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UBT | PRIVACY POLICY


1 Introduction

This Privacy Policy applies to:

This Policy explains:

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most current version will be posted on our website https://www.ubteam.co.uk/ where this will be updated. It will be effective from the date of posting. It is your responsibility to check our website from time to time in order to determine whether there have been any changes.

2 The kind of Personal Data we collect

Personal Data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. An identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person (Personal Data).

Sensitive data is Personal Data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, and the processing of genetic data, biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person, data concerning health or data concerning a natural person’s sex life or sexual orientation (Sensitive Data).

The types of Personal Data we collect about you depends on the circumstances in which that information is collected, and can include data collected through our volunteers. The kinds of Personal Data we collect and hold includes:

3 How we collect Personal Data

3.1 Personal Data generally

We collect, Personal Data about you for the following reasons: (1) the collection is necessary for us to provide our services; (2) it is in our legitimate interest to collect this data for the purposes of providing the services; (3) the collection is necessary for us to comply with our legal obligations or applicable law; or (4) we have consent, where applicable or required under law.

We will generally collect your Personal Data from you directly. There are however, circumstances in which we collect Personal Data from third party individuals, business entities and governmental agencies, such as signatories to the GAP Global Limited Amended and Restated Members Agreement (GAP Global Members), courts, public and law enforcement agencies, and credit bureaus, regardless of whether such individual, business entity or governmental agency compiled the information itself or received it from other sources.

Where we collect Personal Data from a third party, we will handle that information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and any obligations we have to that third party.

If you provide to us Personal Data about another person, we are relying on you having addressed all relevant consents, notifications and other requirements to enable us to process the Personal Data for our purpose of collection.

We may collect Personal Data about prospective personnel, by conducting reference and background checks in relation to their application for employment with us from time to time, including searches for any criminal records, employment and education verifications, personal credit history based on reports from any credit bureau and searches of any public records.

3.2 Sensitive Data

We will only collect, use and disclose Sensitive Data about you where you have provided your explicit consent to the collection of that information, or where we are required or authorised by law to do so, for example where we conduct criminal records searches in relation to prospective personnel where this is necessary to carry out the obligations and to exercise specific rights in the field of employment and social security and social protection law as permitted by local data protection laws or where necessary for reasons of substantial public interests as permitted by local data protection laws. Such Sensitive Data may in certain circumstances include biometric data such as biometric facial scans. In providing any consents to the collection or handling of Personal Data (including Sensitive Data), you consent to us collecting, holding, using and disclosing the information you provide in accordance with the terms of those consents and this Privacy Policy.

3.3 If your Personal Data is not provided

If you do not provide us with your Personal Data when requested, this may limit the assistance we are able to provide to you, including assistance we are contracted to provide on behalf of a third party. For example, we may not be able to provide the product and/or service you may have requested and may not be able to handle enquiries in connection with those products and/or services, or process your job application.

3.4 Cookies

Our website uses a technology called “cookies” and web server logs to collect information about how the website is used including, where available, your IP address, browser type and the geographical location of your computer. We also use Google Analytics to collect details of how you use our site, as well as anonymous data that you enter into our forms. We do this to help us analyse how visitors use our site (including behaviour patterns and the tracking of visits across multiple devices), administer our site and manage your account. Google Analytics doesn’t collect information that identifies a visitor to our site. All the information that is collected is anonymous and is only used to improve how our site works. We do not allow Google to make any attempt to establish the identities of any users of our site.

For details about how we use cookies, please see our Cookies Policy.

4 How we use and disclose Personal Data

4.1 General purposes

We collect, hold, use and disclose Personal Data about individuals for a variety of business purposes.

These include, without limitation, to:

We may also use and disclose Personal Data we collect for other purposes that are permitted, required or authorised by applicable law, such as:

4.2 Marketing

We will only use or disclose your Personal Data for the purposes of direct marketing (e.g. in relation to products and/or services we may offer from time to time) where we have your consent or we are otherwise permitted by law to do so.

You are free to opt out from receiving marketing communications from us, by:

4.3 Disclosure of Personal Data

In order to perform activities in connection with the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, we may make Personal Data available to other persons or entities, or disclose it to them, including:

We disclose this Personal Data for the following reasons: (1) the disclosure is necessary for us to provide our services; (2) it is in our legitimate interest to disclose this data for the purposes of providing our services; (3); the disclosure is necessary for us to comply with our legal obligations or applicable law; or (4) we have consent, where applicable or required under law.

We may disclose Personal Data to GAP Global Members and Required Recipients who are located in Australia, Argentina, the Caribbean, North America, Europe, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States, Canada.

Where we transfer your Personal Data outside the EEA or the United Kingdom, we have rules and steps put in place to make sure your personal data is kept safe and protected. Usually this means we’ll have standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission in our contracts with parties outside the EEA, or we will rely on European Commission adequacy decisions.

5 How we hold Personal Data

We hold Personal Data both electronically and in paper form.

We maintain administrative, technical and physical safeguards designed to protect Personal Data from misuse and loss, and unauthorised access, modification and disclosure.

We will process your Personal Data for as long as is necessary for the purpose(s) for which it is collected and processed. Unless the law requires otherwise or we need the Personal Data to establish, exercise or defend a legal claim, we take reasonable steps to destroy or permanently de-identify Personal Data if it is no longer required.

6 Your rights to your Personal Data

As provided by applicable data protection law, the following rights may apply for personal data collected, used and disclosed by us:

To exercise these rights, please contact us using the details in the Contact Us section below. Please include sufficient details so we can understand the nature of your requests. We may need to request personal data in order to verify identity. In some cases we may respond that a request will not be actioned where permitted or required under law.

7 Enquiries and complaints

If you wish to make an enquiry or complaint to us regarding privacy matters, you should contact us in writing using the contact details at the end of this Privacy Policy. We will endeavour to respond to your enquiry or complaint promptly. Please include sufficient details so that we can understand the nature of your enquiry. We may need to request personal data in order to verify your identity.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection supervisory authority.

8 Third party sites

Please remember that when you use a link to go from our website, platform or application to another website, this Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on any other website, including websites which are linked to our website, platform or application is subject to that website’s own rules and policies. We are not responsible for the content or the conduct of the organisations accessed via links to such third party websites.

9 Contact us

You may contact us in relation to privacy matters at:

All correspondence attention: Privacy Officer


Privacy Policy Dated: January 2021


Cookie Policy

Our website

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse the website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

Cookies

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

We use the following cookies:

  1. Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
  2. Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookie Name Purpose More Information
Google Analytics _utma _utmb _utmc _utmz These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. Click here to read Google’s overview of privacy and safeguarding data
Third Party Cookies

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

Blocking cookies and consequences of doing so

You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website

Contact Us

If you wish to contact us about this Cookie policy, please email our Privacy Officer at [email protected]