Privacy Policy
The Surrey Training Group is committed to respecting and protecting the privacy of everyone we interact with. We recognise the importance of safeguarding the information shared with us. This policy explains how we collect and use your information during and after your relationship with us.
This policy also explains how we handle your personal information in connection with our websites, social media pages and all our printed and electronic communications.
In this policy references to Surrey Training Group or to ‘we’ or ‘us’ are to Surrey Training Group which is a limited company located at Rose Court, Rye Common Lane, Crondall, Farnham GU10 5DD.
What information do we collect?
We collect various personal information such as name, postal address, telephone number, email address, date of birth (where appropriate), information about your communication preferences and financial information (e.g. to pay you if you are working for us as a subcontractor). For training and employment purposes we may also collect information such as skills, previous training, proof of identity, emergency contacts, right to work and driving license details.
We collect this information only in connection with specific activities, such as newsletter circulation, training programs, when you work for us, ground rentals and calls/visits you may make to us.
The information is either needed to fulfil your request, for contractual reasons or to enable us to provide you with a more personalised service. You don’t have to disclose any of this information to browse our sites. However, if you choose to withhold the requested information, we may not be able to provide you with certain services.
The Surrey Training Group also uses cookies. Please refer to our ‘Cookie Policy’ below.
Where we collect your information?
We collect your personal information in a number of ways:
- When you provide it to us directly as part of enquiring about our services.
- When we collect it you use our website.
- When you either book or participate in one of our training services.
- When you engage with the construction services of the Surrey Training Group.
- When you work for us, either directly or as a subcontractor.
- When you drive a Natta registered/owned vehicle.
- For Health & Safety reasons (e.g. insurance claims, accident reports).
We occasionally buy data from third parties that relate to our business. This data relates to corporate and sole trader information. We will only use this data for role-related marketing purposes and we will always offer an opt-out.
When we work with third-party organisations to process your data in connection with proving your right to work in the UK, training requirements, insurance brokers, driving license checks, occupational health purposes, company vehicle tracking, or distributing newsletters, we agree with them to protect your privacy. These third parties are called data processors who provide elements of our service for us. We have contracts in place with our Data Processors. This means that they cannot do anything with your personal information unless we have instructed them to do it. They will not share your personal information with any organisation apart from us unless we have given our explicit permission to do this. They will hold it securely and retain it for the period we instruct. For more details on how they process your data, you can check their Privacy Policies on their websites. See our list below of who we work with in this way.
CCTV
We operate CCTV and disclose in accordance with the codes of practice issued by the Information Commissioner.
We have installed CCTV systems in some of our premises for the purposes of public and staff safety and crime prevention and detection. CCTV is installed on the outside of some of our buildings for the purposes of monitoring building security and crime prevention and detection. They are also installed in our training building for the purposes of public and staff safety. In all locations, signs are displayed notifying you that CCTV is in operation.
Images captured by CCTV will not be kept for longer than necessary, normally 2 weeks. However, on occasions, there may be a need to keep images for longer, for example when a crime is being investigated.
You have the right to see CCTV images of yourself and be provided with a copy of the images if requested.
We will only disclose images and audio to other authorised bodies who intend to use it for the purposes stated above. Images and audio will not be released to the media for entertainment purposes or placed on the internet for public viewing.
How will we use your personal information?
Personal information collected and processed by us may be used, for the following purposes:
- To update you on our activities and your relationship with the Surrey Training Group where we have a lawful basis to do so.
- To allow you to participate in interactive features on our website, when you choose to do so, e.g. we may help you complete forms by inserting your contact details for you to edit.
- To analyse and improve the services offered on our websites by providing you with the most user-friendly navigation experience we can for your computer or another internet device.
- To process your personal information for the purposes of customer analysis, assessment, profiling and direct marketing, on a personalised or aggregated basis, to help us with our activities and to provide you with the most relevant information.
- To develop our systems and relationships with you.
- To enrol you onto our training services.
- To track Natta registered/owned vehicles.
- When we are legally required to hold certain personal information to fulfil statutory obligations:
- The collection of Income Tax and transferring of Income Tax/PAYE information to HM Revenue & Customs.
- Bank details in connection with payments.
- For insurance reasons and accident reporting.
- To determine whether you have a valid driving license.
- Validating your right to work in the UK and for occupational health assessments.
- To record driver’s activities on Tachographs when using relevant vehicles.
- Administration and archiving including contacting you if we require further information to process your application form.
- Transferring your personal data to organisations we work with to achieve our objectives.
- We will also hold information about your details so that we can respect your preferences for being contacted by us.
Lawful Bases, Consent and Legitimate Interest
We have determined our lawful bases to process your data and this can be accessed by calling on 01252 851155 or sending an email to privacy@surreytg.co.uk.
Where possible we will endeavour to collect opt-in consent from you, specifically when we employ you or you train with us.
We rarely market directly to the public but we do conduct B2B marketing. In this case, we will ensure that the content of our marketing communication is of relevant interest to your employment role. We may send you information about our campaigning, construction activity, services, products, and other activities.
If we do not hold consent to process your data or contact you, we may use legitimate interest. This enables us, in certain circumstances, to process your data without having your prior consent or any other lawful basis. We have given due consideration to which types of processing fall within the legitimate interests of individuals.
We will always ensure the privacy rights of the individual are given due consideration and any potential harm is identified before processing data in this way via conducting a Legitimate Interest Assessment.
We will never pass on your details to other organisations to use for their own purposes unless it is of interest to you for your employment, training, payment-related reasons or is a statutory/contractual requirement.
If at any time you want to alter your preferences or request that we stop communicating with you please let us know by calling us on 01252 851155 or sending an email to privacy@surreytg.co.uk.
Telephone
We will not make marketing or sales calls to you (individual or B2B) if you are registered with the Telephone Preference Service (TPS) unless you have given us consent that you are happy to receive calls from us.
You may still receive other types of telephone calls, for administration purposes from us as long as they are not marketing or sales calls. We do not outsource any telephone calling so you will always be talking to us directly. We do not record or monitor telephone calls.
Who do we share information with?
We will never sell or rent your personal information to other organisations. We only disclose information when obliged to by law, for employment, for purposes of national security, taxation, accident reporting, right to work, vehicle tracking, criminal investigations and the following:
When we use other companies to provide services on our behalf, e.g. processing, mailing or delivering communications or orders, for employment reasons, training, answering customers’ questions about products or services, sending mail and emails, customer analysis, when using auditors/advisors or processing payments:
If we receive a complaint about any content you have posted or transmitted to or from our website or one of our social media accounts, to enforce or apply our Terms & Conditions or if we believe that we need to do so to protect and defend the rights, property or personal safety of Surrey Training Group, our website or our visitors and for other lawful purposes.
If we merge with another organisation to form a new entity, information may be transferred to the new entity.
We may disclose aggregate statistics about our site visitors, supporters, customers and sales to describe our services and operations to prospective partners, advertisers and other reputable third parties and for other lawful purposes, but these statistics won’t include any personally identifying information.
If we run an event in partnership with other named organisations (e.g. Charities) your details may need to be shared. We will be very clear about what will happen to your data when you register.
Storing your information
The information which you submit to us is sent to computers located in the UK and the European Union Area. This is necessary in order to process the information and to send you the information you have requested.
Information submitted by you may be transferred to/from other reputable third-party organisations as referred to earlier in this policy for processing your details and their computers, to the best of our knowledge, are also situated within the UK and European Union Area (EEA).
This will be done in accordance with guidance issued by the Information Commissioner’s Office. We only keep information for as long as we are allowed to in accordance with other legislation or relevant regulations.
If you cease your association with us, any personal information you supply to us will not be retained for longer than necessary and will be removed from our systems or securely disposed of in accordance with the requirements of our Data Protection Policy and our retention periods:
- HR/Staff – Records required 6 years after leaving unless still valuable
- Payroll – HMRC recommends 3 years for PAYE records after income year to which they relate or 3 years after employee leaves, unless still valuable (e.g. insurance reasons), in which case retained for 6 years + 1.
- Accounts – HMRC recommends 6 years from the end of the last company financial year they relate to.
- General Data – Historic data > 8 years is erased from our systems.
- Children
- If you are aged under 16, please ensure you obtain your parent/guardian’s consent before sending any personal information to any website or directly to the Surrey Training Group.
- Access to your own information/lodging a complaint
You can contact us anytime to change or update the details we hold or to lodge a complaint at the address below. You can also object to the way we use your data, you can restrict the way we process it and have a right to data portability. You can obtain a copy of your records (this is known as a Subject Access Request). We will, of course, ask you to confirm your identity.
If you would like to access your personal data held by the Surrey Training Group please apply in writing to Data Privacy Lead, Surrey Training Group, Rose Court, Rye Common Lane, Crondall, Farnham GU10 5DD, call us on 01252 851155 or send an email to privacy@surrreytg.co.uk.
Telephone
We will not make marketing or sales calls to you (individual or B2B) if you are registered with the Telephone Preference Service (TPS) unless you have given us consent that you are happy to receive calls from us.
You may still receive other types of telephone calls, for administration purposes from us as long as they are not marketing or sales calls. We do not outsource any telephone calling so you will always be talking to us directly. We do not record or monitor telephone calls.
Other websites
Our website contains hyperlinks to other websites. This Privacy policy only applies to this website so when you link to other websites you should read their own privacy policies.
Please let us know if a link is not working (use the ‘Contact Us ‘ link which can be found on our website).
In purchasing goods or services from any of the companies to which any of the Surrey Training Group sites links, you are forming a contract with the company(s) concerned (agreeing to their terms and conditions), not the Surrey Training Group.
Using our social media pages
While this statement covers our privacy practices and how we will use any information collected from our websites and social media pages, it doesn’t cover how providers of social media websites will use your information.
You should read the social media site’s privacy policies before adding any content to our social media pages. Make use of the social media site privacy settings and reporting mechanisms to control the way that your information is handled.
Posting content on our websites and social media pages
Remember that the internet provides instant worldwide access. Any information that you provide will be worldwide instantly.
Please don’t provide information about yourself or other people unless you’re sure you and they are happy to have it made public. In particular, don’t provide any information about others without their consent where that information might identify them, such as: –
- Names
- Tagged photos
- Location
Under no circumstances make public other peoples’ home addresses, email addresses or contact numbers.
We welcome positive comments and feedback about our company and services on social media. However, if you have a complaint please use the appropriate channels to Contact Us and we will do our best to resolve any issues in a timely manner.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to save your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Security
We have security measures in place to attempt to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of personal information under our control and these are documented in our internal Security Policy and Data Protection Policy. Whilst we can’t ensure or guarantee that loss, misuse or alteration of information won’t occur, we’ll use standard industry methods to prevent this.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information across the internet isn’t completely secure and whilst we do our best to try to protect the security of your information we can’t ensure or guarantee that loss, misuse or alteration of information won’t occur whilst you or we are transferring this information.
This Privacy Policy was updated in October 2024. This statement may change from time to time, for example, if the law around information changes or for operational purposes. We advise you to visit this page regularly to keep up to date with any changes.