This Privacy Policy sets out how ‘The Social Housing Safety Network Scotland’ (which is owned and operated by Housing H&S Compliance UK Ltd), obtain, store and use your personal information when you use or interact with our website, www.scotlandsafetynetwork.scot or where we otherwise obtain or collect your personal information.
This Privacy Policy is effective from 29 January 2023 and explains in detail the types of personal data we may collect about you when you interact with us. It also explains how we’ll store and handle that data, and keep it safe.
We know that there’s a lot of information here, but we want you to be fully informed about your rights, and how ‘The Social Housing Safety Network Scotland’ and Housing H&S Compliance UK Ltd uses your data.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully – we hope the following sections will answer any questions you have but if not, please do get in touch with us.
Contents
- Summary
- How we collect or obtain personal information about you
- Personal information we collect or obtain about you
- How we use your personal information
- How long we retain your personal information
- How we secure your personal information
- Our use of cookies and similar technologies
- Your rights in relation to your personal information
- Your right to object to the processing of your personal information for certain purposes
- Changes to our Privacy Policy
- Changes to your information
- Our details
Summary
This summary provides an overview of how we obtain, store and use your personal information. It is intended to provide a very general overview only. It is not complete and must be read in conjunction with the corresponding full sections of this Privacy Policy.
- Data controller: Housing H&S Compliance UK Ltd
How we collect or obtain your information: when you provide it to us:
- By contacting us
- By becoming a member of the Network
- By booking and event or webinar
- By completion of training feedback records
- From your use of our website, using cookies
Contractual obligations
In certain circumstances, we need your personal data to comply with our contractual obligations. For example, when we agree membership or training requirements and set out contracts of delivery.
Legal compliance
If the law requires us to, we may need to collect and process your data.
For example, we can pass on details of people involved in criminal activity affecting The Network or Housing H&S Compliance UK Ltd to law enforcement.
Personal information we may collect:
- Name
- Contact details, including your organisation and email address
- IP address
- Information about your computer (cookies)
How we use your personal information:
- For administrative and business purposes
- Particularly to contact you
- To improve our business and website
- For advertising and analytical purposes
- In connection with our legal rights and obligations
Do we sell personal information to third parties:
No, we absolutely do not.
We do not share your personal data or information with anyone not connected with our organisation, unless we have your express written consent.
How long we retain your personal information:
For no longer than necessary, taking into account any legal obligations we have (e.g. to maintain records for tax purposes) and any other legal basis we have for using your personal information e.g. your consent, performance of a contract with you or our legitimate interests as a business.
How we secure your personal information:
We use appropriate technical and organisational measures such as storing your personal information on secure servers, our site has Secure Sockets Layer SSL .
Use of cookies:
We use cookies on our website including analytical cookies; these are small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping baskets, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics.
As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser or taking a look at the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers.
Your rights in relation to your personal information
- To access your personal information and to be informed about its use
- To correct your personal information
- To have your personal information deleted
- To restrict the use of your personal information
- To object to the use of your personal information
- To complain to a supervisory authority
- To withdraw your consent to the use of your personal information
Changes to your information
From time to time we will need to contact you. We use the methods listed below.
- Post
- Phone
- SMS
If you wish to change any information that we hold about you, require that it is deleted or you would like to remove consent for ‘The Network’ or Housing H&S Compliance UK Ltd to contact you, please email us at info@housingcompliance.co.uk with your full name.
Our details
The data controller in respect of ‘The Social Housing Safety Network Scotland’ website is Housing H&S Compliance UK Ltd (Company Number: 11343076, correspondence address; Craiglea Cottage, Glenisla, Blairgowrie, Perthshire, PH11 8PS, United Kingdom.
You can contact the data controller by writing to us at the above address or emailing us at info@housingcompliance.co.uk