Privacy Policy

INTRODUCTION
We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

Everyone has rights with regard to the way in which their personal information is handled. During the course of our activities we will collect, store and process personal information about our customers, suppliers and other third parties, and we recognise that the correct and lawful treatment of this data will maintain confidence in the organisation and will provide for successful business operations.

This policy sets out the basis on which any personal information we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us.  Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal information and how we will treat it.

This privacy notice is issued on behalf of the BCA Group so when we mention "we", "us" or "our" in this privacy notice

DATA PROTECTION PRINCIPLES
When processing your information, we must comply with the six enforceable principles of good practice. These provide that your personal information must be:

processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner,
processed for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes,
adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary,
accurate and kept up-to-date,
kept for no longer than is necessary, and
processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security.

INFORMATION YOU GIVE TO US
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal information about you, including:

Identity Data, such as your name
Contact Data, such as your home address, email address and telephone numbers,
Transaction Data, including details about payments from you, and other details of products and services you purchase from us,
Company Data, including the name of the organisation you represent, and that organisation’s Contact .
Technical Data, including IP addresses, your log-in 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,
Profile Data, such as your username, password, purchases or orders made by you,

HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may obtain personal information by directly interacting with you, such as:

creating an account on our website,
entering into an agreement with us for products or services,
subscribing to our services or publications, or otherwise requesting marketing material to be sent to you, or
corresponding with us by phone, email, letters or otherwise.
We may obtain personal information via automated technology when you interact with our website by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies.

THE LEGAL BASIS FOR OUR USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We will only use your personal information when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal information in the following circumstances:

We will only use your personal information for the purpose(s) 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 we need to use your personal information 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 information without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.

KEEPING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION SECURE
All information you provide to us is stored on our secure server

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. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they 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.

AUTOMATED DECISION-MAKING
We do not use automated decision-making processes.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
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 are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.

CHANGES TO OUR POLICY
Any changes we make to our policy in the future will be posted on our website.