Introduction

We are Aphek training point, in order to provide excellent training and support services to the people we support we collect and use certain personal information about you.

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).

As the ‘controller’ of personal information, we are responsible for how that data is managed. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which applies in the United Kingdom and across the European Union, sets out our obligations to you and your rights in respect of how we manage your personal information.
As the ‘controller’ of your personal information, we will ensure that the personal information we hold about you is:
• Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way

• Collected only for valid purposes that we have clearly explained to you and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes

• Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes
• Accurate and kept up to date
• Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about
• Kept securely
If you have any questions about this privacy promise or would like further explanation as to how your personal information is managed then please contact us. Please note when we refer to:
The personal information we collect and use in relation to people who enquire about and use our services
Information collected by us

When you enquire about our training and support services through our website, phone, email, post, face to face or social media, and during the course of providing training and support services to you we collect the following personal information when you provide it to us:
• Your name, home address, date of birth and contact details (including your telephone number, email address) and emergency contacts (i.e. name, relationship and home and telephone numbers)
• Your allergies and any medical, physical or mental conditions
• Your likes, dislikes and lifestyle preferences (including your religious beliefs or other beliefs of a similar nature, racial or ethnic origin, politics, genetics, health, sex life, marital status and sexuality trade union membership or biometrics.
• Credit, direct debit details or other payment information (if you pay for some or all of our services using one of these methods)
• Your feedback and contributions to questionnaires and surveys about the service we offer
• Your complaints, compliments or concerns about the service we provide
• Any accidents and incidents or near misses you may have been involved in whist on our premises or whilst our employees are delivering a regulated service to you – this may include details of injuries and treatment you may have received.
When using our website, we collect standard internet log information including:
• IP address
• Details of the pages you visit
• General details about the type of computer or device that you are using

This is statistical information only which we collect in order to find out the numbers of visitors to our site and the pages they have visited. This information collected in such a way that it is not used to identify individuals. Where we do collect personal information on the website, this will be made obvious to you through the relevant pages.
Please be aware that our website may provide you with links to other websites. If you follow a link to any other website please note they have their own privacy promises. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy and security practices of such third-party websites and your use as such is at your own risk.
Information collected from other sources

We work closely with third parties such as social and health training professionals and public bodies. We therefore also obtain personal information about you from other sources such as:
• Your allergies and any medical, physical or mental conditions, test results and in particular your training and support needs, from any appropriate external social
• Your name, home address, date of birth, contact details, needs assessments and financial assessments from any appropriate external social professionals (including any relevant public body regardless of whether you are publicly funded)
• Your likes, dislikes and lifestyle preferences (including your religious beliefs or other beliefs of a similar nature, racial or ethnic origin, politics, genetics, health, sex life, marital status and sexuality trade union membership or biometrics from your family, friends and any other person you have nominated as your representative
• Your legal representative (for example Lasting Power of Attorney), if applicable
How we use your personal information
We use your personal information to:
• Prepare, review and update a suitable training plan.
• To communicate with you, your representatives and any appropriate external body.
• Make reasonable adjustments, when required, to meet your individual needs and to ensure we have suitable facilities to ensure your safety
• Invoice you for the training and support services in accordance with our terms and conditions
• Carry out quality assurance procedures, review our service and improve our customer experience (please note that feedback can also be provided anonymously)
• Send information about our services/training which we believe you may be interested in. You may unsubscribe from this at any time
• Notify you about changes to our services which are relevant to you
• Monitor how effective our services are and to make sure that the services we provide meet your needs
• Improve your experience of our website and to ensure that the content is presented in the most effective way.
Who we share your personal information with
We share your data between Aphek staff and relevant third parties. This data sharing enables us to design the right training package to suit individual circumstances.
We will share personal information with law enforcement or other authorities if legally required to do so. This includes information required by public bodies to evidence our compliance with the applicable regulatory framework.
We do share minimal and relevant information within Aphek staff in order to provide safe and effective services to you.
We will not share, sell or trade your personal information with any other third party without your consent.
In order to deliver our service to you we rely on third parties to provide specialist support to us. These providers are:
• IT and Telecoms Support companies – to ensure the safe, secure and resilient operation of our IT infrastructure including computers, servers, phones and mobile devices
• Software support companies – to provide specialist support and resolve issues with the software that we run, for example the systems we use to store and manage your customer records
• Marketing systems providers – to organise marketing communications and for the delivery and analysis of email communications
Data archiving companies – responsible for the secure storage and destruction of records.
These providers are under a written contract to ensure the same level of privacy and security that we promise to you.
How long your personal information will be kept
• We will hold your personal information kept within your electronic customer file for the length of your contract plus 3 years
• We will hold the personal information kept within your hard copy customer files for 3 years from the date of the last entry
• We will hold the personal information kept within our feedback procedure for 1 year so that we can identify trends and patterns in our service
• We will hold financial records and transactions for 7 years in line with our legal requirements
International transfers
All your personal data is stored and processed on systems that are within the European Economic Area (EEA) and offer the same level of legal protection and rights over your data.
Such countries do not have the same data protection laws as the United Kingdom and EEA. Any transfer of your personal information will be subject to appropriate or suitable relevant safeguards that are designed to help safeguard your privacy rights and give you remedies in the unlikely event of a misuse of your personal information.
If you would like further information please contact us (see How to contact us below).

Your rights
Under the GDPR you have important rights free of charge. In summary, those include rights to:
• Fair processing of information and transparency over how we use your use personal information
• Access to your personal information and to certain other supplementary information that this Privacy Promise is already designed to address
• Require us to correct any mistakes in your information which we hold
• Require the erasure (i.e. deletion) of personal information concerning you, in certain situations. Please note that if you ask us to delete any of your personal information which we believe is necessary for us to comply with our contractual or legal obligations, we may no longer be able to provide training and support services to you
• Receive 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
• Claim compensation for damages caused by our breach of any data protection laws
For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, see the Guidance from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on individuals’ rights under the General Data Protection Regulation.

How to contact us

You can contact us by:

• Email: info@aphek.co.uk
• Post – Quality Assurance, – 58 Plumstead Common Rd, London SE18 3RD
• Telephone – 020 3489 3795

If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please:
• Contact us using the details above – making clear that you wish to exercise one of your privacy rights
• Let us have enough information to identify you (e.g. your name and address)
• Let us have proof of your identity and address (a copy of your driving licence or passport and a recent utility or credit card bill), and
• Let us know the information to which your request relates, including any account or reference numbers, if you have them
• If you would like to unsubscribe from any marketing emails you can also click on the ‘unsubscribe’ button at the bottom of the marketing emails. It may take up to 14 days for this to take place
Keeping your personal information secure

The confidentiality and security of your information is of paramount importance to us. We have appropriate organisational and technical 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 GDPR also gives you right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the European Union (or European Economic Area) state where you work, normally live or where any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred. 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.

Data Protection Officer
Anita Umadia
info@aphek.co.uk
58 Plumstead Common Rd, London SE18 3RD