PRIVACY POLICY
Alpha-One Plus is committed to providing quality services to you and this policy outlines our ongoing obligations to you in respect of how we manage your Personal Information.We have adopted all the relevant regulations (in UK and the world) to govern the way in which we collect, use, disclose, store, secure and dispose of your Personal Information.
PRIVACY NOTICE
Introduction
This Privacy Notice explains the types of personal data we may collect, how we will handle it, store it and keep it safe. This notice also tells you about your rights in relation to your personal data.
We hope the following sections will answer any questions you have but if not, please do get in touch with us. It is likely that we will need to update this Privacy Notice from time to time. We will notify you of any significant changes, but you are welcome to come back and check it whenever you wish.
“Alpha One Plus” refers to Alpha One Plus Limited and all of its subsidiaries.
Alpha One Plus is committed to protecting your personal data by complying with the UK General Data Protection Legislation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 and all relevant UK data protection legislation in force and as amended or replaced from time to time (“data protection legislation”). This statement explains what we do with the personal data we collect.
What personal data do we collect and process?
Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified.
We will process (collect, store and use) the information you provide in a manner compatible with the GDPR. We will endeavour to keep your information accurate and up to date, and not keep it for longer than is necessary. Certain types of information must be retained in accordance with the law and may also be governed by specific business-sector requirements and agreed practices. Personal data may be held in addition to these periods depending on individual business needs.
We process information about:
- our own employees;
- prospective employees;
- the employees of potential customers/clients and customers/clients; and
- the employees of suppliers.
If you apply for a vacancy, we will collect information from you to process your application. Personal information collected by us includes your name, email address, telephone number and other contact details and SIA licence details (if applicable). If you are successful, further information will be collected including employment, educational and unemployment history, proof of identity, credit check results and criminal record check results. If you require further information on this, please see our Employee Privacy Notice which can be requested from our Human Resources using the contact details below.
We use the contact details of individual employees of customers to contact them about the work we are doing for them or the work they are doing for us. We have a legitimate interest to process this information in order to keep doing business. This data will generally be corporate contact details.
We will use these contact details to send information about other products and services from time to time, but you will always have the option of telling us not to contact you in this way. If you do not wish to receive this information, you can unsubscribe within the email. Alternatively, you can contact us at info@alphaoneplus.com
Who do we share your personal data with?
We will share your personal information with other sub-contractors and/or other third-party stakeholders as appropriate in order to respond to your queries or requests.
We may pass your data on to third-party service providers contracted by Alpha One Plus in the course of dealing with you. Any third parties that we may share your data with are obliged to keep your details securely, and only use them to undertake a service on behalf of Alpha One Plus. When they no longer need your data to fulfil this service, they will dispose of it in line with our procedures. If we wish to pass your sensitive data on to a third party, we will only do so once we have obtained your consent, unless we are legally required to do so otherwise.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are sent by web servers and stored on visitor's computers so they can be read back at a later date. This is a convenient way of allowing a computer to remember specific information relating to a web site and provide a better user experience.
The cookies we use on this site are ………………………… to track information on your visit. These cookies are unobtrusive and allow both the web site to function and for us to obtain information about the usage of our site, viewing data such as the number of visits, duration of each visit and path taken by the user around the site. This not only allows us to provide an excellent experience but also improves the way our web site works by, for example, making sure users can easily find what they are looking for.
Please read more about how we use cookies, what information is collected and how to opt-out in our Cookie Policy which can be found here.
Data retention
We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes in which we collected it. Certain pieces of information may be retained for longer in order to satisfy any legal or statutory requirements.
Further information on our retention policy can be requested by contacting us using the details
Your rights
As a data subject, you have a number of rights in relation to your personal data. These are listed in brief below and are set out in more detail in Alpha One Plus’s Data Protection Policy. You have the right to:
- Request a copy of the personal data we hold about you;
- Request that we change incorrect or incomplete data;
- Request erasure of your personal information;
- Withdraw consent to the processing of your data;
- Request the transfer of your personal information to another party;
- Object to the processing of your data where Alpha One Plus is relying on its legitimate interests as the legal ground for processing.
If you would like to exercise any of these rights, or if you have any concerns about how your personal data is being processed, please contact us using the contact details below.
For further information on each of these rights, including the circumstances where they apply, please see guidance from The Information Commissioners Office (ICO) which is accessible via https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protection/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/individual-rights/.
How to contact Us
If you have any questions regarding the processing of your data, this Privacy Notice or would like to raise any concerns, please contact our Human Resources using the contact details below.
Alpha One Plus Ltd
Pentagon Business Centre, 36 Washington Street, Glasgow. G3
8AZ
Email: hr@alphaoneplus.com
Cookies Policy
Introduction
This Cookie Policy explains how Alpha One Plus utilises cookies across our website. The policy will outline what information Alpha One Plus collects through the use of cookies and how that information is used.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of information, generally consisting of just letters and numbers, that web servers pass to a user’s device when they visit internet sites. Software on the user’s device (such as a web browser) can store cookies and send them back to the website the next time they visit. Cookies work to make your experience browsing a website as smooth as possible and they remember your preferences, so you don’t have to insert your details continuously.
Session and persistent cookies
Session cookies are cookies which expire at the end of a browser session. When the browser closes, the cookie is permanently lost from this point. Session cookies allow websites to recognise and link actions of a user during browsing sessions.
Persistent cookies are stored on a user’s device between sessions. They can allow the preferences of actions of the user across a site (or across different websites) to be remembered. These cookies will stay on your device until they reach their expiry date, or until you delete them.
First and third-party cookies
There are different types of cookies. Some cookies come directly from the website and others come from third parties which place cookies on the website. Whether a cookie is ‘first’ or ‘third’ party refers to the website or domain placing the cookie.
First-party cookies are set directly by the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies are set by a domain other than the one you are visiting. This typically occurs when the website incorporates elements from other sites, such as images, social media plugins or advertising. When the browser or other software fetches these elements from the other sites, they can set cookies as well.
Cookies used by Alpha One Plus
We use four variants of cookies in order to accommodate different types of functionality and to capture varying types of information.
Strictly necessary cookies (also known as “essential cookies”) are required in order to allow users to experience he full functionality of the website. These offer the ability for a user to access secure areas of the site, and enable content based on the device being used. Without these cookies certain sections of the website would be unable to function.
Functionality cookies allow the website to remember the choices made by the user, and provide enhanced, more personal features. Functionality cookies remember the changes that a user has made to text size, fonts and other customisable user preferences that have been set. The information collected by functionality cookies can be anonymised and they therefore can’t track your browsing activity on other websites.
Performance cookies collect information about how
visitors use the website. Examples of this include collecting information on what webpages are most
frequently visited, or what error messages are being encountered by users. These cookies don’t
collect information that could identify an individual user, the information they collect is aggregated
and therefore anonymous. Performance cookies will only be used to improve the performance and
functionality of the website.
Google Analytics cookies enable Google to determine whether a user is a return visitor to the site, and also track the various webpages visited by the user during a session. Neither Google associate or Alpha One Plus user’s IP address with information that could identify them. For further information relating to Google Analytic cookies, please see Google’s Privacy Policy. A user may opt out of Google Analytics cookies by installing Google’s opt-out browser add-on.
Cookie expiry
As with all data held by Alpha One Plus, cookies are held in accordance with the Data Protection Act and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2018.
The expiration date for the Company’s persistent cookies is 2 years and will automatically be deleted when they reach their expiry date. Session cookies expire once the browsing session has been terminated by the user.
Cookies can also be deleted by the user. This can be completed through the browser itself – usually within the settings and history section of the browser. Please see the individual browsers help for instructions on how to do this.
Disabling cookies
Cookies can be disabled by adjusting the settings on your browser. Please refer to your individual browsers help for information on how to do this. However, disabling cookies may affect the functionality of the website, and any other website you attempt to visit. This will also result in disabling certain features of sections of the website and is therefore not recommended.
How to contact us
If you have any questions regarding the processing of your data, this
Cookie Policy or would like to raise any concerns, please contact our Human Resources using the contact
details below.
Alpha One Plus Ltd
Pentagon Business Centre, 36 Washington Street, Glasgow. G3
8AZ
Email: hr@alphaoneplus.com
