Beckett Structural Ltd 

Privacy Notice For Clients

Please read this privacy notice carefully as it contains important information on who we are, how and why we collect, store, use, and share personal information. Also your rights in relation to your personal information and on how to contact us and other authorities.

Who We Are

Beckett Structural Ltd collects, uses and is responsible for certain personal information about you. When we do so, we are regulated under the General Data Protection Regulation which applies across the United Kingdom. We are responsible as controller of that personal information for the purposes of those laws.

The personal information we collect and use:

-  Information collected by us

-  In the course of us acting for you we may collect personal information from you relating to your name, address and contact details.

In some circumstances, where necessary, you may providers with more sensitive information concerning matters such as; your race, ethnic origin, religious or political beliefs, trade union membership, or sexual orientation.

Information collected from other sources:
We may also obtain personal information from other sources as follows:

- Estate agents;
- Accountants;
- Banks and financial organisations - Local Authorities                                                                                                                              
- Any other third party (For example, architects or engineers.)

The type of personal information we collect from other sources will vary depending on your instructions but may include the information listed above under the heading “information we collect”

How we use your personal information:

We use your personal information to carry out your instructions. This includes advising you and acting on your behalf.

Whether information has to be provided by you and if so why:

Personal information is required from you to enable us to carry out our contract with you. We will inform you at the point of collecting the information if you are legally obliged to provide information to us.

Who we share your personal information with:

We routinely share your personal information with the following third parties:

- Our accountant for the purpose of preparing our annual accounts and any future VAT returns. Information provided relates only to your personal details such as name and contact details.

- Local authorities and their authorised agents, for the purposes of carrying out your instructions where they require interaction with statutory bodies.

-  Building control bodies if required as part of our instruction.

-  HM revenue and customs, our regulator, or other authorities if required by applicable law.

- Other third parties, where sharing your personal information is necessary to carry out your instructions.

We will not share your personal information with any other third-party without your consent.

How long your personal information will be kept:

We have a duty to hold your personal information for six years from the date your matter concludes. After this time we have no duty to hold your information but may be transferred to our archives unless you specifically ask us to destroy your file by writing to us.

Reasons we can collect and use your personal information:

We will typically collect and use your personal information for the following purposes:

- For the performance of our contract with you, or to take steps to enter such a contract.

- For compliance with legal obligation to which we are subject (Including any obligations imposed upon us by our regulator)

- For the purpose of our legitimate interests or those of a third party, but only if these are not overridden by your interests. Our legitimate interests are that you are a client of ours and we are required to carry out your instructions and acting in your best interest.

Where we collect and use more sensitive personal information we will do so for the purpose of your instructions.

Your Rights

Under the General Data Protection Regulation, you have a number of importance rights at no charge. 

In summary, those include rights to:

- Access to your personal information and to certain other supplementary information that this privacy notice is already designated to address.

- Fair processing of information and transparency over how we use your personal information.

-  Require us to correct any mistakes in your information which we hold.

-  Require the erasure of personal information concerning you in certain situations.

-  Received the personal information concerning you, which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine readable format and have the right to transmit those data to a third party in certain situations.

-  Object at any time to processing of personal information concerning you for direct marketing.

-  Object to decisions being taken by automated means which produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you.

-  Object in certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal information.

-  Otherwise restrict our processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, see the guidance from the UK Information Commissioners Office (ICO) on individuals rights under the General Data Protection Regulation.

If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please:

– Email, call or write to us
Please let us know the information to which your request relates.

Keeping your personal information secure:

We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost, or used or accessed in an unauthorised way. We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to know it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.

How to complain

We hope that we can resolve any query or concern you raise about our use of your information.

The General Data Protection Regulation also gives you the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. The supervisory authority in the UK is the information commissioner who may be contacted at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/ or telephone 0303 123 1113.

Changes to this privacy notice

This privacy notice was published on 02nd January 2022.

We may change this privacy notice from time to time. When we do so we will inform you in writing.

How to contact us:

Please contact us if you have any questions about this privacy notice of the information we hold about you.

Beckett Structural Ltd
46A Cardigan Road, Bridlington, East Yorkshire, YO15 3HQ

info@beckettstructural.co.uk

Your consent

By using our services, you explicitly consent to the processing of my personal information (including sensitive information) as described above.

I consent on my own behalf and on behalf of any third party whose personal data I supply. Where I supply personal data on behalf of a third party, I am duly authorised to do so.

If you have difficulty reading this notice, and would it to be provided in a different format please contact us.

Please ask for a paper copy of this notice, if you require one.