Who We Are
Harrison Group Environmental Limited (‘HGE’) (‘we’ or ‘us’ or ‘our’) gathers and processes your personal information in accordance with this privacy notice and in compliance with the relevant data protection Regulation and laws. This notice provides you with the necessary information regarding your rights and our obligations, and explains how, why and when we process your personal data.
Harrison Group Environmental’s registered office is at Kimberley Street, Norwich and we are a registered company in England and Wales under number 0136165.
Information That We Collect
HGE processes your personal information to meet its legal, statutory and contractual obligations and to provide you with our products and services. HGE will never collect any unnecessary personal data from you and will not process your information in any way, other than as specified in this notice.For each of our prospective/actual clients and contacts – who may be an individual, company, institute, local authority or charity for instance – we take the following information as required:
- Client address
- Client general business email
- Client telephone landline number
- Client mobile telephone number where appropriate
We collect information in the below ways: –
- Telephone
- Post
- Paper forms
- Excel and Word documents
- PDF documents (Scans)
How HGE Uses Your Personal Data (Legal Basis for Processing)
HGE will never disclose, share or sell your data without your consent; unless required to do so by law. HGE only retains your data for as long as is necessary and for the purposes specified in this notice. Where you have consented to HGE providing you with promotional offers and marketing, you are free to withdraw this consent at any time. The purposes and reasons for processing your personal data are detailed below: – - HGE may collect your personal data in the performance of a contract or to provide a service and to ensure that orders are completed and can be sent out to your preferred address
- HGE may collect and store your personal data as part of our legal obligation for business accounting and tax purposes
- HGE may occasionally send you marketing information where it is assessed it would be beneficial to you as a customer and in our interests. Such information will be non-intrusive and is processed on the grounds of legitimate interests
- HGE may collect, store and archive some personal data to perform a task in the public interest or for its official functions, and the task or function has a clear basis in law.
Your Rights
You have the right to access any personal information HGE processes about you and to request information about:
- What personal data HGE holds about you
- The purposes of the processing
- The categories of personal data concerned
- The recipients to whom the personal data has/will be disclosed
- How long HGE intends to store your personal data for
- If HGE did not collect the data directly from you, information about the source
If you believe that HGE holds any incomplete or inaccurate data about you, you have the right to ask us to correct and/or complete the information. HGE will strive to update/correct it as quickly as possible unless there is a valid reason for not doing so, at which point you will be notified.
You also have the right to request erasure of your personal data or to restrict processing (where applicable) in accordance with data protection laws, as well as to object to any direct marketing from us, to exercise your data portability rights and to be informed about any automated decision-making we may use.
If HGE receives a request from you to exercise any of the above rights, it may ask you to verify your identity before acting on the request; this is to ensure that your data is protected and kept secure.
Sharing and Disclosing Your Personal Information
HGE will not share or disclose any of your personal information without your consent, other than for the purposes specified in this notice or where there is a legal requirement. HGE uses third-parties so that it can provide you with the various services and products that it offers. All processors acting on our behalf only process your data in accordance with instructions from HGE and comply fully with this privacy notice, the data protection laws and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
Safeguarding Measures
HGE takes your privacy seriously and takes every reasonable measure and precaution to protect and secure your personal data. It works hard to protect you and your information from unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure or destruction and has programs in place to deploy several layers of security measures, including: –
- Encryption of devices such as but not limited to USB Sticks and Flash Drives
- Regular staff training
- Data retained for only as long as is necessary.
- We are certified by the Government’s “Cyber Essentials” scheme to help us avoid cyber-attacks and other IT related security risks.
- Antivirus measures on IT hardware
Transfers Outside the EU (if applicable)
Personal data in the European Union is protected by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) but some other countries may not necessarily have the same high standard of protection for your personal data.
HGE utilises some products or services (or parts of them) that may be hosted/stored in the U.S.A., which means that we may transfer any information which is submitted by you for the purposes below:
- Management of its email system
- Storage of your data on our database server
- Third party service providers (see above under “Sharing and Disclosing Your Personal Information”)
Consequences of Not Providing Your Data
You are not obligated to provide your personal information to HGE. However, as this information is required for us to provide you with our services/deliver your products/legitimate interests, HGE will not be able to offer some/all of our products or services without it.
Legitimate Interests
As noted in the ‘How We Use Your Personal Data’ section of this notice, HGE occasionally processes your personal information under the ‘legitimate interests’ legal basis. Where this is the case, HGE will have carried out a Legitimate Interests Assessment (LIA) to ensure your interests have been considered and any risk posed to you against our own and that such interests are proportionate and appropriate.
HGE uses the legitimate interests’ legal basis for processing the type of data listed below and has identified our interests as detailed below;
- Email and other addresses for communicating with our clients
- Email addresses and telephone numbers to communicate with individuals who raise an enquiry with HGE
- Individuals would reasonably expect HGE to use their data for this purpose as, without it, HGE could not communicate with the individual regarding their enquiry
- Use of email addresses to send newsletters and marketing material to members and other individuals who have recently interacted with HGE or used HGE’s services on the basis that these categories of individuals would reasonably expect to receive this type of material. Any individual is able to object to receiving such material through the use of the unsubscribe facility contained in each email communication
- Processing of personal data on job applications HGE receives from time to time. This is to enable HGE to determine whether a candidate is appropriate for any employment position at HGE and to be able to contact the candidate for interview and offer of employment purposes. Job applications of unsuccessful applicants are stored for a minimal period before destruction or deletion from our records/ systems.
- Individual names of attendees at seminars organised by HGE or held at HGE’s premises are used to create a list of delegates. This may be to enable name badges to be printed in advance, special dietary requirements to be noted and acted upon, enable all attendees to be aware of who is in attendance, issue of attendance certificates where appropriate and also for safety purposes in the event of evacuation of the building.
How Long We Keep Your Data
HGE only ever retains personal information for as long as is necessary and has strict review and retention policies in place to meet these obligations. For example, we are required under UK tax law to keep your basic personal data (name, address, contact details) for a minimum of 6 years after which time it will be destroyed.
Where you have consented to us using your details for direct marketing, we will keep such data until you notify us otherwise and/or withdraw your consent.
Special Categories Data
Owing to the products or services that it offers, on rare occasions HGE will need to process sensitive personal information (known as special category data) from you.
Who We Are
Harrison Group Environmental Limited (‘HGE’) (‘we’ or ‘us’ or ‘our’) gathers and processes your personal information in accordance with this privacy notice and in compliance with the relevant data protection Regulation and laws. This notice provides you with the necessary information regarding your rights and our obligations, and explains how, why and when we process your personal data.
Harrison Group Environmental’s registered office is at Kimberley Street, Norwich and we are a registered company in England and Wales under number 0136165.
Information That We Collect
HGE processes your personal information to meet its legal, statutory and contractual obligations and to provide you with our products and services. HGE will never collect any unnecessary personal data from you and will not process your information in any way, other than as specified in this notice.For each of our prospective/actual clients and contacts – who may be an individual, company, institute, local authority or charity for instance – we take the following information as required:
- Address
• General Business Email
• Personal Email
• Client telephone landline number
• Client mobile telephone number
We collect information in the below ways: –
- Telephone
• Post• Paper forms
• Excel and Word documents
• PDF Documents (Scans)
How HGE Uses Your Personal Data (Legal Basis for Processing)
HGE will never disclose, share or sell your data without your consent; unless required to do so by law. HGE only retains your data for as long as is necessary and for the purposes specified in this notice. Where you have consented to HGE providing you with promotional offers and marketing, you are free to withdraw this consent at any time. The purposes and reasons for processing your personal data are detailed below: –
• HGE may collect your personal data in the performance of a contract or to provide a service and to ensure that orders are completed and can be sent out to your preferred address
• HGE may collect and store your personal data as part of our legal obligation for business accounting and tax purposes
• HGE may occasionally send you marketing information where it is assessed it would be beneficial to you as a customer and in our interests. Such information will be non-intrusive and is processed on the grounds of legitimate interests
• HGE may collect, store and archive some personal data to perform a task in the public interest or for its official functions, and the task or function has a clear basis in law.
Your Rights
You have the right to access any personal information HGE processes about you and to request information about:
• What personal data HGE holds about you
• The purposes of the processing
• The categories of personal data concerned
• The recipients to whom the personal data has/will be disclosed
• How long HGE intends to store your personal data for
• If HGE did not collect the data directly from you, information about the source
If you believe that HGE holds any incomplete or inaccurate data about you, you have the right to ask us to correct and/or complete the information. HGE will strive to update/correct it as quickly as possible unless there is a valid reason for not doing so, at which point you will be notified.
You also have the right to request erasure of your personal data or to restrict processing (where applicable) in accordance with data protection laws, as well as to object to any direct marketing from us, to exercise your data portability rights and to be informed about any automated decision-making we may use.
If HGE receives a request from you to exercise any of the above rights, it may ask you to verify your identity before acting on the request; this is to ensure that your data is protected and kept secure.
Sharing and Disclosing Your Personal Information
HGE will not share or disclose any of your personal information without your consent, other than for the purposes specified in this notice or where there is a legal requirement. GSL uses third-parties so that it can provide you with the various services and products that it offers. All processors acting on our behalf only process your data in accordance with instructions from the GSL and comply fully with this privacy notice, the data protection laws and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
Safeguarding Measures
GSL takes your privacy seriously and takes every reasonable measure and precaution to protect and secure your personal data. It works hard to protect you and your information from unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure or destruction and has programs in place to deploy several layers of security measures, including: –
• Encryption of devices such as but not limited to USB Sticks and Flash Drives.
• Regular staff training.
• Anonymisation of sensitive data.
• Data retained for only as long as is necessary.
• We are certified by the Government’s “Cyber Essentials” scheme to help us avoid cyber-attacks and other IT related security risks.
• Antivirus measures on IT hardware.
Transfers Outside the EU (if applicable)
Personal data in the European Union is protected by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) but some other countries may not necessarily have the same high standard of protection for your personal data.
The Society utilises some products or services (or parts of them) that may be hosted/stored in the U.S.A., which means that we may transfer any information which is submitted by you through the website outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”) for the purposes below:
Management of its email system
Storage of your data on our database server
Third party service providers (see above under “Sharing and Disclosing Your Personal Information”)
Consequences of Not Providing Your Data
You are not obligated to provide your personal information to GSL. However, as this information is required for us to provide you with our services/deliver your products/legitimate interests, the GSL will not be able to offer some/all of our products or services without it.
Legitimate Interests
As noted in the ‘How We Use Your Personal Data’ section of this notice, the GSL occasionally processes your personal information under the ‘legitimate interests’ legal basis. Where this is the case, the GSL will have carried out a Legitimate Interests Assessment (LIA) to ensure your interests have been considered and any risk posed to you against our own and that such interests are proportionate and appropriate.
The GSL uses the legitimate interests’ legal basis for processing the type of data listed below and has identified our interests as detailed below;
• Email and other addresses for communicating with our members for the purposes of administering their membership with GSL.
• Email addresses and telephone numbers to communicate with individuals who raise an enquiry with the library at GSL. Individuals would reasonably expect GSL to use their data for this purpose as, without it, the library could not communicate with the individual regarding their enquiry or search results.
• Use of email addresses to send newsletters and marketing material to members and other individuals who have recently interacted with GSL or used GSL’s services on the basis that these categories of individuals would reasonably expect to receive this type of material. Any individual is able to object to receiving such material through the use of the unsubscribe facility contained in each email communication.
• Sending emails to members of the geological community to invite such individuals to contribute to material GSL publishes or intends to publish. This is on the basis those individuals are happy to contribute to a community they are associated with and wish to further their own reputation within the field of geology. No individual is obliged to respond and can object to the processing of their data at any time.
• Processing of personal data on job applications GSL receives from time to time. This is to enable GSL to determine whether a candidate is appropriate for any employment position at GSL and to be able to contact the candidate for interview and offer of employment purposes. Job applications of unsuccessful applicants are stored for a minimal period before destruction or deletion from our records/ systems.
• Individual names of attendees at conferences organized by GSL or held at GSL’s premises are used to create a list of delegates. This is to enable name badges to be printed in advance, special dietary requirements to be noted and acted upon, enable all attendees to be aware of who is in attendance and also for safety purposes in the event of evacuation of the building.
• Email addresses and telephone numbers of teachers and professional geologists for the provision of education to schools. This follows an approach to GSL by a teacher or professional geologist who expresses a desire to help schools deliver geology based education.
How Long We Keep Your Data
GSL only ever retains personal information for as long as is necessary and has strict review and retention policies in place to meet these obligations. For example, we are required under UK tax law to keep your basic personal data (name, address, contact details) for a minimum of 6 years after which time it will be destroyed.
Where you have consented to us using your details for direct marketing, we will keep such data until you notify us otherwise and/or withdraw your consent.
Special Categories Data
Owing to the products or services that it offers, on rare occasions the GSL will need to process sensitive personal information (known as special category data) from you