PRIVACY POLICY
We are committed to protecting your privacy and personal data. We do not sell, trade or rent your personal information to others. Your personal data will not be disclosed to any third party without your consent, unless required by law. It’s very important to us and we respect anyone’s concerns about what we have and how it is used. This statement tells you how and why we use your information when you visit our website; our offices; attend an event we’ve organised; or apply for a job as well as how we manage the personal data of other business contacts and third parties.
Any questions regarding this Policy and our privacy practices should be sent by email to the Practice Manager at studio@boxxdesign.co.uk
How do we collect information about you?
Website
You can visit our website without providing any personal information, however we may automatically collect IP addresses, information about your visit and how you use our website.
You may provide us with information by corresponding with us by phone, email, or otherwise as indicated on our website.
Our website uses Google Analytics to help analyse how you use this website. We use the anonymised data to help improve your online experience when using Boxx Design Studio. Opting out of using cookies can impact your website performance and use of certain online features.
BOXX Design Studio is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any other websites linked to this website. If you have followed a link from the website to another website you may be supplying information to a third party yourself. We recognise that the products of our designs will have far more environmental impact than our own operation therefore we are further committed to exercising our professional skills in such a way as to minimise environmental impact in so far as this is possible within the instructions received from our Clients.
Visiting our Studio Space/s
When you visit our studio, you may be asked to provide your name and the company you work for. Visitor records are held for 12 months.
The purpose of holding this information is to:
Record supplier and contractor visits to ensure contract compliance.
To manage security within the building.
To manage fire evacuation procedures and records.
To enable our internal teams to analyse the use of the space and ensure the facilities remain appropriate and relevant.
Events
When you are attending a BOXX Design Studio event you will be asked for your name and the company you work for and you may be provided with a name badge.
If you are visiting for an event which is being held in our studio you will be asked for your name and the company you work for. You may also be provided with a name badge, if appropriate for the event.
There is a high chance that there will be photographers at the event and if that is the case you will have been informed beforehand and your consent sought for your photograph to be taken. If this is the case, photography may subsequently be used on our social media sites and publications. Who will it be shared with?
We will not share your information with third parties for any reason other than those specified above.
Your rights
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal information. You can exercise your right by contacting us.
Our website contains links to a number of websites that may offer useful information to our visitors. Please note, that if you follow the link to any of these websites this privacy statement does not apply and we do not accept responsibility or liability for their policies.
You also have the right to see and correct data that we hold about you. If your details change or any other information we hold is inaccurate or out of date, please let your direct contact at BOXX Design Studio know or contact studio@boxxdesign.co.uk
Security
BOXX Design Studio will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to ensure that your personal information is treated securely. We will store all personal information you provide on our secure servers.
We use a “least privilege access to data“ approach, restricting access to only those who need to so they can discharge their duties.
In addition, we have deployed a number of systems to ensure your data remains safe, these include:
An incident detection, response and user behaviour analytic system running looking for unusual data access or user behaviour.
Carry out vulnerability testing on all desktops to ensure that no known issues exist that would allow applications to be hijacked.
A program of monthly patch management, this ensures desktops and servers stay up to date with latest security patches.
We use firewalls to protect our network boarders, to stop our data being breached.
All desktops run antivirus and anti-ransomware software.
Taking regular backups
16 or Under
We do not collect any personally identifiable information from children aged 16 or under without prior verifiable consent from his parent/guardian.
Data Breaches and reporting
If it becomes apparent that a potential data breach has occurred, the Company will endeavour to report this to the ICO within 72 hours of becoming aware of the data breach. This will be the case if the data breach is likely to result in damage to a person’s reputation, financial loss, loss of confidentiality, or major financial or social disadvantage. If the breach is likely to result in a high risk to the rights and freedoms of the data subject, the Company will also contact the data subject without undue delay.
Data breaches will be reported to the Information Commissioner Office (ICO)
Job Applicants
As part of any recruitment process, the organisation collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. The organisation is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and to meeting its data protection obligations.
What information does BOXX Design Studio collect?
The organisation collects a range of information about you. This includes:
Your name, address and contact details, including email address and telephone number.
Details of your qualifications, skills, experience and employment history including your CV/portfolio.
Details of your referees.
Information about your current level of remuneration, including benefit entitlements.
Whether or not you have a disability for which the organisation needs to make reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process.
Information about your entitlement to work in the UK.
Equal opportunities monitoring information, including information about your ethnic origin, sexual orientation, health and religion or belief.
The organisation collects this information in a variety of ways. For example, data might be contained in application forms, CVs or resumes, obtained from your passport or other identity documents, or collected through interviews or other forms of assessment.
The organisation will also collect personal data about you from third parties, such as references supplied by former employers, information from employment background check providers and information from criminal records checks. The organisation will seek information from third parties only once consent has been granted by you.
Data will be stored in a range of different places, including on your application record, in HR management systems and on other IT systems (including email).
Why does the organisation process personal data?
The organisation needs to process data to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract with you. It also needs to process your data to enter into a contract with you.
In some cases, the organisation needs to process data to ensure that it is complying with its legal obligations. For example, it is required to check a successful applicant’s eligibility to work in the UK before employment starts.
The organisation has a legitimate interest in processing personal data during the recruitment process and for keeping records of the process. Processing data from job applicants allows the organisation to manage the recruitment process, assess and confirm a candidate’s suitability for employment and decide to whom to offer a job. The organisation may also need to process data from job applicants to respond to and defend against legal claims.
Where the organisation relies on legitimate interests as a reason for processing data, it has considered whether or not those interests are overridden by the rights and freedoms of employees or workers and has concluded that they are not.
The organisation processes health information if it needs to make reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process for candidates who have a disability. This is to carry out its obligations and exercise specific rights in relation to employment.
Where the organisation processes other special categories of data, such as information about ethnic origin, sexual orientation, health or religion or belief, this is for equal opportunities monitoring purposes and your express consent will be requested.
If your application is unsuccessful, the organisation will keep your personal data on file for 12 months in case there are future employment opportunities for which you may be suited. If the organisation requires to keep your information for longer you will be asked for your consent. You are free to withdraw your consent at any time.
Who has access to data?
Your information will be shared internally for the purposes of the recruitment exercise. This includes members of the HR and recruitment team, interviewers involved in the recruitment process, managers in the business area with a vacancy and IT staff if access to the data is necessary for the performance of their roles.
The organisation will not share your data with third parties, unless your application for employment is successful and it makes you an offer of employment. The organisation will then share your data with [former employers to obtain references for you, employment background check providers to obtain necessary background checks.
The organisation will not transfer your data outside the European Economic Area.
How does the organisation protect data?
The organisation takes the security of your data seriously. It has internal policies and controls in place to ensure that your data is not lost, accidentally destroyed, misused or disclosed, and is not accessed except by the relevant employees of the organisation in the proper performance of their duties.
Job applications received via email are held securely on our email server, and only made available to the appropriate employees to perform their duties, for example HR and/or the hiring manager.
Applications are moved from email to a secure location on the network and a link made available to hiring managers so that applications are not emailed unnecessarily. All data access is strictly controlled using the least access privilege approach.
How long does the organisation keep data for?
If your application for employment is unsuccessful, the organisation will hold your data on file for twelve months after the end of the relevant recruitment process. At the end of that period [or once you withdraw your consent], your data is deleted or destroyed.
If your application for employment is successful, personal data gathered during the recruitment process will be transferred to your personnel file and retained during your employment. The periods for which your data will be held will be provided to you in a new privacy notice.
Your rights:
As a data subject, you have a number of rights. You can:
Access and obtain a copy of your data on request;
Require the organisation to change incorrect or incomplete data;
Require the organisation to delete or stop processing your data, for example where the data is no longer necessary for the purposes of processing;
Object to the processing of your data where the organisation is relying on its legitimate interests as the legal ground for processing; and
Ask the organisation to stop processing data for a period if data is inaccurate or there is a dispute about whether or not your interests override the organisation’s legitimate grounds for processing data.
If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at studio@boxxdesign.co.uk
If you believe that we have not complied with your data protection rights, you should take this it up with the Practice Manager. If after investigation you feel that your rights are still compromised, you can escalate this to the HR Director.
Data Breaches and reporting
If it becomes apparent that a potential data breach has occurred, the Company will endeavour to report this to the ICO within 72 hours of becoming aware of the data breach. This will be the case if the data breach is likely to result in damage to a person’s reputation, financial loss, loss of confidentiality, or major financial or social disadvantage. If the breach is likely to result in a high risk to the rights and freedoms of the data subject the Company will also contact the data subject without undue delay.
Data breaches will be reported to the Information Commissioner Office (ICO)
What if you do not provide personal data?
You are under no statutory or contractual obligation to provide data to the organisation during the recruitment process. However, if you do not provide the information, the organisation may not be able to process your application properly or at all.
Changes to our policy
Any updates or changes we make to our privacy policy will be posted on this webpage.
Contact
If you have any questions about this policy or you want to find out more about BOXX Design Studio’s approach to data security and GDPR, please email studio@boxxdesign.co.uk