Data Protection Statement
This statement confirms Brighton & Hove Business Crime Reduction Partnership’s commitment to protect your privacy and to process your personal information in a manner which meets the requirements of the Data Protection Act 1998 (‘the Act’).
PRIVACY NOTICE (MEMBERS)
1. This document explains what the Brighton & Hove Business Crime Reduction Partnership (the BCRP) is, why it processes its Members’ personal data, and the lawful basis for that processing. It describes the kind of personal data about Members that the BCRP is allowed to process, and what the BCRP can do with it.
2. Contact details
Brighton & Hove BCRP
PO Box 5398
Brighton BN50 8GQ
Email address: donotreply@bcrpbrighton.com
Tel: 01273 733393
3. The Scheme’s Data Controller is responsible for ensuring its compliance with current Data Protection law and can be contacted at the above address, email address or telephone number. The Scheme is registered with the Information Commissioners Office as a Business Crime Reduction Partnership.
Purpose of processing personal data
4. The Scheme processes Members’ personal data for the following purposes:
a. to enable the efficient management of the BCRP; to manage the membership of the BCRP including subscriptions where relevant; invitations to the Scheme’s meetings and training opportunities where relevant etc;
b. to defend and indemnify the BCRP in case of any Member’s non-compliance with the Scheme’s Rules & Protocols;
c. to enable the Scheme to communicate efficiently to Members by sending news, alerts and documents, and information about events which are relevant, to them.
Lawful basis of processing
5. The Scheme’s existing contract/agreement between itself and its Members requires that Members provide their name, postal and email addresses, telephone etc to the Scheme. This contract/agreement means that the Scheme’s lawful basis for processing Members’ personal data is ‘contract’ and therefore the Scheme can process Members’ personal data without their further consent.
Categories and types of personal data processed
6. Name of a contact person, name and place of employment, postal and email addresses, telephone and other contact details will be processed;
7. No sensitive or ‘special category’ personal data (ethnicity, sexuality, religious beliefs etc) is processed by the Scheme for the purposes of administering the membership.
Sources of personal data
8. The Scheme obtains Members’ personal data from existing contracts/agreements with Members;
9. Members may themselves update their personal data.
Recipients of Members’ personal data
10. The Scheme’s Board of Management, Data Controller , authorised BCRP staff and formally contracted Data Processors may access Members’ personal data;
11. Members’ personal data will not be passed to any third party unless to the police under warrant or with the expressed permission of the Member;
12. The Scheme will not transfer Members’ personal data outside the UK.
Data retention period
13. The Scheme will retain Members’ personal data only for as long as each Member remains a Member of the Scheme; when a Member ceases to be a Member of the Scheme he/she must confirm this with the Scheme’s Board of Management as specified in the Scheme’s Rules & Protocols at which time all associated personal data will be irrevocably deleted.
14. In the case of submitted reports, the submitting Member’s email address only will continue to be associated with such reports for as long as the report is retained by the Scheme; this is required where a report may be used for evidential purposes in legal proceedings.
Members’ rights
15. Members can obtain a copy of all their personal data held by the Scheme; Members may access this at any time on the Scheme’s online system (My Account) or may be obtained on application to the Data Controller (see Contact Details above).
16. Members can correct any erroneous data at any time on the Scheme’s online system (My Account) or may require the Scheme to correct any errors on their behalf.
17. At the conclusion of their Membership, Members’ personal data will be irrevocably deleted by the Scheme with the exception of email addresses associated with Incident reports (see Data Retention Period above) and may require the data Controller to confirm such deletion. Members have the right to complain about the Scheme to the Information Commissioners at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/handling/
Disclaimer
The Brighton & Hove BCRP seeks to ensure that all information on this website is accurate However, Brighton & Hove BCRP and its employees and officers cannot accept any responsibility or liability for any claim, loss or damage whatsoever from the use of any information within, or accessed through, this website by third parties.