Privacy Policy
Introduction
Focus Awards is committed to safeguarding your personal information. We always strive to respect and safeguard any personal information you submit to us, or we obtain from others.
At Focus Awards we are committed to protecting the personal data of our customers,
employees, and other stakeholders. This Data Protection and Privacy Policy outlines our
approach to data protection and privacy in compliance with the General Data Protection
Regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.
Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy outlines our data collection and processing procedures, including through our websites, as well as the rights and choices you have regarding how your personal information is used and collected. This policy applies to all employees, contractors and stakeholders who process personal data on behalf of Focus Awards.
Focus Awards are committed to the following principles:
a) Lawfulness, fairness, and transparency.
b) Purpose limitation.
c) Data minimisation.
d) Accuracy.
e) Storage limitation.
f) Integrity and confidentiality (security).
g) Accountability and transparency.
It is entirely up to you whether you choose to provide us with your personal information.
However, your ability to use our services or connect with us may be hampered if you choose not to provide your personal information to us.
When you visit our website we will automatically collect technical data, this can include your IP address, web browser, time zone. When visiting the website we will automatically collect information on how you use our website such as how you click through our website, services accessed or viewed, how long you’ve have been on the website for, how you were referred to the website, errors you may come across, the response times of each page and the date and time you accessed.
We will only collect personal data that is necessary for the specified purposes and will
inform data subjects about the purposes of data collection.
When required, we will obtain explicit consent from individuals for processing their data.
Consent will be freely given, specific, informed, and revocable.
We will take reasonable steps to ensure that personal data is accurate and up-to-date.
Data subjects have the right to request corrections.
We will implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect personal
data against unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction.
Review arrangements
Focus Awards will review this document annually as part of our self-evaluation
arrangements. However, a review will be commissioned earlier should an issue arise in
relation to changes with relevant data protection laws and changes to our data protection
activities.
Do we deal with specific types of data?
Certain kinds of personal information, such as information on your health, ethnicity, and
religious views, are designated as sensitive under the General Data Protection Regulations (“GDPR”).
How is your data used and why?
Your personal information will be used for the reasons stated, regardless of how it was
submitted to us. We may use your personal information in the following ways:
• to register you as a candidate and for the purposes of administration;
• to conduct assessments and quality assurance
• to allow us to issue results and certificates and maintain records of achievement;
• to carry out any reviews or appeals;
• to otherwise provide you with services, products, or information you have requested;
• to communicate as necessary with training/learning providers and employers;
• to provide you with additional information about our work, to manage relationships with
our partners and service providers;
• to analyse and improve our work, services, activities, products, or information (including
our website), or for our internal records;
• to keep our facilities safe and secure;
• to run/administer the activities of our website, and ensure that content is presented in
the most effective manner for you and your device;
• to audit and/or administer our accounts;
• to comply with legal obligations;
• to comply with the General Conditions of Recognition or comparable paperwork of Ofqual or any other regulatory authority;
• We shall erase your personal information from our records at your request, to the extent
that we are legally obligated to do so.
• You have the right to request that our records of your personal information be rectified if
you feel they are wrong. If you are unclear if the personal information we have on you is
valid or up to date, you may also ask us to check it.
• If there is a disagreement concerning the accuracy or reasonable use of your personal
information, you have the right to request that processing be limited.
• You have the right to object to processing of your personal data if we are (i) processing it
for our legitimate interests (see section 4 above), (ii) using it for direct marketing, or (iii)
using it for statistical purposes.
• Where we are processing your personal information (that you have provided to us) either
(i) with your consent or (ii) because such processing is necessary for the performance of
a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request prior to entering into
a contract, and in either case we are processing using automated means (i.e. with no
human involvement), you may ask us to provide the personal information to you to the
extent required by the GDPR.
• You have the right not to be subjected to a decision based solely on automated processing of your personal data that has legal or similarly significant consequences for you, unless that decision (i) is required to enter into/perform a contract between you and us/another organisation; (ii) is authorised by EU or Member State law to which Focus Awards is subject (as long as that law provides you with adequate protection); or (iii) is based on your explicit consent.
Please keep in mind that certain of these rights are only applicable in certain circumstances.
We recommend that you contact us for additional information to clarify, if necessary.
Changes
This Notice may be updated from time to time. Significant changes will be communicated to you by contacting you personally (when/if feasible) and posting an update notice on our
website.
Contact us
If you have any queries about the contents of the policy, please contact our support team
E: info@focusawards.org.uk
T: +44(0)333 3447 388