Our lawful basis for processing personal data

In order to carry out business functions and to deliver our services we rely on the following lawful conditions for processing personal data:

Legitimate interests – processing personal data is necessary for the purposes of legitimate interests pursued by the controller or a third party.

Contractual – processing of personal data is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the individual is a party or for Bvalco Ltd to take pre-contractual steps at the request of the individual.

What data we may collect from you and how we will use your data

In order to carry out our business functions and to deliver our services we will carry out confidential interviews between the Directors of our client and consultants from Bvalco Ltd. The answers given in the interview are confidential between the Director and the consultants from Bvalco Ltd. The interviews are summarised and if requested will be sent to the Director for their review; the summary will not form part of the Report and will be destroyed once the Board Review Report is produced. The Board Review Report will collate key themes from the interviews deemed important for the Board to consider with regard to improving, where necessary, the effectiveness of the Board.

Data retention and how we retain data

In accordance with the GDPR, personal data shall be kept for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which it is being processed. In relation to personal data and collected as a result of use of assessment such is generally retained for a period of 24 months after which it is deleted.

Bvalco Ltd are located in the UK and no personal data will be transferred outside of the EEA by Bvalco Ltd or our subcontractors.

Data Breach

Bvalco Ltd have a procedure in place if a breach of security leading to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to, personal data transmitted, stored or otherwise processed. We will assess the scope and impact of the breach. Based on the assessment of the likely risks to individuals, we will notify the individuals and/or their connected organisations that a data breach has occurred where this may result in a significant risk to the rights and freedoms of individuals, or where we may be in breach of a contractual obligation. Any such notification to individuals will be carried out as soon as reasonably possible and will include information on the nature of the breach, the name and contact details of our Data Protection representative, the likely consequences of the breach, measures taken or proposed by Bvalco Ltd to address it, and recommendations for affected individuals to mitigate any potential adverse effects. Such individuals will also be provided advice on how to make a complaint to the ICO.

If, due to the nature of the breach that Bvalco Ltd is required to inform the ICO, we will do so within 72 hours of becoming aware of the essential facts of the breach. Such notification must include at least: your name and contact details; the date and time of the breach (or an estimate); the date and time we detected it; basic information about the type of breach; and basic information about the personal data concerned.

Your right to withdraw

If you do not wish Bvalco Ltd to use your personal data for direct marketing of our goods and services, You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time and can unsubscribe using the link in any email you have received from us or you can notify us in writing either by email to tellmemore@bvalco.com or at the following address:

Bvalco Ltd
1 Ham Island,

Old Windsor,

Berkshire,

SL4 2JY

How we use cookies

This website uses cookies to allow the website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced, more personal features when using the website. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to web pages that you are able to customise. They may also be used to provide services you have requested. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot be used to track your browsing activity on other websites. By using this website you agree that we can place cookies of this kind on the device you use to access the website. You may withdraw this consent by contacting the Bvalco website administrator at tellmemore@bvalco.com.

When you visit the Bvalco website to browse information it contains, you do so anonymously unless you choose to provide us with information about yourself.

When you visit any Bvalco website [a site with a URL beginning www.Bvalco.com, www.Bvalco.co.uk or www.bvalco.org, hereafter, the Bvalco website] to browse information it contains, you do so anonymously unless you choose to provide us information about yourself. If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the website – reading pages, viewing images, or downloading information for example – we will gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. This information does not identify you personally.

Information gathered automatically is used for only two purposes: site management and, in the case of suspected unauthorised activity, for law enforcement and possible criminal prosecution.

The Bvalco website automatically logs visitor information from which summary statistics are created. We use the summary statistics to help us make our site more useful to visitors, such as assessing what information is of most and least interest to visitors, and for other purposes such as determining the site’s technical design specifications and identifying system performance or problem areas.

The following are representative of the types of information automatically collected and stored about your visit:

• the Internet domain and Internet Protocol (IP) address from which you access our website;
• the type of Internet browser and the operating system of the computer you use to access our site;
• the date and time you visit our site;
• the pages you visit on our site;
• if you linked to our website from another website, the address of that website;
• and, if you linked to our website from a search website, the address of that website and the search term you used.

Who we will share your data with

We will not pass any information to any third party outside the Bvalco Group.

How you can obtain data we hold about you

You have the right to know what information we hold on our system about you at any given time. To obtain details of the information we hold as it relates specifically to you, you may contact Bvalco Ltd at the following address:

Bvalco
1 Ham Island,

Old Windsor,

Berkshire,

SL4 2JY

When contacting us to ascertain the information we hold about you, it would be helpful if you could provide us with details of your full name, company and email address.

How you can contact us

If you have any questions about privacy please email us at tellmemore@bvalco.com or contact Bvalco Ltd at the above address.

You have the right to complain to the ICO if you think there is a problem with the way we are handling your data.

Changes to the policy

Bvalco Ltd reserves the right to modify or update the policy from time to time.