appropriate by specific processes used in the course of contracted work. Once any data retention threshold is reached the data is removed permanently.
By law we have to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact details, Identity, Financial and Services Data) for a certain amount of time after they cease being a client of ours for tax and regulatory purposes.
In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see the Request Erasure section below for further information.
Where data is stored
All information we collect from you is stored on secure servers, and where necessary for the purposes of delivering contracts stored on encrypted laptops and mobile phones.
We do not transfer your Personal Information outside the European Economic Area (EEA).
We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this policy.
HOW WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION
We take all reasonable care to prevent any unauthorised access to your Personal Information.
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your Personal Information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your Personal Information to those employees who have a business need to know.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected Personal Information breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
Rights under GDPR
You have the following rights, which you can exercise free of charge:
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For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, please contact us or see the Guidance from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on individuals’ rights under the General Data Protection Regulation.
If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please email or write to us—see below: ‘How to contact us’; and
let us have enough information to identify you e.g. your full name, business address and customer name.
let us know what right you want to exercise and the information to which your request relates.
When processing a request, we may ask for additional information to confirm that the request is legitimate to ensure that the security of the data is maintained, and data is not disclosed to a person who has no right to receive it.
We will try to respond and process all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month depending on the complexity or number of requests. We will keep you fully informed in all cases.
HOW TO CONTACT US:
To Request Access to your Personal Information (commonly known as a “data subject access request”) please email info@accessinternationalsecurity.com
To Request erasure of your Personal Information from our systems (“to be forgotten”) please email info@accessinternationalsecurity.com
For any other request under your rights, or if you have any questions about this Policy that are not answered above, or would like further information on how your information is used and how we maintain the security of your information, please email us at info@accessinternationalsecurity.com