I.T Blend Limited is committed to ensuring privacy and confidentiality of personal information, and to protect it from unauthorised access and disclosure.
The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to clearly communicate how I.T Blend handles personal information to provide services, and to comply with legal obligations. This Privacy Policy gives a better and more complete understanding of the type of personal information that I.T Blend holds about you and the way I.T Blend handles that information.
I.T Blend complies with the Data Protection Act 1998, and the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (“GDPR”) and any local or European laws on data protection, as amended from time to time.
This privacy policy tells you what to expect when I.T Blend collects personal information. It applies to information we collect about:
I.T Blend collects data on visitors to its Websites including usage and behaviour patterns via a third party service. This is to review the number of visits to each part of the Website and how the user accessed the Website only. Information collected, which may contain Personal Information, includes:
When you use our Website, we do not attempt to identify you as an individual user and we will not collect personal information about you unless you specifically provide this to us.
We may collect your personal information if you choose to provide this to us via an online form or by email. Examples are where you:
We will use personal information collected via our Website:
If we receive your email address because you sent us an email message, the email will be used or disclosed for the purpose for which you have provided it only and we will not add your email address to an emailing list or disclose this to anyone else without your consent.
We may share your personal information with any member of I.T Blend for administrative purposes, and/or compliance with a legal obligation (such as employment law).
Personal information submitted via a Website or telephone calls may be shared with consultants working for I.T Blend who provide the services for which you may be enquiring about under strict confidentiality agreements.
I.T Blend may also share anonymised information with analytics and search engine providers in order to assist us in improving and optimising our site.
We will not disclose your personal information to other any third parties in the UK unless we have a legal basis for it, and we have the appropriate measures and safeguard in place to ensure its protection. We will not send your personal information to any third parties outside of the European Economic Area unless we have got a legal basis for it, and the recipient country benefits from a “adequacy decision” from the European Commission. For the remaining non-EEA countries, information may only be if there is a legal basis for it, and with a contractual arrangement in place with the third party as prescribed by the European Commission.
If we collect your personal information from our Website, we will process it in a way that is adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for why it is processed. We will maintain and update your information as necessary to keep it accurate or when you advise us that your personal information has changed. We will keep your information in a form which permits your identification for no longer than is necessary.
I.T Blend is committed to protecting the security of your personal information within its control. We use technologies and processes such as access control procedures, network firewalls, encryption and physical security to protect the privacy of information. Although the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure, we will use our best endeavours to protect your information from loss, misuse or alteration when it is within our control.
If you choose to complete our online forms or make enquiries via telephone numbers displayed our Website, we will ensure that your contact details are stored on password protected databases. All information is encrypted between your computer and the I.T Blend web server using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) ensuring that communications are secure.
Staff members associated with Website maintenance only may access to our Website’s administration system. When they do, they are subject to confidentiality obligations. The access to the Websites and the Websites service are also password protected.
I.T Blend is committed to facilitate the exercise of rights as data subjects. You can find out if we hold any of your personal information by making a ‘Subject Access Request’ (“SAR”). If any information is held about you, I.T Blend will:
To make a SAR to I.T Blend for any personal information we may hold about you, or to make a complaint about privacy issues, you may address your request to our Data Protection Officer at the address provided below:
Data Protection Officer
I.T Blend Ltd
Bridle Business Centre
Wellingborough
Northants
NN8 4RN
Alternatively you can also email usat DataProtectionofficer@itblend.co.uk.
If we do hold your personal information and you believe it is incorrect you may submit a request to I.T Blend to correct any alleged mistakes through the contact details above.
Requests are free of charge and will be processed within one month of receipt but this might be extended to two months in case of a complex request or if the identity of the requestor cannot be verified.
In the interests of training and continually improving our services, enquiry calls to I.T Blend may be monitored or recorded. Enquiry calls recorded will be held for a period of 90 days by our third party call tracking supplier. Enquiry calls will also be tracked for analytical purposes to monitor the marketing source of the call such as Search Engine, Pay Per Click Advertising or Print Advertisements.
Any email sent to us, including any attachments, may be monitored and blocked if the email you send to us is potentially a threat to our Websites and/or information systems or is deemed illegal in our reasonable opinion.
We will only send you marketing information where you have agreed to opt in to receive it. We will only use your preferred communication channels to contact you and you will be given the option to select this when opting in. You can stop us from contacting you for marketing purposes by clicking on the ‘unsubscribe’ link embedded within the email that has been sent to you. Doing so will remove your personal data from our contacts list automatically.
When individuals apply to work at I.T Blend, we will only use the information they supply to us to process their applications and to monitor recruitment statistics. Where we want to disclose information to a third party, for example where we want to take up a reference, we will not do so without informing applicants beforehand unless the disclosure is required by law.
Personal information about unsuccessful candidates will be held for 18 months after the recruitment exercise has been completed, it will then be destroyed or deleted. We retain de-personalised statistical information about applicants to help inform our recruitment activities, but no individuals are identifiable from that data.
We also like to improve our services by asking for your views. We may contact you for market research but it will be your choice if you wish to take part in this.
Private messages will be stored for a period of 12 months but will not be shared with any other organisations.
Any personal information shared and/or collected on social media pages is not collected by I.T Blend but by the social media platform. Any personal information shared and/or collected on I.T Blend’s social media pages shall be subject to the privacy notices and other policies of the relevant social media platform
We keep our privacy notice under regular review. Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page. I.T Blend reserves the right to make changes to its Privacy Policy at any time.
This privacy policy was last updated 10th November 2018.