Privacy Policy
Welcome to Alphascootz
We respect the privacy of our visitors and are committed to preserving your online safety by upholding your privacy at all times when you visit or communicate without website. Our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions provide a detailed explanation regarding how we collect, use and store your personal data.
Please read this Privacy Policy Carefully.
About Us:
Alphascootz will be the controller and data processor of any personal data processed as described in this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions about your personal information, please send emails to [email protected] with the subject “Privacy”.
Collection of Information:
Data can be collected and processed during the operations of our website, delivery of training and direct contact you may have with us by email, phone or enrolment forms. We may collect, store and use certain details of your personal information in line with this policy.
The following are ways we may perform these actions:
Data that we cannot use to identify you but is collected to help us improve our service and understand the needs of our customers include:
Location Date IP Address Traffic Data Other communication information We request personal information including, name, email, company name and phone number which is essential for us to process your request. We may also request supplementary information in order
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to understand more about you (these fields will be optional). If you contact us, we may also keep a record of the correspondence. If you provide us with personal data about a third party, you warrant that you have obtained the express consent from the third party for the disclosure and use of their personal data.
Type and Use of Information:
The personal data that we may collect from you includes: your name, gender, date of birth, address, email address, phone numbers, employer and health status. We also retain records of your queries and correspondence, in the event you contact us. We do not store any payment information such as bank account details or credit card numbers.
In some circumstances we may be provided with sensitive data, such as information on your physical or mental health to enable us to administer request for reasonable adjustment or conduct investigations, complaints or appeals.
We merely process such data on our behalf in relation to your learning, assessment and certification.
We may use personal data where this is necessary to pursue our legitimate interest as a provider of training, assessment and certification services, including to:
● Process your enquires and provide you with services
● Help us identify you and any projects we are working on or have completed for you
● Provide products/services which you have registered or been registered for
● Undertake administration in relation to products and /or services which you have been registered for
● Administer accounts, process payments and keep track of billing and payments
● Provide you with a certificate or other record of learning
● Contact you directly in relation to our Quality Assurance processes, investigations, appeals and complaints
● Assess and provide reasonable adjustments in relation to your learning or assessment, where requested
● Enable us to review, develop and improve our services
● Provide customer care, including responding to your requests if you contact us with a query
● Detect fraud and to make sure what you have told us is correct
● Carry out marketing and statistical analysis
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Due to the nature of the services we offer and the relationship that we have with our customers, we will assume that you are still a customer until you tell us that you no longer wish to be considered as a customer
Information disclosure:
At times, we may disclose personal information to persons in our Company. This can include employees and agents involved in our business, if applicable. Pease note that our suppliers ‘use of your personal data is subject to a contract. We will not share any information with any third party outside our Company unless:
a) It is with your consent or
b) We are required to do so by law
Data Retention:
We will retain your personal data for the duration of the period you are a customer. Certain information might be kept for up to 40 years for the purpose of Health and Safety Management.
We will retain personal data relating to our quality assurance process, appeals or investigations for a maximum period of seven years to ensure that we are able to comply with a contractual, legal, audit and other regulatory requirements, or any competent courts or authorities.
If you let us know that you are no longer a customer, we will delete all unnecessary electronic data and destroy all unnecessary hard copy data that we hold.
We shall retain any project data that is required to safeguard our legal liability following the completion of any project.
We will retain data from enquiries and correspondence with you for future correspondence.
Who has access to your data?:
For the avoidance of doubt, we do not, and never shall, sell your personal data to third parties for marketing or advertising purposes.
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We may pass your personal data to third parties for the provision of services on our behalf, but will only ever share information about you that is necessary to provide the service. For example, if we need to use a provider of specialist equipment or services as part of the work that we are undertaking for you.
We may share your information if we are acquired by a third part and, therefore, your data will be deemed an asset or the business. In these circumstances, we may disclose your personal data to the prospective buyer of our business, subject to both parties entering into appropriate confidential undertakings.
We may share your personal data if we are under a duty to disclose data in order to comply with any legal obligation or to protect the rights, property or safety or Adriser Recruitment, our customers or others. This includes, but is not limited to exchanging information with our companies, and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection, credit risk reduction and dispute policies. However, we will take steps with the aim of ensuring that your privacy rights continue to be protected.
Information Accessibility:
Under the provision of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) you have a right to access, erase and transfer the data we have collected that is specific to you. If you wish to exercise these rights you may contact [email protected]
If you chose to unsubscribe or opt-out from communication by email we will not send you any further correspondence by email. We will continue to gather data relating to your engagement with our website. You can up-date your email preferences at [email protected] Information Security:
All data is collected and stored via secure websites. Data is stored, processed and protected in accordance with the relevant sections of the GDPR. BVT is registered with the Information Commissions Office (ICO) whose details can be found at the end of this Privacy Policy.
Our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described above will depend on the personal information concerned and the specific context in which we collect it.
However, we will normally collect personal information from you only:
● Where we have your consent to do so
● Where we need the personal information to perform a contract with you
● Where the processing is in our legitimate interests for direct marketing and not overridden by your rights. In some cases, we also have a legal obligation to collect personal information from you.
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If we ask you to provide personal information to comply with a legal requirement or to perform a contract with you, we will make this clear at the relevant time and advise you whether the provision of your personal information is mandatory or not (as well as the possible consequences f you do not provide your information).
Similarly, if we collect and use your personal information in reliance of our legitimate interests (or those of any third party), we will make clear to you at the relevant time what those legitimate interests are
Children:
We strongly believe in protecting the privacy of children. In line with this belief, we do not knowingly collect or maintain personal information from persons under 13 years of age, and not part of our website is directed to persons under 16 years of age. If you are under 13 years of age, then please do not use or access our website at any time or in any manager. We will take appropriate steps to delete any personal information of persons less than 13 years of age.
Data Retention:
We retain personal information we collect from you where we have consent or an ongoing legitimate business to do so (for example, to provide you with a service you have requested or to comply with applicable legal, tax or accounting requirements).
When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymise it or, if this is not possible (for example because our personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.
Your rights:
You have the following data protection rights:
● You can object to processing of your personal information, ask us to restrict processing of your person information or request portability of your personal information. Again you can exercise these rights by contacting [email protected]
● You may unsubscribe form certain email communication ● You may also update your personal information using [email protected]
● You may also email [email protected] in order to access, correct, delete or update your personal information on our systems. We will answer every email as promptly as possible.
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Similarly, if we have collected and processed your personal information on the basis of your consent, then you can withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other can consent.
You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our lection and use of your personal information. For more information please contact https://ico.org.uk/concerns
Information Commissioner’s Office Wycliffe House Water Lane Wilmslow Cheshire SK9 5AF
Telephone: 0303 123 1113
The website may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites or third parties. If you follow a ling to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal information to these websites.
Liability and Data Breach:
We agree to take reasonable measures to protect your data in accordance with applicable laws and in accordance with our Terms and Conditions.
In the event of a data breach, we shall ensure that our obligations under applicable data protection laws and complied with where necessary. Any breach will be reported to the Information Commissions Office within 72 hours.
Contacting us:
Please feel free to contact us with queries, or comments you have about our Privacy Policy [email protected]
Updating this Privacy Policy:
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