Website Privacy Notice

This privacy notice explains how the Inverclyde Advice and Employment Rights Centre (IAERC) will use your personal information and your rights under data protection legislation.

It is important that you read this notice prior to providing your information.

Who will process my personal information?

The IAERC is the organisation responsible for your personal data in terms of data protection legislation (the data controller).

If you have any questions regarding the handling of your personal data, or your rights, please contact the admin team by emailing contact@adviceatworkscotland.org.

How we use your information

We have set out below: how and why we will use your information; where we obtain your data; how we will use your information; and who it is shared with. For each type of processing, we are required to identify our ‘lawful basis for processing’ – see Appendix 1.

This notice covers personal data collected via the IAERC’s website (www.adviceatworkscotland.org), e.g. if you submit a callback request.

If you have any queries regarding the use of your personal data via the website please contact contact@adviceatworkscotland.org.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites run by other organisations. This privacy policy applies only to our website. We are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other sites, even if you access them using links from our website.

Is my data secure?

Your personal data will be managed securely. Access will be restricted to only those staff who require it and on a ‘need to know’ basis. The IAERC will employ any technical and organisational measures necessary to protect your data.

How long will we keep your personal data?

When we collect or process your personal data, we’ll only keep it for as long as is necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.

At the end of that retention period, your data will either be deleted or anonymised.

Your rights

Under data protection legislation, you have a number of rights* including the right to:

• withdraw consent, at any time, where that is the lawful basis of our processing;
• access your personal data and obtain a copy, free of charge;
• rectify inaccuracies in personal data that we hold about you;
• erasure, that is have your details removed from systems that we use to process your personal data;
• restrict the processing in certain ways;
• obtain a portable copy of data you have given to us in a commonly used electronic form; and
• object to certain processing of your personal data by us.

*Please note that the ability to exercise these rights will vary and depend on the lawful basis under which the processing is being carried out.

Please contact contact@adviceatworkscotland.org if you wish to exercise/enquire about any of these rights.

Complaints

If you wish to make a complaint about how we have handled your personal data, you can contact the Manager, Jim McCourt on 01475 888039.

If you are not satisfied with our response or believe we are not processing your personal data in accordance with the law, you also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (https://ico.org.uk/concerns/).