We, the National Stone Centre, take the protection of your personal data very seriously and strictly adhere to the rules laid out by data protection laws and the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR).
This privacy notice gives you information on how we collect and process your personal data through your use of this site and any data you may provide if you contact us.
We collect your personal data for one of the following purposes:
We only collect and use personal information about you when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we use it where the data subject (you) has given consent to the processing activity taking place.
We collect personal information from you, for example, if you register to our website, request information or call us. The categories of personal information that we may collect, store and use about you include:
Name, address, telephone number, email, IP address, and employer details.
We pride ourselves on ensuring that your personal data is only retained for the period that we need it for, or in accordance with laws, regulations and professional obligations that we are subject to.
All personal information collected has a defined retention period, which is in line with our retention policy. If you would like to find out how long your information is being retained, please see “additional information”, section 14 of this policy.
We take the responsibility for protecting your privacy very seriously and we will ensure your data is secured in accordance with our obligations under the Data Protection laws.
We have in place technical and organisational measures to ensure personal information is secured and to prevent your personal data from being accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. We have in place a robust access control policy which limits access to your personal data to those employees, contractors and other third parties who only have a business need to know. The processing of your personal data will only take place subject to our instruction.
We have policies and procedures to handle any potential data security breaches and data subjects, third parties and any applicable regulators will be notified where we are legally required to do so. We have ensured that all employees have had information security and data protection training. If you would like more details of the security we have in place, please see “additional information”, section 14 of this policy.
In this section, we have summarised the rights that you have under General Data Protection Regulation. Some of the rights are complex, and not all the details have been included in our summaries. Accordingly, you should read the relevant laws and guidance from the regulatory authorities for a full explanation of these rights. Your principal rights under General Data Protection Regulation are:
The right to object
You can exercise this right if:
The right of access
You or any third party acting on your behalf with your authority may request a copy of the personal data we hold about you without charge. We will ask to verify your identity or request evidence from the third party that they are acting on your behalf before releasing any personal data we hold about you.
The right to be informed
We are required, to provide clear and transparent information to you about how we process your personal data. This privacy notice addresses this right.
The right of rectification
If you believe the personal data we hold about you is incorrect or incomplete you have the right to correct this and you may exercise this right along with the right to restrict processing until these corrections are made.
The right to erasure
If there is no legal basis or legitimate reason for processing your personal data, you may request that we erase it.
The right to restrict processing
You may ask us to restrict the processing of your personal data. This means we will still hold it but not process it. This is a conditional right which may only be exercised when:
Processing is unlawful.The right to data portability
You can request that your personal data is transferred to another controller or processor in a machine-readable format if:
If you have any questions about these rights, please see “additional information”, section 14 of this policy.
Where you have given consent for processing, or explicit consent in relation to the processing of special category data, you have the right to withdraw this consent at any time, but this will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
Where we need to collect personal data by law or in order to process your instructions and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to carry out your instructions. In this case, we may have to cancel our engagement but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.
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Your personal data is not used in any automated decision-making (a decision made solely by automated means without any human involvement) or profiling (automated processing of personal data to evaluate certain conditions about an individual).
The National Stone Centre may disclose your personal data, listed in section 4 to some third parties to help us deliver our services and as part of our legal obligation:
We take any complaints about our collection and use of personal information very seriously. If you think that our collection or use of personal information is unfair, misleading, or inappropriate, or have any other concerns about our data processing, please raise this with us in the first instance.
To make a complaint, please contact us via email at nsc@nationalstonecentre.org.uk. Alternatively, you can contact us by post: National Stone Centre, Porter Lane, Wirksworth, Derbyshire DE4 4LS.
You can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office by:
Post: Information Commissioners Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.
Website: https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/complaints-and-compliments-about-us/
Email: casework@ico.org.uk
Phone: 0303 123 1113 (local rate) or 01625 545 745 (national rate).
Your trust is important to us. That is why we are always available to talk with you at any time and answer any questions concerning how your data is processed. If you have any questions that could not be answered by this privacy policy or if you wish to receive more in-depth information about any topic within it, please contact our DPO and Compliance Team via email at nsc@nationalstonecentre.org.uk.
We keep this Policy under regular review. This Policy was last updated on 05/04/2023. We reserve the right to update this privacy notice at any time, and we will provide you with a new privacy notice when we make any substantial updates. We may also notify you in other ways from time to time about the processing of your personal information.