EcoAct is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Looking after your personal data is important to us. We want you to be confident that your data is safe and secure with us, and you understand how we use it.
We are committed to doing the right thing when it comes to how we collect, use and protect your personal data, that’s why we’ve developed this privacy notice which:
This notice also applies to information we collect about people who use our services and our website.
EcoAct are both a data controller and a data processor under the new General Data Protection Regulation.
By post: Data Protection Officer, EcoAct, Second Floor, 80 Victoria Street, London SW1E 5JL
By email: ukoffice@eco-act.com
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Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable living person. EcoAct processes personal data for numerous purposes, and the means of collection, lawful basis of processing, use, disclosure, and retention periods for each purpose may differ.
When you register with us or enquire about our services, you will provide us with personal data. Given the diversity of the services we provide to our clients, we process many categories of personal data, including as appropriate for the services we are providing:
When we collect personal data we are known as the ‘controller’ and when our clients supply data we are the ‘processor’. When acting as a ‘processor’ we will manage on your behalf the personal information you require from your clients.
Our policy is to collect only the personal data necessary for agreed purposes and we ask our clients to only share personal data where it is needed for those purposes.
EcoAct wants to provide the best service experience; we therefore gather this data to understand your needs and personalise our service, thus providing you with a better service experience. The information may be used for:
EcoAct may contact you by email, phone, SMS or mail. The lawful basis on which we process data for this purpose will be different depending on the reason for the contact.
In all the below scenario’s ‘consent’ means that consent which is willingly and knowingly given having understood the terms of this privacy notice.
If you are enquiring about our services we will use either ‘consent’ or ‘contract’ in order to fulfil your request for information
As an active customer which means currently engaged on one or more projects we will use ‘consent’ and ‘contract’
As an inactive customer which means no longer engaged on a project we will use ‘consent’ or ‘legitimate interest’
EcoAct will as a minimum keep your information for as long as we are providing you a service or are likely to provide a service due to an enquiry we have received.
We review the need to hold personal data on an annual basis. Any personal data, physical or electronic, that no longer needs to be maintained for the purposes of meeting our legal or regulatory obligations will be reviewed and when appropriate securely destroyed.
Where data is processed solely for marketing purposes, any information we use for this purpose will be kept until you notify us that you no longer wish to receive this information, or until the data is deleted following annual review, whichever is earliest.
As part of ensuring we are providing the right services to you we may use your data to pursue our legitimate interests in a way which would reasonably be expected as part of running our business and supplying services, this will be done in a way that does not materially impact your rights, freedom or interests. For example, we may use information on the services and products supplied historically to you to support or make available appropriate new offerings.
We may also use your address details to post out direct marketing materials telling you about products and services that we think may be of interest to you.
You may choose to opt out of any marketing communications at any time by any of the following methods:
Should you prefer to use royal mail:
Note that unsubscribing does not imply the deletion of your data. To exercise your right to be forgotten and have your data deleted see the ‘How to exercise your Rights’ section at the end of this notice.
We will not normally ask you for sensitive personal data as defined under law as ‘special category information’ and specifically in Article 9 of the GDPR.
In the event you are required to attend our site it may benefit you to notify us of any health condition or disability you have so that we are aware of these conditions and how they affect you. This will allow us to take any reasonable steps to accommodate specific needs or requirements you have when hosting you. This type of information is known under the law as ‘special category information’ (or ‘sensitive personal data’) and we require your explicit consent to process this information. This data will only be kept as long as it is required for this purpose, or until such time as you notify us you no longer consent to its processing.
EcoAct works with several agencies and carefully selected service providers that carry out certain functions on our behalf to support the services we provided to you. These include, for example, companies that help us with technology services and also payment processing. We only share personal data that enables the agencies and our service providers to provide their services and it will always be shared in a secure and appropriate manner.
We may share personal data with other organisations in the following circumstances:
This section sets out some of the measures we have in place to secure personal data:
Under data protection legislation, you have several rights regarding the use of
your personal data, as follows:
As a data subject you have the right to obtain confirmation from the data controller as to whether or not personal data concerning you is being processed. You also have the right to obtain from us free information about your personal data stored at any time, and a copy of this information. Furthermore, you have the right to obtain information as to whether personal data is transferred to a third country or to an international organisation. Where this is the case, you also have the right to be informed of the appropriate safeguards relating to the transfer.
You have the right to ask us to rectify inaccurate data or to complete any incomplete personal data that we hold. You have the right to ask us to erase your personal data without delay where one of the statutory grounds applies, so long as the processing is not necessary. If you request us to erase your personal data, then this means that our business relationship will end as we cannot provide our service without processing your data.
If you exercise your ‘Right to be Forgotten’, then all personal data stored will be deleted. This means that you may be contacted again in the event that you re-connected with us via web, phone or email and/or your details are given to us by a third party.
You have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data under certain circumstances, including if you have contested its accuracy and while this is being verified by us, or if you have objected to its processing and while we are considering whether we have legitimate grounds to continue to do so. You have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time, to the processing of personal data concerning you.
You also have the right for certain data you have given us to be provided to you in a structured and commonly used electronic format (for example, a .csv file), so that you can move, copy or transfer this data easily to another data controller. You may also request that we transmit this data directly to another organisation where it is practical for us to do so.
You have the right not to be subjected to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling. EcoAct do not process any personal data in this way.
If you wish to contact us in respect of any of the Rights described above, please use the contact details below.
Post:
Data Protection Officer, EcoAct, Second Floor, 80 Victoria Street, London SW1E 5JL
We will normally respond to your request free of charge and within 30 days’
If you wish to raise a complaint about how we have handled your personal data, including in relation to any of the rights outlined above, you can contact us on the details at the start of this notice and we will investigate the matter for you. If you are not satisfied with our response, or believe we are processing your data unfairly or unlawfully, you can complain to the supervisory authority:
Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire,
SK9 5AF.
You can find further information about the ICO and their complaints
procedure here: https://ico.org.uk/concerns/
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