Introduction

Welcome to the SafeContractor Payment Portal (“the Portal”) privacy notice. Alcumus SafeContractor Limited (“SafeContractor”, “we”, “us”, “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy notice will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our Portal and tell you about your legal privacy rights.

Important information and who we are
Purpose of this privacy notice

This privacy notice aims to give you information on how we collect and process your personal data through your use of this Portal, including any data you may provide through this Portal. This Portal is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children. It is important that you read this privacy notice together with any other privacy notice or fair processing notice 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 notice supplements the other notices and is not intended to override them.

Contact details

We are Alcumus SafeContractor Limited (Company Number 07618138), with our registered office at Axys House, Heol Crochendy, Parc Nantgarw, Cardiff, Wales, CF15 7TW. We have appointed a Data Protection Officer (DPO) 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 our DPO Karl Mrosek on dpo@alcumus.com. 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.

Changes to the privacy notice and your duty to inform us of changes

This version was last updated on 8th January 2020. Historic versions can be obtained by contacting us. 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.

Third-party links

This Portal does not include any links to third-party websites. This Portal does contain a link to our main company website www.safecontractor.com.

The data we collect about you

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 and/or your employees, including:

Identity Data includes first name, maiden name, last name, username, title (including where such details are included on any training or qualification certificate or documentation).

Contact Data includes billing and operational address(es), email address, and telephone numbers.

Financial Data includes bank account and payment card details.

Transaction Data includes details about payments to and from you.

Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, 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 this Portal.

Usage Data includes information about how you use our Portal.

Marketing and Communications Data includes your marketing and communication preferences in receiving marketing from us.

We also collect, use and share the information you submit relating to you or your company/employees as part of the application and accreditation process. We also collect, use, and share Aggregated Data such as demographic data for the purposes of linking contractors to clients. 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 Portal feature. 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.

If you fail to provide personal data

If you fail to provide personal data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (e.g. to provide you with our 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.

How is your personal data collected?

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

Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity Data, Contact Data, and Financial Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:

apply for our services;

create an account on our Portal;

subscribe to our service or publications;

request marketing to be sent to you;

enter a competition, promotion, or survey; or

give us some feedback.

Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our Portal, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs, 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:

Technical Data from the following parties analytics providers such as Google based outside the EU;

Financial Data and Transaction Data from payment service providers such as Worldpay.

Identity Data and Contact Data from our anchor clients in respect of their contractor base.

Identity Data and Contact Data from publicly available sources such as Companies House and the HSE website, Gas Safe website, which are all based inside the EU.

Product Data, Identity Data, and Contact Data from our membership benefit providers where you have engaged with a third-party product or service.

How we use your personal data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.

Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.

Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

Where we have your consent.

Purposes for which we will use your personal data

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. 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

Type of data

Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest

To register you as a new customer

(a) Identity Data
(b) Contact Data

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

(a) Identity Data
(b) Contact Data
(c) Financial Data
(d) Transaction Data
(e) Marketing and Communications Data

(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) Identity Data
(b) Contact Data
(c) Marketing and Communications Data

(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) Identity Data
(b) Contact Data
(c) Usage Data
(d) Marketing and Communications Data

(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 Portal (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting, and hosting of data)

(a) Identity Data
(b) Contact Data
(c) Technical 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 deliver Portal content to you

(a) Identity Data
(b) Contact Data
(c) Usage Data
(d) Marketing and Communications Data
(e) Technical Data

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 Portal, services, marketing, customer relationships, and experiences

(a) Technical Data
(b) Usage Data

Necessary for our legitimate interests (to define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our Portal updated and relevant, to develop our business, and to inform our marketing strategy)

To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you

(a) Identity Data
(b) Contact Data
(c) Technical Data
(d) Usage Data

Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our products/services and grow our business)

To take you through the accreditation process

(a) Identity Data
(b) Contact Data

Performance of a contract with you

To introduce you to our membership benefit providers offering complimentary products and services and to provide you with information about products and services that may be of interest to you

(a) Identity Data
(b) Contact Data

(a) necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our partner relationships)

(b) where we have your consent

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 an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us. 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.

Disclosures of your personal data

We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table in paragraph 4 above. Internal third parties in the Alcumus Group of companies acting as joint controllers or processors and/or which provide IT, finance, and system administration services. External third parties include:

UK-based service providers acting as processors who provide IT and system administration services (specifically Amazon Web Services and Clearstream Technology Group).

Professional advisers acting as processors or joint controllers including lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers who provide legal, insurance, and accounting services.

HMRC, regulators, and other authorities acting as processors or joint controllers based in the UK who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.

SSIP in relation to accredited SafeContractor members. This usually will be limited to business information, Contact Data, and Identity Data.

Credit reference agencies such as Experian. Alcumus may undertake a credit reference check on the Client via a third-party supplier and may share details of the Client’s payment performance with such a third-party supplier. This may impact the Client’s credit score if it does not make payment within the agreed payment terms set out in this Contract.

Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business. 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.

Third-party anchor clients of SafeContractor who may wish to purchase services via a contractor are able to access contractor information (including in some circumstances personal data) via the Portal. Levels of personal data are limited in nature, restricted, and redacted where appropriate. At present, the types of documents made available to anchor clients include (i) risk assessments (ii) H&S policies; (iii) training records; and (iv) equipment issue or maintenance records. These documents may contain employee names, job titles, and contact details (including email or postal addresses). Checks are undertaken by SafeContractor to ensure that the documents shared do not contain extensive or unnecessary personal data in excess of the types and categories of personal data outlined above.

Membership benefit providers we work closely with and will sometimes share information with them about you so that they can send you information about any of their products and services you may be interested in, or any promotions they are running. SafeContractor’s current partners are set out below. If you would like more information about the ways in which they process personal data, please refer to their privacy policies (as provided below):

Bionic (click here for Bionic privacy policy)

TradePoint (click here for TradePoint privacy policy)

Fuel Card Services (click here for Fuel Card Services privacy policy)

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. We limit access to your personal data to those employees, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know. They are subject to a duty of confidentiality. 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. 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.

International transfers

We do not transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area (EEA). In the event that the UK no longer forms part of the EEA, we will not transfer your data outside of the UK to a county other than one which is within the EEA.

Data retention – how long will you use my personal data?

How long will you use my personal data? We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including 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 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. Details of retention periods for your personal data are available on request by contacting us. 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.

Your legal rights

Under certain circumstances, you have legal rights in relation to your personal data, including:

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 your personal data. 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 (a) there is no good reason for us continuing to process it; (b) you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below); (c) where we may have processed your information unlawfully, or (d) where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. 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, at the time of 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 to 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 information which override your rights and freedoms.

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: (a) if you want us to establish the data’s accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c) 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 (d) 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. 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 products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.

Request us not to use your personal data for marketing purposes. You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by contacting us at any time.

No fee is usually required

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.

What we may need from you

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 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 contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

Time limit to respond

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 wish to exercise any of the rights set out in this policy, please contact us.

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