Privacy Policy

Vysiion Ltd is committed to respecting your privacy when we use your personal data. This Privacy Policy is in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and Data Protection Act 2018. 

Vysiion strives to maintain the highest standards of decency, fairness and integrity in all our operations. Likewise, we are dedicated to protecting our employees, contractors, suppliers, consumers and online visitors. 

1. Introduction 

This Privacy Policy is to let you know how we handle your personal data. This includes what you tell us about yourself, what we learn by having you as an employee, contractor, supplier and as a customer. This Privacy Policy explains how we do this and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you. 

Your personal data is any information relating to you from which you can be identified. 

This policy sets out: 

• how we will process any personal data that we collect from you and what it will be used for, 
• the information that you are entitled to receive from us when we collect your personal data and 
• your rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in connection with the way we handle your personal data. 

This Privacy Policy applies to any personal data which you may provide to us in person, over the telephone, by e-mail, on our website and/or by post. This Privacy Policy also applies to any personal data which we may collect from third parties about you and/or which we may collect when you access our website and/or in the course of our relationship. 

You can choose not to give personal data. We may need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract and/or relationship that we have with you. If you choose not to give us this personal data, it may delay or prevent us from meeting our obligations. It may also mean that we cannot perform services so we cancel a product or service you have with us. 

Wherever we refer to “processing” of personal data in this Privacy Policy this includes any combination of the following activities: collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction. 

This Privacy Policy applies to all personal data collected by or on behalf of Vysiion Ltd, including via the company’s website. The company’s website may from time to time contain links to and from other websites (partner networks, advertisers and affiliates). If you follow a link to any external website or alternatively reach our website from a third party website, please be aware that these websites will have their own privacy policies, separate from ours, and we therefore do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check their policies before you submit any personal data to these websites. 

2. Our Promise to You 

We promise: 

• To keep your personal data safe and only process it on valid legal basis 
• To keep our records up to date and delete or correct inaccurate personal data 
• Not to keep your personal data after the purpose has ended 
• Not to sell your personal data 
• To give you ways to manage and review your marketing choices at any time 

3. Who We Are 

Vysiion Ltd, as the company responsible for your personal data is the Data Controller. You can contact our Data Protection Officer (DPO) at: 

The Data Protection Officer 

c/o Admin/ QHSE Dept Connect 17 

Avon Way 

Langley Park 

Chippenham 

Wiltshire 

SN15 1GG 

or by email to gdpr@vysiion.co.uk 

Information Commissioners Office Reference Number: Z1427347 

4. Legal Basis for Processing your Personal Data 

We need to have a proper reason under The Data Protection Act 2018, whenever we process your personal data ourselves or share it with others. These reasons are: 

• To fulfil a contract we have with you or to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract with you, or 
• When it is our legal duty, or 
• When it is in our legitimate interest or the legitimate interest of a third party except where such interests are overridden by your interests or your fundamental rights or freedoms, or 
• When you consent to it. 

A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to process your personal data, but this must not unfairly go against your rights. If we rely on our legitimate interest, we will tell you what that is. 

In the section below this one is a list of all the ways that we may process your personal data, and which of the reasons we rely on to do so. This is also where we tell you what our legitimate interests are. 

Unless we have your explicit consent to do so, we will not process special categories of personal data revealing any of the following: racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, genetic data, biometric data, data concerning health, sex life or sexual orientation. 

5. Information we collect and how we collect it 

We may collect personal data from you in the following ways: 

• when you make an enquiry or register your interest on our website 
• when you contact us in person, over the telephone, by email or by post 
• at the point of purchasing product or service from us 
• when you apply for our products and services 
• in customer surveys 
• if you take part in our surveys or promotions 
• when you use our services 
• payment and transaction data 
• at the point of purchasing product or service from you 
• when you apply to us for work 
• when we employ you 

We may collect your personal data from third parties we work with including: 

• Companies that introduce you to us 
• Credit reference agencies 
• Insurers 
• Suppliers of materials and equipment 
• Trade Contractors 
• Sales lead websites 
• Social networks 
• Analytics providers 
• Solicitors 
• Public information sources such as Companies House 
• Agents working on our behalf 
• Market researchers 
• Government and law enforcement agencies. 

We use Cookies and Web Beacons 

We may use cookies to help you personalize your online experience. Cookies are identifiers that are transferred to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognise your browser. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalise the sites pages, or register with any of our site’s services, a cookie enables the Website to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. 

Or cookie policy can be found here: 

https://www.vysiion.co.uk/cookie-policy/ 

The type of information we may ask you to provide about yourself and therefore collect includes, but is not limited to: (customer and employee) 

• Contact Details: Name, address, contact telephone number (mobile and landline), e-mail address, job title, company you work for, date of birth, National Insurance number, emergency contact details 
• The services and products you are interested in 
• Company details: status and history for credit reference checking 
• Contractual Details about the products or services we provide to you 
• Locational Data we get about where you are, such as may come from your mobile phone or the address where you connect a computer to the internet 
• Behavioural Details about how you use our products and services 
• Technical Details on the devices and technology you use 
• Communications: What we learn about you from letters, emails and conversations between us 
• Social Relationships: What we learn about your family, friends and other relationships that we record from conversation between you and us 
• Open Data and Public Records: Details about you that are in public records, such as the Electoral Register, Companies House and information about you that is openly available on the internet 
• Usage Data: Other data about how you use our products and services 

Relating to employees specifically: 

• Personal contact details such as name, title, addresses, telephone numbers, and personal email addresses; date of birth, gender, marital status and dependents 
• Next of kin and emergency contact information 
• National Insurance number 
• Bank account details, payroll records and tax status information 
• Salary, annual leave, pension and benefits information 
• Start date 
• Location of employment or workplace 
• Copy of driving licence 
• Copy of passport 
• Recruitment information (including copies of right to work documentation, references and other information included in a CV or cover letter or as part of the application process) 
• Employment records (including job titles, work history, working hours, training records and professional memberships) 
• Compensation history 
• Performance information 
• Disciplinary and grievance information 
• Information about your use of our information and communications systems 
• Photographs 
• Quotes from you relating to business activities 
• We may also collect, store and use the following “special categories” of more sensitive personal information: Information about your race or ethnicity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation and political opinions. 
• Information about criminal convictions and offences. 

You can however at any time tell us to change or remove any personal data or to stop or restrict the processing of your personal data. 

6. How we use your Personal Data 

We may use the personal data collected/provided by you as follows: 

1. To ensure that content from our website is displayed in the most effective way for you and for your computer/device 

2. To respond to your enquiry 

3. To send you information about similar products and services 

4. To process and manage the sale and/or purchase of service and products 

5. To notify you about changes to our service 

6. To carry out analysis to make improvements to our website and/or services 

7. To measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we deliver to you and others 

8. To carry out agreements which have arisen from any contracts entered between you and us – for example your purchase of products or services from us 

9. To provide the warranties which cover any products purchased from us 

10. To monitor customer satisfaction (including processing customer satisfaction surveys) 

11. To keep our records up to date 

12. To develop and manage products and services, and what we charge for them 

13. To define types of customers for new products or services 

14. To test new products 

15. To develop and carry out marketing activities 

16. To study how our customers use our products and services 

17. To develop and manage our brands 

18. To manage how we work with other companies that provide services to us and our customers 

19. To make and manage customer payments 

20. To collect and recover money that is owed to us 

21. To comply with laws and regulations that apply to us 

22. To detect, investigate, report, and seek to prevent financial crime and fraud 

23. To manage risk for us and our customers 

24. To respond to complaints and seek to resolve them 

25. To run our business in an efficient and proper way – this includes managing our financial position, business capability, planning, communications, corporate governance, and audit 

26. For payroll reasons 

27. For emergency contact reasons 

28. To go on any 3rd party security lists or security checks 

Relating to employees specifically: 

29. Making a decision about your recruitment or appointment 

30. Determining the terms on which you work for us 

31. Checking you are legally entitled to work in the UK 

32. Paying you and, if you are an employee, deducting tax and National Insurance contributions 

33. Providing benefits to you as listed in the company handbook 

34. Liaising with the company’ pension provider 

35. Administering the contract we have entered into with you 

36. Business management and planning, including accounting and auditing 

37. Conducting performance reviews, managing performance and determining performance requirements 

38. Making decisions about salary reviews and compensation 

39. Assessing qualifications for a particular job or task, including decisions about promotions 

40. Gathering evidence for possible grievance or disciplinary hearings 

41. Making decisions about your continued employment or engagement 

42. Education, training and development requirements 

43. Dealing with legal disputes involving you, or other employees, workers and contractors, including accidents at work 

44. Ascertaining your fitness to work 

45. Managing sickness absence 

46. Complying with health and safety obligations 

47. Preventing fraud 

48. Monitoring your use of our information and communication systems to ensure compliance with our IT policies 

49. Ensuring network and information security, including preventing unauthorised access to our computer and electronic communications systems and preventing malicious software distribution 

50. Conducting data analytics studies to review and better understand employee retention and attrition rates 

51. Equal opportunities monitoring 

52. To assist with marketing activity 

Our legal basis under the GDPR for each of these purposes are as follows:

Where we have stated above that our grounds are that we have your consent, we will understand your consent to have been given when you expressly accept these terms. You can withhold or withdraw your consent at any time using the contact details for our Data Protection Officer in this policy. 

Where we do not have your express consent we may base our processing of your personal data on any other basis that applies. 

If we intend to use your personal data for any purpose not stated above we will first notify you of the intended use and the legal grounds. 

You can choose which channel you would like us to contact you on, for marketing purposes and with information regarding our products and services at the point this information is collected – this can be done by checking or unchecking the relevant boxes as directed. If you no longer wish for us to communicate with you, you can: 

• Visit https://www.vysiion.co.uk/cookie-preferences/ to update your cookie preferences and for data opt-out preferences 
• contact us by post, telephone or email GDPR@vysiion.co.uk 

7. Sharing your Personal Data 

We may disclose your personal data to third parties in certain circumstances but we will not sell, rent or trade your personal data. 

Your personal data may be transferred outside the UK and the European Economic Area. Some countries have adequate protection of personal data under their laws but where this is not the case we will be responsible for ensuring that appropriate security and privacy safeguards are in place, either by requiring the recipient to have signed up to a recognised international framework of data protection or by contractual obligations. 

Where relevant, we may give third party providers who supply services to us, or who process personal data on our behalf, access to your personal data in order to help us to process it for the purposes set out above. When doing so, we will ask them to confirm that their security measures are adequate to protect your personal data. 

Within the purposes set out above we may share your personal data with the following third parties: 

• In respect of processing payroll and providing HMRC with details 
• With your consent, we will also pass your personal data on to third parties, for example employees, customers and contractors going on secure building access lists and also having security clearance processed 
• We may disclose your personal data to third parties working on our behalf, recruitment companies, accountants, HMRC, training companies 
• We may disclose your personal data to third parties if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our contracts with you; or to protect our rights, property, or our safety and/or the safety of our customers, or others. 
• We may need to confirm your identity before we provide products or services to you or your business. We may also share your personal information as needed to help detect fraud and money-laundering risks. We may use solicitors and other advisers for these purposes. We may allow law enforcement agencies to access your personal data. This is to support their duty to detect, investigate, prevent and prosecute crime. 
• We may disclose your personal data to third parties in the event that we sell any of our business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective buyer of such business or assets. If we or substantially all of our assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by us about our customers will be one of the transferred assets. 

8. How we use your information to make automated decisions 

We sometimes use systems to make automated decisions based on personal data we have – or are allowed to collect from others – about you. This helps us to make sure our decisions are quick, fair, efficient and correct, based on what we know. These automated decisions can affect the products, services or features we may offer you now or in the future, or the price that we charge you for them. 

Here are the types of automated decision we make: 

• Pricing and approving credit
• Credit reference agencies 
• Data we may already hold. 
• Tailoring products and services
• Based on information collected from our website 

9. Protecting your information 

We will seek to keep your personal data secure by taking appropriate technical and organisational measures against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage. 

Only authorised personnel and third parties will have access to your personal data. 

We will retain your personal data for no longer than the period of time needed for the purposes that we collected the data and for as long as we have legal grounds to retain it. There is no fixed period after which all record of your personal data will be deleted as this will depend on the circumstances and the purposes of the processing but we will take steps and maintain policies to keep retention under proper review. We will not seek your consent before deleting any personal data. 

When purchasing from Vysiion Ltd, we may need to retain your personal data relating to the purchase for warranty and service reasons. 

10. Changes to this Privacy Policy 

Any changes we may make to this Privacy Policy in the future will be posted on our website and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. Please check frequently to see any updates or changes to this Privacy Policy. 

11. Your Right of access to your Personal Data 

You have the right to access your personal data including us providing to you , a copy (which may be in electronic form) of any of your personal data that we are holding or using (referred to as “processing”) or that third parties are processing on our behalf. 

We will also provide to you, if you request it, the following information: 

a. the purposes of the processing; 

b. the categories of personal data concerned; 

c. the recipients or categories of recipient to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed, including recipients in countries outside the UK or international organisations; 

d. where possible, the envisaged period for which the personal data will be stored, or, if not possible, the criteria used to determine that period; 

e. if the personal data was not collected from you, any information available to us as to the source of it; 

f. whether the personal data has been subject to automated decision-making, including profiling, and if so information about the logic involved, as well as the significance and the envisaged consequences of such processing for you. 

Requests for this information or a copy of your personal data should be in writing, enclosing proof of identification such as a copy of your passport, driving licence or other documentation confirming your name and address (for example a utility bill) to be addressed to: 

The Data Protection Officer, 

c/o Admin/ QHSE Dept Connect 17 

Avon Way 

Langley Park 

Chippenham 

Wiltshire 

SN15 1GG 

or by email to GDPR@vysiion.co.uk 

12. Your Right to Removal or Correction of Personal Data and to Restriction of Processing 

You have the following rights under GDPR: 

• • a right to request us to correct inaccurate or incomplete data (“Right to rectification”) 
• • a right to request us to delete any of your personal data 
• • a right to request us to stop or to restrict any aspect of the processing of your personal data In certain circumstances we may wish to continue and if GDPR allows us to do so we will inform you of our grounds (“Right to restriction of processing”) 

In each case we will tell you what action we are taking and we will also notify any third party to whom the data has been disclosed. 

Rights: 

Vysiion Ltd recognises and will follow the lawful basis for processing can also affect which rights are available to individuals. For example, some rights will not apply: 

However, an individual always has the right to object to processing for the purposes of direct marketing, whatever lawful basis applies. 

13. Your Rights Concerning Automated Processing and Profiling 

You have the following rights under GDPR over automated decisions and profiling. 

• You can ask that we do not make our decision based on the automated score alone. 
• You can object to an automated decision, and ask that a person reviews it. 
• You can object to the use of your personal data in profiling or direct marketing. 

14. Your Right to Data Portability 

You have the right to receive from us the personal data that you have given us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format (“Right to data portability”) and/or to have the data sent by us directly to another party. Please note that this right only applies in certain circumstances, which is when we held the data on grounds of your consent or to perform a contract with you or for steps preparatory to such a contract and we were processing that data by automated means. 

15. Your Right to Complain to the Regulator 

Please let us know if you are unhappy with how we have processed your personal data. You can contact us by writing to the Data Protection Officer at the address given above. 

You have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) which is the UK supervisory authority for the processing of personal data. Further details are available on the ICO’s website. 

16. Enquiries and to Exercise your Rights 

If you have any questions, or want more details about how we process your personal data, or if you wish to exercise any of your rights you can contact us on the contact details on our website or by writing to the Data Protection Officer at the address given above.