We want you to know that we take privacy very seriously here at Surrey Care Association. We promise to always manage your data securely and responsibly.
This policy explains what information we collect and process, the reasons we collect this, how we use it and how you can check and update any of your personal information.
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, “we” means Surrey Care Association. In compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you can view and edit your personal information that may be stored within our records by clicking here.
Our contact details
Name: Surrey Care Association
Postal Address: SCA, The Atrium, 4 Curtis Road, Dorking, Surrey RH4 1XA
Registered Address: The White House, 2 Meadrow, Godalming, Surrey, GU7 3HN
Phone Number:01306 868526
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.surreycare.org.uk
The type of personal information we collect
We currently collect and process the following information:
- Names of SCA members’ staff who wish to receive information from SCA
- Job titles
- Contact details, including emails, work addresses and telephone numbers
How we get the personal information and why we have it
- Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you for one of the following reasons:
- You register to be a Member of Surrey Care Association
- You make changes to, or close Membership with us
- You provide information so that we can send you our bulletins or invite you to events and meetings
- You get in touch with us to ask something
- You register for or buy products from us, such as conferences, policy and procedure packs
- You enter our annual Awards ceremony
- You go to our website and raise queries through our contact functions
- You attend any of our networks, training workshops, conferences and events
- You apply for a job with us online, via social media streams or through recruitment agencies
We may also receive personal information indirectly, from the following sources in the following scenarios:
- Your employer/manager or work colleague provides us with your contact information so that we can provide you with information about our services, activities and relevant opportunities.
- SCA’s commercial partners and supporters may provide us with contact details if you are a customer of theirs and they feel you might be interested in our services and activities
How we use your information
We use the information that you have given us in order to keep in touch with you and to supply and improve our benefits and services. We will also use your information to tell you about benefits and services that we think may interest you.
In particular, this means using your information to:
- Manage your Membership
- Send you Newsletter and E-Bulletin communications
- Arrange payments for our benefits and services
- Get in touch with you (e.g. if we need to tell you about any problems related to your Membership)
- Manage our database and your information kept on our database
- Look into any complaints or questions you may raise
- Trace and recover debts, and manage any credits owed to us
- Tell you if we’ve changed the way a benefit works or tell you about a new benefit that we think may interest you.
- Check what you’re interested in, so we can offer (and develop) relevant benefits and services
- Improve our benefits and services and develop new ones
- Send you information about our benefits and services (or those from selected Commercial Partners we think you’d be interested in) by post, email, picture message, online banner advertising, or other ways.
We may share this information with:
- Our Commercial Partners and Commercial Members or consultants/ contractors who help us run our services, for example our awards events and conferences.
- Commercial Partners and Commercial members whose products and services we promote to you
The information shared will usually be limited to your company/ organisation name. Information including business emails or mobile telephone numbers may only be shared with our commercial partners/supporters where you have given permission e.g. at a conference, event or at a partner’s workshop.
Lawful bases for processing your information
Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are:
- We have a contractual obligation.
- We have a legitimate interest.
We might also share your information:
- Where we have a legal obligation to do so: To meet requests from a public authority or law enforcement agency (if they ask for it in the prescribed format, or to prevent a crime); to comply with law or regulations, or for possible legal proceedings; if one of our partners who are processing information for us are compelled to do so by law.
- If there is a vital interest to do so: where we need safeguard or protect you or other people who we reasonably believe to be at risk
We do not rely on the lawful basis of consent, but this does not mean you cannot ask us to remove your personal information at any time.
How we store your personal information
Your information is securely stored. Our systems are secure and password protected.
We keep your personal information that comprises name, job title, email address, work telephone numbers and work address for the duration of your time as a member of SCA. (For paid employees this is for the time you work for an organisation that is a member of SCA)
Where you are/ have been a key contact for financial purposes we will hold financial records for 6 years.
We will then dispose your information by deleting records from our data base and mailing and email lists.
Where paper records are held we will shred them and / or arrange for their secure disposal through a certificated company.
Your data protection rights
Under data protection law, you have rights including:
Your right of access – You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
Your right to rectification – You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
Your right to erasure – You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to object to processing – You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to data portability – You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.
You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.
Please contact us at [email protected] if you wish to make a request.
Benefit mailing communications
If you don’t want us to send you our bulletins, relevant offers or marketing or promotional information, you can opt-out at anytime via the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our benefit mailing communications.
You can also opt-out of receiving our communications by calling us on 01306 868 529. We’re open Monday – Friday, 9am-5.30pm.
How to check and update your company information
In order for us to release the information we hold for your company on our database, we will require your request in writing on company letter headed paper, and a signature from Management. This is so we can verify that we are releasing your company information to the relevant individual/s. Please send this request to:
Surrey Care Association, The Atrium, 4 Curtis Road, Dorking, Surrey, RH4 1XA.
You can also check the information we display under ‘Find a Care Service’ by visiting our website www.surreycare.org.uk.
How to complain
If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at [email protected]
You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.
The ICO’s address:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Helpline number: 0303 123 1113
ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk