Trevor Hopkins Associates

INTRODUCTION

This Privacy Notice is effective from 25 May 2018 and explains the personal data that we collect from you and how we use your information.

Trevor Hopkins Associates is the data controller (referred to as “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy notice) and we are responsible for your personal data. Everything that we do with your data – for example storing it, working with it or deleting it – is referred to as processing.

The Data Protection Act controls how your personal information is used by organisations, businesses and the Government. Everyone responsible for using data must make sure the information is:

Trevor Hopkins Associates is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This document explains when and why we collect personal information, how we process it, the conditions under which we may disclose it to others and how we keep it secure.

HOW DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM YOU?

We collect data from you through a variety of different methods including:

WHAT TYPE OF INFORMATION IS COLLECTED FROM YOU?

Personal data means any/all information capable of identifying an individual. It does not include anonymised data. We may process certain types of personal data about you as follows:

SENSITIVE DATA

We do not collect any Sensitive Data about you. Sensitive data refers to data that 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 do not collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.

HOW IS YOUR INFORMATION USED?

We will only use your personal data when legally permitted, where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of an official third party) and where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation. This may include but is not exhaustive:

DISCLOSURES OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Who has access to your information?

We do not sell or rent your information to third parties but we must by law share your personal data as follows:

Basic information supplied in connection with Planning and Building Regulation applications (or any other application instructed by you) will be passed by this organisation to Local Government and/or their appointed agents.

DATA SECURITY

All personal data you provide to us will be stored securely, both physically and electronically, in accordance with our policies. We have an information security process in place to oversee the effective and secure processing of your personal data and to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used ,altered, disclosed or accessed in an unauthorised way,

DATA RETENTION

We review our retention periods for personal information on a regular basis. We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for. We have a legal obligation to hold/process your personal data to comply with the law. Under our current policy we will retain your details for a minimum of 15 years.

YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. These include the right to:

You can see more about these rights at: www.ico.org.uk

We will 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. To ensure that such information is provided to the correct person, we will require proof of identity such as a copy of a recent utility bill or bank statement, copy of passport or driving licence.

WEBSITE & SOCIAL MEDIA

We do not collect or store information about you and your browsing habits through our website or social media.

THIRD-PARTY LINKS

Our website may include links to third-party websites. Clicking on those links/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 and subsequent use of your data even if you access them using links from our website. This privacy policy does not cover links to external sites.

MINORS

We are committed to protect the privacy of children under the age 16. For those aged under 16‚ parent/guardian's permission beforehand is required before we accept information from a minor.

RIGHT TO COMPLAIN

If you are not satisfied with the processing of your personal data you should contact us via email or post in the first instance. If we do not resolve your complaint you also have the right to complain to the supervisory authority if you consider that the we are in breach of your data protection rights. The supervisory authority is the Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF. https://ico.org.uk/

OVERVIEW

If personal information is requested by any party other than official authorities, we will contact the person whose details are being requested, ask permission for that information (usually address and/or telephone number) to be released and act according to the answer given.

Review of this Policy

We keep this Policy under regular review & from time to time we may need to make changes to it, for example, as a result of Government legislation or other changes in data protection laws. For these reasons, you should check our website periodically.

Trevor Hopkins Associates Ltd., Parc House, Parc Teifi Business Park, Cardigan, SA43 1EW.Tel: 01239 621010: email trevor@trevorhopkins.com

Incorporated by Companies House as Limited Company No. 03945709