Privacy Policy

Overview

Landbuild Ltd is a civil engineering contractor specialising in groundworks and drainage, operating across Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire and south-east England.

The company is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information.

This Privacy Policy explains how the company may collect, use and process personal information in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679), (GDPR). This policy applies to employees, workers, contractors, suppliers and clients.

By providing us with personal information it is agreed that we will use that information as set out in this policy. We endeavour to keep the amount of personal information we use to the minimum.

Landbuild Ltd is a “data controller”. This means the company are responsible for deciding how we hold and use your personal information. The company have agreements with individuals and organisations we work with, these may take the form of formal written agreements with Privacy Notices published.

This Privacy Policy does not form part of any contract of employment or any other contract to provide services.

What do we use your personal information for?

Personal information, or personal data, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. There are “special categories” of more sensitive personal data which require a higher level of protection. Personal information may include, but is not limited to name, date of birth, gender, marital status, NI number, employment details, copy driving licence, photograph etc. Special categories or more sensitive personal data are details such as medical health status, religion, biometric data, etc.

We will only use your personal information, when the law allows us, to perform tasks which we have your consent to do so; a legal obligation to carry out and/or is in the individual’s legitimate interest. These legal bases for processing personal data are defined by the GDPR data processing principles. Some of the bases for processing will overlap and there may be several grounds which justify our use of your personal information.

We will only use your personal information 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.

Information we collect through Cookies and similar technologies

Like most websites, this site uses Google Analytics (GA) to track user interaction. We use this data to determine the number of people using our site, to better understand how they find and use our web pages and to see their journey through the website.

Although GA records data such as your geographical location, device, internet browser and operating system, none of this information personally identifies you to us. GA also records your computer’s IP address which could be used to personally identify you, but Google do not grant us access to this. We consider Google to be a third-party data processor.

GA makes use of cookies, details of which can be found on Google’s developer guides. Our website uses the analytics.js implementation of GA.

Disabling cookies on your internet browser will stop GA from tracking any part of your visit to pages within this website. In addition to Google Analytics, this website may collect information (held in the public domain) attributed to the IP address of the computer or device that is being used to access it.

Who we may share personal information with

We may share personal information with relevant third parties in the normal execution of our business and management of employees. As mentioned, we have agreements with all third parties providing assurance that personal information is processed in accordance with GDPR or prevailing data protection laws.

Where do we send personal information?

The company operate only within the United Kingdom. In the event personal information is processed in other countries, including those outside of the EEA (European Economic Area), we take care to ensure that this processing is carried out by organisations on terms which safeguard the security of the personal information. The company have no plans to operate outside of the United Kingdom.

What we will not do with your personal information

The company will not share personal information with any third-parties for marketing purposes.

How is personal information kept secure?

The security of personal information is very important to the company and we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect personal information. Personal information is held in accordance with GDPR, which require that appropriate technical and/or organisational measures are in place.

The company have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal information to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected data security breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected breach where we are legally required to do so.

How long will we hold personal information for?

The company will hold personal information for as long as is necessary for the purpose(s) it is intended, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, accounting or reporting requirements. At the point where it is no longer appropriate to retain the personal information, data will be safely and securely deleted and/or destroyed, in accordance with GDPR.
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.

What are someone’s rights regarding personal information?

Individuals have the rights of access, correction, erasure and restriction over their personal information, please contact info@landbuild.co.uk should you wish to evoke your rights. The company may make a small charge for collating your information.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

This policy is effective as of 01 April 2018 and will remain in effect until such a time as the policy is reviewed and a new version published.

The company reserve the right to update or change this Privacy Policy at any time and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically on our website. Continued use of our services, post any modifications to the Privacy Policy, will constitute your acknowledgement of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.

Further information about GDPR can be found on the Information Commissioner’s Office website. Please visit www.ico.org.uk

Should you require any further information regarding this policy please contact us at info@landbuild.co.uk.

Mark Windus
Managing Director
01 April 2018

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