This Privacy policy statement contains information about what data we collect and store about you and why. It also tells you who we share this information with, the security mechanisms we have put in place to protect your data and how to contact us if you have a complaint.
Kenda Electronic Systems Limited ( The Kenda Group , Kendata and Earth Data) understands that your privacy is important to you and that you care about how your personal data is used. We respect and value the privacy of everyone who visits our websites, www.kendagroup.co.uk , www.kenda.co.uk , www.earthdata.co.uk , www.kendata.com (“Our Site”) and will only collect and use personal data in ways that are described here, and in a way that is consistent with our obligations and your rights under the law.
Kenda collects, uses and is responsible for personal information about you. When we collect data we are the ‘controller’ of this information for the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation.
Our Data Protection Officer is John Strachan.
We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors. Any data you send us will be used in a lawful way, we won’t do anything with it that we did not tell you about in advance, and it will all remain private unless you give us permission to send specific data to a third party for a good reason.
What Does This Policy Cover?
This Policy applies only to your use of our site. Our site may contain links to other websites. Please note that we have no control over how your data is collected, stored, or used by other websites and we advise you to check the privacy policies of any such websites before providing any data to them.
What Data Do We Collect and How?
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).
Depending upon your use of our site, you may give us your personal information, contact details, by filling in forms, through electronic platforms which we offer, by corresponding with us by post, email or otherwise, by speaking to us in person or over the telephone.
We may collect and hold some or all of the personal and non-personal data you provide when completing our enquiry form.
We do not collect any ‘special category’ or ‘sensitive’ personal data or personal data relating to children.
How We Use Your Personal Data
Under the Data Protection Legislation, we must always have a lawful basis for using personal data.
We will only use your personal data you voluntarily provided to us when the law allows us to. This information is used only to:
- provide you with our services and communicate with you.
- Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligations
Providing your personal data to others
We will not share any of your personal data with any third parties for any purposes, subject to the following exceptions.
- If we sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or assets, your personal data may be transferred to a third party. Any new owner of our business may continue to use your personal data in the same way(s) that we have used it, as specified in this Privacy Policy.
- In some limited circumstances, we may be legally required to share certain personal data, which might include yours, if we are involved in legal proceedings or complying with legal obligations, a court order, or the instructions of a government authority.
How Long Will You Keep My Personal Data?
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal or regulatory requirements.
Security and Storage Store or Transfer My Personal Data?
We will only store your personal data in the UK. This means that it will be fully protected under the Data Protection Legislation. The security of your personal data is essential to us, and to protect your data, we have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed.
We have taken a number of important measures, including the following
- Limiting access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties with a legitimate need to know and ensuring that they are subject to duties of confidentiality
- Procedures for dealing with data breaches (the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to, your personal data) including notifying you and/or the Information Commissioner’s Office where we are legally required to do so;
Your rights
Your principal rights under data protection law are:
- The right to access: You have the right to confirm the personal data we have on you and we must provide access if you request it.
- The right to rectification: You have the right to have any inaccurate personal data about you corrected and to have any incomplete personal data about you completed.
- The right to be forgotten: You have the right to the erasure of your personal data without undue delay for any reason. There are a few exceptions to this right, though, if we are complying with a legal obligation or defending against a legal claim.
- The right to restrict processing: In some circumstances you have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data. That could happen if you contest the accuracy of the data or we no longer need the data, but you would like it retained for legal reasons.
- The right to object to processing: If you make such an objection, we will cease to process the personal information unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds that override your interests.
- The right to data portability: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes (including profiling for direct marketing purposes). If you make such an objection, we will cease to process your personal data for this purpose.
- The right to complain to a supervisory authority: If you consider that our processing of your personal information infringes data protection laws, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection.
- The right to withdraw consent: You have the right to withdraw your consent to handle your data at any time.
Third party websites
We have no control over, and are not Our website includes hyperlinks to, responsible for, the privacy policies and details of, third party websites. and practices of third parties.
This Policy was last updated on (23.10.2023)
