Privacy Policy

1.0 Introduction

We, MP Connect (MPQC), take the protection of your personal data very seriously and strictly adhere to the rules laid out by data protection laws and the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR).

This privacy notice gives you information on how we collect and process your personal data through your use of this site and any data you may provide if you contact us regarding our products and services.

2.0 Why we Collect your personal information.

We collect your personal data for one of the following purposes:

• To manage communications between you and us
• Where we need to perform the contract, we have entered with you.
• To provide you with information you have requested or which we may feel may be of interest to you.
• Verifying and authenticating training certificates and competencies with the original training provider.
• To ensure the safe operation of our website and to monitor the performance of our website. 

3.0 Lawful Basis of Processing Information

We only collect and use personal information about you when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we use it where:

• The data subject (you) has given consent to the processing activity taking place.
• If the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract
• If the processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject

 

 

 

4.0 What Information we collect and where from

We collect personal information from you, for example, if you register to our website, request product information, call us or use any of our services. The categories of personal information that we may collect, store, and use about you include:

• Name, address, telephone number, email.
• IP address
• NI, DOB
• Identification information, i.e., Passport or driver’s license
• Employer details
• Professional certifications and training certificates

5.0 How Long we Keep Information For

We pride ourselves on ensuring that your personal data is only retained for the period that we need it for, or in accordance with laws, regulations and professional obligations that we are subject to. All personal information collect has a defined retention period, which is in-line with our retention policy. If you would like to find out how long your information is being retained, please see "additional information", section 14 of this policy.

6.0 Security of personal information

We take the responsibility for protecting your privacy very seriously and we will ensure your data is secured in accordance with our obligations under the Data Protection laws. We have in place technical and organisational measures to ensure personal information is secured and to prevent your personal data from being accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed.  We have in place a robust access control policy which limits access to your personal data to those employees, contractors and other third parties who only have a business need to know. The processing of your personal data will only take place subject to our instruction.

We have policies and procedures to handle any potential data security breaches and data subjects, third parties and any applicable regulators will be notified where we are legally required to do so.

We have ensured that all employees have had information security and data protection training. If you would like more details of the security we have in place, please see "additional information", section 14 of this policy.

 

7.0 Your individual rights

In this Section, we have summarised the rights that you have under General Data Protection Regulation. Some of the rights are complex, and not all the details have been included in our summaries. Accordingly, you should read the relevant laws and guidance from the regulatory authorities for a full explanation of these rights.

Your principal rights under General Data Protection Regulation are:

• Right to Object
• Right of Access
• Right to be informed
• Right to Rectification
• Right to Erasure
• Right to Restrict Processing
• Right to Data Portability

The right to object

You can exercise this right if

• Processing relies on legitimate interest
• Processing is for scientific or historical research
• Processing includes automated decision making and profiling
• Processing is for direct marketing purposes

• The right of access
• You or any third party acting on your behalf with your authority may request a copy of the personal data we hold about you without charge.
• We will ask to verify your identity or request evidence from the third party that they are acting on your behalf before releasing any personal data we hold about you.
• The right to be informed
• We are required, to provide clear and transparent information to you about how we process your personal data. This privacy notice addresses this right.
• The right of rectification
• If you believe the personal data, we hold about you is incorrect or incomplete you have the right to correct this and you may exercise this right along with the right to restrict processing until these corrections are made.
• The right to erasure
• If there is no legal basis or legitimate reason for processing your personal data, you may request that we erase it.

 

 

• The right to restrict processing
• You may ask us to restrict the processing of your personal data. This means we will still hold it but not process it. This is a conditional right which may only be exercised when:
• Processing is unlawful
• We no longer need the personal data, but it is required for a legal process
• You have exercised your right to object to processing and require processing to be halted while a decision on the request to object is made.
• If you are exercising your right to rectification
• The right to data portability
• You can request that your personal data is transferred to another controller or processor in a machine-readable format if:
• Processing is based on consent
• Processing is by automated means (i.e., not paper based)
• Processing is necessary for the fulfilment of a contractual obligation

If you have any question about these rights, please see "additional information", section 14 of this policy.

  8.0 Consent

Where you have given consent for processing, or explicit consent in relation to the processing of special category data, you have the right to withdraw this consent at any time, but this will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

9.0 Failure to Provide Personal Information

Where we need to collect personal data by law or to process your instructions or perform a contract, we have with you and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to carry out your instructions or perform the contract we have or are trying to enter with you. In this case, we may have to cancel our engagement or contract you have with us, but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.

10.0 Cookies

Our website uses cookies. Please see our cookies policy for full details of the cookies used.

11.0 Automated Decision Making

Your personal data is not used in any automated decision making (a decision made solely by automated means without any human involvement) or profiling (automated processing of personal data to evaluate certain conditions about an individual).

Where we make an automated decision which has a legal or substantially similar effect, you have the right to speak to us and we may then review the decision, provide a more detailed explanation, and assess if the automated decision was made correctly.

12.0 Transfers to Third Parties

MP Connect may disclose your personal data, listed in section 4 to some third parties to help us deliver our services and as part of our legal obligation:

• Third party training organisation (to validate training certificates)
• Your Employer
• Other Regulatory Bodies

13.0 Right to complaint

We take any complaints about our collection and use of personal information very seriously.

If you think that our collection or use of personal information is unfair, misleading, or inappropriate, or have any other concern about our data processing, please raise this with us in the first instance.

To make a complaint, please contact us via email on data@mp-qc.co.uk

Alternatively, you can contact us:

By Post: Mineral Products Qualifications Council, National Stone Centre, Porter Lane, Wirksworth, Matlock, DE4 4LS

By Phone: 0115 972 6121

Alternatively, you can make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office:

By Post:

Information Commissioners Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF

By Website: Click Here

By Email: Click Here

By Phone: 0303 123 1113 (Local rate) or 01625 545 745 (National rate)

14.0 Additional information

Your trust is important to us. That is why we are always available to talk with you at any time and answer any questions concerning how your data is processed. If you have any questions that could not be answered by this privacy policy or if you wish to receive more in-depth information about any topic within it, please contact our DPO and Compliance Team via email on data@mp-qc.co.uk

15.0 Policy Review and Amendments

We keep this Policy under regular review. This Policy was last updated on 02/01/24

We reserve the right to update this privacy notice at any time, and we will provide you with a new privacy notice when we make any substantial updates. We may also notify you in other ways from time to time about the processing of your personal information.