1. Important information and who we are
Purpose of this privacy notice
This privacy policy aims to give you information on how ISC Research collects and processes your personal data, including any data you may provide through this website when you sign up to our newsletter. This privacy policy also outlines how we may use information that we obtain about you when you do business with us as a client of ISC Research, an adviser, supplier or other contact or as the officer, employee or other person related to such entities. When we collect and use your personal data, we are subject to the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR). We are also subject to the EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR) in relation to goods and services we offer to in the European Economic Area (EEA).
We do not knowingly collect data relating to children.
It is important that you read this privacy policy together with any other privacy policy or fair processing policy 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 policy supplements the other policies and is not intended to override them.
Controller
ISC Research is the controller and responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as “Company”, “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy notice).
We have appointed a designated individual responsibility for data privacy who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this privacy policy. If you have any questions about this privacy policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact this individual using the details set out below.
Contact details
Our full details are:
Full name of legal entity: ISC Research Limited
Name: Zoe Shakespeare
Email address: [email protected]
Unsubscribe email address: [email protected]
Postal address: Unit 2 Ram Court, Wicklesham Lodge Farm, Faringdon, OXON SN7 7PN
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
We keep our privacy policy under regular review.
We may change this privacy policy from time to time which shall then be published on our website.
We take reasonable steps to ensure your personal data remains accurate and up to date. To help us with this, please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us – see above ‘Contact details’.
Third-party links
Our 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 do not accept any responsibility or liability for their privacy statements or for any personal data that may be collected through these websites or services, such as Contact Data and location data. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.
2. 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 which we have grouped together as follows:
Identity Data includes first name, maiden name, last name, username or similar identifier, title and gender.
Contact Data includes your business address, email address and telephone numbers.
Professional Data includes salary, job titles, previous roles, and professional experience and qualifications.
Transaction Data includes details about payments to and from you and other details of services you have purchased from us.
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 our website.
Usage Data includes information about how you use our website and services.
Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
Special Categories of Personal Data where you provide this to us in the context of your instructions or in applying for a job (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, information about your health and genetic and biometric data).
We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. 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 website feature or offer. 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 policy.
If you fail to provide personal data
Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you with products or services). In this case, we may have to cancel services you have with us, but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.
3. How is your personal data collected?
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
Direct interactions. You or your employer may give us your data through our provision of services to you, your employer or the organisation you represent or by filling in forms or by corresponding with us via our website, post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you or your employer:
register an interest, apply for or use our services;
subscribe to our service or publications;
request marketing to be sent to you; enter a promotion or survey; or
enter contractual relationships with us.
Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies and other similar technologies. Please see our cookie policy at www.iscresearch.com/cookie-policy for further details.
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 analytics providers such as Google based outside the UK.
Identity and Contact Data from publicly available sources on the internet such as your employers’ website.
4. 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 or your employer.
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.
To carry out services or products we have agreed to provide to you.
Generally, we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data.
You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting [email protected].
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 do 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 legitimate interest to do so |
To manage payments, fees and charges and collect any fees owed to us |
Identity Contact Financial Information Marketing and Communications |
Performance of a contract Our legitimate interests to recover and process debts due to us |
To provide services and manage our relationship with you To include providing you with information you request, satisfaction surveys, changes to our services/ products or this privacy notice. |
Identity Contact Professional Marketing and Communications |
Performance of a contract Our legitimate interests to provide the services you require, keep you updated and receive feedback |
To administer and protect our business and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance and reporting) |
Identity Contact Usage Professional |
Our legitimate interests to run our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud or access to the data we hold |
To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and to measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you |
Identity Contact Usage Marketing and Communications Technical |
Our legitimate interests to run our business, keep our website and marketing relevant and updated, develop our business and inform our marketing strategy |
To use Data Analytics to improve our website, services and marketing |
Technical Usage |
Our legitimate interest to develop and grow our business and ensure marketing you receive is relevant |
To make suggestions and recommendations to you about services/ products that may be of interest to you |
Identity Contact Technical Usage |
Our legitimate interest to develop and grow our business |
To pass your data to selected third parties to make suggestions and recommendations to you about services/ products that may be of interest to you |
Identity Contact |
Our legitimate interest to develop and grow our business |
Marketing
We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising. We have established the following personal data control mechanisms:
Promotional offers from us
We may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, and Usage Data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which services and offers may be relevant for you (we call this marketing).
You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us, purchased services from us, if you provided us with your details or if your details are openly accessible on the internet by your employer and, in each case, you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.
Third-party marketing
We will share your personal data with third party companies for marketing purposes but only where there is a legitimate reason for doing so.
Opting out
You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by contacting us at any time at the ‘Contact details’ above.
Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, you will still receive service-related communications that are essential for a service purchase or other transactions.
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 wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please do feel free to contact us at any time.
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.
5. Disclosures of your personal data
We may have to share your personal data with the third parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table in paragraph 4 above.
Service providers acting as processors based in the UK who provide services to allow us to run the business (such as IT or website hosts).
HM Revenue & Customs, regulators and other authorities acting as processors or joint controllers based in the UK who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.
Third party service providers who provide services that involve data processing, translation, technology, research, banking and payment, client contact, data entry and processing, litigation support, marketing and security services and other similar services.
Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or share our databases with the for the purposes of legitimate reasons (such as marketing similar products/ services to ours).
Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets. 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 policy.
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law.
6. International transfers
Some of our processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data outside the UK/EEA.
Under data protections laws, we can only transfer your personal data to a country outside the UK where:
- the UK government has decided the particular country ensures an adequate level of protection of personal data (known as an ‘adequacy regulation’) further to Article 45 of the UK GDPR. A list of countries the UK currently has adequacy regulations in relation to is available at: www://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-resources/international-transfers/international-transfers-a-guide/#adequacy
Where we transfer your personal data outside the UK, we do so on the basis of an adequacy regulation or (where this is not available) legally approved standard data protection clauses recognised or issued further to Article 46(2) of the UK GDPR. In the event we cannot or choose not to continue to rely on either of those mechanisms at any time, we will not transfer your personal data outside the UK unless we can do so on the basis of an alternative mechanism or exception provided by UK data protection law and reflected in an update to this policy.
Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:
We may use specific contracts approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe. For further details, see European Commission: Model contracts for the transfer of personal data to third countries.
Any changes to the destinations to which we send personal data or in the transfer mechanisms we rely on to transfer personal data internationally will be notified to you in accordance with the section on ‘Changes to this privacy policy’ above.
If you would like further information about data transferred outside of the UK, please contact us using the ‘Contact details’ above.
7. 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 who have a genuine business need to access it. Those processing your personal data will do so only in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
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.
8. Data retention
How long will you use my personal data for?
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for 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 or disclosure 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.
In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see Request erasure below for further information.
By law we have to keep basic information about our customers for six years after they cease being customers for tax purposes.
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 policy to you.
9. Your legal rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data.
You have the right to:
Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a “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 correctionof the personal data that we hold about you. 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 erasureof your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or 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 processingof 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 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.
Opting out of marketing at any time to the processing of your personal data for marketing purposes as set out above in section 4 of this policy.
Request restriction of processingof 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 services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please do contact us.
No fee 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 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.
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.
Please do contact us if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data out of the UK/EEA.
10. Glossary
LAWFUL BASIS
Legitimate Interest means the interest of our business in conducting and managing our business to enable us to give you the best service and the best and most secure experience particularly in compliance with our agreed terms and conditions with you (in the case of clients of ISC Research) or agreed terms of business (in the case of contractual requirements) or in any other circumstances where we hold your data. We make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you (both positive and negative) and your rights before we process your personal data for our legitimate interests. We do not use your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law). You can obtain further information about how we assess our legitimate interests against any potential impact on you in respect of specific activities by contacting us.
Performance of Contract means processing your data where it is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request before entering into such a contract.
Comply with a legal or regulatory obligation
means processing your personal data where it is necessary for compliance with a legal or regulatory obligation that we are subject to.