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Who is the Data Controller? |
NCASS Ltd |
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What will we use your data for?
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We will store and process your data in order to allow us to provide our products and services to you and to operate and develop our business.
We may send you offer details that we think you will be interested in. This may include a range of our related products and services and services offered by carefully selected third parties.
We will not share any of your personal information without an appropriate lawful basis for example your consent or where there is a reasonable legitimate interest. |
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What will happen if I contact you? |
If you contact us we will use your information to send you the information you have requested along with updates, offers and other information that we think you will be interested in. |
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What data will be stored? |
We will store your personal details as required to provide our services to you and to operate our business.
We will store your contact details, details of enquiries, membership info, and related information as required to provide our services to you.
We use call recording equipment for training and quality monitoring purposes. All calls may be recorded, if you prefer us not to record the call please let us know.
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What data will be shared? |
We will only share your data with carefully selected third parties, where there is an appropriate lawful basis, for example if there is a legal requirement, where we have a legitimate interest, where we have your consent, or where this is in the public interest.
We may share your data with carefully selected third parties as required to provide our services to you and meet our business obligations. We may also share your information as required to protect, manage, operate and develop our business.
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How long? |
We have a data retention policy that shows how long we store your data. Your data will be stored as per the company needs but no longer than 7 years after which time your data will be deleted. Recorded calls are usually stored for up to 90 days unless we believe they need to be stored for legal reasons or to protect our business interests. |
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Who can access my data? |
Access to your data is carefully controlled. We will never sell your data to any other third party, unless we have your explicit consent. |
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How is my data kept secure? |
We will store your data primarily on secure UK based servers. We use industry standard security protocols/technology to secure data. Where data is transferred outside the UK we will take steps to keep this data secure. |
This policy sets out how we will use and share the information that you give us. This policy describes your relationship with NCASS and their partners, suppliers, and other third-parties. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) describes how organisations must collect, handle, process and store personal information.
These rules apply regardless of whether data is stored electronically, on paper or on other materials. To comply with the law, personal information must be collected and used fairly, stored safely and not disclosed unlawfully. GDPR is underpinned by eight important principles. These say that personal data must:
We take these responsibilities seriously, this document describes our approach to data protection. This policy helps to protect us from data security risks, including:
NCASS is registered in Great Britain and is registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office. The data controller is: Adam Palethorpe. You can contact us at:
Name: Adam Palethorpe
Company: NCASS Ltd
Address: NCASS Ltd, 180 Lifford Lane Kings Norton Birmingham B30 3NU
Tel: 0300 124 6866
NCASS is a specialist organization for independent food & drink business in the UK and has been supporting members to be safe, legal and profitable for over 30 years. This policy relates to users of NCASS, our suppliers, partners, and all other third parties who share their data with us directly or indirectly. Processing of personal data is required in order to provide our products and services and to run our company. This policy also applies to individuals who have shared their data with NCASS as either a customer, employee, supplier or in any other capacity.
It applies to all data that the company holds relating to identifiable individuals, even if that information technically falls outside of the GDPR. This can include:
This section describes the lawful basis for processing your data and applies to the information about yourself that you choose to provide us with or that you allow us to collect. This includes:
We do not routinely collect or process sensitive data about you but where this is the case we will take extra precautions to keep this safe.
We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it and as you would reasonably expect your data to be processed and only where there is a lawful basis for such processing, for example:
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Type of data |
Lawful basis for processing |
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To register you as a new customer |
(a) Identity, (b) Contact |
(a) Performance of a contract with you and to meet our obligations to you and our partners. |
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When you call us |
(a) Identity, (b) call records |
(a) Performance of a contract with you and to meet our obligations to you and our partners. (b) With your Consent (c) To protect our business. |
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To process and deliver the products and services you request including managing payments, fees and charges, and to collect and recover money owed to us |
(a) Identity, (b) Contact, (c) Financial, (d) Transaction, (e) Marketing and Communications |
(a) Performance of a contract with you, (b) Necessary for our legitimate interests and the legitimate interest of our partners and other third parties (c) explicit consent |
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To manage our ongoing relationship with you which will include notifying you about changes to our terms, products and services, or privacy policy, to maintain our records |
(a) Identity, (b) Contact, (c) Profile, (d) Marketing and Communications |
(a) Performance of a contract with you, (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation, (c) Necessary for our legitimate interests to operate and develop our business (d) with your consent |
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To run, administer, develop and protect our business. To operate our website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data) |
(a) Identity, (b) Contact, (c) Technical |
(a) Necessary for our legitimate interests Necessary for our legitimate interests and the legitimate interest of our partners and other third parties. For the 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 (c) your consent |
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To deliver relevant content and advertisements to you and measure and understand the effectiveness of our advertising |
(a) Identity, (b) Contact, (c) Profile, (d) Usage, (e) Marketing and Communications, (f) Technical |
(a) Necessary for our legitimate interests to develop our business, to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy (b) explicit consent |
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To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences |
(a) Technical, (b) Usage |
Necessary for our legitimate interests to define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our site updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy (b) explicit consent |
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To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you |
(a) Identity, (b) Contact, (c) Technical, (d) Usage, (e) Profile |
(a) Necessary for our legitimate interests to develop our products/services and grow our business (b) explicit consent |
We may collect and process information about you, including your name, date of birth, address, contact details (including email address and mobile phone number), your company details, product and service details, third-party transaction history, other partner information, and data collected as part of any payment. We may take personal information from:
Personal data we receive will be used for the purposes it was provided, including:
In accordance with your preferences, we may also use your personal information to provide you with information about products, services, promotions and offers that may be of interest to you. We may use your personal information in order to ascertain the services, promotions and offers that are likely to be of particular interest to you. This document explains how you can change whether to receive this information. Please note that, even if you choose not to receive this information, we may still use your personal information to provide you with important services communications, including communications in relation to any purchases you make or services you use.
We operate in line with UK GDPR data protection guidelines. We respect your rights and will respond to any request for access to personal information and requests to delete, rectify, transfer, data and to stop processing. We will also advise you on how to complain to the relevant authorities, namely the Information Commissioner’s Office. Any requests or objections should be made in writing to the Data Controller or you can visit our website, call, or email us to contact us to change your preferences at any time.
By submitting your personal data on this site or as required for us to provide products and services to you, you are affirming your agreement for such information to be used in accordance with this privacy policy. You will be able to change your preferences at any time by the methods described as prescribed in this document.
We may from time to time use your information for marketing, account management or relationship management purposes. The main purpose of this is to provide you with information about the services which we think may be of interest to you and/or to maintain any existing relationship we may have with you.
Where you give your consent for us to process your data, or where we have an appropriate lawful basis, for example when you agree to us sending you marketing information or where you agree to us processing financial data, you can contact us to amend or withdraw your consent at any time. You can also choose to object to processing and request deletion of your data. We respect all user rights as defined in GDPR. If you have any comments or wish to complain please contact us.
Your data will be collected, stored and processed primarily in the UK. Where data is transferred outside of the UK we ensure we have appropriate technical, contractual, and operational measures in place to protect your data. For example [but not limited to] Contracts, SCCs, DPAs, and Risk Assessments.
Your data will be stored as in our Data retention policy but no longer than 7 years to ensure we have records of service, payments, and other interactions we have with you.
In order to provide our services to you, we use recognised third parties to take payment, conduct credit reports and other checks, manage our company accounts and provide banking services. We will store transactions, payment and order data for up to 7 years or for as long as required by UK financial and company regulations. These third parties may operate outside the UK, if this is the case we will ensure precautions are in place to protect your data.
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 find out more about how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please email us. If we need to use your personal data for a purpose unrelated to the purpose for which we collected the data, we will notify you and we will explain the legal ground of processing.
We may be legally obliged to disclose your personal information without your knowledge to the extent that we are required to do so by law; in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk); to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.
You will only receive marketing communications from us if you have:
We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any third party for marketing purposes.
We are a Data Controller. In relation to the information that you provide to us, we are legally responsible for how that information is handled. We will comply with the GDPR (2018) in the way we use and share your personal data. You can see more about these rights at: https://ico.org.uk/
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 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.
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.
We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes described in this document:
We require all third parties to whom we transfer your data to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We only allow such third parties to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
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 such data. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We will report any breaches or potential breaches to the appropriate authorities within 24 hours and to anyone affected by a breach within 72 hours. If you have any queries or concerns about your data usage, please contact us.
This 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 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.
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences. We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about webpage traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
As well as your ability to accept or reject cookies, we also require your permission to store cookies on your machine, which is why when you visit our site, you are presented with the ability to accept our terms of use, including the storage of cookies on your machine. Should you not accept, then you are free to leave our website, at any time.
Under the GDPR, we are also permitted to share some information with third parties who use such data for non-marketing purposes (including our partners, suppliers, advisors, lawyers, credit and risk assessment and management, identification and fraud prevention, debt collection and returning assets to you).
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, wish to exercise your information rights in connection with the personal data you have shared with us or wish to complain, please contact: Adam Palethorpe at NCASS. We will process SARs within 30 days, SAR responses are usually free but we reserve the right to charge for excessive or unfounded requests. We fully comply with Data Protection legislation and will assist in any investigation or request made by the appropriate authorities.
If you remain dissatisfied then you have the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
www.ico.org.uk
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