Introduction
This
privacy policy sets out how Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Enterprise
Partnership (CIoS LEP) uses and protects any information that you give CIoS LEP
when you use this website, in accordance with The General Data Protection Regulation
(EU) 2016/679.
CIoS LEP may change this policy
from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time
to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective
from 25/05/2018.
You can access our
website homepage and browse our site without disclosing your personal data.
There may be pages on the site that invite visitors to send information via
forms or email to enable you to ask for publications or information and advice,
or to tell us what you think about particular issues.
CIoS LEP takes
great care of any personal information you give us in this way and in the
following paragraphs we set out how any personal information you give us is
treated. If you choose to give us information about yourself you will be
consenting to the collection, processing and storage of the information you
provide for the purposes stated.
Before collecting
any personal details through its website, CIoS LEP will tell you why we need
the information, what it will be used for and how long we intend to keep your
information.
Withdrawing your consent
AT ANY TIME, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO WITHDRAW YOUR CONSENT FOR US TO
CONTACT YOU WITH INFORMATION ABOUT OUR SERVICES:
- You can
do this by emailing us via: info@cioslep.com
- Please
ensure the email is entitled: 'Please do not contact
me'
- Every
marketing email we send you will have an “unsubscribe” option
CIoS LEP ensures
that only staff who have a business reason to look at your information or data
can do so. They cannot look at your information or data for personal reasons or
out of curiosity. CIoS LEP employs other companies and individuals to do work
which may mean they have access to some personal information or data but they
have the same restrictions as our own staff and are never allowed to use it for
any other purpose. CIoS LEP will never sell personal information to third
parties. We only share personal data
with your consent unless we are required to do so by law or unless you have
told us you consent to our doing this.
Information you
provide will be stored by CIoS LEP and used to process the request; it will be
retained for a reasonable period (detailed below). Where a business transaction
is then enacted commercial records may be retained for up to seven years. CIoS
LEP has no way of knowing if any person providing information through this site
is who they say they are. CIoS LEP will assume all information is genuine and
cannot be held responsible for any action taken as a result of relying it. If
you have any reason to think someone has provided information to CIoS LEP using
your identity please let us know and we will correct or delete the information.
You have the right to request us to remove personal data from our website at
any time.
Cookies
A cookie is a small
file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Cookies
allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. They allow the web application
to tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and
remembering information about your preferences.
CIoS LEP uses a
number of different cookies on this site including core, functional cookies
that are required for the correct operation of the site and tracking cookies
that help us to monitor and improve the site for its users.
These are the types
of tracking cookies CIoS LEP uses and the purpose they serve:
Cookie Name
|
Validity
|
Source
|
Type
|
Use
|
Information Collected
|
_utma
|
2 years
|
Google Analytics
|
First-Party Cookie
|
Used to distinguish users
|
No personal information. Browsing statistics.
|
_utmb
|
30 minutes
|
Google Analytics
|
First-Party Cookie
|
Used to identify a new session
|
No personal information. Identifies the beginning
of a visit.
|
_utmc
|
End of browser session
|
Google Analytics
|
First- Party Session Cookie
|
Used to identify the end of a browser session
|
No personal information. Identifies the end of a
visit.
|
_utmz
|
6 months
|
Google Analytics
|
First-Party Cookie
|
Used to indicate the user’s traffic source.
|
No personal information. This tells us what
referred you to our site e.g. Google Search, email campaign
|
_utmv
|
2 years
|
Google Analytics
|
First-Party Cookie
|
Used to collect custom variable data.
|
No personal information. When our site is set to
collect custom variable data at a visitor level.
|
We do not store any
third party advertising cookies.
If you are not
comfortable with us storing cookies, there are a couple of options that you can
take when using our site:
- Most web browsers will allow you to disable all cookies or just third
party cookies. Instructions on how to do this for various browsers can be found
here - https://www.aboutcookies.org/. If you completely disable cookies our
website may not function as intended.
- You can browse our site using your browser’s anonymous browsing mode,
for example Chrome's ‘incognito’ mode or Internet Explorer's ‘inPrivate
browsing’ mode. This will prevent the site from reading any older cookies, or
storing any cookies for longer than your session duration.
Links to other websites
Our website may
contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these
links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over
that other website.
Therefore, we
cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which
you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this
privacy statement.
You should exercise
caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in
question.
Information
in more detail:
Who will control my data?
Data Protection Officer, 4N, New County Hall, Treyew Road, Truro, TR1 3AY
Email: dpo@cornwall.gov.uk
The Data Controller for all the information you provide to the Local Enterprise Partnership including via this website is Cornwall Council, New County Hall, Treyew Road, Truro TR1 3AY. Data Protection Registration Number: Z1745294
In addition the LEP uses a third party agency: DCA PR and Marketing Agency, Unit 10 Cargo, 37 George Place, Plymouth, PL1 3DX who holds and maintains our newsletter subscriber list.
There’s something I don’t understand
If you need help in understanding this
policy, please contact the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Enterprise
executive team on telephone number 01872 224214 or by emailing info@cioslep.com
How we will use the information about you
The information you provide to us will
be used to provide you with updates about the LEP, its activities, events and
announcements.
The lawful basis we rely on to process your information is consent. If you carry out a business transaction with us, we process your data for the performance of a contract or to take steps to enter into a contract.
Why do you need my information?
You have asked us provide you with updates about the LEP, its activities, events and announcements so we may hold some or all of the data below on you in order to keep you up to date. Without them we will not be able to provide you with the update.
- Salutation
- First name
- Middle name
- Last name
- Organisation name
- Organisation address
- Job title
- Email
- Phone number
- Secondary phone number
- Job type
Who else will we share your information with?
We share information with other organisations in order to facilitate events to help promote business growth in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. The organisations we share your contact information with are:
- Economic Growth (Cornwall Council)
- The European Growth Programme Communications
team (Cornwall Council)
- The Growth and Skills Hub and Invest in
Cornwall (both Cornwall Development Company projects)
- DCA PR and Marketing Agency (our PR and
marketing agency)
- Department for Business, Energy &
Industrial Strategy
- The LEP Network
Your data will be held within Cornwall Council’s secure network and premises and will not be processed outside of the EEA. Access to your information will only be made to authorised members of staff who are required to process it for the purposes outlined in this privacy notice.
Our sub-contractor(s) detailed in this
privacy notice will also maintain the same levels of security that we do which
are set out in the contract we have with them.
How long will you keep this information for?
- 4 years from the date that you provided the
information
- 7 years from the date of a business
transaction with us
What are
my data rights?
Your personal information belongs to you
and you have the right to:
- be informed of how we will process it
- request a copy of what we hold about you and
in commonly used electronic format if you wish (if you provided this to us
electronically for automated processing, we will return it in the same way)
- have it amended if it’s incorrect or
incomplete
- have it deleted (where we do not have a legal
requirement to retain it)
- withdraw your consent if you no longer wish us
to process
- restrict how we process it
- object to us using it for marketing or
research purposes
- object to us using it in relation to a legal
task or in the exercise of an official authority
- request that a person reviews an automated
decision where it has had an adverse effect on you
How do I
exercise these rights?
If you would like to access any of the
information we hold about you or have concerns regarding the way we have
processed your information, please contact:
Data Protection Officer, 4N, New County Hall, Treyew Road, Truro, TR1 3AY
Email: dpo@cornwall.gov.uk
I don’t agree with something
We would prefer any complaints to be
made to us initially so that we have the opportunity to see if we can put
things right. However, if you are unhappy with the way we have processed your
information or how we have responded to your request to exercise any of your
rights in relation to your data, you can raise your concerns direct with the
Information Commissioner’s
Office Tel No. 0303 123 1113 https://ico.org.uk/concerns/