This privacy policy tells you what to expect when The Transformer Lifestyle Company collects personal information. It applies to information we collect about:
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Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies. A persistent cookie will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date. A session cookie will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.
We do not use any persistent cookies. Our cookies are all session cookies which expire when you close your browser session. Our cookies do not contain any information that can personally identify a user.
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We provide a Contact Us web form on our website. This allows visitors to the website to request that we contact them. The personal data that is collected is the visitor’s name, email address and business name. This data is logged and emailed to the appropriate The Transformer Lifestyle Company staff.
If the visitor subsequently becomes a customer of The Transformer Lifestyle Company that data is stored and retained, otherwise it is deleted.
Our car parking areas are monitored by recording CCTV cameras. Recording are retained for 30 days before they are over-written.
If an incident requires specific recordings to be retained to be used either as evidence of that incident or to assist in the investigation of that incident, those recordings will be retained until they are of no further value to the investigation.
If the investigation becomes a formal legal matter, the recordings may be submitted as evidence and will be retained as part of the collateral for that case, by the justice system, for a period of up to seven years.
When you call the The Transformer Lifestyle Company support desk we collect Calling Line Identification (CLI) information. We use this information to help improve the efficiency of the support desk and its effectiveness.
We use Transport Layer Security (TLS) to encrypt and protect email traffic. If your email service does not support TLS, you should be aware that any emails we send or receive may not be protected in transit.
We will also monitor any emails sent to us, including file attachments, for viruses or malicious software. Please be aware that you have a responsibility to ensure that any email you send is within the bounds of the law.
Obviously, we must hold the details of our customers, their businesses and their staff. We need to do this so that we can provide them with support and to deliver our services.
Our website may include hyperlinks to other websites owned and operated by third parties. We have no control over the contents of third party websites, and we accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.
We ask you for your personal details including name and contact details. We will also ask you about your previous experience and your education. We may ask for referees and we may require answers to questions relevant to the role you have applied for. Our recruitment team will have access to all of this information.
Our hiring managers shortlist applications for interview. They will be provided with all of the information gathered at the Application Stage.
We might ask you to participate in assessment exercises; complete tests or occupational personality profile questionnaires; and/or to attend an interview – or a combination of these. Information will be generated by you and by us. For example, you might complete a written test or we might take interview notes. This information is held by The Transformer Lifestyle Company.
If you are unsuccessful following assessment for the position you have applied for, we may ask if you would like your details to be retained in our talent pool for a period of six months. If you say yes, we would proactively contact you should any further suitable vacancies arise.
If we make an offer of employment we will ask you for further information, and we may carry out pre-employment checks. We seek to confirm the identity of our staff, their right to work in the United Kingdom and seek assurance as to their trustworthiness, integrity and reliability.
You will therefore be required to provide:
Data processors are third parties who provide services to The Transformer Lifestyle Company. We have contracts in place with our data processors. This means that they cannot do anything with your personal information unless we have instructed them to do it. They will not share your personal information with any organisation apart from us. They will hold it securely and retain it for the period we instruct.
You can see Infusionsoft’s privacy policy here: https://www.infusionsoft.com/legal/privacy-policy
Employee records are retained by us as part of each employee file for the duration of their employment plus 6 years following the end of their employment. This includes records of any security checks and references.
If your employment application is unsuccessful the information you have provided will be retained for 6 months from the point at which you are unsuccessful.
Information generated throughout the assessment process, for example interview notes, is retained by us for 6 months.
If you stop being a customer of The Transformer Lifestyle Company we will retain your details for a period of 3 years following the cessation of the support contract. If you choose to return as a customer during that period, our retention of your data will ease the process of re-instating you as a customer.
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (EU 2016/679) (GDPR), you have rights as an individual which you can exercise in relation to the information we hold about you.
The GDPR provides the following rights for individuals:
You can read more about these rights here:
The Transformer Lifestyle Company tries to meet the highest standards when collecting and using personal information. For this reason, we take any complaints we receive about this very seriously. We encourage people to bring it to our attention if they think that our collection or use of information is unfair, misleading or inappropriate. We would also welcome any suggestions for improving our procedures.
This privacy notice was drafted with brevity and clarity in mind. It does not provide exhaustive detail of all aspects of the collection and use of personal information by The Transformer Lifestyle Company. However, we are happy to provide any additional information or explanation needed. Any requests for this should be sent to the address below.
The Transformer Lifestyle Company tries to be as open as it can be in terms of giving people access to their personal information. Individuals can find out if we hold any of their personally identifiable information by making a subject access request under the General Data Protection Regulation (EU 2016/679) (GDPR). If we do hold information about you we will:
To make a request to The Transformer Lifestyle Company for any personal information we may hold you need to put the request in writing to the address provided below.
If we do hold information about you, you can ask us to correct any mistakes there may be in the data.
This privacy notice does not cover the links within this site linking to other websites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit.
We keep our privacy notice under regular review. This privacy notice was last updated on 24th May 2018.
You can write to us at:
The Transformer Lifestyle Company
Sovereign House
Chester Road
Tarpoley
CW6 9ER
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